In the second day of the high-profile sex trafficking trial of rap mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, all eyes are fixated in 8-month-pregnant Cassie Ventura.
She is the woman who deflagrated all this process with her civil lawsuit against Diddy – who settled out of court in 24 hours.
She is also the woman who the whole world saw getting beaten and kicked by Diddy on security footage from a hotel lobby – images that appear near-impossible to refute.
The prosecution, in their opening statements, presented the defendant as a ‘larger than life’ figure and a ‘leader of a criminal enterprise’, using violence and threats to sexually exploit women.
The defense presented Diddy as nothing more than a ‘swinger’, and reportedly poked some holes on the otherwise very damaging testimony of male escort Daniel Phillip, the first to be deposed, who said he would be paid up to $6,000 for a sex session over the period of ten years.
After prosecutor Emily Johnson asked the judge to clear the courtroom whenever ‘sexually explicit’ images are shown to the jury, it was time for Cassie Ventura to testify.
Casandra ‘Cassie’ Ventura told the court about the 10 years spent in a relationship fraught with violence, and how, when she turned 22, things took a nasty turn.
New York Post reported:
“’Sean proposed to me this idea, this sexual encounter her called voyeurism, where he would watch me… [have] sexual activity with another person, specifically another man’,” the singer told the jury.”
She told the jury it wasn’t something she wanted to be doing, but she ‘was in love, and wanted to make him happy’.
“’And I just didn’t feel like I had much say into it at that time, being super young, naive, a total people pleaser’, Cassie said. ‘I didn’t know enough if he would be upset to be violent or write me off’.”
Watch: Diddy beats Cassie in the hotel lobby.
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CNN has obtained footage of Diddy repeatedly beating his then girlfriend Cassie in a hotel hallway.
https://t.co/PdMnMauy40— MDN NEWS (@MDNnewss) May 17, 2024
Cassie made a very damning claim – one that the defense will try hard to contradict – that Diddy held the videos he took of her having sex with male prostitutes over her head, as blackmail.
Diddy would hit her in the face, she told the jury, for looking at him ‘in a way he didn’t like’.
Eventually she had no time or energy for her music career: ‘the freak-offs became a job’.
“’That took a big chunk out of my life’, Cassie testified. ‘There was no space to do anything else but to recover and try to feel normal again’. She said she would stay up for days taking drugs, drinking and having sex with a stranger. ‘The longest ever was four days, maybe even more – on and off with the breaks. It was significant’.”
This is a developing story: stay tuned for part 2.
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