Cassie Ventura testifies she informed him “keep far-off from me”

Ventura described going to Prince’s home along with her girlfriends presumably see him carry out. She did not inform Combs, she testified. 

Combs confirmed up on the  occasion and she or he ran out as quick as she might, Ventura testified. She recalled working and falling right into a bush. 

Combs got here to her resort room, burst into her room, and threw baggage at her, Ventura testified. 

Ventura then known as a pal and went to her home, she testified. 

Ventura testified her mom informed her a couple of blind merchandise posted on-line concerning the automotive beating incident. 

Ventura informed her mom it wasn’t her, which was a lie, she testified. 

“Stated nope, not me,” Ventura testified. 

She mentioned she was ashamed and did not to place her mom at risk. 

Combs’ daughters have been now not within the courtroom for a part of testimony Wednesday afternoon. 

Ventura’s husband was current. 

A few of the jurors may very well be seen taking notes. 

Prosecutors with the Southern District of New York launched photographs that present a number of the harm within the aftermath of the violent 2016 encounter between Combs and Ventura that occurred within the hallway of the Intercontinental Lodge. 

Ventura recounts being crushed in a automotive, testifying Combs hit her and stomped on her. She mentioned it left her face swollen. 

When he noticed her swollen face, Ventura testified he informed her to go to a resort and keep there. She did so for every week. 

She testified she informed safety personnel she wished to go dwelling to her mom. 

Prosecutors confirmed Ventura pictures, at the very least one in all which was taken at a “freak off.” 

She indicated the picture confirmed her with child oil on her pores and skin. 

Ventura then talked about a number of the bodily abuse she encountered, that she was punched, kicked and dragged. 

She mentioned staff have been current throughout the bodily abuse, together with a driver, assistants, and safety personnel. 

Courtroom acquired again in session simply earlier than 2 p.m. after breaking for lunch. 

So far as movies of the “freak offs,” prosecutors is not going to present them to jurors, and can use nonetheless photographs solely. 

The protection, nevertheless, could use the movies. 

Ventura testified that when Combs would textual content her suggesting a “freak off,” she would reply alongside the strains of “I have been pondering of 1 too, lol” as a result of she did not desire a combat. 

Requested what number of occasions Combs had been violent along with her, she responded “who is aware of,” including it was at all times a priority in the event that they weren’t agreeing on one thing, or if she did not wish to get excessive, or do precisely what Combs wished. It was the identical factor each week, Ventura testified. 

Ventura testified she informed him she did not wish to do “freak offs” on a couple of event. 

In 2017, she texted him “Nothing good comes out of FOs anymore… you deal with me such as you’re Ike Turner.” 

Ventura mentioned that at she took medicine throughout a “freak off” within the Hamptons and she or he blacked out. She awoke nude within the bathe, and Combs and escort have been there, freaking out. 

On the Cannes Movie Pageant, Ventura testified she acquired into an argument with Combs wherein he accused her of taking medicine from him. He kicked her off the boat they have been staying on. 

She testified she returned to the U.S. on a business flight, buying and selling seats with one other passenger as a result of she did not wish to sit subsequent to Combs, however he switched too, so ended up subsequent to her. 

Ventura testified that, at that time, he pulled up “freak off” movies on his pc which she thought he’d deleted and performed them on his laptop computer whereas different individuals have been round. 

She was frightened he was going to embarrass her and launch them. 

“I simply felt trapped. How do you get out of this case?” Ventura testified. 

After they landed in New York, they went to dinner. Combs informed her he wished to have a “freak off,” and they also did, Ventura testified. 

Ventura testified a couple of 2013 incident wherein she and Combs have been in Canada for a music pageant, and that throughout the journey Combs threw her down on a mattress body. She minimize her eyebrow on the nook of the mattress, she testified. 

Ventura testified she texted Combs an image of the gash on her eyebrow as a result of she did not need him to neglect what he did. 

A photograph of Ventura with French Montana on the music pageant exhibits she had styled her hair to cowl the minimize. 

Ventura was requested if she was ever injured throughout a “freak off.” 

She testified he would put his palms on her, “push me down, hit me on the aspect of the top, kick me, you title it.” 

