Cassie & Diddy Lawsuit Settled – Billboard

At some point after Sean “Diddy” Combs’ former romantic accomplice 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’ve determined to resolve this matter amicably on phrases that I’ve some stage of management,” Ventura stated in an announcement issued late Friday evening (Nov. 17) by her legal professional, Douglas Wigdor. “I need to thank my household, followers and attorneys for his or her unwavering assist.”

Combs responded with an announcement, including, “We’ve got determined to resolve this matter amicably. I want Cassie and her household all the most effective.  Love.” No phrases have been disclosed and the discharge states that “the events can have no additional statements.” When reached by Billboard, Wigdor declined to remark additional. Combs’ legal professional, Ben Brafman, didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark or to confirm the decision. 

Within the lawsuit, attorneys for Ventura claimed she “endured over a decade of his violent conduct and disturbed calls for,” together with repeated bodily beatings and forcing her to “have interaction in intercourse acts with male intercourse staff” whereas he masturbated.

In accordance with the grievance, after she tried to separate herself from him in 2018, Combs “compelled her into her residence and raped her whereas she repeatedly stated ‘no’ and tried to push him away.”

“Ms. Ventura has now totally escaped Mr. Combs, however the hurt that the assaults and sexual abuse he brought on her to expertise for practically a decade will eternally hang-out her,” wrote Cassie’s legal professional Douglas Wigdor, who has filed a lot of high-profile sexual abuse circumstances. “She can’t, nevertheless, proceed to dwell in silence about what she endured. Mr. Combs stays immensely highly effective, and immensely harmful.”

Combs’ legal professional, superstar protection lawyer Brafman, stated his shopper “vehemently denies these offensive and outrageous allegations,” alleging that for the final six months, Ventura had demanded $30 million “underneath the specter of writing a harmful e book about their relationship, which was unequivocally rejected as blatant blackmail.” Within the assertion, Brafman continued, “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’ repute and searching for a pay day.”

Wigdor responded that Combs had provided Ventura “eight figures” to forestall her from submitting the lawsuit, a proposal 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 Unhealthy Boy Data label, she says Combs “lured” her right into a romantic relationship – albeit one through which he “asserted full management over Ms. Ventura’s private {and professional} life.”

Through the relationship, Ventura says she suffered “episodes of horrific abuse,” together with occasions 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 automotive belonging to Child Cudi in 2012 after the rapper expressed curiosity in Ventura. “Mr. Combs advised Ms. Ventura that he was going to explode Child Cudi’s automotive, and that he needed to make sure that Child Cudi was residence along with his associates when it occurred,” Ventura’s attorneys write. “Round that point, Child Cudi’s automotive exploded in his driveway.”

The case was filed underneath newly enacted legal guidelines in New York and California that revised the closing dates for bringing abuse lawsuits, creating restricted home windows for alleged survivors to take authorized motion over years-old accusations that might usually 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’m very happy with Ms. Ventura for having the power to go public along with her lawsuit. She should be counseled for doing so.”