Diddy lawyers shock trial with Whitney Houston drug overdose bombshell after ripping Cassie to shreds: Live updates

Estevao questioned Cassie about addictions as it related to Combs.

‘Would you say he was an addict?’ the defense lawyer asked. ‘I would say he was an addict,’ Cassie responded.

‘What was he addicted to?”’ Estevao asked.

‘Success,’ Cassie initially said.

When the lawyer asked if Combs was addicted to opiates, Cassie said: ‘At a point, yes.’

Estevao asked her how she knows. Cassie answered: ‘Because he told me.’

Cassie said Combs would become more violent when he was gouing through Opioid withdrawals.

Cassie is being questioned about her relatiopnship with music producer Ryan Leslie, who she dated before she met Diddy.

Diddy’s lawyer has made a point of noting that Leslie is 10 years older than Cassie, so Diddy was not her first experience with an older men.

Cassie began dating Leslie when she was 19 years old, and has a tattoo of his initials on her body.

Estevao asked Cassie if it’s ‘fair to say’ that Combs’ career was ruined after she sued him in November 2023, making public for the first time the concept of ‘freak-offs.’

‘I could understand that,’ Cassie responded.

Estevao repeated Cassie’s claim that she was afraid Diddy would release tapes of the freak offs. Cassie said in direct examination that this was part of why she felt she could not say no to the star.

The attorney then had Cassie confirm that the public did not learn of the freak offs until she filed her lawsuit in 2023 against Diddy.

Unlike other high-profile cases, the rapper’s trial will not be televised as it is in federal court.

Electronic media, including cameras, are banned in the Manhattan court room.

A sketch artist’s work will be the only visuals coming out of the courtroom.

These communications between Cassie and Combs are graphic — describing for example what she wanted to do during the ‘freak-offs’ — and Estevao is making Cassie read them out loud, word by lurid word, while the lawyer reads Combs’ parts.

The judge is allowing these emails, which don’t discuss what happened, but rather what she was anticipating or wanting to have happen at the time.

‘I want it and I want to give you the same. I just think that I have to trust you beyond it and just being sexual. Do you know what I mean?’ Cassie wrote in one exchange.

‘In order for me to be more open with the things we do in bed, I need to feel safe, like home. Like this is my husband, this is THE ONLY man that will ever have this aggressive / sexual side of me.

‘The last time was mistake but since had made me feel a little dirty and grimey…that’s the only reason I go back and forth in my mind with wanting and not wanting to do….when we used to freak off when we were so in love.

‘There were no questions asked. It felt right. Like it literally made sense for the next step in our sex life. I get nervous that I’m just becoming the girlfriend you get your fantasies off with and that’s it. I don’t get the other part…anymore at least.’

The gentle questioning of Cassie by Estevao may have reached a crescendo when the Combs lawyer was asking her about her early music career and a successful first album.

At one point, Estevao said: ‘And you’re very beautiful and charming.’ Light laughter could be heard in the courtroom, prompting the lawyer to say: ‘Well, it’s true.’

Cassie responded by thanking her.

Cassie told the jury that Diddy brought popstar Britney Spears to her 21st birthday party in Las Vegas.

Diddy also allegedly brought singer songwriter Dallas Austin to Cassie’s party.

Cassie previously testified that Diddy kissed her during this party, leaving her confused as their relationship had been platonic until then.

She was already signed to his record label by that time.

Britney, Diddy and Cassie are pictured in Las Vegas in 2007. They were accompanied by Cassie’s then-boyfriend Ryan Leslie.

The singer, who is weeks away from giving birth, has remained notably composed as she answers questions about alleged abuse and horrific sexual assault.

On Thursday, as she faced cross-examiantion, she held what appeared to be beads in her hands.

She also held what appeared to be a purple cube, perhaps a stress ball.

One of the message Cassie read on Thursday points to fractures in their relationship, which according to her earlier testimony devolved into violence and Combs’ increasing obsession with seeing her have sex with strangers during drug-fueled sex parties he called ‘freak offs.’

