Cassie ‘is preparing to launch a musical tour’…after settling her $30M lawsuit with her ex-boyfriend Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs

Cassie is preparing to embark on a music tour after settling a $30 million federal lawsuit with her ex-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs.

She’s apparently put the drama behind her and is moving on with a string of gigs, her ex Ryan Leslie said. TMZ.

The singer sued Diddy last month, alleging he was trafficked, raped, drugged and repeatedly brutally beat her over a 10-year period.

However, a day later, Diddy and Cassie, aka Casandra Ventura, announced that they had reached an agreement. No specific details about the terms were disclosed.

Diddy’s legal troubles are far from over as more women have now filed lawsuits against him, including one who filed a lawsuit last week alleging he participated in the gang rape of her when she was just 17 years old.

Leslie, who is a songwriter and music producer himself, has a professional history with Cassie along with their romantic past and has written several songs for her.

He revealed that “the last conversation we had” revolved around the fact that apparently “she’s planning a tour.”

The pair dated in the mid-2000s and appear to remain in touch with each other to this day, although they were “mostly” in contact with each other in 2017, around the time “our mutual manager Ed Woods passed away “

While speaking with TMZ, Leslie was asked if he ever felt threatened by Cassie against Diddy while they were working together.

“I think it was much further along than our working relationship,” said Leslie, who worked with Cassie on several songs for Diddy’s Bad Boy label, including her 2006 debut single Me & U.

After settling with Cassie last month, Diddy’s lawyer Benjamin Brafman defended him to DailyMail.com.

“To be clear, the decision to settle the lawsuit, especially in 2023, is in no way an admission of wrongdoing,” Brafman said.

‘Mister. “Combs’ decision to settle the lawsuit in no way undermines his categorical denial of the claims,” the lawyer continued. “He is glad they have reached a mutual settlement and wishes Ms. Ventura the best.”

“I have decided to resolve this matter amicably while maintaining some level of control,” Cassie said in her own statement. “I want to thank my family, fans and lawyers for their unwavering support.”

Meanwhile, Combs announced: “We have decided to resolve this issue peacefully. I wish Cassie and her family all the best. Love.’

On Thursday, November 16, Diddy was accused of rape and repeated physical abuse by Cassie, who alleged that he controlled and abused her for more than a decade, as well as drugging, beating her and forcing her to have sex with several male prostitutes. , while he watched and recorded.

The couple, who met in 2005 when she was 19, split in 2018. The lawsuit alleged that shortly before the end of their relationship, he broke into her home and raped her.

Diddy, 54, has categorically denied all of the “offensive and outrageous allegations.”

Cassie, whose real name is Casandra Ventura, said in a legal document filed in Manhattan Federal District Court on Thursday: “After many years in silence and darkness. I am finally ready to tell my story and speak out on behalf of myself and for the benefit of other women who experience violence and abuse in their relationships.”

Her lawyer Douglas Wigdor said Diddy offered her an “eight-figure sum to silence her and prevent her from filing a lawsuit” but she refused to “give a voice to all the women who suffer in silence.”

On Friday evening, Vigdor added: “I am very proud of Ms. Ventura for having the strength to go public with her lawsuit. She should be commended for that.”

Among the serious allegations was that Diddy sex trafficked Cassie, 37, to male prostitutes to fulfill his voyeuristic fantasies in hotels and in his home.

The lawsuit alleged that she was forced to have sex with multiple men – sometimes in masks and costumes – while the music executive watched, masturbated and filmed.

Cassie, in the docs, called the ordeal “horrible encounters” and said she had to take drugs to socially distance herself during events that Diddy allegedly called “freaks.”

The lawsuit said a music executive she first dated as a teenager told her it would “turn him on” if he saw her with “another dick.”

He allegedly hired a man and brought him to his home in Los Angeles to perform a sex act on Cassie.

‘Mister. Combs ordered Ms. Ventura to perform sexual acts on this man while Mr. Combs watched,” the lawsuit states.

“He masturbated while directing Ms. Ventura and the man to perform certain sexual acts. The whole meeting lasted several days.”

She claimed that Diddy got drunk during a freak out sometime in March 2016 and hit her in the face, leaving her with a black eye.

Cassie said she tried to leave the hotel room after he fell asleep, but he woke up and started yelling at her.

He allegedly grabbed her, picked up glass vases in the hallway and threw them at her, “causing the glass to shatter around them as she ran to the elevator to escape.”

She managed to escape to her apartment, but said she returned because she feared he would become even more angry.

“When she returned, hotel security convinced her to get back in the taxi and go to her apartment, suggesting that they had seen surveillance footage of Mr. Combs beating Ms. Ventura and throwing glass at her in the hotel hallway.” , said a hotel security representative. the lawsuit says.

She claimed that Diddy paid hotel staff $50,000 for CCTV footage in the hallway that evening.

Another time, in 2013, Diddy allegedly caused a freak-out and the hotel charged him with tens of thousands of dollars in damages.

According to the lawsuit, Cassie was supposed to help find and hire male sex workers for the “freaks.”

She was allegedly tasked with using websites and escort services to find men with “big black penises.”

It claimed that Diddy would insist on meeting weekly and that he repeatedly told her it was “our business” and “our secret.”

Cassie claimed that “freaks” often occurred in hotel rooms, including the Trump International Hotel on Columbus Circle, L’Ermitage Beverly Hills, The London Hotel in Los Angeles and InterContinental Hotels across the country.

His assistants allegedly helped set up the freaks by providing baby oil and lubricant.

The lawsuit states: “Mr. Combs always supplied Ms. Ventura (and the sex worker) with large quantities of drugs before and during the FO.

‘RS. During the FO, Ventura was given ecstasy, cocaine, GHB, ketamine, marijuana and alcohol in excessive quantities, which allowed her to withdraw during these terrible encounters.