Diddy SETTLES lawsuit with singer Cassie just one day after explosive filing accused him of raping her and forcing her to have sex with male prostitutes

Rapper Diddy has settled a federal lawsuit introduced by the R&B singer Cassie simply in the future after she leveled explosive rape accusations on the hip-hop mogul.

On Friday night Diddy, actual identify Sean Combs and Cassie – Casandra Ventura – each launched statements asserting they’d reached an settlement and resolved.

No particular particulars on the phrases of the settlement had been revealed.

‘I’ve determined to resolve this matter amicably on phrases that I’ve some stage of management,’ Cassie mentioned in an announcement. 

‘I wish to thank my household, followers and legal professionals for his or her unwavering help.’

In the meantime, in an announcement, Combs mentioned: ‘We now have determined to resolve this matter amicably. I want Cassie and her household all the most effective. Love.’

On Thursday, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was accused of rape and repeated bodily abuse by Cassie.

The swimsuit alleged how he allegedly managed and abused Cassie for over a decade – in addition to plying her with medicine, beating her, and forcing her to have intercourse with a number of male prostitutes whereas he watched and recorded. 

The pair, who met in 2005 when she was aged 19, break up in 2018. The lawsuit claimed that simply earlier than the tip of their relationship, he pressured his means into her dwelling and raped her.

Diddy, 54, vehemently denied the entire ‘offensive and outrageous allegations.’

Cassie, whose actual identify is Casandra Ventura, mentioned in a authorized doc that was filed in Manhattan’s Federal District Court docket on Thursday: ‘After years in silence and darkness. I’m lastly prepared to inform my story, and to talk up on behalf of myself and for the advantage of different ladies who face violence and abuse of their relationships.’ 

Her lawyer Douglas Wigdor claimed Diddy supplied her ‘eight figures to silence her and stop the submitting of this lawsuit’ however that she declined to ‘give a voice to all lady who are suffering in silence’.

On Friday evening Wigdor added: ‘I’m very pleased with Ms. Ventura for having the energy to go public along with her lawsuit. She should be counseled for doing so.’ 

Among the many critical allegations had been that Diddy intercourse trafficked Cassie, 37, to male prostitutes to fulfil his voyeurism fantasies in lodges and at his dwelling. 

The lawsuit claimed she was directed to have intercourse with a number of males – typically in masks and costumes – whereas the music exec watched, masturbated, and filmed. 

Cassie, within the paperwork, known as the ordeals ‘horrific encounters’ and mentioned she needed to take medicine to disassociate throughout the preparations which Diddy allegedly known as ‘freak offs’. 

The lawsuit said that the music govt, who she first met as a youngster, instructed her it could ‘flip him on’ if he noticed her with ‘one other d***’. 

He allegedly employed a person and introduced him to his dwelling in Los Angeles to interact within the intercourse acts with Cassie.

‘Mr. Combs directed Ms. Ventura to carry out sexual acts with this man whereas Mr. Combs watched them,’ the lawsuit states. 

‘He masturbated whereas he directed Ms. Ventura and the person to do particular sexual acts. All the encounter lasted a number of days.’

She claimed Diddy obtained drunk throughout a ‘freak off’ round March 2016 and punched her within the face, leaving her with a black eye.

Cassie mentioned she tried to go away the lodge room when he fell asleep however he awakened and commenced screaming at her.

He allegedly grabbed at her, took the glass vases within the hallway and threw them at her ‘inflicting glass to crash round them as she ran to the elevator to flee’.

She managed to flee to her residence however claimed she returned over fears he could be even angrier.

‘When she returned, lodge safety workers urged her to get again right into a cab and go to her residence, suggesting that they’d seen the safety footage exhibiting Mr. Combs beating Ms. Ventura and throwing glass at her within the lodge hallway,’ the lawsuit states.

She alleged that Diddy paid the lodge workers $50,000 for the hallway safety footage from that night.

On one other event in 2013, Diddy allegedly arrange a ‘freak off’ and was charged tens of hundreds of {dollars} in damages by the lodge. 

Cassie was anticipated to facilitate the situation and hiring of male intercourse staff for the ‘freak offs’, in response to the lawsuit.

She was allegedly instructed to make use of web sites and escort providers to seek out males with ‘giant black penises’. 

It alleged that Diddy would insist on the encounters weekly and that he repeatedly instructed her it was ‘our factor’ and ‘our secret’. 

Cassie claimed the ‘freak offs’ would usually happen in lodge suites together with the Trump Worldwide Resort in Columbus Circle, L’Ermitage Beverly Hills, The London Resort in Los Angeles and InterContinental Inns throughout the nation. 

His assistants would allegedly assist arrange the ‘freak offs’ by offering child oil and lubricant. 

The lawsuit states: ‘Mr. Combs at all times provided Ms. Ventura (and the intercourse employee) with copious quantities of medication earlier than and throughout the FOs. 

‘Ms. Ventura was given ecstasy, cocaine, GHB, ketamine, marijuana, and alcohol in extreme quantities throughout FOs, which allowed her to disassociate throughout these horrific encounters. 

