Diddy lied and informed Cassie he had been arrested after resort ‘assault’, courtroom informed
Jurors are proven textual content messages exchanged by Sean Combs and Cassie Ventura on 5 March 2016, after the alleged assault on the InterContinental Lodge in Los Angeles.
The courtroom additionally sees a photograph of Ms Ventura sporting darkish glasses and a hoodie.
“That’s me with a fats lip,” she says. The lawyer asks why she is sporting sun shades, and he or she tells the courtroom she had a black eye.
Yesterday, she informed the courtroom that Combs hit her throughout a freak off on the resort.
Within the textual content alternate detailed in courtroom, Combs tells Ms Ventura to “name me now”, after which once more asks her to name, saying “the cops are right here”.
Ms Johnson asks what Ms Ventura’s response was to this. She says she needed to be alone and did not care at the moment.
Combs informed her he was “getting arrested”, however this wasn’t true, the courtroom hears.
Police did go to her condo, and Ms Ventura says she answered a number of questions, however didn’t say who she was speaking about as she did not wish to harm Combs. She says there was “an excessive amount of occurring, it was rather a lot”.
Requested if she needed to guard him, she replies: “Sure, after all.”
Jurors hear that Combs went to her condo in a while. Ms Ventura says there was “chaos” outdoors the door – “kicking, yelling and banging”.