SEAN ‘Diddy’ Combs’ former head of security has claimed he saw the rapper “get really physical” with his exes.
In a bombshell interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored, Roger Bonds described the star as a “king manipulator” who made a “self-centred apology”.
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It comes after shocking footage emerged of the 54-year-old rapper assaulting his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in 2016.
Combs broke his silence over the weekend to apologise and said: “I make no excuses, my behaviour on that video is inexcusable.”
But Bonds said Combs’ apology was not good enough – and he simply told his fans what they “wanted to hear” in the video.
He told Piers: “He’s up to the same games… he never mentioned Cassie’s name in that apology.
“To me, he didn’t humble himself enough. I think he said what people wanted to hear that way… that was just my opinion.
“When you go through life just paying your way out, I really feel like he might be sorry now that he got caught.
“If that was a one-time incident then I would say accept his apology, but I think he said what he thought people wanted to hear.
“It was a self-centred apology. I didn’t see any tears… I didn’t feel remorse… why didn’t you say her name at this particular time?”
Bonds, who worked for Combs more than 10 years ago, claimed he witnessed the singer beating women, including the mother of his children Kim Porter, on “four or five occasions”.
He claimed there was a “dark side of him that he was trying to hide”.
Bonds said: “I have seen him get physical… get really physical.
“There was this one time with Cassie mentioned in her lawsuit where she said she had to go over to the London Hotel.
“I was the one that was checking on her every day at the London Hotel. I know that to be true.
“I seen him get into some rustling and punching matches and sometimes I felt like, ‘What are you mad at, what are you upset about?’
“Because it’s a deeper anger when you hitting and punching a woman in that manner.”
I saw [Combs] inside the car grab [Kim] up, I saw him smack her
Roger Bonds
On whether he saw the rap star hit Kim – who died in 2018 – Bonds said: “I saw him inside the car grab her up, I saw him smack her.
“And one thing about Kim, Kim got to the point where she fought back because she realised how powerful she was.”
Asked how he felt about the 2016 footage, Bonds said: “It didn’t surprise me when I saw it, because I’ve seen things of this nature before.
“The same way that he’s been in a lot of trouble before and you could pay your way out.
“He knew those cameras were there.
“But of course, as we heard, he came back to the hotel and he paid to get the footage, but didn’t know, which Cassie said in her complaint, that they gave her a copy of the footage also.”
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Asked whether the rapper belongs in prison, he said: “I don’t think he belongs in prison. I think he needs help.
“I think rehabilitation is a start… stop covering it up by saying, that this is the only incident.
“You got to be real with yourself and say this is a pattern of what I’ve been doing all my life and now I need help.”
It’s claimed Combs paid $50,000 (£40,000) for the footage back in 2016 and last November, he settled out of court – just one day after Cassie launched a lawsuit against Combs.
While Cassie declined to comment to CNN on the newly released video, her lawyer told the outlet that it was “gut-wrenching.”
Attorney Douglas H. Wigdor said: “The gut-wrenching video has only further confirmed the disturbing and predatory behaviour of Mr Combs.
“Words cannot express the courage and fortitude that Ms. Ventura has shown in coming forward to bring this to light.”
This latest furore follows Combs being hit with a wave of lawsuits late last year and in 2024, including allegations of sex trafficking and sexual assault, which he has categorically denied.
The 2016 surveillance footage shows Combs striking former partner Cassie, kicking her as she lay motionless on the ground and dragging her by her T-shirt.
Moments before the attack, Cassie was seen walking quickly down the hallway of the InterContinental Hotel, in Los Angeles, with her belongings.
Combs, who emerges from a room in just a towel and sandals, chases her to the lifts where he throws her to the ground in a clip obtained by CNN.
Later, a second camera shows Cassie picking up a phone in the hallway shortly before Combs, who is sitting down on a chair, throws what appears to be a vase at her.
After the hotel footage emerged, the LA County District Attorney’s Office confirmed they would be unable to pursue charges because it “occurred beyond the timeline where a crime of assault can be prosecuted”.
They described the clips from 2016 as “extremely disturbing and difficult to watch”.
In response to Combs’ apology, Cassie’s attorney Meredith Firetog claimed the rapper’s statement was “more about himself than the many people he has hurt”.
She added: “When Cassie and multiple other women came forward, he denied everything and suggested that his victims were looking for a payday.
“That he was only compelled to ‘apologise’ once his repeated denials were proven false shows his pathetic desperation, and no one will be swayed by his disingenuous words.”
Recent lawsuits against Diddy
Diddy was hit with a wave of lawsuits in late 2023 and early 2024 with allegations of sex trafficking and sexual assault. He has denied all claims against him.
- Cassie, Diddy’s longtime girlfriend, sued him in November 2023, claiming she endured “a cycle of abuse, violence, and sex trafficking” until their relationship ended in 2018. Diddy and Cassie settled the suit the day after it was filed.
- Diddy was hit with two more lawsuits a week later. Joi Dickerson accused Diddy of drugging and raping her and filming the attack when she was a 19-year-old college student in January 1991.
- A second accuser in a separate lawsuit claimed that Diddy and another man sexually assaulted her and a friend in 1990 or 1991 then showed up at her apartment and beat her several days later.
- Diddy was sued again in December by a woman who claimed he and two men gang-raped her in 2003 when she was 17 years old.
- In February 2024, Rodney ‘Lil Rod’ Jones, who helped produce Diddy’s most recent album, claimed that the mogul sexually harassed, drugged, and threatened him from September 2022 to November 2023 as they worked together
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