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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs could have settled Cassie Ventura’s suit privately but didn’t

Public settlement led to music mogul’s career downfall and set stage for federal charges against him, podcast reveals

Disgraced music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs had the opportunity to settle singer Cassie Ventura’s accusations of rape and other physical abuse before she went public – but he refused, leading to his professional downfall and likely setting the stage for federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges against him, according to a new podcast. Hours before the expiration of New York’s Adult Survivors Act in late November 2023, Ventura filed a lawsuit asserting that Combs raped her as well as otherwise abused her physically, mentally and emotionally, as the Rise and Fall of Diddy notes. “I truly believe the downfall of Sean Combs … began [with] the Cassie Ventura lawsuit,” Mills says on the Rise and Fall of Diddy, whose host is Law & Crime anchor Jesse Weber and which is being released to subscribers of the Wondery+ platform.

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