Closely pregnant Cassie Ventura tearfully gave a court docket harrowing particulars of alleged beatings and deviant sexual manipulation by the hands of fallen music mogul Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs.
Ventura, simply two weeks from giving beginning, took a deep breath as she fastidiously sat down within the witness field in a close-fitting brown bodysuit that confirmed off her massive bump.
Combs, wearing grey pants and a grey prime, was already seated and turned to see her as she walked to the stand to provide proof that might assist condemn him to life behind bars.
However star witness Ventura didn’t look his approach on the second day of the blockbuster trial and appeared to keep away from locking eyes within the tension-filled New York federal courtroom.
It’s the first time she has been anyplace close to Combs for the reason that 2018 funeral of one other of his exes, singer Kim Porter – mom of three of his youngsters.
At instances she dabbed her eyes with a tissue as tears welled up whereas giving proof.
Cassie’s eye-raising testimony about Diddy’s ‘moist’ fetish had her detailing the routine of a freak off, Ventura stated it could start with oil and touching then progress via oral intercourse to full intercourse. ‘I typically tried to hurry it up,’ she stated.
Throughout one session, Diddy ‘choreographed’ Ventura getting right into a pool of child oil at a lodge in Beverly Hills in a full outfit bought from a intercourse store and heels. She stated she did not wish to do it ‘particularly in a lodge room’, however that she could not say no as a result of it ‘would have been all unhealthy’.
At varied factors all through her testimony, Cassie Ventura would dab her eyes with a tissue as tears welled up whereas giving proof
Diddy youngsters together with his three daughters and sons watched on in shock as Ventura detailed the horrific intercourse acts she went via with strangers in Diddy’s ‘orchestrated’ freak offs
Ventura was seen wanting stoic as she made her strategy to court docket, as she is about to come back nose to nose together with her abusive ex, Diddy, on Tuesday
Cassie additionally detailed how the Freak Offs would go down, saying: ‘First intercourse act, masturbating and one another – I might be wanting on the escort and they’d be me. I might describe what I noticed intimately. That’s what turned (Combs) on… his fantasy.
‘It was at all times awkward… sitting describing somebody’s penis to a different male was fairly awkward and humiliating however finally it grew to become regular. It could result in intercourse.’
Ventura stated typically each the escort and Combs would have intercourse together with her, different instances the fallen mogul would ‘simply watch’.
She added: ‘If I used to be having intercourse with an escort, Sean would stroll up and have me give him oral intercourse.’
Requested if the escorts ejaculated, the star witness replied: ‘Sure, often when it was OK for them per Sean. But when they did then Sean and I might go into the subsequent room and he’d need me to place the semen on his physique… often on his chest, on his nipples’.
If escorts ejaculated with out being given permission by Combs they had been paid much less, stated Ventura.
Cassie instructed how he made her name him ‘Pop Pop,’ the title she known as her grandfather: ‘He wished me to have a nickname for him, Ventura stated. ‘I believed it was bizarre and now I really feel prefer it was disrespectful.’
And in a wobbling voice she defined that when he bought violent, the look in his eyes would shift into one thing unrecognizable.
Diddy watching as Cassie is sworn in as a prosecution witness throughout his second day at court docket on Tuesday. This was the primary time the previous couple had seen one another since Kim Porter’s funeral
Cassie heading to court docket for the Diddy case in NYC. She was sporting close-fitting brown bodysuit that confirmed off her massive bump on the stand, and is simply two weeks away from giving beginning
Cassie and Diddy first met in 2005, when she was 19 and he was a 39-year-old celebrity (Pictured: New York, 2006)
Requested concerning the violence in her 10-year relationship with the disgraced hip-hop titan, Billboard 100 singer Ventura stated: ‘He would bash me on the top, knock me over, drag me, kick me, stomp me within the head if I used to be down.
‘I would get knots in my brow. Busted lips, swollen lips, swollen eyes… whites of eyes can be purple. Bruises throughout my physique.’
Prosecutor Emily Anne Johnson requested 38-year-old Ventura: ‘How steadily bodily.’ She replied: ‘Too steadily.’
Her horrific testimony comes a day after the court docket heard how Harlem-born Combs, 55, compelled ladies to participate in drug-fueled intercourse events he dubbed ‘freaks offs’ and went on for days whereas he filmed them.
He has denied intercourse trafficking by pressure, racketeering conspiracy and prostitution for what prosecutors have stated was a decades-long felony enterprise through which ‘he known as himself the king’.
Ventura instructed the Manhattan court docket: ‘Inside the first 12 months of our relationship Sean proposed to me this concept, this sexual encounter that he known as voyeurism the place he is watch me in sexual exercise with a 3rd get together, particularly one other man.
