Cassie Ventura testifies she loved Diddy 'so much' and felt a responsibility to participate in 'freak offs'

R&B vocalist Cassie Ventura, a longtime woman of Sean "Diddy" Combs, testified Tuesday that she loved the hip-hop mogul and felt a consciousness of work to articulation successful the drug-fueled enactment marathons that helium called "freak offs."

"I was conscionable successful emotion and wanted to marque him happy," Ventura told a Manhattan assemblage arsenic she sat other Combs during his criminal sex-trafficking and racketeering trial.

Ventura, who dated Combs from 2007 to 2018, described herself arsenic a "people pleaser" and told the eight men and 4 women jury however Combs was often convulsive with her.

Arguments with Combs would regularly effect successful carnal abuse, she testified.

"He would bash maine successful my head, sound maine over, resistance me, footwear me, stomp maine successful the head," Ventura said, adding that Combs bushed her "too frequently."

"I would get knocked successful my forehead, busted lips, swollen lips, achromatic eyes," Ventura testified. "Bruises each implicit my body."

The grounds from Ventura, the prosecution's cardinal witnesser successful the case, could determine whether the assemblage yet convicts Combs.

Prosecutors allege that for 2 decades, Combs led a transgression endeavor that progressive the enactment trafficking of Ventura and an anonymous Jane Doe.

Ventura's ascent to the witnesser basal — she is 8 months large — is the archetypal clip she and Combs were successful the aforesaid country since 2018, erstwhile she attended the ceremonial of Kim Porter, Combs' semipermanent woman and parent to 4 of his children.

Ventura told the assemblage that it was soon aft she started dating Combs that she learned that helium had sudden, convulsive temper swings.

"Make a incorrect look and the adjacent happening I knew I was getting deed successful the face," she told the jurors.

He would lash out, "If I wasn't smiling astatine him, if I didn't look the definite mode that helium liked," oregon if she was being "bratty," she said.

"Watch your mouth," she said he'd archer her if helium thought she spoke retired of turn.

"Fix your face," he'd accidental if helium thought she was smirking, according to her testimony.

Ventura's quality followed a whirlwind archetypal time of trial.

On Monday, the assemblage heard opening statements and grounds from the archetypal 2 witnesses, including an exotic dancer who testified helium was repeatedly paid to person sex with Ventura arsenic Combs watched.

Prosecutor Emily Johnson told the assemblage however Combs utilized "lies, drugs, threats, and unit to unit and coerce" Ventura and different pistillate into "freak offs."

Plenty of bath breaks

Prosecutors accidental Ventura, 38, volition beryllium connected the basal testifying against Combs, 55, for astir of this week.

She is owed to springiness commencement adjacent period to her 3rd kid with hubby Alex Fine, according to a root who asked not to beryllium quoted by name. She volition beryllium fixed breaks each 90 minutes during her testimony.

Fine whitethorn beryllium called to the basal arsenic a defence witness, Combs' lawyer Teny Geragos told the judge, who is allowing him to ticker portion of her testimony.

If Fine is asked to instrumentality the stand, helium would beryllium asked to impeach the grounds of his wife, Geragos said extracurricular the jury's beingness moments earlier Ventura began testifying.

Fine whitethorn beryllium asked astir "several precise threatening messages" successful which helium spoke of "beating the F-word retired of" Combs, the lawyer said.

Ventura says she loved Combs 'so much'

The transgression indictment against Combs accuses him of forcing Ventura into "engaging successful commercialized enactment acts arsenic a effect of force, fraud, and coercion" passim their decadelong relationship.

Prosecutors person alleged that the commercialized enactment acts progressive the alleged freak offs.

Ventura's relationship of maltreatment could beryllium bolstered by information video showing Combs beating Ventura successful the hallway of the now-closed InterContinental Hotel successful Los Angeles. Prosecutors accidental the video shows Ventura struggling to permission the edifice aft a freak disconnected held determination successful 2016. Jurors were shown this video connected Monday.

When shown a inactive from that video connected Tuesday successful court, Ventura told jurors, "We were having an brushwood that we called a freak off."

During the archetypal twelvemonth of the relationship, "Sean projected to maine this intersexual brushwood that helium called voyeurism, wherever helium would ticker maine person a intersexual brushwood with a 3rd man, specifically different man," Ventura testified.

Ventura said she initially agreed to a freak disconnected due to the fact that she "felt a consciousness of responsibility, with Sean sharing thing similar that with me."

"Also, I loved him truthful much," Ventura testified.

Combs apologized aft the video surfaced successful 2023, and his lawyers person conceded helium was convulsive during the relationship. But they person alleged that Ventura was besides violent.

"There was hitting connected some sides," Combs' lawyer Marc Agnifilo said successful tribunal connected Friday. Ventura's lawyer has declined to remark connected this allegation.

During opening statements connected Monday, Geragos described the infamous information video of Ventura and the rapper arsenic "indefensible," "horrible," and "dehumanizing."

"It is not grounds of enactment trafficking," Geragos told jurors. "It is grounds of home violence."

Johnson, the prosecutor, told jurors successful her opening statements that Combs has "brutally" beaten Ventura, "kicking her successful the backmost and flinging her astir similar a rag doll."

In bid to support power of Ventura, Johnson said Combs would endanger to blackmail her with the merchandise of videos of her having enactment with antheral escorts.

Johnson called those videos "souvenirs of the astir humiliating nights of her life."

Since his apprehension successful September, Combs has maintained that he's ne'er sexually abused anyone.

If convicted connected charges of enactment trafficking and racketeering conspiracy, Combs could walk the remainder of his beingness down bars.

If you are a subsister of intersexual assault, you tin telephone the National Sexual Assault Hotline (1-800-656-4673) oregon sojourn its website to person confidential support.