Cassie Ventura, the previous girlfriend of Sean “Diddy” Combs, delivered an emotional testimony in the course of the second day of his intercourse trafficking trial on Tuesday. In line with CNN, Ventura spent practically 4 and a half hours on the stand, recounting intimately the abuse she says she suffered throughout their relationship. She additionally described being compelled to take part in Combs’ so-called “freak-off” events, the place she felt pressured to hold out a few of his extra excessive and disturbing sexual fantasies.
Ventura—at the moment anticipating her third little one—testified in courtroom, claiming Combs, 55, alongside together with his shut associates, used intimidation, violence, medication, bribery, arson, abduction, and deception to pressure her and different ladies into extended sexual encounters known as “freak-offs.” She additional alleged that these actions have been taken to protect the music mogul’s public picture.
Ventura first encountered Combs across the age of 19, finally signing together with his legendary label, Unhealthy Boy Information, in early 2006. Their connection started as a platonic one, however shifted right into a sexual relationship following a ship occasion in Miami.
Ventura stated she fell in love with the Grammy award-winning artist as he was “this thrilling, entertaining, enjoyable man that additionally occurred to have my profession in his palms,” in accordance with CNN. “It felt particular as a result of not lots of people acquired that point with him.”
However over time, she began to see Combs’ controlling habits seep out. Ventura, now 38, claimed that the rapper and entrepreneur managed “all the pieces” from the way in which she seemed, her music initiatives, and monitored who she might and couldn’t communicate to.
Ventura claimed Combs had temper swings that led to bodily abuse.
That controlling habits finally spiraled into bodily abuse over the course of their relationship, the singer alleged. Ventura, who launched her debut single “Me & U” in 2006, claimed that if she made the “incorrect face” or did one thing to make Combs upset, she would get “hit within the face.”
She added, “If I used to be a brat or one thing, he would let me know I wanted to ‘repair my face’ or ‘watch my mouth.’”
The bodily abuse progressed over time, Ventura stated.
“He would smash me in my head, knock me over, drag me, kick me, stomp me within the head if I used to be down,” the soon-to-be mom of three claimed, noting how she sustained “bruises throughout” her physique as a result of Combs’ assaults together with busted lips and knots to her brow.
Ventura additionally claimed that her laptop computer and belongings could be taken away by Combs’ employees if she did one thing that he didn’t approve of. On a number of events, the singer claimed that Combs even kicked her out of her personal house.
To quell the violence, Ventura advised the courtroom that she did all the pieces to appease the hip-hop mogul.
“I didn’t need him to be upset or not belief me,” she testified on Tuesday, in accordance with NBC Information. “He was a scary particular person, he could be violent.”
Ventura alleged Combs had a voyeurism fantasy which he lived out throughout his drug-fueled “freak-offs.”
Afterward in the course of the prolonged testimony, Ventura alleged that throughout the first six months of relationship Combs, the 55-year-old label head allegedly expressed a need to look at her interact in intercourse acts with different males. She agreed, she stated, as a result of she feared upsetting him and cherished him.
She testified that starting when she was 22, Combs started organizing what he known as “freak offs” — drug-fueled group intercourse encounters. Ventura described being pressured to participate in these occasions, regardless of feeling violated and ashamed. She recalled utilizing ecstasy, ketamine, and different substances to numb herself throughout these conditions. She additionally stated Combs insisted on utilizing heated child oil throughout these encounters, typically pouring bottles of it right into a pool for individuals to immerse themselves.
“Sean wished it heated and he wished it to be glistening, so we utilized each 5 minutes,” the Connecticut-born singer alleged.
Ventura recounted excessive incidents, together with being pressured to take part in sexual exercise throughout her menstrual cycle, and an encounter the place an escort, at Combs’ request, urinated on her.
“I felt fairly horrible about myself. I felt disgusting. I felt humiliated,” the singer advised the courtroom. “I didn’t have the phrases to point out how horrible I felt. I couldn’t speak to anybody about it.”
Ventura stated that taking medication commonly throughout Combs’ wild sexcapades helped her to disassociate from the painful expertise.
“I used to be excessive, so I didn’t really feel a lot,” she defined. “Did this actually occur to me? I didn’t know what was going to occur after that, if we have been going to do it extra continuously, I stated sure to extra, I didn’t need to make him upset or offended.”
Even when she was unwell, Ventura testified that Combs insisted she proceed, displaying no concern for her situation.
“I’d really vomit,” she alleged. “Once I acquired sick throughout a ‘freak off,’ he would encourage me to rise up and proceed on with it.”
She revealed that she was finally tasked with sourcing intercourse employees from numerous web sites at Combs’ course, together with Craigslist, Backpage, and Cowboys 4 Angels. One significantly harrowing occasion occurred in 2016 on the InterContinental Resort in Los Angeles. Ventura stated that after making an attempt to go away one of many events, Combs assaulted her, grabbing, kicking, and dragging her again to the room. Surveillance video of the incident, which surfaced final yr, has been dominated admissible in courtroom.
Combs faces 5 federal expenses, together with racketeering conspiracy and intercourse trafficking. He has pleaded not responsible and, if convicted, might face life in jail.
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