Sept. 11, 2024 "Diddy sued by Danity Kane’s Dawn Richard; sexual assault, inhumane treatment alleged": Today I found this article by Nardine Saad on the Los Angeles Times:
Sean “Diddy” Combs has been hit with yet another lawsuit, this time by a singer from his Bad Boy-backed music groups Danity Kane and Diddy-Dirty Money who says she witnessed him beating ex-girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura.
Dawn Richard, who rose to fame through MTV and Diddy’s 2004 reality competition “Making the Band 3,” sued Combs Tuesday in U.S. District Court in New York, putting forth allegations to corroborate some of those made by Ventura, whose bombshell November lawsuit opened the floodgates on legal woes for the embattled hip-hop mogul.
The “Damaged” singer, 41, accused her former boss of
sexual assault,
harassment
and inhumane treatment,
alleging that Combs
groped,
caressed
and grabbed her without her consent,
falsely imprisoned her
and forced her to remain at his various residences
while depriving her and her bandmates of basic needs such as adequate food and sleep.
According to the complaint, obtained Wednesday by The Times, Richard alleged that Combs “flagrantly exploited” her as a singer and writer by withholding her earnings, stealing her copyrighted works and subjecting her to “years of inhumane working conditions.”
Combs, the complaint said, manipulated Richard with mantras that “submission to his depraved demands was necessary for career advancement,”
which instilled in Richard “the belief that such abuse and exploitation were required for female artists to succeed in the music industry.”
“When Ms. Richard resisted Mr. Combs’ advances,
Mr. Combs retaliated by
denying her singing parts in songs,
removing her from songs,
refusing to allow her to sing in performances,
and turning her microphone off during performances.
The more Ms. Richard rebuffed his advances,
the more Mr. Combs’ retaliatory behavior increased,” the complaint said.
Richard named Combs, record executive Herve Pierre, Remote Productions, Sony Music Publishing and several Bad Boy- and Combs-branded businesses, among others, as defendants.
She wants a jury trial and unspecified compensatory damages;
a financial judgment for
mental pain,
anguish
and emotional distress;
punitive and exemplary damages,
and payment of legal fees.
Representatives for Combs did not immediately respond Wednesday to The Times’ requests for comment.
Richards alleged in the lawsuit that she witnessed Combs physically abusing and brutally beating Ventura “on numerous occasions” and said she was threatened by the rapper-producer when she intervened.
“Mr. Combs’ namesake temper frequently manifested in physical violence,” her attorneys Lisa Bloom and Arick Fudali argued in the complaint, alleging that Combs
“regularly hurled objects in fits of rage,” often throwing items such as mobile phones, laptops, food and studio equipment across the room or at people.
His “persistent abuse” included choking and strangling Ventura, striking her with his hands and with objects, slapping her, punching her, and throwing items at her, including a scalding hot pan, the attorneys alleged.
“Mr. Combs learned of her efforts to help Ms. Ventura and became enraged, threatening Ms. Richard’s life with statements such as ‘you want to die today,’ ‘I make n— go missing’ and ‘I end people.’”
On one occasion, after she alleged to have seen Diddy throw a pan of scalding eggs at Ventura, Richard said he told her, “I’m giving you an opportunity, if you want to make it you’ll shut your mouth … if you say anything, there will be consequences.”
She also said she witnessed his late ex Kim Porter, the mother of three of his children, leave his recording studio “in tears with visible facial injuries including a lacerated lip” and later witnessed Combs and several other males all having sex with his female assistant at a hotel pool in Glasgow.
Allegations of sexual assault, sex trafficking and abuse have surfaced in a number of lawsuits against Combs over the past year,
including those brought by Ventura,
producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones and former model Crystal McKinney. Richard’s lawsuit also made references to sordid allegations of sex trafficking at Combs’ mansions, which appeared to align with some that likely led to bicoastal raids of Combs’ homes in March.
In November 2009, after the Soul Train Awards in Atlanta, Richard said in the lawsuit that Combs flew her and others on a private jet to his house in New York for an after-party.
She recalled seeing “copious amounts of illegal drugs” being openly consumed and believed that Combs had arranged for dozens of young women and girls — some of whom appeared underage — to be transported to the party where they were given drugs and alcohol.
“Many of them appeared lethargic or passed out while Mr. Combs and his guests performed sexual acts on them,” the complaint said.
