Singer
Cassie
has
accused
her
ex-boyfriend
Sean
Diddy
Combs
of
rape
and
abuse,
amongst
other
acts,
in
a
lawsuit.
In
the
suit,
Cassie,
born
Casandra
Ventura,
alleges
that
Combs
began
abusing
her
shortly
after
they
met
when
she
was
just
19
years
old,
in
2005.
The
New
York
Times
reports
that
Ventura
filed
the
lawsuit
on
Thursday
(Nov.
16)
in
Federal
District
Court
in
New
York
City.
The
suit
alleges
that
in
2018,
shortly
before
their
romantic
relationship
came
to
an
end,
Diddy
raped
her
in
her
home.
“After
years
in
silence
and
darkness,”
said
Ventura
in
a
statement,
“I
am
finally
ready
to
tell
my
story,
and
to
speak
up
on
behalf
of
myself
and
for
the
benefit
of
other
women
who
face
violence
and
abuse
in
their
relationships.”
Diddy,
via
his
lawyer,
is
denying
all
the
allegations.
“Mr.
Combs
vehemently
denies
these
offensive
and
outrageous
allegations,”
said
Diddy’s
attorney,
Ben
Brafman,
in
a
statement.
“For
the
past
six
months,
Mr.
Combs
has
been
subjected
to
Ms.
Ventura’s
persistent
demand
of
$30
million,
under
the
threat
of
writing
a
damaging
book
about
their
relationship,
which
was
unequivocally
rejected
as
blatant
blackmail.
Despite
withdrawing
her
initial
threat,
Ms.
Ventura
has
now
resorted
to
filing
a
lawsuit
riddled
with
baseless
and
outrageous
lies,
aiming
to
tarnish
Mr.
Combs’s
reputation
and
seeking
a
payday.”
According
to
Ventura’s
lawyer,
she
rejected
an
“eight-figure”
payoff
to
stop
her
from
filing
the
lawsuit.
Ventura
is
seeking
unspecified
damages.
The
alleged
details
in
the
suit
are
heinous.
Reports
the
New
York
Times:
A
few
years
into
Ms.
Ventura’s
relationship
with
Mr.
Combs,
the
suit
says,
he
began
coercing
her
“to
engage
in
a
fantasy
of
his
called
‘voyeurism,’”
in
which
she
was
directed
to
have
sex
with
a
succession
of
male
prostitutes,
while
Mr.
Combs
watched,
masturbated,
took
pictures
and
shot
video.
According
to
the
suit,
Mr.
Combs
called
these
encounters
“freak
offs,”
which
involved
costumes,
like
masquerade
masks
and
lingerie.
They
continued
for
years,
taking
place
at
high-end
hotels
across
the
United
States
and
in
Mr.
Combs’s
homes.
The
suit
says
that
he
instructed
Ms.
Ventura
to
search
the
websites
of
escort
services
to
procure
male
sex
workers.
Drugs
were
supplied
at
these
events,
which
Ms.
Ventura’s
suit
says
she
took
because
they
“allowed
her
to
disassociate
during
these
horrific
encounters.”
One
person
supporting
Ventura’s
claims,
in
a
roundabout
way,
is
Kid
Cudi.
Says
the
NYTimes:
In
one
incident
described
in
the
court
papers,
Ms.
Ventura
says
that
in
early
2012,
Mr.
Combs
grew
so
angry
about
her
dating
the
rapper
Kid
Cudi
that
he
said
he
would
blow
up
the
rapper’s
car.
“Around
that
time,”
the
suit
says,
“Kid
Cudi’s
car
exploded
in
his
driveway.”
Through
a
spokeswoman,
Kid
Cudi
confirmed
Ms.
Ventura’s
account.
“This
is
all
true,”
he
said.
Many
will
remember
how
Cassie
left
Diddy,
and
moved
on
with
her
life
in
2018,
having
a
child
with
personal
trainer
Alex
Fine
in
2019—and
soon
after
they
were
wedded.
If
the
timing
holds,
she
left
Diddy
after
he
allegedly
raped
her.
The
court
filing
says
that
in
2018,
after
Mr.
Combs
and
Ms.
Ventura
met
for
dinner,
he
forced
himself
into
her
apartment
and
raped
her
while
she
“repeatedly
said
‘no’
and
tried
to
push
him
away.”
After
that,
the
suit
says,
she
left
him
for
good.
Ms.
Ventura
married
Alex
Fine,
a
personal
trainer,
the
following
year
and
now
has
two
young
children.
According
to
the
complaint,
her
association
with
Bad
Boy
ended
in
2019.
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