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Diddy trial live updates: Cassie Ventura back on the stand testifying about abusive relationship
R&B singer Cassie Ventura continues her testimony against ex-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs in his federal sex-trafficking trial in Manhattan on Wednesday.
The trial is not televised because cameras are prohibited inside this courthouse — so watch this space for all the latest updates.
Jurors shown text exchanges where Cassie, Diddy, discussed sexually explicit videos of her, doing ‘freak-offs’ without ketamine
Sean “Diddy” Combs texted his then-girlfriend Cassie about the x-rated videos he recorded of her partaking in “freak-offs” and how he didn’t want her high on Ketamine during the sex marathons.
Cassie and Combs texted about how a D.J. at a party in Atlantic City, N.J. told her he’s seen a sexually explicit video with her.
Combs’ texted Cassie: “This is crazy! Do not let him out of your site [sic]. Wtf.”
In other from Jan. 26, 2016 Combs told Cassie, “You know we have to have a proper FO WITHOUT NO K [Ketamine.] … A successful FO is when we remember.’
“That is all we do and I’m just getting back on track,” Cassie said of recovering from the sex marathons.
Cassie explained to jurors that her preferred drug was Ketamine because when she took it she got a break from participating in “freak-offs.”
Never-before-seen Diddy trial evidence pics show trashed hotel where he threw vase at Cassie during brutal 2016 attack
Newly released photographs showing the shocking aftermath of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ attack on then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura during the infamous 2016 hotel beating have been shown during the disgraced hip-hop mogul’s trial.
Pictures displayed in court show the remains of the broken vase Combs threw at Ventura during the sickening attack at a Los Angeles hotel.
The photos show fragments of the vase scattered across the floor of the hotel room and flecks of soil speckled across the wall.
“I just remember it coming towards me. I remember it hitting a wall,” Ventura said of the vase as she testified in court for a second day.
Photographs of Ventura with a swollen lip taken on her cellphone as she rode away from the hotel in an Uber were also shown in court.
Ventura’s friend called the police, but Ventura declined to tell them who had attacked her, she said.
Cassie picked up opioid addiction to ‘numb’ herself after ‘freak-offs’: testimony
Cassie said she developed an “on-again off-again” opioid addiction after she started relying on the pills to help her feel “numb” after taking part in “freak-offs.”
She said opioids helped her come down from party drugs MDMA and ecstasy and “made me feel numb, which is why I relied on them so heavily.”
She said she took opioids “pretty often” after “freak-offs.”
Ex-porn star who shot up Trump resort was hired for sex by Diddy several times in Miami, Cassie says
A former porn star who engaged in a shootout with cops after storming the lobby of the Trump National Golf Club was identified in court by Cassie as someone Diddy allegedly hired for sexual encounters multiple times in Miami.
Jonathan Oddi was busted in 2018 after he was caught on camera carrying an American flag and raving about President Trump as he barged into the lobby of his golf resort. After his arrest, he claimed he had been kept as a “sex slave” by Combs, video from his interview with police showed.
Oddi was one of 13 escorts Cassie identified in court Wednesday, bringing the total for the trial to 16.
Diddy ruined Cassie’s 29th birthday party by repeatedly pressuring her into ‘freak-off’: testimony
Sean “Diddy” Combs ruined Cassie’s 29th birthday celebration by repeatedly pressuring her to have a “freak-off” with him.
“I told him I wanted to stay out and celebrate with my friends. In my mind, I didn’t want to have the burden of doing that that night.”
The couple had gone to the Blind Dragon club in West Hollywood for karaoke with her friends but Combs “pulled me out” of the festivities “so many times that I just gave up,” Cassie told jurors.
She said they left and went to have a “freak-off.”
Diddy tried to guilt Cassie in texts right after he beat her: ‘You’re going to abandon me all alone’
Right after Sean “Diddy” Combs allegedly beat his then-girlfriend Cassie in a caught-on-video incident, he bombarded her with text messages trying to guilt her into answering him.
“You’re going to abandon me all alone,” Diddy texted Cassie. “Call me now.”
“I got six kids. Pls call me,” he said, later texting, “I’m getting arrested.”
“Please stay far away from me,” Cassie responded at one point.
She said cops came to her apartment after her best friend Kerry Morgan called them, but Cassie refused to name Diddy as she answered their questions because she wanted to protect him.
