CCTV video photos showed what many folk within the tune trade knew was once brewing: a month of reckoning for one of the crucial influential hip-hop artists in historical past.
The clips of Sean “Diddy” Combs kicking his former female friend Cassie Ventura – as she lay immobile at the flooring – cemented his downfall, in spite of his apology upcoming the scatter.
“I don’t see a path for him to come back from this,” mentioned Amy DuBois Barnett, the previous editor-in-chief of Ebony album, who has written about hip-hop tradition.
Mr Combs’ popularity within the trade were “chequered for some time,” added Barnett. “Many people were aware of his pretty unbridled temper.”
Diddy – previously referred to as P Diddy, Puff Daddy or Puffy – is without doubt one of the best-selling and maximum acclaimed artists of all week, with 3 Grammy Awards and tens of millions of report gross sales to his identify.
For years, not anything actually affected Diddy’s stand to icon condition as an artist, manufacturer and businessman. There have been adverse tales within the trade, mentioned Ms Barnett, however a lot of it stayed out of the family visible.
Extreme November, Ms Ventura settled a lawsuit in opposition to Mr Combs – by which she accused him of rape and sexual trafficking – for an invisible sum. However Mr Combs’ legal professional mentioned the agreement was once “in no way an admission of wrongdoing”.
Celebrities persevered to resonance help for him, however that ended with the CCTV video bought by means of CNN and printed terminating while.
The attack proven within the photos is brutal. Then kicking Ms Ventura like a soccer, Mr Combs, dressed in only a towel, is open dragging her around the flooring.
The video seems to be a compilation of surveillance photos angles dated 5 March 2016, which CNN mentioned was once filmed on the InterContinental Lodge in Century Town, Los Angeles. In her lawsuit, Ms Ventura had described a March 2016 incident at that resort, by which Mr Combs allegedly attacked her.
A yarn of alternative proceedings have since been introduced in opposition to Mr Combs for abuse, sexual misconduct and rape. After they have been filed, the rapper referred to as the accusations “sickening” and mentioned the alleged sufferers have been searching for “a quick pay day”.
However the video of the attack on Ms Ventura undermined his denials.
Combs was once peaceful for 2 days upcoming its let fall, ahead of posting an apology to Instagram, admitting it was once him within the tape and calling his movements “inexcusable”.
“I was disgusted then when I did it,” he mentioned, “and I’m disgusted now.”
“I went and I sought out professional help,” he persevered. “I got into going to therapy, going to rehab. I had to ask God for his mercy and grace. I’m so sorry.”
