Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs’ violent assault on ex-girlfriend Cassie throughout a freak-off at a Los Angeles resort was made public early Wednesday after the whole unedited footage was proven to court docket.
Cassie Ventura, 38, got here face-to-face with the hip-hop mogul on the second day of his trial as she revealed intimate particulars of their sordid relationship.
The singer claimed she took half in his days-long intercourse events as a result of she feared he would blackmail her if she refused, jurors heard yesterday.
The unedited surveillance movies have been submitted as proof on the trial and present numerous angles of the brutal assault as Diddy drags the R&B singer from an elevator and menacingly paces down the hallway in a towel.
Combs shook his head slowly backward and forward and the packed courtroom fell silent as jurors have been proven the 2016 resort safety digicam video for the primary time.
The video didn’t have sound.
Jurors watched intently on video screens at their seats within the jury field, however there have been no discernible, seen reactions.
First, prosecutors confirmed it all over. Then, they performed it because the resort’s assistant safety director on the time, Israel Florez, described how the scenario unfolded.
‘I do not need to lose something and I can lose all of it,’ Florez described Diddy as saying.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ violent assault on ex-girlfriend Cassie throughout a freak-off in a Los Angeles was made public early Wednesday after the total unedited footage was proven to court docket
Cassie Ventura, 38, got here face-to-face with the hip-hop mogul on the second day of his trial as she revealed intimate particulars of their sordid relationship
Prosecutors then performed a special model of the footage that Florez recorded off a monitor together with his iPhone.
Combs’ lawyer then confirmed it once more as she sought to poke holes in Florez’s recollection of occasions.
The video reveals clear footage of Cassie strolling down the corridor on the InterContinental Resort in Century Metropolis and at one level, Combs clearly drags her throughout the ground, mid-tantrum.
As she tried to get into an elevator, he grabbed her by the again of the top and slammed her on to the bottom.
He then kicked her as she lay on the bottom immobile.
Diddy stood over her, kicked her once more, after which dragged her again to their room by the hoodie.
Late within the clip, you see what seems to be a safety guard stroll into the fray.
Florez, the safety guard in query, testified in court docket Tuesday and submitted an electronic mail exhibiting his report of the incident that features beautiful images of the aftermath within the resort room.
The singer claimed she took half in his days-long intercourse events as a result of she feared he would blackmail her if she refused, jurors heard yesterday
The movies have been submitted, unedited as proof on the trial and present numerous angles of the brutal assault as Diddy drags the R&B singer from an elevator and paces down the hallway in a towel
Now a Los Angeles Police Division officer, Florez wrote again in 2016 that at one level after diffusing the scenario, Combs tried to supply him a bribe, allegedly saying: ‘You handle this, I acquired you, let’s go to my room.’
The safety guard responds by telling Combs he is aware of who the mogul is earlier than shaking his hand.
‘[I] stated all I ask is for respect for the visitor and myself, so do me the favor and lets return you to your room,’ he wrote.
At one level, Florez claims Diddy noticed Ventura coming down the corridor and ‘raised his voice’ towards her.
‘I then instructed him that if he did not respect the visitor, then he could be escorted out of property,’ Florez stated.
They arrive on the room, the place Combs allegedly pulled out a band of about $100 in money and stated: ‘You handle this and I handle you.’
‘I declined the cash and instructed Mr. Combs that each one we would have liked was for him to remain in his room till take a look at, which is in the present day,’ Florez stated, earlier than leaving the scene.
As he and an affiliate began to take images, Diddy appeared able to yell at them, when Florez stated he instructed him they ‘weren’t there to make it greater than it already was.’
First, prosecutors confirmed it all over. Then, they performed it because the resort’s assistant safety director on the time, Israel Florez (pictured), described what was taking place
Now a Los Angeles Police Division officer, Florez wrote again in 2016 that at one level after diffusing the scenario, Combs tried to supply him a bribe, allegedly saying: ‘You handle this, I acquired you, let’s go to my room’
Combs at one level tries to seize the affiliate’s telephone, assuming he is there to report him earlier than he was instructed he wasn’t being filmed.
Florez clamed that Diddy calmed down and stated: ‘It’s simply that I do not need to lose something and I can lose all of it.’
He reassures the rapper that they only need him to settle down and keep away from additional scenes earlier than leaving.
The trial’s first witness, Florez, testified about responding to a report of a girl in misery and witnessing Combs inform Cassie: ‘You are not going to depart.’
Florez stated he acknowledged Diddy instantly after getting known as as much as his room and solely later understood it was Ventura with him.
In accordance with Florez, Diddy was ‘on the chair slouched down and was in a clean stare’
He stated: ‘As quickly as I walked out…it was a devilish stare, taking a look at me. Once I acquired out of the elevator I’m taking a look at him, he’s taking a look at me with no motion. He was carrying only a towel and socks.’
Florez instructed the court docket that Ventura appeared ‘scared.’
At one level, Florez claims Diddy noticed Ventura coming down the corridor and ‘raised his voice’ towards her
Florez instructed the court docket that Ventura appeared ‘scared’
He stated: ‘She was within the nook. She had her hoodie on, just about lined up, I could not see her face. She was just about in a nook.’
Florez testified that he recorded the resort’s video of the assault on his cellphone as a result of he needed to explain what he noticed to his spouse and feared she wouldn’t consider him.
As for her personal testimony, Cassie claimed in a since-settled lawsuit that Diddy had paid the identical resort $50,000 for the footage after the assault.
