Singer Cassie Sues Ex-Partner, Diddy Over Rape, Sexual Assault and Sex Trafficking

American super star music producer, ‘Bad Boy Record’ owner and business mogul, Sean Puffy Combs popularly known as ‘Diddy’ has been accused of rape, sexual assault and sex trafficking by singer and former partner Cassie. Diddy has denied the allegations hrough his attorney.

Cassie, who sued under her legal name, Casandra Ventura, dated the famed hip-hop producer for about 11 years before they split in 2018. She filed her sex trafficking and sexual assault lawsuit against Combs on Thursday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Ventura’s lawsuit alleges that she “was held down by Mr. Combs and endured over a decade of his violent behavior and disturbed demands,” referring to that period with him as “dark times” during which she was “trapped by Mr. Combs in a cycle of abuse,” according to a copy of the complaint obtained Thursday by reports.

The lawsuit brought under New York’s Adult Survivors Act came in the wake of others filed in that state this month against Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler, music executive Antonio “L.A.” Reid and former Grammys chief Neil Portnow. The Adult Survivors Act created a one-year “lookback window” during which adults who allege they were sexually abused could sue despite the statute of limitations having run out. That window expires next week.

In the filing, 37-year-old Ventura accuses Combs- 54, of raping her in her home after she tried to leave him; physically attacking and injuring her, forcing her to engage in sex acts with male sex workers while filming the encounters.. running around with a firearm; introducing her to “a lifestyle of excessive alcohol and substance abuse”; and requiring her “to procure illicit prescriptions to satisfy his own addictions.”

“He signed her to his label, Bad Boy Records, and within a few years, lured Ms. Ventura into an ostentatious, fast-paced, and drug-fueled lifestyle, and into a romantic relationship with him — her boss, one of the most powerful men in the entertainment industry, and a vicious, cruel, and controlling man nearly twenty years her senior,” the lawsuit said.

Diddy’s lawyer, Ben Brafman, said in a statement to The Times specifically that his client “vehemently denies these offensive and outrageous allegations” and accused Ventura of being “persistent” in demanding more than $30 million from Diddy for the last six months.

He added that the lawsuit is “riddled with baseless and outrageous lies, aiming to tarnish Mr. Combs’ reputation and seeking a payday.”

According to the lawsuit, Ventura met Combs in 2005, when she was 19 and he was 37. After signing her to his label, the suit alleges, Combs took control of her professional and personal life, and began sexual and physically abusing her with increasing frequency.

Combs introduced Ventura to opiates around 2008, the lawsuit claims, and “would often have pills and other drugs out in the open like candy.” He allegedly demanded eventually that Ventura procure prescriptions from his Miami doctor in her own name rather than taking the mogul’s pills.

Combs also had Ventura’s personal medical records sent directly to his email address, the lawsuit states.

“For instance, when Ms. Ventura began experiencing memory loss — potentially due to excessive drug use and head injuries caused by Mr. Combs’s beatings… her MRI results were provided directly to Mr. Combs,” the suit says. “Mr. Combs also repeatedly arranged for his staff to drive Ms. Ventura to certain doctors’ appointments.”

The lawsuit also alleges that, in January 2009, Combs became enraged when he learned that Ventura had spoken with another music manager. The incident allegedly occurred at a party taking place at a club. Combs pulled her out of the club and into a car, the suit states, where he pushed her into a corner and stomped on her face.

“Mr. Combs’s security staff, Roger Bonds, tried to stop the beating, but was unable to deescalate the situation,” the suit says. “When the car arrived at Mr. Combs’ residence, Ms. Ventura attempted to run away, but Mr. Combs followed her and proceeded to again kick her in the face. Ms. Ventura was bleeding profusely, and was ushered into Mr. Combs’ home, where she began to throw up from the violent assault.”

The lawsuit alleges that Ventura was often stashed in hotels while bruises healed, and states that during one such stay at the London Hotel in L.A. she allegedly asked to go home to her parents, but Combs wouldn’t let her leave.

Within a few months of beginning a romantic relationship with Combs, when Ventura was 22, she says she “felt beholden to his whims and demands,” according to the suit. Once when they were staying in New York City, the filing says, Combs told Ventura he had voyeurism fantasies and pressured Ventura to engage in sex acts with male sex workers while he watched. He allegedly provided drugs for those involved in these encounters including ecstasy, cocaine, GHB, ketamine and marijuana and often recorded the activities. Encounters like this were called “freak offs,” according to the suit, and could last multiple days.

The case is just beginning and all eyes will be the matter because it’s of an interest to many.

Source: NY Times