Two days after CNN printed video footage exhibiting him hanging, kicking and dragging his former girlfriend, Sean Combs posted a video on social media on Sunday calling his conduct “inexcusable.”
The footage that surfaced on Friday confirmed Mr. Combs, the hip-hop mogul often known as Puff Daddy and Diddy, kicking and dragging his former girlfriend, Casandra Ventura, often known as Cassie, in 2016.
Final yr Ms. Ventura filed after which rapidly settled a lawsuit in opposition to Mr. Combs accusing him of years of bodily and sexual abuse. The footage proven Friday, which appeared to come back from safety cameras, was per a few of the allegations in her lawsuit, which accused Mr. Combs of assaulting her at an InterContinental Lodge in Los Angeles in 2016 as she tried to depart.
“It’s so tough to mirror on the darkest occasions in your life, however generally you bought to try this,” Mr. Combs stated in his apology video, which he posted to Instagram. “I hit all-time low — however I make no excuses. My conduct on that video is inexcusable. I take full accountability for my actions in that video. I’m disgusted. I used to be disgusted then after I did it. I’m disgusted now.”
A lawyer for Mr. Combs had beforehand denied the allegations in Ms. Ventura’s lawsuit. In an announcement following the swimsuit, which was filed in November, the lawyer stated that Combs “vehemently denies these offensive and outrageous allegations.” The following day, Mr. Combs stated, “Now we have determined to resolve this matter amicably.”
In her lawsuit, Ms. Ventura accused Mr. Combs of forcing her to have intercourse with male prostitutes in entrance of him in encounters that he known as “freak offs,” which she stated he instructed her to rearrange. Her court docket submitting stated that the 2016 assault passed off after a freak off throughout which she stated Mr. Combs “turned extraordinarily intoxicated and punched Ms. Ventura within the face, giving her a black eye.” Ms. Ventura tried to depart the resort room after Mr. Combs fell asleep, the lawsuit stated, however he awoke and started screaming, following her down the hallway and selecting up glass vases and throwing them at her.
In line with her account within the submitting, she managed to depart and take a cab to her house, however then determined to return to the resort “with the intention of apologizing for operating away from her abuser.”
“When she returned, resort safety employees urged her to get again right into a cab and go to her house,” the lawsuit stated, “suggesting that that they had seen the safety footage exhibiting Mr. Combs beating Ms. Ventura and throwing glass at her within the resort hallway.”
The lawsuit accused Mr. Combs of getting paid the resort $50,000 for the safety footage from that night.
Representatives from IHG, which owns InterContinental, didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark. The corporate stated in an announcement to Individuals Journal that the resort was now not beneath its administration and that it doesn’t have entry to footage or incident information.
After the resort footage surfaced, the Los Angeles County district lawyer’s workplace launched an announcement saying that the assault occurred too way back to prosecute.
After Ms. Ventura settled her lawsuit, Mr. Combs was sued by three ladies who accused him of rape, and a male music producer who accused him of undesirable sexual contact. Mr. Combs has vehemently denied the accusations within the civil fits, calling them “sickening allegations” from individuals in search of “a fast payday.”
Mr. Combs’s authorized troubles escalated in March, when federal brokers raided his properties in Los Angeles and Miami Seashore and stopped him at a Miami-area airport, confiscating his digital gadgets. Officers have stated that the inquiry is not less than partially a human trafficking investigation.
Mr. Combs’s legal professionals have been preventing the lawsuits in court docket and have known as the raids a “gross overuse of military-level drive.”
However in Sunday’s video, Mr. Combs struck a tone of contrition in response to video proof of his assaulting Ms. Ventura.
“I went and I sought out skilled assist,” he stated. “I acquired into going to remedy, going to rehab. I needed to ask God for his mercy and beauty. I’m so sorry. However I’m dedicated to be a greater man each day. I’m not asking for forgiveness. I’m actually sorry.”
