American television CNN broadcast on Friday a montage of video surveillance images from a Los Angeles hotel dated March 2016 which shows an unleashing of violence by rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs against his partner at the time, the singer by R&B “Cassie” Ventura.
The global star and billionaire New York hip-hop, 54, who also calls himself “Puff Daddy” and “P. Diddy”, has been caught up since 2023 by a number of accusations of rape, sexual exploitation and physical and psychological violence.
Case settled “amicably”
Notably in a civil complaint filed in New York in November by “Cassie” who accused her ex-companion of rape in 2018 and of “violent” and “deviant” behavior for a decade, such as forced sexual relations with men. prostitutes. The matter was settled “amicably” according to a confidential agreement.
The legal action by Casandra Elizabeth Ventura, now extinct, referred to a particularly violent physical attack, of which the video surveillance images dated March 5, 2016 and revealed and authenticated by CNN, give the full extent.
According to a montage of videos taken from multiple angles filming a hallway and elevator doors at the (now defunct) InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles, a woman – CNN’s Casandra Elizabeth Ventura – can be seen walking down the hallway, dressed in a hooded coat, jeans and carrying a handbag and a travel bag.
Violence in front of the elevator
A few seconds later, we see a man appear in the hallway – Sean Combs according to the channel – and run after him. He just wears a towel around his waist and socks.
Arriving in front of the elevator, Sean Combs found Casandra Elizabeth Ventura who turned her back on him, grabbed her roughly by the neck, threw her very violently to the ground and delivered a heavy kick to her while she was on the ground. “Diddy,” holding his towel around his waist with one hand, picks up “Cassie’s” bags with the other and kicks her again, according to the footage.
We then see him grab his partner at the time violently by the hood or the top of his coat, drag her down the corridor for a few meters before abandoning her. We then see Casandra Elizabeth Ventura slowly get up, gather her things and pick up a service telephone near the elevator.
“Predatory behavior”
In another excerpt from a camera filming a mirror in the hotel hallway, we see Sean Combs sitting on a chair, in the same outfit, violently throwing glass vases towards Cassie Ventura, but we do not see .
This “stomach-turning video only confirms the predatory behavior of Sean Combs,” denounced in a press release Casandra Elizabeth Ventura’s lawyer, Douglas Wigdor, who salutes the “courage” of his client. The rapper has denied everything since the November civil complaint and has not been criminally charged.