Sighing as she recounted in gradual and halting speech, she added: ‘It entails the hiring of an escort and organising this expertise in order that I might carry out for Sean.
‘It concerned Sean having the ability to watch me with the opposite particular person and really direct us on what we had been doing sexually.’
Ventura, who’s anticipating her third little one with former private coach husband Alex Effective, stated when Combs urged the freak offs ‘I keep in mind my abdomen falling to my butt’
Diddy’s protection says he’s responsible of home violence however not of sex-trafficking or racketeering, and that the federal government is concentrating on him for his sexual preferences
Ventura, who’s anticipating her third little one with former private coach husband Alex Effective, stated when Combs urged the freak offs ‘I keep in mind my abdomen falling to my butt.
‘The nervousness and confusion on that second. I had simply turned 22. I did not have an idea of how that will be a activate, however I additionally felt a way of duty with him sharing one thing like that with me.
‘I used to be confused, nervous but in addition beloved him very a lot and wished to make him joyful.’
Ventura, who was signed by Combs to his Dangerous Boy Data label as she started her singing profession, stated she agreed to a freak off.
Extra adopted and ‘fairly shortly I knew that it wasn’t one thing I wished to be doing. Particularly as usually because it grew to become. However I used to be in love and wished to make him joyful.
‘Obtained to the purpose I did not really feel I had a lot of a alternative. I did not actually know what it might flip into.’
Sighing once more, she stated: ‘At this level Sean managed a number of my life, profession, the way in which I dressed, all the things. And I did not really feel I had a lot say in it… being tremendous younger, naive, a complete folks pleaser.
‘Over time it become the actual fact there was blackmail materials to make me really feel if I did not do it, it could be hung over my head or this stuff would grow to be public.
Whereas on the stand, Ventura was visibly nervous, biting her lip as she agreed with prosecutor Johnson that any ‘blackmail supplies’ can be photographs and movies of the freak offs
The singer, who gently rubbed her child bump throughout testimony, instructed the court docket that the bodily violence Diddy inflicted on her could possibly be triggered by only a look she gave him
‘It was at all times behind my thoughts I would be harm by him. Sean is a extremely polarizing particular person. Additionally very charming… I simply did not know what would occur.’
Ventura then bit her lip nervously as she agreed with prosecutor Johnson that any ‘blackmail supplies’ can be photographs and movies of the freak offs.
The singer, who gently rubbed her child bump throughout testimony, instructed the court docket she first connected with Combs as a 19-year-old and signed a 10-album deal in 2006.
They started a relationship, however she was ‘fully sexually inexperienced’ and ‘I did not even have the vocabulary for a number of the issues we talked about.’
However she wished to be round him, telling the court docket: ‘For a similar motive as everybody else. Simply this thrilling, entertaining, enjoyable man that additionally occurred to have my profession in his fingers. It felt particular. Not lots of people bought that form of time with him.’
The pair had intercourse on a ship in Miami and ‘I might say we had been collectively… after that. Now I identified in hindsight I grew to become one in all his girlfriends….’
For some time Ventura stated she soaked up the life-style.
‘I actually fell in love with him. We had enjoyable. It was my first grownup relationship, or I believed it was. It was so completely different to something I can think about. His way of life was a lot completely different than mine,’ she instructed the court docket.
They had been final photographed collectively throughout the Met gala in Could, 2018. Ventura stated on the stand that she was ‘sexually inexperienced’ when she started their relationship, which she alleged Diddy took benefit of
Cassie’s husband Alex Effective (left) – a private coach that Diddy employed for her earlier than going public with their relationship in 2018 – threatened to ‘beat the f***’ out of Diddy in texts despatched after she demanded $30 million from him, the court docket heard in the present day
The couple share two women collectively and have a 3rd little one on the way in which
However then Combs allegedly began tightening his grip.
‘I started to expertise a distinct facet of him,’ Ventura recalled. ‘His abusive facet, very controlling over my life, the issues I wished to do. However there’s nonetheless love there.
‘Management was all the things. From the way in which I regarded to what I used to be engaged on that day, who I used to be chatting with. Management was an all-around factor to a sure level.’
Combs’ moods ‘various relying on what was occurring. It might change on the drop of a dialog, a nasty dialog that I had nothing to do with.
‘At sure instances I knew it wasn’t even about me…. the subsequent factor I used to be getting hit within the face.
‘If I wasn’t smiling at him the way in which he wished… I simply regarded a sure approach he did not like. Possibly I used to be a brat, or one thing, he would let me know I want to repair my face or watch my mouth.’
