Casandra “Cassie” Ventura spoke publicly for the first time of the alleged sexual, physical and emotional abuse that she endured during her relationship for a decade with Sean “Diddy”, meticulous details on the “freak-off” fueled by drugs that have become synonymous with accusations against fighting.
The singer, model and actress of R&B, 38, took the position Tuesday in the first week of the sexual traffic and racketeer conspiracy trial. The hip-hop magnate pleaded not guilty to the five charges against him.
Tuesday has marked the first time that the former celebrity couple has seen himself in person since his breakup in 2018. Supported in court by her husband, Alex Fine, her brother and others, a compound Ventura testified for the majority of the day on ritual and “choreographed” sexual meetings that she “hated” but that thought had no choice but to comply.
Ventura told jurors that after her first panoramic at 22 – an era described as “naive” and “screen printing” with her combination label boss – “humiliating” sexual meetings of several days with combs and male escorts occurred almost every week. Ventura testified that male escorts had been paid thousands of dollars in cash, and their payment was subject to the end of their performance during the sexual meeting.
She allegedly allegedly controlled almost all aspects of her daily life and that she was afraid of angry him, which could lead to physical violence. Regarding the testimonies of participation in Freak -Offs, Ventura – which is more than eight months pregnant with her third child – has briefly overwhelmed with emotion and cried while trying to explain why she continued to get involved in freight and the overall assessment that it took.
Ventura is expected to testify Wednesday for a second day on her “abusive” relationship of a decade with the combs. Prosecutors said they would ask other questions about the attack on the March 2016 Intercontinental Hotel which was captured on a surveillance video, as well as the introduction of photo evidence related to video monsters. After a direct examination, the Combs stars defense team plans to question Ventura until Thursday.
Here are seven of the biggest dishes to remember from Ventura’s testimony.
1. Inside the so-called “freak-off”
Ventura has traveled the jurors at each stage of the very ritual “freak-offs” which said that Combs has orchestrated and controlled. Although the locations varied, testified Ventura, the configuration was generally similar: the hotel suites and the personal rooms were filled with bottles of baby oil, lubricating and strong mood candles. In recent years, Ventura has said that the lighting had been passed to LED lights used in recording studios.
Sexual meetings with male escorts have followed a model, said Ventura, the pair rubbing baby oil on each other until they “shine”. Touch and massage then came, according to Ventura, followed by oral sex and then sex. “It was his fantasy,” said Ventura. “He controlled the whole situation. He directed it. He shed light on. He told us where to be, what to say, how to act in the room.”
Sometimes Ventura said, she would try to “accelerate” events because she just wanted to be alone with combs. “Me, most often, I would simply like to be able to go to the other room where we could simply spend time with each other,” she said.
2. Nature “controlling” of Combs
Ventura said that she had signed on the Back Drink House as a 19 -year -old “naive” woman, and when they entered a relationship, she was “in love” with him. Ventura said that Combs was affirming domination both during her career and personal life.
Combs would have directed Ventura on her hairstyle and the color she should paint her nails, even suggesting certain body piercings. “Sean has checked a large part of my life, be it a career, the way I got dressed, like everything,” said Ventura. “I just didn’t have the impression of having said a lot at that time, being a total pleasure, very young, naive and total.”
Regarding his life situation, Combs paid almost all Ventura apartments in New York and Los Angeles – all practical distances from his residence.
Despite the signing of an agreement of 10 album with the Combs label, Bad Boy, Ventura released only one studio album. Ventura said that she was constantly recording new music, but she had not been released. Many songs that she recorded “Just Do’t Not Wat The Light of Day,” said Ventura.
Venture said Combs wanted to know where she was at any time, and if he couldn’t grasp her immediately by phone, Combs would constantly call until she responds. Other times, Combs would have sent his team of security guards to physically find Ventura. She said he would often take off her car and phone, and expel her from her apartment as a form of punishment.
3. Allegations of frequent physical violence
Ventura said that Combs had started to mistreat her physically at the age of 22. “He would crush me in my head, send me back, drag me, kick me, uh, will trample me if I was down,” she said.
She said that the abuses occurred “too frequently”, which led to “the knots in my forehead, the burst lips, the swollen lips, the black eyes, the whites of my eyes would be red, uh, bruises throughout my body.”
Ventura said the physical blows could result from a change of mood of Combs. “I have the bad face, and the next thing I knew, I was hitting,” she said. Ventura said that she was seriously concerned about the potential of combs and was going to put herself into practice to avoid getting it angry.
4. The mental assessment of monsters
During her multiple hours of testimony, Ventura broke down when she tried to explain her justification for continuing to participate in combs with combs. “I just didn’t want something wrong to happen,” said Ventura, clarifying that “something bad” could be “violent” combs with her and finding another woman willing to make breakdowns with him. “When you really care about someone and you are in love with them, you don’t want to disappoint them,” she added.
But by continuing to participate in the monsters, testified Ventura made a harmful number on his mental health. “I just felt like that was all I was good for him,” she said sadly. “I just felt pretty horrible about me. I felt disgusting. I was humiliated. I did not have these words to assemble at the time, as, how much I felt horrible.”
5 Payment of male escorts was subject to performance
Ventura alleged that male escorts were generally paid a few thousand dollars at the end of the monsters. She said that some men had trouble maintaining an erection. “It was actually quite frequent with people we didn’t know well,” said Ventura. “They would express … Whenever Sean spoke, it would discourage them, or if he moved a candle, was just distracting.”
Those who could not play in the way the combs expected, said Ventura: “He was certainly not paid the normal amount” for meetings.
6. Make sure the escorts were “safe”
Ventura said that Combs had ordered him to hire male escorts for monsters and give them a Spiel on the situation when they arrived after the hotel or to one of their houses.
She said she was responsible for making sure the person was “safe”. Ventura said that it meant that Combs “wanted me to clarify if the person was a cop,” she said. “At the beginning, I did not understand, and I learned later why.”
7. “humiliating” sexual acts
Ventura testified that the Combs have made her and male escorts accomplishing sexual acts that she found “humiliating”, including freight while she was lying and men urinating on her.
“It was disgusting,” said Ventura. “It was too much. It was crushing. I stifled. There could be nothing on my face who read that I wanted to do that. I just laid on the ground in a position from which I could not easily go out.”
