Content warning: This story contains details of domestic violence.
Kim Porter‘s dad is speaking out after a 2016 video of Sean “Diddy” Combs assaulting his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura was recently unearthed.
“You can say I was disgusted with the video, and I wouldn’t treat my enemy like that,” Jake Porter, whose late daughter dated the rapper on-and-off for 13 years before their 2007 breakup, told Rolling Stone in an interview published June 7. “It was despicable.”
Jake—who is also the grandfather to Kim and Diddy’s kids Quincy, 32, Christian, 25, as well as twins Jessie and D’Lila, 17—added that he now has a “different outlook” on the Bad Boy Records founder. (Kim died from pneumonia at age 47 in 2018.)
“I didn’t know he could stoop that low,” the 78-year-old said. “I wouldn’t even do a dog like that. My heart goes out to Cassie.”
E! News has reached out to Diddy’s rep for comment but hasn’t heard back.
In hotel surveillance video published by CNN in May, Diddy was seen chasing Cassie down a hotel hallway before grabbing her, pulling her to the ground and kicking her multiple times. The images appeared to match up with an alleged incident detailed in a November 2023 lawsuit Cassie filed against the Grammy winner, whom she split from in 2018 after a decade-long on-again, off-again relationship.
