Miami Beach will no longer celebrate Sean “Diddy” Combs Day, officials announced.
The Miami Beach mayor and city commission rescinded the October 13 proclamation on June 26, according to a report by NBCMiami.
Miami Beach Commissioner David Suarez said in a statement: “As long as I am a Miami Beach City Commissioner, female batterers, sexual predators and pedophiles will have no place in our city.”
The city government’s decision comes two months after the FBI raided the music mogul’s Miami mansion as part of a sex trafficking investigation.
It also comes after footage emerged of Diddy, 54, assaulting his ex-girlfriend Cassandra ‘Cassie’ Ventura.
Miami Beach will no longer celebrate Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Day, officials announced
Diddy had received the honor in 2016, the same year he was filmed beating Cassie.
The rapper’s reputation has been tarnished following several lawsuits filed late last year that raised allegations of sexual assault and rape by one of hip-hop’s most recognizable artists and producers.
In November, he was sued by R&B singer Cassie, who said he subjected her to an abusive relationship that lasted years and included beatings and rape.
The lawsuit says he drugged her, forced her to have sex with other men and raped her at his home while she was 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.
Cassie’s legal challenge was settled the next day, but it sparked 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. .
Miami Beach Commissioner David Suarez said in a statement: ‘As long as I am a Miami Beach City Commissioner, wife beaters, sexual predators and pedophiles will have no place in our city.’
Diddy received the honor in 2016 from then-Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine.
Combs’ sons, Justin and Christian “King” Combs, were handcuffed during the raid on their father’s Los Angeles residence.
Two more women accused Diddy of sexual abuse in lawsuits filed on the eve of the expiration of the Adult Survivors Act last November, a New York law that allows victims of sexual abuse a one-year window to file a civil action independently. of the limitation period.
The lawsuits, filed by Joi Dickerson and another unnamed woman, allege sexual assault, beatings and forced drugging in the early 1990s by Combs, then a talent manager, party promoter and rising figure in New York City’s 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 federal court in Manhattan says she lived in a Detroit suburb and was flown to a New York studio, where she was given drugs and alcohol that rendered her unable to consent to sex, and the men took turns raping her.
The mother of two of Diddy’s children, Misa Hylton, shared images of the raid on the rapper’s Los Angeles mansion.
The rapper’s reputation has been tarnished following several lawsuits filed late last year that raised allegations of sexual assault and rape.
The same day, Diddy posted a statement on Instagram broadly denying all allegations in the growing series of lawsuits.
“I have not committed any of the alleged atrocities,” the message reads. “I will fight for my name, for my family and for the truth.”
In February, a music producer filed a lawsuit alleging that Diddy forced him to solicit prostitutes and pressured him to have sex with them.
The suit offers a long list of potentially illegal drug- and sex-related activities the producer says he witnessed. An attorney for the rapper called the allegations “pure fiction.”
The rapper is one of the most influential hip-hop producers and executives of the past three decades.
Formerly known as Puff Daddy, he built one of the largest empires in hip-hop, breaking ground with various entities associated with 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.