Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs accused of intercourse trafficking, rape of singer Cassie

Sean Combs arrives on the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork Gown Institute Gala (Met Gala) to have fun the hole of “Heavenly Our bodies: Style and the Catholic Creativeness” within the Long island borough of New York, U.S., Might 7, 2018. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/Document Photograph Achieve Licensing Rights

LOS ANGELES, Nov 16 (Reuters) – R&B vocalist Cassandra Ventura sued Sean “Diddy” Combs in federal courtroom on Thursday, accusing the rapper and hip-hop rich person she as soon as dated and whose track label she signed with of subjecting her to serial bodily abuse, sexual slavery and rape.

One of the crucial central allegations in opposition to Combs by means of Ventura, who plays underneath the level title Cassie, was once that he compelled her to have interaction in intercourse acts with a succession of male prostitutes he employed whilst he watched and filmed the encounters for his personal excitement.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Courtroom in Long island, additionally accuses Combs of ceaselessly beating Ventura over the process a 10-year skilled and romantic courting through which he managed her thru intimidation and by means of plying her with medicine and alcohol.

Ventura, 37, alleges that Combs raped her close to the tip in their courting in 2018 when she broached the speculation of leaving him.

Combs’ attorney, Ben Brafman, issued a observation announcing his consumer “vehemently denies those offensive and outrageous allegations.”

Brafman stated Ventura resorted to submitting a lawsuit “riddled with baseless and outrageous lies” after a failed try to blackmail Combs into paying her $30 million by means of threatening to put in writing a dangerous e-book about their courting.

Combs, 54, founding father of the landmark label Dangerous Boy Information, is without doubt one of the maximum influential manufacturers and bosses in hip-hop and a vastly a hit performer in his personal proper, in addition to the impresario of his personal Sean John clothes line.

Forbes mag ranked him in 2017 as the arena’s highest-paid musician, then incomes an estimated $130 million a 12 months.

The lawsuit filed Thursday depicted Combs, who has previously long gone by means of such monikers as P. Diddy, Puff Daddy and Diddy, as an erratic, controlling person with violent inclinations geared toward Ventura and others.

The lawsuit stated he compelled Ventura to hold his handgun for him in her handbag, as soon as dangled a pal of hers over the balcony of a high-rise lodge suite and blew up a automotive belonging to rapper Child Cudi after studying he was once fascinated by Ventura.

In line with the lawsuit, Ventura met Combs in overdue 2005 when she was once 19 and he was once 37, signed a 10-album recording maintain Dangerous Boy Information inside of months and started a romantic courting with him a couple of years later.

The lawsuit does no longer search a specified quantity of economic damages. As a substitute, it says Ventura seeks “justice for the last decade of her lifestyles that Mr. Combs took clear of her with threats of violence, over the top use of substances, bodily and mental abuse and sexual slavery.”

The lawsuit cites violations of intercourse trafficking and human trafficking statutes underneath federal, New York and California regulations.

Combs is the newest high-profile determine within the recording trade to be accused of sexual misconduct in fresh court cases, amongst them singer-songwriter Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, file manufacturer L.A. Reid and track government Neil Portnow, former chairman and CEO of the Recording Academy that hosts the Grammys.

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