Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, the girl who blasted open the floodgates of civil lawsuits and federal investigations in opposition to ex-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs, returned to his life through a New York federal courtroom.
Cassie’s 2023 lawsuit led to Diddy’s indictment and trial
The “Me & U” singer, 37, testified for the third consecutive day within the sensationalized Diddy intercourse trafficking trial. Cassie was the primary to file an explosive civil lawsuit in opposition to the beleaguered Unhealthy Boy boss in December 2023. And though Diddy settled the case with Cassie the very subsequent day, it set off in movement greater than two dozen related civil lawsuits filed in fast succession. Most of them accused Diddy of sexually assaulting them underneath the cloud of coercion, violence, and blackmail.
The FBI launched a probe quickly after Cassie’s lawsuit
Amid this mushrooming scandal, the U.S. Division of Justice launched its investigation primarily based totally on Cassie’s court docket paperwork, claiming that the music mogul pressured her to take part in intercourse events — which at the moment are known as “freak-offs” — with paid escorts and prostitutes in resorts and houses across the nation. Oftentimes, Cassie recalled, the intercourse employees flew in from different states to have interaction within the debaucherous events.
Diddy’s lawyer prompt that Cassie ruined his profession
Now, on the fourth day of the trial, Diddy’s protection lawyer Anna Estevao reminded Cassie throughout cross-examination that she obtained a $20 million settlement from her lawsuit, in line with ABC 13 Houston.
She then requested, “Honest to say his profession was ruined after your lawsuit?”
Cassie replied: “I may perceive that, yeah.”
Truly, Diddy’s downward spiral accelerated after CNN aired the notorious 2016 video displaying Diddy beating, kicking, and dragging Cassie on the now-defunct InterContinental Resort within the Century Metropolis part of Los Angeles. Quickly thereafter, brokers from Homeland Safety raided his palatial estates in L.A. and Miami Seashore, Fla., and confiscated a trove of child oil, intercourse lubricants, and digital gear.
The Justice Division secured indictments in opposition to Diddy in September 2024, on the fees of intercourse trafficking, racketeering and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. He was arrested that night time and positioned in federal custody on the Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn, New York, the place he has remained since.
Cassie is now the prosecution’s star witness, who has detailed disturbingly lewd acts that she felt pressured to have interaction in and which have horrified a nation.
Diddy may withstand life in jail if he’s convicted on all counts.
Most followers will not be sympathetic with Diddy’s predicament
Followers hammered Diddy for having the audacity to even counsel that Cassie ruined his profession.
“Uh no. Diddy ruined Diddy’s profession. Finally all of it comes out,” one fan mentioned within the feedback part of Folksjournal’s story.
A second particular person mentioned, “Oh, cry me a river. Wah Wah Wah.”
The third commenter summarized the feelings of many by writing: “So… Cassie ruined his profession??! Appears to me that he did that every one by himself with the alternatives he made. Let’s not blame the sufferer — and the sufferer right here is NOT Combs!”
Should you or somebody you already know has been sexually assaulted, please contact the Nationwide Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or log onto rainn.org.