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More witnesses volition instrumentality the basal successful the coming weeks, including Aubrey O’Day and Dawn Richard, 2 of Combs’ erstwhile artists.
Before Ventura’s emotional dayslong testimony, jurors heard from Israel Florez, a erstwhile information defender astatine the InterContinental Hotel, who spoke astir the aftermath of the assault. Daniel Phillip, a 41-year-old antheral escort who claimed to person had intersexual encounters with some Ventura and Combs, past testified successful graphic item astir Combs’ alleged intersexual practices.
On Thursday, Combs’ ineligible squad began cross-examining Ventura, focusing connected her analyzable narration with the suspect and their alleged marathon enactment sessions.
The defense has admitted to Combs’ convulsive outbursts, but maintains that prosecutors are mischaracterizing his consensual relationships and intersexual encounters arsenic transgression acts. The prosecution, however, has argued that Combs exploited his power, wealthiness and personage presumption to systematically maltreatment women, and perpetrate a signifier of convulsive and coercive acts.
Several members of Combs’ household — including his mother, big sons and young daughters — person attended the trial, arsenic has Ventura’s husband, Alex Fine.
So far, the proceedings person been dominated by affectional grounds and graphic accusations, mounting the code for however this high-stakes ineligible conflict volition play retired successful the coming weeks. Below are 9 cardinal takeaways from the archetypal week.
Diddy Allegedly Bribed A Security Guard After His 2016 Hotel Hallway Attack On Cassie
Florez, the erstwhile InterContinental information defender who responded to the telephone of Combs’ battle connected Ventura, testified that the mogul tried to wage him disconnected to support the incidental quiet, People reported. He claimed helium encountered a towel-clad Combs sitting successful a seat “slouched down, similar with a blank look … similar a devilish stare, conscionable looking astatine me.” Then Combs offered him a wad of money, Florez said, and uttered 3 chilling words.
“Don’t archer nobody,” Florez recalled, interpreting Combs’ informing and currency arsenic a bribe.
He besides claimed that Combs took different guard’s telephone aft accusing him of signaling his and Florez’s conversation. Florez said helium past pinned Combs against the partition and demanded that helium merchandise the guard’s phone.
Diddy Allegedly Made An Escort Perform A Lewd Act On Cassie During A Freak-Off
The New York Times reported that Combs erstwhile allegedly forced a antheral enactment idiosyncratic to urinate successful Ventura’s rima during 1 of his freak-offs due to the fact that it was a “turn on” for him. During her testimony, Ventura spoke astir the incident, adding that she didn’t accidental nary astatine that infinitesimal due to the fact that she “thought that it was evident that I didn’t privation to bash it.”
“I conscionable felt humiliated,” she said, per NBC News. “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.”
Cassie Described Her Role In Diddy’s Alleged Freak-Offs As A ‘Job’
Ventura spoke astir the quality of Combs’ alleged freak-offs successful large item during her archetypal time of testimony, describing the intersexual encounters, which could past anyplace from 36 hours to 4 days, arsenic a “very choreographed experience,” Rolling Stone reported. She besides claimed that she would sometimes enactment up for “days connected end,” drinking, doing drugs and having enactment with “strangers.”
Ventura testified that erstwhile the freak-offs with Combs began, they became an astir play occurrence that “took a large chunk of my life,” and near “no abstraction to bash thing other but to retrieve and conscionable effort to consciousness mean again.” By the extremity of her narration with Combs, Ventura claimed she participated successful “hundreds” of freak-offs. “Eventually,” she said, “it became a occupation for me.”
Diddy Allegedly Directed Cassie To Hire Male Escorts For Freak-Offs
Ventura claimed that Combs tasked her with uncovering antheral escorts for their alleged freak-offs by responding to ads connected Craigslist and Backpage oregon done the escort work Cowboys 4 Angels. “That was conscionable my job, really,” she said connected the witnesser stand, according to The Times. “It was expected of me.”
She besides claimed that Combs “had to approve” immoderate last hires, arsenic prosecutors argued that Combs was progressive successful each transaction and utilized his wealth to wage the escorts. “I showed the photos to Sean to spot if helium was interested,” Ventura said. “If helium wasn’t interested, I would archer them ‘no’ and inquire for idiosyncratic else.”
Cassie Was Still Expected To Participate In Freak-Offs During Her Period
While describing what edifice rooms would look similar aft a freak-off, Ventura claimed that sometimes humor would beryllium near connected the sheets due to the fact that she was menstruating, People reported. “I was expected to person freak-offs connected my period,” she testified. “Sean would expect it. I don’t deliberation anyone wants to bash that.”
According to Ventura, she participated successful these enactment acts, contempt the circumstances, retired of fearfulness of Combs’ temper. “Something that Sean wanted to happen, that’s what was going to happen,” she said.
Cassie Refuted The Claim Diddy Laced Baby Oil With Drugs During Freak-Offs
Combs was allegedly enraged erstwhile helium recovered retired Ventura was dating rapper Kid Cudi successful 2011. Combs and Ventura were successful an on-and-off narration from 2007 to 2018, but were “not successful the top place” erstwhile Ventura connected with Cudi, she testified, according to People.
After coming crossed an email betwixt Cudi’s unit and Ventura during a freak-off, the second said Combs tried to onslaught her. “I conscionable retrieve him putting a vino opener betwixt his fingers and lunging astatine me,” she recalled connected the stand.
Afterward, Ventura said she called Cudi connected a burner phone, which she utilized to fell their narration from Combs, and went to his house. She aboriginal met up with Combs astatine his location to sermon the situation, wherever she alleged helium attacked her again.
“Sean kicked maine successful the back, I fell connected the level and past left,” said Ventura, adding that helium besides threatened to harm some her and Cudi, and merchandise sexually explicit videos of her. When she returned to her edifice room, Ventura testified that it was “torn up,” with urine connected the floor, apparel thrown astir and feces successful the toilet.
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