The fallout from Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs assault on his former girlfriend and allegations of sexual misconduct from other women continues.
07.06.2024 - 23:31 / variety.com
Thania Garcia Howard University confirmed Friday the institution’s Board of Trustees unanimously voted to revoke Sean “Diddy” Combs’ honorary degree. This comes in the wake of Combs admitting he physically abused his then-girlfriend, R&B singer Cassie, in a hotel hallway after video of the altercation recently surfaced. The video, which was taken on March 5, 2016, shows Combs grabbing, shoving and kicking Cassie, whose real name is Casandra Ventura.
The footage matches allegations made in her lawsuit filed last November. The University reported the vote to return the degree, which was first bestowed upon Combs in 2014, with a lengthy statement that reads as follows: “The Howard University Board of Trustees voted unanimously today to accept the return by Mr. Sean Combs of the honorary degree conferred upon him in 2014.
This acceptance revokes all honors and privileges associated with the degree. Accordingly, the Board has directed that his name be removed from all documents listing honorary degree recipients of Howard University. Mr.
Combs’ behavior as captured in a recently released video is 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.” The statement also makes note that the University administration has been directed to terminate a 2016 “gift agreement” with Combs, in addition to disbanding the scholarship program in his name, and returning his $1 million contribution. Combs was a student at Howard from 1987 to 1989.
The fallout from Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs assault on his former girlfriend and allegations of sexual misconduct from other women continues.
CNN released surveillance video of Combs shoving, dragging and kicking his then-girlfriend, R&B singer Cassie Ventura, in 2016.Last week, Howard University revoked the “It’s All About the Benjamins” singer’s honorary degree he received in 2014 and returned his $1 million donation.The university said the video “is 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.”On May 19, Combs, 54, released a video statement via Instagram, saying, “My behavior on that video is inexcusable.”The Post reached out to Combs for comment.
CNN released surveillance video of Combs shoving, dragging and kicking his then-girlfriend, R&B singer Cassie Ventura, in 2016.Mayor Adams on May 20 told Pix 11 News he was “sitting down to see what the next steps forward are going to be,” but still hasn’t yet taken back the key, which was given to Diddy in 2023, according to Paula Froelich of NewsNation.Reps for Adams didn’t return The Post and News Nation’s requests for comment. Last week, Howard University revoked the “It’s All About the Benjamins” singer’s honorary degree he received in 2014 and returned his $1 million donation.
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs of his honorary degree.The move comes following a string of allegations against the rap mogul in recent months, and means the 2014 degree that was conferred upon him has been rescinded.The claims against Diddy came to a head last November, when R&B singer and ex-partner Cassie Ventura filed a lawsuit against the artist on allegations of physical and sexual abuse, all denied by Diddy. The two settled the lawsuit “to mutual satisfaction” a day after the case was filed.In May, a video was obtained and published by CNN, showing Diddy allegedly attacking Cassie in a hotel.
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The Howard University Board of Trustees has unanimously voted to rescind the honorary degree it conferred on Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs in 2014.
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Notorious B.I.G wanted to leave Diddy‘s Bad Boy Records before his untimely death in 1997.In a new exposé by Rolling Stone, several people corroborated the long-standing rumour that the Brooklyn rapper wanted to leave the label. At the time, Diddy – real name Sean Combs – was in a legal battle with the rapper’s lawyers over the publishing rights to Biggie Smalls’ music.“I will never give it up until I’m dead and my bones are crushed into powder,” Combs told the lawyers, according the book The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop. Diddy started the process of returning the publishing rights to all Bad Boy artists last September.’90s hip-hop photographer Monique Bunn told Rolling Stone: “[Biggie] was absolutely about to leave Puff.
Diddy has been hit with another lawsuit by a college student accusing him of drugging and assaulting her four times between 1995 and the early 2000s.April Lampros, formerly a student at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology, filed the lawsuit on Thursday in the Supreme Court of New York County (as per USA Today). In the documents, she claimed that the rap mogul (real name Sean Combs) “love-bombed her” into “an aggressive, coercive, and abusive relationship based on sex”.NME have approached Diddy’s representatives for comment.Lampros was an intern at Arista (parent company of Combs’ label, Bad Boy Entertainment) when the two met. She alleged the first instance of assault happened in 1995, where she met Combs at a bar in New York; though she didn’t drink, she “succumbed to pressure” due to Combs’ “delusional and violent outbursts.”According to the lawsuit, Lampros felt like the “walls were closing in on her” after a few sips, at which point Combs allegedly took her to a hotel and assaulted her.
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to Instagram.“The outpouring of love has created a place for my younger self to settle and feel safe now, but this is only the beginning. Domestic Violence is THE issue. It broke me down to someone I never thought I would become.
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hit by another damning lawsuit, this time from a model who claimed he drugged her and then forced her to perform oral sex on him during a visit to his NYC studio two decades ago when she was 22-years-oldCrystal McKinney claims the rapper plied her with alcohol and possibly laced marijuana during the 2003 encounter, then brought her to a bathroom and forced her to her knees, demanding she “Suck it,” according to the suit obtained by TMZ.McKinney alleged that when she refused to comply, Combs grabbed her head and forced her to perform oral sex on him.She then lost consciousness and woke in a taxi to realize she’d been assaulted, the suit read, although it remains unclear whether she meant there was an additional assault beyond the oral encounter.
Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer Misa Hylton, famed stylist and Sean “Diddy” Combs’ former partner, has weighed in on the recently released tape of the mogul abusing Cassie Ventura, stating that Combs “needs help and I am praying that he truly does the personal work and receives it.” “I am heartbroken that Cassie must relive the horror of her abuse, and my heart goes out to her,” wrote Hylton on Instagram, sharing images of Combs’ five children. “I know exactly how she feels, and through my empathy, it has triggered my own trauma.” Hylton has known Combs since her teenage years, and is co-parent to their 30-year-old son Justin.
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in the disturbing clip.“Everything in the video is egregious, I’m against,” the rapper, 48, said on NewsNight, clarifying that he doesn’t consider Combs a friend. “So when I saw the video I was kinda upset being that I know him.” However, the interview appeared to take a turn for the worse when Phillip reiterated the question.“I don’t know him like that.
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