‘It turned widespread place to get IV fluids within the days after an FO to recuperate from the extreme substances pushed upon her.’

Cassie was allegedly required to decorate up in lingerie for the intercourse encounters and put on white nail polish to distinction with the pores and skin of the black male intercourse staff. 

She claimed Diddy would ask her to pour extreme quantities of oil over herself earlier than he instructed her and the intercourse staff what to do. 

‘Mr. Combs would say issues like, ‘seize that large black d***’ and ask her ‘how does it really feel?’ as he directed her to carry out for him,’ the lawsuit states.

Diddy allegedly used his telephone, laptop computer and pill to movie the ‘freak offs’ and handled it like a ‘private artwork undertaking’, adjusting the lighting.

Cassie mentioned she deleted pictures and movies of the intercourse acts in the event that they had been taken on her telephone however claimed Diddy instructed her he saved many.

The lawsuit additionally claims that he requested Cassie to hold his gun in her purse on at the least two events. 

Diddy allegedly plied her with ecstasy and ketamine, and sometimes beat her up. She by no means instructed authorities as a result of it ‘would merely give Mr. Combs one other excuse to harm her.’ 

Cassie alleged that Diddy blew up Child Cudi’s automotive round February 2012 after he came upon they had been in a relationship collectively.

She claimed he went via her telephone and located emails between her and the American rapper and have become enraged.

Diddy allegedly positioned a handbook corkscrew in between his fingers and lunged at her, in response to the lawsuit and he or she ran away to stick with Child Cudi.

Cassie later returned and the music govt allegedly hit her a number of instances, after which kicked her within the again as she tried to expire the door.

Throughout Paris Vogue week, she claims Diddy instructed her he was going to explode Child Cudi’s automotive and that he needed to verify he was dwelling together with his pals when it occurred.

‘Round that point, Child Cudi’s automotive exploded in his driveway,’ the lawsuit said.

‘Ms. Ventura was terrified, as she started to totally comprehend what Mr. Combs was each keen and in a position to do to these he believed had slighted him.’

In August 2015, Diddy allegedly picked up her buddy ‘like a toddler’ and dangled her over a Seventeenth-floor balcony whereas intoxicated at Cassie’s shock dinner for her twenty ninth birthday.

Cassie claimed that Diddy pressured her to remain at his dwelling in Holmby Hills with one in all his sons after one beating.

‘Whereas there, Mr. Combs FaceTimed Ms. Ventura, and said, ‘you gotta go up and put extra make-up on, my son cannot see you want that.” the lawsuit said.

Cassie additionally claims that Diddy would threaten to suppress her music if she didn’t obey his ‘violent’ orders. He additionally paid for her automotive and residence, and had entry to her private medical information, the swimsuit claims.

She claimed that he raped her in September 2018 and that he pressured his means into her residence after dinner in Malibu, California.

He allegedly tried to kiss her earlier than forcibly eradicating her garments and unbuckling his belt.

‘He proceeded to rape Ms. Ventura whereas she repeatedly mentioned ‘no’ and tried to push him away,’ the lawsuit claims.

Following this alleged incident, Cassie mentioned she took steps to utterly separate herself from ‘her long-time abuser’.

She ultimately left the house he paid for and returned the automotive he bought for her.

However Cassie mentioned she suffers from immense emotional misery from the ‘immense trauma endured over a decade with Mr Combs’.

The lawsuit claimed that Diddy obtained Cassie excessive for the primary time in September 2007 when he handed her an ecstasy tablet.

It said that on one event, the pair had been utilizing medicine at his Los Angeles dwelling when one in all Diddy’s safety workers barged in and instructed him that his ‘longtime rival’ file govt Suge Knight was noticed at Mel’s Drive-In Diner in Los Angeles.

He allegedly obtained dressed, retrieved a number of weapons from a protected and ran out to seek out the place Knight was mentioned to be eating leaving Cassie terrified and in tears.

The lawsuit claims that Diddy ‘used his cash and energy to orchestrate intensive efforts to cover the proof of his abuse’ by forcing Cassie to cover in lodges for days at a time to let her bruises heal.

It alleges that he beat her repeatedly in an Escalade by kicking and hitting her following a celebration with Jay-Z.

The lawsuit claims that in January 2009 that Diddy assaulted her after he came upon she spoke to a different music supervisor at a celebration in Los Angeles.

‘Within the automotive leaving the membership, Mr. Combs beat Ms. Ventura, pushing her right into a nook of the car and stomping on her face,’ it said.

‘Mr. Combs’s safety workers, Roger Bonds, tried to cease the beating, however was unable to deescalate the scenario.’

She is alleged to been bleeding profusely and tried to run away earlier than being ushered into Diddy’s dwelling the place she started to throw up.

‘Upon recognizing the injury he had accomplished and the bodily proof of his abuse, Mr. Combs panicked, and compelled his workers to convey Ms. Ventura to a lodge suite at The London Resort in Los Angeles, the place she was required to remain for per week,’ the lawsuit claims.

