EXCLUSIVE: Cassie’s Menstrual Cycle Becomes Battleground In Attempt To Dismiss Freak-Off Worker’s $35M Lawsuit

Cassie is using Clayton Howard’s account of sex during her period to challenge his assault claim and seek permanent dismissal of his lawsuit.

The dispute centers on an October 2014 encounter in Beverly Hills and whether Howard objected during intercourse or after it ended.

Her lawyers say his earlier complaints described him becoming upset only after discovering she was menstruating, while his proposed revision adds a demand to stop.

Howard originally sought $20 million from Cassie and Diddy, but his latest reported demand reaches $35 million, plus other costs tied to his alleged injuries.

Cassie’s October 7 reply asks Judge Anne Hwang to end the claims against her permanently and deny Howard another chance to rewrite them.

The filing says Howard now bases his sexual assault claim mainly on that Beverly Hills encounter, which the court addressed in an earlier dismissal.

His earlier complaint alleged Cassie “seduced him into compliance” through “foreplay,” according to the defense, before he discovered she was menstruating.

Cassie’s lawyers argue that being upset afterward does not establish that she forced him into sex against his will.

“The 5AC describes the same sequence, placing Plaintiff’s objection after intercourse,” they wrote.

They also challenge Howard’s claim that his revised account adds a refusal that the judge had not considered before.

“Plaintiff also asserts that the 5AC pleads ‘physical non-consent contemporaneous with the act,’ an allegation that the 4AC ‘did not contain.'”

“The 4AC contained that allegation … and the Court quoted it when it dismissed the claim,” her lawyers wrote.

Howard has since proposed another revision that says he told Cassie to stop, and her defense argues that addition conflicts with his earlier accounts.

“Plaintiff has described that encounter in two prior pleadings without any refusal, and the 4AC alleged that he objected only after he discovered that Ms. Ventura was menstruating,” the filing states.

The fight over that encounter is one part of Howard’s broader case alleging that paid sex became a pattern of trafficking and abuse.

Howard, who worked under the name Dave, sued in June 2025 over sessions he says Cassie arranged and Diddy directed.

TMZ covered his allegations of drugs, manipulation and sexual exploitation when the case began; Howard says those experiences caused lasting harm.

Cassie’s lawyers argue that his own account shows he accepted payment, left the encounters and returned repeatedly over several years.

“Plaintiff advertised his services as a paid male companion, learned at the first encounter in 2009 how the encounters worked, accepted cash at the end of each encounter, and returned for more over the next seven years,” they wrote.

“The 5AC pleads no facts showing that force, fraud, or coercion by Ms. Ventura caused Plaintiff to do anything he had not already agreed to do for money.”

Her team also says his claims describe Diddy controlling the encounters, directing security workers and beating Cassie, including during a December 2016 meeting.

“Based on these allegations, Ms. Ventura was a participant subject to Combs’s control, and the 5AC contains no facts showing that she knew anyone would use coercion to cause Plaintiff’s participation,” the filing states.

Cassie’s reply also challenges photographs and Howard’s account of being confined in a room during that December 2016 encounter in Miami.

Her lawyers say he previously described the pictures as showing the defendants’ hotel suite, but his proposed revision says neither photograph shows that suite.

They argue his new description places him in his own adjoining hotel room, rather than establishing that Cassie trapped him there.

The defense also contests Howard’s allegation that Cassie concealed a chlamydia infection before they had sex in May 2016.

Her lawyers say he withdrew an allegation about recurring infections and has not supplied facts showing she knew about an infection before that encounter.

They point to his earlier complaint saying she later disclosed an infection and advised him to get checked.

Howard’s effort to secure an official trafficking-victim label has already met resistance in his separate lawsuit against Netflix and the documentary’s creators.

On August 27, U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn denied his request to treat that status as an established fact.

“Whether Plaintiff was a victim of sex trafficking is subject to reasonable dispute,” Netburn wrote.

“Combs was acquitted on the sex trafficking counts (and, in any event, those counts did not concern Plaintiff).”

“Accordingly, the Court cannot take judicial notice that Plaintiff is a victim of sex trafficking as that term is understood in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (‘TVPA’), 18 U.S.C. § 1595.”

Netburn ruled that Diddy’s prostitution-related conviction did not settle Howard’s trafficking claim, leaving him to prove his allegations through the normal court process.

His Netflix case accuses the makers of Sean Combs: The Reckoning of editing his interview to favor Cassie’s account while excluding accusations against her.

Hwang dismissed the earlier claims against Cassie on July 23 but allowed Howard to amend them, leading to the current fight over his rewritten complaint.

Her court is scheduled to hear Cassie’s request for permanent dismissal on October 21 at 1:30 p.m.