Howard University's Board of Trustees voted unanimously to revoke the honorary degree of Sean “Diddy” Combs, per a statement by the institution released on Friday evening.

The statement from a university spokesperson is below.

“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. This acceptance revokes all honors 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.

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.

The University is unwavering in its opposition to all acts of interpersonal violence.

The Board has also directed the University administration to immediately take the following actions: terminate a 2016 gift agreement with Mr. Combs, disband the scholarship program in his name, return his $1 million contribution, and terminate a 2023 pledge agreement with the Sean Combs Foundation.

No payments toward the $1 million pledge have been due or made by the Sean Combs Foundation as of this date, therefore no funds are due to be returned under the 2023 pledge agreement.”

The decision follows Combs' continued involvement in controversies related to abuse and alleged sexual misconduct. Surveillance footage from the InterContinental Hotel in Century City, Los Angeles, obtained by CNN in May, shows an altercation between Combs and his former girlfriend Cassie Ventura in 2016. This incident supports her lawsuit, which was settled last year. The video captures Combs chasing Cassie down a hallway.

He encounters her in the elevator lobby, grabs her neck, pushes her to the ground, kicks her, snatches her bags, and drags her back down the hallway by her sweatshirt. Combs then returns her bags to the hotel room while Cassie tries to reach a hotel phone by the elevators. He later appears to push her into a corner and throws an object at her out of view.

Another lawsuit was filed against Combs by Crystal McKinney in late May, per CBS News. The lawsuit was filed under the NYC Gender Motivated Violence Act, enabling victims of gender-based violence in the city to sue their abusers, irrespective of when the abuse occurred. The deadline for filing suits under this act is 2025. In the lawsuit, McKinney accused Combs of drugging and sexually assaulting her in 2003.

Rolling Stone also released a report detailing horrifying accusations of abuse during Sean “Diddy” Combs's time at Howard University. The report is the culmination of a six-month investigation into Combs and includes interviews with over 50 people. Combs attended Howard, starting in the Fall of 1987, until his sophomore year when he dropped out to pursue his music career.

The report initially describes Combs standing outside the Harriet Tubman Quadrangle dorm at the institution, where he began yelling in a “belligerent” manner for his then-girlfriend to join him outside, as claimed by a classmate. Per comments obtained by an unnamed witness, Combs started to attack her using a belt. Witness to the incident told Rolling Stone that he was angry and screaming at the top of his lungs.

Combs's purported behavior instigated fear and anxiety among the female residents in the dormitories.

“She was trying to defend herself a little bit. She was crying. And we were telling him, ‘Get off of her.’ We were screaming for her,” a witness told Rolling Stone. The report also describes instances of inappropriate behavior by Combs towards female students, including tapping on windows to disrupt classes, unwelcome physical contact, and displays of anger towards students who questioned him.

When Rolling Stone reached out to Combs's lawyer Johnathan Davis for comment, he said, “Mr. Combs cannot comment on settled litigation, will not comment on pending litigation, and cannot address every allegation picked up by the press from any source, no matter how unreliable. We are aware that the proper authorities are conducting a thorough investigation and therefore have confidence any important issues will be addressed in the proper forum, where the rules distinguish facts from fiction.”