“Ms. Richard believed that her presence at the party was a test to see whether Mr. Combs could trust her.”
Richard also said in the suit that during auditions for “Making the Band,” she was subjected to verbal abuse by Combs, who allegedly spoke to the female contestants in “a hostile, condescending manner”
and made disparaging gender-based comments, such as calling contestants “fat,” “ugly,” “bitches” and “hoes.” She said she felt threatened and intimidated by his “blatant disdain.”
Combs “would regularly be awake for prolonged periods of time,” she said, because he allegedly was high on drugs,
demanding continuous access to the members of Danity Kane to record or rehearse for 36- to 48-hour stretches without breaks and forcing the women to choose between eating and sleeping.
The 5-foot-4 singer said she lost a significant amount of weight during those “extreme conditions” and weighed only 100 pounds at one point.
She also claimed that Combs would often intrude when she was changing clothes and grope her bare body and smack her buttocks.
She accused Combs of assault and false imprisonment in December 2010 while Diddy-Dirty Money was preparing for a performance on “Saturday Night Live.” She alleged that Combs publicly berated her and her bandmate Kalenna Harper and “raised his arm, and swung his fist toward her face” but did not strike her when Richard asked him to stop.
Instead, his bodyguard allegedly grabbed her and escorted her and her bandmate into a Bad Boy Records Bentley with heavily tinted windows and no interior door handles where she was locked in for two hours “with no way to escape.”
Eventually, the lawsuit said, she was able to call her father on Harper’s cellphone, and he traveled from Baltimore to New York to free her.
When Frank Richard — a former singer and drummer with the funk/soul band Chocolate Milk — confronted Combs and threatened to report him to police, Combs allegedly told him to think about his daughter’s career.
Sept. 17, 2024 "Aubrey O’Day Says She Feels ‘Validated’ Following Diddy’s Arrest: ‘Things Are Finally Changing’": Today I found this article by Rania Aniftos
Aubrey O’Day is hopeful for the future following Sean “Diddy” Combs’ arrest.
“The purpose of Justice is to provide an ending
and allow us the space to create a new chapter.
Women never get this.
I feel validated.
Today is a win for women all over the world,
not just me.
Things are finally changing,” the former Danity Kane member tweeted.
O’Day has a longtime history of speaking out against Diddy. Danity Kane was formed back in 2005 on Diddy’s Making the Band and the group was also later signed to his Bad Boy Records label.
O’Day was kicked out of the group in 2008,
and she alleged on Call Her Daddy in 2022 that her departure was related to her refusal to fulfill non-music requests for the rapper.
Diddy was arrested Monday (Sept. 16) in New York City, and Manhattan federal prosecutors have since unveiled the substance of their case against Combs — accusing him of operating a criminal enterprise centered on his “pervasive pattern of abuse toward women.”
The indictment, obtained by Billboard, includes allegations of sexual abuse, accusing rapper and music executive of
running a racketeering conspiracy that included sex trafficking,
forced labor,
kidnapping,
arson
and bribery.
If convicted of the charges, Combs is facing a minimum sentence of 15 years in prison and a maximum of life behind bars. Combs is expected to be arraigned later on Tuesday at a Manhattan federal courthouse.
In a video obtained by CNN earlier this year and dated March 5, 2016, Combs appears to shove his longtime former partner, Cassie Ventura, to the ground near an elevator bank, kick her several times while she lies on the ground and drag her down a hallway.
The contents of the video mirror an assault allegation Ventura made in a now-settled lawsuit she filed against Diddy in November.
Ventura was the first to accuse Diddy of sexual assault, filing a lawsuit in November in which attorneys for Cassie claimed she “endured over a decade of his violent behavior and disturbed demands,”
including repeated physical attacks and forcing her to “engage in sex acts with male sex workers” while he masturbated.
According to the complaint, after she attempted to separate from him in 2018 after an on-and-off public relationship for 11 years,
Combs allegedly “forced her into her home and raped her while she repeatedly said ‘no’ and tried to push him away.”
The case was soon settled, but Combs was then sued by multiple other women who claimed they were sexually abused by the hip-hop mogul.
O’Day has previously spoken out in defense of Ventura.
“I am in full support of Cassie,” O’Day shared in a statement to ET in November.
“It isn’t easy to take on one of the most powerful people in this industry and be honest about your experience with them.
I know what her heart is feeling right now, because I have done so as well.
May her voice bring all the others to the table,
so we can start having more transparent conversations about what is actually happening behind the scenes.
