The board of Howard University, a historically-black university in Washington DC, has stripped Sean “Diddy” Combs of his honorary degree.
The rapper received an honorary degree in 2014 after delivering a commencement address.
The University, in its statement said that it would also end a scholarship in his name and terminate a 2016 “gift agreement” with the rapper.
The announcement comes after a CCTV video of the hip-hop producer hitting an ex-girlfriend in a hotel hallway got published by the Cable News Network (CNN).
The Institution said his “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.”
“The University is unwavering in its opposition to all acts of interpersonal violence,” the statement said.
However, the music mogul apologised after the video was released last month for the attack on singer Cassandra “Cassie” Ventura.
“I was disgusted when I did it. I’m disgusted now,” Mr Combs said in his statement.
“I went and I sought out professional help. I got into going to therapy, going to rehab. I had to ask God for his mercy and grace. I’m so sorry.”
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