Tiffany Red is “standing in unity” with her friend Cassie following the latter’s agreement of her sexual attack and abuse lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs.
“I concern for my safety as her swimsuit alludes to me, even supposing now not by means of name,” Red, 36, wrote in an open letter to Diddy, 54, revealed via Rolling Stone on Thursday, December 7. “I am hoping that revealing my identity to the general public will afford me some measure of protection.”
Red stated she and Cassie (complete title Casandra Ventura) “remain close” pals after first running together on Cassie’s unreleased 2nd album in 2015. “I’m some of the friends discussed in her lawsuit, in particular from the evening of her 29th birthday, as she detailed in the phase labeled ‘Mr. Combs Forces Ms. Ventura Into Sex Trafficking,’” Red persevered.
Last month, Cassie, 37, filed a lawsuit in opposition to her ex, whom she dated off and on from 2007 to 2018, accusing him of rape, bodily abuse and forcing her to take medicine. She additionally alleged that he forced her to have sex on digital camera with “male intercourse staff.”
Diddy vehemently denied Cassie’s allegations on the time.
Red went on to recall assembly Diddy at Cassie’s twenty ninth birthday celebration in Los Angeles, where Diddy allegedly puzzled her in regards to the songs she and Cassie have been writing together. “So you’re the only writing some of these songs about me?” Red remembered Diddy announcing to her. “I stated yes, and also you stared again and stated, ‘That means she’s chatting with you, huh?’ I was uncomfortable as it appeared like you were talking about the extra turbulent portions of your courting.”
After leaving the celebration and going to karaoke — right through which Red allegedly witnessed Diddy yell at Cassie — Cassie reluctantly went out again with Diddy while Red and different friends spent the night at Cassie’s place.
“A couple of hours later, I used to be woken up by [Diddy] screaming. ‘Emotional making a song whinge, where are you?!’” Red wrote, claiming that Diddy seemed intoxicated while Cassie appeared “sedated and really withdrawn.”
Red persevered: “You started screaming at us, ‘Tell your woman she needs some birthday dick. I flew the entire approach from Miami. She gone get this birthday dick!’ You had been visibly offended that she didn’t want that from you. I used to be terrified; I said, ‘She doesn’t need to have sex with you if she doesn’t wish to.’ You just stored screaming, ‘She gone get this dick.’”
Red in comparison the incident to “a real-life frightening film,” adding that she was once left feeling “terrified for Cassie and fully traumatized.” Later, Red said Cassie printed to her that Diddy made her have a “Freak Off” that night, right through which Cassie was forced to “perform sexual acts with male intercourse staff.”
Despite feeling “tormented” by that evening for years and suffering from “PTSD, paranoia and nervousness” as a result of it, Red famous that she “after all” feels free to share her tale following Cassie’s lawsuit. “The energy imbalance makes it just about impossible to struggle again and terrifying to speak up. But regardless of that, here I'm, standing beside my friend,” she wrote. “There are moments in existence when a few of us have to stand the arduous collection of speaking truth to power or not. This is one of those moments.”
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Cassie and Diddy settled the lawsuit on November 17, someday after it was once filed. “Just so we’re transparent, a choice to settle a lawsuit, especially in 2023, is on no account an admission of wrongdoing,” Diddy’s legal professional Ben Brafman informed Us Weekly in a observation last month. “Mr. Combs’ resolution to settle the lawsuit does now not by any means undermine his flat-out denial of the claims. He is excited they got to a mutual agreement and desires Ms. Ventura the most productive.”
Diddy has since been named in three different sexual assault court cases and has denied the entire allegations against him.
“ENOUGH IS ENOUGH,” the rapper informed Us in a commentary on Wednesday, December 6. “For the last couple of weeks, I've sat silently and watched other folks attempt to assassinate my personality, spoil my reputation and my legacy. Sickening allegations had been made towards me by people looking for a quick payday. Let me be completely clear: I didn't do any of the grim issues being alleged. I will be able to fight for my name, my family and for the truth.”
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