Cassie Ventura Reveals Black Eye, Fat Lip In Sean “Diddy” Combs Trial

“I have a black eye and a fat lip,” Cassie Ventura informed the courtroom in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ intercourse trafficking trial Wednesday, studying aloud a textual content she despatched to Combs after a beating from the “All About The Benjamins” performer at an L.A. resort in 2016.

“You are sick for thinking it is okay what you’ve done. Just stay away from me,” she added with a damaged voice.

The continued testimony from the very pregnant “Me & U” singer Wednesday follows a day of sordid revelations on May 13 of the wide-spread cruelty and management Ventura and federal prosecutors declare she suffered by the hands of Diddy throughout their decade-long relationship.

Combs responded to Ventura’s accusations with extra texts imploring her to name him and falsely telling her that he was being arrested at that second for the incident within the resort.

In the quick aftermath of the incident, a buddy of Ventura’s referred to as the LAPD to the singer’s close by residence. When the police arrived, nevertheless, Ventura declined to inform them who had given her the fats lip and black eye.

“Just in that moment, I didn’t want to hurt him that way,” she defined right now. “At that moment, I wasn’t ready”.

Combs later confirmed up at Ventura’s residence, banging on the door, demanding to be let in. Ventura was not on the residence on the time, she mentioned, right now.

The courtroom was additionally proven {a photograph} of a closely made up Ventura sporting sun shades simply earlier than she attended a film premiere with Combs days after the resort incident in March 2016. The singer mentioned she was sporting the sun shades to cover her black eye. She additionally mentioned that as a lot as she tried, she couldn’t cowl up all of the bruises on her physique.

With only some breaks for the expectant mom, the jury Tuesday heard tales of inflatable swimming swimming pools filled with child oil in resort suites, and a number of paid companions having intercourse for days with Ventura as Combs directed the motion and pleasured himself within the nook. Over the roughly 5 hours Ventura was questioned by Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily Johnson, there have been tales of beatings, threats of extra beatings, manipulation, degradation, medication and extra medication from a younger lady who admitted she was looking for self-worth at nearly any value from a person she nonetheless says she cherished and would do something to please.

Estimated by presiding Judge Arun Subramanian to final eight to 10 weeks, the prison trial of the much-accused and at present incarcerated Combs follows his arrest final September on fees of racketeering, intercourse trafficking, transportation to interact in prostitution and extra. Now seemingly about to have her and husband Alex Fine’s third baby any day, Diddy’s ex Ventura was paid off within the tens of hundreds of thousands in late 2023 to rapidly drop her personal assault and abuse civil go well with in opposition to the Bad Boy Records founder. Though withdrawn with that settlement, that short-lived go well with by Ventura opened the flood gates of rape and different such accusations in opposition to Combs (with a handful now dismissed) and drove a direct path to the prison trial underway now in Manhattan.

The 55-year-old Combs is spending the remainder of his life behind bars in federal jail if discovered responsible by the jury on this case.

As he has in each single case in opposition to him, Combs has entered a not responsible plea. The one-time mini-mogul’s protection workforce have admitted in varied courtroom filings and their very own opening assertion on May 12 that their consumer is a home violence preparator, a drug person, a self-avowed swinger and sometimes uncontrolled. However, with that preemptive swipe on the prosecution and having beforehand rejected a plea deal, they rightly insist that isn’t what he’s charged with. They additionally insist that nobody was coerced into something and everybody, together with Ventura, was a consenting grownup in Combs so-called unconventional way of life.

Ventura and Combs self-described “toxic relationship” was again within the media foreground within the spring 2024 when CNN obtained and broadcast a seemingly irrefutable and now protection disputed 2016 L.A. resort safety footage of a half-naked Combs beating his then-girlfriend within the corridor and dragging her again to their room.

For months, the protection alleges the footage, which their consumer had beforehand apologized for the violence he’s proven committing after which deleted the apology, was doctored and doesn’t inform the entire story. Now, after repeated viewing of the footage within the trial’s first days, and May 12 testimony from the then InterContinental Hotel safety guard who arrived on the scene that March day 9 years in the past, the Combs’ authorized workforce is taking the stance that the footage merely reveals a dust-up between lovers over a cellphone that spiraled uncontrolled however de-escalated quickly too.

Throughout Ventura’s soft-spoken and sometimes succinct testimony on Tuesday, a sweater-wearing and white-haired Combs sat just some toes away within the jam-packed courtroom of Judge Subramanian. Unlike the primary day of the trial on Monday, the “I Need A Girl” performer was in close to fixed movement on May 13 as Ventura testified. Speaking and passing notes to his protection workforce, and shifting with obvious agitation in his chair, because the day glided by, Combs appeared much less and fewer just like the stuffy previous man persona he was making an attempt to go off.

Unless she goes into labor, Ventura is anticipated to testify most of this week. To that, the Marc Agnifilo, Teny Geragos and Brian Steel-led protection are extensively anticipated to take turns eviscerating star witness Ventura’s testimony as that of an previous lover who by no means received over her jealousy and the very fact she was not the so-called “soulmate” to Combs that the now deceased Kim Porter was. As was raised yesterday, at one level Ventura’s husband Fine could also be referred to as to testify by the protection over the problems of an alleged 2018 rape of the singer by Combs and a sequence of harsh and doubtlessly threatening textual content messages Fine despatched Combs in 2023.

Known as Victim-1, Ventura’s testimony was imagined to be adopted by Victim-2, Victim-3 and Victim-4 and extra just lately added Victim-5. The majority of that schedule continues to be in place, however Victim-3 has disappeared, and the federal government admits they’ve misplaced contact along with her. Seen as late as this previous weekend as a possible roadblock the tight trial schedule going forward to plan or grounds for a mistrial movement by the protection, the continued absence of Victim-3 was primarily waved by way of by Judge Subramanian earlier this week on the hopes she turns up or the feds discover her quickly.

Still, as sources inform me, the no-show of Victim-3 is already being penciled in as a rationale for a later mistrial movement by the protection or grounds for an enchantment if the jury verdict is in opposition to Combs in early July.