Sean “Diddy” Combs The alleged violence against women dates back to his days as a student at Howard University in the late 1980s, when the future hip-hop mogul allegedly attacked a girlfriend outside his dorm room, horrifying his classmates. class and his friends, say three sources. Rolling stone.
Combs allegedly yelled “belligerently” at the young woman to come out, and began hitting her with what appeared to be a belt when she came out, according to an eyewitness. “She was trying to defend herself a little,” says the eyewitness. “She was crying. And we were telling her, ‘Let her go.’ We were screaming for her. (The woman at the center of the alleged attack refused to speak with Rolling stone.)
When reached for comment, Combs did not specifically address the new allegation. “Mr. Combs cannot comment on settled litigation, will not comment on pending litigation, and cannot respond to all allegations reported in the press, regardless of the source, no matter how unreliable.“, his lawyer, Jonathan Davis, says Rolling stone. “We are aware that the relevant authorities are conducting a thorough investigation and are therefore confident that all important issues will be addressed in the appropriate forum, where the rules separate fact from fiction.”
Previously unreported incident was part of a six-month period rolling stone investigation into the founder of Bad Boy Entertainment. The career-spanning article, published Tuesday and including interviews with more than 50 people, also revealed new details about alleged physical assaults at Bad Boy’s offices and claims Combs sexually harassed an associate during a party he threw to celebrate his acquittal in 2001. nightclub shooting.
The new allegations bolster public allegations made against Combs in six sexual assault lawsuits filed by five women and one man after R&B singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura filed her explosive sex trafficking lawsuit last November. Several people who spoke to rolling stone described Combs as a serial predator who used his fame, fortune, industry status and reputation as a fun-loving party host to hide a volatile temper and disturbing narcissistic behavior for decades.
While many have been shocked by the allegations against Combs — some of which were corroborated by surveillance footage obtained by CNN showing Combs beating Ventura at a Los Angeles hotel in 2016 — several women who hung out at Howard with Combs say they saw signs of control. and abusive personality even before the tycoon’s career began.
Combs arrived at the storied university in the fall of 1987 and quickly gained a reputation for throwing legendary, raucous parties. While some alumni remember Combs for his “one-off” moves and his extravagant, flamboyant personality, others remember fits of rage, acts of unwanted touching and public violence.
The night Combs allegedly showed up at the school’s historic Harriet Tubman Quadrangle Dormitory and began yelling for his girlfriend to come out, other women in the dorm began running down the halls, banging on doors in panic, they say. former classmates. Rolling stone. They were sounding the alarm that Combs, then known by his nickname “Puff,” was attacking the young woman outside, a classmate recalled. “Puff is out here acting crazy. He beats her,” the classmates said, according to the classmate.
“He screamed and screamed and acted like a fool until she came down the stairs,” said another Howard student who witnessed the alleged attack. Rolling stone. She said Combs used what appeared to be a belt to hit the young woman “all over.” Speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the incident, the witness said Combs seemed “super angry” and was “screaming at the top of his lungs.” She said he “whipped her butt – like Really whipped his butt. A third source also recalled the alleged attack on Rolling stone.
One of the former students says Combs would often show up at his girlfriend’s English class, banging on the window to get her to drop the class. The visits were frequent and eventually became visibly unwanted, the classmate said. “She tensed up (when Combs arrived). Her energy changed,” recalls the student, sitting next to the woman in class. “He just had a weird control thing. I had the impression that she was afraid.
Another classmate says she stayed “as far away as possible” from Combs after he “rubbed” her back without warning and asked if she would be willing to meet one of his friends. Another former student remembers Combs “flying off the handle” and yelling at her simply because she questioned him cutting the line in the cafeteria.
Combs’ alleged violence toward women was a pattern that followed him throughout his life, according to two lawsuits and sources. Former Bad Boy president Kirk Burrowes said he saw Combs attack a woman in the Bad Boy office in 1994. He and another former employee recounted rolling stone they had to pull Combs from the woman after hearing screams and the sound of breaking glass. (The woman refused Rolling stone’s request for comment.)
Felicia Newsome, the first manager of Bad Boy’s recording studio, Daddy’s House, says she once held Combs back when he was about to “kick that girl’s ass” after a fight broke out. broke out between two women over Christopher Wallace, aka the Notorious BIG “I hold him by the waist, I say to him: ‘You need to calm down.’ This is not your fight,’” Newsome recalled.
Combs’ relationship with his longtime partner, Kim Porter, who died of lobar pneumonia in 2018, was tumultuous, according to two sources, who say Combs physically abused her. “I remember Kim was going through a lot,” says former Bad Boy rapper Mark Curry. Rolling stone. “If you live with them, you see the toxic relationship…I think every relationship he ever had and I ever had around him was like that.”
While Combs’ future is still uncertain — a federal investigation looms after Homeland Security agents searched his homes in March — some who knew Combs at Howard had long suspected his legacy would end in disgrace. “None of this really came as a surprise to me,” says one of Howard’s former students who knew of Combs’ attack on a classmate. “You’re already an abuser (at college). You already felt that you should have some power over people. Another says Combs must now face his responsibilities: “It’s time.”
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