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With Disgraced Music mogul, Sean Diddy Combs apologizing in a new video. This after the release of that surveillance video of him attacking his former girlfriend. We want to warn you this video is disturbing. Here's ABC's Matt Rivers.

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My behavior on that video is inexcusable. I take full responsibility for my actions in that video. I'm disgusted. I was disgusted then when I did it. I'm disgusted now.

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Sean Diddy Combs posting on Instagram, responding for the first time since that disturbing video. Comes seen assaulting his then-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, throwing her to the ground in a hotel elevator bank and then kicking her twice. He then tries to drag her away.

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I'm not asking for forgiveness. I'm truly sorry.

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The I'll be missing you singer never asking to be forgiven in the one minute and eleven second video. It, he says it was the darkest time in his life. I mean, I hit rock bottom.

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I make no excuses. My behavior on that video is inexcusable.

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In support of abuse survivors, Ventura's husband also posting on Instagram saying, Men who hit women aren't men. Hold the women in your life with the utmost regard. To all the survivors, your stories are real and people believe you. Ventura's lawyer is also weighing in, providing a statement to ABC News saying, When Cassie and When multiple other women came forward, he denied everything and suggested that his victims were looking for a payday, that he was only compelled to apologize once his repeated denials were proven false, shows his pathetic desperation, and no one will be swayed by his disingenuous words. Holmes can't be prosecuted for the violence in the video originally obtained by CNN because it has passed California's statute of limitations. The incident appears to support Ventura's claims, long denied by Holmes, from a now settled lawsuit filed last November stating, Around March 2016 at the Intercontinental Hotel in Century City, Los Angeles, Mr. Holmes became extremely intoxicated and punched Ms. Ventura in the face, giving her a black eye, adding that when she tried When he went to leave the hotel room, Holmes followed her into the hallway of the hotel while yelling at her.

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He grabbed at her and then took glass vases in the hallway and threw them at her, causing glass to crash around them as she ran to the elevator to escape. It comes nearly Two months after federal authorities raided Holmes's LA and Miami homes, seizing computers and electronics equipment. Agents from Homeland Security and fatigues and body armor, seen entering his home in the wealthy LA enclave of Holdenby Hills. Sources telling ABC News Komes is the subject of an ongoing federal investigation out of the Southern district of New York into human trafficking. The entertainment mogul facing other civil lawsuits, including several allegations of sexual misconduct, all of which Komes denies.