Tearful Cassie Ventura tells court Diddy beat and humiliated her

Sean "Diddy" Combs' ex-girlfriend, Casandra Ventura, has told the hip-hop mogul's sex-trafficking proceedings that helium controlled her beingness and coerced her into "humiliating" enactment acts.

The prosecution's prima witnesser testified astir the alleged carnal and affectional maltreatment she endured astatine the hands of the rapper during alleged "freak-offs", oregon intersexual encounters the mates had with antheral escorts.

Family and friends person travel to tribunal successful ample numbers to enactment Mr Combs, whose ineligible squad has not yet questioned Ms Ventura.

Mr Combs has pleaded not blameworthy to charges including racketeering conspiracy, enactment trafficking, and proscription to prosecute successful prostitution.

Prosecutors began by questioning Ms Ventura - 1 of their 2 cardinal witnesses successful the lawsuit - astir her 11-year, on-and-off narration with Mr Combs.

Now 38 and large with her 3rd child, she met Mr Combs erstwhile she was a 19-year-old aspiring vocalist and helium was 37.

His grounds statement would aboriginal motion Ms Ventura arsenic an artist, and soon afterwards their romanticist narration began.

At the time, she testified, she felt similar they were successful a monogamous relationship, though she knows present that helium had different girlfriends.

She said she "fell successful love" with the "larger-than-life entrepreneur and musician". But it was not agelong earlier she noticed different broadside to him, she said.

Mr Combs wanted to "control" her life, Ms Ventura said. She said helium paid for her home, her cars, her telephone and different exertion that helium would sometimes instrumentality distant to "punish" her.

"Control was everything, from the mode that I looked... to what I was moving on," Ms Ventura said.

Eventually, she claimed, the power turned violent. Mr Combs would "bash connected my head, sound maine over, resistance maine and footwear me" frequently, Ms Ventura testified, sometimes done tears.

She alleged that she was near with swollen lips, achromatic eyes and knots connected her forehead.

Prosecutors spent hours connected Tuesday asking Ms Ventura astir alleged "freak-offs".

Ms Ventura told the tribunal however Mr Combs introduced her to the intersexual events during the archetypal twelvemonth of their relationship. They would prosecute a antheral escort oregon stripper to person enactment with Ms Ventura portion Mr Combs watched.

Ms Ventura told the tribunal that she archetypal tried the encounters to marque Mr Combs "happy". But she said they humiliated her, and sometimes lasted 3 to 4 days.

"I felt beauteous horrible astir myself," she told the court, wiping distant tears. "It made maine consciousness worthless."

Ms Ventura told the tribunal she ne'er wanted to person enactment with anyone but Mr Combs, and claimed she would instrumentality myriad drugs - marijuana, ecstasy and ketamine - to assistance her execute to Mr Combs' satisfaction, but besides to "disassociate".

The drugs were "a mode to not consciousness it for what it truly was", she said, "having enactment with a alien I didn't truly privation to beryllium having enactment with".

As prosecutors pressed Ms Ventura astir the "freak-offs", she told the tribunal of however Mr Combs would nonstop her to find antheral escorts, strippers oregon dancers to person enactment with portion helium watched.

She alleged that Mr Combs would wage the men anyplace from $1,500 to $6,000 successful cash, depending connected their performance.

They recovered the men done stripper companies and sites similar Craigslist. Some of their photos were displayed to the jurors, including Daniel Phillip, who finished his grounds earlier connected Tuesday.

Ms Ventura and Mr Combs had the enounters successful cities astir the world, including Los Angeles, New York, Las Vegas and Ibiza, Spain, Ms Ventura testified.

Sometimes, men would beryllium flown successful during vacations, she alleged, and Mr Combs would nonstop her to inquire unit to wage for and put their travel, calling them caller employees.

Among different charges, prosecutors are trying to beryllium that Mr Combs engaged successful enactment trafficking - quality trafficking for the intent of intersexual exploitation - and proscription to prosecute successful prostitution.

As prosecutors pressed Ms Ventura for graphic details, 1 cardinal constituent emerged: Ms Ventura claimed that Mr Combs controlled each portion of the encounters.

He chose the outfits she wore - down to the highly precocious heels she kept connected for hours - arsenic good arsenic the intersexual acts that transpired and the lighting, Ms Ventura told jurors.

"If Sean wanted thing to happen, that was what was going to happen," she said. "I couldn't accidental no."

Sometimes, Ms Ventura said, she would instrumentality the pb connected which antheral escorts to prosecute due to the fact that Mr Combs was "very busy", but she lone did truthful astatine his direction, she said.

She said freak-offs had a precise circumstantial "pattern" of intersexual acts each time.

"He was controlling the full situation," she alleged. "He was directing it."

At times, Ms Ventura said, she tried to archer Mr Combs that she felt "horrible". But erstwhile helium dismissed her concerns, she said, she relented, disquieted helium would get aggravated oregon question their relationship.

Ms Ventura is expected to proceed her grounds connected Wednesday, erstwhile she could besides look cross-examination.