Cassie Ventura offers testimony on alleged abuse, violence and ‘freak offs’

Cassie Ventura mentioned she questioned the legality of soliciting intercourse staff on-line when Combs would ask to see the escort to test in the event that they have been a cop.

This prompted an objection from protection attorneys. Choose Arun Subramanian instructed the jury to ignore Ventura’s remark regarding legality.

Ventura mentioned she would contact intercourse staff on-line at Combs’ request and inform them that it was his fantasy to observe her having intercourse with one other man, she mentioned in court docket.

Intercourse staff have been paid $1,500 to $6,000, she mentioned.

Cassie Ventura mentioned she used a number of web sites to seek out intercourse staff throughout the nation — and at all times underneath Combs’ path.

Craigslist, the now-defunct Backpage and the escort service Cowboys 4 Angels have been among the many websites Ventura testified that she used. However any ultimate rent needed to have Combs’ OK, she mentioned.

“I confirmed the pictures to Sean to see if he was . If he wasn’t I might inform them ‘no’ and ask for another person,” she mentioned. “Sean needed to approve.”

Cassie Ventura instructed the court docket that she was anticipated to take part in “freak offs” throughout her interval towards her will at Combs’ request, leading to blood getting on furnishings.

Ventura additionally mentioned Combs had an escort urinate on her throughout an encounter as a result of it was a “activate” for him. Combs additionally participated, she mentioned.

“I simply felt humiliated, it was disgusting, it was an excessive amount of,” she mentioned. “I choked, I didn’t need to be doing that, I used to be ready I couldn’t simply get out of. I finally put my fingers up and Sean noticed and instructed him to cease. I used to be choking … Sean urinated on me on the identical time.”

Ventura was requested why she did not say no.

“I used to be squeamish instantly, however excessive within the second,” she mentioned. “That’s about it, you do not have quite a lot of management at that second.”

Child oil was utilized in “freak offs” at Sean Combs’ request, in keeping with Cassie Ventura, who mentioned everybody concerned, together with her, would pour it throughout their our bodies.

“Sean wished it heated and he wished it to be glistening so we utilized each 5 minutes,” Ventura mentioned.

Ventura mentioned there was “a pool crammed with child oil” throughout a “freak off” on the Montage Beverly Hills, which she received into at Combs’ request.

“If Sean wished it to occur, that was what was going to occur, there was no manner round it,” she mentioned. “We used 10 bottles of child oil, common dimension.”

Ventura additionally talked about different objects utilized in “freak offs,” together with Astroglide lubricant and condoms. Workers would carry the objects, but when the “freak off” was final minute, Ventura would carry them, she mentioned.

Cassie mentioned she was at all times acutely aware of appeasing Combs and did the whole lot doable to remain in his good graces.

“I did not need him to be upset or not belief me,” she testified. “He was a scary individual, he could be violent.”

She mentioned they engaged “in freak offs in all of the properties” and accommodations, itemizing a number of locations in Southern California and throughout the nation.

Cassie Ventura received emotional in court docket this afternoon when she was requested what she loved about being with Sean Combs.

Ventura, who’s eight months pregnant, was crying and grabbed a tissue as she answered the query.

“Once we had one-on-one time,” she mentioned. “If you care about someone and love them, you do not need to disappoint them.”

Ventura started to cry once more when proven an electronic mail she wrote to Combs, by which mentioned, “I really want 2 f–.”

“So who you wanna f–, gonna name somebody?” Combs wrote again.

“I need to f– you might be you loopy,” Ventura responded.

When requested why she wrote that, she mentioned, “As a result of that is how I felt.”

Drug-fueled orgies have been a daily aspect of Cassie Ventura’s time with Combs, regardless that she hated just about each second of it, the previous associate testified.

“I felt fairly horrible about myself. I felt disgusting. I felt humiliated,” she mentioned. “I didn’t have the phrases to indicate how horrible I felt. I couldn’t discuss to anybody about it.”

The witness recalled ingesting alcohol and taking ecstasy when first having intercourse with a intercourse employee for Combs’ leisure.

“I was excessive so I did not really feel a lot,” she mentioned. “Did this actually occur to me? I didn’t know what was going to occur after that, if we have been going to do it extra ceaselessly, I mentioned sure to extra, I did not need to make him upset or indignant.”

