Cassie’s former makeup artist claimed she witnessed Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs beating the singer six years before the assault filmed in a Los Angeles hotel.
Mylah Morales said CNN’s Laura Coates which first saw the rapper and producer, formerly known as Puff Daddy, physically assault his ex-girlfriend Cassie in 2010, leaving her with a black eye.
“I’ve kept this secret for about 14 years,” Morales said, recalling an incident in which he saw the former couple enter a hotel room and have a violent argument.
Morales continued: ‘They went into the bedroom and closed the door and all I could hear was screams and screams…
“What was going on there, I don’t know, but the only thing I could think of was to grab Cassie’s things and start packing them up, get her somewhere safe and bring her to my house.”
Cassie’s former makeup artist Mylah Morales claimed she witnessed Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs beating the singer six years before the assault filmed in a Los Angeles hotel.
The makeup artist said Cassie was “very beat up” when she left the room, with “a lot of knots all over her head,” a black eye and a “busted lip.”
Morales said they didn’t go to the police because they were afraid of Diddy.
“Puffy is a very powerful person and we were quite terrified,” he said.
Diddy is currently facing criminal charges as a grand jury has been selected to hear evidence against him in a federal investigation.
The Justice Department is preparing to file a criminal charge against him, as his accusers have been told they could be brought to testify in New York City, CNN reports.
The rapper and producer has been named in eight lawsuits accusing him of sexual assault and human trafficking.
Cassie, whose legal name is Cassandra Ventura, sued Combs in November for what she claims were years of sexual, physical and emotional abuse, including beatings and rape.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faces criminal charges as a grand jury was selected to hear evidence against him in a federal investigation.
Potential witnesses have not yet been prepared to testify for prosecutors, as Homeland Security investigators are reportedly still gathering evidence in the case.
A source told CNN that detectives want to make their accusation against Diddy “bulletproof.”
The accusation would not be related to Diddy’s filmed assault on his ex-girlfriend Cassie in the hallway of a Los Angeles hotel in 2016.
Cassie, whose legal name is Cassandra Ventura, sued Combs in November for what she claims were years of sexual, physical and emotional abuse, including beatings and rape.
The lawsuit says he abused her with drugs, forced her to have sex with other men and raped her in his home while trying to end the relationship in 2018. Diddy, through his attorney, “vehemently denies” the allegations.
Diddy, however, apologized after a video surfaced showing him brutally attacking Cassie in a hotel hallway.
The accusation would not be related to Diddy’s filmed assault on his ex-girlfriend Cassie in the hallway of a Los Angeles hotel in 2016.
The 54-year-old rapper took to Instagram and said, “I hit rock bottom, but I don’t make excuses.”
Looking into the camera, Diddy said, “It’s so hard to reflect on the darkest moments in your life, sometimes you have to.” He was angry.
‘I want to say I hit rock bottom, but I don’t make excuses, my behavior in that video is inexcusable. I take full responsibility for my actions in that video, I am disgusted.
“I was disgusted then when I did it, and now I’m disgusted. I went and looked for professional help, I got into going to therapy, going to rehab.
‘I had to ask God for his mercy and grace. Very sorry. But I am committed to being a better man every day. I’m not asking for forgiveness, I’m very sorry.’
Sources said Diddy went to rehab after the 2016 incident and continues to seek therapy and spiritual work.
The video, obtained by CNN, shows the shirtless rapper with a towel wrapped around his waist, chasing Cassie down the hallway of the InterContinental Hotel in Century City.
Sean Combs and Cassie Ventura attend the premiere of ‘The Perfect Match’ in Hollywood, California. Two days earlier, Combs attacked Ventura in a hotel hallway.
As she tried to get into an elevator, he grabbed her by the back of the neck and threw her to the ground.
He then kicked her as she lay motionless on the ground, before grabbing the two designer bags she had tried to escape with.
Diddy stood over her, kicked her again, and then dragged her back to her room by her hoodie.
Cassie claimed in a since-settled lawsuit that Diddy had paid the same hotel $50,000 for the footage after the attack.
Cassie’s legal challenge was resolved the next day, but it led to intense scrutiny of Diddy, with several more lawsuits filed in the following months, along with a federal criminal sex trafficking investigation that led authorities to raid Combs’ mansions in Los Angeles and Miami. .
Combs’ sons, Justin and Christian ‘King’ Combs, were handcuffed during the raid on their father’s Los Angeles residence.
The mother of two of Diddy’s children, Misa Hylton, shared footage of the raid on the rapper’s Los Angeles mansion, calling it an “overtly militarized force.”
Armed agents entered luxury properties on the east and west coasts of the United States
Two more women accused Diddy of sexual abuse in lawsuits filed on the eve of the expiration last November of the Adult Survivors Act, a New York law that allows victims of sexual abuse a one-year window to file a civil action. regardless of the statute of limitations.
The lawsuits, filed by Joi Dickerson and another woman who was not named, allege acts of sexual assault, beatings and forced drug use in the early 1990s by Combs, then a talent manager, party promoter and rising figure. in the New York City hip-hop community. .
In December, another woman alleged in a lawsuit that in 2003, when she was 17, Diddy and two other men raped her.
The lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court says she lived in a Detroit suburb and was flown to a New York studio, where she was administered drugs and alcohol that rendered her unable to consent to sex, and the men took turns raping her.
The same day, Diddy posted a statement on Instagram broadly denying all allegations in the growing series of lawsuits.
“I did not do any of the horrible things alleged,” the post says. ‘I will fight for my name, my family and for the truth.’
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, 54, was photographed smoking a cigarette in his native Miami after breaking his silence after a shocking video of him punching ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura emerged this week.
In February, a music producer filed a lawsuit alleging that Diddy forced him to hire prostitutes and pressured him to have sex with them.
The lawsuit offers a long list of potentially illegal drug and sex-related activities that the producer says he witnessed. A lawyer for the rapper called the allegations “pure fiction.”
The rapper is among the most influential hip-hop producers and executives of the last three decades.
Formerly known as Puff Daddy, he built one of the largest empires in hip-hop, breaking ground with several entities linked to his famous name.
He is the founder of Bad Boy Records and a three-time Grammy winner who has worked with a host of top artists, including Notorious BIG, Mary J. Blige, Usher, Lil Kim, Faith Evans and 112.