On Friday (June 7), the school's collegiate newspaper
The Hilltop reported that Howard University in Washington D.C. had voted to retract Diddy's honorary degree. They also said they'd returned Puff's $1 million donation made to the school. The school's Board of Trustees voted to end the 2023 pledge agreement that had never actually been fulfilled by Puff's Sean Combs Foundation.
“Mr. Combs’ behavior, as captured in a recently released video, is so fundamentally incompatible with Howard University’s core values and beliefs that he is deemed no longer worthy to hold the institution’s highest honor,” a statement issued by the university read, via
The Hilltop.
The video in question was the 2016 hotel surveillance video in which Diddy could be seen beating and assaulting his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura. The video emerged online on May 17. Diddy apologized for his actions in the video in a recorded apology tape on May 19.
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