Sean “Diddy” Combs had a voyeurism fantasy, in keeping with Cassie Ventura, mentioning it to her within the first six months of their relationship.

“He described it as a fantasy he had the place he would need to see me having sexual interactions with one other male so he may watch,” Ventura mentioned in court docket, including that she agreed as a result of she did not need to upset him.

Ventura mentioned she was 22 when Combs first proposed “freak offs.”

“I beloved him, I did not need him to assume I assumed something unhealthy of him,” Ventura mentioned of the expertise.

Combs and Cassie Ventura have been engaged in one in all their “freak off” classes when the rapper was instructed that long-time rival Suge Knight was at a close-by diner, prompting him to dress for confrontation, she mentioned.

“We have been having a freak off in one in all his properties in L.A. and he mentioned Suge was at Mel’s Diner and we packed up and drove down there,” Ventura testified.

“I used to be screaming and crying, ‘Please do not do something silly.’ I did not know what they have been going to do.”

Knight is now serving a prolonged jail time period after pleading guilt to voluntary manslaughter.

Sean “Diddy” Combs had weapons in safes in his a number of properties, in keeping with his ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura.

Ventura, who typically had entry to those safes, mentioned Combs had weapons in New York, Los Angeles, Miami and New Jersey. She mentioned she noticed the weapons outdoors of the safes “a couple of occasions.” The safes additionally contained money, jewellery and video tapes, she mentioned.

When she requested if she ever dealt with any of Combs’ alleged weapons, she mentioned she was handed a gun at a membership in downtown Los Angeles to place in her bag whereas she was on mushrooms.

“I used to be freaking out it was going to go off,” she mentioned, including that she handed the gun off to somebody after she left the membership. Ventura mentioned it wasn’t the one occasion she got here in touch with one in all Combs’ alleged weapons.

“The weapons got here out right here and there. I at all times felt it was just a little little bit of a scare tactic,” she mentioned.

The sketch reveals Sean “Diddy” Combs watching as his former girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura is sworn in in the present day.

Cassie Ventura recalled how Combs would lash out at her by taking away her electronics, automobiles and different possessions as a type of punishment.

“He would take the automotive away, the home, jewellery,” she mentioned. “The bodily issues did not matter; I simply wished his approval.”

The previous romantic associate mentioned Combs would dispatch his staffer for these take backs.

“Workers would take them,” she recalled. “If I wasn’t there, it might be a employees member or safety.”

When Cassie Ventura got here again to the stand after a lunch break, she mentioned Combs had the ultimate say on her profession and her look.

Whereas James Cruz managed her, he instructed her that he was doing it with “one hand tied behind his again,” and that the whole lot needed to undergo Combs, she mentioned.

Ventura additionally mentioned Combs made feedback about her bodily look, together with telling her that she “seemed too Mexican,” that her hair seemed unhealthy, or that her nails “wanted to look a sure manner.”

“My look was crucial to him, it was fairly quick,” she mentioned in court docket. “Some days he would need me to be actually horny and different days like a tomboy. He was simply very concerned in it.”

Ventura added that he most well-liked her nails to be white, and through “freak offs” they needed to be white or a French tip. Combs would additionally make feedback about her figuring out and retaining her form, and talked to her about breast implants, she mentioned.

“I needed to look a sure manner throughout freak offs,” Ventura mentioned. “Undoubtedly my self-worth took a success in the course of the entirety of the connection.”

The defendant’s former associate, Cassie Ventura, returned to the witness stand following the court docket’s lunch break.

Ventura donned a camel-colored overcoat, which she didn’t have earlier than lunch, on high of her brown gown.

Cassie Ventura walked into court docket in the present day carrying a long-sleeved brown gown that went right down to her ankles. Her pregnant stomach was very apparent to onlookers.

She remained soft-spoken and composed by the vast majority of her testimony, although there have been occasions she wanted to take steadying breaths whereas answering questions. This was most blatant when she was describing what “freak offs” have been to the courtroom. She dabbed at her eyes a couple of occasions with tissues when answering the query.

Ventura adjusted herself a number of occasions throughout her testimony, largely retaining her fingers clasped in her lap, although there have been occasions she rubbed or pressed down on her abdomen.

