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Sean “Diddy” Combs returned his key to New York City ultimate week following a request from Mayor Eric Adams after the discharge of a 2016 video that confirmed the song magnate attacking his ex-girlfriend, Cassie.
Adam’s place of business asked the important thing’s go back on June 4, following the video’s unlock in May. A letter from the mayor despatched to Combs’ places of work in New York and Los Angeles famous he was once “deeply disturbed” by way of the assault and added, “I strongly condemn these actions and stand in solidarity with all survivors of domestic and gender-based violence.”
The town won the important thing on June 10, the mayor’s place of business showed to The Hollywood Reporter on Sunday.
The video, first launched May 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 way of the again of the neck and threw her at the flooring, kicked her, shoved her and dragged her by way of her sweatshirt. Later within the photos, he returned to kick her once more, after which threw an object from a close-by desk at her.
Following the video’s unlock, Howard University rescinded Combs’ honorary level, pronouncing in a commentary that Combs’ conduct were “so fundamentally incompatible with Howard University’s core values and beliefs that he is deemed no longer worthy to hold the institution’s highest honor. The University is unwavering in its opposition to all acts of interpersonal violence.”
Combs apologized on social media in a while after the video resurfaced, pronouncing, “It’s so difficult to reflect on the darkest times in your life, but sometimes you got to do that… I was fucked up — I hit rock bottom — but I make no excuses. My behavior on that video is inexcusable.”
He additionally stated he took “full responsibility for my actions in that video” and that he “was disgusted then when I did it” and “I’m disgusted now.”
Combs and Ventura have been romantically connected for over a decade. Last November, she accused him of many times raping and bodily abusing her all the way through the path in their dating. The lawsuit, which additionally named Combs’ label, Bad Boy Records, and Sony Music, claimed that Ventura was once “trapped by Mr. Combs in a cycle of abuse, violence and sex trafficking.”
They settled the case in a while after the submitting, however Combs has since confronted a couple of new complaints this 12 months, accusing him of rape, sexual attack and intercourse trafficking. He has denied all the allegations. In March, his Miami and Los Angeles houses have been raided by way of Homeland Security.