Warning: This text incorporates dialogue of sexual harassment and home violence which some readers might discover distressing
Diddy’s former girlfriend Cassie has opened up in regards to the hip-hop producer’s alleged ‘freak off’ events which she says lasted for days.
Day two of Sean Combs’ intercourse trafficking trial has seen key witness Casandra ‘Cassie’ Ventura take to the stand in New York Metropolis on Tuesday (13 Could).
The R&B singer who testified that she was with Diddy for over 10 years claims that their arguments would end in ‘some form of bodily abuse’, which left her with accidents and bruises.
In court docket, the jury have been proven CCTV footage of Combs allegedly punching, kicking, and dragging Cassie within the hallway of a Los Angeles lodge in 2016.
“I take full duty for my actions in that video,” the music mogul mentioned in a public apology final 12 months after CNN shared the clip.
They first met in 2005 when Cassie was 19 and Diddy was 37, and began relationship a number of years later after he signed her to his Dangerous Boy Data label.
Cassie sued him in 2023 and alleged years of abuse, however the swimsuit was settled later that day.
The 38-year-old – who’s now married to non-public coach Alex High quality and is anticipating a 3rd baby – claimed Combs ‘would mash me within the head, knock me over, drag me, kick me. Stomp me within the head if I used to be down’.
Throughout her testimony, Cassie spoke in regards to the ‘freak offs’, which the indictment says ‘have been elaborate and produced intercourse performances that Combs organized, directed, masturbated throughout, and infrequently electronically recorded’.
She mentioned: “Inside the first 12 months of our relationship, he proposed this concept. This sexual encounter that he known as voyeurism the place he would watch me be in intercourse with a 3rd get together, particularly with one other man.”
Cassie claimed: “There was no house to do anything. Staying out for days on finish, taking medication and ingesting, having intercourse with a stranger, they might be 36, 48, 72, hours.
“The longest one was 4 days, much more on and off together with recovering, recovering from the medication, dehydration.”
“The ‘freak offs’ turned a job, the place there was no house to do anything however to recuperate and simply attempt to really feel regular once more,” she added.
“I had the contacts to set it up and get a lodge room and all of that, however at first, Sean set it up. He was in cost,” the mum-of-two testified.
“Simply the nervousness and confusion… I had simply turned 22.”
Amongst Diddy’s 5 felony costs are intercourse trafficking by pressure, fraud or coercion, transportation to have interaction in prostitution, and racketeering conspiracy.
The trial is predicted to final between eight and 10 weeks.
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