When Cassie first started discussing freak offs, a member of the general public seated within the overflow viewing room yelled out, “That’s disgusting!” She expressed concern that Cassie was made to testify about such issues whereas pregnant and exited the room after being instructed by a U.S. marshal to conduct herself the identical as she would in a courtroom.

A courtroom sketch reveals Combs making a coronary heart gesture to relations arriving at his trial in the present day.

U.S. District Choose Arun Subramanian dismissed the jury for a 40-minute lunch break.

All events ought to be again in court docket by 1 p.m. ET because the defendant’s former associate, Cassie Ventura, continues her testimony.

Cassie Ventura mentioned that “freak offs” grew to become her job “and there was no house to do the rest.”

“Staying out for days on finish, taking medicine and ingesting, having intercourse with a stranger,” she mentioned in court docket. “They might be 36, 48, 72 hours, the longest one was 4 days.”

Ventura mentioned that she recorded a whole lot of songs regardless of solely releasing one studio album and one mixtape. The “freak offs” took precedence over her music profession, she mentioned.

“Sean determined I couldn’t launch one other album,” she mentioned.

Cassie lived in a number of properties throughout Southern California, and Combs made some extent of creating unannounced visits when she was residing at a spot he paid for, she mentioned.

And “relying on his temper,” he would ceaselessly pop in with out discover “to test in on us with out us realizing,” in keeping with the witness.

“It was a stomach-in-knots second, didn’t know what was going to come back of the go to,” she instructed the court docket.

Cassie Ventura described Combs as mercurial, saying his moods “swung other ways fairly a bit.”

Ventura mentioned his moods affected her “tremendously,” and that an instance of this was abuse he allegedly inflicted on her, even when she wasn’t the rationale he was in a foul temper.

“Make the flawed face and the subsequent factor I knew I might get hit within the face,” she mentioned in court docket. “He would say, ‘Watch your mouth.'”  

Cassie Ventura mentioned that Combs was in a relationship with Kim Porter after they began a bodily relationship.

Ventura mentioned in court docket that after a Miami journey when she and Combs had intercourse for the primary time, they started to spend extra time collectively, 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 youngsters and private issues like his household,” Ventura mentioned.

When requested who he was with on the time, Ventura mentioned, “Kim Porter.”

Cassie recalled having intercourse for the primary time with Combs, an encounter that she mentioned occurred whereas she was excessive on medicine on a ship in Miami.

“I used to be ingesting wine, then began to take medicine, a blue dolphin ecstasy capsule,” the witness mentioned. “Sean gave it to me; I had by no means taken it earlier than. I used to be simply out of it, laughing, did not know what it was till just a little bit later.”

Cassie recalled how the medicine gave her a “euphoric” feeling as “you might be simply actually excessive, delicate to the touch and your whole senses.”

Cassie Ventura mentioned Combs allegedly kissing her on her twenty first birthday in a rest room on the VMAs.

“I used to be confused, I used to be a brand new artist that did not know the lay of the land and issues like that,” she mentioned in court docket. “I wasn’t used to an govt or anybody being that ahead that manner with me, in a greater than pals manner, a sexual manner, a romantic manner. I bear in mind operating out and again to my resort and telling somebody about it.”

Ventura mentioned she didn’t need to kiss Combs on that day. There’s a 17-year age hole between her and Combs, she mentioned.

After the incident, Ventura mentioned she went to see him a handful of occasions on the Trump Resort in Manhattan, the place they mentioned her music profession and “began to develop a cushty relationship with one another.”

Throughout these conferences, he launched her to the thought of oral intercourse, she mentioned, educating her find out how to carry out it and giving it to her.

When requested if she reciprocated, Cassie mentioned no.

“He made me really feel loopy for not reciprocating, on the time I didn’t perceive that sort of relationship and I used to be in a relationship with another person,” she mentioned. “I used to be simply so younger and didn’t have the vocabulary for a few of the issues we talked about. I used to be simply attempting to grasp it, simply fully inexperienced at that time.”

As a 19-year-old aspiring artist, signing a cope with Combs’ Unhealthy Boy Information appeared like an enormous, early profession break, Cassie mentioned.

