Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs’ protection is cross-examining his ex-girlfriend and fundamental accuser Cassie Ventura as he faces trial for sex-trafficking and racketeering in New York.
The music mogul has saved a poker face this week as a pregnant Cassie described being bodily and emotionally abused all through their 10-year relationship.
He whispered that he was proud to his protection lawyer Anna Estevao earlier than she began grilling Cassie on the stand on Thursday, getting the singer to learn damning messages together with one the place she stated she ‘liked freak offs.’
The R&B singer testified Wednesday that Combs raped her when she ended their decade-long relationship, after he locked her in a lifetime of bodily abuse by threatening to launch degrading sexual movies of her.
In humiliating element, she recounted a turbulent relationship with Combs that she stated was consumed by violence and his obsession with a type of voyeurism the place ‘he was controlling the entire state of affairs.’
That included directing her encounters with male intercourse employees proper all the way down to the copious quantities of child oil she utilized to take care of the ‘glistening’ look he desired – as many as 10 giant bottles a session.
Combs’ 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.
Diddy says he is ‘proud’ of his lawyer as she grills Cassie on the stand
On Thursday, Diddy talked about to his lawyer Anna Estevao that he was ‘proud’ of her for the work she was doing on his case. The message was caught on a sizzling mic within the courtroom.
Estevao confronted Cassie with loving emails and textual content messages she and the hip-hop mogul exchanged early on.
‘You and [Sean Combs] had been in love for 11 years, proper?’ was the primary query from Diddy’s lawyer Anna Estevao, who will likely be cross-examining Cassie.
‘You believed he liked you?’
Estevao continued a line of questioning that emphasised that Cassie ‘knew the actual Sean… a model he will not let the remainder of the world see.’
In a single notably damning exhange, Cassie wrote in a textual content to Diddy in March, 2017: ‘Please don’t play sufferer.
‘That’s all you needed and that’s why I used to be upset.
‘I really like our FOs after we each need it.’
Diddy’s lawyer Anna Estevao is pictured.
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WATCH: New lawsuit accuses Diddy of rape
A lady going by Jane Doe filed a lawsuit in opposition to Diddy saying he raped her – however that she was relieved when she noticed the scale of his penis ‘as a result of she knew it would not harm that a lot,’ in accordance with TMZ.
Diddy overdosed in 2012, his lawyer says
Diddy’s protection lawyer questioned Cassie abouta time when the rapper overdosed in 2012 after taking painkillers.
We had a Freak Off. We went to a intercourse membership in San Bernardino. He had a celebration on the Playboy Mansion that night time and I went dwelling.
He took a really sturdy opiate that night time, we did not’ know what was occurring so took him to the hospital.
Jurors seem disturbed as they learn lurid textual content messages
At factors through the text-and-email-heavy testimony, jurors leaned ahead of their seats to comply with alongside as displays displayed the often-lurid messages in entrance of the jury field.
One lady shook her head from side-to-side as a very express message was proven. A person stared intently on the display, urgent his thumb to his chin. Different jurors appeared curious and quizzical, some Cassie or jotting notes. One man fell right into a routine, peering at every message on the display after which trying up at Estevao as she requested Cassie about them.
Some jurors appeared bored solely when the courtroom fell silent for minutes at a time whereas Cassie reviewed prolonged textual content exchanges earlier than answering questions.
Aubrey O’Day is in NYC amid Diddy’s trial, may testify
O’Day who for years claimed she suffered abuse whereas working for Diddy, revealed she was in NYC through the music mogul’s trial.
‘Hey New York!!! The place y’all assume I ought to head first?’
O’Day wrote on Wednesday.
The previous Danity Kane star is meant to testify within the trial someday subsequent week, in accordance with Us Weekly.
Courtroom hears particulars of Cassie’s affair with Michael B Jordan
Diddy suspected Cassie was having a revenge affair with the actor Michael B. Jordan, the courtroom heard.
Cassie stated she dumped the hip hop mogul in 2015 after seeing a video of him and a girl referred to as Gina at an occasion whereas she was in South Africa filming ‘Honey 3: Dare to Dance’.
She instructed a courtroom in New York that Diddy suspected she bought along with Jordan, who was in Cape City on the identical time whereas doing filming of his personal.
Cassie stated she ‘wasn’t there’ to see how Combs reacted when he came upon about her relationship with Jordan.
Cassie and Diddy finally patched issues up and stayed collectively till 2018.
The singer didn’t say she had an affair with the actor whereas on the stand, however she did reveal the roman in her 2023 civil lawsuit in opposition to the mogul.
