Shared on social media on Monday (Sept. 23), the Grammy winner and her former health trainer beau published that they sever up 10 months ago.
“With tantalizing intentions, we honestly have been heading off a formal assertion about one thing as pure and as personal as bask in. We within the commence most standard to withhold this out of the general public (as asserting this publicly is proceed to manufacture distress resurface) nevertheless it completely is changing into an increasing number of hard to suppress,” it read.
The couple also addressed rumors of infidelity and “unsuitable accusations of [their] foundation story.” They outlined that sooner than they determined to manufacture this assertion, they “way long and tough about whether or no longer we owed it to anybody to veil the assign we’re as we heal, since we realize how social media can magnify the truth or shuffle a long way with untruths.”
Yet, they collectively determined “to be commence and handle it in hopes to assign a period on the demand marks for the sake of our healing route of.”
Monét and Gaines affirmed their mutual adoration and admire for every other, especially as they navigate their contemporary relationship as co-of us to their three-year-former daughter Hazel.
The pair confirmed that their sever up didn’t stem from drama or a scandal. “We each correct have some predominant growing to construct that is likely to be ideal completed aside so we can live the particular variations of ourselves for our daughter […] We are committed to doing the interior work and belief that God will assign us each the assign we belong in due time,” the assertion continued.
Overall, they each intend to “live a household” and hope that the general public respects their privateness shifting forward.
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Iranians sent “unsolicited emails” that integrated stolen cloth that became not publicly obtainable from aged President Donald Trump’s marketing campaign to folks related alongside side his Democratic political rival, the FBI and two other authorities companies talked about Wednesday.
The FBI and officers from the Predicament of job of the Director of National Intelligence and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Safety Agency talked about there became “for the time being no knowledge” indicating that recipients related to President Joe Biden’s marketing campaign had spoke back to the emails, which the authorities officers condemned as phase of an effort “to stoke discord and undermine self belief in our electoral task.”
The companies had confirmed final month that Iran became within the support of efforts this One year to compromise presidential campaigns of each and each events after Trump’s marketing campaign accused Iran of a hacking try in June.
Iranian hackers private persevered to invent makes an try since late June to transmit nonpublic stolen cloth tied to Trump’s marketing campaign to media organizations, in accordance with Wednesday’s statement, which famed that the FBI is tracking the remark.
The companies also warned of rising foreign efforts to meddle in U.S. elections sooner than November, in particular from Russia, Iran and China, countries which would be “trying by some measure to exacerbate divisions in U.S. society for his or her private profit, and peruse election intervals as moments of vulnerability.”
In a press launch Wednesday, Trump marketing campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt talked about Iranians wished to support Vice President Kamala Harris, who replaced Biden because the Democratic nominee, “in consequence of they know President Trump will restore his complicated sanctions and stand against their reign of fear.”
In an all-caps Truth Social put up Wednesday evening, Trump claimed Harris and her marketing campaign “were illegally spying on me. To be is called the Iran, Iran, Iran case!”
Harris marketing campaign spokesperson Morgan Finkelstein talked about the marketing campaign has cooperated with regulations enforcement since it realized about the hacking effort.
“We’re not attentive to any cloth being sent straight to the marketing campaign; a few folks were centered on their private emails with what looked love a spam or phishing try,” Finkelstein talked about in a press launch.
Three federal regulations enforcement sources confirmed the accuracy of the Harris marketing campaign’s statement to NBC News, announcing regulations enforcement companies tracked the stolen knowledge from the Trump marketing campaign and definite that plenty of folks linked to Biden’s marketing campaign bought emails containing the working out. The recipients by no formula spoke back to the emails and need to quiet not private even opened them in consequence of they phishing makes an try, the sources added.
Guidelines enforcement companies contacted those folks and the Biden marketing campaign to invent them attentive to the emails, the sources talked about. The recipients did not attain out to regulations enforcement companies to alert them of what they had, nonetheless sources talked about that that just isn’t an illustration of hiding the leisure or wrongdoing and that the staffers probably did not heed what became within the emails.
Iran has denied the accusations, its ambassador to the United Countries calling them “fully baseless, lacking any credibility and legitimacy” and “in no formula acceptable,” the semi-legitimate Fars news agency reported Thursday. U.N. envoy Ali Bahreini talked about that Tehran “has no motivation or draw to intrude in U.S. elections” and called on the U.S. to give its evidence so Iran might perchance presumably reply fully.
In a document final month, Google’s Probability Prognosis Team, which shows authorities-backed cyberattacks, talked about an Iranian hacker team tied to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps centered each and each the Trump and the Biden-Harris campaigns in a phishing operation in Might well presumably additionally and June.
NBC News reported this month that the Justice Department plans to file criminal charges in reference to the hacking of Trump’s marketing campaign, in accordance with two regulations enforcement officers. A spokesperson for Iran’s mission to the United Countries has denied the country’s draw within the operation.
The Justice Department charged Iranians with election meddling for the length of the final presidential election. In 2021, the Justice Department indicted two Iranians over a “cyber-enabled” marketing campaign to intimidate and impact American voters for the length of the 2020 presidential election.
Michael Kosnar
Michael Kosnar is a Justice Department producer for the NBC News Washington Bureau.
A video showing music legend Sean “Diddy” Combs violently attacking his then-girlfriend in a Los Angeles hotel in 2016 has put the embattled star in heightened peril as he faces a federal sex-trafficking investigation.
