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Sean “Diddy” Combs: New York wants keys back

(Bild: AP/Hotel Security Camera Video/CNN via AP)

US musician Sean "Diddy" Combs has had to return a Golden Key to the city of New York because of a video in which he apparently assaulted his ex-girlfriend. 

On June 4, Mayor Eric Adams asked the musician, formerly known as "P. Diddy" ("I'll be Missing You"), to return the symbolic recognition awarded in September 2023.

The key was returned to the city on June 10, a spokesperson for the mayor confirmed to the German press agency dpa on Saturday.

Mayor Eric Adams demanded that Sean "Diddy" Combs return the golden key to the city of New York.(Bild: APA/Office of the New York Mayor/Caroline Rubinstein-Willis)

"Like many others, I was deeply disturbed by the recent video footage of Sean 'Diddy' Combs assaulting his former partner," reads Adams' letter, which is available to dpa.

 "I condemn this action in the strongest possible terms and stand in solidarity with all survivors of domestic and gender-based violence."

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In mid-May, US broadcaster CNN published a video showing Combs attacking his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in a hotel in 2016.

Request for an apology
The 54-year-old Combs then publicly asked for an apology. Ventura and Combs had been in an intermittent relationship for around ten years from 2007, during which time they also worked together.

Civil lawsuit ends with settlement
Last November, the singer accused the musician in a civil lawsuit of sexual abuse, rape, intimidation and physical violence during their long-term relationship, among other things. Instead of a trial, a settlement was reached. Combs denied the allegations.