Sean 'Diddy' Combs abuse allegations: A timeline of key events

Newly released video appears to amusement Sean "Diddy" Combs beating his erstwhile singing protege and woman Cassie successful a Los Angeles edifice successful 2016.

The video was aired by CNN Friday six months aft the R&B vocalist filed a suit that acceptable disconnected a question of akin cases and nationalist allegations against 1 of the astir influential euphony moguls of the past 3 decades.

NOTE: The video successful the media subordinate is disturbing.

Here's a look astatine the cardinal events that person unfolded since precocious past year.

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Cassie says successful a suit that Combs subjected her to years of abuse, including beatings and rape. Cassie, whose ineligible sanction is Cassandra Ventura, signed to Combs' statement successful 2005, and the 2 were on-again-off-again romanticist partners for much than a decennary starting successful 2007. The suit filed successful national tribunal says Combs was "prone to uncontrollable rage" and subjected her to "savage" beatings. It says helium plied her with drugs, forced her to person enactment with different men, and raped her successful her location arsenic she was trying to extremity the narration successful 2018. Combs, done his attorney, "vehemently denies" the accusations.

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

With staggering speed, Ventura's suit is settled the time aft it is filed. The presumption of the statement are kept confidential. "We person decided to resoluteness this substance amicably," Combs says successful a statement. "I privation Cassie and her household each the best. Love."

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Two much women impeach Combs of intersexual maltreatment successful lawsuits filed connected the eve of the expiration of the Adult Survivors Act, a New York instrumentality permitting victims of intersexual maltreatment a one-year model to record civilian enactment careless of the statute of limitations. The suits, filed by Joi Dickerson and different pistillate who was not named, allege acts of intersexual assault, beatings and forced drugging successful the aboriginal 1990s by Combs, past a endowment director, enactment promoter and rising fig successful New York City's hip-hop community. Combs' attorneys called the allegations false.

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Combs temporarily steps down arsenic president of his cablegram tv network, Revolt, due to the fact that of the question of intersexual maltreatment allegations. It would beryllium 1 of respective concern setbacks for Combs brought connected by the lawsuits.

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A pistillate alleges successful different suit that successful 2003 erstwhile she was 17, Combs and 2 different men raped her. The suit filed successful national tribunal successful Manhattan says she was surviving successful a Detroit suburb and was flown to a New York studio, wherever she was fixed drugs and intoxicant that made her incapable of consenting to sex, and the men took turns raping her. Combs says successful a connection that "I did not bash immoderate of the atrocious things being alleged. I volition combat for my name, my household and for the truth."

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

A euphony shaper files a suit alleging Combs sexually assaulted him and forced him to person enactment with prostitutes. The suit gives a agelong database of perchance amerciable activities dealing with drugs and enactment that the shaper says helium witnessed. A lawyer for Combs calls the allegations "pure fiction."

March 25, 2024

Homeland Security Investigations serves hunt warrants successful aboriginal greeting raids connected Combs' homes successful Los Angeles and Miami successful what officials archer The Associated Press is simply a sex-trafficking investigation. Combs was astatine 1 of his homes successful Miami astatine the time. His 2 sons, astatine his location successful Los Angeles, were handcuffed during the search, Combs' attorneys said. Officials did not accidental whether the raids were prompted by the civilian lawsuits, but Combs' attorneys said they believed they were.

MARCH 26, 2024

Combs' lawyer calls the raids "a gross usage of military-level force" and says Combs is "innocent and volition proceed to fight" to wide his name. The attorney, Aaron Dyer, says determination is "no excuse for the excessive amusement of unit and hostility exhibited by authorities oregon the mode his children and employees were treated."

APRIL 4, 2024

A suit that names Combs arsenic a co-defendant alleges that his lad Christian "King" Combs sexually assaulted a pistillate moving connected a yacht chartered by his father. The suit filed successful Los Angeles Superior Court says Sean Combs created the circumstances that led to the battle and paid to screen it up afterward. An lawyer for the 2 men calls the allegations "outrageous."

APRIL 26, 2024

In the archetypal large portion of ineligible pushback from Combs and his team, they record a question to disregard respective elements of Dickerson's suit due to the fact that they were not amerciable successful 1991 erstwhile the alleged incidents occurred. While the ineligible objections are procedural, the filing besides slams the "numerous false, offensive, and salacious accusations" successful the lawsuit.

MAY 10, 2024

Combs asks a national justice to disregard the Dec. 6 suit that alleged helium and 2 co-defendants raped a 17-year-old miss from Michigan successful a New York signaling studio. Again, the objections are procedural - alleging the suit was filed excessively precocious nether the instrumentality - but the tribunal papers calls its claims "false and hideous."

May 17, 2024

CNN airs video that appears to amusement Combs attacking Ventura successful edifice hallway successful 2016. The video intimately mirrors an battle described successful her lawsuit, which said Combs had already punched her that night, and she was trying to permission the InterContinental Hotel successful Los Angeles erstwhile helium woke and came aft her. In the footage, a antheral who appears to beryllium Diddy, wearing lone a towel, punches Ventura, kicks her, and throws her connected to the floor. The suit alleges Combs paid $50,000 to instrumentality distant the video astatine the time. Combs' representatives had nary contiguous comment.

The Associated Press doesn't typically sanction radical who accidental they person been sexually abused unless they travel guardant publicly, arsenic those named present have.