Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs: Timeline of the horrific abuse allegations leading to federal indictment
facing sweeping charges of sex-trafficking and racketeering conspiracy.Here’s how Combs, 54, ended up being held without bail on the indictment detailing nearly two decades of depravity:Cassie — an R&B singer once signed to Combs’ record label Bay Boy Records — filed a bombshell lawsuit accusing Combs of raping and physically abusing her for over a decade.The songstress, whose real name is Casandra Ventura, claimed that Combs trafficked, raped and viciously beat her starting in 2005 and until 2018, according to the Manhattan federal lawsuit.The lawsuit, which was filed with a glaring “trigger warning,” said that Combs regularly fed her drugs and alcohol, and forced her to have sex with male prostitutes while he filmed the encounters, dubbed “Freak Outs.”Cassie also charged that Combs blew up Kid Cudi’s car when he learned the rapper was romantically interested in her, according to the filing.The pair had an on-and-off again relationship which started shortly after meeting in 2005, when she was around 22 and he neared 40.Just one day after the federal lawsuit was filed, Combs and Cassie reached a settlement that “resolved the claims… to their mutual satisfaction.”The terms of the settlement were not disclosed.“We have decided to resolve this matter amicably. I wish Cassie and her family all the best,” Combs said in a statement at the time.Similar allegations, but a different person.Combs was accused by another woman of drugging and sexually assaulting her while on a date in 1991 and filming the attack.The complaint, filed by Joi Dickerson-Neal, a former Syracuse University student, alleges Combs sexually assaulted her while out to dinner at Wells Restaurant in Harlem.