CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Deadline reports:

Sean “Puffy” Combs won’t be prosecuted for beating up Casandra Ventura despite hotel surveillance footage showing the 2016 assault, says the Los Angeles District Attorney. “We are aware of the video that has been circulating online allegedly depicting Sean Combs assaulting a young woman in Los Angeles” George Gascón said late Friday, a few hours after CNN’s May 17 exclusive of the horrific hallway assault at Century City’s now-closed InterContinental Hotel dropped.

The statute of limitations for domestic violence in California is five years. However, a prominent law-enforcement source tells Deadline that the much-accused Combs may himself have provided a potential pathway for investigation. “Reports that Combs paid $50,000 to the hotel for the footage of the incident soon after it occurred could, I say could, present the possibility of intent to cover up a crime,” the source said.

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