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

Prosecutors first asked Ventura to describe her relationship with Combs. She said he “controlled a lot of my life.”

“There were violent arguments that would usually result in some sort of physical abuse,” she said in her testimony. “Dragging, different things of that nature.”

Ventura shared that she was vaguely familiar with who Combs was when they met in 2005, when she was 19, but “didn’t know too much about him personally.” She signed a 10-album deal under Combs’ Bad Boys Records and later began dating him.

The New York Times reported that at the beginning of their relationship, Ventura said, “I think I was just enamored by him. We were just having a good time.” She described the excitement of their relationship, which she said began during a trip to Miami. Ventura claimed it was there that Combs gave her a “blue dolphin” ecstasy pill, and they had sex on a boat.

She also alleged that Combs would “incessantly” call her and sometimes had personal assistants or security guards track her down when she didn’t answer his calls.

“Security protected him, kept an eye on me,” Ventura said, claiming the presence of Diddy’s personnel 24 hours a day.

Prosecutors asked Ventura to share more about her complex relationship with Combs. She explained that infidelity and jealousy played a role at times, and noted that Combs would have extreme mood changes if she were acting like a “brat.”

“Make the wrong face, and the next thing I knew, I was getting hit in the face,” Ventura said.

Prosecutors said that at one of Combs’ alleged freak-off sex parties, he forced a male sex worker to urinate in Ventura’s mouth — an ordeal during which prosecutors said she “felt like she was choking,” according to People.

According to the New York Times, Ventura was also asked to describe a “freak-off” on Tuesday. 

“It basically entails the hiring of an escort and setting up this experience so that I could perform for Sean,” she said. It involved Combs “being able to watch me with the other person and actually direct us on what we were doing,” she added. “Eventually it became a job for me, pretty much.”

Ventura testified that Combs recorded videos of her during sexual encounters as “blackmail materials” and feared that they could one day wind up on the internet. “He had many resources to do that,” she claimed.

Videos of Combs’ alleged freak-offs have been referenced as sealed evidence in his criminal trial. On Monday, lawyers for news organizations (including the New York Times and the Washington Post) filed a letter asking the judge in the case to keep the courtroom open to the public when visuals of those sexual exploits are played or at least “designate three pool reporters to watch and listen to the video exhibits as they are being shown,” Legal Affairs and Trials reported.

Ventura’s lawyers opposed the request to unseal those videos, stating in the letter, “Making the sexually explicit sealed videos public will effectively punish Ms. Ventura for testifying and re-traumatize her as the public will watch her abuse when she was at her most vulnerable.”

They added, “It would be profoundly unfair for Ms. Ventura’s brave choice to testify publicly and using her own name to require such a gross invasion of her dignity.”

On the stand, Ventura said Combs’ alleged freak-offs “took a big chunk of my life,” noting that she’d stay up for “days on end,” taking drugs, alcohol, and fornicating with “strangers.”

She claimed the sexual encounters would last anywhere from 36 hours to four days, though they could extend with breaks, and mostly occurred at hotels. She also noted that after they began, they became an almost weekly occurrence, leaving her little time to recover from the drugs, dehydration, and lack of sleep.

“The freak-offs became a job where there was no space to do anything else but to recover and just try to feel normal again,” Ventura said.

When asked to describe the aftermath of the freak-offs, Ventura told the prosecution that baby oil was left behind on the hotel walls and door handles, and sometimes even blood on the sheets, as she was “expected” to still participate during her period. She said urine was also on the linens sometimes, matching prosecutors’ earlier claim that a sex worker once urinated on Ventura.

“I just felt humiliated,” Ventura said on the witness stand, NBC News reported. “It was disgusting, it was too much. I choked, I didn’t want to be doing that. I was in a position I couldn’t easily get out of. I eventually put my hands up, and Sean saw and told him to stop. I was choking, too much urine in my mouth.”

She added, “Sean urinated on me at the same time.”

According to the New York Times, Ventura shared that Combs would become a different person during their sexual encounters, saying: “His eyes go black. The version of him I was in love with was no longer there.”

Even after telling Combs multiple times how the freak-offs made her feel “worthless,” Ventura said he was “pretty dismissive” of her concerns.

Ventura testified that one time, Combs asked her to get inside a blown-up pool full of baby oil at a hotel, which she didn’t want to do, but “at that point I couldn’t say no” for fear of his temper.

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

Expanding on the alleged freak-offs, Ventura said she’d spend considerable time preparing herself for them because of Combs’ control over her appearance. “I had to look a certain way,” she explained. 

According to Ventura, Combs frequently commented on her looks, directing choices such as her nail polish color and bringing up topics like breast implants — remarks that deeply affected her self-esteem, she said.

Ventura claimed this control extended to her electronic devices, too, as Combs or his security guards would confiscate them occasionally, but she’d eventually get them back. “It depended on how long I was being punished for,” she said.

The prosecution then asked Ventura about associates of Combs who followed his orders, like a security guard named D-Roc, who she claimed would come looking for her when Combs didn’t know her whereabouts.

D-Roc’s name came up again when Ventura recalled a freak-off at one of Combs’ Los Angeles homes, during which the security guard informed Combs that Suge Knight, one of his longtime industry rivals, was at a diner in town. Ventura claimed they rushed to confront Knight in an SUV, where she was handed a gun to put inside her purse. She said that wasn’t the only time she was asked to hold a firearm for Combs.

Combs’ high-profile trial kicked off with jury selection on May 5, followed by opening statements that began on Monday. Federal prosecutors started by describing Combs as the leader of a criminal enterprise who abused his power to exploit people like Ventura. 

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

Aside from Ventura, other witnesses who have testified against Combs so far include former security guard Israel Florez, who worked at the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles, where 2016 surveillance footage captured Combs physically assaulting Ventura. Daniel Phillip, who testified that Ventura once paid him for sex in the presence of Combs, was the prosecution’s second witness.

In his testimony, Phillip said that he was just “expecting to do a strip tease and leave” with $200 plus a tip for a 2012 or 2013 gig, according to NBC News. “We ended up having sex, rubbed baby oil on each other for a couple of minutes. He (Combs) was sitting in a corner masturbating,” the sex worker testified. He claimed that his sexual encounters with Combs and Ventura happened on more than one occasion. 

Ventura’s allegations preceded Combs’ September 2024 arrest and indictment. In November 2023, she filed a civil lawsuit against him, alleging domestic violence, sexual abuse, and trafficking. It was settled one day later, though a flurry of other suits were filed by other plaintiffs in the months after.

After Combs was arrested, Manhattan prosecutors charged him with one count of racketeering conspiracy, one count of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, and one count of transportation to engage in prostitution. They added two additional charges last month.

Combs faces up to life in prison if convicted. His trial is expected to last roughly eight weeks. 

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