“He was a larger-than-life musician, a fan of music, didn’t know an excessive amount of about him personally,” she instructed jurors.

“Once I signed contract, I used to be 19, it was a 10-album deal, launched an album later that yr in 2006 in August,” she mentioned.

It was the one album she’d launch with Unhealthy Boy.

Cassie Ventura mentioned she was 22 when Combs first launched “freak offs” to her, including it made her nervous, however that she beloved him and “wished to make him glad.”

“Sooner or later I felt I did not have a lot of a selection, I did not know what ‘No’ may flip into,” she mentioned in court docket.

Ventura mentioned Combs managed so much in her life on the time, together with her “profession, intercourse, the whole lot.”

“I didn’t know if he could be upset sufficient to be violent or not need to be with me in any respect,” she mentioned, including that she additionally feared she could be blackmailed with movies and footage of her encounters with escorts.

The federal government witness described herself as a confused 22-year-old when Combs first requested her to have intercourse with one other man as he watched.

“I used to be 22 on the time, my abdomen churned, did not have an idea of how that may be a activate however I accepted the duty,” Cassie testified. “I used to be confused, nervous, but in addition beloved him very a lot and wished to make him glad.”

Even when she did not like these sorts of sexual encounters, Cassie mentioned she simply wished to please Combs.

“It wasn’t one thing that I wished to be doing particularly as usually because it grew to become,” she mentioned. “However once more, I used to be in love and wished to make him glad. Sooner or later, I felt I did not have a lot of a selection.”

Minutes into taking the stand this morning, Cassie Ventura was requested to establish a nonetheless picture of the hallway by which she was crushed by Combs. Video of the incident circulated final yr.

“That is me and Sean, InterContinental, Century Metropolis,” Ventura mentioned in court docket. “We have been having an encounter, we name it a ‘freak off.'”

Ventura was requested to explain what a “freak off” was, which she mentioned was a sexual encounter proposed by Combs a yr into their relationship, by which she would “carry out” for him with a 3rd celebration, often an escort.

“And he would direct us in what we have been doing,” she mentioned.

Ventura mentioned Combs was in command of hiring escorts for the “freak offs” at first, however ultimately it grew to become her job.

Earlier than Cassie Ventura took the stand, Choose Arun Subramanian dominated that her husband, Alex High-quality, might be within the courtroom when she takes the stand as a witness, however must go away within the occasion a 2018 rape that she accuses Combs of comes up.

Protection attorneys requested that High-quality not be within the courtroom throughout Ventura’s testimony as a result of he might be referred to as as a witness himself, whereas prosecution mentioned she ought to have her help system, together with her husband, within the courtroom. The decide selected a compromise.

Ventura instructed jurors that Combs was typically violent towards her in the course of the course of their 10-year relationship.

“Sure, they have been violent arguments, often resulted in bodily abuse and dragging, various things,” she instructed jurors. “He would mash my head, knock me over, drag me, kick me.”

When requested how typically this may occur, she mentioned: “Often.”

The accidents have been frequent and visual, in keeping with the witness.

“Normally I might get knots on my brow, black eyes, pink eyes, bruises throughout my physique, it simply depended,” Ventura added.

The federal government referred to as Combs’ former associate, Cassie Ventura, to the witness stand.

She is carrying a brown, cosy becoming gown that reveals off her being pregnant as she takes the stand, indicating the protection misplaced their movement to have her seated earlier than the jury returned so they may not see her pregnant abdomen.

Prosecutor Emily Johnson is about to query the federal government’s star witness.

After a quick cross and redirect from attorneys, Daniel Philip is completed together with his testimony and has left the stand.

There’s now a ten minute break in court docket.

A male escort’s sexual encounters with Cassie Ventura all got here on the path of Combs, the intercourse employee testified, as prosecutors search to blunt protection efforts to forged these acts as consensual.

All of Philip’s intercourse with Ventura have been paid jobs, Phillip mentioned underneath re-direct questioning by prosecutors, recalling how he as soon as wasn’t compensated as a result of he could not preserve an erection.

Below cross examination, Phillip denied he ever noticed Ventura outdoors these paid occasions or had developed any romantic emotions for her. The protection desires to color any Phillip-Ventura encounters as consensual and maybe undermine the federal government’s assertion that Combs was utilizing his enterprise as a felony enterprise to fulfill sexual needs.

