On November 16th, R&B singer Cassie filed a lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs for rape and sex trafficking. The court documents are rather graphic as they describe Diddy turning Cassie into a drug-addicted sex slave who got brutally beaten on several occasions. If remotely true, these allegations could have sent Diddy to prison for a long time.

But that didn’t happen. Diddy settled the lawsuit in a single day, saving him from going to trial and seeing the disturbing details of his abuse revealed to the general public.

So, once again, Diddy will not face the consequences of his actions – a pattern that has been happening for decades. Three years ago, I published an article about Diddy where I looked at the ridiculous number of artists who ran away from the music industry and turned religious after a stint with Bad Boy Records. The article also included accounts of people close to Diddy who witnessed strange things such as him forcing male artists to perform sexual acts on him. An ex-bodyguard even stated that he saw “devil sh*t”.

In short, there is no smoke without fire and there have been persistent rumors involving Diddy for decades. However, everyone involved seems to believe that he is “untouchable”. Is the industry protecting him?

One thing is for sure, Cassie’s lawsuit was rather damning. But now it’s gone. Here’s a look at it.

Graphic Lawsuit

The first page of the lawsuit warns of graphic details.

The court documents start by mentioning that Cassie met Diddy when she was 19 years old and he was 37. He signed her to Bad Boy Records in 2005 and, in the decade that followed, he ended up completely controlling her personal and professional life.

Diddy and Cassie in 2007.

The lawsuit states that numerous people were direct witnesses of Diddy’s abuse but no one dared to speak up. Not only did they fear repercussions, but they somehow knew that he was “untouchable”.

After a couple of years, the relationship turned into a slave/handler-type situation where Diddy kept Cassie in a drug-induced haze while controlling all aspects of her life. He even played bizarre mind games involving her grandfather. The lawsuit states:

59. Mr. Combs also became deeply involved in Ms. Ventura’s personal life, with his personal staff attending to Ms. Ventura’s day-to-day travel and other needs, including medical care. On multiple occasions, Mr. Combs had Ms. Ventura’s personal medical records sent directly to his email address. For instance, when Ms. Ventura began experiencing memory loss—potentially due to excessive drug use and/or head injuries caused by Mr. Combs’s beatings, as described below—her MRI results were provided directly to Mr. Combs. Mr. Combs also repeatedly arranged for his staff to drive Ms. Ventura to certain doctors’ appointments.

60. In this way, Mr. Combs exerted ownership over Ms. Ventura. As another example of the ways in which he manipulated Ms. Ventura and ensured obedience, early on in their relationship, he asked Ms. Ventura what she called her grandfather. When Mr. Ventura said that she referred to her grandfather as “Pop Pop,” Mr. Combs perversely insisted that Ms. Ventura refer to him with that nickname.

Later, the document explains that Diddy often beat Cassie brutally, causing bruises and black eyes. He would then force her to stay in a hotel room for days until she healed up.

66. In January 2009, after Mr. Combs learned that Ms. Ventura spoke to another music manager at a party in Los Angeles, he became enraged. She had hoped speaking to this manager would allow her to further grow her career, and that Mr. Combs would be happy for her, but instead he became extremely angry and pulled her out of the club where the party was taking place.

67. In the car leaving the club, Mr. Combs beat Ms. Ventura, pushing her into a corner of the vehicle and stomping on her face. Mr. Combs’s security staff, Roger Bonds, tried to stop the beating, but was unable to deescalate the situation. When the car arrived at Mr. Combs’ residence, Ms. Ventura attempted to run away, but Mr. Combs followed her and proceeded to again kick her in the face. Ms. Ventura was bleeding profusely, and was ushered into Mr. Combs’ home, where she began to throw up from the violent assault.

68. Upon recognizing the damage he had done and the physical evidence of his abuse, Mr. Combs panicked, and forced his staff to bring Ms. Ventura to a hotel suite at The London Hotel in Los Angeles, where she was required to stay for a week.

69. During this stay, as her injuries from the beating healed, Ms. Ventura began to fully realize that Mr. Combs’s tremendously loyal network not only knew about and witnessed his assault, but also that these witnesses were not willing to do anything meaningful to stop Mr. Combs’s behavior. She recognized that she was powerless, and that reporting Mr. Combs to the authorities would not alter Mr. Combs’s status or influence but would merely give Mr. Combs another excuse to hurt her.

In the section titled “Mr. Combs Forces Ms. Ventura Into Sex Trafficking”, the lawsuit explains how Diddy forced Cassie to have sex with male escorts … while they were wearing mascarade masks (aka Illuminati, Eyes Wide Shut-type masks). This entire section sounds rather insane but, when one knows about Diddy’s tendencies, it’s completely believable.

76. Within a few months of beginning a romantic relationship with forty-year-old Mr. Combs, the twenty-two-year-old Ms. Ventura felt beholden to his whims and demands.

77. While in New York City, Mr. Combs told the Ms. Ventura that he wanted to engage in a fantasy of his called “voyeurism.” Mr. Combs said that it would “turn him on” if he saw Ms. Ventura “with another dick.”

78. The first time, Mr. Combs hired a man and brought the man to his home in Los Angeles. The man, Mr. Combs, and Ms. Ventura wore masquerade masks, and ingested drugs. Mr. Combs directed Ms. Ventura to perform sexual acts with this man while Mr. Combs watched them. He masturbated while he directed Ms. Ventura and the man to do specific sexual acts.

