Cassie Ventura to resume testimony in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sex-trafficking trial

Singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, a erstwhile woman of Sean “Diddy” Combs and a cardinal witnesser successful the national sex-trafficking and racketeering proceedings of the euphony mogul, volition instrumentality to the witnesser basal connected Wednesday morning, arsenic the high-profile proceedings enters its 3rd day.

Ventura, who is 8 and a fractional months pregnant, testified connected Tuesday that during her decade-long on-and-off narration with Combs, she endured years of carnal abuse, power and unit and elaborate drug-fueled intersexual encounters involving antheral escorts that she said were directed by Combs.

She described Combs arsenic having power implicit astir each facet of her beingness and testified that arguments would sometimes crook violent, telling the tribunal that Combs would “mash my head, sound maine over, resistance me, footwear me”.

Ventura, 38, filed a suit successful 2023 against Combs, accusing him of carnal and intersexual abuse. Though the 2 settled that suit for an undisclosed sum, it prompted a national probe that led to Combs’s arrest successful September 2024.

Combs faces charges including racketeering conspiracy, enactment trafficking and proscription to prosecute successful prostitution. He has pleaded not blameworthy and denied each allegations.

Over the people of her several-hour grounds connected Tuesday, Ventura became affectional astatine moments, pausing to instrumentality heavy breaths oregon to cry. She dabbed her eyes with a insubstantial and periodically rested her hands connected her large stomach.

Ventura recounted the multi-day drug-fueled enactment sessions, known arsenic “freak-offs”, which she claimed Combs directed and “choreographed”.

Ventura testified that she did not privation to prosecute successful the encounters that progressive a antheral escort, and that each clip she would instrumentality drugs, often MDMA oregon ecstasy, which she said Combs supplied, that would assistance her enactment awake, and besides for her to “disassociate”, she said.

The “freak-offs”, Ventura told the jury, made her consciousness “horrible”, “worthless” and “humiliated”. But, she said that she was young and successful emotion with Combs, and felt obligated to enactment successful them due to the fact that she didn’t privation to marque Combs “angry”.

“I wanted to marque him happy,” she said. “I didn’t cognize what ‘no’ could crook into.”

At 1 constituent during testimony, she told the court: “Make the incorrect face, and the adjacent happening I knew, I would get deed successful the face.”

Ventura besides recounted erstwhile she archetypal met Combs successful 2005 erstwhile she was 19, describing him arsenic a “larger-than-life entrepreneur, musician”. She told the tribunal however she went connected to motion a 10-album woody with Combs’s grounds label, Bad Boy Records, but lone ended up releasing 1 album.

Just earlier Tuesday’s tribunal league adjourned, prosecutors began questioning Ventura astir a captious portion of grounds successful the case: a 2016 edifice hallway surveillance video showing Combs kicking and dragging Ventura.

Ventura testified that she, Combs and a antheral escort had been engaged successful a “freak-off” successful the edifice country erstwhile astatine immoderate constituent Combs deed her, and truthful she grabbed her things and near the room.

Ventura volition proceed her grounds connected Wednesday, with cross-examination to follow.

The trial, expected to past astatine slightest 8 weeks, is not being televised.

If convicted, Combs, who has been jailed since his apprehension past year, could walk the remainder of his beingness successful prison.