The so-called “freak-offs” orchestrated by Sean “Diddy” Combs typically left his girlfriend of almost 11 years, Cassie Ventura, bruised and battered after she says she was punched, kicked and dragged so severely the antibiotic she used after the often-violent sexual encounters stopped working as a result of she used it so steadily, she stated in federal courtroom on Wednesday.
Ventura additionally revealed that the settlement in her civil case in opposition to the rap mogul, after what she stated was a decade of abuse that stifled her profession and left her deeply traumatized, was for $20 million. That settlement got here the day after Ventura filed the case and has opened the door for a flood of civil instances in opposition to Combs. Ventura additionally revealed she had been writing a e-book about her experiences with Combs on the time.
“I needed to be compensated for the time and the ache and the numerous, a few years of getting to attempt to repair my life,” she instructed the courtroom. “I can’t carry the disgrace, the guilt.”
Prosecutors contend Combs, the 55-year-old rapper, producer and trend mogul, “engaged in intercourse trafficking, compelled labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice, amongst different crimes” over 20 years. Combs, who was arrested in September, has pleaded not responsible to all fees within the five-count indictment and has claimed he’s harmless of all crimes of which he has been accused.
Ventura testified a few bevy of alleged crimes and violence perpetrated by Combs in opposition to her over their decade-plus relationship. Ventura testified that in 2018 because the couple was breaking apart, he raped her in her lounge. The 2 had an amicable dinner aiming to seek out closure of their relationship, she instructed the courtroom, and since he was being candy, she invited him to her house. On the time, Venrtura was courting the person who’s now her husband.
“After which he raped me in my lounge,” Ventura instructed the courtroom. “On the ground.”
Ventura and Combs had intercourse another time after this, Ventura stated, explaining {that a} long-term relationship isn’t straightforward to show off when you’ve developed a reference to the individual. She has had a couple of exchanges with him since 2018, she stated.
Ventura additionally detailed how Combs found that she was courting rapper Child Cudi throughout a “freak-off” whereas going by way of her cellphone messages. Combs, upon studying this, threatened to launch two intercourse tapes that includes her and that he’d ship a person to hurt her and Cudi; she additionally testified that Combs had threatened to explode Cudi’s automobile in his driveway. In one other incident, Ventura had gone with girlfriends to a celebration at Prince’s home, hoping to see him carry out. Combs turned up on the social gathering, main Ventura to flee and fall right into a bush. Later, she stated, he turned up at her house and threw baggage at her, main her to flee to a buddy’s residence.
Throughout a lot of their time collectively, Ventura stated she lived in concern that Combs would launch “freak-off” movies that includes her performing intercourse acts publicly.
“I feared for my profession. I feared for my household. It’s simply embarrassing, all of it,” Ventura stated. “It might damage the whole lot I labored for. Make me appear like a slut.”
In an incident foreshadowed within the feds opening statements, Ventura detailed a time that Combs beat and stomped on her in a automobile, bruising her face. Combs then ordered her to go to the lodge for every week, she instructed the courtroom, explaining that his safety workers would present as much as examine on her and guarantee she was staying inside. She additionally testified that she witnessed an encounter at her house that has turn into the topic of a civil swimsuit filed by certainly one of her mates. Bryana “Bana” Bongolan, alleges in a sexual battery lawsuit in opposition to Combs that in September 2016, he “dangled her off of a 17-story-high balcony, after which slammed her onto the patio furnishings on the balcony.”
The morning testimony session on the decrease Manhattan courthouse between Ventura and prosecutor Emily Johnson principally consisted of debate of the “freak-offs” she says Combs compelled her into, which concerned intercourse with male intercourse staff whereas he seemed on, masturbating. Ventura stated that she felt “trapped” in a horrible string of conditions with Combs, who had signed her to his Unhealthy Boy Information label earlier than they started a romantic relationship. Ventura solely launched one album on the label.
Ventura defined to the courtroom that one “freak-off” ended together with her passing out, she stated, and she or he awoke in a lodge bathtub to seek out Combs and a employed escort standing above her in misery, not realizing what to do together with her. On a visit to the Cannes Movie Pageant, she stated, a battle led to her altering seats on the aircraft residence; Combs switched seats too and remained by her aspect, the place she says he proceeded to play movies of two “freak-off” periods on the aircraft, in view of different passengers.
On Wednesday morning, Ventura additionally instructed the courtroom about visits the couple took to intercourse golf equipment in New York and Los Angeles. These visits at instances included employed escorts and have been at all times Combs’ thought; this was not one thing she was into, Ventura testified.
“I used to be at all times terrified, and would drink fairly a bit,” she instructed the courtroom.
At a degree, she stated she developed an opiate dependancy so she might really feel numb following the “freak-off” periods.
Ventura’s direct testimony ended on Wednesday afternoon. She is going to return to the stand for cross-examination on Thursday.