Resort surveillance footage revealed by CNN on Friday confirmed Sean Combs bodily assaulting and kicking Casandra Ventura, his former girlfriend, in a way according to allegations she made towards him in a lawsuit that she filed and settled final 12 months.
The video reveals Mr. Combs, a hip-hop mogul often called Puff Daddy and Diddy, carrying a towel and confronting Ms. Ventura whereas she waits for an elevator. It reveals him grabbing her and throwing her to the bottom, kicking her twice, grabbing a few of her possessions, and starting to pull her down the hallway by her sweatshirt.
Mr. Combs, who’s going through a federal investigation, can be seen grabbing an object off a desk and throwing it.
A lawyer representing Ms. Ventura, Douglas H. Wigdor, confirmed that the girl being assaulted within the video is his shopper.
“The gut-wrenching video has solely additional confirmed the disturbing and predatory habits of Mr. Combs,” he stated in an announcement. “Phrases can not specific the braveness and fortitude that Ms. Ventura has proven in coming ahead to convey this to mild.”
A consultant for Mr. Combs, who has not been criminally charged, didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
In Ms. Ventura’s lawsuit, she described an incident from 2016 at an InterContinental Resort in Los Angeles by which Mr. Combs turned “extraordinarily intoxicated and punched Ms. Ventura within the face, giving her a black eye.” The lawsuit stated that after Mr. Combs fell asleep, Ms. Ventura tried to depart the resort room, however Mr. Combs awakened and adopted her into the hallway.
“He grabbed at her, after which took glass vases within the hallway and threw them at her, inflicting glass to crash round them as she ran to the elevator to flee,” the lawsuit stated.
Mr. Wigdor confirmed that the video footage corresponds to these allegations.
Mr. Combs settled the go well with with Ms. Ventura — an R&B singer often called Cassie, who had been signed to Mr. Combs’s report label — in sooner or later in November, and denied any wrongdoing. Three fits by different ladies, every alleging rape, adopted in fast succession, and in February a male music producer filed go well with accusing Mr. Combs of undesirable sexual contact.
In March, federal brokers raided Mr. Combs’s houses in Los Angeles and Miami Seashore, Fla., and stopped him at a Miami-area airport, confiscating his digital gadgets.
Mr. Combs has vehemently denied the accusations within the civil fits, calling them “sickening allegations” from folks searching for “a fast payday.” His attorneys have sharply criticized how the raids — which concerned brokers from Homeland Safety Investigations brandishing weapons — have been carried out, calling them a “gross overuse of military-level drive.”
