(New York) American hip-hop megastar Sean Combs, aka Puff Daddy or Diddy, will be charged in New York on Thursday with years of rape and physical violence by R&B singer Casandra Ventura, whose stage name is Cassie.
Posted at 5:08 p.m.
According to a court document from the Manhattan federal prosecutor’s office, Mr. Combs “raped Ms. Ventura in her home after she attempted to leave him” in 2018.
He “often punched, kicked, slapped and kicked her, resulting in bruises, split lips, black eyes and bleeding,” according to the 35-page lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. federal courts.
This document, released Thursday evening and first reported by The New York Times, also targets the rap musician and producer’s companies and record labels, Bad Boy Entertainment, Bad Boy Records, Epic Records, Combs Enterprises and Doe Corporations 1-10 .
The American justice system – which recorded the testimony against Ms Ventura, who met Mr Combs in 2005 when she was 19 and he was 37 – accused the rap star of “violent behavior” and “deviant demands” for “more than…” a decade ago “.
“For Ms. Ventura, the “dark time” was the one she experienced when she was caught in a cycle of assault, violence and sex trafficking by Mr. Combs,” singer Cassie’s complaint highlights.
Ben Brafman, Mr Combs’ New York lawyer, “vigorously” denied the allegations, calling them “offensive and scandalous” in a statement to AFP.
However, the ad describes a violent man who even forces the victim to film sexual relations with male prostitutes.
Ms. Ventura “cannot continue to live in silence after what she has been through,” the court document emphasizes.
“Mr. Combs remains immensely powerful and dangerous. “Ms. Ventura demands justice for the decade of life that Mr. Combs took from her through threats of violence, drug addiction, physical and psychological abuse, and sexual slavery.”
Mr. Combs, 54, founded his company Bad Boy in 1993, a glorious decade for this important figure in the marketing and media coverage of the hip-hop scene, a musical and artistic movement that was born in New York 50 years ago in August was 1973.
Puff Daddy’s students include the Notorious BIG, who died in 1997, and Mary J. Blige.
Sean Combs is part of the hip-hop billionaire club, thanks in part to his dealings in the alcohol industry.