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Cassie Ventura returned to the witness stand Friday to testify on the fourth day at Sean Diddy’s comb’s sex trafficking trial.
Defense attorneys began cross-examination of celebrity witnesses on Thursday and forced her to read texts aloud, which seemed to indicate her desire for the drug-freaks’ mass sexual behavior (called freaks) who had previously testified that traumatized her.
During the trial, the first time between lawyers was a little nervous about timing. Prosecutors insisted in a letter to the judge that the defense summed up their inquiries in a timely manner to allow follow-up to the prosecution on Friday, citing concerns about Ventura’s “health and safety” that could have made mistakes if she worked with her third child.
“Yesterday’s cross-examination was inefficient and a deduction was proposed, and the defendant wanted to accomplish this result exactly,” the government wrote.
Ventura was eight and a half months pregnant.
Day 5
Defense attorney Anna Estevao resumed her cross-examination, which was related to the March 2016 attack on Ventura’s comb recording at a Los Angeles hotel. In it, the comb can be seen throwing Ventura onto the floor, kicking her and dragging her to the hotel corridor.
Estevao asked Ventura to read a text aloud, complaining that the comb was out of control from drugs and alcohol that day. In the message, Ventura told the comb: “I’m not a rag doll. I’m a kid.”
In text messages, the jury, comb and Ventura expressed love again in a voiced text.
Ventura told the comb in a text: “We need a different atmosphere than Friday.”
She also told the court that even in a decade-long relationship, the comb was alert to her date or attention to other men.
The hip-hop star confiscated her phone several times, including when he found out he was dating a football player and when she suspected she was dancing with singer Chris Brown.
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Ventura did not name the player and denied dancing with Brown.
The defense lawyer also played Ventura’s recording to threaten a man who hinted at her video of her performing sexual acts in 2014.
“This is my life, I’ll kill you.” She could hear her voice, screaming at the screaming person. “I’ve never killed anyone, but I’ll kill you.”
She had testified before that the comb told her not to let the man out of her sight until she found out what was going on.
Ventura admitted in her testimony that the comb then worked hard to keep the video private. Although Ventura testified that the defense appears to be trying to determine Ventura and Combs’ efforts to keep the video, although Ventura testified that Combs tried to blackmail her by threatening to post the video.
Ventura testified that photos of her having a decade-long relationship with another woman broke up with him in August 2018.
“I just don’t believe it anymore. The last shot puts the nail in the coffin.” She texted the comb, referring to the photo of the comb, one of the women identified as Gina in court.
“I promise myself that if you do this to me again, I will no longer be with you.” Combs said, “You lied to me” and “she never left.”
She said that soon after, she began dating her current husband, Alex Fine.
“Can’t I have the chance to get things right?” Comb texted shortly after the final breakup. “Didn’t I take care of you yet?”
“You take care of me from the material, not where I need it.” “I need you to love me and put me first.”
Estevao asked if Ventura still had feelings for the comb after allegedly raped her in August 2018, when the two met for supper and Ventura began to break up.
“You didn’t hate him then. You still don’t hate him now,” Estevo said.
“I don’t hate him,” Ventura replied.
“Do you still have love for him?”
“What is my love for the past.”
Ventura then confirmed the videotape of her last sex with the comb shortly after their breakup and the alleged 2018 rape.
“Your current husband didn’t know you were with Mr. Combs at the time, right?” Estevao asked. Ventura said the fine eventually found gender and so-called rape, which prompted him to hit the wall.
Ventura’s testimony ended Friday with a bombshell disclosure: She said she expected a $10 million settlement from the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles, and in 2016 she was beaten by a comb.
She revealed the figure during an inquiry by her lawyer Combs, a stage in which she is known as a re-crossing testimony. She said the figure is an estimate, and the number has recently reached a solution. She did not disclose the nature of her claims about the hotel.
Apocalypse canceled the music tour after the defense tried to suggest her lawsuit against the comb reached $20 million, and she had cancelled the music tour without the money that the tour would bring.
Ventura told the lawyer that he said the reason for canceling the tour was because she felt overwhelmed and didn’t want to leave her family for so long.
At the end of her testimony on Friday, Ventura’s legal team shared a statement on her behalf: “This week is very challenging, but it is also very empowering and rehabilitation for me. I hope my testimony will empower and voice for other survivors and can help others who suffer and recover from abuse and fear.
“For me, the more I have healed, the more I remember. The more I remember, I will never forget. I want to thank my family and advocates for their unwavering support, and I thank all the kindness and encouragement I have received.
“I’m so happy to have this chapter of my life rested. As I focus on the conclusion of pregnancy, I ask me and my growing family to seek privacy.”
Her husband also shared a statement Friday afternoon read by attorney Dougals Widgor.
“In the past five days, the world has witnessed my wife unleashing her past power and heroism.”
He continued, “I feel sitting there. I feel very proud and love for Cass. I feel very angry because she has been sitting in front of someone who has been trying to break her. So, to him and all who helped him, to all who helped him: you don’t know. And our little girl.
He added that the insult said he saved her: “Cassi saved Cassi. She was freed from abuse, coercion, violence and threat alone. The job she did was to fight against the devil that only the demon herself could do against her.”
What comb is being tried
U.S. attorneys claim that for 20 years behind the scenes, Combs forced and abused women with the help of a network of employees who silenced victims through blackmail and violence.
Combs faces an indictment that includes descriptions of the freak, defined in court documents as “a carefully crafted and produced sexual performances that are combing, directing, masturbating and often recorded electronically.”
Prosecutors said many witnesses have stepped forward and accused the combs of keeping people silent by suffocating, hitting, kicking and dragging them. One indictment says the comb sways someone from the balcony.
Although dozens of men and women have charged the lawsuit with orders in the lawsuit, the trial will highlight the claims of four women.
Combs is charged with sexual trafficking, extortion and transportation for prostitution. He denied all charges against him and rejected a plea agreement and chose to attend the trial instead.
If convicted in New York court, he may face life in prison.
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Day 4 testimony
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Day 2 testimony
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– Documents with the Associated Press
