Exclusive: Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs seen physically assaulting

 

Exclusive: Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs seen physically assaulting Cassie Ventura in 2016 surveillance video obtained by CNN

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A 2016 observation video gotten only by CNN appears Sean “Diddy” Combs get, push, drag and kick his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura amid an quarrel that matches charges in a now-settled government claim recorded by Ventura in November.

The film, compiled from different camera points dated Walk 5, 2016, shows up to appear the rapper, maker and commerce big shot amid an occurrence that, concurring to Ventura’s complaint, happened at the now-closed Interconversion Lodging in Century City, Los Angeles. CNN confirmed the area based on freely accessible photographs of the previous hotel’s interior.

In the video, Ventura exits a inn room and strolls to a bank of lifts. Combs, holding a towel around his abdomen, runs down a lobby after Ventura. He gets her by the back of the neck and tosses her to the floor. Still holding his towel closed with one hand, he at that point turns to kick her, the video shows.

As Ventura is on the ground, Combs recovers a handbag and bag from the floor close the lifts. He turns around and kicks Ventura once more as she lies still on the floor. Approximately four seconds happen between the two kicks, concurring to the video. He at that point briefly drags Ventura by her sweatshirt toward a room some time recently strolling away.

Ventura is at that point seen gradually standing up. She accumulates things from the floor and moves to choose up a phone on the corridor divider close the lifts. Combs, still in a towel and socks, returns. A reflect straightforwardly over from the security camera appears Combs showing up to push Ventura.

Seconds afterward, he sits down on a chair, snatches an protest off a table and compellingly tosses it toward Ventura. Combs is seen strolling absent, at that point turns toward Ventura once once more when an lift entryway opens and somebody shows up to exit.

Ventura, who come to an undisclosed settlement with Combs, declined to comment on the video gotten by CNN.

Ventura’s lawyer, Douglas H. Wigdor, said: “The gut-wrenching video has as it were advance affirmed the exasperating and ruthless behavior of Mr. Combs. Words cannot express the mettle and guts that Ms. Ventura has appeared in coming forward to bring this to light.”

CNN has come to out to agents for Combs for comment. Combs has already denied Ventura’s allegations.

When reached by CNN, a agent for Interconversion Inns said on Friday, “This inn is no longer beneath IHG administration, and we do not have any get to to earlier occurrence records or footage.”

Ventura’s lawsuit

Combs and Ventura, a show and artist known for tunes like “Me & U,” were in an off-and-on relationship from 2007 – 2018. The two were shot together at the Los Angeles debut of the film “A Idealize Match” on Walk 7, 2016.

According to Ventura’s complaint, which cited the squabble as happening “around Walk 2016,” Combs got to be “extremely inebriated and punched Ms. Ventura in the confront, giving her a dark eye.”

After Combs fell snoozing, Ventura endeavored to take off the lodging room, but he woke up and “followed her into the corridor of the inn whereas shouting at her,” the complaint said.

“He gotten at her, and at that point took glass vases in the passage and tossed them at her, causing glass to crash around them as she ran to the lift to escape,” the complaint alleged.

After Ventura got in the lift, her complaint states that she took a cab to her apartment.

“Upon realizing that her running absent would cause Mr. Combs to be indeed angrier with her, and totally stuck in his horrendous cycle of manhandle, Ms. Ventura returned to the lodging with the purposeful of apologizing for running absent from her abuser,” the complaint claims. “When she returned, inn security staff encouraged her to get back into a cab and go to her flat, proposing that they had seen the security film appearing Mr. Combs beating Ms. Ventura and tossing glass at her in the inn hallway.”

Sean "Diddy" Combs with Cassie Ventura go to the debut of 'The Idealize Match' in Los Angeles on Walk 7, 2016.

Sean "Diddy" Combs with Cassie Ventura go to the debut of 'The Culminate Match' in Los Angeles on Walk 7, 2016. Chris Delmas/AFP/Getty Images/File

The complaint charges Combs paid the Interconversion Century City $50,000 for the corridor security film, one of a number of charges made in the November claim in which Ventura claimed she was assaulted in 2018 and subjected to a long time of rehashed physical and other mishandle by Combs.

Ventura, who was formally marked to Combs’ name, claimed in her suit that he “exerted his control and influence” over her all through the course of their proficient and sentimental relationship. Concurring to the complaint, she was 19 when they met and Combs was 37, and their commerce relationship endured until 2019. It nitty gritty claims that Combs was physically savage toward Ventura and constrained her to lock in in different sex acts with other men amid that time.

Ben Brafman, an lawyer for Combs, said in a articulation to CNN on the day it was recorded, “Mr. Combs eagerly denies these hostile and over the top allegations.”

The suit was settled the taking after day.

“A choice to settle a claim, particularly in 2023, is in no way an confirmation of wrongdoing,” Brafman told CNN in a articulation at the time. “Mr. Combs‘ choice to settle the claim does not in any way weaken his flat-out dissent of the claims. He is upbeat they got to a common settlement and wishes Ms. Ventura the best.”

Details of the settlement were not disclosed.

Ongoing lawful issues

Since November, Combs has confronted five other respectful claims charging him of a extend of sexual wrongdoing and other illicit movement. He has denied the charges, and the cases stay active.

Authorities looked Combs’ homes in California and Florida in Walk as portion of a government examination carried out by a Office of Country Security group that handles human trafficking wrongdoings, agreeing to a senior government law requirement official briefed on the examination. The examination stems from numerous of the same sexual ambush affirmations put forward in the gracious claims, agreeing to a moment law requirement source commonplace with the searches.

Aaron Dyer, an lawyer for Combs, issued a explanation at the time, calling the looks a “gross abuse of military-level force.”

“This uncommon trap – matched with an progressed, facilitated media nearness – leads to a untimely surge to judgment of Mr. Combs and is nothing more than a witch chase based on meritless allegations made in gracious lawsuits,” he said. “There has been no finding of criminal or respectful obligation with any of these affirmations. Mr. Combs is blameless and will proceed to battle each single day to clear his name.”