All celebrities talked about by Cassie to this point throughout emotional testimony in Diddy case
Warning: This text incorporates dialogue of home violence which some readers might discover distressing.
Cassie Ventura has spoken about numerous celebrities throughout her testimony on the trial of her ex-partner Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.
Diddy faces fees of racketeering, intercourse trafficking and transportation to interact in prostitution, all of which he denies and has entered a plea of not responsible to.
Ventura, who was courting Diddy on and off between 2007 and 2018, has been on the witness stand through the trial and as she has spoken she has talked about the names of some celebrities.
Courtroom officers anticipated this, as throughout jury choice, potential jurors have been handed an inventory of virtually 200 celebrities and requested to mark which of them they recognised.
That listing contains some names which haven’t but been talked about at Diddy’s trial, together with the likes of Michael B. Jordan, Kanye West and Mike Myers, and it isn’t clear how all of them relate to the trial. According to Selection, a number of the celebrities on the listing might not even have something to do with proceedings.
Child Cudi
Talking in courtroom yesterday (14 Might), Cassie spoke of how Diddy lunged at her with a wine opener when he discovered she was courting one other man.
That different man turned out to be the rapper Child Cudi, actual title Scott Mescudi, and through her testimony she stated that Combs additionally threatened to explode Cudi’s automobile.
CNN reported that Cassie advised the courtroom after Diddy lunged at her upon discovering she and Child Cudi have been courting she referred to as Cudi on a burner cellphone and requested him to return and decide her up from a lodge the place Diddy was holding one in every of his ‘freak offs.’
She then stated that she later tried to speak to Combs and he threatened to launch movies of the ‘freak offs’, alleging: “He advised me about movies that he had that he was going to launch, and that he was going to harm Scott and I.”
Cassie testified that Diddy advised her he needed Child Cudi’s mates to see his automobile blown up on the driveway.
On 9 January, 2012, a Porsche belonging to Child Cudi was set on fireplace by an ‘incendiary system.’
Ventura says that afterwards the three of them met up and when Cudi requested concerning the automobile Diddy stated ‘what automobile?’ and that she break up up with Cudi after they’d been threatened by Combs.
“I had damaged off the connection with Scott Mescudi, an excessive amount of uncertainty if we continued to see one another,” she advised the courtroom.
Kim Porter
Throughout her first day of testimony, Cassie stated that when she and Combs first began a bodily relationship he was nonetheless together with his former companion Kim Porter.
NBC reported that Cassie stated she first had intercourse with Diddy on a visit to Miami the place he gave her ecstasy and so they started to spend extra time collectively after that, however their relationship ‘was not public for a few years.’
“He simply did not need it to look unhealthy, but in addition knew it was due to his kids and private issues like his household,” she advised the courtroom.
When requested who Combs was in a relationship with on the time, Cassie stated ‘Kim Porter.’
Combs and Porter have been in an on and off relationship between 1994 and 2007, having a son and two daughters collectively.
5 months earlier than the delivery of his twin daughters with Porter, Combs had a daughter born to a different lady.
Porter died in 2018 on the age of 47 from lobar pneumonia.
Drake and French Montana
Whereas describing the violence Diddy inflicted on her, Cassie spoke of an incident which required her to have cosmetic surgery.
She advised the courtroom that in 2013 she had been set to journey to OVO Fest, which was arrange by Drake, and that the night time earlier than she was headed there, Diddy compelled his manner into her condominium and attacked her.
She stated: “Sean got here in. I used to be asleep. He was attempting to assault me. We went into the main bedroom. My mates have been leaping on his again attempting to cease him.
“I lower my eyebrow on the nook of the mattress. Sean threw me onto the mattress body. I had a big gash. I did not go to the ER; it was a Sunday. Sean had safety take me to a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills.”
Cassie travelled to the competition the next day and Selection reports that she appeared at Drake’s competition along with her hair over one eye to hide the harm.
The courtroom was proven a photograph of the harm, together with a textual content from Cassie to Combs saying she was sending the image ‘so you possibly can bear in mind.’
She additionally advised the courtroom a few photograph she took with French Montana, a rapper whose actual title is Karim Kharbouch.
Drake and French Montana haven’t been accused of any wrongdoing associated to the Diddy trial.
Ike and Tina Turner
“Nothing good comes out of [freak offs] any extra. You deal with me like Ike Turner,” Cassie wrote to Combs in a textual content message proven to the courtroom that was despatched on 7 January, 2017, as reported by Individuals.
It was a reference to the connection between Ike and Tina Turner, the place he severely beat her for years earlier than she left him.
Cassie has described to the courtroom numerous accidents she suffered, claiming that Diddy would damage her through the ‘freak offs’ and that she used make-up to cowl up marks of the accidents she sustained.
She stated: “He was abusive and controlling. He was bodily abusive. He put me down loads as a lot as I might be constructed up, the sheer embarrassment, how he handled me in entrance of different individuals.”
A part of her testimony concerned Ventura talking concerning the video of an incident in a lodge in 2016 the place video footage confirmed Diddy attacking her and she or he was ‘thrown to the bottom.’
Prince
Chatting with the courtroom about one other time Diddy used bodily violence towards her, Cassie stated that she’d been to a celebration at Prince’s home and did not inform Combs she was going.
She described it as a ‘a as soon as in a lifetime expertise’ and feared that Combs ‘would say no’ if she advised him about her plans to go there.
Nonetheless, when she bought to the get together she noticed Combs there, testifying: “I caught a glimpse of him, left the get together and ran out as quick as I might.
“I knew he was indignant at me.”
Ventura stated that she might inform by Diddy’s face that he was indignant and ‘then he got here after me’, describing how she ran away earlier than falling into the bushes in Prince’s backyard as she tried to get away from Combs.
She advised the courtroom that she made it again to her lodge room, then claimed that Combs entered the room and ‘beat me up.’
“We went into the bed room and he beat me up. He threw baggage at me, calling me all types of names,” Ventura alleged.
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