Sean “Diddy” Combs returns his key to New York City after attacking Cassie

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Sean “Diddy” Combs returned his key to New York City last week after Mayor Eric Adams asked him to do so following the release of a 2016 video showing the music mogul attacking his ex-girlfriend Cassie.

Adams’ office requested the return of the key on June 4 after the video was released in May. A letter from the mayor, which was AP News He said he was “deeply disturbed” by the attack, adding: “I condemn these acts in the strongest possible terms and stand in solidarity with all survivors of domestic and gender-based violence.”

The city received the key on June 10, the mayor’s office confirmed to AP News on Saturday.

The video, first released on May 17, shows Diddy running out of a hotel room in a towel and chasing his ex-girlfriend, R&B singer Cassie Ventura, to the elevator. He grabbed her by the neck, threw her to the ground, kicked her, shoved her and pulled her by her sweatshirt. Later in the footage, he returned, kicked her again and then threw an object at her from a nearby table.

Following the release of the video, Howard University stripped Combs of his honorary degree and said in a statement that Combs’ conduct was “so fundamentally inconsistent with the core values ​​and beliefs of Howard University that he is no longer considered worthy of bearing the institution’s highest honor. The university strongly opposes all acts of interpersonal violence.”

Combs apologized shortly after the video resurfaced on social media, saying, “It’s so difficult to reflect on the darkest times in your life, but sometimes you have to do that… I was devastated – I hit rock bottom – but I’m not making any excuses. My behavior in that video is inexcusable.”

He also said that he takes “full responsibility for my actions in that video” and that he was “disgusted then when I did it” and that he “am disgusted now.”

Combs and Ventura were in a relationship for over a decade. Last November, she accused him of repeatedly raping and physically abusing her during their relationship. The lawsuit, which also named Combs’ label, Bad Boy Records, and Sony Music, said Ventura was “lured into a cycle of abuse, violence and sex trafficking by Mr. Combs.”

They settled shortly after the ruling was filed, but Combs has faced several new lawsuits this year accusing him of rape, sexual assault and sex trafficking. He has denied all of the allegations. In March, his homes in Miami and Los Angeles were raided by the Department of Homeland Security.