Sean “Diddy” Combs’ former makeup artist claimed she once heard him brutally beating his ex Cassie Ventura during a hotel stay in 2010.
“I have kept this secret for, like, 14 years,” Mylah Morales told CNN’s Laura Coates Thursday.
“All I could hear was screaming and yelling,” she explained. “Whatever was going on in [the hotel bedroom], I don’t know, but all I could think of was to grab Cassie’s things and start packing it up and just getting her out to safety and bringing her to my house.”
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once she exited the room, Morales claimed Ventura, now 37, was “badly beaten.” She recalled the singer having “knots on her head, [a] black eye [and a] busted lip.”
Morales said she immediately brought the “Is It You” songstress back to her home, where her doctor friend came over to treat her privately.
“It was painful to see Cassie like that because she’s such a, you know, a beautiful human being,” the MUA went on.
She confirmed that neither she nor Ventura went to the police about the assault because “Puffy is a very powerful person” and they “were quite terrified.”
Page Six contacted reps for Ventura and Combs regarding Morales’ interview but did not immediately hear back.
This alleged incident predated the 2016 attack caught on camera, during which Combs, 54, viciously beat and dragged the model during their stay at the now-closed InterContinental Hotel in Century City, Calif.
The hip-hop star spoke out after the footage was released, claiming his actions mortified him.
“My behavior on that video is inexcusable,” he said on May 19. “I take full responsibility for my actions in that video. I’m disgusted.”
Meanwhile, Ventura sent out an emotional response to the video last Thursday.
“The outpouring of love has created a place for my younger self to settle and feel safe now, but this is only the beginning,” she wrote on Instagram.
She continued, “Domestic violence is THE issue. It broke me down to someone I never thought I would become.”
The shocking video made headlines months after Ventura sued Combs for rape and years of abuse in November 2023. They settled out of court for an unspecified amount.
Ventura’s legal filing was the first of a wave of sexual and physical assault lawsuits leveraged against Combs, with seven out of eight accusing him of sexual assault. The producer has denied all of their claims.
The most recent lawsuit came last week, in which a woman claimed the rapper drugged and raped her in the 1990s while she was a student at New York City’s Fashion Institute of Technology.
Combs’ homes were recently raided in connection to a sex trafficking investigation.
If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1.800.799.SAFE (7233) or text START to 88788.