Ventura testified an escort was current as soon as when Combs put his palms on her. 

She mentioned Combs would put his palms on her throughout “freak offs” fairly steadily. 

Ventura testified that apart from the “freak offs,” she and Combs visited a number of intercourse golf equipment over time, together with ones in New York and Los Angeles. She testified it was Combs’ concept. 

So did she wish to go?

“I did not. I used to be at all times terrified, and would drink fairly a bit,” Ventura testified. 

She testified it wasn’t an expertise she was into, and wasn’t her factor. 

An escort would typically go along with them to the intercourse golf equipment, Ventura testified. 

Ventura testified she was with Combs for nearly 11 years. 

She testified that when informed him she did not wish to go to intercourse golf equipment with him, he’d attempt to flip the vitality round, grow to be enjoyable and playful, say it’s going to be enjoyable, after which she would find yourself going. 

Ventura testified the “freak offs” might result in infections, which acquired to a degree that antibiotics now not labored. 

She mentioned typically the bodily aftermath of the “freak offs” additionally interfered along with her capacity to document vocals. 

In addition they left her drained. 

“Achy, and actually dehydrated, as a result of we’re up for therefore lengthy,” Ventura testified. 

She testified she “simply felt gross,” however she was doing her job. She known as the encounters emotionally empty, saying it’s what it’s. 

Ventura was requested about how she and Combs recovered from a “freak off.” 

She testified they’d return to his place in whichever metropolis and get massages, and a private chef would cook dinner for them. 

Ventura testified she had an on-and-off opiate dependancy, and she or he would take them to come back down as a result of they made her really feel numb. 

Ventura testified she wished to really feel numb, wished to disregard what was happening in her life. It was an escape for her. 

Ventura despatched a message to Combs in 2014 saying somebody she was with mentioned he had seen a sexually express video of her.

Combs texted her that she wants to inform him this your life, and that is severe. 

Combs texted her “That is loopy, don’t let him out of your sight,” prosecutors mentioned.  

Ventura testified she then had a dialog with the person at a dinner, and introduced safety personnel along with her, which Combs urged. 

She mentioned the others on the dinner have been scared and confused by the presence of the safety personnel. 

Prosecutors requested Ventura if she was afraid Combs would launch the “freak off” movies.

She testified she completely was, and was afraid she must reply to her mom. 

“Feared for my profession. I feared for my household. It is simply embarrassing, all of it,” Ventura testified. She known as it “horrible” and “disgusting.” 

“It might smash all the things I labored for. Make me appear like a slut,” Ventura testified. 

Ventura testified she wasn’t imagined to be within the movies, and did not wish to be in them. 

Ventura texted him asking him to delete the movies on his cellphone, which Combs mentioned he did.

Ventura mentioned that she nonetheless noticed movies she thought had been deleted. 

Prosecutors requested Ventura what she was referring to when she testified Tuesday about blackmail supplies. 

Ventura informed them she was referring to “freak off” movies, movies of her intoxicated, or something that might make her look “not nice.” 

Prosecutors requested if Combs talked about the movies to her. 

“When he was upset about one thing. It was only a fairly frequent factor,” Ventura testified. 

She testified that if she dated another person, Combs would convey them up. 

“Would say he was going to launch them and embarrass me and put my profession in jeopardy,” Ventura testified. 

Prosecutors requested questions on an escort named Dave they’d “freak offs” with in New York, Miami and Los Angeles. 

Ventura had a birthday dinner for her twenty ninth birthday, and Combs informed her he would not be capable of attend, although he finally did. 

Ventura testified she informed Combs she wished to go to a membership for karaoke. After the dinner, they began heading that means when Combs let her know he wished to have a “freak off,” Ventura testified. 

She mentioned she informed him she did not wish to, she actually wished to have a good time her birthday. They went to karaoke, however Combs saved pulling her away from her associates, so that they left, Ventura testified. 

She testified he pulled her out of the karaoke so many occasions she gave as much as have the “freak off” Combs wished.

Ventura testified a couple of textual content from Combs to her about ketamine use throughout a number of the “freak offs.” 

