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CNN —Sean “Diddy” Combs was hit with a second lawsuit in as many weeks, accusing him of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman who claims she was also a victim of alleged “revenge porn” by the music artist. The civil suit filed in New York Supreme Court demands a trial by jury and seeks damages. “Plaintiff brings suit against Defendants to redress the substantial and lifetime injuries she has suffered as a result of being drugged, sexually assaulted and abused, and being the victim of ‘revenge porn’ that Sean Combs or ‘P. Diddy’ created and distributed,” the suit filed in New York Supreme Court stated. CNN has reached out to Combs and Bad Boy Records for comment.
Persons: Sean “ Diddy ” Combs, drugging, Combs, Plaintiff, Sean Combs, Diddy ’ Organizations: CNN, New York, Bad Boy Entertainment, New York Supreme, Bad Boy Records Locations: New York
Sean Combs and Singer Cassie Settle Abuse Lawsuit
  + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( Ginger Adams Otis | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Nov. 18, 2023 11:48 am ETHip-hop mogul Sean Combs and the singer Casandra ‘Cassie’ Ventura reached a settlement a day after she filed the lawsuit. Photo: chris delmas/Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesHip-hop mogul Sean Combs and the singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura reached a settlement a day after she filed a lawsuit accusing him of physical and mental abuse spanning roughly a decade. The deal was announced late Friday by a lawyer representing Ventura. The terms of the settlement weren’t disclosed.
Persons: Sean Combs, Casandra ‘ Cassie ’ Ventura, chris delmas, Casandra “ Cassie ” Ventura Organizations: Agence France Locations: Ventura
Sean Combs, through a lawyer, denies all of the allegations against him in the lawsuit. Photo: Jordan Strauss/Invision/Associated PressA former romantic partner of producer and entrepreneur Sean Combs has filed a federal lawsuit accusing the music mogul of physical and mental abuse spanning roughly a decade. In a suit filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, R&B singer Cassie, who was once signed to Combs’s Bad Boy Records label, accused him of using drugs and alcohol to control her during their relationship. The pair first met in late 2005, when she was 19 years old and he was 37, the suit said.
Persons: Sean Combs, Jordan Strauss, Cassie Organizations: Press, Southern, of, Bad Boy Records Locations: U.S, of New York
And Ms. Ventura, who has already aired her accusations through a public complaint, avoids a cross-examination by Mr. Combs’s attorneys. In response, a lawyer for Mr. Combs, Ben Brafman, said, “Mr. According the suit, Mr. Combs called these events “freak offs,” and they took place in a number of high-end hotels throughout the United States. According to Ms. Ventura’s suit, Mr. Combs controlled nearly every aspect of her life, paying for her homes, car, clothes and other necessities, and even had access to her personal medical records. The suit says Ms. Ventura never went to the police because she feared it “would merely give Mr. Combs another excuse to hurt her.”
Persons: Combs, Ventura, Ventura —, Combs’s, Mr, Ben Brafman, “ Mr, Ms, Ventura’s, Organizations: Mr, Court Locations: Manhattan, United States
Sean Combs arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala (Met Gala) to celebrate the opening of “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S., May 7, 2018. Ventura, 37, alleges that Combs raped her near the end of their relationship in 2018 when she broached the idea of leaving him. Combs' lawyer, Ben Brafman, issued a statement saying his client "vehemently denies these offensive and outrageous allegations." The lawsuit filed Thursday depicted Combs, who has formerly gone by such monikers as P. Diddy, Puff Daddy and Diddy, as an erratic, controlling individual with violent tendencies aimed at Ventura and others. The lawsuit cites violations of sex trafficking and human trafficking statutes under federal, New York and California laws.
Persons: Sean Combs, Eduardo Munoz, Cassandra Ventura, Sean, Diddy, Combs, Ventura, Cassie, Ben Brafman, Brafman, Sean John, Kid Cudi, Steven Tyler, Aerosmith, L.A, Reid, Neil Portnow, Steve Gorman, Deepa Babington Organizations: Metropolitan Museum of Art, REUTERS, Ventura, Bad Boy Records, Forbes, Recording Academy, Thomson Locations: Manhattan, New York, U.S, Ventura, Ventura ., California, Los Angeles
Cassie Ventura and Sean 'Diddy' Combs attend the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2018 in New York City. Terms of the settlement between Combs and his former romantic partner Cassie, whose legal name is Casandra Ventura, were not disclosed. In his own statement that was contained in the email, Combs said, "We have decided to resolve this matter amicably." The settlement was a remarkably quick and stunning end to a shocking civil suit Cassie filed Thursday in Manhattan federal court. And Cassie in her suit said Combs forced her to have sex with "male sex workers while masturbating and filming the encounters."
