Azealia Banks has never been one to hold her tongue, so it shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that she has weighed in on Cassie‘s lawsuit against Diddy.
The suit, filed Thursday (November 16), alleges physical and sexual abuse, among a number of other accusations. Diddy’s attorney Benjamin Brafman has issued a statement strongly denying the allegations.
“THIS IS TRUE,” she wrote on her Instagram Stories in response to the headline: “Cassie Sues Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs For Rape And Repeated Physical Abuse.”
She added: “One time Diddy beat her up so bad he sent her on a 3week ‘vacation’ to Hawaii just so no one would see or question how her face got like that.”
Banks called Diddy “another VI0L*NT hiphop H0M0S*XUL,” and said: “This is what mental illness looks like for all of you armchair psychologists” — that last part seemingly a nod to observers who have speculated about her own mental health in the past.
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Rumors about Diddy’s sexuality have been present for years. Cassie’s current husband Alex Fine even seemed to nod to them in a social media post last year, prominently using the words “gotta move on” — the title of Diddy’s song about his breakup with Cassie — in a post wishing people a “Happy Pride.”
Cassie’s suit alleges that Diddy coerced her “to engage in a fantasy of his called ‘voyeurism,’” repeatedly making the singer perform sex acts with male sex workers while he watched.
The suit does not mention a trip to Hawaii. However, it does claim that: “Mr. Combs used his money and power to orchestrate extensive efforts to hide the evidence of his abuse, including by hiding [Cassie] in hotels for days at a time to let her bruises heal.”
It cites one specific alleged 2009 incident, in which Diddy is said to have “forced his staff” to bring Cassie to a hotel in Los Angeles following a VI0L*NT assault, and that she was “required to stay for a week.”