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A woman is filing a lawsuit against music executive Jimmy Iovine, alleging the Interscope Records co-founder sexually abused her and forcibly touched her, according to court documents. Iovine tells Rolling Stone he’s “shocked and baffled” by the claim. A Jane Doe plaintiff filed a summons and notice on Wednesday in New York and alleges Iovine, 70, engaged in “multiple instances of sexual abuse and forcible touching of her, including a specific incident of sexual misconduct” that occurred in New York City in…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Social media posts that abuse female athletes can remain unmoderated on the official social media accounts of major sports clubs, new research has shown. The study, by the University of Stirling Management School, Chester Business School, Bournemouth University, Durham Business School and the…

The settlement came almost immediately. Cassandra Ventura, the R&B singer better known by the stage name Cassie, had filed her blockbuster lawsuit in federal court against the hip-hop mogul Sean Combs only a day before Combs, a rapper and producer, paid her to drop the suit. In her complaint, Ventura described a pattern of coercive control, abuse, drugging and sexual violence perpetrated against her by Combs throughout their more than 13-year relationship, which began in 2005, when Cassie was 19 and had just signed to…

Kesha now wakes up in the morning feeling like herself.In a recent performance at the Hollywood Palladium, the singer changed up the lyrics to her 2009 mega-hit “Tik Tok” to omit the name of Sean “Diddy” Combs.As seen in a social media video, Kesha at Saturday’s show changed the opening lyrics of the track from “Wake up in the mornin’ feelin’ like P Diddy” to “Wake up in the mornin’ feelin’ just like me.”The omission of Diddy’s name came after the music mogul was accused last week of rape, sexual assault and sex…

“These and other interventions enable WhatsApp to make 1.3 million reports of child sexual exploitation and abuse each year,” she added.The standards will also cover child sexual abuse material and terrorist propaganda created using open-source software and generative AI. A growing number of Australian students for example are creating so-called “deepfake porn” of their classmates and sharing it in classrooms.“We’re seeing synthetic child sexual abuse material being reported through our hotlines, and that’s particularly…

Sean “Diddy” Combs and singer Cassie said on Friday that they have settled a lawsuit containing allegations of beatings and abuse by the music producer.Combs, a hip-hop icon and the founder of Bad Boy Records, was accused of rape and abuse in a major lawsuit filed by Cassie, whose legal name is Casandra Ventura, that alleges he used his powerful network to keep her trapped in a violent relationship with him.The settlement, one day after the lawsuit was filed, was announced in a release sent by attorney Douglas Wigdor,…

Sean “Diddy” Combs and Cassie have settled a lawsuit that she filed one day ago, accusing the hip-hop mogul of repeatedly raping and physically abusing her for nearly a decade. “We have decided to resolve this matter amicably,” Combs said in a statement. “I wish Cassie and her family all the best. Love.” Cassie reportedly added in a statement, “I have decided to resolve this matter amicably on terms that I have some level of control. I want to thank my family, fans, and lawyers for their…

Sean “Diddy” Combs and R&B singer Cassie reached a settlement Friday in an incendiary lawsuit she filed the day before accusing the mogul and entrepreneur of rape and a “cycle of abuse” during their decade-plus relationship.No details of the settlement were released, though Combs’ attorney previously accused Cassie of seeking an eight-figure payout in recent months. Combs had denied the allegations through his attorney.Cassie dated the famed hip-hop producer for about 11 years before they split in 2018. She filed her…

Sean Combs, a hip-hop icon and the founder of Bad Boy Records, has been accused of rape and abuse in a major lawsuit filed by the singer Cassie that alleges he used his powerful network to keep her trapped in a violent relationship with him.Cassie, whose legal name is Casandra Ventura, dated Combs for more than a decade. She alleges that over the course of their relationship, Combs assaulted her multiple times – viciously beating and raping her – and controlled every aspect of her life, the New York Times first reported…

Sean Combs, the hip-hop mogul known as “Diddy,” has been sued for sexual assault by his former longtime partner Cassie, who accused him of repeatedly raping and physically abusing her for nearly a decade. In a lawsuit filed in New York federal court on Thursday, Cassie, whose real name is Casandra Ventura and was once under Diddy’s label, claims that she was “trapped by Mr. Combs in a cycle of abuse, violence and sex trafficking,” citing multiple incidents in which he allegedly “punched, beat, kicked…