Cassie stated that she started a ‘flirtatious relationship’ with Jordan whereas she was in South Africa – and that they did have an affair.
‘She spent New Yr’s Eve with this actor however Mr Combs quickly came upon’, the lawsuit said.
‘Mr. Combs referred to as the actor and threatened him; the actor proceeded to name Ms. Ventura and inform her: ‘You actually need to name ‘Mr Combs’.
Cassie admits to being jealous of Kim Porter
Cassie admitted on the stand that she was jealous of Diddy’s ex Kim Porter as a result of the mogul was nonetheless publicly linked with the mom of his youngsters.
She stated she can be upset when Diddy spent particular events with Porter and his youngsters as a substitute of along with her.
Diddy and Porter had been in an on-off relationship from 1994-2007.
Porter had been photographed with Combs and their youngsters within the months earlier than her demise in 2018.
Jury sees textual content the place Cassie stated she ‘liked freak offs’
Cassie wrote in a textual content to Diddy in March, 2017: ‘Please don’t play sufferer.
‘That’s all you needed and that’s why I used to be upset.
‘I really like our FOs after we each need it.’
Diddy’s lawyer has been attempting to show that, regardless of her claims, Cassie was not coerced into collaborating within the grueling intercourse periods.
When requested about what she wrote, Cassie replied: ‘I might say that loving FOs had been simply phrases at that time.’
Diddy’s legal professionals recommend prosecutors need to restrict their questioning of Cassie
Choose Subramanian stated there had been pre-trial discussions for months about the necessity to end Cassie’s testimony this week, given her superior being pregnant.
Agnifilo tried guilty prosecutors, saying it ‘appears strategic’ that they referred to as two different witnesses earlier than Cassie, and suggesting they did so in an effort to restrict the cross examination.
The choose instructed the protection to complete its cross within the morning Friday to depart time for prosecutors to ask Cassie followup questions. He left open the likelihood that Cassie may need to return to the witness stand subsequent week.
Diddy’s daughters lacking from trial as Cassie’s graphic testimony resumes
The mogul’s household, together with his mom Janice and 6 of his seven youngsters, has supported him since his arrest final yr and have been current within the courtroom day-after-day this week.
His three daughters – 18-year-old daughter Likelihood and17-year-old twins D’Lila and Jessie – had been in courtroom on Monday and Tuesday and heard horrific testimony from the primary three witness together with Cassie.
Nonetheless, Diddy’s daughters weren’t seen going contained in the federal courthouse on Wednesday as Cassie is to renew her testimony.
Solely Diddy’s mom Janice Combs and sons Quincy, 33, Justin, 30, and Christian, 26, had been seen getting into courtroom on Wednesday and Thursday.
‘I don’t want your cash, I would like some consideration’
One of many message Cassie learn on Thursday factors to fractures of their relationship, which in accordance with her earlier testimony devolved into violence and Combs’ growing obsession with seeing her have intercourse with strangers throughout drug-fueled intercourse events he referred to as ‘freak offs.’
Cassie learn the e-mail in courtroom: ‘That’s not being in a relationship with somebody that you just love and are in love with … I’m actually harm by the best way you take care of me, I don’t want your cash, I would like some consideration.’
Choose Subramanian has imposed a strict 5pm deadline on Friday Might 16 for the protection to complete cross inspecting the witness.
Cassie will likely be on the stand for one more day
Combs’ legal professionals stated they don’t count on to be accomplished questioning Cassie till the tip of the day on Friday. If that occurs, it’s potential she’ll want to return again to courtroom on Monday so prosecutors can ask her extra questions throughout a section of testimony generally known as re-direct.
Subramanian famous that the edges had beforehand agreed that she can be accomplished by week’s finish, since she’s pregnant and resulting from give delivery quickly to her third little one.
Diddy seems to be relaxed as his lawyer grills Cassie
Combs seems relaxed on the protection desk, sitting again in his chair along with his fingers folded earlier than him and his legs crossed.
He has been allowed to put on his personal garments for the trial.
Nonetheless, he has to rotate between 5 seems to be all through the trial, which is predicted to final about eight weeks.
He can solely have as much as 5 pairs of pants, shirts and socks and solely two pairs of sneakers – with no laces.
Cassie typically watched Diddy having intercourse with different ladies
Whereas prosecutors have targeted on Combs’ need to see Cassie having intercourse with different males in marathons of sexual exercise, she says she typically watched Combs have intercourse with different ladies.
