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As the intercourse trafficking trial<\/a> for Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs<\/a> enters its second day, Combs\u2019 ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura<\/a>, took the stand Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Ventura is taken into account a star witness for the prosecution and her testimony is especially priceless. Combs was captured on safety video violently assaulting Ventura in a resort hallway in 2016.<\/p>\n

The video was obtained and distributed by CNN in May 2024, and confirmed Combs launching a brutal bodily assault<\/a> on Ventura by which he grabbed her by the again of the neck and threw her to the ground, earlier than kicking her twice whereas she lay on the bottom.<\/p>\n

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While giving testimony, Ventura turned emotional at occasions and spoke about feeling the \u201cdisgusting\u201d and \u201chumiliated\u201d by Combs\u2019 management over her, notably throughout his alleged days-long intercourse events, the place she says she was pressured to have weekly intercourse with escorts whereas her boyfriend plied her with medication, watched, recorded and orchestrated her behaviour.<\/p>\n

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As an eight-month pregnant Ventura entered the court docket Tuesday, Combs turned in his chair<\/a> to observe, reviews the New York Times. She didn\u2019t meet his gaze, trying straight forward as she walked to the entrance of the room.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were violent arguments that would usually result in some sort of physical abuse. Dragging, different things of that nature,\u201d she informed the court docket, when requested by the prosecutors to explain her relationship with the rapper.<\/p>\n

She testified that Combs would mash her head, drag her, kick her and stomp on her when she was down.<\/p>\n

Asked how regularly Combs turned violent together with her, Ventura softly responded: \u201cToo frequently.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\tCassie Ventura takes an oath earlier than testifying in Manhattan federal court docket, Tuesday, May 13, 2025, in New York.\t\t\t\t<\/span>
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She was then requested about her function in Comb\u2019s so-called \u201cfreak-offs\u201d \u2014 the drug-fuelled, multi-day intercourse events her ex allegedly orchestrated.<\/p>\n

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Ventura informed the court docket the events stemmed from Combs\u2019 curiosity in voyeurism, and they’d entail hiring an escort and \u201csetting up this experience so that I could perform for Sean,\u201d Ventura mentioned.<\/p>\n

Shown nonetheless pictures from the now-infamous 2016 safety digital camera footage of Combs beating her at a Los Angeles resort, Ventura mentioned previous to the altercation, \u201cWe were having an encounter called a \u2018freak-off\u2019 and I was leaving there.\u201d<\/p>\n

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She mentioned, as a 22-year-old, she was \u201cconfused, nervous,\u201d when Combs first began asking her to take part within the events, however that she \u201calso loved him very much.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ventura mentioned she felt powerless and afraid to say no to her boyfriend, fearing retaliation within the type of violence or blackmail threats.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know what \u2018no\u2019 could be, or what \u2018no\u2019 could turn into,\u201d she mentioned. \u201cSean controlled a lot of my life, whether it was career, the way I dressed, everything, everything. I just didn\u2019t have much say in it at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Elaborating on why she felt it was so tough to refuse Combs\u2019 calls for, Ventura reiterated her fears of violence and blackmail movies from \u201cfreak-offs\u201d being disseminated on the web.<\/p>\n

\u201cSean is a really polarizing person, also really charming,\u201d she mentioned. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to really be able to decide in that moment what you need when he\u2019s telling you what he wants. I just didn\u2019t know. I didn\u2019t know what would happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

The line of questioning then turned to Ventura\u2019s historical past with Combs \u2014 when she was first signed to his Bad Boys file label in 2006, their first kiss and after they started courting.<\/p>\n

She mentioned her interactions with Combs have been platonic at first. But then he kissed her throughout her twenty first birthday journey to Las Vegas within the lavatory of his resort suite. \u201cI was just really confused at the time,\u201d she mentioned. \u201cAnd young.\u201d<\/p>\n

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After the Las Vegas journey, Ventura mentioned, she was invited by Combs to resorts in New York the place they\u2019d discuss music tasks and albums.<\/p>\n

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When requested what else occurred on the resorts, Ventura, taking a second to breathe, mentioned she was launched to the \u201cidea of oral sex.\u201d She mentioned, nevertheless, she was nervous about their 17-year age hole and her sexual inexperience.<\/p>\n

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Eventually, throughout a ship journey to Miami, she had intercourse with the rapper for the primary time, after Combs served her wine and the celebration drug, ecstasy. After that, she mentioned, she thought they have been in an unique relationship, however in hindsight she now is aware of that wasn\u2019t true.<\/p>\n

When requested why, she replied: \u201cSean Combs had many girlfriends.\u201d<\/p>\n

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