Persons: Cassie Ventura, Sean, Diddy, Combs, Cassie, Sean Combs, Casandra Ventura, Ventura, Douglas Wigdor Organizations: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States, Court, Southern, of, Bad Boy Records Locations: New York City, of New York, Manhattan
A second album was routinely teased in the press — with Combs touting her artistic development: “she’s really cocooned into a butterfly” — but never materialized. “I wanted to go all the way and kind of land in punk,” she said at the time. By 2012, with the release of the single “King of Hearts,” Ventura was still touting a comeback. It would be years before Ventura released music again. According to the singer’s lawsuit, on at least two occasions in 2009 and 2015, Combs beat her after seeing her speak to music managers at parties.
Persons: Combs, “ You’ve, Lil Wayne, Akon, Ventura, Cassie, , , ” Ventura, “ I’m, “ It’s, Wiz Khalifa, Rick Ross, Meek, she’s Organizations: MTV, Interscope Records, Bad, Pitchfork
The suit, which names Mr. Combs and a number of his associated companies as defendants, seeks unspecified damages. scan she had — for memory loss, possibly caused by drug use or by a beating she said she suffered from Mr. Combs — went directly to Mr. Combs. According to the suit, Mr. Combs then had his staff bring her to a hotel room to recuperate for a week. She asked to go home to her parents, but Mr. Combs refused, the suit says. The suit says that after seeing the violent repercussions of rejecting Mr. Combs, and the extent to which he would isolate her from her support network, “Ms.
Persons: Combs, Ventura, Cassie, Casandra Ventura, , Karwai Tang, Ms, Ventura’s, Combs — Organizations: Mr, Getty, Bad Locations: Los Angeles
Ventura claims in the suit that Combs “exerted his power and influence” over her throughout the course of their professional and romantic relationship. Neilson Barnard/Getty ImagesIn addition to Combs, the lawsuit names his companies, including Bad Boy Records, Bad Boy Entertainment and Combs Enterprises. The law has given adult survivors of sexual assault one year to file lawsuits against their perpetrators and is set to expire on November 24. Combs, 54, founded the music label Bad Boy in 1993, and has gone by stage names Puff Daddy and Diddy. Ventura, 37, is an R&B singer most known for her song “Me & U” off of her 2006 self-titled debut album “Cassie,” which was released while she was signed to Combs’ Bad Boy label.
Persons: Sean Combs, Casandra Ventura, Combs, Combs “, Ventura, , ” Ventura, Cassie –, ” Ben Brafman, Mr, Sean, Diddy, Cassie, Neilson Barnard, Lil Wayne, Akon Organizations: CNN, Combs, Bad Boy Records, , Getty, Bad Boy Entertainment, Combs Enterprises, Epic Records Locations: New York City, Ventura, New York
On Monday night, luminaries of music and film, dressed in ruffles, sequins and tulle, gathered in Harlem at the Apollo Theater and in SoHo for a Tribeca Film Festival dinner. Uptown, the Apollo hosted its annual Spring Benefit, where musicians and philanthropists celebrated the theater’s 90th year and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Sean Combs accepted awards. The event included performances by Wyclef Jean; Stout; Gladys Knight, and MC Lyte, who were supported by Ray Chew, the music director for the event, and his band. Downtown, on Spring Street, Chanel hosted the 16th annual Tribeca Festival Artists dinner at Balthazar, which honored women artists who contributed original artwork to the festival’s filmmakers. The crowd included Robert De Niro, Lizzy Caplan, Tracee Ellis Ross, Brendan Fraser, Katie Holmes and Sofia Coppola.
Persons: Kareem Abdul, Jabbar, Sean Combs, Wyclef Jean, Stout, Gladys Knight, MC Lyte, Ray Chew, Derrick Jones, , DJ Kool, Chanel, Balthazar, Robert De Niro, Lizzy Caplan, Tracee Ellis Ross, Brendan Fraser, Katie Holmes, Sofia Coppola Organizations: Apollo, Tribeca, Downtown Locations: Harlem, SoHo
Florence Pugh, her head newly shaved, stood at the bar in the front room. Ms. Lipa was at the front of a narrow, packed dance floor, dancing in an outfit adorned with pearls. The singer Juan Luis Londoño Arias, who performs as Maluma, was on the balcony, flashing peace signs to the crowd below. Paris Hilton swayed from side to side, eyes hidden behind white sunglasses, with Marc Jacobs at her side. Mary J. Blige stood next to Mr. Combs as he played emcee.
How a Milliner Spends Her Sundays
  + stars: | 2023-04-02 | by ( Nancy A. Ruhling | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
“The right hat is an expression of your personality,” said Linda Pagan, who owns The Hat Shop NYC. “You are never alone when you wear a hat — wearing one is like walking a dog but without all the work; people will always stop and talk to you.”Ms. Pagan should know. Ms. Pagan has a personal collection of 60 hats that she stores in the basement of her shop. “I always wear a hat as they make me feel great, and it’s great for business. “Thank goodness I didn’t go into lingerie.”The only thing Ms. Pagan, 64, who was born in England, likes more than hats is her short commute.
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