“I am very sorry”: in a video published on Instagram this Sunday, May 19, the American rapper Diddy apologized after the dissemination of video surveillance images that showed him hitting his ex-partner, the singer Cassie, in a hotel in Los Angeles in 2016.
“I have hit rock bottom (…) My behavior in this video is inexcusable. I take full responsibility for my actions in this video. I felt disgusted at the time I did it. “I’m still upset today,” explains the artist, target since 2023 of accusations of rape, sexual exploitation and physical and psychological violence.
“I went to seek professional help. I went to therapy and rehab. I had to ask God for mercy and grace. I’m so sorry. But I committed to being a better man every day,” he says.
The legal action ended
The global star and New York hip-hop billionaire, 54, who also goes by the names “Puff Daddy” and “P. Diddy,” was the subject of a civil complaint filed in New York in November by Casandra Elizabeth Ventura, he said. “Cassie.” , who accused her former partner of raping her in 2018 and of “violent” and “deviant” behavior for a decade, such as forced sexual relations with prostitutes. The matter was resolved “amicably” under a confidential agreement.
Cassie’s legal action, now extinct, concerned a particularly violent physical assault, of which the video surveillance images of March 5, 2016, revealed and authenticated by CNN, give the full magnitude.
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 – Cassie Ventura according to CNN – can be seen walking down the hallway, dressed in a hooded coat. , jeans and carry a purse and travel bag.
Unleashing of violence
A few seconds later, we see a man appear in the hallway (Diddy according to the channel) and run after him. He only wears a towel around his waist and socks. Upon arriving in front of the elevator, the rapper finds her ex-partner who turns her back to him, brutally grabs her by the neck, throws her very violently to the ground and kicks her hard while she is 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 violently grab her then-partner by the hood or the top of her coat, drag her down the hallway a few meters before abandoning her. We then see Cassie Ventura slowly get up, pick up her things and grab a service phone near the elevator.
In another excerpt from a camera filming a mirror in the hotel hallway, we see Sean Combs sitting in a chair, wearing the same suit, violently throwing glass vases at Cassie Ventura, but we don’t see him.
This “stomach-churning video only confirms Mr. Combs’ predatory behavior,” Cassie Ventura’s lawyer, Douglas Wigdor, denounced in a statement, praising his client’s “bravery.”
Source: BFM TV
