In accepting the Palme d’Or today for his latest movie Anora, Sean Baker gave a shoutout for the survival of cinema.
19.05.2024 - 16:23 / variety.com
Michaela Zee Sean “Diddy” Combs has apologized for his behavior in a recently surfaced 2016 video, which shows the rapper attacking his then-girlfriend, R&B singer Cassie. “It’s so difficult to reflect on the darkest times in your life, but sometimes you gotta do that. I was fucked up.
I mean, I hit rock bottom. But I make no excuses,” Combs said in a video posted on Instagram. “My behavior on that video is inexcusable.
I take full responsibility for my actions in this video. They’re disgusting. I was disgusted then when I did it, I’m disgusted now.
I went and I sought professional help. I’ve been going to therapy, going to rehab. I had to ask God for his mercy and grace.
I’m so sorry, but I’m committed to being a better man each and every day. I’m not asking for forgiveness. I am truly sorry.” The video, which was taken on March 5, 2016, shows Combs grabbing, shoving and kicking Cassie, whose real name is Cassandra Ventura.
The footage matches allegations made in her lawsuit filed last November, which outlines an incident that occurred at the now-shuttered InterContinental Hotel in Century City, Los Angeles. In a statement provided to Variety, Ventura’s attorney Douglas H. Wigdor said: “The gut-wrenching video has only further confirmed the disturbing and predatory behavior of Mr.
Combs. Words cannot express the courage and fortitude that Ms. Ventura has shown in coming forward to bring this to light.” On Nov.
16, 2023, Ventura filed a suit in New York accusing Combs of raping and beating her throughout their relationship. Although the two parties reached a settlement the following day, Combs was soon after hit with multiple lawsuits alleging sexual assault. Combs was hit with a second lawsuit in November, filed under
.In accepting the Palme d’Or today for his latest movie Anora, Sean Baker gave a shoutout for the survival of cinema.
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Diddy has been hit with another lawsuit by a college student accusing him of drugging and assaulting her four times between 1995 and the early 2000s.April Lampros, formerly a student at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology, filed the lawsuit on Thursday in the Supreme Court of New York County (as per USA Today). In the documents, she claimed that the rap mogul (real name Sean Combs) “love-bombed her” into “an aggressive, coercive, and abusive relationship based on sex”.NME have approached Diddy’s representatives for comment.Lampros was an intern at Arista (parent company of Combs’ label, Bad Boy Entertainment) when the two met. She alleged the first instance of assault happened in 1995, where she met Combs at a bar in New York; though she didn’t drink, she “succumbed to pressure” due to Combs’ “delusional and violent outbursts.”According to the lawsuit, Lampros felt like the “walls were closing in on her” after a few sips, at which point Combs allegedly took her to a hotel and assaulted her.
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Alex Ritman If Mark Eidelstein’s career takes off in Hollywood, he can thank his decision to record a self tape of himself fully naked. In Sean Baker‘s raucous comedy “Anora,” the young Russian actor plays Ivan, the hilariously energetic, fast-living son of an oligarch happily spending his parents’ millions while decamped in their New York mansion who then falls in love with Mikey Madison’s Manhattan sex worker Ani. It’s a wild ride from start to finish, awash in drugs, sex, violence, gangsters, Vegas weddings and a lounge full of expensive ornaments getting smashed to pieces.
Just days after 2016 hotel security footage of Sean “Diddy” Combs beating on his then girlfriend Cassie Ventura was made public, a model is now claiming that Bad Boy Entertainment founder drugged and sexual assaulted in his New York recording studio 21 years ago.
Cam’ron recently hit back a CNN reporter after she continually pressed him for an answer on the recent allegations against Diddy.In a recent interview that went viral, Cam’ron was interviewed by CNN anchor Abby Phillip to promote his sports podcast It Is What It Is, which he hosts with former Bad Boys Records signee Ma$e.With the Harlem rapper as a pivotal figure in late ’90s and early ’00s gangsta rap, Phillip asked him about the recently surfaced 2016 hotel CCTV footage that circulated online this week, showing fellow New York rap legend Diddy assaulting his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura.“Everything in the video is egregious, I’m against,” he said on NewsNight. “I don’t support all the charges alleged against him.
CANNES – The “Anora” in Sean Baker’s latest creation is actually the birth name of Ani (Mikey Madison), a private dancer who works in a pretty nice strip club in New York City. Sure, the hours ain’t ideal, and there’s that long subway ride back to the rundown duplex she shares with her sister in Brighton Beach, but she’s not complaining.
Cassie’s legal team ain’t buying Diddy’s apology… If you can even call it that!
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has broken his silence after CCTV footage from 2016 emerged which appeared to show the rapper allegedly assaulting his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura. In a video uploaded to his Instagram account on Sunday, 19 May, Diddy said that he took “full responsibility” for his actions in the footage and explained that he was “disgusted” by how he’d behaved and that his behaviour was “inexcusable”. “It's so difficult to reflect on the darkest times in your life, but sometimes you got to do that,” he said in the video as he spoke directly to the camera while looking sombre and wearing a beige T-shirt.
Sean “Diddy” Combs on Sunday posted a video apology on Instagram for a 2016 assault on his then-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura.
Diddy is addressing the vile video of him brutally assaulting Cassie. On Sunday, the Bad Boy Records
Instagram. “I was f—ed up.
Sean “Puffy” Combs won’t be prosecuted for beating the crap out of Casandra Ventura despite hotel surveillance footage showing the 2016 assault, says the Los Angeles District Attorney.
Cassie Ventura was spotted at an event with visible bruises and marks on her body, mere days after alleged footage from 2016 surfaced that shows she was apparently physically assaulted by Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs.
Mikey Madison says the call from Sean Baker came entirely out of the blue. “I guess he’d seen a horror film I did, Scream [2022], on the opening weekend, and decided to call my agent the very next day. I met him and Samantha Quan, his producing partner, for coffee, and they pitched me this amazing, crazy idea he had for a film. I was floored that he wanted to do this film with me, but I didn’t question it. I was like, ‘Yes, absolutely!’”
Details from Cassie Ventura‘s 2023 lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs are re-surfacing following the release of the hotel security footage of him attacking her.