Sean “Diddy” Combs trial dwell updates: Cassie Ventura cross-examination continues

Ventura was requested what occurred when Combs suspected out her of dishonest in 2016. Combs had taken her cellphone, the protection stated. 

Ventura stated the 2 of them weren’t in an ideal place at that time, that she was courting an expert soccer participant and wasn’t positive how Combs discovered about it. The 2 of them have been in a automotive, driving to a health care provider’s appointment, when Ventura informed Combs she needed to message her mother that she was OK. That is when Combs grabbed her cellphone, Ventura stated. She testified she thought he did so as a result of he needed to get into the cellphone.

The protection then requested about different occasions Combs took her cellphone. 

Cross-examination of Ventura resumed Friday morning. 

Protection attorneys requested Ventura a few message she allegedly despatched Combs after Intercontinental Resort incident in Los Angeles. 

“While you get f****** up the improper method, you at all times need to present me that you’ve the facility and also you knock me round, I am not a rag doll, I am somebody’s baby,” the message stated. 

Combs has been held at Metropolitan Detention Middle Brooklyn since his arrest final September. He was denied a number of requests for bail. 

MDC Brooklyn is the one federal jail in New York Metropolis since Metropolitan Correctional Middle New York shut down in 2021. 

The Brooklyn jail can be the place Luigi Mangione is being held as he awaits trial within the homicide of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Different excessive profile inmates through the years have included Sam Bankman-Fried, Ja Rule and R. Kelly, who sued the power in 2022 for wrongly placing him on suicide watch after his sentencing.

Safety video displaying Combs assault Ventura within the hallway of the InterContinental lodge in Los Angeles is a key piece of proof within the trial.

The video, obtained and printed by CNN final 12 months, exhibits Combs throw her onto the ground earlier than kicking and dragging her. 

The previous safety manger for the lodge was the first witness on the stand and testified Combs threw a stack of money at him and stated, “do not inform anybody.”

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

Combs texted her claiming police have been on the lodge, asking her to name him instantly, Ventura testified. 

She testified she responded, saying she was purported to attend a premiere however now had a black eye.

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

Prosecutors allege the assault occurred throughout a “freak off,” however Combs’ attorneys, who sought to have the video excluded from trial, argue it was a “glimpse into a posh however decade-long consensual relationship.” 

Combs later apologized for the habits seen on the video.

Ventura testified she went to dinner with Combs in August 2018 to have a dialog about closure after ending their relationship. 

They weren’t collectively then, and she or he was seeing one other man, who’s now her husband, she testified. 

She stated Combs was good, playful and romantic, and he introduced her house. 

“After which he raped me in my front room,” Ventura testified. “On the ground.” 

Ventura stated she remembered crying and saying no, however Combs wasn’t himself and did not cease.

She stated she was intimate with Combs yet another time after the incident. When requested why she agreed to see him once more, she replied they’d been collectively for years and have been very linked, one thing you do not simply flip off. 

On Wednesday, Ventura gave specific particulars about so-called “freak offs.” She stated Combs would direct her and a male escort to carry out intercourse acts. 

At one level, a textual content she despatched Combs was displayed. It stated, “Nothing good comes out of FO’s anymore. You deal with me such as you’re Ike Turner.” 

Ventura stated Combs would hit her and that she developed infections and sores in her mouth. 

Along with ecstasy and cocaine, she stated Combs would provide ketamine and GHB. 

Combs’ protection workforce began questioning Ventura on Thursday about her off-and-on relationship with Combs that lasted practically 11 years. 

Attorneys confirmed the jury many messages between the 2, together with some that have been sexually specific. Others have been about Ventura serving to Combs coordinate a “freak off.” 

Additionally they requested Ventura about her drug use and identified how she typically took medicine with out Combs. 

It was Ventura’s third day on the witness stand, however first for cross-examination.

There isn’t any livestream out there for the Sean “Diddy” Combs trial as a result of cameras aren’t allowed in federal courtroom. 

Sketch artists, nevertheless, are allowed. 

CBS Information New York’s Alice Gainer has been overlaying the trial all week and can present dwell updates on right this moment’s testimony.

The jury has heard from three witnesses thus far:

1. Israel Florez, a safety guard on the lodge the place Combs was caught on video beating Ventura.
2. Daniel Phillip, who informed jurors he was paid to have intercourse with Ventura and did whereas Combs watched.
3. Ventura, who has levied allegations of rape and blackmail in opposition to Combs, testified about “freak offs,” and detailed extra of her relationship with him.