Underneath questioning by Combs’ lawyer, Cassie testified that this occurred possibly 4 instances all through the course of their decade-long relationship. She stated Combs defined it as a part of a ‘swingers way of life.’
Diddy was hooked on opiates, courtroom hears
Estevao questioned Cassie about addictions because it associated to Combs.
‘Would you say he was an addict?’ the protection lawyer requested. ‘I might say he was an addict,’ Cassie responded.
‘What was he hooked on?”’ Estevao requested.
‘Success,’ Cassie initially stated.
When the lawyer requested if Combs was hooked on opiates, Cassie stated: ‘At a degree, sure.’
Estevao requested her how she is aware of. Cassie answered: ‘As a result of he instructed me.’
Cassie stated Combs would develop into extra violent when he was gouing via Opioid withdrawals.
WATCH: Cassie’s ex-boyfriend discusses ‘her leaving him for Diddy’
Cassie is being questioned about her relatiopnship with music producer Ryan Leslie, who she dated earlier than she met Diddy.
Diddy’s lawyer has made a degree of noting that Leslie is 10 years older than Cassie, so Diddy was not her first expertise with an older males.
Cassie started courting Leslie when she was 19 years outdated, and has a tattoo of his initials on her physique.
Diddy’s legal professionals recommend she ruined his profession
Estevao requested Cassie if it’s ‘truthful to say’ that Combs’ profession was ruined after she sued him in November 2023, making public for the primary time the idea of ‘freak-offs.’
‘I may perceive that,’ Cassie responded.
Estevao repeated Cassie’s declare that she was afraid Diddy would launch tapes of the freak offs. Cassie stated in direct examination that this was a part of why she felt she couldn’t say no to the star.
The lawyer then had Cassie verify that the general public didn’t be taught of the freak offs till she filed her lawsuit in 2023 in opposition to Diddy.
Why Diddy’s trial is not being reside streamed
In contrast to different high-profile instances, the rapper’s trial won’t be televised as it’s in federal courtroom.
Digital media, together with cameras, are banned within the Manhattan courtroom room.
A sketch artist’s work would be the solely visuals popping out of the courtroom.
Cassie reads her sexually express messages for the jury
These communications between Cassie and Combs are graphic — describing for instance what she needed to do through the ‘freak-offs’ — and Estevao is making Cassie learn them out loud, phrase by lurid phrase, whereas the lawyer reads Combs’ components.
The choose is permitting these emails, which don’t focus on what occurred, however reasonably what she was anticipating or eager to have occur on the time.
‘I need it and I need to provide the identical. I simply assume that I’ve to belief you past it and simply being sexual. Are you aware what I imply?’ Cassie wrote in a single change.
‘To ensure that me to be extra open with the issues we do in mattress, I must really feel protected, like dwelling. Like that is my husband, that is THE ONLY man that can ever have this aggressive / sexual aspect of me.
‘The final time was mistake however since had made me really feel somewhat soiled and grimey…that’s the one purpose I travel in my thoughts with wanting and never eager to do….after we used to freak off after we had been so in love.
‘There have been no questions requested. It felt proper. Prefer it actually made sense for the following step in our intercourse life. I get nervous that I’m simply turning into the girlfriend you get your fantasies off with and that’s it. I don’t get the opposite half…anymore a minimum of.’
Diddy’s lawyer calls Cassie ‘stunning and charming’
The mild questioning of Cassie by Estevao might have reached a crescendo when the Combs lawyer was asking her about her early music profession and a profitable first album.
At one level, Estevao stated: ‘And also you’re very stunning and charming.’ Gentle laughter could possibly be heard within the courtroom, prompting the lawyer to say: ‘Effectively, it’s true.’
Cassie responded by thanking her.
Britney Spears dragged into Diddy trial
Cassie instructed the jury that Diddy introduced popstar Britney Spears to her twenty first party in Las Vegas.
Diddy additionally allegedly introduced singer songwriter Dallas Austin to Cassie’s social gathering.
Cassie beforehand testified that Diddy kissed her throughout this social gathering, leaving her confused as their relationship had been platonic till then.
She was already signed to his document label by that point.
Britney, Diddy and Cassie are pictured in Las Vegas in 2007. They had been accompanied by Cassie’s then-boyfriend Ryan Leslie.
Cassie exhibits indicators of stress throughout cross-examination
The singer, who’s weeks away from giving delivery, has remained notably composed as she solutions questions on alleged abuse and horrific sexual assault.
On Thursday, as she confronted cross-examiantion, she held what gave the impression to be beads in her fingers.
