Diddy‘s frantic text messages to Cassie following his brutal assault of her in 2016 has been revealed.
The message was made public during the rap mogul’s bail appeal hearing in New York on Wednesday (September 18), which resulted in him being denied bond for a second time.
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During the hearing, Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily Johnson read out texts that Diddy sent Cassie after the shocking hotel attack, footage of which was released earlier this year.
According to Johnson, the Bad Boy boss wrote to his then-girlfriend: “Call me, the cops are here. I got six kids. Yo, please call, I am surrounded. You gonna abandon me all alone.”
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“The defendant knew he had done something that could elicit police response,” Johnson said of the text.
Cassie at some point texted Diddy to say she still had “crazy bruising” from the assault, Johnson told Judge Andrew L. Carter.
She also said to him: “When you get fucked up, you knock me around. I’m not a rag doll. I’m someone’s child.”
AUSA: Immediately after the assault, the defendant sent these messages: Call me, the cops are here. I got six kids. Yo, please call, I am surrounded. You gonna abandon me all alone.
The defendant knew he had done something that could elicit police response— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) September 18, 2024
AUSA: We have a message from the Victim, I still have crazy bruising. He claims he wanted to get his clothes back. But that's not what happened her. She tried to escape a room with the defendant and a commercial sex worker – she fled without shoes
— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) September 18, 2024
AUSA: Here are some text: when you get f*cked up, you knock me around. I'm not a rag doll. I'm someone's child.
We have witnesses who witnessed the injuries. This conduct happened behind closed door, in houses, hotel rooms and cars. Judge Tarnofsky was concerned— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) September 18, 2024
The bail hearing also provided more context to the assault, which occured on March 5, 2016 in the hallway of the now-closed InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles.
Diddy’s attorney Marc Agnifilo claimed that the violent outburst was sparked by Cassie finding out that the record executive, who she began dating around 2007, was seeing another woman behind her back.
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Agnifilo said that Cassie had gone through Diddy’s phone while he was sleeping and threw it at his head after discovering he was cheating. She then allegedly took his clothes and stormed out of the hotel room.
This account was refuted by the prosecution, who claimed that a male sex worker was present and that Cassie was attempting to flee one of Diddy’s alleged “freak off” parties.
Diddy's lawyers filed the transcript from yesterday's hearing with their new bail letter today.
Here's exactly what Marc Agnofilo said about the assault of Cassie recorded on video:
"…it's evidence of Mr. Combs having more than one girlfriend and getting caught…" pic.twitter.com/Lz9gemKHnB
— Meghann Cuniff (@meghanncuniff) September 18, 2024
AUSA: The defendant had a freak-off on March 5, 2016. We have evidence there was one commercial sex worker there in the room, during the assault. She isn't even wearing shoes. She is in danger. Defendant storms out in a towel
— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) September 18, 2024
Diddy initially denied ever assaulting Cassie after she filed a since-settled sexual assault lawsuit against him in November 2023, which detailed the alleged abuse she suffered during their decade-long relationship.
However, the Harlem native changed his tune six months later when surveillance footage of the attack surfaced.
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In a since-deleted video posted on Instagram, he apologized for his behavior in the widely-seen clip, saying: “I was fucked up. I mean, I hit rock bottom. My behavior on that video is inexcusable. I take full responsibility for my actions in that video.”
He added: “I was disgusted then when I did it. I’m disgusted now. I went and I sought out professional help. I got into going to therapy, going to rehab. I had to ask God for his mercy and grace.
“I’m so sorry. But I’m committed to be a better man each and every day. I’m not asking for forgiveness. I’m truly sorry.”
Diddy was shown no mercy by Judge Carter as he was denied bail over concerns about him being a “danger” to society, with prosecturs also flagging his alleged attempts to tamper with victims and witnesses.
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The judge also deemed that the record executive’s proposed $50 million bail package, which would’ve seen him go without a phone, internet and female visitors, was “insufficient even on risk of flight.”
He is currently being held at the notorious Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn and is due back in court on October 9.