Ventura paused to regain herself, then continued: ‘Psychological was every single day, not know what he was going to be when he wakened that day…. that was lots, somebody continuously telling you who to be.’
She admitted being jealous of Combs’s different ladies in an surroundings which she intimated she was too younger to grasp.
The video that led to Diddy’s downfall – which was aired by CNN in Could 2024 – exhibits Combs, sporting solely a white towel, punching, kicking and throwing Ventura to the bottom
Decide Subramanian stated he might make the ‘freak off’ movies and photographs public regardless of pleas from Ventura to maintain them beneath wraps
‘I used to be insanely jealous,’ she stated. But in addition tremendous younger, I did not get all of it. I did not get that he was him.
‘As he would say, ‘I am Puff Daddy and Puff Daddy has many ladies, he like the corporate of ladies’. I needed to be taught that over time.’
Confusingly, Ventura added: ‘He made me really feel like we had been in a monogamous relationship. He anticipated that of me, so I assumed that of him. He would say, I am not coping with anybody else, it is simply us.’
The witness moved to Los Angeles the place her profession started to be ‘stifled’ round 2012, and she or he started a heavy partying way of life.
But in addition ‘the freaks offs grew to become a job the place there was no area to do anything however to recuperate and attempt to really feel regular once more.’
‘The partying was staying up for days on finish, taking medication and different substances, ingesting. Having intercourse with strangers for days.’
The freak offs ‘ranged anyplace from 36, 48 to 72 hours. The longest one was 4 days, possibly much more than on and off breaks… a big a part of the week.’
As her music profession faltered, Ventura was incomes between $7,500 and $20,000 for internet hosting occasions in LA golf equipment and in addition modeling, the court docket heard.
Diddy made a coronary heart together with his fingers as a gesture to his youngsters who returned to the courtroom – regardless of strolling out yesterday as prosecution witness revealed express particulars of their father’s sexual encounters
However Combs nonetheless exerted management by taking away issues he had paid for reminiscent of a automotive or condo if the temper suited him, she stated. Objects can be eliminated for ‘so long as I used to be being punished’.
The freak offs continued and one night terrifying potential gun violence got here into play, the court docket heard.
Combs saved weapons in New York, Los Angeles, Miami and Alpine, New Jersey, Ventura stated. He additionally had an intense rivalry with Dying Row Data boss and former NFL participant Suge Knight.
‘Suge and I had been having a freak off at one in all his houses in LA and I keep in mind we had been chilling at D Rock got here in and stated Suge was down… the hill and so they shortly packed up and drove down there,’ she stated.
‘I used to be crying. I used to be screaming, please do not do something silly… actually nervous. I did not know what it meant or what they had been going to do.
‘It was like I wasn’t even there. They placed on a bunch of black garments, went within the protected, grabbed weapons. Subsequent factor I knew they had been within the SUV simply whipping down there.’ She didn’t say what occurred subsequent.
Prosecutor Johnson turned the testimony again to freak offs and voyeurism. Ventura stated she will’t keep in mind the title of the primary escort concerned and that she took ecstasy equipped by Combs.
Three of Diddy’s youngsters and his mom Janice strolling again into court docket after the lunch break
Ventura strolling out of the courtroom previous Diddy after testifying on the second day of his trial
She needed to put on an outfit purchased from a intercourse retailer and excessive platform sneakers – plus a masquerade masks. After the primary session ‘I used to be excessive however there wasn’t an excessive amount of feeling.
‘It was a mix of soiled and confusion with, OK he is actually proud of me I did one thing proper. I did not know we had been going to do it extra steadily.
‘They grew to become nearly weekly. It grew to become, relying on the place we had been… weekly for a constant quantity of years. The medication truthfully helped. Ecstasy and molly (MDMA). We began to different medication like cocaine afterward.’
Ventura stated she felt ‘disgusted, fairly horrible about myself. I used to be humiliated’ by the freak offs.
Her voice breaking and near tears, she continued: ‘I could not discuss to anyone about it’. Combs ‘can be violent, his look would change’. Preventing for phrases, she stated: ‘I would not know what would occur.
‘Finest approach (to explain Combs), his eyes go black. the particular person I used to be in love with was now not there.’
Reaching for a tissue, she added poignantly: ‘I did really feel very near him. As unhappy because it was, it was the one time I might get.
Now sobbing, she stated: ‘I by no means wished him to really feel I judged him, however I wished him to know (it) made me really feel horrible, made me really feel nugatory, like I did not have not anything to supply.’
Regardless of reservations, Ventura stated she additionally went together with having her nipples pierced and in addition a piercing ‘that sits in your clitoris. Sean’s suggestion. He really got here with me’.