She additionally held what gave the impression to be a purple dice, maybe a stress ball.
Cassie requested for extra time with Diddy in texts proven to courts
One of many message Cassie learn on Thursday factors to fractures of their relationship, which in accordance with her earlier testimony devolved into violence and Combs’ growing obsession with seeing her have intercourse with strangers throughout drug-fueled intercourse events he referred to as ‘freak offs.’
In an April 2010 electronic mail, she expressed disappointment that Combs would rush her off the cellphone and wasn’t spending time along with her.
Cassie learn the e-mail in courtroom: ‘That’s not being in a relationship with somebody that you just love and are in love with … I’m actually harm by the best way you take care of me, I don’t want your cash, I would like some consideration.’
Jury sees ‘Freak Off’ textual content change between Diddy and Cassie
The protection is displaying the jury a textual content coversation between Diddy and Cassie the place the 2 focus on a Freak Off in August 2009.
Rapper Boosie BadAzz voices help for Diddy
Rapper Boosie BadAzz took to X on Tuesday to react to Diddy’s trial and are available out in his protection.
Protection exhibits jury loving texts between Cassie and Diddy
Diddy’s lawyer Anna Estevao is confronting Cassie with loving emails and textual content messages she and the hip-hop mogul exchanged early on.
The primary reveals launched by the protection are messages exchanged between Combs and Cassie within the early years of their relationship.
In a single, Combs writes ‘I’m actually a fortunate man.’
Cassie writes again: ‘I’m a really fortunate lady. … Love you a lot.’
Prosecutors are objecting incessantly to reveals launched by Estevao. The choose is rejecting lots of the objections, showing to be giving the protection some respiration room within the early levels of its examination.
‘Tons of of freak offs’
Because the prosecution ended its direct examination on Wednesday, they requested Cassie what number of freak offs she participated in.
‘Unimaginable to know,’ she replied. ‘Tons of.’
When requested if she’s been concerned in any since ending her relationship with Combs in 2018, the witness stated, ‘no.’
Cassie was additionally requested why she selected to take the stand in opposition to the music mogul.
I can’t carry this any extra. I can’t carry the disgrace, the guilt, the best way we… I used to be guided to deal with individuals like they had been disposable. What’s
Diddy’s mom and sons arrive for Cassie’s cross-examination
Diddy’s mom Janice Combs, 85, has been in attendance day-after-day for his trial this week.
She is seen arriving to the federal courthouse on Thursday.
A few of Diddy’s sons had been additionally seen getting into the courtroom for day 4 of the trial.
PICTURED: LA lodge room following Diddy’s assault on Cassie
The jury was proven photos of a Los Angeles lodge room after Diddy allegedly threw a vase at Cassie throughout an assault caught on safety cameras in 2016.
A model of the footage was aired by CNN final yr.
Jury recoils in shock as they’re proven images from ‘Freak Off’ intercourse events
Jurors within the trial of Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs had been yesterday proven photos from the intercourse events that the hip-hop mogul masterminded.
The New York courtroom fell silent because the jury members seen 5 nonetheless footage of so-called ‘Freak Offs’ on their screens, which had been blocked from public view.
One male juror’s eyebrows went up as he noticed the pictures, whereas a feminine juror swallowed laborious and appeared to maneuver her head aspect to aspect.
Cross examination of Cassie will quickly be underway
Protection legal professionals say they’ll be scrutinizing how infidelity fueled the flamable almost 11-year relationship between the R&B singer and the music mogul who managed her profession.
Protection lawyer Teny Geragos urged to the choose Wednesday that they needed to change as we speak’s gameplan on the fly.
She instructed Choose Arun Subramanian that the questioning of Cassie by prosecutors over two days ‘has gone a lot in a different way than I anticipated. … So we’re sort of altering our technique.’
Agnifilo later instructed the choose that questioning Cassie about infidelities is essential. ‘All people is aware of that we’re going to deliver up infidelities, that we’re going to need to deliver up textual content messages of infidelities, and these textual content messages are sometimes in colourful language,’ he stated.
Sean Combs and Cassie Ventura attend The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork’s Costume Institute profit gala in 2018, the yr they broke up.
Jury hears claims of terrifying violence
A protection grievance that testimony about violence was not particular sufficient prompted a prosecutor to elicit a historical past of notable occasions of violence Cassie stated she suffered by the hands of Combs.
The primary, she testified, got here early of their relationship in 2007. Cassie stated she was at a dinner with ‘Sean and pals’ when she noticed Combs flirting with someone.
