Cassie’s testimony against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs – Latest News
Will Sean “Diddy” Combs spend the remaining of his days rotting away in jail?
He’s accused of racketeering and intercourse trafficking — and it’s unclear this early within the trial if the governrnent has to the products to persuade the jury he’s guilty of these particular fees.
But what has emerged is that Combs is undeniably a monster — a sadistic soul who laundered his darkness via his work-hard play-hard, modern-day Rat Pack persona.
Too unhealthy they’ll’t put him away for that.
Heavily pregnant Cassie Ventura took the stand in Manhattan Federal Court, the place she revealed the abuse she suffered at Sean Combs’ palms. AP
This week in court docket, testimony from former girlfriend Cassie Ventura uncovered the depths of his depravity that bubbled simply beneath the floor of his fastidiously curated image.
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Eight months pregnant, Ventura was violated throughout again, this time in entrance of the world. She was pressured to relive her lowest days together with capsule popping, degrading intercourse acts, and a decade’s value of beatings at Combs’ palms.
On Tuesday, she testified about the so-called “freak offs” — a time period that now rolls off the tongue of federal prosecutors [and now everyone else] — and the medication she took to disassociate from the expertise.
As I watched her calmly reply essentially the most invasive and intestine wrenching questions, I needed to think about she was as soon as again disassociating from this very public nightmare.
Before Cassie’s 2023 lawsuit against Sean Combs and his arrest in 2024, he was the toast of the movie star world and buddies with people like Jay Z. Getty Images for Roc Nation
Her emotional crack got here late within the day as she recalled eager to kill herself earlier than getting into rehab in early 2023.
“I couldn’t take the pain anymore. I tried to walk out the front door into traffic,” stated the mother-of-two.
But her husband Alex Fine — who had been current all morning earlier than leaving the courtroom someday after lunch — saved her that day, she stated.
Meanwhile, Combs’ legal professionals allege that he’s merely a sexual libertine. A swinger quenching his foul sexual urge for food with different consensual adults. No hurt achieved. They’re attempting to say that Ventura appreciated it a lot, she even facilitated it at occasions.
Sean “Diddy” Combs and Cassie Ventura recurrently walked pink carpets collectively. Here they’re at hte Met Gala in 2018. Getty Images
Ventura, like many home abuse victims, stated she tried to keep Combs completely satisfied and went alongside to keep away from angering him. She recurrently recalled his eyes turning black when he was mad.
And he dished out violence which she described as “frequent.” He “punched, kicked, dragged” her so viciously, she in contrast him to notorious spouse beater Ike Turner.
During their eleven-year relationship, the couple recurrently appeared on pink carpets in glamorous designers duds.
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ mom Janice Combs has been available in court docket to help her son. ZUMAPRESS.com / MEGA
However, within the courtroom, we noticed completely different variety of visible historical past of their time collectively. The prosecution confirmed the jury pictures of Ventura with bruises on her back and legs, fats lips, a gash, her eyebrow and black eyes half hidden behind sun shades.
Ventura testified about a combat in Cannes, France, when he kicked her off his yacht, leaving her with no sneakers. During their flight back, he intimidated her by taking part in incriminating videos of her performing within the “Freak Offs.” It was a risk.
“I felt trapped,” she stated realizing he had “leverage” of these videos.
During a journey to Jamaica, she recalled hiding behind a tractor along with her former best good friend Kerry Morgan. Who was she hiding from? “Sean” she answered. Ventura stated he gave her a black eye on that journey.
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ youngsters together with Christian, Justin and his stepson Quincy Brown depart court docket. REUTERS
Back in Los Angeles, she recalled Combs recurrently bursting into her house, together with on August 5, 2013 when she was meant to be packing for Drake’s music pageant in Toronto however she had fallen asleep. She stated he threw her onto the mattress body, leaving a nasty gash in her eyebrow. Combs had his security carry her to a plastic surgeon to sew it up.
She stated she nonetheless has that scar – seemingly one of many.
Then there was the 2015 Vegas journey, the place she stated he punched her and kicked her as she tried to cover behind a toilet. Combs’ security guard stopped it and despatched her to his Los Angeles home to get well.
The prosecutors confirmed an e mail from the worker telling her it was time to “ice ur face.”
Many footage of Cassie Ventura’s bruises and different accidents had been proven all through testimony. REUTERS
Video surveillance from a resort, confirmed Sean “Diddy” Combs dragging Cassie Ventura. U.S. Attorneys SDNY
She recalled the primary alleged beating, in Los Angeles in 2007, when he was “stomping on my face with his foot.” He made her keep on the London Hotel to heal, regardless of her pleas to go away.
As she laid naked the horrific abuse, a grey haired Combs, in a dad sweater that evoked much less Mr. Rogers and more Bill Cosby, stared straight forward.
On Thursday his legal professionals grilled Ventura on cross examination, exhibiting loving texts despatched between them and questioning her drug use. They additionally requested about her in regards to the bombshell $20 million settlement she acquired from him after submitting a civil swimsuit, which first revealed his vile therapy of her.
“When your lawsuit was published in November 2023, you understand his career was ruined, right?” she was requested by the protection.
She did perceive. But cry me a river, Team Diddy.
He’s fortunate if that’s the least of his punishment.
