According to a brand new federal lawsuit, Sean Combs is accused of sexually abusing and trafficking his former companion Cassandra Ventura.

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The singer Cassie has accused hip-hop mogul Sean Combs of rape, trafficking, assault, and extra. Cassie, whose actual title is Cassandra Ventura, filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday, alleging a historical past of coercion and abuse that went on for greater than a decade.

According to the lawsuit, the 2 met when Ventura was 19 years previous and Combs was 37 years previous. By 2006, Ventura signed a report cope with Combs’ label Bad Boy Records. Combs then entrenched himself into Ventura’s life, gaining management of all features of her life whereas plying her with medication and alcohol.

The relationship quickly turned violent. After discovering out Ventura spoke with one other music supervisor at a celebration, Combs allegedly kicked her within the face repeatedly. Combs’ personal safety workers tried to cease him however was unable. According to the lawsuit, Combs then started forcing Ventura to carry out intercourse acts with males he employed whereas he filmed.

In one significantly egregious instance of the management Combs exerted, he allegedly turned enraged after discovering emails between Ventura and the rapper Kid Cudi. From the lawsuit:

“In February 2012, during Paris Fashion Week, Mr. Combs told Ms. Ventura that he was going to blow up Kid Cudi’s car, and that he wanted to ensure that Kid Cudi was home with his friends when it happened. Around that time, Kid Cudi’s car exploded in his driveway.”

NPR has reached out to Combs’ representatives for remark.

Combs is without doubt one of the greatest figures in in style music. His label, Bad Boy Records, has been house to a number of the most foundational acts in hip-hop: the Notorious B.I.G., Faith Evans, Mase, and extra. Last yr he was given a BET Lifetime Achievement Award. In accepting the honor, he mentioned “I really really have to give a sincere thank you to everyone who lifted me up in prayer.”

In the lawsuit filed, Ventura thanked the passage of New York’s Adult Survivor’s Act in addition to California’s Sexual Abuse Accountability and Cover-Up Act for with the ability to “confront her abuser, and to hold him and those who enabled his abuse accountable for their actions.”