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That is horrific!
We had been shocked in 2018 when Cassie and Diddy broke up after a whole decade collectively. We thought we had been seeing heartbreak — seems it was extra of a jailbreak?!
In a surprising lawsuit filed on Thursday, Cassie is now claiming these ten years had been crammed with all kinds of mistreatment by the music mogul — a “cycle of abuse, violence and intercourse trafficking.” In a press release, Cassie, actual title Casandra Ventura, declared:
“After years in silence and darkness, I’m lastly prepared to inform my story, and to talk up on behalf of myself and for the advantage of 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 shall be recovering from for the remainder of my life.”
The lawsuit, first reported in The New York Instances and later confirmed by a number of shops, accuses Diddy of signing the singer to his Dangerous Boy Information after assembly her when she was simply 19 and all too weak — and utilizing that place over her to slowly assume “full management” over her life.
Cassie claims she solely agreed to exit with him within the first place, again in 2007, as a result of she feared retaliation if she refused. She says Diddy plied her with “copious quantities of medication” — getting her addicted and beginning an issue that proceed for years. He additionally began paying for her automobile and housing, that means she was completely reliant on him. That made it unattainable to go away when he started bodily abusing her.
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The go well with says Diddy “ceaselessly beat Ms. Ventura savagely” — typically witnessed by his different staff, who by no means “dared to talk up towards their horrifying and ferocious boss”. Nobody within the outdoors world would see the outcomes of those beatings as a result of Diddy would disguise her in “lodges for days at a time to let her bruises heal,” claims the go well with. In a single 2009 incident described within the authorized doc, the All About The Benjamins rapper stomped on Cassie’s face — then put her in a lodge room for per week.
The Lengthy Approach 2 Go singer says, like many abuse victims, she “discovered herself changing into numb to the abuse she was experiencing, and have become totally beholden to Mr. Combs’s calls for”:
“She started to blindly observe his directions out of concern of once more being on the receiving finish of a vicious beating.”
She says these directions included what he known as “freak offs” — drug-fueled sexual encounters wherein she could be pressured to have intercourse with varied male prostitutes. Allegedly, Diddy would movie these encounters and pleasure himself.
This was not one thing she wished to consent to — she even says she would ceaselessly vomit beforehand out of hysteria. However she was afraid to go away. And for good purpose, apparently!
She claims in 2011 she briefly began a relationship with Child Cudi. When Diddy came upon he “hit her a number of occasions, after which kicked her within the again as she tried to expire the door.” The following 12 months, he instructed her that in retaliation he was going to explode Cudi’s automobile. The scariest half? Child Cudi’s automobile did explode in his driveway round that point! Did Diddy attempt to homicide Child Cudi?!
Even when Cassie acquired the braveness to go away, she says, Diddy was capable of get her again utilizing his energy:
“Through the years that Mr. Combs abused Ms. Ventura bodily and sexually, she many times tried to flee his tight maintain over her life. Each time she hid, Mr. Combs’s huge community of firms and affiliated entities discovered her, and those that labored for Mr. Combs’s firms implored her to return to him.”
She actually is describing being a prisoner!
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When she was prepared to go away for good, that’s when issues hit acquired their worst. She says in September 2018 she met Diddy for dinner “for what she believed could be a dialogue about concluding their relationship for good.” However after they went again to her residence, she says, the Sean John founder “pressured himself into her condo” and began kissing her. Per the go well with:
“She instructed him to cease and tried to push him away. Mr. Combs then forcibly pulled off Ms. Ventura’s clothes and unbuckled his belt. He proceeded to rape Ms. Ventura whereas she repeatedly stated ‘no’ and tried to push him away.”
JFC.
In a press release to Folks, Diddy’s lawyer attests:
“Mr. Combs vehemently denies these offensive and outrageous allegations. Ms. Ventura’s demand of $30 million, underneath the specter of writing a harmful e-book about their relationship, 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’ repute, and in search of a pay day.”
Cassie’s lawyer Douglas Wigdor stated Diddy is making an attempt to flip the reality round:
“Mr. Comb’s provided Ms. Ventura eight figures to silence her and forestall the submitting of this lawsuit. She rejected his efforts and determined to offer a voice to all lady who are suffering in silence. Ms. Ventura needs to be applauded for her bravery.”
Fortunately it’s over now. Cassie did depart and, in 2019, married coach Alex Nice. However all just isn’t properly for her. The go well with says:
“Ms. Ventura has now absolutely escaped Mr. Combs, however the hurt that the assaults and sexual abuse he brought about her to expertise for practically a decade will perpetually hang-out her. She has required intensive medical and psychological care to recuperate from the trauma she lived via.”
That is all so horrible. And if there actually had been witnesses to the abuse, we hope they will observe Cassie’s lead and summon the braveness to come back ahead and inform the reality.
What do YOU take into consideration this surprising go well with?
In case you or somebody you recognize is experiencing home violence, assist is obtainable. Take into account calling the Nationwide Home Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233, or textual content START to 88788, or go to https://www.thehotline.org/.
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