Surviving Diddy? Cassie, Her Lawsuit, and the pattern of abusers

We may never know what happened between Diddy and Cassie, but we know how abuse works.

On Thursday, November 16th, 2023, Cassie, an R&B singer once signed to Bad Boy Records accused Mr. Combs of rape, and of repeated physical abuse over a decade. In the suit, filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan, Cassie, whose real name is Casandra Ventura — and who had long been Mr. Combs’s romantic partner — says that not long after she met him …