Diddy’s youngsters needed to sit via Ventura’s testimony the place she detailed their father’s ‘nipple’ fetish and the way he went with the singer to get a piercing on her clitoris
Ventura testified that the ‘freak offs’ might final from ’36, 48 to 72 hours’ and that the longest one she was concerned in lasted 4 days
Considered one of Combs’ significantly sick requests, Ventura alleged, was to have a male escort urinate on her and in her mouth throughout freak offs.
‘Typically he himself (Combs) or he would have the escort urinate on me… there was no dialog. It was a activate for him, so it occurred.’
When requested if she had wished this, she stated a agency ‘no’, describing it as ‘humiliating is anybody was there to see it.
‘It was disgusting, it was an excessive amount of, overwhelming’. In a sign of the process, she stated she was choked and ‘I used to be laid on the ground able I could not simply get out of.’
Requested if she was in a position to ask the escort to cease, she replied: ‘I put my fingers up and Sean noticed and instructed him to cease. Solely factor I might do laying on the ground… an excessive amount of urine in my mouth.
Prosecutor: ‘Did you need Sean to urinate on you?’
Ventura: ‘I did not need anyone to urinate on me.
‘I used to be squeamish instantly and excessive and within the second with this man, so that is what occurred.
Cassie testified that when Diddy was instructed with Dying Row Data boss and former NFL participant Suge Knight (pictured) was within the space, he grabbed his weapons and hopped in an SUV, bolting off to an unknown location
‘There’s not a complete lot of management… taken that many medication and being on the ground with two males peeing on you.’
Ventura additionally revealed lodge rooms booked for freak offs would find yourself lined in blood, urine and child oil, with the latter ‘all around the partitions’.
The freak offs in New York resorts included periods on the Gramercy, Trump Lodge and an Intercontinental, she stated. In Miami and Miami Seashore, it was the Mandarin Oriental, Fontainebleau and Setai. For LA, they occurred on the Beverly Hills Lodge and Shutters on the Seashore.
Ventura stated former Dangerous Boy government Toni Fletcher typically booked the room, sometimes she would. She used the alias Jackie Star, whereas Combs used the title Frank White or Frank Black.
The primary provides had been large quantities of Johnson’s child oil, condoms and Astroglide sexual lubricant.
The oil ‘was simply as necessary as all the things else. We poured it throughout our our bodies (so that they had been) glistening,’ Ventura stated. ‘It was at all times heated… if he (Combs) felt such as you had been too dry he’d let , that you must be glistening, that you must be shining.’
It was ‘a really choreographed expertise. One time there was a blow-up pool and it was full of oil. I bought in with my outfit and my sneakers, it was fairly harmful.
Explaining the presence of blood, she replied: ‘I used to be anticipated to have freak offs on my interval.’
Ventura additionally revealed lodge rooms booked for freak offs would find yourself lined in blood, urine and child oil, with the latter ‘all around the partitions’ when the session was completed
Ventura additionally named a number of Diddy employees members she claimed would prepare the freak offs together with Kristina Khorram (pictured) who was named by others because the ‘fixer’ for the rapper
Ventura additionally named a number of Diddy employees members she claimed would prepare the freak offs – together with his ‘trusted assistants’ Kristina Khorram and Neil Dominic.
Khorram was beforehand named by others as a ‘fixer’, who allegedly helped Diddy arrange the orgies.
‘All the pieces from scheduling to what sort of temper he was in,’ Cassie stated when requested what she mentioned with Khorram. ‘I talked to [Khorram] about lots. She knew a number of my private issues.’
Ventura additionally claimed Diddy’s safety guard, R. Rock ‘used to remove her issues as punishment’ on the mogul’s path. She additionally stated the guard would come discover her when she tried to cover from Diddy.
Khorram – as soon as known as the ‘Ghislaine Maxwell to (Diddy’s) Jeffrey Epstein – has not been accused of any wrongdoing or charged with any crimes. Nonetheless, a number of ‘excessive rating supervisors’ are talked about, however not named, in a felony indictment in opposition to the rapper.
Ventura gave a dramatic account of the notorious 2016 lodge hallway surveillance video that confirmed her attempting to go away a freak off within the now closed InterContinental Lodge in Century Metropolis. It revealed Combs, sporting solely a towel, punching, kicking and dragging her.
When she selected to go away, she ‘grabbed what I might and Sean adopted me into the hallway and grabbed me up, threw me on the bottom, kicked me, tried to pull me again to the room, rook my stuff’.
She stated attending a transfer premiere within the following days and wished to watch out about her appears to be like.
