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Peloton mentioned it has paused using music recorded by Sean “Diddy” Combs on its exercise class platform in response to a member of a personal Fb group for Peloton customers.
Within the remark posted on Monday, the corporate mentioned it additionally eliminated the Dangerous Boy Leisure Artist Sequence, a line of courses and exercises utilizing music from a document label based by Combs, on its platform.
It didn’t point out that it was eradicating music from previous courses.
“This implies our Instructors are not utilizing his music in any newly produced courses,” Peloton mentioned within the publish.
CNN has reached out to Peloton for additional remark.
On Friday, CNN printed hotel surveillance video from 2016 by which Combs appeared to seize, shove, drag and kick his then-girlfriend — Cassie Ventura.
“My conduct on that video is inexcusable. I take full accountability for my actions in that video,” Combs mentioned in a video assertion posted on Instagram on Sunday.
Combs had beforehand issued a blanket denial of the allegations contained in a lawsuit filed by Ventura final November, by which she accused him of rape and years of abuse.
Since then, Combs has confronted 4 different civil lawsuits accusing him of a spread of sexual misconduct and different criminal activity. A kind of circumstances has already been settled, however the different cases stay energetic.
In 2022, Peloton mentioned it “indefinitely paused” taking part in Kanye West’s music from its streaming exercise courses after he made antisemitic feedback.
Pelo Buddy, a fan web site that doesn’t have official ties with Peloton, reported in 2022 that the corporate instructed involved members that its instructors have been not utilizing West’s music in “newly produced courses” and it wasn’t recommending beforehand produced exercise courses on its {hardware} or app that makes use of his music.
– CNN’s Jordan Valinsky, Alli Rosenbloom and Elizabeth Wagmeister contributed to this report.