The mom of Cassie Ventura has advised a courtroom she felt “physically sick” when her daughter advised her Sean “Diddy” Combs had threatened to “release two explicit sex tapes” after discovering his long-time girlfriend was relationship another person.
Regina stated the household took out a house fairness mortgage and paid Diddy $20,000 to recoup cash he had spent on Cassie “because he demanded it,” indignant that Cassie was now relationship Cudi.
She stated the cash was returned days later.
Throughout her proof, jurors had been proven pictures of bruises on Cassie’s physique Ms Ventura stated had been taken when her daughter returned dwelling for Christmas in 2011.
Regina’s time on the stand was pretty transient, because the defence declined the chance to query her.
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Scott Mescudi, aka Child Cudi, who dated Cassie in 2011. Pic: Reuters
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial: Day 7 – Because it occurred
Prosecutors say Combs, the founding father of Dangerous Boy Data, compelled girls to participate in days-long, drug-fuelled sexual performances often called “Freak Offs” from 2004 to 2024, facilitated by his massive retinue of workers. Combs, 55, has pleaded not responsible.
The rapper faces 5 prison counts: one rely of racketeering conspiracy; two counts of intercourse trafficking by pressure, fraud or coercion; and two counts of transportation to interact in prostitution.
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Combs and Cassie pictured in 2015. Pic: Reuters
Final week, the prosecutors’ star witness, Cassie Ventura, who dated Combs for over a decade, spent 4 days giving proof.
Combs’s authorized workforce has sought to indicate jurors that his relationship with Ventura was sophisticated, and whereas they acknowledge he was an abusive accomplice, and had substance points, they are saying the intercourse acts described by the prosecution had been consensual.
‘Diddy wished our our bodies to shine’
A male unique dancer nicknamed “The Punisher” additionally gave testimony, telling jurors that within the autumn of 2012, Cassie contacted him asking him to “create a sexy, erotic scene” Diddy, and utilizing the pseudonym “Janet”.
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Male unique dancer Sharay Hayes, aka The Punisher. Pic: Reuters
Sharay Hayes stated he went on to have eight to 12 extra encounters with the couple, having intercourse with Cassie, whereas Diddy watched from a distance.
He described the resort rooms as routinely being dressed with electrical candles and sheet-covered furnishings, and says Cassie advised him to not “acknowledge” her husband, and to “try not to look at him and no communication”.
He says Diddy would typically put on a cap, and he couldn’t see his face, however he later realised it was the well-known rapper.
“The Punisher” talked about utilizing a “considerable amount of baby oil” through the performances, saying “[Diddy] wanted us to keep our bodies covered, to shine”.
He later described the acts as “a fetish type thing,” and whereas he stated he believed Cassie was totally consensual, he additionally stated he “did occasionally see her sigh or wince” and stated she would continuously have a look at Diddy “for cues”.
Paid between $1,200 (£900) and $2,000 (£1.500) for every efficiency, he stated he was not referred to as again after struggling to get an erection throughout one encounter.
He stated he by no means noticed Diddy use medicine or noticed filming throughout any of the performances.
Automobile park dispute with Suge Knight
David James, Diddy’s ex-personal assistant, additionally accomplished his proof and testified that he by no means noticed bodily violence between Cassie and his former boss.
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David James, Combs’s former assistant. Pic: Reuters
James, who labored for Diddy for 2 years, stated he left Diddy’s employment after he realised his “life was in danger” following a dispute in a parking lot with rival document label proprietor Suge Knight, which culminated in Diddy bringing three handguns to attempt to discover Knight and his entourage.
He additionally detailed an altercation between Diddy and his private chef, Jourdan Atkinson, and stated he refused to file a police report after Diddy advised him to say “Chef Jourdan hit him first”.
The ultimate individual to present proof was a particular agent accountable for planning the March 2024 raids on Combs’s Miami dwelling on Star Island.
Steve Gannon confirmed pictures of things taken through the raid, together with intercourse toys, excessive heels and loaded weapons, and defined how an armoured car was used to interrupt down the mansion’s entrance gate to achieve entry whereas the household was away on a visit.
Combs has been held within the Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn since September and faces at the least 15 years or presumably life in jail if convicted.
The trial is about to final for round two months.
