\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tCassie Ventura and Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs in 2018<\/span><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJohn Shearer\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n \n\tEstimated by presiding Judge Arun Subramanian to final eight to 10 weeks, the prison trial of the\u00a0much-accused<\/a>\u00a0and at present incarcerated Combs follows\u00a0his arrest final September<\/a>\u00a0on fees of\u00a0racketeering, intercourse trafficking, transportation to interact in prostitution and extra<\/a>. Now seemingly about to have her and husband Alex Fine\u2019s third baby any day, Diddy\u2019s ex\u00a0Ventura was paid off within the tens of hundreds of thousands in late 2023<\/a>\u00a0to 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 Though withdrawn with that settlement, that short-lived go well with by Ventura opened the flood gates of rape and different such accusations in opposition to Combs (with a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.<\/p>\n \n\tThe 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.<\/p>\n \n\tAs he has in each single case in opposition to him, Combs has entered a not responsible plea. The one-time mini-mogul\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n \n\tVentura and Combs self-described \u201ctoxic relationship\u201d was again within the media foreground within the spring 2024 when\u00a0CNN obtained and broadcast\u00a0<\/a>a seemingly irrefutable and now\u00a0protection disputed<\/a>\u00a02016 L.A. resort safety footage of a half-naked Combs beating his then-girlfriend within the corridor and dragging her again to their room.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tSean \u2018Diddy\u2019 Combs bodily assaulting Cassie Ventura in 2016<\/span><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCNN<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n \n\tFor 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\u2019t inform the entire story. Now, after repeated viewing of the footage within the trial\u2019s 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\u2019 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.<\/p>\n \n\tThroughout Ventura\u2019s 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 \u201cI Need A Girl\u201d 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.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tAlex Fine, Cassie Ventura\u2019s husband, leaves for the day through the trial of Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs at Manhattan Federal Court on May 13, 2025<\/span><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMichael M. Santiago\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n \n\tUnless 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\u2019s 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 \u201csoulmate\u201d to Combs that the now deceased Kim Porter was. As was raised yesterday, at one level Ventura\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n \n\tKnown as Victim-1, Ventura\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n \n\tStill, 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] \u201cI have a black eye and a fat lip,\u201d Cassie Ventura informed the courtroom in Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs\u2019 intercourse trafficking trial Wednesday, studying aloud a textual content she despatched to Combs after a beating from the \u201cAll About The Benjamins\u201d performer at an L.A. resort in 2016. \u201cYou are sick for thinking it is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":142083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[448,3835,3868,394,2885,7117,10555,231,3266,208,3871],"class_list":{"0":"post-142081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-gossip","8":"tag-black","9":"tag-cassie","10":"tag-combs","11":"tag-diddy","12":"tag-eye","13":"tag-fat","14":"tag-lip","15":"tag-reveals","16":"tag-sean","17":"tag-trial","18":"tag-ventura"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Sean](\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\")
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