Sean “Diddy” Combs returned his key to New York Metropolis final week following a request from Mayor Eric Adams after the discharge of a 2016 video that confirmed the music mogul attacking his ex-girlfriend, Cassie.
Adam’s workplace requested the important thing’s return on June 4, following the video’s launch in Could. A letter from the mayor obtained by AP Information famous he was “deeply disturbed” by the assault and added, “I strongly condemn these actions and stand in solidarity with all survivors of home and gender-based violence.”
Town acquired the important thing on June 10, the mayor’s workplace confirmed to AP Information on Saturday.
The video, first launched Could 17, confirmed Diddy operating out of a lodge room in a towel and chasing his ex-girlfriend, R&B singer Cassie Ventura, towards the elevator. He grabbed her by the again of the neck and threw her on the ground, kicked her, shoved her and dragged her by her sweatshirt. Later within the footage, he returned to kick her once more, after which threw an object from a close-by desk at her.
Following the video’s launch, Howard College rescinded Combs’ honorary diploma, saying in a press release that Combs’ conduct had been “so basically incompatible with Howard College’s core values and beliefs that he’s deemed not worthy to carry the establishment’s highest honor. The College is unwavering in its opposition to all acts of interpersonal violence.”
Combs apologized on social media shortly after the video resurfaced, saying, “It’s so troublesome to replicate on the darkest occasions in your life, however generally you bought to do this… I used to be fucked up — I hit all-time low — however I make no excuses. My conduct on that video is inexcusable.”
He additionally mentioned he took “full accountability for my actions in that video” and that he “was disgusted then once I did it” and “I’m disgusted now.”
Combs and Ventura had been romantically linked for over a decade. Final November, she accused him of repeatedly raping and bodily abusing her through the course of their relationship. The lawsuit, which additionally named Combs’ label, Dangerous Boy Data, and Sony Music, claimed that Ventura was “trapped by Mr. Combs in a cycle of abuse, violence and intercourse trafficking.”
They settled the case shortly after the submitting, however Combs has since confronted a number of new lawsuits this 12 months, accusing him of rape, sexual assault and intercourse trafficking. He has denied the entire allegations. In March, his Miami and Los Angeles properties had been raided by Homeland Safety.