“Just in that moment I didn’t want to hurt him that way,” she said. “Just too much going on. It was a lot for me in that moment and I wasn’t ready.”
The Bad Boy Records founder was not arrested that day.
Jury sees selfie of Cassie with fat lip, concealed black eye taken right after Diddy beat her in hotel
Cassie took a selfie wearing sunglasses to conceal a black eye and showing her fat lip in an Uber ride right after Sean “Diddy” Combs viciously beat her in the March 5, 2016, caught-on-video incident.
“That’s me,” the R&B singer testified to jurors viewing the photo. “Just a selfie of my fat lip, wearing sunglasses.”
Cassie explained she had the shades on “because I had a black eye underneath, just trying to cover it.”
Never-before-seen video of the brutal assault was released after it was shown to the jury Tuesday, which shows a security guard responding.
Full video of Diddy’s 2016 brutal attack on Cassie in hotel released
The full video of Diddy beating then-girlfriend Cassie in the elevator bay and hallway of a Los Angeles hotel in 2016 has been released after it was shown to the jury Tuesday.
Warning: The footage contains graphic depictions of abuse.
Fighting back against Diddy only made abuse worse, Cassie says
Cassie told jurors that when she fought back against the alleged physical violence by her then-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs, it made “it worse for myself.”
“I feel like it would escalate the fight more and make it worse for myself,” Cassie testified on her second day on the witness stand. “It would make him stronger and make him want to push harder.”
More shocking footage released of Diddy abusing Cassie Ventura in hotel, after it’s shown to the jury: video
Appalling footage from the now-infamous 2016 hotel surveillance video that shows Diddy kicking and dragging then-girlfriend Cassie has been shown to the jury twice now, including on Tuesday as she narrated what was happening to her from the witness stand.
Warning: The video below contains graphic violence.
What is a ‘freak-off’? Drug-fueled sex marathons at the center of Diddy trial, explained
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ so-called “freak-off” sessions have been repeatedly mentioned since his bombshell sex crimes trial kicked off on Monday.
The Bad Boy Records founder used the term to refer to sometimes days-long sessions where he forced women he drugged up to have sex with male escorts in highly orchestrated, X-rated events that he filmed, prosecutors claim.
Combs would frequently watch and masturbate while he directed the sessions, for instance telling his one-time girlfriend Cassie and a male sex worker to use more baby oil or to slow down, according to testimony.
Who is Cassie Ventura, Diddy’s ex-girlfriend and star witness in bombshell sex-trafficking case?
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura took the witness stand Tuesday in Manhattan federal court — the star witness in the embattled hip-hop mogul’s shocking sex-trafficking trial.
Ventura, who is eight months pregnant, testified in graphic detail about how the rapper allegedly forced her into drug-fueled, days-long sexual “freak-offs” with male escorts.
The 38-year-old “Me & U” artist dated Combs for about a decade.
Here is what else there is to know about the singer, who is back on the stand Wednesday to continue her emotional testimony.
Cassie Ventura begins second day of testimony at Diddy’s bombshell sex crimes trial
Cassie Ventura got back on the witness stand just before 10 a.m. sporting a bodycon brown turtleneck dress that shows her pregnant belly.
Prosecutor Emily Johnson is continuing her direct examination of the R&B singer.
Diddy’s mother, sons arrive for third day of his sex-trafficking trial: photos
Diddy arrives in the courtroom
Sean “Diddy” Combs has arrived in the courtroom, and US District Judge Arun Subramanian is seated at the bench.
Cassie Ventura heads to Manhattan court to resume testimony against ex Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs: photos
Cassie Ventura set to resume her dramatic testimony this morning
Diddy’s ex Cassie Ventura is set to continue her dramatic testimony when court resumes Wednesday morning.
The proceedings wrapped Tuesday as prosecutors were showing now-infamous video of Diddy beating Cassie in a hotel hallway to her for the second time.
Here’s what happened yesterday during the Diddy trial
Sean “Diddy” Combs would urinate on Cassie Ventura himself during his “freak-offs” — and once had an entire blow-up pool filled with bottles of baby oil for the sick sex sessions, she testified Tuesday.
“Sometimes Sean, he himself or the escort, would urinate on me,’’ Ventura told the jury at Combs’ sex-trafficking trial in Manhattan federal court. “Sean urinated at the same time.”
She said that once when a male prostitute peed into her mouth during the “humiliating’’ encounters, “It was overwhelming.
“I choked,’’ the witness said.
