Sean “Puffy” Combs will not be prosecuted for attacking former girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura at a hotel in 2016.
The incident happened at the InterContinental Hotel in Century City on March 5, 2016. California’s statute of limitations on simple assault and aggravated assault have expired.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office confirmed he won’t be prosecuted.
Combs is seen punching, kicking and dragging Cassie after she placed a Louis Vuitton bag and a Celine handbag on the floor next to an elevator.
A 2016 surveillance video obtained by CNN shows Sean "Diddy" Combs violently grab, shove, drag and kick his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura during an altercation in a hotel in California. https://t.co/JrnJhWOaQt pic.twitter.com/xeRBtoGBDV
— CNN (@CNN) May 17, 2024
Insiders whisper that Combs attacked Cassie because she allegedly stole his Louis Vuitton bag containing $100,000 in cash and other valuables.
Later in the video, he is seen throwing a glass vase at her.
In her lawsuit filed in November, Cassie said Combs paid the hotel $50,000 to keep the video from coming out.
A former FBI agent claims Combs settled the lawsuit in one day because of the hotel video.
Men on a manosphere board debated whether Combs was justified in his actions. The majority said domestic violence is never the answer.
One man wrote: “He seemed very concerned about what was in the bag… That don’t give him an excuse to do what he did…He should have just cut her off totally after she did that.
Another person wrote: “He even went back to his hotel room and made sure he put the bag up, before coming back out and throwing that vase or whatever at her.”
Others argued that a high value man should never date a broke woman because she will eventually steal from him.
Meanwhile, according to reports, Combs’s Sean John website has gone totally offline in the wake of the new evidence against him.
Internet archives shows the website was removed sometime between May 3 and Saturday.
Its domain — seanjohn.com — now redirects users to an “under construction” page. Seanjohn.com first went live at the peak of Combs’ success in 1999.