She stated she shrugged her shoulders when someone else who noticed it checked out her. However then, she stated, Combs attacked her in a automobile after they left the venue.
‘He knocked me round and was simply hitting me,’ she stated.
Cassie testified that she fell to the ground of the automobile after Combs hit her on the aspect of the top. ‘I used to be simply shocked,’ she stated. ‘I didn’t essentially perceive what occurred and why he was so offended.’
She stated she went dwelling and ‘hid out after that.’
REVEALED: Diddy’s texts ‘threatening Cassie after their break up’
In 2019, Diddy texted Cassie: ‘If I used to be you, I might get me my cash.’
He apparently needed to be reimbursed after Cassie married Alex Tremendous, a private coach Diddy initally employed for her.
‘YOU WILL NOT BE THREATENING ME,’ Diddy texted, including that Cassie had ‘too many iPads filled with skeletons.’
Cassie replied: ‘Would you like me to inform the reality? It’s method deeper than iPads.’
Diddy’s household doc their each transfer as disgusting particulars of his freak-offs unfold in courtroom
The emotional price that Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs’s trial is having on his household is all being caught on digicam, DailyMail.com can reveal solely.
One of many rap mogul’s trusted interior circle of movie makers is shadowing his six youngsters and his 85-year-old mom Janice to federal courtroom of their giant black minivan every day.
And Roodmy Poulard is nailing their each transfer and emotion when they aren’t really contained in the constructing, the place cameras should not allowed.
Diddy’s courtroom gesture to mother Janice as she leads household supporting him at trial
Diddy turned violent over Cassie’s romance with Child Cudi, jury hears
Cassie stated Diddy came upon that she had been courting Child Cudi after going via her cellphone following a Freak Off in Los Angeles in 2011.
‘It was a time after we weren’t within the biggest place,’ Cassie stated of her relationship with Diddy.
‘I keep in mind him pulling a wine bottle opener between his fingers and lunging at me. Eyes blacked out, tremendous offended and I bought out of there.’
He instructed me about movies he had he was going to launch and he was going to harm Scott (Cudi) and I.
Cassie stated after the assault she used a burner cellphone to name Cudi, who then picked her up.
The singer’s settled lawsuit with Diddy claimed he blew up Child Cudi’s automobile after studying of their romance.
Cassie wears an influence swimsuit as she heads to be grilled by Diddy’s legal professionals
Diddy’s legal professionals are anticipated to start cross-examining Cassie on Thursday, when they may get the possibility to problem her credibility or poke holes in her account of what occurred.
Cassie instructed the jury Diddy raped her in 2018
The R&B singer testified Wednesday that the mogul raped her when she ended their decade-long relationship, after he locked her in a lifetime of bodily abuse by threatening to launch degrading sexual movies of her.
Cassie stated Combs pressured his method into her Los Angeles condominium and raped her on the lounge flooring after she stated she was breaking apart with him.
Prosecutors accuse Combs of exloiting his standing as a strong music govt to violently drive Cassie and different ladies to participate in sexual encounters. He’s charged with crimes together with racketeering and intercourse trafficking by drive, fraud or coercion. A number of different accusers are set to testify.
50 Cent continues trolling Diddy
50 Cent has continued utilizing his social media to troll Diddy as he stands on trial.
He shared a publish on Instagram mocking Diddy after a lawsuit claimed he had a ‘tootsie roll-sized penis.’
The rapper additionally shared an AI-generated picture displaying shirtless Diddy sitting in a blue inflatable youngsters’s paddling pool in a again yard whereas driving on a big inflatable yellow duck.
The photographs seem to have been impressed by Cassie’s declare underneath oath that Diddy had ordered her to get into an inflatable pool stuffed with child oil whereas clothed in an outfit bought from a intercourse store.
New Diddy accuser claims he raped her with ‘tootsie roll-sized penis’
A lady going by Jane Doe filed a lawsuit in opposition to Diddy saying he raped her – however that she was relieved when she noticed the scale of his penis ‘as a result of she knew it would not harm that a lot,’ in accordance with TMZ.
Jane Doe says she met the mogul in 2001 and the 2 frolicked a number of instances earlier than he raped her at his Manhattan condominium.
She claims Diddy pushed her down on his mattress, put his hand on her throat and stated: ‘I’ll suck the life out of you.’
The swimsuit claims Diddy held her down earlier than ‘pulling out his erect bare-skinned penis which gave the impression to be the size and girth of a big Tootsie Roll.’
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