2023-11-17 02:46:21
American hip hop megastar Sean Combs, aka Puff Daddy or P.Diddy, was targeted Thursday in New York by a complaint for rape and physical violence for years by R&B singer Casandra Ventura, Cassie by her stage name.
According to a court document from the Manhattan federal prosecutor’s office, “Mr. Combs raped Ms. Ventura in her home following she tried to leave him” in 2018.
He “often punched, kicked, slapped and stomped on her, resulting in bruises, burst lips, black eyes and bleeding,” details the 35-page complaint filed Thursday with the American federal courts.
This document made public Thursday evening, first revealed by the New York Times, also targets the rap musician and producer’s companies and labels, Bad Boy Entertainment, Bad Boy Records, Epic Records, Combs Enterprises and Doe Corporations 1-10.
“Violence and sex trafficking”
American justice – which recorded the testimony once morest Ms. Ventura, who had met Mr. Combs in 2005 when she was 19 and he was 37 – accuses the rap star of having engaged in “violent behavior” and “deviant demands” lasting “more than a decade”.
“For Ms. Ventura, the black+ period was the one she experienced trapped by Mr. Combs in a cycle of assault, violence and sex trafficking,” underlines the complaint from singer Cassie.
Mr. Combs’ New York lawyer, Ben Brafman, “fiercely” denied the allegations, which he described in a statement to AFP as “insulting and scandalous.”
The 90s, decade of glory for Puff Daddy
The complaint, however, describes a violent man, even forcing the victim to have filmed sexual relations with male prostitutes.
Ms. Ventura “cannot continue to live in silence following what she has endured”, underlines the court document.
“Mr. Combs remains immensely powerful and dangerous. Ms. Ventura is seeking justice for the decade of life Mr. Combs took from her through threats of violence, drug addiction, physical and psychological assault, and ‘sexual slavery’.
Sean Combs, aka Puff Daddy, 54, 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 50 years ago. years old, 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.
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