‘Nothing Can Undo the Trauma’

Casandra “Cassie” Ventura’s legal professionals are talking out after Sean “Diddy” Combs was sentenced to 50 months in jail.

On Friday, Oct. 3, the previous music mogul was sentenced to greater than 4 years in jail following a virtually two-month federal trial that ended with him being convicted on two counts of transportation to interact in prostitution in July. He was acquitted of intercourse trafficking and racketeering expenses.

Combs was given credit score for time served and can serve a jail time period of 36 months, or three years. Choose Arun Subramanian additionally sentenced Combs to 5 years of supervised launch and imposed a $500,000 positive, the utmost allowable positive.

“Whereas nothing can undo the trauma brought on by Combs, the sentence imposed at present acknowledges the impression of the intense offenses he dedicated,” Ventura’s attorneys Douglas Wigdor and Meredith Firetog (Wigdor LLP) mentioned in an announcement.

“We’re assured that with the help of her household and associates, Ms. Ventura will proceed therapeutic realizing that her bravery and fortitude have been an inspiration to so many,” their assertion continued.

In November 2023, Cassie filed a lawsuit in New York towards Diddy, whom she dated on-again-off-again from 2007 to 2018, accusing him of sexual assault and bodily abuse.

Whereas the 2 settled sooner or later after she filed the lawsuit, a 2016 video surfaced of Combs allegedly bodily assaulting the “Me & U” hitmaker at a lodge.

The previous rapper would then face a number of different intercourse crime allegations, resulting in his Los Angeles and Miami properties being raided by Homeland Safety Investigations in March and his arrest that September.

Ventura, whereas eight months pregnant together with her third youngster, testified throughout Combs’ intercourse trafficking trial and gave uncooked perception into their former relationship and the alleged “Freak Off” intercourse events.

Days after finishing her multiday emotional testimony, Ventura welcomed her third child, a boy, with husband Alex High quality.

The singer would go on to specific her worry of “swift retribution” by Combs and his associates in a letter to the choose shortly earlier than his sentencing, asking him to contemplate “the various lives that Sean Combs has upended along with his abuse and management.”

Combs wrote a letter to the choose saying he was “lifeless fallacious for placing my arms on the lady that I cherished,” saying he was “sorry for that and at all times might be.” He additionally apologized to her in courtroom on the day of his sentencing, expressing that he did not take the “hurt” he prompted Combs “evenly.”

High quality, in the meantime, reacted to Combs’ sentencing by sharing a letter he wrote to home abusers and survivors on his Instagram Tales from Might 2024.

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