Sean “Diddy” Essay Combs: the graphic testimony of abuse cassie

The first in the film by the artist R&B Cassie Ventura was in days in March 2016 when his then boyfriend, Sean “Diddy”, sent him a text asking him what she was doing.

She already felt “trapped” in a cycle of physical and sexual abuse by him, she told a federal jury in New York this week, describing 11 years of alleged blows, sexual blackmail and rape.

She said that Combs had threatened to disclose videos of her sexual meetings with many male workers while the drug was intoxicated and sparkling with baby oil while looking and orchestrated the events, known as monsters.

“If I loved him a Freakoff, then my first would go smoothly,” she said, according to the interior of the Manhattan courtroom of the Associated Press.

What happened then could end up being the beginning of the end of the public life of Combs.

Video sequences of that night in March 2016 show strikes and Ventura kicks as it stops and tries to protect herself in front of a bank of the hotel. He then dragged her in the corridor by her hooded sweatshirt to their hotel room. A second angle compared to another camera captures combs throwing a vase towards it. She suffered bruises in her eye, a lip fat and a bruise that the prosecutors showed was still visible during the first in the film two days later. She said that the sunglasses threaded and the heavy makeup on the red carpet.

Ventura’s testimony is at the center of the federal trial accusing combi of racketeering, sex trafficking and transport for prostitution.

Radical allegations

The federal accusation act alleges that Combs and its associates attracted women victims, often under the pretension of a romantic relationship. Combs would then have used strength, threats of strength, coercion and controlled substances to bring women to engage in sexual acts with male prostitutes when he occasionally looked in gatherings that Combs called “Freak offs”. Combs gave women ketamine, ecstasy and GHB to “keep them obedient and compliant” during performance.

The Freak Offs, who, according to the prosecutors, sometimes lasted days, were in -depth sexual performance that the comb arranged, directed, masturbated during and often recorded, according to the indictment. Prosecutors allege in a note of detention filed in court that monsters regularly occurred from at least 2009 to 2023 and that the hotel rooms where they were staged have often suffered significant damage.

The alleged “criminal companies” of Combs have threatened and abused women and used members of their business to engage in sexual traffic, forced labor, interstate transport for prostitution, coercion and security to engage in prostitution, prosecutors, prosecutors, kidnappings, corruption and corruption and corruption, said prosecutors said. By bringing so -called Rico accusations, the prosecutors in opening declarations said that Combs had been helped by the company’s employees, security personnel and aid. They would have helped organize crime and “freak offs”, then covered the incidents. Until now, Combs is the only one to face criminal charges related to the investigation.

Combs lawyer this week said that her client was far from perfect, but that the charges were exaggerated.

“Sean Combs is a complicated man. But it is not a complicated case. This affair concerns love, jealousy, infidelity and money,” said Combres lawyer, Teny Geragos “there has been a huge amount of noise in this case in the past year. It is time to cancel this noise.”

How Ventura and Combs met

The jurors learned that Ventura was 19 years old when she met the 37 -year -old Combs in 2005, and she signed a 10 -year contract with her Label Bad Boy Records. About two years later, he brought Britney Spears to his 21st birthday party, where Ventura and Combs kissed and their relationship started, she said. She testified that the monsters have become a lifestyle, and she even moved away from her own birthday party for one.

Combs, she said to the jurors, forced him to leave a male sex urinating in her mouth. This man and others were paid thousands of dollars to have sex several times for 36 to 48 hours, she told the jury.

On the stand, Ventura has identified 13 male workers thanks to photos presented by prosecutors who, according to Combs, had its recruit for the worlds. The Hers and Combs’ relationship would end one day in 2018 when she met her for dinner and he raped her on the floor of her show, she said.

Violence

For four days of testimony, Ventura, which is eight and a half months pregnant, described to be raped, beaten at least six times, the most severely in 2009.

During the 2009 attack, she testified that Combs “trampled” her face after discovering that she was going out with rapper Kid Cudi. Kid Cudi, whose real name is Scott Mescudi, fires shortly after. The prosecutors affirm in the court documents that Combs ordered him.

Legal analysis

Legal experts claim that the testimony is designed to build the federal file against the combs, even if on the surface, it does not seem directly linked to the accusations that it is confronted.

