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Hotel surveillance footage printed by CNN on Friday confirmed Sean Combs bodily assaulting and kicking Casandra Ventura, his former girlfriend, in a fashion according to allegations she made in opposition to him in a lawsuit that she filed and settled final yr.
The video reveals Mr. Combs, a hip-hop mogul generally known as Puff Daddy and Diddy, sporting a towel and confronting Ms. Ventura whereas she waits for an elevator. It reveals him grabbing her and throwing her to the bottom, kicking her twice, grabbing a few of her possessions, and starting to tug her down the hallway by her sweatshirt.
Mr. Combs can also be seen grabbing an object off a desk and throwing it.
A lawyer representing Ms. Ventura, Douglas H. Wigdor, confirmed that the girl being assaulted within the video is his consumer.
“The gut-wrenching video has solely additional confirmed the disturbing and predatory conduct of Mr. Combs,” he mentioned in a press release. “Words can not categorical the braveness and fortitude that Ms. Ventura has proven in coming ahead to convey this to gentle.”
A consultant for Mr. Combs, who has not been criminally charged, didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
In Ms. Ventura’s lawsuit, she described an incident from 2016 at an InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles through which Mr. Combs grew to become “extraordinarily intoxicated and punched Ms. Ventura within the face, giving her a black eye.” The lawsuit mentioned that after Mr. Combs fell asleep, Ms. Ventura tried to depart the resort room, however Mr. Combs awakened and adopted her into the hallway.
“He grabbed at her, after which took glass vases within the hallway and threw them at her, inflicting glass to crash round them as she ran to the elevator to flee,” the lawsuit mentioned.
Mr. Wigdor confirmed that the video footage corresponds to these allegations.
Mr. Combs settled the go well with with Ms. Ventura — an R&B singer generally known as Cassie, who had been signed to Mr. Combs’s file label — in sooner or later in November, and denied any wrongdoing. Three fits by different girls, every alleging rape, adopted in fast succession, and in February a male music producer filed go well with accusing Mr. Combs of undesirable sexual contact.
Mr. Combs is dealing with a federal investigation, which officers mentioned was no less than partly a human trafficking inquiry. In March, federal brokers raided his houses in Los Angeles and Miami Beach, Fla., and stopped him at a Miami-area airport, confiscating his digital gadgets.
Mr. Combs has vehemently denied the accusations within the civil fits, calling them “sickening allegations” from individuals on the lookout for “a fast payday.” His legal professionals have sharply criticized how the raids — which concerned brokers from Homeland Security Investigations brandishing weapons — have been carried out, calling them a “gross overuse of military-level drive.”