She testified Combs texted her expressing that he didn’t like ketamine since a profitable “freak off” is one that may be remembered. 

Ventura defined that ketamine was her most well-liked drug, including you go into one thing known as a “Okay gap” the place you are not current within the second. 

Ventura testified that she replied that’s all we do, and she or he was simply getting again on monitor. She testified that that meant that every one they did collectively have been the “freak offs” and that “again on monitor” meant she was in restoration mode and will again to work doing what she actually wished to, that she didn’t wish to be doing “freak offs.” 

Prosecutors requested Ventura why she was primarily the one to succeed in out to escorts. 

She testified that she did not wish to put Combs in that place, contemplating who he’s. 

“It was anticipated of me,” Ventura testified. 

Ventura testified she had intercourse with or carried out intercourse acts with these escorts throughout the “freak offs,” and that Combs’ cash was used to pay them. 

Photos have been displayed from the afterparty of the premiere. Within the picture, Ventura is sporting a shorter costume, and a bruise may very well be seen on her proper shin. 

Ventura testified that she had a bigger bruise on her thigh that could not be seen. 

Testimony then turned to different escorts used throughout “freak offs,” because the prosecutors confirmed extra images and listed some names. 

Ventura testified that Combs confirmed up at her house after the incident on the resort.

“Yelling, once more, banging,” Ventura testified. “Simply commotion.” 

She added it was “fairly regular.” 

She then went to the home of a member of the safety staff named D Rock as a result of she did not know many individuals in Los Angeles, and D Rock and his spouse have been at all times there for her, Ventura testified. 

Combs then got here to D Rock’s home, and she or he went with him again to Combs’ dwelling to organize for her premiere. 

Prosecutors confirmed a photograph from the premiere which faintly exhibits a bruise on her shoulder. Ventura mentioned she used make-up to cowl up the bruises on her face, and wore an extended costume to cowl bruises on her legs. 

When Ventura arrived again at dwelling, a pal of hers was there and have become very upset, she testified. 

Ventura testified her pal known as police who got here to her house and began questioning her, however she would not reveal who had attacked her. 

“Simply in that second I did not wish to harm him in that means,” Ventura testified, including she wasn’t prepared. 

Combs continued to textual content Venutra, writing that if she would not decide up, she’ll by no means hear his voice once more and will not decide up her calls, Ventura testified. 

“I am getting arrested,” he texted. 

Ventura testified she was unaware of whether or not or not he was being arrested. 

“Plugging my cellphone in and going to mattress. You need to do the identical,” Ventura replied. 

Ventura testified she didn’t know whether or not or not police responded to the Intercontinental Lodge the place the incident occurred, as Combs claimed. 

She testified she took a selfie after the incident, which confirmed her with a fats lip and sporting sun shades. She mentioned she wore the sun shades to cowl a black eye. 

Combs continued to textual content her claiming police have been on the resort, asking for her to name him instantly, Ventura testified. 

She testified she responded to him by saying was imagined to attend a premiere and now she had a black eye.

“You’re sick for pondering it is OK to do what you have accomplished,” Ventura texted. “Please keep far-off from me.”

Testimony returned to the notorious video of Combs beating Ventura in a resort hallway. 

Ventura was proven a clip from the incident. 

Ventura testified Combs was holding her cellphone in his hand throughout the incident. She testified he was yelling at her and threw one thing at her. 

She then reviewed textual content messages he despatched her after the incident, asking her to name him, and a textual content wherein he mentioned he was surrounded. 

Ventura testified that she replied it ought to be OK. 

Once in a while, Ventura rubs her pregnant stomach on the stand. 

Prosecutors requested Ventura if she fought again in opposition to Combs. 

She testified that she did combat again at first, which might typically sluggish him down and make him cease. 

Ventura testified typically her preventing again would make Combs extra violent, and make him push her more durable. 

She testified that typically Combs can be shocked she fought again, or shocked, which might spur extra anger and frustration on his half. 

Prosecutors requested Ventura about her testimony Tuesday relating to Combs’ concern about Suge Knight. 

Ventura defined that weapons have been taken from a protected and so they put them on their our bodies. 

