Clayton Howard, one of the escorts involved in freak offs with Cassie Ventura and Diddy — and who is now suing both of them — says that the singer is hiding out.
On Friday (Nov. 7), Howard filed documents as part of his lawsuit, claiming that Cassie has been "conceal[ing] her whereabouts" in order to avoid being served.
"[Cassie] has proven impossible to serve," Howard wrote in one a series of filings. "[She] is using her substantial resources to intentionally evade service and prevent this action from proceeding," he clarified in another.
Howard explained in a declaration that he hired both a process server and a private investigator in an attempt to find Cassie and serve her with the suit, but that both were unsuccessful. He also reached out to Cassie's lawyer Douglas Wigdor, who represented her in her 2023 civil suit against Diddy, and issued statements on her behalf during Diddy's criminal proceedings. Wigdor's office refused service, saying they were not authorized to accept the suit on Cassie's behalf. Howard is asking the judge in his case to force Wigdor to accept service for Ventura.
Howard originally filed his suit over the summer. In it, he claims that Cassie, contrary to the picture she painted during her testimony in Diddy's criminal trial and her own lawsuit, "was not merely a victim forced into sexual encounters with male escorts, but rather an active and engaged participant who willingly manipulated and exploited others, including Plaintiff, to satisfy the sexually depraved desires of Defendant Combs and herself."
Howard claims he was drugged and manipulated into "unprotected sexual contact" with Ventura, who he says "force[d] herself" on him at times. He said that Diddy was prone to "violent outbursts" during these sessions.
The suit, charging Cassie and Diddy with sex trafficking, human trafficking, and sexual assault, demands $35,000,000 in damages, as well as "full recovery for all past, present, and future medical expenses, mental health treatment costs, prescription medications, and healthcare expenses" related to physical and mental effects of the freak offs.
Howard was known as "Dave" by Cassie and Diddy when he participated in the freak offs, and per government prosecutors, he was one of the then-couple's "regular escorts."