Howard College’s board of trustees voted on Friday to rescind rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs’s honorary diploma, because the music mogul faces a raft of lawsuits accusing him of sexual misconduct and different criminality.
“Mr. Combs’ conduct, as captured in a lately launched video, is so essentially incompatible with Howard College’s core values and beliefs that he’s deemed not worthy to carry the establishment’s highest honor,” the board said in a press release to the scholar Hilltop newspaper.
The college described the choice as a choice to “settle for the return by Mr. Sean Combs of the honorary diploma.”
Combs, who attended the traditionally black faculty in Washington, DC, within the Nineteen Nineties, was awarded the diploma in 2014.
The assertion seems to be referencing the latest launch of 2016 video exhibiting Combs punching and kicking his former long-time girlfriend Casandra Ventura, also referred to as the singer Cassie.
The college stated it could additionally finish long-term relationships with Combs and return a $1m donation he made in 2016 to fund a scholarship, in addition to terminate an settlement for one more $1m donation from the Sean Combs Basis.
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After the video was obtained by information retailers, Combs apologized, calling his conduct “inexcusable.”
“It’s so troublesome to mirror on the darkest instances in your life, however typically you bought to try this,” he stated in an apology video.
“I used to be f***ed up – I hit all-time low – however I make no excuses. My conduct on that video is inexcusable.”
After the footage surfaced, Cassie stated her therapy by Combs “broke me right down to somebody I by no means thought I might develop into.”
In a November lawsuit, Cassie accused Diddy of bodily abuse, sexual abuse, and rape, which the musician denied. The pair settled the go well with quickly after.
Since then, six women and one man have accused the music mogul of a bunch of crimes, together with sexual misconduct, drug use, and different types of abuse.
In March, houses belonging to Combs in Los Angeles and Miami have been raided in connection to a Homeland Safety investigation into intercourse trafficking.
He has denied all wrongdoing.
“I’ve sat silently and watched folks attempt to assassinate my character, destroy my fame and my legacy,” he said in a press release in December. “Sickening allegations have been made towards me by people on the lookout for a fast payday. Let me be completely clear: I didn’t do any of the terrible issues being alleged.”
