Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, who dated Sean “Diddy” Combs for 11 years, is the star witness at his high-profile sex trafficking trial
Casandra “Cassie” Ventura told jurors in Sean “Diddy” Combs‘ sex trafficking trial that he forced her to have sex while she had her period,
The “Me & You” singer, who is married to personal trainer Alex Fine and eight months pregnant with their child, told jurors on Tuesday, May 13 how the hip-hop mogul forced her to take part in sex encounters called “Freak Offs” that Combs often filmed.
Ventura told the jury how she did whatever Combs allegedly asked of her, mostly out of fear.
“I was expected to have freak offs on my period,” she testified. “Sean would expect it. I don’t think anyone wants to do that.”
Combs, she continued, or one of the male escorts hired to have sex wit
When Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily Johnson asked Ventura if she wanted an escort to urinate on her, Ventura replied firmly, “No. But there was no conversation. It was a turn-on for (Combs), so it happened.”
Ventura testified she was “choking” because there was “too much urine in my mouth,” sometimes from both Combs and the escort participating at the same time.
“I don’t want anyone to urinate on me,” she testified. “Sean would urinate in my mouth — not super often but often enough.”
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Johnson asked Ventura why she didn’t say no to this. “I was squeamish, high and in the moment with this man, so that’s what happened,” Ventura replied. “There is not a whole lot of control you have with two men standing over you peeing. I thought it was obvious I didn’t want to do it.”
After a Freak Off was finished, Ventura says she was left to clean up the hotel room they were in, which was usually covered in blood and urine.
Arrested in September 2024, Combs pleaded not guilty to five counts of sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution.
On the first day of the trial on Monday, May 12, in Manhattan federal court, jurors saw surveillance video of the hip-hop mogul beating and kicking Ventura in the elevator bank of a hotel lobby in 2016.
Johnson told jurors in her opening statement that Combs is the mastermind behind a vast criminal enterprise he used to allegedly lure in women, drug them and force them to have sex.
In her opening statement, Combs’ defense attorney Teny Geragos said that any sex between her client and Ventura was consensual, as was the fact that she stayed with him for more than a decade.
Combs could face up to life in prison if he is convicted on all counts. Since his 2024 arrest, he has been held at the Metropolitan Detention Complex in Brooklyn.
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