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Male Escort Suing Cassie Claims She 'Embraced' Diddy's Power
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Clayton Howard -- the former escort who is suing both Cassie and Diddy for drugging, manipulating, and traumatizing him -- tells TMZ he believes Cassie reveled in Diddy's power when it came to getting what she wanted.
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One, I was in an economic position where I really needed the money.
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Two, Mr. Combs is incredibly powerful, and Ms. Ventura had no problem in her use of that
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power, which has actually been revealed now because we've heard recordings of her threatening
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people.
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We've seen text messages.
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There are many different sides to people, and even Cassie is a normal individual.
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She has herself.
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There is a side that manipulated Sean Combs' power, the side that embraced his power and
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his position to do things that she wanted.
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So I was always afraid if I stopped coming, then I would start to have problems because
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she threatened me several times to come and made me feel uncomfortable that I would come
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to see her just to avoid any problem with Sean Combs.
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He's incredibly powerful.
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He has people that could follow me around, damaging my life for years, and it would cost
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nothing to do with it.
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So I want to say I continued in the situation, but not as much.
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There was many times that I did stall them, flake on them, as the word goes, and not show
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up.
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But I kept the relationship strong enough that they never thought I was trying to turn on
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them or betray their secrets.
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I have been trying to file litigation for this matter against Sean Combs and Cassie since,
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I want to say, March of 2024, maybe, February.
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But I was represented by Tyrone Blackburn.
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And Tyrone Blackburn has a substantial amount of litigation against Sean Combs that the conviction
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of Sean Combs was dependent on him winning a lot of his civil cases.
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My attorney intentionally held the filing back to protect the credibility of Cassie.
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Tyrone Blackburn, he intentionally held it back.
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I have numerous communications to him where I am directly informing him to file.
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He would talk to the prosecutors, and then he would duck me for weeks and not file the
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lawsuit.
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So this is why it was never filed.
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I feel he was working with them.
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He had conversations with them without me.
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He literally would disobey my direct instruction.
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I'm the client.
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I'm the one who's supposed to direct my attorney to make decisions.
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If I tell you to exercise a statute or a claim as my attorney, you can either quit or you can
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do it.
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What Tyrone did was duck me into the statute of the Gender Motivated Violence Act that expired
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last year, this year, excuse me, in March.
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He ducked me until maybe 48 hours before the expiration of the statute, so I wouldn't have
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enough time to draft the complaint that I filed myself that you filed me with now.
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If the U.S. Attorney's Office knows all of this and investigated her, and instead of
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prosecuting her, allowed her to have immunity and didn't prosecute her, me going after her
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for criminal charges, kind of makes me, like, vindictive.
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And I don't want that.
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That's the mission of my lawsuit.
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The mission of my lawsuit is to obtain justice for the things that I truthfully know Cassandra
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did.
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It's not about having her put in prison.
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I don't want to destroy her life.
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She has three beautiful children.
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She seems happily married.
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The truth of the matter is, she never created this facade of a lie.
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I would never be talking about this.
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I would never, no one would ever believe me that I had the relationship I had with Cassie.
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Cassie is the one who brought me forward.
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She did this to herself.
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I told the U.S. Attorney's Office the truth of both parties, that they were co-conspirators.
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They were involved.
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They verified hotel locations.
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I saw text messages between me and Cassie.
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The U.S. Attorney's Office knew that Cassie was criminally complicit.
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But Sean Combs was more important, so they totally ignored it.
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It makes no sense for me to try to get criminal charges.
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They don't care about male victims.
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They care about empowering Cassie.
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And forgive me for saying this with the Me Too movement.
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