Cassie hits back at ex Diddy’s claim that assault video from 2016 was edited

Warning: This article contains discussion of domestic violence which some readers may find distressing.

Cassie Ventura has hit back at Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ allegation that the video footage of him assaulting her was edited.

Combs is currently awaiting trial and being held at Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn after he was arrested in September 2024. He faces charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and prostitution – allegations he has denied.

In November 2023, Cassie filed a lawsuit against her ex alleging that he subjected her to a decade-long ‘cycle of abuse, violence and sex trafficking’.

Ventura filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court in Manhattan alleging Combs ‘frequently beat’ her during their on-off relationship from 2007 to 2018.

Just one day later, Combs and Ventura announced they’d reached a settlement, however, footage was later shared online of an incident in 2016, which showed the rapper and producer chasing her through a corridor, wearing only a towel, before appearing to physically assault her.

In a statement, Ventura said: “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 violence and abuse in their relationships.

“With the expiration of New York’s Adult Survivors Act fast approaching, it became clear that this was an opportunity to speak up about the trauma I have experienced and that I will be recovering from for the rest of my life.”

The video is dated as being from March 5, 2016 and shows Ventura and Combs at the InterContinental Hotel in Century City, Los Angeles.