17th November, 2023
American singer Cassandra Ventura, better known as Cassie, has sued ex-boyfriend and music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, alleging rape and abuse.
In court documents published by The New York Times on Thursday, November 16, the 37 year-old Cassie, claimed that Diddy, 54, began a pattern of control and abuse after they met in 2005.
The singer claimed Diddy urged her to take drugs, beat her and forced her to have sex with male prostitutes on camera.
Cassie further alleged that Diddy forced his way into her home and raped her in 2018.
“After years in silence and darkness,” Cassie said in a statement.
“I am finally ready to tell my story, and to speak up on behalf of myself and for the benefit of other women who face violence and abuse in their relationships.”
The complaint alleges that Cassie began a professional and sexual relationship with the rap mogul when she was 19.
She claimed she was trafficked, raped, and viciously beaten by Combs over the course of a decade.
Diddy vehemently denied the allegations.
“Mr. Combs vehemently denies these offensive and outrageous allegations. For the past six months,
“Mr. Combs has been subjected to Ms. Ventura’s persistent demand of $30 million, under the threat of writing a damaging book about their relationship, which was unequivocally rejected as blatant blackmail,” his lawyer Ben Brafman said in a statement to New York Times.
“Despite withdrawing her initial threat, Ms. Ventura has now resorted to filing a lawsuit riddled with baseless and outrageous lies, aiming to tarnish Mr. Combs’s reputation and seeking a payday.”
Cassie’s legal team claimed that Diddy offered her “eight figures to silence her,” which she rejected.
Cassie and Diddy dated off and on for 11 years until 2018. According to the lawsuit, when she dated rapper Kid Cudi in 2012, Diddy was so upset that he threatened to blow up Cudi’s car.
“Around that time, Kid Cudi’s car exploded in his driveway,” the documents state. Cudi told the NY Times that Cassie’s account of the story was “all true.”
After her split from Diddy, Cassie moved on with Alex Fine, whom she wed in September 2019. Cassie and Fine share daughters Frankie and Sunny.
Reported by New York Times and New York Post