Two days later, the pair appeared on the pink carpet holding fingers for the premiere of The Good Match.
At trial Tuesday, Ventura stated Combs, 55, compelled her to take part within the events, often known as ‘Freak Offs’, the place she would have intercourse with male escorts whereas he watched.
They turned her ‘job’ and she or he carried on collaborating as a result of she feared Combs would launch movies he had filmed of the events, the court docket heard.
The R&B singer stated Combs, who signed her to his Unhealthy Boy Data label, managed each side of her life throughout their decade-long relationship and saved her in examine by violence, and left weapons mendacity round to ‘scare’ her.
Ventura described how he would ‘stomp me within the head if I used to be down’ and beat her so badly that the whites of her eyes would flip pink.
Florez stated of Cassie: ‘She was within the nook. She had her hoodie on, just about lined up, I could not see her face. She was just about in a nook’
Florez took images of the aftermath of the assault within the resort room
Diddy was apparently not thrilled with the try to collect images and thought he was being filmed by the safety staff
Prosecutors declare that Combs, who received three Grammys throughout a music profession spanning 4 many years, ran a ‘prison enterprise’ constructed round coercing ladies into intercourse and threatening them in the event that they went public.
His legal professionals declare that each one the intercourse acts have been consensual and that his appetites have been ‘kinky’ however didn’t quantity to intercourse trafficking.
Ventura gave proof to the trial in New York regardless of being eight-and-a-half months pregnant together with her third little one. Her husband Alex Positive, 32, is a private coach who was employed by Combs to work together with her.
Combs’s legal professionals sought to have Ventura seated within the witness field earlier than the jury got here in on the grounds that her being so closely pregnant may affect them.
However the decide disagreed and she or he was allowed to stroll into court docket carrying a brown, tight-fitting bodysuit which confirmed off her child bump.
Her testimony got here a day after prosecutors confirmed jurors a video of him beating her in a resort in 2016.
Ventura detailed the arguments she had with Combs, who she started courting in 2006 when she was 19 and he was 17 years older.
She stated: ‘He would bash me on my head, knock me over, drag me, kick me, stomp me within the head if I used to be down.’ Prosecutor Emily Anne Johnson requested how ceaselessly this occurred. ‘Too ceaselessly,’ she replied.
Florez testified that he recorded the resort’s video of the assault on his cellphone as a result of he needed to explain what he noticed to his spouse and feared she wouldn’t consider him
Ventura gave proof to the trial in New York regardless of being eight-and-a-half months pregnant together with her third little one
Cassie and Diddy first met in 2005, when she was 19 and he was a 39-year-old famous person (Pictured: New York, 2006)
Ventura stated she remembered ‘my abdomen falling to my butt’ when Combs prompt the thought of ‘Freak Offs’. She instructed the court docket: ‘Throughout the first yr of our relationship Sean proposed to me this concept this sexual encounter that he known as voyeurism the place he’d watch me in sexual exercise with a 3rd celebration, particularly one other man.’
She added: ‘Fairly shortly I knew that it wasn’t one thing I needed to be doing. Particularly as often because it turned however I used to be in love and needed to make him comfortable. It acquired to some extent I did not really feel I had a lot of a selection.’
Ventura stated she didn’t need to make Combs ‘indignant’ as a result of he ‘managed quite a lot of my life’ and she or he feared he would put the specific movies of her on-line. She instructed jurors: ‘Over time it was the very fact there have been blackmail supplies to make me really feel if I did not do it, it could be hung over my head or these items would grow to be public.’
Ventura stated that earlier than she met Combs, she thought he was a ‘larger-than-life’ determine within the music business, whereas she was ‘utterly sexually inexperienced’. She repeatedly known as herself ‘naive’ and stated: ‘I used to be insanely jealous but in addition tremendous younger, did not get it in any respect, I did not get that he was him.
‘As he would say, I am Puff Daddy and Puff Daddy has many ladies, he likes the corporate of girls. I needed to study that over time. He made me really feel like we have been in a monogamous relationship.’
Ventura wept as she spoke about her first ‘Freak Off’ celebration and the way she didn’t need to have interaction in any of them. ‘I simply felt it was all I used to be good for,’ she stated.
‘I felt fairly horrible about myself. I felt disgusted. I used to be humiliated, I did not have these phrases to place collectively on the time, how horrible I felt. I could not discuss to anyone about it so.’
Ventura stated the one a part of the ‘Freak Offs’ she loved was the ‘time’ she spent with Combs throughout them. She instructed the court docket: ‘Plainly the Freak Offs turned a job the place there was no house to do the rest however to recuperate and attempt to really feel regular once more. Staying up for days on finish, taking medication and different substances, consuming. Having intercourse with a stranger for days.’
Requested how lengthy the ‘Freak Offs’ lasted, Ventura replied: ‘They ranged wherever from 36, 48 to 72 hours. The longest one ever was 4 days. Perhaps much more on and off with breaks.’ She stated about 10 massive bottles of child oil have been used at every celebration.
Ventura additionally claimed that Combs would depart weapons mendacity round his properties to scare her.
‘The weapons got here out right here and there – I all the time felt it was slightly little bit of a scare tactic,’ she stated.
Earlier, Choose Arun Subramanian indicated he might make the ‘Freak Off’ movies and images public regardless of pleas from Ventura to maintain them sealed.
Combs, who has labored with Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Lopez, who he additionally dated for a time, denies racketeering conspiracy, two costs of intercourse trafficking and two costs of transportation to have interaction in prostitution. He faces life in jail if convicted.
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