American Hip-hop star, Sean Combs aka Puff Daddy, has been dr@gged to court for allegedly r@ping and s+x tr@fficking his ex-girlfriend, singer Cassie, over the course of a decade.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, also names Bad Boy Records, Bad Boy Entertainment, Epic Records and Combs Enterprises as defendants.
Cassie, real named Casandra Ventura, in a statement on Thursday, November 16, said she was tr@pped for a decade in a cycle of ab¥se and vi%lence.
“After years in silence and darkness, I am finally ready to tell my story, and to speak up on behalf of myself and for the benefit of other women who face vi%lence and ab¥se in their relationships,” she said.
In the suit, Cassie alleged that in 2005, when she was 19 years old, the then 37-year-old Combs lured her into a professional relationship by signing her to his label, Bad Boy Records.
Within several years he induced her into a s+xual relationship, and introduced her “to a lifestyle of excessive alcohol and substance ab¥se and required her to procure illicit prescriptions to satisfy his own addictions,”.
The suit claims that Combs r@ped Cassie in her home after she tried to leave him, “blew up” another man’s car after learning of his romantic interest in the singer, and often b£at and kicked her.
And it says Combs “forced Ms. Ventura to engage in s+x acts with male s+x workers while mast¥rbating and filming the encounters.”
“Throughout their relationship Mr. Combs was prone to uncontrollable rage, and frequently b£at Ms. Ventura savagely…(continue reading on the next slide.)
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