(LOS ANGELES) — Security video broadcast by CNN appears to show Sean “Diddy” Combs physically attacking singer Cassie in the hallway of a Los Angeles hotel in 2016.
The video aired Friday appears to show Combs, wearing only a white towel, punching and kicking the R&B singer who was his protégé and longtime girlfriend at the time. The footage also shows the music mogul pushing and dragging Cassie and throwing a vase at him.
The video, dated March 5, 2016, closely resembles the description of an incident at the now-closed InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles. described in a November lawsuit filed by Cassiewhose legal name is Cassandra Ventura, who alleged years of sexual abuse and other violence by Combs.
The lawsuit was settled the day after it was filed, but it spurred intense scrutiny of Combs, with several other lawsuits filed in the following months, along with a federal criminal sex trafficking investigation that led authorities to raid Combs’ Los Angeles mansions. Angeles and Miami. .
Combs’ representatives did not immediately comment on the video, but he has previously denied the allegations in the lawsuits, and his lawyers have said he denies any wrongdoing.
CNN did not say how it obtained the video, but noted that it verified the location where it was filmed, comparing the footage with publicly available footage of the InterContinental Hotel.
“The heartbreaking video only further confirmed Mr. Combs’ disturbing and predatory behavior,” said Douglas Wigdor, Cassie’s attorney who has filed other lawsuits against Combs. demonstrated by coming forward to bring this to light.”
The Associated Press typically does not name people who say they were sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly as Ventura did.
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Associated Press Entertainment Writer Jonathan Landrum Jr. contributed to this report.
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