The video shows Combs chasing, kicking, dragging and hurling a glass vase at Cassie, a singer whose real name is Casandra Ventura. It corroborates parts of a civil lawsuit Ventura filed against Combs last year, which was settled a day after it was filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Allegations against Combs have piled up in recent years and he has steadfastly denied wrongdoing, including when Ventura filed her suit. But after facing intense backlash, Combs on Sunday posted a video on Instagram in which he apologized for his behavior in the video.
“It’s so difficult to reflect on the darkest times in your life, but sometimes you got to do that,” he said. “My behavior on that video is inexcusable.”
Combs said he entered “therapy and rehab” after the incident. “I take full responsibility for my actions in that video. I’m disgusted. I was disgusted then when I did it. I’m disgusted now,” he said.
The video is not related to the federal probe, but it has drawn more attention to the ongoing investigation.
Law enforcement sources who were not authorized to speak publicly told The Times that Combs is the subject of a sweeping inquiry into sex-trafficking allegations that resulted in a federal raid in March at his estates in Los Angeles and Miami. Combs has not been charged with any crime and has denied any wrongdoing. The probe was launched after three women accused him of rape, assault and other abuses dating back three decades. One of the allegations involved a minor. It’s unclear whether those accusations, which Combs denies, are connected to the investigation.
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The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office called the video “extremely disturbing and difficult to watch” but said there is no current investigation into it.
“If the conduct depicted occurred in 2016, unfortunately we would be unable to charge as the conduct would have occurred beyond the timeline where a crime of assault can be prosecuted,” the statement said. “As of today, law enforcement has not presented a case related to the attack depicted in the video against Mr. Combs.”
But legal experts said the video, first obtained by CNN, is a major blow to Combs’ denials that he mistreated women and is likely to shift public opinion about the star.
“This video paints him in an awful light. If the people were giving him the benefit of doubt, that is over,” said Los Angeles defense attorney Lou Shapiro. Combs’ apology “was the only play, especially since the statute of limitations has already passed,” he said.
Neama Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor, agreed.
“There is no legal or moral justification for what Diddy did. He violently attacked a defenseless woman,” Rahmani said, adding that the “video doesn’t lie.”
When Ventura filed her lawsuit, Combs’ attorney said the claim was “riddled with baseless and outrageous lies, aiming to tarnish Mr. Combs’ reputation and seeking a payday.”
The video, both Shapiro and Rahmani said, presents major credibility challenges. “The problem here is he denied hitting [Ventura] and then in this video he is even kicking her when she is down,” Shapiro said.
“Diddy’s sharp denials early on are going to hurt him as the investigation progresses,” added Meghan Blanco, an Orange County defense attorney who has experience with federal sex-offense cases.
“Any apology needed to be detailed enough for the public to gain some insight into why he behaved so violently in the first place, and why, after attending counseling and engaging in years of self-reflection, he continued to deny assaulting Cassie,” she said. “This fell far short of that.”
The video could require Combs’ legal team to argue his treatment of Ventura was an isolated event and not a pattern of behavior toward women, Blanco added.
The recording, dated March 5, 2016, shows Ventura in a hoodie and carrying a duffel bag, walking in a hotel hallway toward an elevator. Combs can be seen running down the same hallway, shirtless and holding a towel around his waist.
The lawsuit said it occurred at the InterContinental hotel in Century City. After Combs fell asleep, Ventura attempted to leave the room, the lawsuit said, but he awoke and “began screaming” at her. “He followed her into the hallway of the hotel while yelling at her,” the complaint said. “He grabbed at her, and then took glass vases in the hallway and threw them at her, causing glass to crash around them as she ran to the elevator to escape.”
Security footage captured from another angle shows him grabbing Ventura’s head and throwing her on the ground, where he kicks her multiple times. He can also be seen picking up her bags and trying to drag her back to the first hallway.
The footage also shows Ventura using a hotel phone by the elevators, as well as Combs going back to his hotel room and then separately seemingly shoving Ventura into a corner. He is also seen throwing a vase in her direction.
Ventura also accused Combs in her lawsuit of raping her, forcing her to engage in sex acts with male sex workers and introducing her to “a lifestyle of excessive alcohol and substance abuse” that required her “to procure illicit prescriptions to satisfy his own addictions.”
Sean “Diddy” Combs arrives at the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas on May 15, 2022.
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Little is known about the federal probe, including the identities of any alleged victims. People with knowledge of the investigation who were not authorized to speak publicly said federal investigators are seeking telecommunications and flight records related to Combs. Back in March, investigators searching Combs’ Holmby Hills home emptied safes, dismantled electronics and left papers strewn in some rooms, sources told The Times.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security investigates most sex-trafficking operations for the federal government. Legal experts say one reason the agency could be involved in this case is because the women involved in the allegations against Combs might be from other countries.
Combs’ lawyers have strongly criticized the federal probe, calling the searches of his homes “militarized” and a “witch hunt.”
“This unprecedented ambush — paired with an advanced, coordinated media presence — leads to a premature rush to judgment of Mr. Combs and is nothing more than a witch hunt based on meritless accusations made in civil lawsuits,” attorney Aaron Dyer said in March.
In addition to the federal investigation, Combs faces the civil lawsuits from the three women. He has denied wrongdoing.
The lawsuits were filed under the Adult Survivors Act, a law that went into effect in November 2022 in New York that allows individuals who believe they were sexually assaulted a one-year window during which they can sue their abusers, even if the statute of limitations for prosecuting the underlying alleged crimes had expired.
