Sean “Diddy” Combs and R&B singer Cassie on Friday settled a lawsuit she filed at some point earlier that accused the legendary music producer and rapper of raping and bodily abusing her for over a decade.
Each side “resolved the claims … to their mutual satisfaction”, Cassie’s lawyer introduced with out disclosing the phrases of the settlement, the NY Submit experiences.
“I’ve determined to resolve this matter amicably on phrases that I’ve some degree of management. I need to thank my household, followers and legal professionals for his or her unwavering assist,” Cassie, whose full title is Casandra Ventura, wrote in an announcement.
Combs, 54, added in his personal assertion, “Now we have determined to resolve this matter amicably. I want Cassie and her household all the most effective.”
Ventura had alleged within the short-lived swimsuit that Combs usually fed her medicine and alcohol, pressured her to have intercourse with male prostitutes and viciously raped and beat her shortly after assembly her in 2005 till 2018.
The ‘Me & U’ singer claimed the general public on-and-off-again relationship she as soon as referred to as “a totally inspiring expertise” was brutally sinister beneath the floor.
“After years in silence and darkness, I’m lastly prepared to inform my story, and to talk up on behalf of myself and for the advantage of different ladies who face violence and abuse of their relationships,” Ventura, 37, mentioned in an announcement on the time the swimsuit was filed.
The stunning lawsuit, filed on Thursday in Manhattan federal courtroom, impressed a number of different leisure A-listers to point out assist for Ventura, who was solely an adolescent when the 37-year-old Combs signed her to his label and allegedly started relentlessly pursuing her.
Among the many chilling allegations, the Step Up 2: The Streets actress claimed Combs — who was liable to “uncontrollable rage” — “regularly” and “savagely” beat her so severely that she wanted to gap up in inns for weeks at a time.
The alleged assaults typically occurred in entrance of different enterprise associates who had been too scared to intervene in opposition to some of the well-known names in hip-hop, in line with the swimsuit.
Every time Ventura tried to distance herself from the Unhealthy Boy Information founder, she was threatened that her music profession would take a success and was as soon as explicitly instructed her file can be shelved, she claimed.
Combs was accused within the swimsuit of offering her with a gradual stream of opiates and alcohol to maintain her compliant, which led to substance abuse issues and presumably contributed to her recognized reminiscence loss.
The music mogul additionally allegedly pressured Ventura into having frequent drugged-up rendezvous with male prostitutes as he filmed, directed and masturbated — an association he referred to as a “Freak Off”.
Combs managed each facet of Ventura’s life, together with her cash, healthcare, dwelling scenario and profession — and blew up fellow musician Child Cudi’s automobile upon discovering out he had a short tryst with Ventura once they had been on the outs, she alleged.
When she lastly discovered the braveness in 2018 to go away Combs for good, she claims he pushed her into her house and raped her one ultimate time.
Combs “vehemently” denied the allegations after the swimsuit was filed, claiming his ex had been demanding $US30 million ($46 million) from him for the final six months “below the specter of writing a dangerous e book about their relationship, which was unequivocally rejected as blatant blackmail”.
A series of resurfaced interviews with a number of different A-listers — together with Combs’ former flames — nonetheless, paint the ‘I’ll Be Lacking You’ singer as a serial abuser.
Gina Huynh, who goes by the nickname Virginia V, mentioned in a 2019 interview that Combs stomped on her abdomen and punched her within the head throughout their five-year relationship.
Again in 2004, Def Jam Recordings founder Russell Simmons alleged that Combs threatened to kill and beat his mannequin spouse Kimora Lee Simmons, who was pregnant on the time.
A number of members of lady group Danity Kane, which was shaped by Combs on MTV’s Making the Band in 2005, backed up Ventura after the allegations got here to mild.
“Been trynna inform y’all for years,” member Aubrey O’Day mentioned.
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