While Cassie Ventura was approaching her 12th hour on the stand of witnesses, she told the jurors that the incessant threats and sexual demands of her ex-little friend, Sean “Diddy”- as well as a model of sexual relations forced with foreigners- led her in dependence, exposed him to regular gusts of violence and led her to contemplate the suicide.
The star witness in the federal sex trafficking case and the Combs racketeering, Ventura spent her second day on the stand of witnesses in a audience room in Manhattan on Wednesday to offer a first -hand report on the way her life was changed by the Rap magnate, while she spent her music to spend her days planning sexual games for the fighting and then submitting to them. If she had not declared it, she said, Combs would have injured or made a threat to release harmless videos which, feared, would destroy her reputation.
Combs pleaded not guilty and insisted that he neither sexually assaulted nor treaty. Once again, there was a meters of Ventura stone meters – who is eight months pregnant – because she has not spared detail and told the jury a life that, she said, made her want to live.
Sean “Diddy” listens like her former girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura testifies to her trial on sex trafficking in New York, on May 14, 2025 in this sketch of the courtroom.
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The jurors see images of monsters that Combs would have used as “blackmail”
Ventura told the jurors that the quirking sessions in which she participated turned into private pornography shots for Combs, which would use the equipment as “blackmail” if it disobeyed it.
With Combs, reducing her professional work as a singer, paying her subsistence costs and controlling her personal life – to her daily movements – Ventura said that she feared that the publication of videos endanger her career prospects and embarrass him.
“I was just afraid for my career. I was afraid for my family. It’s just embarrassing and disgusting. No one should do that to anyone,” said Ventura, explaining that Combs had told her that the videos “could ruin everything” for which she worked and made her look like “a slut”.
For the first time, the jurors saw some examples of documents that Combs would have used as blackmail when the prosecutors concluded a proof of seven fixed images isolated from the videos of quirks. Originally, the prosecutors planned to read the videos for the jury – but they then refused to introduce all the videos of the freak -offs into evidence.
Prosecutors did not publicly identify the reason for the change of plan.
Ventura lightens repeated bodies of violence
Ventura has testified that the Combs have become more and more violent towards her, in addition to forcing her to participate in breakdowns.
She specifically told the first time that Combs would have “struck [her] Around. “She said they were in New York when he” hit me on the side of the head and I fell on the ground. “She testified that they were in a car, and the alleged assault took place in front of a driver and staff.
Another alleged incident she said for the jury occurred in August 2013 when Combs entered her apartment in a rage and threw her on her bed because she was sleeping and did not suit her suitcases for a music festival.
“I had a fairly large cut on the side of my eyebrow,” said Ventura, adding that she had a permanent scar from the incident. She said that she had sent a text to Combs a photo of the injury with the message: “You remember.”
At one point during her long testimony, the prosecutor Emily Johnson asked Ventura how many times the combs have become violent with her during their relationship of almost 11 years. Ventura sighed and says gently: “Who knows.”
Sean “Diddy” Frommage The ex-girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura in a motionless image of a surveillance video of March 5, 2016 taken in the corridor of a Los Angeles hotel.
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The jurors obtain a complete image of the assault on the 2016 camera
After seeing the video of Combres physically attracting Ventura in a hotel in Los Angeles on March 5, 2016, on the first day of testimony, the jurors heard the account directly from Ventura on Wednesday.
Ventura testified that Combs had pulled her on the ground, struck her and dragged her to the hotel corridor. She said that after her return, Combs had threw a vase, she was shortly missing. The jurors have already seen a video of the assault and its consequences.
The jurors had heard testimonies earlier this week from Israel Florez, a security guard who responded to the incident and tried to make sure that Ventura could leave the hotel.
“He told him at some point that – he said that you did not go to leave,” said Florez, adding that Combs was trying to bring him to the incident. He didn’t take the money.
While Ventura told the video showing the assault, her husband Alex Fine, seated in court, fixed her gaze squarely on combs.
According to Ventura, Combs sent her an SMS dam once she left the hotel by begging her to come back. She added that she had been bruised with the attack and had to hide injuries for a next cinematographic event.
“Yo Pls calls me. I have six children. The PLS call me,” wrote Combres in a message. “Call me. Call now,” said another.
“I have a Prime Minister on Monday for the greatest thing I have ever done and I have a black butter eye and a fat,” sent a Ventura message. “You are sick to think it’s ok to do what you have done.”
Ventura testifies to the conclusion of her relationship with the comb
Ventura testified that her relationship with Combs, who began in romance and a traction towards the excitement that surrounded Combs, ended with violence when he raped her on the soil of his show after trying to ask for the closure after the end of their relationship.
“I just remember crying and saying no, but it was very fast,” she said. “I don’t know if he noticed it.”
In the years following the end of the relationship, Ventura said that she had tried to obtain professional help to overcome her trauma and envisaged suicide. She sobbed on the witness bar while she remembered how trauma has drained her will to live.
“I was running and I didn’t want to be alive at that time,” she said, decomposing by describing how “I couldn’t take the pain in which I was.”
She said that she had tried to treat the pain by writing what happened to her, and she offered Combs the right to buy what has become a book for 30 million dollars, a random price that she said that she thought “alert him”. No agreement has been concluded.
When Ventura continued Combs for the decade of violence and abuse in 2023, the case was settled the next day without admission of guilt of Combs. She revealed on the stand on Wednesday and for the first time publicly, that she had received a settlement of $ 20 million.
“How many monsters did you have during your relationship?” Prosecutor Emily Johnson asked in his last question of 12 hours of direct examination.
“It is impossible to know, but hundreds,” said Ventura.
