The assault within the surveillance video matches the outline of an alleged March 2016 incident that Cassie, beforehand referred to as Cassie Ventura and who now additionally makes use of her married identify of Casandra Superb, had detailed in a sexual abuse, intercourse trafficking and battery lawsuit she had filed towards Combs in November 2023 and settled at some point later. On the time, the producer’s lawyer instructed E! Information in a press release that “Mr. Combs’ choice to settle the lawsuit doesn’t in any method undermine his flat-out denial of the claims.”
Combs nonetheless faces 5 different civil lawsuits filed in New York since final fall, accusing him of sexual assault, sexual trafficking and different prison exercise. He has denied all of the allegations.
The Grammy winner additionally stays the topic of a federal investigation following raids on his properties in California and Florida in March. A supply acquainted with the investigation instructed NBC Information on the time that the inquiry got here amid a wave of lawsuits which were filed towards him and that federal officers have already interviewed three individuals in relation to allegations of intercourse trafficking, sexual assault, and the solicitation and distribution of unlawful narcotics and firearms.
One in all Combs’ attorneys instructed NBC Information in a press release after the raids that the rapper “was by no means detained however spoke to and cooperated with authorities” and that his shopper is harmless and “will proceed to struggle each single day to clear his identify.”
(E! and NBC Information are a part of the NBCUniversal household.)
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