Diddy Trial: Cassie testifies to the combs used

While the singer of R&B Cassie Ventura was in a decreeing relationship with Sean “Diddy” Combs, her musical career was wading.

Tuesday, Ventura testified in the criminal trial of combat sex trafficking that the hip-hop magnate “has stifled” his career over the years.

Instead of working on her music, Ventura told Manhattan jury, she spent days participating and recovering from “Freak Offs” – which she described as sexual performance powered by drugs with escorts designed to satisfy the combs.

For a while, Combs had the Freak offs “every week,” said Ventura.

“Freak offs have become my work,” said Ventura.

At the beginning of 2006, Ventura signed an agreement of 10 album with the Label de Combs, Bad Boy Records.

She recorded “hundreds of songs” in the following years, but many “have not seen daylight,” she said on the stand of witnesses.

Only a handful of Ventura songs were officially published as a result of her first eponymous album, the well -revised “cassie”, which was released in the summer of 2006 and included the famous single “Me & U.”

Aside from the only album, Ventura released a mixtape and a handful of singles with Bad Boy Records over the years. She said that she was not paid for the nine unfinished albums that were part of the agreement.

Ventura said that most of her time was devoted to the preparation and physically recover from “Freak Offs”, which she also called “partying”. She said that sexual sessions have led to dehydration and exhaustion, and that she took drugs to stay awake for several days in a row in order to have sex with other men in the direction of Combs.

“When I did not work on my music, I recovered from the party,” said Ventura. “It was a large part of my life.”

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Ventura spoke as the third witness to testify Tuesday morning in the Combs sex trafficking trial. Eight months pregnant with her third child with her husband Alex Fine, she wore an extensible brown dress and a camel overcoat in the lower Manhattan courtroom.

After Ventura signed for the first time on Bad Boy Records, her relationship with Combs was Platonic, she said.

But things changed for its 21st birthday, in August 2007, when they celebrated Las Vegas, she said. There, Combs kissed Ventura in the bathroom of her hotel, she said.

Ventura did not know what to do, she said. It was new in the music industry and could not grasp the dynamics of power between it and Combs, she said.

“I think I was just confused at the time,” she said on the stand of witnesses. “I am a young artist who did not really know the configuration of the earth.”

But her career was playing quickly, and she said that she had recognized that Combres, as chief of her label, controlled her career.

“He chose what was then for me,” she said.

Fine, Ventura’s husband seemed to hold back tears while Ventura testified. His face was noisy, and he often seemed to swallow and flash quickly.

Fine was seated in the courtroom in the same row as the Ventura lawyer, Douglas Wigdor, who represented Ventura in a civil lawsuit which she filed against Combres in November 2023. Combs quickly settled the trial, but the office of the American prosecutor in Manhattan launched a criminal investigation into the boats.

Combs lawyers threw the indictment against him as a distortion of real events, which they describe as a mutually toxic relationship between Combs and Ventura. The two consented to sex, were mistreated and were unfaithful, said the Combs legal team.

Ventura testified on Tuesday of a calm and deflated voice as she was talking about being in love with the combs.

Combs has decided nicknames for both, she said. He told Ventura to call her “pop pop” because that is also what she called her grandfather, when he called her “CC” for “Cassie Combs”, she said.

When Combs suggested for the first time “performance creations” in their relationship, Ventura felt shaken, but she accepted because she loved her, she said.

“At that time, Sean checked a large part of my life,” she said. “Whether it’s my career, the way I got dressed – everything.”

Meanwhile, his career was dropping out. Ventura said that Combs had given him instructions to develop his music, but few songs have been published. Ventura testified that she had come to believe that she was only doing “work busy” so that Combs could “control” her.

And although Combs is in charge of the outings of the Ventura album, he blamed it for the lack of production, she said.

“If you are not publishing music, you don’t do your job,” said Ventura, characterizing the attitude of Combs.

Ventura has earned money by organizing events in nightclubs, which could cost between $ 7,500 and $ 20,000 for each appearance, she said. She also had the work of occasional model.

The combs still had a veto on these concerts and often asked him not to take them, said Ventura.

Prosecutors allegedly alleged that Combs was using the resources of its companies to exploit women and facilitate a sex trafficking business.

Ventura said that Combs asked her assistants and bodyguards to set up rooms for “freak offs”. They had to bring baby oil, astroglid lubricant, condoms, colorful lights and scented candles, said Ventura.

“It was just super spicy and strong,” she said.

Combs and Ventura never lived in the same home during their walking and gap relationship, said Ventura. At first, the two were in New York, then moved to Los Angeles when Combs decided that he wanted to be closer to his children, that he had with his late ex-wife Kim Porter.

In Los Angeles, Combs paid the rent of the Ventura houses, she said. He had his own set of keys and sometimes abandoned by inappropriateness, she said. Ventura also paid her own house in Studio City, she said.

Combs finally attributed to James Cruz, an employee of Bad Boys Records, to manage Ventura’s career, she said.

Cruz revealed to him that he “managed with a hand tied behind his back,” she said.

“He couldn’t work as a normal manager,” said Ventura, said Cruz. “He had to make decisions through other parties. It was just a different way of doing things.”

The Combs trial should take place for about eight weeks. If he is found guilty of sexual trafficking and racketeering conspiracy against him, he could face the life prison.