In an April 2010 email, she expressed disappointment that Combs would rush her off the phone and wasn’t spending time with her.

Cassie read the email in court: ‘That’s not being in a relationship with someone that you love and are in love with … I am really hurt by the way you deal with me, I don’t need your money, I need some attention.’

The defense is showing the jury a text coversation between Diddy and Cassie where the two discuss a Freak Off in August 2009.

Rapper Boosie BadAzz took to X on Tuesday to react to Diddy’s trial and come out in his defense.

Diddy’s lawyer Anna Estevao is confronting Cassie with loving emails and text messages she and the hip-hop mogul exchanged early on.

The first exhibits introduced by the defense are messages exchanged between Combs and Cassie in the early years of their relationship.

In one, Combs writes ‘I’m truly a lucky man.’

Cassie writes back: ‘I’m a very lucky woman. … Love you so much.’

Prosecutors are objecting frequently to exhibits introduced by Estevao. The judge is rejecting many of the objections, appearing to be giving the defense some breathing room in the early stages of its examination.

As the prosecution ended its direct examination on Wednesday, they asked Cassie how many freak offs she participated in.

‘Impossible to know,’ she replied. ‘Hundreds.’

When asked if she’s been involved in any since ending her relationship with Combs in 2018, the witness said, ‘no.’

Cassie was also asked why she chose to take the stand against the music mogul.

I can’t carry this any more. I can’t carry the shame, the guilt, the way we… I was guided to treat people like they were disposable. What’s

Diddy’s mother Janice Combs, 85, has been in attendance every day for his trial this week.

She is seen arriving to the federal courthouse on Thursday.

Some of Diddy’s sons were also seen entering the court for day four of the trial.

On Thursday, Diddy mentioned to his lawyer Anna Estevao that he was ‘proud’ of her for the work she was doing on his case. The message was caught on a hot mic in the courtroom.

Estevao confronted Cassie with loving emails and text messages she and the hip-hop mogul exchanged early on.

‘You and [Sean Combs] were in love for 11 years, right?’ was the first question from Diddy’s lawyer Anna Estevao, who will be cross-examining Cassie.

‘Yeah,’ Cassie replied.

‘You loved him?’

‘I did.’

‘You believed he loved you?’

‘Yes.’

Estevao continued a line of questioning that emphasized that Cassie ‘knew the real Sean… a version he won’t let the rest of the world see.’

In one particularly damning exhange, Cassie wrote in a text to Diddy in March, 2017: ‘Please don’t play victim.

‘That’s all you wanted and that’s why I was upset.

‘I love our FOs when we both want it.’

Diddy’s attorney Anna Estevao is pictured.

The jury was shown images of a Los Angeles hotel room after Diddy allegedly threw a vase at Cassie during an assault caught on security cameras in 2016.

A version of the footage was aired by CNN last year.

Jurors in the trial of Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs were yesterday shown images from the sex parties that the hip-hop mogul masterminded.

The New York courtroom fell silent as the jury members viewed five still pictures of so-called ‘Freak Offs’ on their screens, which were blocked from public view.

One male juror’s eyebrows went up as he saw the images, while a female juror swallowed hard and appeared to move her head side to side.

Defense lawyers say they’ll be scrutinizing how infidelity fueled the combustible nearly 11-year relationship between the R&B singer and the music mogul who controlled her career.

Defense attorney Teny Geragos suggested to the judge Wednesday that they had to change today’s gameplan on the fly.

She told Judge Arun Subramanian that the questioning of Cassie by prosecutors over two days ‘has gone much differently than I expected. … So we are kind of changing our strategy.’

Agnifilo later told the judge that questioning Cassie about infidelities is important. ‘Everybody knows that we are going to bring up infidelities, that we’re going to want to bring up text messages of infidelities, and these text messages are often in colorful language,’ he said.

Sean Combs and Cassie Ventura attend The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute benefit gala in 2018, the year they broke up.

A defense complaint that testimony about violence was not specific enough prompted a prosecutor to elicit a history of notable events of violence Cassie said she suffered at the hands of Combs.

