Sean “Diddy” Combs has wiped his Instagram feed clean.
As of June 18, all posts were scrubbed from the music mogul’s page — including the apology video he posted on May 19, for attacking ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura at a Los Angeles hotel in 2016.
Combs (or an underling) uploaded the apology video two days after CNN aired hotel surveillance footage that showed him kicking and dragging Ventura down a hallway at the InterContinental Hotel in March 2016.
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Amid intense backlash, the Bad Boy Records founder used the video to tell his 19.9 million followers he was “fu–ked up” and had hit “rock bottom” when he attacked Ventura. He said he went to therapy and rehab after the incident.
An attorney for Ventura dismissed the apology and called it a sign of “desperation.”
Ventura filed a 35-page civil lawsuit against Combs in November 2023, alleging rape, sexual battery, and human trafficking. The embattled mogul settled the suit after one day. Although one of his legal reps said the settlement was in “no way an admission of wrongdoing.”
Since then, Combs has been hit with at least six other lawsuits alleging sexual abuse, bringing the total to seven. He has maintained his innocence.
“Enough is enough. For the last couple of weeks, I have sat silently and watched people try to assassinate my character, destroy my reputation and my legacy,” he said in a statement posted in December to his now-scrubbed Instagram feed.
An eighth lawsuit accused the mogul of aiding and abetting his son Christian Combs, 26, who is alleged to have sexually assaulted a yacht stewardess on a boat his father chartered for a New Year’s Eve celebration in December 2022. Both Diddy and Christian denied the woman’s allegations.
Homeland security agents raided Diddy’s homes in Los Angeles and Miami on March 25, as part of a federal investigation for alleged sex trafficking.
In May, CNN reported the Department of Justice had expanded the investigation to include “money laundering and illegal drugs.” The outlet said federal investigators had interviewed “the majority of the plaintiffs” who filed suits against Combs and prosecutors were preparing a “bulletproof” indictment.
Amid the fallout, Combs returned his symbolic key to New York City on June 10, after receiving a strongly-worded letter from Mayor Eric Adams.
Also this month, Howard University revoked an honorary degree given to the mogul in 2014 and returned a $1 million dollar donation he made to the HBCU. The school also said it was disbanding a scholarship program in the mogul’s name, and terminating a 2023 pledge agreement from the Sean Combs Foundation worth $1 million.
Revolt TV, a multi-media company and cable network that Combs founded in 2013, cut all ties with him and said his “shares have been redeemed and retired.”
In December, Hulu halted production on a reality show titled Diddy+7, about the mogul and his seven children.
