Violence, drugs and influence. Cassie and Puff Daddy, 13 years of a very toxic relationship

Their story ended five years ago. American rapper Puff Daddy, real name Sean Combs, and singer Cassandra Ventura for short, were a couple from 2005 to 2018. an idyll marked by many separations and as many reunions. Separated from him for several years, Cassie nevertheless filed a complaint against her ex-partner this Thursday, November 16, in New York federal court. the translator of Me and U looks back on their eleven-year relationship, claiming that she was the victim of rape and physical abuse during her history with the artist. Agreed New York Times , who had access to the 35-page court document, Cassie claims she was beaten “several times a year” by P. Didi, forced to take drugs and have sex with male gigolos in front of her. Or even being raped by him at home in 2018 after “wanting to leave him”.

Because it’s violence, sexual and psychological, that marked the R’n’B singer’s youth. If Puff Daddy completely denies the facts with which he is accused, the police intervened several times to calm the couple down, making tabloid headlines. The woman, who was only in her twenties at the time, says she didn’t file a complaint sooner for fear of retaliation. Today, he comes to present his version of the story to “express himself [son] the name and the name of other women who have been abused and abused in their relationship”. For example, in his complaint, he tells about several significant events. 2009 in Los Angeles, when he was beaten until he bled in a car. Or in 2012, when she was dating rapper Kid Cudi. her ex-partner allegedly made threats to her rival, promising that he would go so far as to blow up her car. Finally, he swears that P. Didi forced her to have sex with other men while he filmed her and groped her. Videos that will still be with the producer.

Drugs and decadence

Cassie and Puff Daddy met in the early 2000s when the latter was signed to the latter’s label, Bad Boy Records, which was founded in 1993 and signed notable artists such as Notorious BIG, Jung Joc and later Machine Gun the Kelly, Megan Fox’s current partner. . Cassandra Ventura is a young singer with a big future at the time. In 2005, she was just 19 years old when she met the man who would become her mentor, seventeen years her senior and future boyfriend. It is to him that he owes the release of his first self-titled album, which was released in 2006, and the success of his minimalist R’n’b song called: Me and U, has sold over 800,000 copies worldwide. Acclaimed by the public, Cassie is quickly drawn into the producer’s lifestyle, both lavish and ostentatious. Between bottles of champagne, a VIP evening and other holiday treats, she succumbs to his charms.

Their relationship began in 2007 but was only made official later in 2012. At the time, Puff Daddy, 36, was a well-established father of six from various unions: Justin Combs, 32, fashion designer Misa Hilton, Christian Combs, 24-year-old and 15-year-old twins D’Lila Starr and Jessie James. back from his story, the result of an affair with actress Kim Porter, who died of pneumonia in 2018, whose first child, Quincy Taylor Brown, he also adopted. He is also the father of Chance, a baby girl from his relationship with co-star Sarah Chapman. For her part, Cassie doesn’t have much romantic experience. In her complaint, she explains that Puff Daddy quickly took control of her, “abnormally,” she says, as well as her career and life.

If Cassie started her career as a model, she is a stranger to the world of music, which she discovered alongside one of the most prolific and richest producers of the 1990s. Could he have developed an emotional dependence on your senior? At least that’s what he suggests throughout his testimony. According to him, the businessman has real control over himself, oscillates between aggressiveness and expensive gifts: luxury cars, apartments and clothes. The latter locks everything, even controls his medical affairs. Meanwhile, drugs and partying further enslave the young singer, who explains that she still suffers from memory loss due to drug overdoses, including ecstasy, and being beaten by her ex-boyfriend.

New life

A notable episode in 2016 highlighted the toxicity of their relationship. As reported TMZ , the young woman called the police after a violent fight in her car parked in front of her house. It refers to the fact that the latter “wanted to break up”, causing an excess of paranoia in the rapper. He allegedly took the phone from his partner in order to search her conversations, after which he returned the object under the threat of the police. Accustomed to their checkered romance, neither fans nor the media were surprised to see them together a few days later on their social networks. Two years later, they finally appeared on the Met Gala 2018 red carpet for the last time, she in a white suit. He is dressed completely in black.

Since then, everyone has rebuilt their lives. Cassie is now married to entrepreneur and sports trainer Alex Fine, 30, with whom she has two daughters, Frankie Stone, born in December 2019, and Sunny Cinco, born in March 2021. Puff Daddy was suspicious of this affair, even though they had a relationship. not finished In his song “Gotta Move On,” released in 2022, he began with this inspiring sentence: “You found a new guy so I have to move on. It’s obvious you’ve started something with a guy you barely know.” Sean “Diddy” Combs, however, seems to have recovered, becoming a father for the seventh time last December with the birth of Love Sean Combs, whose mother remains unknown. On Thursday, November 16, he responded through his lawyer to the accusations of his ex-partner that he “strongly denies these offensive and scandalous accusations”. He also revealed that Cassie allegedly asked him for $30 million in his last six months or he would write a “damaging book about their relationship,” an offer that was “vehemently rejected as ‘outright blackmail’.” Like Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, we’re about to witness a new legal saga.