(New York) American hip-hop megastar Sean Combs, Puff Daddy or Diddy on stage, is targeted Thursday by a complaint for rape and physical violence lasting more than ten years by his ex-partner, the singer Cassie, accusations that the musician denies it “fiercely.”
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According to a 35-page court document made public Thursday by the American justice system and first revealed by the New York Times, “Mr. Combs raped Ms. Ventura at her home after she tried to leave him” in 2018.
Sean Combs, 54, also “often punched, kicked, slapped and stomped on her, resulting in bruises, burst lips, black eyes and bleeding,” details this civil complaint filed before the federal prosecutor’s office in Manhattan, New York.
This legal action is made possible thanks to a New York State law which since November 2022, but for one year only, allows victims of sexual violence to file a civil complaint for prescribed facts.
Ms. Ventura’s complaint also targets the companies and record labels of her former companion, musician and rap producer: Bad Boy Entertainment, Bad Boy Records, Epic Records, Combs Enterprises and Doe Corporations 1-10.
American justice – which recorded the testimony against Ms. Ventura, who met Mr. Combs in 2005 when she was 19 and he was 37 – accuses the rap star of having engaged in “violent behavior” and ” deviant demands” for “more than a decade.”
“After years of silence and darkness, I am finally ready to tell my story and speak out on my behalf and for the sake of all other women who experience violence and assault” in their relationships, Cassie wrote in a press release sent by his lawyer Douglas Wigdor.
This tenor of the New York bar estimated that “no human being should endure what Ms. Ventura endured” by her “aggressor.”
According to her complaint, the victim “experienced a ‘dark period,’ trapped by Mr. Combs in a cycle of assault, violence and sex trafficking.”
Mr. Combs’ New York lawyer, Ben Brafman, “fiercely” denied the allegations, calling them in a statement “insulting and outrageous.”
The complaint, however, describes a violent man, even forcing the victim to have filmed sexual relations with male prostitutes.
Ms. Ventura “cannot continue to live in silence after what she has endured,” the court document further underlines.
The plaintiff further accuses “Mr. Combs (of) remaining immensely powerful and dangerous.”
And “Ms. Ventura is seeking justice for the decade of life 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 decade of glory for this major figure in the commercialization and media coverage of the hip-hop scene, a musical and artistic movement born in New York 50 years ago, in August 1973.
Puff Daddy’s disciples include the late Notorious B. I. G., who died in 1997, and Mary J. Blige.
Sean Combs is part of the hip-hop billionaires club, also thanks to his business in the alcohol industry.
For Casandra Ventura, it “was obvious that with the very imminent expiration (end of November) of the New York law (on the protection of victims of sexual violence), I had the opportunity to speak loud and clear about the trauma that I suffered and from which I will recover during what remains of my life”.