Cassie Ventura – the ex of disgraced hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs – has testified about feeling “humiliated” and managed by the rapper.
The primary day of Combs’ trial commenced on Monday (Might 12) in a lawsuit introduced towards the rapper by his ex in 2023.
It has now been reported that Ventura has testified towards the rapper in courtroom, and shared recollections of alleged bodily and emotional abuse skilled by the hands of Diddy. Many of those relate to the so-called “freak-off” sexual encounters that included male escorts.
Combs has pleaded not responsible to costs of intercourse trafficking and racketeering, and has denied all different allegations of misconduct levelled towards him. He has additionally pleaded not responsible to 5 legal counts, together with racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking and transportation to interact in prostitution. He has constantly denied all allegations towards him and has asserted that every one sexual exercise described by prosecutors was consensual.
In courtroom, prosecutors started by asking Ventura about her 11-year relationship with Combs. She met him when she was a 19-year-old aspiring singer and when he was 37. She is now aged 38 and pregnant together with her third baby.
After they met, Diddy’s file label signed Ventura to his file label they usually started a romantic relationship. This, she stated in courtroom, felt monogamous on the time, though she is now conscious he had different girlfriends.
As reported by BBC Information, she added that she “fell in love” with him however quickly realised that he wished to “management” her life – paying for her transport and know-how, and allegedly eradicating it at instances as a method to “punish” her. She continued, alleging that he would get violent and “bash on my head, knock me over, drag me and kick me”.
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As for the notorious “freak-offs”, she alleged that the rapper launched them into their relationship through the first yr and that they concerned the rapper hiring male escorts or strippers to have sexual activity together with her whereas the rapper watched. She claims she tried it out in an try to make Combs “glad”, however added that it led to her feeling “fairly horrible about myself” and “nugatory”.
She additionally advised the courtroom that she would take a mixture of marijuana, ecstasy and ketamine to assist her get by means of the occasions, and that the medicine have been a method to come to phrases with “having intercourse with a stranger I didn’t actually need to be having intercourse with”.
The strippers have been allegedly discovered on websites like Craigslist, and paid wherever between $1,500 and $6,000 primarily based on their efficiency. They might be flown out throughout holidays, she alleged, and the hip-hop mogul would generally have Ventura ask workers to pay for and prepare their journey.
Ventura added that the occasions would go on for hours, and generally days, and that Combs would management each a part of the encounters – starting from the lighting to the outfits she was allegedly made to put on.
“He was controlling the entire scenario. He was directing it,” she alleged. “If Sean wished one thing to occur, that was what was going to occur… I couldn’t say no.”
Cassie Ventura is anticipated to proceed her testimony later right this moment (Might 14), and she or he might additionally face cross-examination.
