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Sean Diddy Combs Trial: Cassie Ventura Tells Court He Raped Her
Cassie Ventura Tells Court at Day Three of Trial That Sean Diddy Combs Raped Her
Music moguls former girlfriend describes physical abuse, control and violence at trial in New York City
REUTERS 15 MAY 2025
Combs kept guns in his homes and repeatedly forced Ventura to handle them
Singer Casandra Cassie Ventura, a former girlfriend of Sean Combs and a key witness in the federal sex trafficking and racketeering trial of the music mogul, returned to the witness stand in New York City on Wednesday morning and testified that Combs raped her, assaulted one of his employees, and detailed abuse she says occurred in their over decade long relationship.
Ventura, who is eight and a half months pregnant, began her second day of testimony by revisiting the hotel surveillance footage of her 2016 assault by Combs. She said Combs was yelling at her and then threw a vase at her in the elevator lobby.
I didnt get hit. I remember it hitting the wall. He was yelling at me and threw it at me, Ventura said, adding that Combs told her that I wasnt going to leave him there. That I couldn?t.
The jury was then shown two photos of Ventura, that she says she took of herself after the hotel assault where she is seen with a swollen lip. She said she also had a black eye beneath her sunglasses.
The jury was also shown text messages between Combs and Ventura after the assault, where she told him youre sick for thinking its OK to do what you did to me and told him that she had a black eye
Ventura was asked again about the various escorts she says she was forced to hire, with Combs money, to take part in increasingly extreme sexual scenarios over marathon sessions Combs called freak offs she has named more than a dozen since her testimony began on Tuesday.
That was just my job, really. It was expected of me, she said.
In a 2016 text message shown in court, Combs is seen asking Ventura to have a proper freak off without the use of ketamine. Combs claimed that a successful freak off was only when we remember, while Ventura noted that she preferred ketamine during freakoffs because it was very dissociative.
Combs would often threaten to release the videos he had of Ventura taking part in the freakoffs, she said. She noted that on her birthday one year, Combs reminded her of the videos he had in his possession after she refused to leave her friends to go with him to a freakoff.
I feared for my career, my family ? It is horrible and disgusting, no one should do that to anyone, she said. I felt trapped, she told the court. Whatever was going to not make him angry or threaten me I was going to do.
Ventura testified that she would ask Combs to delete videos of freakoffs that were on his phone and that he would tell her he did. She would later see the videos still on his phone.
Ventura said she experienced persistent urinary tract infections due to the constant freakoffs. but was still forced to take part even when the pain was horrible
After such sessions, Ventura said that she felt empty emotionally and gross. Sometimes, she said she would leave freakoffs if she felt unsafe, but would often return to the hotel room because Combs or one of his employees would find her and bring her back.
During some freakoffs Combs would hit me on the side of the head and kick Ventura, which she said would prompt escorts who could hear the violence occurring to ask her afterward if she was OK. She testified that its impossible to know how many freakoffs she took part in and said the number was in the hundreds
He brought the idea to me when I was 22 and would do anything for him and did, she said during her emotional testimony on Wednesday afternoon.
After their relationship ended in 2018, Ventura said that she never participated in a freakoff again. She said that same year, Combs raped her after they were supposed to have a closure conversation.
She said that they went for dinner, he brought her back to her home, and he came inside. He then raped me on the living room floor, she said while crying. I remember crying and saying no, she said. It was fast, his eyes were black, he wasnt himself, it was like somebody taking something from you. After that incident, she said that she and Combs were intimate voluntarily one other time.
On Combs violence outside the freakoffs, Ventura said there was an instance in 2013 when she was in her apartment and Combs tried to attack her. Her two friends, who were in the apartment at the time, jumped on his back to protect her. Combs was still able to throw Ventura down, cutting her eyebrow on the corner of her bed.
Combs took her to a plastic surgeons office in Beverly Hills to fix the cut Ventura later texted him a photo of the wound so you can remember
Ventura told the court that sometimes she fought back against Combs, but that fighting back would lead to escalating the fight, which sometimes made him more violent. Multiple employees of Combs saw him abusing her over the years, she said, including members of his security team, management and assistants.
Ventura even noted that one assistant told her that they quit because of how Combs treated her. She also said Combs, who is 17 years her senior and first met her when she was 19, would often show up unannounced to her apartment.
On Wednesday afternoon, Ventura said that Combs was violent with others as well as her, something the jury can expect to hear more about from later witnesses for the prosecution. She told the court that he would assault some of his employees, both male and female, and had also attacked friends of hers, including punching people and throwing them into furniture.
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Takeaways from Cassie Venturas 2nd day of testimony in Sean Diddy Combs trial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMNCFH3lYmM
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