Diddy’s trial: Ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura makes 5 durbing claims about escorts, abuse, drugs; says, ‘I was humiliated, beaten’ | Hollywood News

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, the disgraced American music mogul, had his first encounter with his ex, Cassie Ventura, months after a CNN video showed him beating and abusing her. Diddy’s sex trafficking trial that began earlier this week saw Cassie take the stand on May 13 and give an emotional, tear-filled testimony against the rapper, sitting behind the Brooklyn bars on accusations of trafficking, racketeering, and other abuse-related crimes. The investigation into his alleged ‘freak-off parties’, accused of coercing both men and women into non-consensual sex, is still ongoing. During her testimony, Cassie, who is pregnant with her current husband’s child, made startling claims, including how her ex-boyfriend Diddy abused her, controlled every part of her life, and forced her into durbing sex acts during their long relationship.
Back in December 2023, Cassie was the first to come up with the abuse complaint against the Bad Boy record producer but settled the case outside the court just a day later, but that move opened a floodgate of accusations against the rapper one after another, and now hundreds of cases have been filed against him, followed a Homeland Security raid at his Miami and L.A. houses.  
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Cassandra Ventura tells the court Diddy beat and humiliated her
Cassandra Ventura, better known as singer Cassie, who dated Combs for a long time, said she first met Diddy when she was 19. At the time, Cassie was still trying her luck in the world of music, and Diddy was already a big music mogul in his 30s. After they met, he signed her to his record label, and their romantic relationship soon began. According to the BBC, Cassie misunderstood the situation, thinking she was the only one, but later came to know that Diddy was dating other women too. The 38-year-old, who is pregnant with her third child, told the court that the rapper covered all her expenses, including her house, her cars, her phones—but all of it came with a cost. Once he lost his anger control, he would seize every device. “Control was everything,” Cassie said. “From the way I looked… to what I was working on.” And soon, the control took a physical abuse form, and she alleged that the mogul would “bash on my head, knock me over, drag me, and kick me.”
Diddy’s ‘freak-off’ parties
There have been long-standing rumours about Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ alleged parties that used to run all illegal things—from drugs to trafficking—under the disguise of high-profile parties attended various Hollywood A-lers as well. During the trial, Cassie detailed those parties, saying Diddy would make her sleep with male escorts or strippers while he watched. According to her, the first time she was forced into this act was within a year of their relationship starting, but she went along as she had earlier revealed “falling in love” and didn’t want to upset him. But she added how the act left her feeling humiliated. Some of these sessions lasted days. “I felt pretty horrible about myself,” she said, “It made me feel worthless.”  Cassie admitted to taking drugs to cope with the situation. “The drugs were a way to not feel it for what it really was,” she said. “Having sex with a stranger I didn’t want to be having sex with.”
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According to Cassie, Diddy would sometimes call escorts from New York, LA, Vegas, even Ibiza, and used to pay them in cash depending on their performance. Cash prizes ranged from $1,500 to $6,000 and more. They found these escorts through stripper agencies and Craigsl. Not only this, but the disgraced rapper would also instruct her to choose the man sometimes, order her to dress according to his choice, and decide the lighting, everything. “If Sean wanted something to happen, that was what was going to happen,” she told the court. “I couldn’t say no.”Story continues below this ad
Cassie opens up about the hotel beating video
Earlier, Diddy’s attorney tried to paint Cassie in a mutually violent light while clarifying the CCTV footage where the rapper was seen brutally beating his then-girlfriend. Speaking about the same, Cassie revealed that the incident captured on the camera was during one of the times the couple was having one of those ‘freak-offs’, and she decided to leave because she had a movie premiere scheduled that week and didn’t want to have sex with an escort, and that didn’t sit well with Combs who started abusing her physically. When asked the court exactly how many times he slapped her to the ground, she said, “too many times to count…”
Incident involving Suge Knight 
Among the hundreds of lawsuits filed against Diddy, few mention the involvement of former record executive, former NFL player, and convicted felon Suge Knight. The Death Row record founder was also one of Diddy’s biggest rivals in the music industry. Describing one of the alleged incidents, Cassie told the court how she was asked to handle a gun after Diddy suddenly left in the middle of a freak-off when his bodyguard tipped him about Suge Knight hanging out at a near diner. She begged him, “Please don’t do anything stupid,” crying and screaming in fear.
Cassie says she was forced to take drugs
The court asked Cassie why she ever agreed to take part in these acts, to which, according to BBC, she paused for a moment and then whispered, “I wanted to make him happy.” She described her first freak-off, where Diddy called a LA-based stripper and gave her ecstasy and alcohol to get through it. Afterwards, she said she felt “dirty and confused,” but also told herself, “OK, he’s really happy with me, so I guess I did something right.” The freak-offs started happening almost weekly. She added, “I just didn’t want to make him upset. I just didn’t want to make him angry and regret telling me about this experience that was so personal.” The last one, she said, happened between 2017 and 2018. then, she was relying on MDMA and cocaine just to stay awake and get through it.
Cassie’s testimony is expected to continue. She might be cross-examined Diddy’s legal team next. Meanwhile, Diddy has pleaded not guilty to the charges.