Cassie’s former make-up artist has claimed she witnessed Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs beat up the singer six years before the filmed attack at a Los Angeles hotel.
Mylah Morales told it CNN’s Laura Coates that she first witnessed the rapper and producer formerly known as Puff Daddy physically assault his ex-girlfriend Cassie in 2010, leaving her with a black eye.
“I kept this a secret for about 14 years,” Morales said, recalling an incident in which she saw the former couple enter a hotel room and get into a violent argument.
Morales continued, “They went into the bedroom and closed the door and all I could hear was screaming and yelling…
“I don’t know what was going on in there, but all I could think of was getting Cassie’s stuff, packing it up and getting her to safety and to my house.”
Cassie’s former makeup artist Mylah Morales has claimed she witnessed Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs beat up the singer six years before the filmed attack at a Los Angeles hotel.
Cassie, left, is seen with Morales in an image the makeup artist posted to Instagram
The makeup artist said Cassie was “severely beaten” when she came out of the room, with “a lot of knots all over her head,” a black eye and a “cut lip.”
Morales said they didn’t go to the police out of fear of Diddy.
“Puffy is a very powerful person and we were quite scared,” she said.
Diddy is currently facing criminal charges as a grand jury has been selected to hear evidence against him in a federal investigation.
The DOJ is preparing to file criminal charges against him as his accusers have been told they may be called to testify in New York City, CNN reports.
The rapper and producer have 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 years of sexual, physical and emotional abuse, including assault and rape.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faces criminal charges as a grand jury is selected to hear evidence against him in a federal investigation
The potential witnesses are not yet prepared to testify for the prosecution as Homeland Security investigators are reportedly still gathering evidence in the case.
A source told CNN that investigators want their charges against Diddy to be “bulletproof.”
The charges are not believed to be related to Diddy’s filmed attack on his ex-girlfriend Cassie in a Los Angeles hotel hallway in 2016.
Cassie, whose legal name is Cassandra Ventura, sued Combs in November for years of sexual, physical and emotional abuse, including assault and rape.
The charges alleged that he gave her drugs, forced her to have sex with other men and raped her in her home when she tried to end the relationship in 2018. Diddy ‘vehemently’ denies the allegations through his lawyer.
However, Diddy apologized after a video emerged of him brutally attacking Cassie in a hotel hallway.
The charges are not believed to be related to Diddy’s filmed attack on his ex-girlfriend Cassie in a Los Angeles hotel hallway in 2016
The 54-year-old rapper said on Instagram: “I’ve hit rock bottom, but I’m not making excuses.”
Diddy looked into the camera and said, “So hard to think about the darkest times in your life, sometimes you have to do that. I had enough of it.
“I mean I’ve hit rock bottom, but I’m not making excuses, my behavior in that video is inexcusable. I take full responsibility for my actions in that video, I’m disgusted by it.
‘I was disgusted when I did it then, and I’m still disgusted by it now. I went and sought professional help, I started going to therapy, going to rehab.
“I had to ask God for his mercy and grace. I’m very sorry. But I am determined to be a better man every day. I’m not asking for forgiveness, I’m truly sorry.”
Sources said Diddy went to rehab after the 2016 incident and continues to seek both therapy and spiritual work.
The video, obtained by CNN, shows the shirtless rapper with a towel wrapped around his waist as he chases 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
When she tried to get into an elevator, he grabbed her by the back of the head and knocked 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 by the hoodie back to their room.
Cassie claimed in a now-settled lawsuit that Diddy paid the same hotel $50,000 for the footage after the attack.
Cassie’s legal challenge was settled the next day, but 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 seize Combs’ mansions invaded Los Angeles and Miami. .
Combs’ sons, Justin and Christian “King” Combs, were handcuffed during the raid on their father’s Los Angeles home.
Diddy’s mother of two sons, 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 both 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 gives victims of sexual abuse a year to take civil action regardless of the limitation period.
The lawsuits, filed by Joi Dickerson and another unnamed woman, allege sexual assault, battery and forcible drugging in the early 1990s by Combs, then a talent director, party promoter and rising figure in New York City’s hip-hop community. .
In December, another woman alleged in a lawsuit that Diddy and two other men raped her in 2003, when she was 17.
The lawsuit filed in federal court in Manhattan says she lived in a suburb of Detroit and was flown to a studio in New York, where she was given drugs and alcohol that left 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 mounting series of lawsuits.
“I have not done any of the horrible things alleged,” the post reads. “I will fight for my name, my family and for the truth.”
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, 54, was pictured smoking a cigarette in his native Miami after breaking his silence after a shocking video of him beating up his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura emerged this week
In February, a music producer filed a lawsuit alleging that Diddy forced him to recruit prostitutes and pressured him to have sex with them.
The lawsuit provides a long list of potentially illegal drug and sex activities that the producer says he witnessed. A lawyer for the rapper called the allegations “pure fiction.”
The rapper is one of the most influential hip-hop producers and managers of the past thirty years.
Formerly known as Puff Daddy, he built one of hip-hop’s largest empires, blazing a trail with several entities tied to his famous name.
He is the founder of Bad Boy Records and a three-time Grammy winner who has collaborated with a slew of top artists including Notorious BIG, Mary J. Blige, Usher, Lil Kim, Faith Evans and 112.