Cassie claimed she requested to go dwelling to her mother and father however was not allowed to go away so she lied to her mom when she requested her about an internet gossip discussion board that reported on the alleged assault.

She mentioned she was ‘terrified, remoted, and unable to see a pathway out’. ‘She discovered herself turning into numb to the abuse she was experiencing, and have become solely beholden to Mr. Combs’s calls for,’ the lawsuit said.

‘She started to blindly comply with his directions out of worry of once more being on the receiving finish of a vicious beating.’

‘Cassie—Ms. Casandra Ventura—was held down by Mr. Combs and endured over a decade of his violent conduct and disturbed calls for,’ the lawsuit said.

‘For Ms. Ventura, the ‘darkish instances’ had been these she spent trapped by Mr. Combs in a cycle of abuse, violence, and intercourse trafficking.

‘He lured Ms. Ventura into an ostentatious, fast-paced, and drug-fueled life-style, and right into a romantic relationship with him—her boss, probably the most highly effective males within the leisure business, and a vicious, merciless, and controlling man almost 20 years her senior.’

Cassie claimed that all through their relationship ‘was susceptible to uncontrollable rage’ and incessantly beat her.

‘These beatings had been witnessed by Mr. Combs’ workers and staff of Dangerous Boy Leisure and Mr. Combs’s associated companies, however nobody dared to talk up in opposition to their horrifying and ferocious boss,’ the lawsuit alleged.

‘He usually showered her with items following incidents of bodily violence, a typical sample of conduct by serial abusers.

‘Including insult to harm, Mr. Combs used unlawful substances and threats of violence to drive Ms. Ventura into repeated undesirable sexual encounters with male intercourse staff.’

She claimed that she tried to flee him a number of instances however could be discovered by Diddy’s ‘huge community of companies and affiliated entities’ who instructed her to return to him.

Cassie mentioned that though she has ‘absolutely escaped’ Diddy the ‘hurt that the assaults and sexual abuse he induced her to expertise for almost a decade will ceaselessly hang-out her’.

The lawsuit claimed she has required intensive medical and psychological care to recuperate from ‘trauma she lived via’.

She is looking for unspecified damages. The lawsuit is introduced beneath the Grownup Survivors Act – which is a New York legislation permitting folks to file claims even after the statute of limitations has run out. 

The swimsuit mentioned: ‘With the expiration of New York’s Grownup Survivors Act quick approaching it turned clear that this was a possibility to talk up in regards to the trauma I’ve skilled and that I shall be recovering from for the remainder of my life.’ 

Ben Brafman, Diddy’s lawyer, mentioned: ‘Mr. Combs vehemently denies these offensive and outrageous allegations. 

‘For the previous six months, Mr. Combs has been subjected to Ms. Ventura’s persistent demand of $30 million, beneath the specter of writing a dangerous guide about their relationship, which was unequivocally rejected as blatant blackmail. 

However her lawyer Wigdor instructed DailyMail.com: ‘Mr. Combs supplied Ms. Ventura eight figures to silence her and stop the submitting of this lawsuit. She rejected his efforts and determined to present a voice to all lady who are suffering in silence. Ms. Ventura needs to be applauded for her bravery.’ 

Diddy, a three-time Grammy winner, who additionally goes by the stage identify Puff Daddy, is value an estimated $1 billion after being one of many star figures within the commercialization of hip-hop within the Nineteen Nineties.

He grew to be one in all his era’s most notable music producers – working with names reminiscent of Infamous B.I.G., Mary J. Blige, Usher, Lil Kim, Religion Evans and 112. constructing one in all hip-hop’s largest empires, blazing a path with a number of entities connected to his well-known identify. 

The mogul created the style clothes line Sean John, launched the Revolt TV channel with a deal with music, and produced the truth present ‘Making the Band’ for MTV.

This yr, he launched his fifth studio album ‘The Love Album: Off the Grid,’ which earned two Grammy nominations this month.

Forbes journal ranked him in 2017 because the world’s highest-paid musician, then incomes an estimated $130 million a yr. 

Diddy based Dangerous Boy – his file label – which Cassie was signed to in 2006. 

Cassie has since married Alex Effective and has two youngsters with him.  

She was swept up in his luxurious life-style and reaped the advantages of getting her debut album launched beneath his label.  

Diddy isn’t any stranger to lawsuits – however they usually are surrounding his alcohol manufacturers.

In Could this yr, he sued spirits firm Diageo claiming his vodka and tequila manufacturers did not obtain promised investments whereas being handled as inferior ‘city’ merchandise.

The lawsuit filed by Combs Wine and Spirits in New York Supreme Court docket in Manhattan alleged that Diageo North America starved Combs’ Ciroc vodka and DeLeon tequila manufacturers of sources even because it showered consideration on different movie star manufacturers.

Diageo purchased actor George Clooney’s Casamigos tequila model for $1 billion in 2017, for instance.

Diddy mentioned Diageo management instructed him his race was one of many causes it restricted distribution to city neighborhoods.

He was additionally instructed that some Diageo leaders resented him for making an excessive amount of cash, in response to the lawsuit.