After a horrific video from Cassie and Sean “Diddy” Combs’ relationship aired, their five-year separation is still attracting attention.

Before their final breakup in 2018, the rapper, mogul, and model had been coupled for nearly ten years, dating for the first time in 2007.

Things weren’t as perfect as they appeared to be during their relationship, which has recently come to light because of Diddy’s recent legal troubles as well as a lawsuit she filed against her boyfriend in 2023.

Now that unsettling footage of the rapper physically abusing his ex-girlfriend in 2016 has surfaced, pictures of Cassie from that era are under closer inspection, which has outraged her supporters because he won’t be prosecuted. It has also drawn additional attention to prior contentious exchanges between the two.

Generally, during their lengthy relationship, the couple experienced numerous highs and lows.

Although they were first connected in 2007, the ex-couple didn’t openly acknowledge their relationship until they went to a number of events together in 2012. Since then, they have rarely disclosed any information about their private lives to the public.

As a result, everything appeared to be going well between the two, and they occasionally were the focus of engagement rumors, though they never verified if they had moved their relationship further.

But in August of 2016, they got into a heated dispute in Beverly Hills that made headlines. It gave rise to reports at the time that they had broken up, but insiders later told Us Weekly that this was untrue.

It’s now known that the fight in August happened months after the now-famous event at the Intercontinental Hotel in Los Angeles, where security film showed Diddy kicking Cassie repeatedly, shoving her to the ground, and flinging an object in her direction. That March of that year was the incident.