(Los Angeles) American television CNN broadcast on Friday a montage of video surveillance images from a Los Angeles hotel dated March 2016 which shows an unleashing of violence by rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs against his partner at the time, R&B singer “Cassie” Ventura.
The global star and billionaire New York hip-hop, 54, who also calls himself “Puff Daddy” and “P. Diddy”, has been caught up since 2023 by a number of accusations of rape, sexual exploitation and physical and psychological violence.
Notably in a civil complaint filed in New York in November by “Cassie” who accused her ex-companion of rape in 2018 and of “violent” and “deviant” behavior for a decade, such as forced sexual relations with men. prostitutes.
The matter was settled “amicably” according to a confidential agreement.
M’s legal actionme Ventura, now extinct, referred to a particularly violent physical attack, of which the video surveillance images dated March 5, 2016 and revealed and authenticated by CNN, give the full extent.
According to a montage of videos taken from multiple angles filming a hallway and elevator doors of the (now defunct) InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles, a woman can be seen – Mme Ventura according to CNN – walking down the hallway, wearing a hooded coat, jeans and carrying a purse and travel bag.
A few seconds later, we see a man appear in the hallway – Mr. Combs according to the channel – and run after him.
He just wears a towel around his waist and socks.
Arriving in front of the elevator, Mr. Combs finds M.me Ventura, who turns his back on her, grabs her roughly by the neck, throws her very violently to the ground and delivers a heavy kick to her while she is on the ground.
“Diddy,” holding his towel around his waist with one hand, picks up “Cassie’s” bags with the other and kicks her again, according to the footage.
We then see him grab his partner at the time violently by the hood or the top of his coat, drag her down the corridor for a few meters before abandoning her.
We then see Mme Ventura slowly stood up, gathered his things and picked up a service phone near the elevator.
In another excerpt from a camera filming a mirror in the hotel hallway, we see Sean Combs sitting on a chair, in the same outfit, violently throwing glass vases towards Cassie Ventura, but we do not see .
This “stomach-turning video only confirms the predatory behavior of Mr. Combs,” denounced Mr. Combs’s lawyer in a press release.me Ventura, Douglas Wigdor, who salutes the “courage” of his client.
The rapper has denied everything since the November civil complaint and has not been criminally charged.
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