Cassie Ventura testifies about how Diddy introduced Britney Spears to her twenty first party | EUROtoday

Cassie Ventura testified that Sean “Diddy” Combs introduced pop star Britney Spears to her twenty first party — the place Ventura stated she first kissed the rap mogul and their relationship started.

Ventura, now 38, informed jurors in the course of the trial for Diddy that Combs invited the “Oops!…I Did It Again” singer to her birthday bash at a membership in Las Vegas, the New York Post reported.

The music mogul additionally invited singer and music producer Dallas Austin, who was included on a listing of celebrities given to potential jurors earlier than his intercourse trafficking trial started in Manhattan.

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“Sean was there and he brought Dallas Austin, Britney Spears,” Ventura testified. “I think those were the two people that stand out to me.”

Ventura beforehand said that up till her twenty first birthday, Combs was simply her music producer.

However, the then 38-year-old kissed Ventura, who’s 17 years his junior, on the occasion and the connection started to show romantic, she testified.

Ventura returned to the stand Thursday for cross-examination after a bombshell day of testimony accusing Combs of rape, blackmail, sexual degradation and bodily abuse. The R&B singer and mannequin beforehand detailed the graphic “freak offs” she participated in all through the course of her decade-long relationship with Combs. Ventura informed jurors she went together with the alleged intercourse events as a result of she was afraid he would damage her or launch footage of the encounters.

Now, Combs’ protection group is cross-examining Ventura, and displaying jurors an April 2009 textual content Ventura despatched Combs telling him she’s “always ready to ‘freak off.’”

Ventura, nonetheless, has stated these “freak-offs” concerned her having intercourse with different males at Combs’s path, usually after taking medicine.

The star witness, who’s eight months pregnant, testified that Combs confirmed up at her dwelling and raped her after they broke up in 2018. The star witness additionally revealed that she sued Combs in November 2023, and that he settled the lawsuit for $20 million a day later.

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Much of the jury remained stony-faced and silent because it was proven photographs taken from a video of considered one of Combs’ alleged freak-offs.

Ventura additionally informed the court docket that the freak-offs movies have been “blackmail materials” that Combs threatened to launch to humiliate her.

Prosecutors confirmed a number of photographs depicting bruises on Ventura’s face and physique, which have been sustained, she stated, in beatings that occurred “too frequently.”

Combs is going through intercourse trafficking, transportation to have interaction in prostitution, and racketeering conspiracy prices. Combs was arrested in September 2024 as federal authorities alleged he threatened, abused, and coerced victims “to fulfill his sexual desires” between 2004 and 2024.

He has denied any accusations of wrongdoing.