A disturbing surveillance video from a Los Angeles hotel hallway shows Sean “Diddy” Combs beating, dragging and throwing an object at his then-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, in 2016.
The footage was obtained by CNN Friday and appears to corroborate some of the allegations Ventura, 37, made against Combs, 54, in her November 2023 lawsuit, which cited physical abuse.
According to the outlet, the altercation occurred at the now-closed InterContinental Hotel in Century City on March 5, 2016.
In the video, Ventura is seen exiting a hotel room with several bags, walking quickly to the elevators. She’s wearing a black hoodie over her head, jeans and no shoes.
Shortly after, Combs is seen in nothing but a bath towel and socks, running toward Ventura. After reaching her, he grabs her by the back of the neck and throws her to the floor. He then turns to kick her.
After retrieving Ventura’s bags from the floor near the elevators, Combs is seen turning around and kicking her again. He then drags her by her hoodie toward a room before walking away.
Ventura is then seen standing up slowly, gathering her items and moving to pick up a phone on the wall near the elevators. Combs returns and shoves her before sitting in a chair in the hallway.
He is then seen grabbing an object off a table near the chair and forcefully throwing it toward Ventura.
“The gut-wrenching video has only further confirmed the disturbing and predatory behavior of Mr. Combs,” Ventura’s attorneys told Page Six in a statement.
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“Words cannot express the courage and fortitude that Ms. Ventura has shown in coming forward to bring this to light.”
Ventura, who reached an undisclosed settlement with Combs shortly after she filed her suit, described the aforementioned altercation in the complaint.
According to her filing, while the two were inside the hotel room, Combs became “extremely intoxicated and punched Ms. Ventura in the face, giving her a black eye.”
After he fell asleep, she attempted to leave the room, but he woke up and “followed her into the hallway of the hotel while yelling at her,” her suit claimed, going on to allege, “He grabbed at her and then took glass vases in the hallway and threw them at her, causing glass to crash around them as she ran to the elevator to escape.”
According to her complaint, Ventura eventually managed to get in the elevator and call a cab, which took her to her apartment.
“Upon realizing that her running away would cause Mr. Combs to be even angrier with her, and completely stuck in his vicious cycle of abuse, Ms. Ventura returned to the hotel with the intention of apologizing for running away from her abuser,” her filing claimed.
“When she returned, hotel security staff urged her to get back into a cab and go to her apartment, suggesting that they had seen the security footage showing Mr. Combs beating Ms. Ventura and throwing glass at her in the hotel hallway.”
Ventura’s suit alleged that Combs paid the InterContinental $50,000 for the security footage from the incident.
Reps for Combs did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment.
If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call the Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-330-0226.
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