Cassandra “Cassie” Ventura reached a settlement with ex-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs on Friday, November 17, simply sooner or later after submitting a lawsuit that accused the rapper of rape and abuse throughout their 11-year relationship. 

“I’ve determined to resolve this matter amicably on phrases that I’ve some degree of management,” Ventura, 37, mentioned in an announcement, per ABC Information. “I wish to thank my household, followers and legal professionals for his or her unwavering assist.”

Combs, 54, gave the same assertion, saying, “Now we have determined to resolve this matter amicably. I want Cassie and her household all the most effective. Love.”

Particulars of their settlement haven’t been publicly disclosed.

Ventura filed the lawsuit in New York federal courtroom on Thursday, November 16, and it included many claims of rape and abuse that occurred all through their decade-long relationship. The mannequin claimed Combs “lured [her] into his ostentatious, fast-paced, and drug-fueled life-style” shortly after she met him and signed to his label, Dangerous Boy Data, when she was 19 and he was 37 in 2005. Combs’ lawyer, Ben Brafman, mentioned the rapper “vehemently denies” the allegations.

Ventura and Combs started courting publicly in 2007 after his cut up from Kim Porter, who died in 2018 from a lung an infection. 

The swimsuit alleged that Combs was “liable to uncontrollable rage” and Ventura allegedly endured “savage” beatings by which he punched and kicked her. The swimsuit additionally claimed he plied her with medicine and compelled her to have intercourse with different males whereas he masturbated and filmed them. As well as, Ventura claimed that Combs compelled her into her Los Angeles house and raped her when she was making an attempt to finish their relationship in 2018.

“After years in silence and darkness, I’m lastly prepared to inform my story, and to talk up on behalf of myself and for the good thing about different girls who face violence and abuse of their relationships,” Ventura mentioned in an announcement after submitting the lawsuit, per Related Press. 

Combs’ lawyer claimed Ventura’s allegations have been “lies,” writing in an announcement, “For the previous six months, Mr. Combs has been subjected to Ms. Ventura’s persistent demand of $30 million, beneath the specter of writing a dangerous e-book about their relationship, which was unequivocally rejected as blatant blackmail. Regardless of withdrawing her preliminary menace, Ms. Ventura has now resorted to submitting a lawsuit riddled with baseless and outrageous lies, aiming to tarnish Mr. Combs’s repute and looking for a payday.”