“Why does the government speak of rape and assault when accusations are Rico and sex trafficking?” Said former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani. Well, he said: “What separates sexual traffic from consensual sexual relations between adults – what defense is arguing – is strength, fraud or coercion.”

“The testimony of Ventura that he was given drugs to the point of vomiting … and was forced to have sex when she was menstruated or if a use is proof of coercion,” he said.

Rahmani said that the Ventura de Combs representation like a Firearm brand newsmaker who defeated her on several occasions, followed her movements and sent a security team to find it is proof of the force.

Then there were the alleged threats. She said that during a commercial flight in 2013, Combs released her laptop and started playing a Freakoff recording when they were seated together. She said that Combs had told her that he was going to embarrass him and release them.

“I feared for my career. I feared for my family. It’s just embarrassing. It’s horrible and disgusting. No one should do that to anyone,” Ventura said.

RAID OF THE SEAN “Diddy” authorities The house of LOS Angeles de Combs has carried out a raid in the context of an in -law investigation into sexual traffic (AP PHOTO / Eric Thayer)

(Eric Thayer / Associated Press)

Rahmani said that the accusation of racketeering against Combs obliges prosecutors to prove the existence of a criminal enterprise.

“People generally think of the crowd, street gangs or drug cartels, but any loose association of two or more is enough like the entourage of Combs,” said the former federal prosecutor. They must show two acts of predicate or more over ten years.

“This is why the evidence of corruption, kidnapping, obstruction, falsification and prostitution of witnesses are important,” he said.

Testimony of the officer LAPD

Israel Florez, a security guard at the hotel who faced Combres in 2016, now a Los Angeles police officer, testified Combres was making a bunch of money-something he believed was a brothel attempt. He rejected it, he said.

The defense of Combs seeks to paint Ventura as a behavior participant, recruit and pay for sexual partners, acquiring narcotics and sending SMS to put pressure for monsters that were part of the life of swingers. She is one of the four alleged victims of the case, the jurors should hear at least three of them.

On Thursday, the defense lawyer Anne Estevao saw Ventura had read a series of loving texts in Combs and testified Ventura to testify that she had looked at combs with another woman on several occasions. To support the defense of swingers, the lawyer produced a text from 2009 where the singer said: “I am still ready to panic”.

Ventura continued Combs in the fall of 2023, accusing him of years of physical and sexual abuse, triggering a cascade of prosecution and allegations by others who say they are victims of gangs and finally, a raid by internal security on its houses in ET Miami and its arrest. Ventura acknowledged on Wednesday that it had obtained a regulation of $ 20 million in the days following the filing of its prosecution.

The lawyer for Combs Répous

During the declarations of opening in a Federal Hall of Manhattan, Geragos, one of the lawyers for the defense of Combs, made a distinction for the jurors between the violence on which they would hear testimonies and the accusations that Combs was confronted, affirming that “domestic violence is not sex traffic”.

She said that the Ventura assault video at the hotel was indefensible, but that the singer “chose” to stay with combs for 11 years.

After the attack, a friend called the Ventura home police, she said. But when the officers arrived, she did not identify combs like the culprit.

The prosecutor asked her why she hadn’t talked. “At that time, I didn’t want to hurt him this way. I was not ready,” she replied.

Thursday, the Ventura defense counter-examination sought to change the story using dozens of text messages between Combs and Ventura. In an exchange of text messages from July 2013, the lawyer for the defense of Peps noted that Cassie had raised the idea of ​​having a “freakoff”, writing in Combs: “I would have liked that we could before your departure.”

Using SMS exchanges, the defense lawyer underlined the admitted jealousy of Ventura on the attention he gave to other women.

“You make me look like a side piece and that’s not what I thought was,” Cassie in Combs said in a 2013 SMS.

Anne Estevao, lawyer for the Combs defense team, tried to redesign the hotel incident following the two who took a “bad lot” of the psychedelic stimulant MDMA during a “freakoff” before the hotel’s beat.

During her testimony this week, Ventura testified that Combs would have overdose of opioids by partying at the Playboy Mansion in 2012. Although she was not there, she said, he spoke to her.

The Associated Press contributed to the testimony of the courts for this analysis.