Howard board revokes (Diddy) Combs’s honorary diploma, rejects cash
Howard College revoked an honorary diploma given to hip hop mogul Sean (Diddy) Combs after a lately launched video confirmed him bodily assaulting his ex-girlfriend at a resort in 2016.
Combs attended the traditionally Black college in Washington D.C. from 1987 to 1989, the Related Press reported.
“The Howard College Board of Trustees voted unanimously right this moment to simply accept the return by Mr. Sean Combs of the honorary diploma conferred upon him in 2014,” a assertion from the college mentioned, noting he’d been stripped of “all honors and privileges related to the diploma.”
The assertion mentioned Combs’s conduct within the video, launched final month by CNN, “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 additionally directed directors to disband the scholarship program in his title, return a $1 million contribution Combs made to the college and discontinue a 2016 present settlement with him and a 2023 pledge of $1 million made by the Sean Combs Basis. The assertion famous that the inspiration made no funds towards the pledge but.
Combs’s ex-girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassandra (Cassie) Ventura, alleged in a federal lawsuit in November that he had raped and beat her over the course of their relationship, the Related Press reported. They settled the swimsuit the day after it was filed. 4 different lawsuits filed since then have accused Combs of sexual assault and intercourse trafficking, which led Homeland Safety officers to raid his properties in March.
