Cassie Ventura Declares Permanent Residence Outside U.S. in Ongoing Lawsuit Filed by Alleged Combs Escort Clayton Howard

Cassie Ventura filed a declaration dated May 1 stating she resides outside the United States and does not intend to move back. The filing was submitted in her ongoing lawsuit against Clayton Howard. The declaration was reported by TMZ.

Representatives for Ventura did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Page Six. It remains unclear where she has settled or when she left the United States. The declaration was filed nearly a year after Ventura testified in Sean Combs’ federal racketeering and sex trafficking case.

During that testimony she told the jury she suffered years of physical and emotional abuse during her relationship with Combs, which lasted from 2007 until 2018. Clayton Howard filed a lawsuit against Combs and Ventura on July 3, 2025. In the suit Howard claims Ventura gave him a sexually transmitted disease, that she obtained an abortion without telling him after he got her pregnant, that she manipulated him into taking ecstasy and having unprotected sex, and that she forced him to masturbate for extended periods of time, often leading to injury.

Howard alleges he sustained physical and psychological injuries, lost wages and benefits, medical expenses, pain and suffering, emotional distress, mental anguish, and loss of enjoyment of life. Prosecutors claimed Howard was one of the male escorts hired by Combs.

Ventura testified in the same federal trial in which Combs was found guilty of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution and acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering charges.

He was sentenced to four years in prison. Ventura filed a civil complaint against Combs in November 2023 and later received a $20 million settlement from Combs and his companies.