{"id":27691,"date":"2025-05-15T21:06:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T21:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=27691"},"modified":"2025-05-15T21:06:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T21:06:21","slug":"diddy-lawyers-shock-trial-with-whitney-houston-drug-overdose-bombshell-after-ripping-cassie-to-shreds-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=27691","title":{"rendered":"Diddy lawyers shock trial with Whitney Houston drug overdose bombshell after ripping Cassie to shreds: Live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sean ‘Diddy<\/a><\/span>‘ Combs’ defense is cross-examining his ex-girlfriend and main accuser\u00a0Cassie Ventura<\/a><\/span>\u00a0as he faces trial for sex-trafficking and racketeering in New York.<\/p>\n

The music mogul has kept a poker face this week as a pregnant Cassie described being physically and emotionally abused throughout their 10-year relationship.<\/p>\n

He whispered that he was proud to his defense attorney Anna Estevao before she started grilling Cassie on the stand on Thursday, getting the singer to read damning messages including one where she said she ‘loved freak offs.’<\/p>\n

The R&B singer testified Wednesday that Combs 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.<\/p>\n

In humiliating detail, she recounted a turbulent relationship with Combs that she said was consumed by violence and his obsession with a form of voyeurism where ‘he was controlling the whole situation.’<\/p>\n

That included directing her encounters with male sex workers right down to the copious amounts of baby oil she applied to maintain the ‘glistening’ look he desired – as many as 10 large bottles a session.<\/p>\n

Combs’ defense says he is guilty of\u00a0domestic violence<\/a><\/span>, but not of sex-trafficking or racketeering, and that the government is targeting him for his sexual preferences.<\/p>\n

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Diddy overdosed in 2012, his lawyer says<\/h2>\n
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Diddy’s defense attorney questioned Cassie about a time when the rapper overdosed in February, 2012, after taking painkillers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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‘Was that around the time Whitney Houston died?’ Diddy’s attorney asked Cassie.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Yes… We had a Freak Off. We went to a sex club in San Bernardino. He had a party at the Playboy Mansion that night and I went home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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He took a very strong opioid that night, we didn’t\u2019 know what was happening so took him to the hospital.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Whitney Houston died on February 11, 2012, in an accidental drowning after taking cocaine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It’s unclear why the defense brought up her death.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Houston and Diddy are seen in 2010.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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All the explosive testimony from inside Diddy courtroom on Daily Mail’s podcast The Trial<\/h2>\n
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To hear all the explosive testimony from singer\u00a0Cassie Ventura<\/a>\u00a0and the other witnesses in Sean ‘Diddy<\/a>‘ Combs’ trial, tune in to Daily Mail’s hit podcast The Trial.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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From sworn testimony to video evidence and the rapper’s every subtle move, our team of journalists take you inside the courtroom of the world’s biggest celebrity case.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Daily Mail has been following Diddy’s downfall from the very beginning.\u00a0Join us as we hear from experts involved in the case, and members of the rapper’s inside circle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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‘You\u2019re making me look like a side piece’<\/h2>\n
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Using the text message exchanges at the heart of her cross-examination, the defense lawyer highlighted instances of Cassie\u2019s anger with Combs and her admitted jealousy over attention he gave other women.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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‘You\u2019re making me look like a side piece and that is not what I thought I was,’ Cassie told Combs in a 2013 text message.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Cassie said Combs made clear from the early days of their relationship that he didn\u2019t want her seeing anyone else. He\u2019d get angry if he suspected her of cheating, she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But the same rules didn\u2019t apply to him, she told jurors, and she confronted him after she saw social media posts connecting him to other women.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Cassie testified that after a few years with Combs she longed to be a bigger part of his life \u2014 but that he wouldn\u2019t let her in.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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She said she\u2019d get angry that Combs was going on vacations with his children and his ex-partner, the late Kim Porter, and that he was spending holidays with them instead of her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Diddy addresses trial’s audience<\/h2>\n
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Diddy has continued showing off a charismatic persona in the courtroom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He stood at the defense table during a break Thursday, huddling with his lawyers while holding a pack of Post-It notes in one hand and a pen in the other.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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At one point, he turned to the gallery and acknowledged a few reporters, a few rows back, who were studying his demeanor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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‘How you doing,’ he asked.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Cassie is expected to testify next week and recount what she has described as years of sexual assault and beatings at the hand of the music mogul.<\/div>\n
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Cassie confirms baby oil did not contain drugs<\/h2>\n
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Last year, Diddy was accused of spiking the baby oil lubricant with GHB, known as the ‘date rape drug.’<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But Cassie confirmed to the court on Thursday that there were never any drugs in the baby oil used in the freak-offs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Freak-offs would last for hours, and sometimes days, Ventura told the Manhattan courtroom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A frustrated Cassie says the defense is ‘skipping over a lot’<\/h2>\n
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Cassie expressed occasional frustration, sometimes asking the attorney to rephrase or repeat her questions or to provide more context that could help her answer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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At one point, Cassie complained that jurors weren\u2019t hearing the full context of the text messages the defense was highlighting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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‘This isn\u2019t about what I feel is relevant right now, right?’ Cassie said, glancing at the judge, Arun Subramanian. ‘Because there\u2019s a lot we skipped over.’<\/p>\n

