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Diddy<\/strong> is within the highlight after Cassie<\/strong> revealed an alleged historical past of sexual assault, abuse, and trafficking<\/a> throughout state traces by the hands of the producer. The\u00a0\u201cOfficial Girl\u201d singer filed the bombshell lawsuit on Thursday (Nov. 16) in New York.<\/p>\n In a press release despatched to a number of information retailers, together with CNN<\/a> and the NY Times<\/a>, Diddy \u2014 actual title Sean Combs \u2014 denies the allegations through his lawyer. He claims Cassie has been looking for a $30 million payout from him for months.<\/p>\n \u201cMr. Combs vehemently denies these offensive and outrageous allegations,\u201d Attorney Ben Brafman wrote. \u201cFor the past 6 months, Mr. Combs, has been subjected to Ms. Ventura\u2019s persistent demand of $30 million, under the threat of writing a damaging book about their relationship, which was unequivocally rejected as blatant blackmail.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Diddy\u2019s lawyer<\/a> says Cassie has withdrawn \u201cher initial threat\u201d however \u201cresorted to filing a lawsuit riddled with baseless and outrageous lies.\u201d The assertion provides that Cassie is \u201caiming to tarnish Mr. Combs\u2019 reputation\u201d and needs \u201ca payday.\u201d<\/p>\n The Bad Boy Entertainment founder \u2014 an organization listed as certainly one of a number of lawsuit defendants \u2014 has not reacted on-line to the matter. Yung Miami, who has publicly affirmed a romantic relationship<\/a> with Diddy, has additionally not publicly commented on the lawsuit.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Cassie\u2019s lawyer supplied a press release to the NY Times confirming that the plaintiff and defendant spoke earlier than she filed the lawsuit. However, Attorney Douglas Wigdor says Diddy was the one who tried to purchase Cassie\u2019s silence.<\/p>\n \u201cMr. Combs offered Ms. Ventura eight figures to silence her and prevent the filing of this lawsuit,\u201d Wigdor stated. \u201cShe rejected his efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Cassie additionally spoke on her resolution to file in a press release to CNN.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter years in silence and darkness, 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,\u201d Cassie reportedly shared. \u201cWith the expiration of New York\u2019s Adult Survivors Act fast approaching, it became clear that this was an opportunity to speak up about the trauma I have experienced and that I will be recovering from for the rest of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n For context, New York\u2019s Adult Survivors Act is set to run out<\/a> on Nov. 23, 2023, because it solely supplied a \u201cone-year window\u201d for victims to file civil circumstances in opposition to alleged abusers.<\/p>\n Amid Cassie\u2019s lawsuit, TMZ reported<\/a> on Nov. 16\u2013 through regulation enforcement sources \u2014 that Diddy was the topic of a \u201csecret NYPD\u201d investigation. However, the NYPD issued an replace on Nov. 17, saying that data was \u201cerroneous\u201d and that there was \u201cno such investigation at present.\u201d<\/p>\n Cassie\u2019s lawsuit<\/a> boasts a set off warning concerning the \u201chighly graphic\u201d nature of the alleged occasions. Such incidents embody rape, coerced sexual encounters with male intercourse staff, and extreme bodily abuse.<\/p>\n Editor\u2019s Note: Anyone affected by sexual assault, whether or not it occurred to you or somebody you care about, can discover assist from on-line.rainn.org. You also can name the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 800.656.HOPE (4673) to be linked with somebody over the telephone who may help.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Cassie particulars a enterprise partnership that started in 2005-2006 and shortly spiraled right into a \u201ccycle of abuse, violence, and sex trafficking.\u201d When they met, the singer was 19 and Diddy was 37. Before the alleged abuse started, the \u201cMe & U\u201d singer alleges Diddy used a number of means to flex his superstar standing, affect, and social gathering way of life.<\/p>\n Things took a bodily flip when Diddy allegedly forcibly kissed Cassie at her twenty first birthday celebration after pulling her inside a toilet. Weeks later, he had sexual activity together with her after offering her with \u201ccopious amounts of drugs\u201d throughout a Miami journey.<\/p>\n In the years after, Cassie alleges Diddy raped her after she tried to depart him, compelled her to rearrange and carry out sexual acts with male intercourse staff whereas he watched and recorded, and \u201cpunched, beat, kicked and stomped on\u201d her on a number of events. His beatings usually resulted in \u201cbruises, burst lips, black eyes and bleeding.\u201d She describes the hip hop mogul as \u201ca vicious, cruel, and controlling man.\u201d<\/p>\n Cassie additionally alleges she tried to depart the connection a number of occasions however was all the time discovered and coerced to return by folks inside Diddy\u2019s community, together with his authorized crew and label execs.<\/p>\n The mom of two stated in her lawsuit she will now not stay silent on the matter.<\/p>\n \u201cMr. Combs remains immensely powerful and immensely dangerous. Ms. Ventura therefore seeks justice for the decade of her life that Mr. Combs took away from her with threats of violence, excessive use of drugs, physical and psychological abuse, and sexual slavery,\u201d the lawsuit states.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n She\u2019s looking for \u201cinjunctive, declaratory and monetary relief\u201d from Diddy and affiliated defendants.<\/p>\n After the lawsuit information broke, Cassie\u2019s husband, Alex Fine, reposted a photograph of them to his Instagram Story, including a crimson coronary heart.<\/p>\n Former Bad Boy Records \u2014 a defendant in Cassie\u2019s lawsuit \u2014 artists have additionally spoken in assist of Cassandra. Aubrey O\u2019Day and Dawn Richard of Dainty Kane shared messages on Instagram and X.<\/p>\n \u201cBeen tryna tell y\u2019all for years. Prayers up for this queen @Cassie,\u201d Aubrey wrote on her IG Story.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u201cPraying for Cassie and her family, for peace and healing. You are beautiful and brave,\u201d Dawn wrote on X.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \n <\/div>\n\n
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