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

A 2016 surveillance video obtained solely by CNN reveals Sean “Diddy” Combs seize, shove, drag and kick his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura throughout an altercation that matches allegations in a now-settled federal lawsuit filed by Ventura in November.

The footage, compiled from a number of digicam angles dated March 5, 2016, seems to point out the rapper, producer and enterprise mogul throughout an incident that, in line with Ventura’s criticism, occurred on the now-closed InterContinental Resort in Century Metropolis, Los Angeles. CNN verified the placement based mostly on publicly out there photographs of the previous lodge’s inside.

Within the video, Ventura exits a lodge room and walks to a financial institution of elevators. Combs, holding a towel round his waist, runs down a corridor after Ventura. He grabs her by the again of the neck and throws her to the ground. Nonetheless holding his towel closed with one hand, he then turns to kick her, the video reveals.

As Ventura is on the bottom, Combs retrieves a handbag and suitcase from the ground close to the elevators. He turns round and kicks Ventura once more as she lies immobile on the ground. About 4 seconds transpire between the 2 kicks, in line with the video. He then briefly drags Ventura by her sweatshirt towards a room earlier than strolling away.

Ventura is then seen slowly standing up. She gathers objects from the ground and strikes to select up a telephone on the hallway wall close to the elevators. Combs, nonetheless in a towel and socks, returns. A mirror instantly throughout from the safety digicam reveals Combs showing to shove Ventura.

Seconds later, he sits down on a chair, grabs an object off a desk and forcefully throws it towards Ventura. Combs is seen strolling away, then turns towards Ventura as soon as once more when an elevator door opens and somebody seems to exit.

Ventura, who reached an undisclosed settlement with Combs, declined to touch upon the video obtained by CNN.

Ventura’s lawyer, Douglas H. Wigdor, stated: “The gut-wrenching video has solely additional confirmed the disturbing and predatory conduct of Mr. Combs. Phrases can’t categorical the braveness and fortitude that Ms. Ventura has proven in coming ahead to deliver this to gentle.”

CNN has reached out to representatives for Combs and InterContinental Motels for remark. Combs has beforehand denied Ventura’s allegations.

Ventura’s lawsuit

Combs and Ventura, a mannequin and singer recognized for songs like “Me & U,” had been in an off-and-on relationship from 2007 – 2018. The 2 had been photographed collectively on the Los Angeles premiere of the movie “A Excellent Match” on March 7, 2016.

In accordance with Ventura’s criticism, which cited the altercation as occurring “round March 2016,” Combs turned “extraordinarily intoxicated and punched Ms. Ventura within the face, giving her a black eye.”

After Combs fell asleep, Ventura tried to depart the lodge room, however he awoke and “adopted her into the hallway of the lodge whereas yelling at her,” the criticism stated.

“He grabbed at her, after which took glass vases within the hallway and threw them at her, inflicting glass to crash round them as she ran to the elevator to flee,” the criticism alleged.

After Ventura received within the elevator, her criticism states that she took a cab to her residence.

“Upon realizing that her operating away would trigger Mr. Combs to be even angrier together with her, and fully caught in his vicious cycle of abuse, Ms. Ventura returned to the lodge with the intention of apologizing for operating away from her abuser,” the criticism claims. “When she returned, lodge safety employees urged her to get again right into a cab and go to her residence, suggesting that they’d seen the safety footage displaying Mr. Combs beating Ms. Ventura and throwing glass at her within the lodge hallway.”

The criticism alleges Combs paid the InterContinental Century Metropolis $50,000 for the hallway safety footage of the incident. The incident was a part of numerous allegations made within the November lawsuit through which Ventura claimed she was raped in 2018 and subjected to years of repeated bodily and different abuses by Combs.

Ventura, who was formally signed to Combs’ label, claimed in her swimsuit that he “exerted his energy and affect” over her all through the course of their skilled and romantic relationship. In accordance with the criticism, she was 19 after they met and Combs was 37, and their enterprise relationship lasted till 2019. It detailed claims that Combs was bodily violent towards Ventura and compelled her to have interaction in numerous intercourse acts with different males throughout that point.

Ben Brafman, an lawyer for Combs, stated in a press release to CNN on the day it was filed, “Mr. Combs vehemently denies these offensive and outrageous allegations.”

The swimsuit was resolved the next day.

“A choice to settle a lawsuit, particularly in 2023, is on no account an admission of wrongdoing,” Brafman informed CNN in a press release on the time. “Mr. Combs‘ resolution to settle the lawsuit doesn’t in any approach undermine his flat-out denial of the claims. He’s pleased they received to a mutual settlement and desires Ms. Ventura the perfect.”

Particulars of the settlement weren’t disclosed.

Ongoing authorized points

Since November, Combs has confronted 5 different civil lawsuits accusing him of a variety of sexual misconduct and different criminality. He has denied the allegations, and the cases stay lively.

Authorities searched Combs’ properties in California and Florida in April as a part of a federal investigation carried out by a Division of Homeland Safety staff that handles human trafficking crimes, in line with a senior federal regulation enforcement official briefed on the investigation. The investigation stems from most of the similar sexual assault allegations put forth within the civil lawsuits, in line with a second regulation enforcement supply accustomed to the searches.

Aaron Dyer, an lawyer for Combs, issued a statement on the time, calling the searches a “gross overuse of military-level pressure.”

“This unprecedented ambush – paired with a complicated, coordinated media presence – results in a untimely rush to judgment of Mr. Combs and is nothing greater than a witch hunt based mostly on meritless accusations made in civil lawsuits,” he stated. “There was no discovering of legal or civil legal responsibility with any of those allegations. Mr. Combs is harmless and can proceed to battle each single day to clear his title.”

CNN’s Kevin Flower and Megan Thomas contributed to this story.

Editor’s Be aware: If you happen to or somebody you recognize is combating intimate associate violence, there are assets out there, together with the National Domestic Violence Hotline.

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