2023-11-18 10:20:19
Violence against women
Domestic violence fileAfter a complaint filed the day before by Casandra Ventura accusing Sean Combs of “rape, assault, violence and sex trafficking”, the two reached a financial agreement on Friday November 17.
It described “sexual” and “psychological” violence and “deviant behavior” spanning more than a decade. The day after Casandra Ventura’s complaint against American hip-hop megastar Sean Combs, Puff Daddy or P.Diddy on stage, the two declared on Friday evening, November 17, that they had reached an amicable agreement, without providing further details. .
“I have decided to settle the matter amicably on terms that give me some control,” Casandra “Cassie” Ventura said in a statement published in American media. “I want to thank my family, my fans and my lawyers for their continued support,” she added. Sean Combs confirmed their decision in a separate statement. “I wish Cassie and her family all the best,” he said.
The 37-year-old R&B singer, dancer and model filed a complaint on Thursday against her ex, accusing him of turning her life into a nightmare during their relationship between 2005 and 2018.
“Trapped in a cycle of assault, violence and sex trafficking”
According to a 35-page court document made public Thursday by the American justice system and first revealed by the New York Times, “Sean Combs raped Casandra Ventura at her home after she tried to leave him” in 2018. Sean Combs, 54 years old, also “often punched, kicked, slapped and trampled her, resulting in bruises, burst lips, cheeks and bleeding,” details this civil complaint filed before the Manhattan federal prosecutor’s office in New York. York.
“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 Casandra Ventura endured” by her “aggressor”. According to her complaint, the victim “experienced a ‘dark period,’ trapped by Sean Combs in a cycle of assault, violence and sex trafficking.”
The complaint describes a violent man, even forcing the victim into filmed sex with male prostitutes. Casandra Ventura “cannot continue to live in silence after what she has endured,” the court document further underlines. The plaintiff still accuses “Sean Combs [d’être] remained immensely powerful and dangerous. It is stated that “Casandra Ventura is seeking justice for the decade of life that Sean Combs took from her through threats of violence, drug addiction, physical and psychological assault, and sexual slavery.”
Denials
This legal action was made possible thanks to a New York State law which allows, since November 2022, but for one year only, victims of sexual violence to file a civil complaint for prescribed facts. For Casandra Ventura, it “was obvious that with the very imminent expiration [fin novembre] of New York law, I had the opportunity to speak loudly and clearly about the trauma I suffered and from which I will recover during what I have left to live. Sean Combs’ New York lawyer, Ben Brafman, “fiercely” denied the allegations, calling them “insulting and outrageous.”
Cassie’s complaint also targets the companies and labels of her former partner, musician and rap producer: Bad Boy Entertainment, Bad Boy Records, Epic Records, Combs Enterprises and Doe Corporations 1-10. P. Diddy founded his company Bad Boy in 1993, a decade of glory for this major figure in the marketing and media coverage of the hip hop scene, a musical and artistic movement born in New York fifty years ago, in August 1973. Puff Daddy’s disciples include the late Notorious BIG, 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.
Update: Saturday November 18, at 9:20 a.m., with the addition of the amicable agreement reached between the two.
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