There is a lot more to all of our stories!”
If you or someone you know is a victim of domestic violence, please call the confidential National Domestic Violence Hotline toll-free at 1-800-799-7233, or go to thehotline.org.
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/aubrey-oday-validated-reaction-diddy-arrest-1235777610/
"#MeToo movement becomes #WeToo in in victim-blaming Japan"/ "Outrage as women in Japan told not wear glasses in the workplace"
"You never look good when you are trying to make someone else look bad."- Unknown
Cham: Sometimes people need to be exposed for who they are hahah or maybe I should stop being petty
Tracy Au: There's a difference between trying to make someone look bad, and exposing them for who they are. It's like those #MeToo accusers and victims, they are plainly telling everybody about the perpetrators. They're not trying to make them look bad.
Did anyone notice I only posted 2 blog posts last week, and not 3?
I was really busy.
The 2 blog posts of last week:
These are The Baby- Sitter's Club books I want:
https://badcb.blogspot.com/2025/05/these-are-baby-sitters-club-books-i-want.html
These are the list of the California Diaries books I want:
https://badcb.blogspot.com/2025/05/these-are-list-of-california-diaries.html
Here are 3 blog posts of the week:
"Russell Brand Accused of ‘Rape, Sexual Assault, Emotional Abuse’ in New Report; Comedian ‘Absolutely Refutes’ Allegations"/ "Russell Brand Accused of Sexual Assaulting Extra on the Set of ‘Arthur’ in New Lawsuit"
https://badcb.blogspot.com/2025/05/russell-brand-accused-of-rape-sexual.html
"Sean “Diddy” Combs Tried To Pay Off Rape Accuser With “Eight Figures,” Lawyer Claims; Music Mogul Hit With Assault & Abuse Allegations By Singer Cassie"/ "Man Claims in Lawsuit He Was Sexually Assaulted at Diddy Party Allegedly Attended by Beyoncé, Jay-Z, LeBron James and the Estefans"
https://badcb.blogspot.com/2025/05/sean-diddy-combs-tried-to-pay-off-rape.html
"Sean (Diddy) Combs sexual assault accuser awarded $100 million US in lawsuit"/ "Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs placed on suicide watch at NYC jail as he awaits trial on alleged sex crimes: report"
https://badcb.blogspot.com/2025/05/sean-diddy-combs-sexual-assault-accuser.html
Daniel K, Coquitlam, British Colombia, would like to know:
In your opinion, are there enough police officers enforcing traffic laws?
No, there should be more 45.88% (1827)
Yes, the number is adequate 33.30% (1326)
I’m not sure 14.94% (595)
No, there are too many 5.88% (234)
Sheri O, Mississauga, Ontario, would like to know:
If a Canada Post strike were to be confirmed, will it affect you?
No 45.85% (2178)
Yes 36.84% (1750)
I'm not sure 17.31% (822)
Amberlee L, Windsor, Ontario, would like to know:
What would you do if you won the lottery?
Help family and friends
26.14% (1214)
Pay off debt
25.19% (1170)
Travel the world
20.99% (975)
Save or invest the money
19.29% (896)
Other
8.38% (389)
North Vancouver RCMP have noticed a recent spike in fraud targeting seniors.
On May 15, 2025, police say an older woman was contacted by someone impersonating a financial institution fraud investigator. The woman was told that fraudulent purchases had been made on her account and that the chips on her cards had to be checked.
She then handed them over to someone who visited her residence and claimed to be from her bank. She reported the incident to the police and her financial institution once she realized there were $23,000 in fraudulent charges on her account.
"We continue to repeat our warnings, but we don't mind being a broken record. We need would-be targets to know how to recognize these scams," said Cpl. Mansoor Sahak of the North Vancouver RCMP in a news release.
Some tips provided by the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre to avoid being victimized:
Don't be afraid to say no.
Do your research to verify organizations are legitimate.
Don't give out personal information such as your name, your address, your birthdate, your Social Insurance Number (SIN) or your credit card or banking information.
Beware of upfront fees.
Protect your computer.
Be careful who you share images with.
Protect your online accounts with strong passwords and multi-factor authentication.
Recognize spoofing, which is used to mislead victims and convince them they are communicating with legitimate people, companies and organizations.
The RCMP urges people to contact their local police or call 911 if they have been the victim of a scam. They also point to scam reports on the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre website.
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