Cassie & Diddy Lawsuit Settled – Billboard

One day after Sean “Diddy” Combs’ former romantic companion and R&B singer Cassie Ventura sued him for years of alleged bodily abuse and even rape, the pair have resolved the claims she filed in Manhattan federal courtroom. 

“I have decided to resolve this matter amicably on terms that I have some level of control,” Ventura mentioned in an announcement issued late Friday evening (Nov. 17) by her lawyer, Douglas Wigdor. “I want to thank my family, fans and lawyers for their unwavering support.”

Combs responded with an announcement, including, “We have decided to resolve this matter amicably. I wish Cassie and her family all the best.  Love.” No phrases had been disclosed and the discharge states that “the parties will have no further statements.” When reached by Billboard, Wigdor declined to remark additional. Combs’ lawyer, Ben Brafman, didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark or to confirm the decision. 

In the lawsuit, attorneys for Ventura claimed she “endured over a decade of his violent behavior and disturbed demands,” together with repeated bodily beatings and forcing her to “engage in sex acts with male sex workers” whereas he masturbated.

According to the criticism, after she tried to separate herself from him in 2018, Combs “forced her into her home and raped her while she repeatedly said ‘no’ and tried to push him away.”

“Ms. Ventura has now fully escaped Mr. Combs, but the harm that the assaults and sexual abuse he caused her to experience for nearly a decade will forever haunt her,” wrote Cassie’s lawyer Douglas Wigdor, who has filed quite a few high-profile sexual abuse instances. “She cannot, however, continue to live in silence about what she endured. Mr. Combs remains immensely powerful, and immensely dangerous.”

Combs’ lawyer, superstar protection lawyer Brafman, mentioned his consumer “vehemently denies these offensive and outrageous allegations,” alleging that for the final six months, Ventura had demanded $30 million “under the threat of writing a damaging book about their relationship, which was unequivocally rejected as blatant blackmail.” In the assertion, Brafman continued, “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’ reputation and seeking a pay day.”

Wigdor responded that Combs had supplied Ventura “eight figures” to stop her from submitting the lawsuit, a suggestion she rejected.

Ventura, who had an on-and-off public relationship with Combs for 11 years till they break up in 2018, says that she met the hip-hop mogul in 2005, when she was simply 19 and he was 37. After he signed her to his Bad Boy Records label, she says Combs “lured” her right into a romantic relationship – albeit one during which he “asserted complete control over Ms. Ventura’s personal and professional life.”

During the connection, Ventura says she suffered “episodes of horrific abuse,” together with instances when he would fly into an “uncontrollable rage” and “beat Ms. Ventura savagely.” She says he would remind her of his skill to hurt her, together with by requiring her to hold his gun in her purse.

The go well with additionally accuses Combs of blowing up a automobile belonging to Kid Cudi in 2012 after the rapper expressed curiosity in Ventura. “Mr. Combs told Ms. Ventura that he was going to blow up Kid Cudi’s car, and that he wanted to ensure that Kid Cudi was home with his friends when it happened,” Ventura’s attorneys write. “Around that time, Kid Cudi’s car exploded in his driveway.”

The case was filed underneath newly enacted legal guidelines in New York and California that revised the deadlines for bringing abuse lawsuits, creating restricted home windows for alleged survivors to take authorized motion over years-old accusations that might sometimes be barred underneath the statute of limitations. In New York, the look-back window closes later this month.

In an announcement issued tonight, Wigdor added, “I am very proud of Ms. Ventura for having the strength to go public with her lawsuit. She ought to be commended for doing so.”