Music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has been hit with a lawsuit accusing him of raping and intercourse trafficking a younger R&B performer for greater than a decade.
The bombshell submitting, first reported by the New York Occasions, alleges that Combs managed and abused singer Cassie for greater than a decade, plying her with medicine, abusing her and forcing her to have intercourse with a number of male intercourse employees whereas he videotaped the encounters.
Cassie, whose actual title is Casandra Ventura, met Combs in 2005 when she was simply 19, the lawsuit says. The pair began relationship and allegedly it wasn’t lengthy earlier than the rap mogul started a sample of management and abuse.
In 2018, the go well with says, Combs compelled his manner into her dwelling and raped her. It was then that she left the connection.
“After years in silence and darkness,” Ms. Ventura stated in a press release revealed by NBC Information, “I’m lastly prepared to inform my story, and to talk up on behalf of myself and for the good thing about different ladies who face violence and abuse of their relationships.
“With the expiration of New York’s Grownup Survivors Act quick approaching, it turned clear that this was a chance to talk up concerning the trauma I’ve skilled and that I will likely be recovering from for the remainder of my life,” Ventura stated, referencing New York state regulation that permits individuals who say they have been victims of sexual abuse to file civil fits after the statute of limitations has expired. The one-year window to file circumstances below the regulation ends subsequent week.
In response, a lawyer Combs instructed the New York Occasions: “Mr. Combs vehemently denies these offensive and outrageous allegations. For the previous six months, Mr. Combs has been subjected to Ms. Ventura’s persistent demand of $30 million, below the specter of writing a harmful e-book about their relationship, which was unequivocally rejected as blatant blackmail. 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’s status and looking for a payday.”
The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal courtroom Thursday, alleges that in 2005 a 37-year-old Combs signed 19-year-old Ventura to his Unhealthy Boy report label and commenced luring her right into a sexual relationship. Finally, it says, Combs launched her “to a life-style of extreme alcohol and substance abuse.”
The go well with additionally claims that Combs blew up one other rapper’s automotive who expressed curiosity in Ventura, compelled her to search out male prostitutes to have intercourse with whereas Combs watched, and repeatedly “punched, beat, kicked and stomped on” her.
“All through their relationship Mr. Combs was liable to uncontrollable rage, and regularly beat Ms. Ventura savagely,” the go well with alleges.
To learn the total particulars of the lawsuit, go to the New York Occasions.
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