When Cassie Ventura approached her twelfth hour in the witness position, she told the jury that the incessant sexual demands of her ex -boyfriend, Sean “Diddy” Peines, as well as a sex pattern coerced with strangers, led her to addiction, exposed her to the spoils of violence and led her to suicide to suicide.
The star witness in the Federal Case of Sex Trafficking of ComBs, Ventura, Ventura spent his second day at the witness post in a room of the Manhattan court on Wednesday offering a first -hand story of how the rap magnate changed his life, while he went from making his music to spend his days planning sexual parties for combs and then submitting to them. If I had not testified, combs allegedly would have hurt her or fulfilled a threat to release harmful videos that feared that she destroyed her reputation.
Comps declared himself innocent and insists that he did not sexually assaulted or trafficked anyone. Once again, he sat with the stone face just feet of Ventura, which is eight months pregnant, since he did not save details and narrated for the jury a life that, he said, made her not want to live anymore.
Sean “Diddy” combs listening when his ex -girlfriend “Cassie” Ventura testifies in his trafficking trial in New York City, on May 14, 2025 in this sketch of the Court.
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The jurors see images of monsters that the combs supposedly use as ‘blackmail’
Ventura told the jury that the sessions in which he participated was transformed into private pornography for combs, that they would use the material as “blackmail” if he disobeyed it.
With combs that reduced their professional work as a singer, paying their life expenses and controlling their personal life, even their daily movements, Ventura testified that he feared that the launch of the videos would endanger their professional perspectives and embarrass it.
“I simply feared for my career. I feared for my family. It is simply shameful and disgusting. Nobody should do that to anyone,” said Ventura, explaining that combs had told her that the videos “could ruin everything” for which she worked and make him see “like a whore.”
For the first time, the jury saw some examples of the materials that the combs supposedly used as blackmail when the prosecutors entered into seven fixed images isolated from the ascent videos. Originally, the prosecutors planned to reproduce the videos for the jury, but then refused to introduce any videos of the evidence.
Prosecutors did not publicly identify a reason for the change of plan.
Ventura alleges repeated cases of violence
Ventura testified that Comps became increasingly violent with her, in addition to forcing her to participate in monsters.
She specifically reported the first time combs allegedly “hit [her] Around. “She said they were in New York City when he” hit me on the side of the head and I fell to the ground. “He testified that they were in a car and the alleged assault took place in front of a driver and a staff.
Another alleged incident he counted for the jury occurred in August 2013 when Comps entered his apartment with anger and threw it into his bed because he was asleep and was not packing for a music festival.
“I had a fairly significant wound on the side of my eyebrow,” Ventura testified, adding that he has a permanent scar of the incident. She said she sent a text message to combs a photo of the lesion with the message: “So you can remember.”
At one time during her long testimony, prosecutor Emily Johnson asked Ventura how many times Comps became violent with her during her almost 11 years relationship. Ventura let out a sigh and said gently: “Who knows.”
Sean “Diddy” combs drags ex -girlfriend “Cassie” Ventura to a fixed image of a surveillance video of March 5, 2016 taken in the hall of a Los Angeles hotel.
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The jurors get a complete image of the assault on the 2016 Chamber
After watching the combs video, physically assaulting Ventura at a Los Angeles hotel on March 5, 2016, during the first day of testimony, jurors heard the account directly from Ventura on Wednesday.
Ventura testified that Comps took her to the ground, kicked her and dragged her to the hotel hall. She said that after climbing again, Comink threw a vase, missing it by little. The jury members have already seen a video of the assault and its consequences.
The jury members had heard testimony earlier this week of Israel Florez, a security guard who responded to the incident and tried to ensure that Ventura could leave the hotel.
“He said at a time that, he said that you are not going to leave,” Florez said, adding that Comps tried to bribe him after the incident. He did not take the money.
While Ventura narrated the video that the assault showed, her husband Alex Fine, sitting in the court, fixed her gaze directly on the combs.
According to Ventura, Comps sent him a flood of text messages once he left the hotel praying for him to return. He added that he was bruised from the attack and had to cover up the injuries for an upcoming film event.
“I please call me. I have six children. Please, call me,” Comong wrote in a message. “Call me. Call now,” said another.
“I have a top -level Monday for the most important thing I have done and I have a black eye and a fat lip,” Ventura returned the message. “You are sick because it is fine to do what you have done.”
Ventura testifies on the conclusion of their relationship with combs
Ventura testified that her relationship with the combs, which began in romance and a pull towards the emotion that surrounded the combs, ended violently when she raped her on the floor of her living room after trying to seek the closure after her relationship had ended.
“I just remember crying and say no, but it was very fast,” he said. “I don’t know if he realized.”
In the years later at the end of the relationship, Ventura said he tried to obtain professional help to overcome his trauma and contemplate suicide. She sobbed in the witness post when she remembered how the trauma drained her will to live.
“I was spinning and I didn’t want to be alive at that time,” he testified, breaking while describing how “he could no longer bear the pain he was in.”
She said she tried to process the pain by writing what happened to her, and offered the Leans the right to buy what became a book for $ 30 million, a random price that said she thought it would “alert it.” No treatment was made.
When Ventura sued the combs for the decade of violence and abuse in 2023, the case was resolved the next day without admission to the fault of the combs. She revealed at the stand on Wednesday, and for the first time publicly, which received a $ 20 million agreement.
“How many monsters did you have in the course of your relationship?” Prosecutor Emily Johnson asked in her final question of 12 hours of direct exam.
“It is impossible to know, but hundreds,” Ventura replied.
