Sean “Diddy” Combs was seen shoving, kicking and dragging his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in harrowing 2016 surveillance released Friday.
The video, obtained by CNN and dated March 5, 2016, shows the rapper and producer running after the singer down a hallway at the InterContinental Hotel in Century City, Los Angeles.
Combs — who has a towel wrapped around his waist — then grabs her by the back of the neck and throws her to the floor.
While holding his towel closed with one hand, he proceeds to kick her, the video shows.
He grabbed a purse and a suitcase from the floor near an elevator bank before turning around and kicking Ventura again while she lay still on the carpet.
Combs briefly dragged his then-girlfriend her sweatshirt before walking away.
Ventura slowly stood up and appeared to pick up a phone on the hallway wall before Combs, still in his towel, returned and shoved her.
A few seconds later, he sat down in a chair, grabbed an object from a table, and threw it at Ventura, according to the footage.
He was seen walking away, only to turn toward Ventura yet again – just in time for someone to exit the elevator.
“The gut-wrenching video has only further confirmed the disturbing and predatory behavior of Mr. Combs,” Douglas H. Wigdor, a lawyer for Ventura, said in response to the video – which appeared to match the allegations in the latter’s now-settled lawsuit against Combs.
“Words cannot express the courage and fortitude that Ms. Ventura has shown in coming forward to bring this to light,” Wigdor added.
Ventura – who was off-and-on with Combs between 2007 and 2018 – sued the Bad Boy Records founder in November 2023, alleging that he was physically violent and sexually abusive.
In the filing, Ventura alleged that Combs paid the InterContinental $50,000 for the security footage from a physical altercation in March 2016.
The suit was resolved the following day with an undisclosed settlement.
