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As the sex trafficking trial of Sean Diddy’s combs entered the third day, Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura resumed her testimony on Wednesday, a day that took a day to narrate the weird and humiliating details of his life.
Ventura is considered a star witness to the prosecution, and her testimony is particularly valuable. Combs was captured in a security video of violent attacks on Ventura in a hotel corridor in 2016.
Ventura sued Comb in 2023, accusing years of rape and abuse. The lawsuit was resolved within hours, but dozens of similar legal requirements followed and criminal investigations were conducted.
On the first day of the testimony and the second day of the blockbuster trial, Ventura described being forced to have sex with paid sex workers. She also narrated being beaten up countless times by the comb when she did something that made him unhappy – like smiling at him in the wrong way.
“You did the wrong face and the next thing I know I’m going to be hit,” she said.
Ventura accused the comb of threatening to publish her videos with male sex workers, thus gaining her obedience.
The comb’s lawyer has admitted that the rapper may be violent, but insists that the sexual behavior is voluntary. They said nothing he did constitutes sexual trafficking or extortion (the allegations he faces), but insisted that he was just a unique sexual orientation.
Day 3
Ventura returned to witnesses at a trial of comb trafficking shortly before 10 a.m. Wednesday, answering the day after prosecutor Emily Johnson.
The jury watched the hotel surveillance footage of Combs’ 2016 attack on Ventura for the third day in a row, but the video was soundless. She said she remembered the comb throwing a vase with flowers inside.
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“I wasn’t hit. I remember it hitting the wall. He yelled at me and threw it at me.”
Ventura said when she tried to leave the hotel, Combs told her: “I’m not going to leave him there. I can’t.”
The prosecution shows two photos of Ventura and text messages between the former couple after the hotel attack.
Ventura said she took a selfie while traveling by Uber. Her lips swelled and testified that under her sunglasses she had a dark eye.
After the assault, the comb texted Ventura and said, “The police are here,” begging her to call him. In response to the comb, Ventura said she premiered the movie for “the biggest thing in my life” and now she has “fat lips” and black eyes.
“Please stay away from me,” she texted.
Ventura said Combs claimed that police were about to arrest him and told her that she “can’t hear me again” if she didn’t answer his phone.
After the attack, Ventura’s friends called police and they showed up at her apartment to ask her, but she said she didn’t want to say who beat her up.
“Do you want to protect Sean?” Johnson asked.
“Yes, of course,” Venture replied. “I didn’t want to hurt him like that at that moment. I’m not ready yet.”
Ventura said that after the attack, the comb appeared in her apartment and she heard “chaotic outside the door” including “beating, kicking, yelling.”
She said she went to the home of D-Roc, one of Combs security guards, and the attack “feels safe” shortly afterwards. Then, she went to the Comb’s House to make a romantic comedy suitable for her appearance for the upcoming move premiere Perfect match.
The premiere happened two days after the hotel attack, and the jury showed a photo of a comb and Ventura after the party. She pointed out the bruises on her body, visible in the photos, and said she couldn’t hide all the damage from her makeup.
Prosecutors showed that in 2016, Combs sent a text message about the freak to Ventura. He suggested they did not involve the “proper” freaks of the drug ketamine.
In a text message, he wrote that the “successful” freak is “when we remember.”
He wrote: “I will not raise you until you are filled with this mood.”
Ventura told the court that ketamine was her drug of choice during the freak because “it was very isolated.”
She then discusses how the freak’s video becomes “ransomware.” She said that when Combs got angry with her, he often reminded her of the sexually explicit videos he saved.
“Once I was dating someone else, and that’s all–‘I’m going to post two embarrassing videos.'” she said, adding that she believed the comb “just want to hurt me.”
The videos could ruin everything she works, she said, “make me look like a slut.”
“I’m worried about my career. I’m worried about my family. It’s really embarrassing. It’s terrible and disgusting. No one does that to anyone.”
In a 2013 text message, she wrote to the comb: “If anything, remove any video from the iPhone. Too much PPL can access your stuff.”
Combs tells her he has deleted them, but sometimes their relationship she says she sees videos he claims to have deleted.
When Johnson asked Ventura if she tried to fight back while she was fighting with her at Combs, she said she tried their relationship earlier but learned that “it could escalate the fight and make myself worse.”
What is he judging
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 2 testimony summary
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Global news will all cover the DIDDY trial. Please check it for updates.
– Documents from Michelle Butterfield and the Associated Press from Global News
