Ventura's lawsuit, filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan on Thursday, may cast her abbreviated career in a different, darker light. According to Ventura's claims, Combs, whom she met when she was 19, began a pattern of control and abuse that fused the singer's personal and professional life as he plied her with drugs, beat her and forced her to have sex with male prostitutes while he watched and recorded.
In pop music circles, she has long represented a what if? of unfulfilled artistic potential, even as she gained cult-favorite status among R&B obsessives and turned to releasing music independently.
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