Courtroom fell silent as Cassie described what was proven in ‘freak off’ photographs
Warning: This text incorporates dialogue of sexual harassment, and home violence which some readers could discover distressing.
The courtroom fell silent as Cassie described what was proven in photographs from ‘freak offs’.
Full identify Casandra Ventura, the singer has been giving proof in court docket as Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faces prices of racketeering, intercourse trafficking and transportation to interact in prostitution. He has denied all of this and pleaded not responsible.
Cassie’s second day of testimony yesterday (14 Could) revealed additional particulars of alleged abuse, with the pair in a relationship from 2007 to 2018. Diddy’s trial has uncovered extra concerning the drug-fuelled ‘freak offs’ he allegedly held that might ‘last as long as 4 days’.
It’s claimed the rapper orchestrated these alleged encounters with male intercourse staff and would document them, later threatening to launch a video of Cassie participating while underneath the affect of medicine.
Jurors had been proven movies of those so-called ‘freak offs’ which the now 38-year-old mentioned she ‘hated doing’ however continued to do underneath coercion as a result of it ‘felt like I did my job’.
The choose ordered that this proof shouldn’t be proven to the general public.
One of many photographs confirmed ‘Mia’ (a pseudonym for an additional girls who has accused Combs of abuse) as one other two confirmed an escort. One in every of these included Cassie, as a nonetheless from an extended clip.
It’s mentioned the courtroom fell silent because the jurors seen the photographs on their very own screens.
With the singer pictured with different males at these ‘freak offs’, she mentioned of 1 picture: “There’s child oil on me and I’m standing there throughout a freak off with a candle and lubricant on a desk.”
CNN’s stay court docket report said that one ‘feminine juror set free a deep breath and rested her hand on her chest as a picture was positioned on the monitor earlier than her’.
It was additionally mentioned {that a} ‘male juror regarded on the display screen at one of many photographs and his eyes appeared to maneuver away shortly’ with one other was writing one thing on his notepad.
Cassie additionally claimed that Diddy would use the recordings of those ‘freak offs’ to ‘blackmail’ her and she or he feared he would ‘make me appear like a slut’. She testified that he as soon as performed a video on a business flight again to the US following an argument that they had in Cannes in 2013.
“He was exhibiting them with different individuals round,” Cassie informed the court docket. “I mentioned, ‘You might be embarrassing me’. I used to be scared, I felt trapped, how do you get out of this example? I felt trapped.”
She added that they then had one other ‘freak off’ inside hours of touchdown ‘so he would not be offended or damage me’.
The trial continues later immediately and Cassie will face cross-examination.
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