Sean “Diddy” Combs’ former assistant Suzi Siegel said she wasn’t shocked after seeing new footage of him violently attacking her ex, Casandra “Cassie” Ventura.
“No cell in my body was surprised,” Suzi Siegel admitted after the release of the harrowing video showing the 54-year-old rapper attacking his ex-girlfriend in a hallway at the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles in 2016.
She added that she was also not surprised by Ventura’s November lawsuit — which included a reference to the altercation — against Combs, although Siegel said she “never had it” personally seen abusing the “Me & You” singer, 37, while she was working. for him.
During her brief time as an assistant, Siegel – who worked for Diddy from 2008 to 2009 – noted that she “did not observe anything that would lead me to believe” that he was violent, but said that she thought he was “capable” of such horrible behavior.
She told CNN on Friday that she “never saw him speak harshly to her or be abusive towards her or anything like that,” but added that she felt “sick and violently angry.” because of recent developments.
And while Siegel wasn’t surprised, the embattled rapper himself is “stunned” that the video appeared while Ventura was “triggered” by seeing it again, a source told DailyMail.com.
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ former assistant Suzi Siegel said she wasn’t shocked after seeing recently released footage of him violently attacking her ex, 37-year-old Casandra “Cassie” Ventura.
“No cell in my body was surprised,” Suzi Siegel admitted of the harrowing video of the 54-year-old rapper attacking his ex-girlfriend.
Before the ex-aide’s conversation with CNN on Friday, the network released disturbing surveillance footage from 2016 showing Combs, 54, violently assaulting Ventura in a hotel.
As Combs’ assistant, Siegel said she was around the couple “a lot.”
She explained that she began working for Combs shortly after he began dating Ventura in 2007.
However, while in his employ, she said she did not experience any abuse herself and did not see him abuse his then-girlfriend.
“I rode in limousines with them, I went to parties with them,” she remembers.
“I guess what I would say is that even though I have never seen anything that would corroborate the content of this trial and what we just saw, not a single cell in my body was surprised,” she continued.
“I would say I was around him a lot and I got a sense of who he was,” she said before noting that she “didn’t see anything that would get him in trouble.”
“I haven’t seen that evidence,” she admitted. “Obviously I saw it with the rest of America today.”
Although she did not witness the abuse herself, such as what was shown in the disturbing hotel surveillance footage, she said she believed Combs was “capable” of doing things as shocking and terrifying.
She added that she wasn’t surprised by Ventura’s November lawsuit against Combs, although she said she “never” saw him abuse the Me & You singer when she worked for him .
Siegel said she thought there was a power imbalance in Comb’s relationship with Ventura, and he took advantage of it.
“But I think there’s a power dynamic in a situation like that, especially her, at the beginning of her career, so young and beautiful and talented,” she continued.
Amid the outrage over the video, the previously mentioned insider also exclusively told DailyMail.com that Diddy “is terrified of more damaging videos emerging after he was filmed beating his ex in a hotel corridor and conducts crisis discussions with lawyers as part of his career. implodes.
The footage confirms old allegations Ventura previously made in an explosive lawsuit she filed last November — which the exes ended up settling shortly after.
The shocking and disturbing images — for which the Los Angeles District Attorney cannot prosecute Combs due to the statute of limitations — also emerged amid a sex trafficking investigation and multiple misconduct lawsuits against Combs.
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