79. The entire encounter lasted multiple days.

80. Mr. Combs began to call the arrangement a “Freak Off,” or “FO.” He would repeatedly tell Ms. Ventura at random moments that he wanted an FO, and Ms. Ventura was eventually expected to facilitate the location and the hiring of male sex workers.

81. At certain points during Ms. Ventura and Mr. Combs’s relationship, he would insist on an FO weekly. Mr. Combs would repeatedly tell Ms. Ventura that this practice was “our thing” and “our secret.”

The lawsuit also states that Cassie was heavily drugged to facilitate dissociation. Diddy truly acted as an MK handler.

87. Mr. Combs always supplied Ms. Ventura (and the sex worker) with copious amounts of drugs before and during the FOs. Ms. Ventura was given ecstasy, cocaine, GHB, ketamine, marijuana, and alcohol in excessive amounts during FOs, which allowed her to disassociate during these horrific encounters. It became common place to get IV fluids in the days after an FO to recover from the excessive substances pushed upon her.

Another story describes how Cassie had turned into a sex slave who was coerced by Diddy (and his team) to perform sex acts on demand.

101. Around August 2015, for example, in the middle of surprise birthday dinner for Ms. Ventura’s 29th birthday, Mr. Combs insisted that Ms. Ventura leave the party and go to a hotel for an FO. When she expressed that she did not want to go, Mr. Combs had Ms. Ventura cornered by his security staff in order to force her to leave with him.

102. After this FO, Mr. Combs and Ms. Ventura went back to the hotel room that Ms. Ventura was staying in, where some of Ms. Ventura’s friends were already hanging out. Mr. Combs was severely intoxicated, and at one point during the night, picked up one of Ms. Ventura’s friends like a child and dangled the friend over the balcony of the 17th floor hotel suite. Ms. Ventura and her friends were scared by Mr. Combs’s erratic behavior, but Ms. Ventura was heavily sedated because of the drugs she took to participate in the FO, and therefore was unable to respond to Mr. Combs’s terrifying behavior.

103. The FOs became work for Ms. Ventura, and despite her protestations, Mr. Combs insisted on these intricately staged and forced sexual encounters between Ms. Ventura and various male sex workers.

The lawsuit also states that Diddy blew up Kid Kudi’s car when he discovered that Cassie started seeing him, proving that he could commit violent acts in total impunity.

Every time Cassie attempted to leave Diddy, a network of powerful and connected people got to work to track her down and intimidate her.

120. In or around March 2016, during an FO at the InterContinental Hotel in Century City, Los Angeles, Mr. Combs became extremely intoxicated and punched Ms. Ventura in the face, giving her a black eye.

121. After he fell asleep, Ms. Ventura tried to leave the hotel room, but as she exited, Mr. Combs awoke and began screaming at Ms. Ventura. He followed her into the hallway of the hotel while yelling at her. He grabbed at her, and then took glass vases in the hallway and threw them at her, causing glass to crash around them as she ran to the elevator to escape.

122. She managed to get into the elevator, and when she got to the lobby, quickly took a cab to her apartment. Upon realizing that her running away would cause Mr. Combs to be even angrier with her, and completely stuck in his vicious cycle of abuse, Ms. Ventura returned to the hotel with the intention of apologizing for running away from her abuser. When she returned, hotel security staff urged her to get back into a cab and go to her apartment, suggesting that they had seen the security footage showing Mr. Combs beating Ms. Ventura and throwing glass at her in the hotel hallway.

123. Upon information and belief, Mr. Combs paid the InterContinental Century City $50,000 for the hallway security footage from that evening.

124. After this, Ms. Ventura left her home in Comstock and went to hide away at a friend’s home in Florida. James Cruz, President of Bad Boy Management, tracked Ms. Ventura down and told her that her single would not be released if she did not answer Mr. Combs’s phone calls.

125. A woman who worked at Sony Music reached out to her with a similar ultimatum
concerning her record.

126. Incredibly, Mr. Combs even convinced one of his attorneys to call Ms. Ventura at this time. This lawyer told Ms. Ventura that “it’s in your best interest to call [Mr. Combs] back.”

127. Each time Ms. Ventura tried to run away, Mr. Combs and his powerful network would force her back to him.

Finally, the lawsuit stated that Diddy raped Cassie when she tried to end things with him for good.

131. In September 2018, she joined Mr. Combs for a dinner at an Italian restaurant in Malibu, California for what she believed would be a discussion about concluding their relationship for good.

132. After dinner, Mr. Combs and Ms. Ventura returned to Ms. Ventura’s home, which was paid for by Mr. Combs.

133. Mr. Combs forced himself into her apartment and tried to kiss Ms. Ventura. She told him to stop and attempted to push him away.

134. Mr. Combs then forcibly pulled off Ms. Ventura’s clothing and unbuckled his belt. He proceeded to rape Ms. Ventura while she repeatedly said “no” and tried to push him away.

While some lawsuits are frivolous and desperate attempts at blackmailing a person with means, Cassie’s allegations ring true as they’re consistent with persistent rumors that have been surrounding Diddy for decades. Numerous people who knew him personally went on record stating that he was prone to heavy drug use, sexual debauchery (often involving men), and violence. In this case, Diddy “recruited” Cassie while she was a teenager and turned her into a drug-addled sex slave while controlling every aspect of her life for over a decade.

Quick Settlement

Despite the severity of these allegations, Diddy was able to settle the lawsuit in 24 hours. This move was rather unexpected as Cassie had reportedly refused a “generous” settlement prior to the lawsuit.

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