CNN
—
Howard College’s Board of Trustees voted unanimously Friday to revoke the honorary diploma given to Sean “Diddy” Combs in 2014, saying he’s “now not worthy to carry the establishment’s highest honor.”
The college can even return Combs’ $1 million contribution and terminate a $1 million pledge settlement from the Sean Combs Basis, the Board said in a statement Friday.
“Mr. Combs’ conduct as captured in a just lately launched video is so basically incompatible with Howard College’s core values and beliefs that he’s deemed now not worthy to carry the establishment’s highest honor,” the Board stated within the assertion.
CNN published a 2016 surveillance video displaying Combs bodily assaulting his former girlfriend, singer Cassie Ventura, on the now-closed InterContinental Resort in Century Metropolis, Los Angeles.
The Washington, DC-based traditionally Black faculty or college stated it is going to disband its scholarship program in Combs’ title.
“The College is unwavering in its opposition to all acts of interpersonal violence,” the board added, linking to the college’s “Interpersonal Violence Prevention” webpage within the assertion.
Howard College’s announcement comes amid the continued controversy surrounding the once-beloved Unhealthy Boy Data music mogul. Combs has been named in eight lawsuits since November, when Ventura accused him in a now-settled claim of years of abuse throughout their relationship and of raping her in 2018, CNN beforehand reported.
Subsequent lawsuits have accused Combs of sexual misconduct and different criminality. He has not responded to all of the allegations in opposition to him however has denied claims from lots of the civil fits.
The US Division of Homeland Safety’s investigative arm launched a federal probe into Combs and allegations of intercourse trafficking. Investigators searched his Los Angeles and Miami properties on March 25 as a part of the probe. No federal legal fees have been filed in opposition to Combs.
The surveillance video revealed by CNN might probably grow to be proof within the federal investigation.
In the meantime, investigators are making ready to deliver Combs’ accusers earlier than a federal grand jury in New York, sources aware of the probe advised CNN.
Allegations of cash laundering and unlawful medication are additionally being federally investigated, CNN has realized.
Combs just lately offered a majority stake in media firm and tv community Revolt, which he founded in 2013, the corporate stated.
CNN’s Taylor Romine contributed to this report.