2023-11-17 00:42:30
Singer Cassie and rapper Sean Combs at the Grammy Awards in New York on January 28, 2018. JEWEL SAMAD / AFP
American hip-hop star Sean Combs – alias Puff Daddy or Diddy on stage – was targeted, Thursday, November 16, by a complaint for rape and physical violence by his former partner, the singer Cassie.
This complaint accuses Sean Combs of having transformed the life of the 37-year-old R’n’B singer, dancer and model – real name Casandra Ventura – into a nightmare. She describes violence “sexual” et “psychological” and “deviant behavior” which span more than a decade, between 2005 and 2018.
According to a thirty-five page legal document, made public Thursday by the American justice system and first revealed by the New York Times, “Mr. Combs raped Ms. Ventura in her home after she tried to leave him” in 2018. Sean Combs, 54, additionally “often punched, kicked, slapped and stomped, resulting in bruises, burst lips, black eyes and bleeding”details this civil complaint filed before the federal prosecutor’s office in Manhattan, New York.
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This legal action is made possible thanks to a law in the State of New York which has allowed since November 2022, but for one year only, victims of sexual violence to file a civil complaint for prescribed facts. Ms. Ventura’s complaint also targets the companies and labels of her former companion, musician and rap producer: Bad Boy Entertainment, Bad Boy Records, Epic Records, Combs Enterprises and Doe Corporations 1-10.
“A cycle of assault, violence and sex trafficking”
American justice – which recorded the testimony against Ms. Ventura, who had met Mr. Combs in 2005 when she was 19 and he was 37 – accuses the rap star of having had a “violent behavior” et “deviant demands” durant “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 relationship, Cassie wrote in a press release sent by her lawyer Douglas Wigdor. This tenor of the New York bar estimated that“No human being should have to endure what Ms. Ventura endured” by its “aggressor”. According to his complaint, the victim “lived a “dark period”, trapped by Mr. 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. Ms. Ventura “cannot continue to live in silence after what she has endured”further underlines the legal document.
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The plaintiff further accuses « M. Combs [d’être] remained immensely powerful and dangerous”. Et “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.”.
Rapper’s lawyer ‘fiercely’ denies allegations
Mr. Combs’ New York lawyer, Ben Brafman, “fiercely” denied these allegations, which he described, in a statement to Agence France-Presse, as“insulting and scandalous”.
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Sean Combs, 54, founded his company Bad Boy in 1993, during a decade of glory for this major figure in the commercialization and media coverage of the hip-hop scene. Puff Daddy’s disciples include Notorious BIG, who died in 1997, and Mary J. Blige. Sean Combs is also part of the hip-hop billionaires’ club, thanks to his business in the alcohol industry.
For Casandra Ventura, it “was evident that with the very imminent expiration [fin novembre] of New York law [sur la protection des victimes de violences sexuelles], I had the opportunity to speak loud and clear about the trauma I suffered and from which I will recover during what I have left to live”.
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