An legal professional for Combs pressed Daniel Phillip, a male escort who’s alleged to have had a number of sexual encounters with Cassie Ventura, on if he had emotions for her.

Legal professional Xavier Donaldson requested Phillip if he thought he was establishing a bond with Ventura, to which he mentioned “appropriate,” however when requested if he thought he was in a relationship along with her, he mentioned “incorrect.”

Phillip additionally described a scenario by which Ventura was scared and shaking after Combs allegedly hit her. When Combs left the room, Phillip and Ventura spoke, began kissing and have been transferring within the path of getting intercourse, he mentioned. Phillip mentioned he misplaced his erection after Combs got here again into the room.

Phillip was additionally requested if he instructed federal prosecutors final yr that he was jealous when Ventura and Combs have been having intercourse, to which he mentioned he doesn’t recall.

Combs’ staff repeatedly introduced up whether or not Cassie Ventura was drunk or excessive in her sexual encounters with a male escort, seemingly to contradict prosecutors’ allegations Combs compelled her to take medicine.

Phillip, the escort who mentioned he was paid to have intercourse with Ventura as Combs watched, recalled just one occasion out of a number of encounters with Ventura when she did seem like underneath the affect.

Daniel Phillip, the male escort who instructed jurors he witnessed Combs’ alleged assaults on girlfriend Cassie Ventura, entered the courtroom to renew his testimony.

Choose Arun Subramanian has but to rule on what sort of specific materials shall be proven in open court docket or if Ventura, the federal government’s star witness, ought to be seated on the witness stand earlier than jurors enter the room.

The protection fears that Ventura, who’s eight months pregnant, could be an unfairly sympathetic witness if jurors see her on this state.

Protection legal professional Anna Estevao introduced up an alleged occasion by which Cassie Ventura assaulted a safety guard and mentioned the protection would deal with her alleged drug use.

Prosecutor Emily Anne Johnson mentioned the alleged assault is a previous unhealthy act that doesn’t help her credibility. Estevao argued that prosecutors say violence was a part of Ventura and Sean “Diddy” Combs’ relationship, however really that it was associated to Combs believing that his longtime-girlfriend was dishonest on him.

Estevao additionally mentioned that prosecutors are trying guilty Combs for Ventura’s drug use, however that the protection will argue she did that of her personal free will.

Choose Arun Subramanian overruled prosecutors’ objection.

Combs’ attorneys requested Choose Arun Subramanian to rigorously edit what sort of specific materials is proven in open court docket, saying a lot of it quantities to porn.

“There is no such thing as a facet to any of the movies the federal government is trying to put into proof that isn’t grownup pornography, that’s what it’s, people who find themselves nude having intercourse or about to have intercourse,” protection lawyer Marc Agnifilo mentioned. “It’s a privateness problem and it is pornography, what would the press do with it if that they had it?”

Robert Balia, an legal professional for information organizations overlaying this trial, mentioned that “our choice is for movies to be proven in open court docket.”

“Testimony just isn’t an alternative to this movies,” Balia mentioned. “The folks within the press ought to have the ability to see justice being completed and to see if these folks have been being coerced.”

Sean “Diddy” Combs arrived again in court docket in the present day carrying a cream-colored shirt with slacks — much like what he wore in court docket yesterday. He waved to his household within the courtroom.

Sean Combs’ attorneys are against jurors seeing the federal government’s star witness, Cassie Ventura, as pregnant.

The protection would need the eight-months anticipating Ventura seated on the stand earlier than jurors enter court docket.

“As a result of I believe there’s a prejudicial high quality,” protection legal professional Marc Agnifilo instructed the decide. “Being pregnant is gorgeous and fantastic. It is also a supply of potential sympathy.”

Daniel Phillip, the male escort who testified yesterday, will return to proceed cross-examination in the present day.

Choose Arun Subramanian ordered Phillip to not communicate to his legal professional, even in a single day, earlier than he comes again to testify once more.

Courtroom will resume at 9:15 a.m. Yesterday ended with the protection cross inspecting Daniel Phillip, a stripper who testified that he was paid 1000’s of {dollars} to have intercourse with Cassie as Combs watched.