Howard University is revoking the honorary doctorate it awarded Sean “Diddy” Combs in 2014 and returning his $1 million donation, saying its board of trustees made the unanimous decision Friday after Combs was captured on hotel surveillance video beating his former girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura.
The move also comes after Rolling Stone published a six-month investigation last week that includes new allegations Combs physically assaulted a woman outside her Howard dorm when he was a student there in the late Eighties. (Combs left the school after his sophomore year.)
Howard’s board of trustees voted on the revocation at its regularly scheduled meeting Friday, saying the esteemed, historically Black institution was rescinding all honors and privileges associated with the degree and scrubbing Combs’ name from all documents listing honorary degree…
