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In naming additional defendants, the court papers assert that others who worked with Mr. Combs had helped him to control Ms. Ventura, at times by threatening her with retribution \u2014 like suppressing her music if she did not obey his orders \u2014 or by helping to conceal his behavior. The suit, which names Mr. Combs and a number of his associated companies as defendants, seeks unspecified damages.<\/p>\n
According to Ms. Ventura\u2019s suit, she was swept into Mr. Combs\u2019s jet-set lifestyle not long after meeting him and signing with Bad Boy, which released her debut album in 2006.<\/p>\n
But, the suit says, he soon began to assert an extraordinary level of command over her life. In addition to controlling her career, he paid for her car, apartments and clothing, and even had access to her personal medical records. According to the suit, the results from an M.R.I. scan she had \u2014 for memory loss, possibly caused by drug use or by a beating she said she suffered from Mr. Combs \u2014 went directly to Mr. Combs.<\/p>\n
Mr. Combs also provided Ms. Ventura with \u201ccopious amounts of drugs,\u201d including ecstasy and ketamine, and urged her to take them, the suit says, and often became violent, beating her \u201cmultiple times each year.\u201d The suit says Ms. Ventura never went to the police because she feared it \u201cwould merely give Mr. Combs another excuse to hurt her.\u201d<\/p>\n
In one incident in Los Angeles in 2009, the suit says, Mr. Combs became enraged when he saw Ms. Ventura talking to another talent agent, then pushed her into a car and kicked her repeatedly in the face, making her bleed. According to the suit, Mr. Combs then had his staff bring her to a hotel room to recuperate for a week. She asked to go home to her parents, but Mr. Combs refused, the suit says.<\/p>\n
The suit says that after seeing the violent repercussions of rejecting Mr. Combs, and the extent to which he would isolate her from her support network, \u201cMs. Ventura felt that saying \u2018no\u2019 to Mr. Combs would cost her something \u2014 her family, her friends, her career, or even her life.\u201d And though she tried to leave Mr. Combs, the suit says he sent his employees to lure her back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n