Ventura additionally mentioned Combs requested her to make it possible for the escorts concerned within the encounters. Ventura testified that she did so by telling them that she wasn’t a cop, which is one thing she mentioned Combs informed her to say. 

Cassie Ventura returned to the stand Wednesday. 

Like Tuesday, she’s sporting one other turtleneck costume and a blazer. She took the blazer off as she started her testimony. 

Previous to returning to Ventura returning to the stand, the decide was addressing a notice from a juror, and speaking about privateness screens for the viewing of movies. 

Ventura’s husband, who once more is current, is anticipated to go away the courtroom throughout sure elements of the testimony right this moment. 

Dozens of ladies and men have filed lawsuits in opposition to Combs since 2023, alleging bodily and sexual abuse. 

A lot of these accusers declare to have been drugged after which abused whereas incapacitated. 

Most of these allegations, nevertheless, will not be a part of the felony case. 

Along with Ventura, there are three different ladies anticipated to testify. They’re going to be testifying utilizing pseudonyms. Within the indictment, they’re recognized as Sufferer-1, Sufferer-2, and Sufferer-3. 

Combs was arrested on Sept. 16, 2024 in New York Metropolis. The following day, he pleaded not responsible to federal intercourse trafficking, racketeering and prostitution fees. 

Within the indictment, prosecutors alleged Combs was a part of a felony group that engaged in or tried to interact in intercourse trafficking, compelled labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, obstruction of justice and different offenses since 2008. 

Combs’ authorized staff requested the decide to launch him on bond, however the request was denied. Prosecutors argued on the time he “poses an ongoing and important hazard to the neighborhood, has repeatedly engaged in obstructive conduct, and presents a severe danger of flight.”

He was later hit with extra fees in a superseding indictment. The 55-year-old has pleaded not responsible. 

About three months earlier than his arrest, Combs returned his key to New York Metropolis, honoring a request by Mayor Eric Adams after a number of individuals accused Combs of sexual abuse.

Combs’ household, together with his mom and kids, have been current with him within the courtroom up to now within the trial. On the primary day, his daughters briefly left the courtroom throughout graphic testimony involving intercourse acts.

Ventura’s husband and brother have been readily available for her first day of testimony. 

Ventura is a crucial witness within the prosecution’s case in opposition to Combs, who has been accused of sexually assaulting, trafficking and exploiting ladies for many years till his arrest on a number of fees final September. The music mogul might obtain a lifetime jail sentence if convicted on all of fees.

Ventura is anticipated again on the stand Wednesday, and her testimony might final your complete week.

Listed here are some key moments from her first day of testimony. 

As a result of Combs is being tried in federal court docket, no images or movies from contained in the courtroom are allowed. 

The trial shouldn’t be being reside streamed or broadcast. 

Sketch artists are allowed within the courtroom. 

CBS Information New York’s Alice Gainer is offering real-time updates from court docket all day lengthy on this weblog. 

To this point, jurors have heard from three witnesses. 

Israel Florez was the very first witness to testify. He labored as a safety supervisor on the resort the place Combs was caught on video beating Ventura and responded to the incident. He testified that, after the incident, Combs threw a stack of money at him and informed him to not inform anybody about it. 

Daniel Phillip was the second witness. He informed jurors he was paid to have intercourse with Ventura and did so whereas Combs watched. He additionally testified that he witnessed Combs throw a bottle at Ventura and drag her by her hair into one other room. 

On Tuesday, Ventura grew to become the third witness to testify. She testified about how her relationship with Combs acquired began, how he urged she begin having intercourse with different males, that he might grow to be violent, and that he offered medicine throughout the “freak offs,” which might final for days. 

Federal prosecutors have charged Sean “Diddy” Combs with a number of crimes. 

He is been accused of intercourse trafficking as not too long ago as final 12 months, and utilizing power, fraud or coercion to compel somebody to interact in business intercourse acts. 

Combs has been accused of transporting a lady and business intercourse staff with a view to have interaction in prostitution. 

He was initially charged with racketeering conspiracy and intercourse trafficking.

In complete, he faces 5 fees, and doubtlessly a long time in jail if convicted. 

Combs has pleaded not responsible, and denies committing any crimes.