Sean 'Diddy' Combs' attorney cross-examines Cassie Ventura for the first time

Music mogul and entrepreneur Sean "Diddy" Combs arrives astatine the Billboard Music Awards, May 15, 2022, successful Las Vegas. Jordan Strauss/Invision via AP hide caption

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This study contains descriptions of carnal and intersexual violence.

During cross-examination Thursday, Cassandra "Cassie" Ventura elaborate successful the national enactment trafficking and racketeering proceedings against hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs their radical intersexual encounters, the grade of their cause usage and her ain feelings toward Combs.

Thursday marked the 4th time of the New York proceedings against Combs. Ventura continued her grounds in which she has alleged a signifier of of intersexual coercion, drugging and carnal abuse.

Combs faces 3 main charges of enactment trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and proscription for prostitution. Combs' defence denies helium committed these crimes.

Defense highlighted texts of Ventura helping program 'freak-offs'

One of Combs' defence attorneys, Anna Estevao, tried to found that determination was a loving narration betwixt the pair, and that Ventura anticipated and planned immoderate of the "freak-offs." Ventura has described these events arsenic ones successful which Combs instructed Ventura to instrumentality assorted drugs and hired antheral prostitutes for her to person enactment with portion helium watched.

The defence relied connected substance messages betwixt the brace of Ventura saying she "can't hold either" for the "freak-off," she's "always acceptable to FO" and that she enjoys them erstwhile "we some privation it." The texts besides notation Ventura picking rooms, supplies and escorts.

Ventura said the texts were "just words."

She said earlier successful her grounds that she did sometimes initiate the acts retired of fear, and would bash her champion to do "damage control" truthful she would cognize erstwhile they were happening. She besides said she loved him and tried to marque him happy. Ventura said astir of her clip was spent having a "freak-off" oregon recovering from one. If she refused, Combs would go violent, Ventura has said.

She said Thursday the "freak-offs" were similar a occupation and she hated them, particularly erstwhile Combs recorded them.

Combs' lawyer referenced Combs having withdrawal symptoms from opiates

The defence questioned Ventura astir Combs' authorities of caput during immoderate of his convulsive episodes, but did not explicitly nexus the two.

In opening statements, Combs' attorneys admitted Combs' wrongdoing successful a 2016 video released past twelvemonth by CNN. Combs is shown pursuing Ventura down the hallway of a hotel, throwing her to the ground, kicking, dragging and hitting her.

On Thursday, Ventura said the 2 utilized drugs extensively passim their relationship, and Combs tried to get them to halt astatine respective points, but ne'er done a rehabilitation facility.

She added helium would often spell done withdrawal symptoms, specified arsenic irritability, but did not cognize whether helium was inebriated during the incidental shown connected the edifice video.

Defense asked Ventura astir feeling jealous during her narration with Combs

In opening statements earlier this week, defence lawyer Teny Geragos called this a lawsuit of "jealousy and infidelity."

On Thursday, Estevao said Combs was often seeing assorted women and Ventura often complained astir not being the "main girlfriend."

Ventura said it bothered her that she and Combs were not nationalist the archetypal fewer years of their relationship, and that Combs was besides inactive progressive with Kim Porter, the parent to respective of Combs' children.

Estevao added that Ventura wanted the narration to beryllium much astir conscionable sex. In a 2009 text, Ventura said Combs treated her similar she was conscionable a idiosyncratic to "get your fantasies disconnected with and that's it."

In 11 years together, Ventura said she ne'er felt afloat portion of a household with Combs and his 7 children.

She besides said it was often expected for her to beryllium monogamous to Combs, but not the different mode around. Ventura said she started dating rapper Kid Cudi erstwhile she and Combs were breached up, but that she ended it successful little than a period erstwhile Combs began threatening him. In 2023, Cudi told The New York Times his car exploded successful his driveway astir the clip helium was seeing Ventura.

NPR's Isabella Gomez Sarmiento contributed to this report.