Cassie Ventura finished four consecutive days of explosive testimony in the criminal trial of her ex-little friend Sean “Diddy”.
Between Sobs, the singer told a New York court on Tuesday that she would restore a legal settlement of $ 20 million in the rap magnate if it never meant having participated in her “humiliating” sexual parties fed by drugs, called “freak-offs”.
Ms. Ventura, the star witness of the government, faced intense questions from the two legal teams on the decade that she released with Combs.
Combs faces accusations of racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution and could risk life for life. He pleaded not guilty and denied the accusations.
The testimony of Ms. Ventura revealed graphic details about her sex life with the rapper, the physical violence she would have endured from him and the group she said helped to cover her crimes.
She also brought that after having filed a complaint against him in November 2023, which included many of these allegations, he gave him a regulation of $ 20 million.
The regulations, which one day came after filing the prosecution, was public knowledge, but the number was previously unknown. The defense apparently tried to hammer the financial incentives for the accusations of Ms. Ventura during their counter-examination of her testimony, which lasted all day and Friday.
The lawyer for Combs, Anna Estevao, seemed to be involved that Ms. Ventura was attached to money before picking up her pursuit. The singer had just moved to her parents with her husband and children, for example.
Ms. Ventura rejected this characterization, later sharing that she would exchange everything for a free life of the “flippages”, which, according to her, caused her physical injuries, would sometimes continue for days and stifled her singer career.
“I would have an agency and autonomy,” she said.
The Combs legal team has also shown the jury dozens of messages between the couple of each stage of their relationship, arguing that their dynamics were sometimes toxic, but not criminal.
La Défense also offered one last bomb a few minutes before Ms. Ventura left the stand on Friday: the singer organized another legal regulation for 10 million dollars linked to her complaints against the rap magnate.
Ventura told court that she expected to receive around $ 10 million in Intercontinental Hotel.
The colony concerns an intercontinental incident in Los Angeles in 2016, in which viral security images showed striking, hitting and dragging Ms. Ventura in a corridor. This sequence was played at a long time in court this week and is one of the most important evidence of the trial.
Although the day almost ended, the accusation was tightened in two other witnesses before the court noted. One was Dawn Richard, a singer from the Danity Kane group – trained in the program of Diddy on MTV making the group – and last year had filed a complaint accusing him of physical violence and held her income.
Richard testified about an incident in 2009, when she said she saw the assault of Combs Ms. Ventura in her Los Angeles manor.
“She fell,” Richard told court. “She was in a fetal position.”
After the incident, she said that Combs had dismissed her and told him what she had seen was the “passion” and that he came from, “people disappear” if they speak.
The American special agent of internal security, Yasin Binda, also spoke, telling the court of money, drugs and baby oil that was seized in the rapper’s hotel room when arrested in New York.
More testimonies are expected from witnesses called by prosecutors next week. The short Lower Manhattan has been a media circus since the start of the trial, spectators gathering en masse and camping during the night to have an overview of the musical magnate, his family and the celebrities testifying.