‘We had been having a freak off, and Jules was one of many escorts. In the course of it there was lots ingesting and partying.
Ventura additionally gave her account of what occurred throughout the notorious 2016 lodge video and stated it began when she tried to go away a Freak Off
Diddy’s mother Janice Combs, 82, who sat via graphic proof about her son’s harrowing alleged crimes yesterday, arrived later
‘I am undecided what occurred. I bought hit by Sean and had a black eye and at that time all I might take into consideration was getting out of their safely. I had my premiere and did not wish to mess it up.
‘I simply knew I needed to get out. I grabbed my stuff and ran out as quick as I might. I made it to the elevators, bought my sneakers on. The following factor I used to be simply thrown to the bottom.
‘It was actually quick. I ran out with none sneakers. It was quicker. Sean grabbed me by the again of my neck and threw me to the bottom.’
Ventura appears to be like uncomfortable because the footage is performed. She says Combs is pulling her again to the room and when requested what number of instances has, he thrown her to the bottom, she replied: ‘Too many to rely.’
Referring to her staying down, she added: ‘I lined my face and stayed there. I did not need him to do any extra harm than he’d already accomplished. It felt just like the most secure place to be (on the bottom). He was dragging me across the nook.’
Earlier, the court docket heard protection legal professional Anna Estevao Ventura’s reveal husband Alex Effective allegedly threatened to ‘beat the f***’ out of Combs in texts after she demanded $30million from him.
Effective, 32 – who turned up on the courtroom this morning – allegedly despatched the message earlier than his spouse filed her civil lawsuit accusing him of rape and sexual assault that began the entire prosecution course of.
Each side agreed Effective needed to go away the courtroom throughout her model of occasions when it reaches 2018.
Combs was delivered to court docket from the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn. He made a hand gesture to his three sons and three daughters who returned to the courtroom – regardless of strolling out yesterday as prosecution witness revealed express particulars of their father’s sexual encounters.
His 82-year-old mom Janice, who sat via graphic proof about her son’s harrowing alleged crimes yesterday, arrived later.
The fallen mogul was arrested in September final 12 months after his mansions in Los Angeles and Miami had been raided by federal authorities.
Additionally earlier, Diddy’s protection legal professional Marc Agnifilo introduced into play the query over the freak off movies and photographs, that are presently sealed.
He instructed Decide Arun Subramanian: ‘There isn’t a facet to any of the movies that’s not within the nature of grownup pornography.
Daniel Phillip, 41, (pictured) took to the stand this morning to renew the legal professionals’ cross-examination. Yesterday, he instructed the jury he was paid to have intercourse with Cassie as Diddy watched
‘That is what it’s. It is people who find themselves nude, who’re having intercourse or about to have intercourse. It is all sexually express.
‘Our utility is that the visible photographs and the audio is throughout the purview of the sealing order. It is a privateness difficulty. It isn’t insignificant that that is within the nature of pornography.’
The decide stated he might make the movies and photographs public regardless of pleas from Ventura to maintain them beneath wraps.
Prosecutor Johnson stated that every one the supplies had been ‘fully sexually express’ and concerned nudity.
She stated that no one deliberate to clear the courtroom throughout the proof and that Cassie’s legal professionals had already objected to the fabric being public.
Proof began with male escort Daniel Phillip resuming his testimony from the day one – and revealing how he misplaced his erection with Ventura after she’d suffered a violent confrontation with Combs on the Essex Home lodge in New York Metropolis whereas he was with them.
He stated Combs and Ventura went to a bed room the place there was screaming. The singer got here out and jumped in his lap. ‘She was shaking uncontrollably, clearly afraid,’ he instructed the court docket.
‘We began speaking for some time earlier than we ended up kissing.’ The pair had been ‘transferring’ within the path of intercourse, and he had an erection. However at that second Combs walked in, and he misplaced it.
Phillip, 41, has alleged he was paid $6,000 every time to have orchestrated intercourse with Cassie as Combs watched.
Protection legal professional Xavier Donaldson grilled the escort on his private attraction to Ventura and urged he may need been jealous of the rapper.
Phillip stated he believed he had established a ‘bond’ with the singer however denied it was a relationship. ‘I used to be drawn to her and had she given me the possibility thus far her, I completely would,’ he instructed the court docket.
After the violence on the Essex, he stated: ‘I wished to actually assist her however there was nothing I might do. I used to be fully shocked. She was afraid. I might see she was actually afraid. I might see in her face she was crying lots.
‘She went to seize my shoulders, that is how we began, with an precise hug. I used to be simply fully tousled; I couldn’t have interaction.’
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