By ANDREW DALTON | AP Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES — Security video aired by CNN seems to indicate Sean “Diddy” Combs bodily assaulting singer Cassie in a Los Angeles resort hallway in 2016.
The video aired Friday seems to indicate Combs, carrying solely a white towel, punching and kicking the R&B singer who was his protege and longtime girlfriend on the time. The footage additionally reveals the music mogul shoving and dragging Cassie, and throwing a vase in her path.
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The video, dated March 5, 2016, intently resembles the outline of an incident on the now-closed InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles described in a November lawsuit filed by Cassie, whose authorized identify is Cassandra Ventura, that alleged years of sexual abuse and different violence from Combs.
The lawsuit was settled the day after it was filed, however spurred intense scrutiny of Combs, with a number of extra lawsuits filed within the following months, together with a federal felony sex-trafficking investigation that led authorities to raid Combs’ mansions in Los Angeles and Miami.
Representatives for Combs didn’t instantly present touch upon the video, however he has beforehand denied the allegations within the lawsuits, and his legal professionals have stated he denies any wrongdoing.
CNN didn’t say the way it obtained the video however famous it verified the placement it was shot by evaluating the footage to publicly obtainable pictures of the InterContinental Hotel.“The gut-wrenching video has solely additional confirmed the disturbing and predatory conduct of Mr. Combs,” stated Douglas Wigdor, an lawyer for Cassie who has filed different lawsuits in opposition to Combs. “Words can’t categorical the braveness and fortitude that Ms. Ventura has proven in coming ahead to carry this to mild.”
The Associated Press doesn’t usually identify individuals who say they’ve been sexually abused until they arrive ahead publicly as Ventura has.
Associated Press Entertainment Writer Jonathan Landrum, Jr. contributed to this report.