The Latest: Cassie now faces cross-examination after exposing Diddy's violence

NEW YORK – The R&B vocalist Cassie is facing cross-examination Thursday aft 2 days of grounds recounting tumultuous details of beingness with her ex-boyfriend, Sean “Diddy” Combs.

Prosecutors allege Combs used his fame and fortune to orchestrate an empire of exploitation, coercing women into abusive enactment parties. His lawyers reason that each the intersexual acts were consensual, and though helium could beryllium violent, helium ne'er veered into enactment trafficking and racketeering.

Combs’ squad of 7 attorneys is led by New York lawyer Marc Agnifilo and besides includes Atlanta lawyer Brian Steel, who represented Young Thug successful a lengthy proceedings earlier the rapper pleaded blameworthy to gang, cause and weapon charges.

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The transverse introspection of Cassie volition soon beryllium underway successful Manhattan national court. Defense lawyers accidental they’ll beryllium scrutinizing however infidelity fueled the combustible astir 11-year narration betwixt the R&B vocalist and the euphony mogul who controlled her career.

Defense lawyer Teny Geragos suggested yesterday during a treatment betwixt lawyers and the justice that the gameplan for contiguous was changing connected the alert retired of necessity.

She didn’t get into particulars but she told Judge Arun Subramanian that the questioning of Cassie by prosecutors implicit 2 days “has gone overmuch otherwise than I expected.” She added: “So we are benignant of changing our strategy.”

Agnifilo aboriginal told the justice that questioning Cassie astir infidelities is important. “Everybody knows that we are going to bring up infidelities, that we’re going to privation to bring up substance messages of infidelities, and these substance messages are often successful colorful language,” helium said.

Defense lawyer says infidelity volition item cross-examination

After the assemblage was sent location for the day, lawyers squabbled implicit crushed rules for the cross-examination of Cassie, which is acceptable to statesman astatine 9:30 a.m. EDT Thursday.

Agnifilo said infidelity would beryllium the featured taxable of the questioning that is expected to agelong until day’s extremity Friday.

“We person worn our defence connected our sleeves since the archetypal bail hearing,” Agnifilo said. “Everybody knows we are going to bring up infidelity and substance messages of infidelity.”

What to cognize astir Cassie

Cassie sued Combs successful 2023 alleging years of rape and abuse. The suit was settled wrong hours, but was followed by dozens of akin ineligible claims and touched disconnected a transgression investigation.

A singer, actor, dancer and model, Cassie’s nonrecreational ambitions began successful adolescence, erstwhile she signed to the top-tier talent and modeling bureau Wilhelmina. Her euphony vocation launched soon thereafter, erstwhile she near her location authorities of Connecticut for New York, wherever she signed with manager Tony Mottola and archetypal met Combs.

Cassie met Combs successful 2005 erstwhile she was 19 and helium was 37. He signed her to his Bad Boy Records statement and, wrong a fewer years, they started dating.

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