Shocking footage shows Sean “Diddy” Combs punching and kicking his former girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, in a hotel hallway in 2016.
The footage, captured from multiple angles and obtained by CNN, shows the music mogul chasing Ms Ventura down the hallway in a towel, before attacking her close to the elevators.
He then makes an attempt to drag her back down the hall.
The incident allegedly occurred within the InterContinental Hotel in Century City, Los Angeles.
CNN verified the location based mostly on publicly accessible images of the previous hotel’s interior.
After pushing Ms Ventura to the bottom, Combs retrieves a handbag and suitcase from the floor near the elevators. He turns round and kicks her once more as she lies on the ground.
Ms Ventura is later seen within the footage slowly standing up and gathering items from the ground earlier than reaching a resort telephone on the hallway wall close to the elevators.
Combs, still in a towel and socks, returns.
A mirror immediately throughout from the safety digital camera exhibits Combs pushing Cassie Ventura. He’s then seen throwing an object at her.
Accordinng to CNN, Combs later paid the InterContinental Century Metropolis $50,000 for the hallway safety footage.
The video seems to corroborate a number of allegations made in a lawsuit introduced by Cassie Ventura in 2023, wherein she claimed she was trafficked, raped and crushed by Combs on many events over 10 years.
In accordance with the grievance, which cited the altercation as occurring “round March 2016,” Combs grew to become “extraordinarily intoxicated and punched Ms Ventura within the face, giving her a black eye.”
After the mogul fell asleep, Ms Ventura had tried to go away the resort room, however he awoke and “adopted her into the hallway of the resort whereas yelling at her,” the grievance 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,” it acknowledged.
The lawsuit additionally claimed that Combs introduced the singer into his “ostentatious, fast-paced, and drug-fueled way of life” not lengthy after she met him, and signed her to his label in 2005 when she was simply 19 and he was 37.
Ms Ventura stated that the sample of abuse started as quickly as their relationship began and that, as she was attempting to finish it in 2018, he compelled himself into her Los Angeles house and raped her.
The lawsuit towards Combs was settled a day after she filed it for an undisclosed amount of money.
Ms Ventura informed CNN on the time she had chosen to “resolve this matter amicably,” while Combs’ attorney said the settlement was “under no circumstances an admission of wrongdoing” and didn’t change his denial of the allegations.
Watch the assault video released by CNN under.
