Cassie Accused Diddy Of Years Of Physical And Emotional Abuse While Testifying During His Sex Trafficking Trial

Prosecutors archetypal asked Ventura to picture her narration with Combs. She said helium "controlled a batch of my life."

"There were convulsive arguments that would usually effect successful immoderate benignant of carnal abuse," she said successful her testimony. "Dragging, antithetic things of that nature."

Ventura shared that she was vaguely acquainted with who Combs was erstwhile they met successful 2005, erstwhile she was 19, but "didn’t cognize excessively overmuch astir him personally." She signed a 10-album woody nether Combs' Bad Boys Records and aboriginal began dating him.

The New York Times reported that astatine the opening of their relationship, Ventura said, "I deliberation I was conscionable enamored by him. We were conscionable having a bully time." She described the excitement of their relationship, which she said began during a travel to Miami. Ventura claimed it was determination that Combs gave her a "blue dolphin" ecstasy pill, and they had enactment connected a boat.

She besides alleged that Combs would "incessantly" telephone her and sometimes had idiosyncratic assistants oregon information guards way her down erstwhile she didn’t reply his calls.

"Security protected him, kept an oculus connected me," Ventura said, claiming the beingness of Diddy’s unit 24 hours a day.

Prosecutors asked Ventura to stock much astir her analyzable narration with Combs. She explained that infidelity and jealousy played a relation astatine times, and noted that Combs would person utmost temper changes if she were acting similar a "brat."

"Make the incorrect face, and the adjacent happening I knew, I was getting deed successful the face," Ventura said.

Prosecutors said that astatine 1 of Combs' alleged freak-off enactment parties, helium forced a antheral enactment idiosyncratic to urinate successful Ventura’s rima — an ordeal during which prosecutors said she "felt similar she was choking," according to People.

According to the New York Times, Ventura was besides asked to picture a "freak-off" connected Tuesday. 

"It fundamentally entails the hiring of an escort and mounting up this acquisition truthful that I could execute for Sean," she said. It progressive Combs "being capable to ticker maine with the different idiosyncratic and really nonstop america connected what we were doing," she added. "Eventually it became a occupation for me, beauteous much."

Ventura testified that Combs recorded videos of her during intersexual encounters arsenic "blackmail materials" and feared that they could 1 time upwind up connected the internet. "He had galore resources to bash that," she claimed.

Videos of Combs’ alleged freak-offs person been referenced arsenic sealed grounds successful his transgression trial. On Monday, lawyers for quality organizations (including the New York Times and the Washington Post) filed a missive asking the justice successful the lawsuit to support the courtroom unfastened to the nationalist erstwhile visuals of those intersexual exploits are played oregon astatine slightest "designate 3 excavation reporters to ticker and perceive to the video exhibits arsenic they are being shown," Legal Affairs and Trials reported.

Ventura’s lawyers opposed the petition to unseal those videos, stating successful the letter, "Making the sexually explicit sealed videos nationalist volition efficaciously punish Ms. Ventura for testifying and re-traumatize her arsenic the nationalist volition ticker her maltreatment erstwhile she was astatine her astir vulnerable."

They added, "It would beryllium profoundly unfair for Ms. Ventura’s brave prime to attest publically and utilizing her ain sanction to necessitate specified a gross penetration of her dignity."

On the stand, Ventura said Combs’ alleged freak-offs "took a large chunk of my life," noting that she’d enactment up for "days connected end," taking drugs, alcohol, and fornicating with "strangers."

She claimed the intersexual encounters would past anyplace from 36 hours to 4 days, though they could widen with breaks, and mostly occurred astatine hotels. She besides noted that aft they began, they became an astir play occurrence, leaving her small clip to retrieve from the drugs, dehydration, and deficiency of sleep.

"The freak-offs became a occupation wherever determination was nary abstraction to bash thing other but to retrieve and conscionable effort to consciousness mean again," Ventura said.

When asked to picture the aftermath of the freak-offs, Ventura told the prosecution that babe lipid was near down connected the edifice walls and doorway handles, and sometimes adjacent humor connected the sheets, arsenic she was "expected" to inactive enactment during her period. She said urine was besides connected the linens sometimes, matching prosecutors’ earlier assertion that a enactment idiosyncratic erstwhile urinated connected Ventura.

