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‘Dances With Wolves’ actor asks US court to drop charges

in ‘cult-like’ sex case

‘Medicine man’ Nathan Chasing Horse also facing charges in B.C. tied to status as a spiritual leader

The Canadian Pressa day ago

The lawyer for Nathan Chasing Horse has asked the Nevada Supreme Court to drop all charges against the “Dances With Wolves” actor and self-described medicine man.

Chasing Horse has been jailed in Las Vegas since his January arrest in southern Nevada, where he is charged with 18 felonies, including sexual assault of a minor, child abuse and kidnapping.

He has been accused of using his status as a spiritual leader to run a cult-like organization and take advantage of young Indigenous women for sex.

Chasing Horse is also facing criminal charges in Montana, British Columbia and Alberta.

His lawyer, Kristy Holston, argued in the Nevada court that prosecutors presented no evidence the sex was non-consensual and that they provided improper instructions to a grand jury about grooming.

“Nathan’s spiritual authority over his followers does not invalidate their consent to sex,” she said in court Wednesday.

“That’s why his spiritual authority alone and the unequal power dynamics cannot create the basis of a sex assault.”

Court documents said Chasing Horse was the leader of a group called The Circle. Documents allege he used his position to gain the trust of Indigenous families and their children, and take underage wives.

The actor, who played young Sioux character Smiles a Lot in Kevin Costner’s 1990 Oscar-winning film, was indicted by a grand jury in February. Grand jury proceedings are done in secret and are a special proceeding conducted at the beginning of a case to decide whether there’s enough evidence to prosecute.

Holston said prosecutors withheld information during the grand jury, including a statement from a complainant to the Bureau of Indian Affairs and a post on Facebook about her allegations against Chasing Horse. She said the information shows the sex was consensual. She argued it perjured the proceedings so the charges should be dropped.

“The facts in this case do not support probable cause for these charges,” Holston said.

Prosecutor William Rowles said the grand jury heard from two women who both testified they thought they loved Chasing Horse, but realized it was spiritual manipulation and assault.

He said one of the women sought Chasing Horse’s help as a teenager because her mother had cancer.

“She fully believed that giving her virginity to that man saved her mother’s life,” he said.

He argued that information was not withheld and the question of consent should go to trial.

“Both (women) testified that they met Mr. Chasing Horse at a very young age, that he used his position within their community, within their culture, to gain access to them, to make them pipe carriers, to make them pure,” Rowles told court.

“He told them how they could dress. He told them how to wear their hair. He told them not to wear makeup. He told them what to do.”

The Supreme Court has reserved its decision.

The U.S. arrest report alleges a British Columbia woman reported Chasing Horse to RCMP, who contacted Las Vegas police, prompting the investigation that led to his arrest.

The woman alleged she was 13 years old when she met the actor while he was performing ceremonies in Canada. She alleges he began to have sex with her when she was 17.

Chasing Horse is facing a charge of sexual assault in that province.

The Tsuut’ina Nation Police Service in Alberta issued warrants for nine charges, including sexual exploitation and sexual assault, in June.

U.S. arrest documents detailed how the Alberta police service received a complaint from a woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted as a 15-year-old and taken to the United States as one of Chasing Horse’s multiple wives.

The woman said she also met Chasing Horse when he came to her community to do ceremonies. Documents say Chasing Horse allegedly had sex with the teenager multiple times while she was still in Canada.

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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs accused of rape, physical

abuse for over a decade by singer Cassie: suit

Sean “Diddy” Combs was accused of raping and physically abusing Cassie — an R&B singer once signed to his label — for over a decade, according to a bombshell lawsuit she filed Thursday.

Cassie, whose real name is Casandra Ventura, claims the legendary music producer and rapper trafficked, raped and viciously beat her starting in 2005 and up until 2018, the Manhattan federal suit — filed with a glaring “trigger warning” — states.

“After years in silence and darkness, I am finally ready to tell my story, and to speak up on behalf of myself and for the benefit of other women who face violence and abuse in their relationships,” Ventura, 37, said in a statement via her attorneys at Wigdor LLP.

The “Me & U” singer’s allegations include that Combs, 54, regularly fed her drugs and alcohol, forced her to have sex with male prostitutes while he filmed the encounters and blew up Kid Cudi’s car when he learned the rapper was romantically interested in her.

When she tried to leave the relationship in 2018, the Revolt CEO allegedly forced Ventura into her own home and raped her, the lawsuit states.

The pair had a public on-and-off-again relationship that she claims started shortly after meeting in 2005, when she was just 19 and he was 37.

Combs signed Ventura to his label Bad Boy Records and subsequently plunged the teenager into a “fast-paced, and drug-fueled lifestyle” that later left her grappling with substance abuse issues, the complaint alleges.

The music mogul first introduced Ventura to opiates in 2008 in an attempt to keep her compliant and would keep pills and other drugs out in the open “like candy,” the suit alleges.

Ventura claims Combs “frequently” and “savagely” beat her multiple times over the years, often in front of staff and business associates, but that no one dared to push back against one of the most famous names in hip-hop, according to the filing.

She tried to escape from Combs — who was prone to “uncontrollable rage”– but was implored to return to him over explicit threats that ending the relationship would tank her success in the entertainment industry, the suit states.

Ventura was explicitly told in 2016 that her single would not be released if she left her partner and boss, according to the lawsuit.

The possible negative effect rejecting Combs would have on her career pushed her to accept his unrelenting advances — which allegedly included a forced kiss during a party when Combs was still in a relationship with actress Kim Porter, according to the suit.

“Ms. Ventura was repulsed by Mr. Combs’s demands, but between the physical beating and recognizing his incredible power and incredible temper, Ms. Ventura became petrified of her partner and boss, and felt that she could not say no,” the filing states.

Bad Boy Entertainment and Bad Boy Records, as well as Epic Records and Comb Enterprises, were also named in the suit for allegedly failing to protect their employee against the egregious behavior of her “boss.”

Combs’ attorney, Ben Brafman, said his client “vehemently denies these offensive and outrageous allegations” — and claimed that Ventura had been demanding $30 million from Combs for the last six months “under the threat of writing a damaging book about their relationship, which was unequivocally rejected as blatant blackmail.”

“Despite withdrawing her initial threat, Ms. Ventura has now resorted to filing a lawsuit riddled with baseless and outrageous lies, aiming to tarnish Mr. Combs’s reputation and seeking a payday,” he said in a statement to Page Six.

Continue this story, if you can stand it, on Page Six...

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