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Full timeline of Diddy and Cassie’s relationship<\/h2>\n
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As Sean ‘Diddy<\/a>‘ Combs faces charges of sex-trafficking in Manhattan federal court, his relationship with the singer Cassie is at the center of the horrific allegations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The music mogul’s staggering downfall began when Cassie, real name Casandra Ventura, filed a bombshell lawsuit in 2023 detailing terrifying claims of sexual abuse and violence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The lawsuit was settled for an undisclosed amount just a day after it was filed, but it was too late for Diddy’s reputation, and the rapper was then hit with dozens of lawsuits including similar claims.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Who is Diddy’s ex Gina Huynh?<\/h2>\n
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Gina Huynh, who says she dated the music executive for five years, described in a\u00a0resurfaced interview<\/a>\u00a0from 2019 a time at which he allegedly became violent with her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The model told the controversial blogger Tasha K that he allegedly ‘stomped’ on her stomach and repeatedly punched her in the head during one disturbing encounter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Gina’s relationship with Diddy reportedly began during a period in which he and Cassie (real name:\u00a0Casandra Ventura) were on and off.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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‘He stomped on my stomach really hard \u2014 like, took the wind out of my breath,’ Gina said in her interview, via\u00a0Page Six<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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‘I couldn\u2019t breathe. He kept hitting me. I was pleading to him, “Can you just stop? I can\u2019t breathe,”‘ she added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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According to her, Diddy then began to pull at her hair and punch her repeatedly in the back of her head.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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‘Get High partners’<\/h2>\n
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Cassie laughed on the stand Thursday as she recalled that she and Diddy used to call each other ‘Get High partners.’<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The singer said the Freak Offs lasted so many days – as much as four – because they did so many drugs during them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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‘The drugs becam a thing over time. Became the main event for us,’ she told the jury.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Who is Cassie’s former best friend Kerry Morgan?<\/h2>\n
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Kerry Morgan came up during Cassie’s testimony on Tuesday as she described their former friendship.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Morgan, a model, was Cassie’s best friend when she started dating Diddy, in 2007.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Cassie has claimed her friendship with Morgan became irreparably strained after Diddy assaulted her in 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Cassie’s lawsuit said: ‘The incident resulted in a settlement between Mr. Combs and Ms. Morgan, and Ms. Ventura ended up paying Ms. Morgan additional funds in an attempt to resolve the dispute between her close friend and her abusive and controlling boyfriend. The relationship between Ms. Ventura and Ms. Morgan has been strained since this time.’<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Cassie is expecting her third child with Alex Fine<\/h2>\n
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Just a year after she was last seen with Diddy, Cassie married Alex Fine, who was originally Diddy’s personal trainer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Cassie became pregnant soon after she started dating Fine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The couple is currently expecting their third child.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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