A former male escort who accused Cassie Ventura of evading service has been approved to serve her by alternate means.
A federal judge agreed Ventura is evading a lawsuit summons. Plaintiff Clayton Howard can use alternate means to serve her such as publishing the summons in a newspaper classified section.
If she fails to respond to the summons, a judge can find her in default and award Howard $20 million in punitive damages.
Nine failed attempts to serve Cassie Ventura
The judge’s ruling detailed nine failed attempts to serve Ventura at three addresses in New York and Connecticut. Her lawyer, Douglas Wigdor of Wigdor LLP in New York, responded but declined to accept service.
Private investigators used databases, DMV searches, property searches, field visits, and skip tracing, yet still “failed to confirm a current, verifiable address” for Ventura.
In his lawsuit, Howard accused Ventura of manipulating him to participate in “freak-offs” while Sean Combs watched them.
Howard said Ventura and Combs, 56, trafficked him and used him as “entertainment to satisfy their se*ual fetishes and personal ambitions.
Howard also claims he impregnated Ventura and that she later had an abortion.
He appeared in Netflix’s documentary, titled Sean Combs: The Reckoning.
In the documentary, Howard claimed Ventura infected him with an STD. He said Combs and Ventura held freak-offs every March 9 to mark the anniversary of the late rapper Notorious B.I.G.’s death.
He said Ventura organized the freak-offs and “coached” the escorts who participated. He said her actions left him traumatized for years.
Combs is currently serving a 50-month sentence at a Fort Dix federal prison in New Jersey for transporting male escorts across state lines.
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judge rules that Cassie Ventura has been evading service in Clayton Howard’s freak-off lawsuit
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