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The mom of Cassie Ventura<\/a> testified on Tuesday in Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs\u2019<\/a> sex-trafficking and racketeering trial, revealing that she paid the hip-hop mogul US$20,000 after he threatened to launch specific intercourse tapes of her daughter.<\/p>\n

Combs turned indignant that Cassie was relationship another person, her mom, Regina Ventura, testified on the trial on May 20.<\/p>\n

Regina mentioned that she felt \u201cphysically sick\u201d when she obtained an e mail from her daughter in late 2011 saying that Combs was planning to launch two specific movies of her and ship somebody to harm her and rapper Kid Cudi, the person Cassie was seeing,<\/a>\u00a0whose full identify is Scott Mescudi.<\/p>\n

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Regina was on the stand for about quarter-hour and answered the prosecutor\u2019s questions on her daughter\u2019s relationship with Combs.<\/p>\n

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She mentioned that her daughter had despatched her an e mail earlier than Christmas in 2011 to let her know that Combs was threatening to launch intercourse tapes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did not understand a lot of it. The sex tapes threw me,\u201d Regina informed the Manhattan federal court docket.<\/p>\n

Regina mentioned she then obtained a requirement from Combs for $20,000 \u201cto recoup money he had spent on her because he was unhappy she was in a relationship with Kid Cudi<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe was angry that he had spent money on her and she went with another person,\u201d she mentioned.<\/p>\n

Regina testified that she had to make use of a house fairness mortgage to make the cost to Combs and wired it to an account related to Bad Boy, Combs\u2019 firm.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was scared for my daughter\u2019s safety,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Days later, she mentioned, the cash was returned, and Cassie and Combs started relationship once more shortly after.<\/p>\n

During her testimony, the jury was proven 4 images of Cassie with bruises on her physique, together with on her thigh and higher again. Regina mentioned she took the images of her daughter on Christmas Eve 2011 when she first informed her that Combs had overwhelmed her.<\/p>\n

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Combs\u2019 lawyer Marc Agnifilo declined to cross-examine Regina. As she left the witness stand, she stared straight at Combs, who appeared straight forward.<\/p>\n

Before the jury arrived on Tuesday, Agnifilo tried to influence Judge Arun Subramanian to disallow the testimony, saying it was \u201cpurely prejudicial\u201d as a result of it illustrated the vast distinction between the monetary standing of the Ventura household and Combs. The choose allowed it, saying the threats to launch intercourse tapes and hurt Cassie made it an occasion of \u201cpotential extortion.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Combs\u2019 private assistant felt his \u2018life was in danger\u2019<\/h2>\n

Earlier Tuesday, David James, Combs\u2019 private assistant from 2007 to 2009, informed the court docket that he give up when he realized that his life had been put in peril after he was compelled to drive a automotive wherein Combs sat within the again seat with three handguns on his lap.<\/p>\n

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James mentioned his job typically required him to make sure that resort rooms the place Combs stayed underneath the identify \u201cFrank Black\u201d have been stocked with the rapper\u2019s comforts, together with contemporary underwear, an iPod, applesauce, vodka, child oil, Viagra and condoms.<\/p>\n

He informed the jurors that Combs didn\u2019t journey gentle and his Louis Vuitton commonly carried $10,000 in money \u201cand sometimes much more.\u201d<\/p>\n

James recalled a time in 2008 when Combs requested him to convey an iPod from his Miami residence to a resort room. Upon coming into, James mentioned he noticed Cassie on the mattress with a white comforter pulled as much as her neck and an unfamiliar bare man with lengthy hair strolling throughout the room.<\/p>\n

He mentioned that he by no means spoke to Cassie or Combs about what he noticed and that he by no means had conversations with them about their private affairs.<\/p>\n

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