Sooner or later after Sean “Diddy” Combs’ former romantic companion and R&B singer Cassie Ventura sued him for years of alleged bodily abuse and even rape, the pair have resolved the claims she filed in Manhattan federal courtroom.
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“I’ve determined to resolve this matter amicably on phrases that I’ve some stage of management,” Ventura mentioned in a press release issued late Friday night time (Nov. 17) by her lawyer, Douglas Wigdor. “I wish to thank my household, followers and attorneys for his or her unwavering assist.”
Combs responded with a press release, including, “We now have determined to resolve this matter amicably. I want Cassie and her household all the perfect. Love.” No phrases have been disclosed and the discharge states that “the events may have no additional statements.” When reached by Billboard, Wigdor declined to remark additional. Combs’ lawyer, Ben Brafman, didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark or to confirm the decision.
Within the lawsuit, attorneys for Ventura claimed she “endured over a decade of his violent conduct and disturbed calls for,” together with repeated bodily beatings and forcing her to “interact in intercourse acts with male intercourse employees” whereas he masturbated.
In response to the grievance, after she tried to separate herself from him in 2018, Combs “pressured her into her house and raped her whereas she repeatedly mentioned ‘no’ and tried to push him away.”
“Ms. Ventura has now totally escaped Mr. Combs, however the hurt that the assaults and sexual abuse he brought on her to expertise for almost a decade will endlessly hang-out her,” wrote Cassie’s lawyer Douglas Wigdor, who has filed plenty of high-profile sexual abuse circumstances. “She can not, nonetheless, proceed to stay in silence about what she endured. Mr. Combs stays immensely highly effective, and immensely harmful.”
Combs’ lawyer, celeb protection lawyer Brafman, mentioned his shopper “vehemently denies these offensive and outrageous allegations,” alleging that for the final six months, Ventura had demanded $30 million “below the specter of writing a harmful guide about their relationship, which was unequivocally rejected as blatant blackmail.” Within the assertion, Brafman continued, “Regardless of withdrawing her preliminary menace, Ms. Ventura has now resorted to submitting a lawsuit riddled with baseless and outrageous lies, aiming to tarnish Mr. Combs’ fame and searching for a pay day.”
Wigdor responded that Combs had provided Ventura “eight figures” to stop her from submitting the lawsuit, a proposal she rejected.
Ventura, who had an on-and-off public relationship with Combs for 11 years till they break up in 2018, says that she met the hip-hop mogul in 2005, when she was simply 19 and he was 37. After he signed her to his Unhealthy Boy Information label, she says Combs “lured” her right into a romantic relationship – albeit one by which he “asserted full management over Ms. Ventura’s private {and professional} life.”
Through the relationship, Ventura says she suffered “episodes of horrific abuse,” together with instances when he would fly into an “uncontrollable rage” and “beat Ms. Ventura savagely.” She says he would remind her of his capability to hurt her, together with by requiring her to hold his gun in her purse.
The go well with additionally accuses Combs of blowing up a automotive belonging to Child Cudi in 2012 after the rapper expressed curiosity in Ventura. “Mr. Combs advised Ms. Ventura that he was going to explode Child Cudi’s automotive, and that he needed to make sure that Child Cudi was house along with his buddies when it occurred,” Ventura’s attorneys write. “Round that point, Child Cudi’s automotive exploded in his driveway.”
The case was filed below newly enacted legal guidelines in New York and California that revised the cut-off dates for bringing abuse lawsuits, creating restricted home windows for alleged survivors to take authorized motion over years-old accusations that may sometimes be barred below the statute of limitations. In New York, the look-back window closes later this month.
In a press release issued tonight, Wigdor added, “I’m very happy with Ms. Ventura for having the energy to go public along with her lawsuit. She must be recommended for doing so.”
