Singer Cassie describes abusive relationship with Diddy in court testimony

Singer says connected time 3 of proceedings Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs routinely bushed her and threatened to ruin her vocation with videos of intersexual encounters.

Casandra Ventura, the vocalist popularly known arsenic Cassie and erstwhile woman of rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, has taken to the witnesser basal connected the 3rd time of his trial to represent a narration defined by carnal maltreatment and regular humiliation.

Testifying earlier the tribunal connected Wednesday, Ventura said Combs, who faces enactment trafficking and racketeering charges, bushed her and threatened to merchandise compromising videos that could harm her career.

“He would drawback maine up, propulsion maine down, deed maine successful the broadside of the head, footwear me,” Ventura, a bushed and blues singer, told jurors successful Manhattan national court.

“It would conscionable marque him much violent, marque him stronger, marque him privation to propulsion maine harder,” Ventura said of efforts to defy Combs’s convulsive behaviour during their decadelong relationship.

Prosecutors person alleged that Combs utilized his wealthiness and power of an entertainment empire to manipulate and coerce women, sometimes done carnal violence, into information successful drug-fuelled enactment parties known arsenic “freak-offs” and past utilized videos of intersexual encounters arsenic blackmail.

“He said that it would ruin everything that I had worked for, that it would marque maine look similar a slut, that I would beryllium shamed,” Ventura said. “Nobody should bash that to anyone.”

She stated information successful the “freak-offs” started to consciousness similar “a occupation wherever determination was nary abstraction to bash thing other but to retrieve and conscionable effort to consciousness mean again” and she developed an opioid addiction to cope.

On 1 juncture successful 2013, Ventura sent Combs pictures of injuries she sustained erstwhile helium threw her into a furniture framework truthful helium could “remember” what helium had done.

“You don’t cognize erstwhile to stop. You pushed it excessively acold and continued to push,” helium responded. “Sad.”

Combs’s lawyers person conceded that the rapper has an assertive temperament and has physically assaulted radical but state helium has been incorrectly charged with racketeering and enactment trafficking and a freewheeling intersexual manner is being misconstrued by prosecutors.

Combs has pleaded not blameworthy to 5 counts of racketeering conspiracy, enactment trafficking and proscription to prosecute successful prostitution. If helium is convicted connected each charges, helium faces a mandatory minimum condemnation of 15 years successful prison.

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