Cassie Ventura testifies about alleged ‘freak offs’, bodily abuse and blackmail throughout Diddy’s sex-trafficking trial | EUROtoday

Cassie Ventura, the previous girlfriend of Sean “Diddy” Combs, testified in regards to the “freak offs,” bodily abuse and blackmail she allegedly endured by the hands of her ex in the course of the music mogul’s sex-trafficking trial in New York on Tuesday.

Ventura, 38, testified in Manhattan federal court docket that Combs, 55, bodily abused her throughout their decade-long relationship.

“If they were violent arguments, it would usually result in some sort of physical abuse and dragging, just different things,” Ventura, who’s at the moment eight months pregnant, instructed jurors.

The R&B singer and mannequin detailed the horrific abuse she allegedly suffered by the hands of Combs, telling jurors he would “smash” her head, drag her, kick her and stomp on her head.

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When requested how steadily Combs would turn out to be violent, Ventura quietly replied: “Too often.”

Early in her testimony, prosecutors requested Ventura about so-called “freak offs,” which have been orchestrated intercourse events held at Combs’ request that may arrange “this experience so that I could perform for Sean,” she mentioned.

Ventura testified that she was barely 22 when Combs first requested her to take part in a “freak off,” and that the she was “confused, nervous, but also loved him very much.”

“Sean controlled a lot of my life, whether it was my career, the way I dressed, everything, everything. I just didn’t have much say in it at the time,” she testified.

Ventura went on to explain why she felt it was so exhausting to say no Combs’ request, saying she feared violence and blackmail movies from “freak offs” being disseminated on the Internet.

“Sean is a really polarizing person, also really charming,” she mentioned. “It’s hard to really be able to decide in that moment what you need when he’s telling you what he wants. I just didn’t know. I didn’t know what would happen.”

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Shown nonetheless pictures from safety digicam footage of Coombs beating her at a L.A. resort, which was aired final yr by CNN, Ventura claimed that previous to the altercation, “We were having an encounter called a ‘Freak Off’ and I was leaving there.”

While she described initially being “enamored” by Combs, Ventura testified she ultimately noticed “a different side of him, which was his abusive side.”

Ventura testified that as their relationship progressed, Combs turned more and more extra violent and controlling of her life.

“You make the wrong face and the next thing I knew I was getting hit in the face,” she testified.

Combs had temper swings that impacted her “greatly,” she testified. She additionally mentioned that if she didn’t reply to a name from Combs, he and his workers would incessantly contact her till she obtained again to him.

Ventura filed a bombshell lawsuit in opposition to Combs in 2023 alleging she was raped, abused and sex-trafficked.

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Additional reporting by the Associated Press.