"I conscionable felt humiliated," Ventura said connected the witnesser stand, NBC News reported. "It was disgusting, it was excessively much. I choked, I didn’t privation to beryllium doing that. I was successful a presumption I couldn’t easy get retired of. I yet enactment my hands up, and Sean saw and told him to stop. I was choking, excessively overmuch urine successful my mouth."

She added, "Sean urinated connected maine astatine the aforesaid time."

According to the New York Times, Ventura shared that Combs would go a antithetic idiosyncratic during their intersexual encounters, saying: “His eyes spell black. The mentation of him I was successful emotion with was nary longer there.”

Even aft telling Combs aggregate times however the freak-offs made her consciousness “worthless,” Ventura said helium was “pretty dismissive” of her concerns.

Ventura testified that 1 time, Combs asked her to get wrong a blown-up excavation afloat of babe lipid astatine a hotel, which she didn’t privation to do, but "at that constituent I couldn’t accidental no" for fearfulness of his temper.

"Something that Sean wanted to happen, that’s what was going to happen," she said.

Expanding connected the alleged freak-offs, Ventura said she’d walk sizeable clip preparing herself for them due to the fact that of Combs’ power implicit her appearance. “I had to look a definite way,” she explained. 

According to Ventura, Combs often commented connected her looks, directing choices specified arsenic her nail polish colour and bringing up topics similar bosom implants — remarks that profoundly affected her self-esteem, she said.

Ventura claimed this power extended to her physics devices, too, arsenic Combs oregon his information guards would confiscate them occasionally, but she’d yet get them back. "It depended connected however agelong I was being punished for," she said.

The prosecution past asked Ventura astir associates of Combs who followed his orders, similar a information defender named D-Roc, who she claimed would travel looking for her erstwhile Combs didn’t cognize her whereabouts.

D-Roc’s sanction came up again erstwhile Ventura recalled a freak-off astatine 1 of Combs' Los Angeles homes, during which the information defender informed Combs that Suge Knight, 1 of his longtime manufacture rivals, was astatine a diner successful town. Ventura claimed they rushed to face Knight successful an SUV, wherever she was handed a weapon to enactment wrong her purse. She said that wasn't the lone clip she was asked to clasp a firearm for Combs.

Combs’ high-profile proceedings kicked disconnected with assemblage enactment connected May 5, followed by opening statements that began connected Monday. Federal prosecutors started by describing Combs arsenic the person of a transgression endeavor who abused his powerfulness to exploit radical similar Ventura. 

Similar to Ventura’s testimony, prosecutors claimed that Combs blackmailed Ventura with videos of her participating successful his alleged freak-offs with antheral escorts.

Aside from Ventura, different witnesses who person testified against Combs truthful acold see erstwhile information defender Israel Florez, who worked astatine the InterContinental Hotel successful Los Angeles, wherever 2016 surveillance footage captured Combs physically assaulting Ventura. Daniel Phillip, who testified that Ventura erstwhile paid him for enactment successful the beingness of Combs, was the prosecution’s 2nd witness.

In his testimony, Phillip said that helium was conscionable "expecting to bash a portion tease and leave" with $200 positive a extremity for a 2012 oregon 2013 gig, according to NBC News. “We ended up having sex, rubbed babe lipid connected each different for a mates of minutes. He (Combs) was sitting successful a country masturbating," the enactment idiosyncratic testified. He claimed that his intersexual encounters with Combs and Ventura happened connected much than 1 occasion. 

Ventura's allegations preceded Combs’ September 2024 apprehension and indictment. In November 2023, she filed a civilian suit against him, alleging home violence, intersexual abuse, and trafficking. It was settled 1 time later, though a flurry of different suits were filed by different plaintiffs successful the months after.

After Combs was arrested, Manhattan prosecutors charged him with 1 number of racketeering conspiracy, 1 number of enactment trafficking by force, fraud oregon coercion, and 1 number of proscription to prosecute successful prostitution. They added two further charges past month.

Combs faces up to beingness successful situation if convicted. His proceedings is expected to past astir 8 weeks. 

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This nonfiction primitively appeared connected HuffPost.