The first, she testified, came early in their relationship in 2007. Cassie said she was at a dinner with ‘Sean and friends’ when she spotted Combs flirting with somebody.

She said she shrugged her shoulders when somebody else who saw it looked at her. But then, she said, Combs attacked her in a car after they left the venue.

‘He knocked me around and was just hitting me,’ she said.

Cassie testified that she fell to the floor of the car after Combs hit her on the side of the head. ‘I was just shocked,’ she said. ‘I didn’t necessarily understand what happened and why he was so angry.’

She said she went home and ‘hid out after that.’

In 2019, Diddy texted Cassie: ‘If I was you, I would get me my money.’

He apparently wanted to be reimbursed after Cassie married Alex Fine, a personal trainer Diddy initally hired for her.

‘YOU WILL NOT BE THREATENING ME,’ Diddy texted, adding that Cassie had ‘too many iPads full of skeletons.’

Cassie replied: ‘Do you want me to tell the truth? It’s way deeper than iPads.’

The emotional cost that Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs’s trial is having on his family is all being caught on camera, DailyMail.com can reveal exclusively.

One of the rap mogul’s trusted inner circle of film makers is shadowing his six children and his 85-year-old mother Janice to federal court in their large black minivan each day.

And Roodmy Poulard is nailing their every move and emotion when they are not actually inside the building, where cameras are not allowed.

Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs blew a kiss to his mom and made a heart with his hands as she led his family into the courtroom to support him in his racketeering and sex trafficking trial.

The disgraced music mogul’s criminal trial kicked off in Manhattan’s federal court on Monday, eight months after he was first arrested and hit with a host of charges.

His family, led by his mom Janice, have been steadfast in their support of the 55-year-old.

Cassie said Diddy found out that she had been dating Kid Cudi after going through her phone following a Freak Off in Los Angeles in 2011.

‘It was a time when we were not in the greatest place,’ Cassie said of her relationship with Diddy.

‘I remember him pulling a wine bottle opener between his fingers and lunging at me. Eyes blacked out, super angry and I got out of there.’

He told me about videos he had he was going to release and he was going to hurt Scott (Cudi) and I.

Cassie said after the assault she used a burner phone to call Cudi, who then picked her up.

The singer’s settled lawsuit with Diddy claimed he blew up Kid Cudi’s car after learning of their romance.

Diddy’s lawyers are expected to begin cross-examining Cassie on Thursday, when they will get the chance to challenge her credibility or poke holes in her account of what happened.

The R&B singer testified Wednesday that the mogul raped her when she ended their decade-long relationship, after he locked her in a life of physical abuse by threatening to release degrading sexual videos of her.

Cassie said Combs forced his way into her Los Angeles apartment and raped her on the living room floor after she said she was breaking up with him.

Prosecutors accuse Combs of exloiting his status as a powerful music executive to violently force Cassie and other women to take part in sexual encounters. He is charged with crimes including racketeering and sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion. Several other accusers are set to testify.

50 Cent has continued using his social media to troll Diddy as he stands on trial.

He shared a post on Instagram mocking Diddy after a lawsuit claimed he had a ‘tootsie roll-sized penis.’

The rapper also shared an AI-generated image showing shirtless Diddy sitting in a blue inflatable children’s paddling pool in a back yard while riding on a large inflatable yellow duck.

The images appear to have been inspired by Cassie’s claim under oath that Diddy had ordered her to get into an inflatable pool filled with baby oil while clothed in an outfit purchased from a sex shop.

A woman going by Jane Doe filed a lawsuit against Diddy saying he raped her – but that she was relieved when she saw the size of his penis ‘because she knew it wouldn’t hurt that much,’ according to TMZ.

Jane Doe says she met the mogul in 2001 and the two hung out a few times before he raped her at his Manhattan apartment.

She claims Diddy pushed her down on his bed, put his hand on her throat and said: ‘I’m going to suck the life out of you.’

The suit claims Diddy held her down before ‘pulling out his erect bare-skinned penis which appeared to be the length and girth of a large Tootsie Roll.’