"No Longer Worthy": US University Strips Rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs Of Honorary Degree
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The university is also returning a $1 million contribution, terminating a 2016 gift arrangement with Combs, a scholarship in his name, and a 2023 pledge agreement with the Sean Combs Foundation.
Howard University in Washington DC, United States, has decided to strip rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs of his honorary degree after a CCTV video of him hitting an ex-girlfriend Casandra Ventura in 2016 was published online. The university said his "behaviour 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," as per a report in the BBC.
"The Howard University Board of Trustees voted unanimously today to accept the return by Mr. Sean Combs of the honorary degree conferred upon him in 2014," the Board said in a statement.
"This acceptance revokes all honours and privileges associated with the degree. Accordingly, the Board has directed that his name be removed from all documents listing honorary degree recipients of Howard University," they added.
