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Trigger warning: DV, SA
Last Friday, CNN exclusively aired a 2016 video of Sean Combs repeatedly assaulting Cassie in a hotel hallway. Cassie had escaped their hotel room and Combs ran after her, wearing nothing but a towel. He punched her and kicked her and tried to drag her across the floor. According to Cassie’s lawsuit, which she filed last fall, this was just one incident out of hundreds, if not thousands. Combs regularly abused her, raped her and trafficked her to other men. When Cassie filed her lawsuit, Combs’ immediate reaction was to issue a blanket denial, saying outright that Cassie was trying to “assassinate my character” and that he did not do anything Cassie alleged, and she was “looking for a quick payday.” Now that the hotel video has become public, this is what Combs is saying:
P Diddy reacts to leaked footage of him beating up then-girlfriend Cassie:
“I take full responsibility for my actions in that video. I’m disgusted.” pic.twitter.com/p1K8DgFKms
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) May 19, 2024
The darkest times in HIS life? HE hit rock bottom? Cassie’s lawyer quickly issued a statement:
“Combs’ most recent statement is more about himself than the many people he has hurt,” Meredith Firetog, a partner at Wigdor LLP, said in a Sunday, May 19, statement to Us Weekly. “When Cassie and multiple other women came forward, he denied everything and suggested that his victims were looking for a payday. That he was only compelled to ‘apologize’ once his repeated denials were proven false shows his pathetic desperation, and no one will be swayed by his disingenuous words.”
Most people are not swayed, although there are plenty of men who are like “why are you still mad, he apologized.” Thankfully, there seem to be a lot of men who finally “believe women,” but only now that they’ve been presented with a video of Combs beating Cassie.
Cassie’s physical wounds may have healed, but the mental & emotional trauma suffered at the hands of Sean Combs left irreparable damage. She lived through his abuse, & was ridiculed once she built the courage to speak up! I can’t imagine the torment & torture she’s endured.… pic.twitter.com/qka4fEqQdO
— Ryan Clark (@Realrclark25) May 19, 2024
Here’s a reminder of Sean Combs’ statement denying ALL the abuse.
The video leaked, a video he bought in order to bury the evidence AND he made this statement all the same. He thinks he can manipulate the public by saying he is sorry ✅ he was in a dark place ✅ he’s been in… pic.twitter.com/ml538gcnWa
— Laura Richards BSc MSc MBPsS (@thecrimeanalyst) May 19, 2024
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Cover Images.
Sean Combs and Cassie Ventura at the Costume Institute Benefit at the Metropolitin Museum of Art at the opening of ‘Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination’. New York City, New York – Monday May 7, 2018.,Image: 515185086, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: WORLD RIGHTS- Fee Payable Upon Reproduction – For queries contact Avalon.red – sales@avalon.red London: +44 (0) 20 7421 6000 Los Angeles: +1 (310) 822 0419 Berlin: +49 (0) 30 76 212 251, Model Release: no, Credit line: Robin Platzer/Twin Images / Twin Images / Avalon
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, USA – MAY 15: American rapper Diddy (Sean Combs) arrives at the 2022 Billboard Music Awards held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 15, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.,Image: 691793961, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Pictured: Diddy, Sean Combs, Credit line: Xavier Collin / Image Press Agency / Avalon
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, USA – MAY 15: American rapper Diddy (Sean Combs) arrives at the 2022 Billboard Music Awards held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 15, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.,Image: 691793993, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Pictured: Diddy, Sean Combs, Credit line: Xavier Collin / Image Press Agency / Avalon
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA – JUNE 26: Sean Diddy Combs arrives at the BET Awards 2022 held at Microsoft Theater at L.A. Live on June 26, 2022 in Los Angeles, California, United States.,Image: 703211158, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Pictured: Sean Diddy Combs, Credit line: Xavier Collin / Image Press Agency / Avalon
MTV Video Music Awards 2023 held at the Prudential Centre in Newark.
Featuring: Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
Where: New Jersey, United States
When: 12 Sep 2023
Credit: Abaca Press/INSTARimages
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