For the reason that trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs kicked off on the Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Courthouse in New York Metropolis on Might 5, quite a few witnesses have taken the stand to testify about their alleged interactions with the rapper.
Diddy was arrested in September 2024 and charged with intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. He has pleaded not responsible to all costs and denied the entire allegations in opposition to him.
The mogul’s ex-girlfriend Cassie was a star witness for the prosecution, taking the stand on Might 13 and testifying for 4 days about her relationship with Diddy, which lasted on and off from 2007 to 2018. Throughout her testimony, Cassie revealed that she developed an off-and-on drug habit throughout their relationship and stated she began trauma remedy and went to rehab in 2023.
“I used to be spinning out,” she stated on Might 14, recalling an incident the place she tried to stroll into visitors. “I didn’t wish to be alive anymore at that time.”
She stated her husband, Alex Tremendous, stopped her, and the duo are at present anticipating child No. 3. The pair, who tied the knot in 2019, share daughters Frankie and Sunny, born in 2019 and 2021, respectively.
Maintain scrolling for an entire timeline of all of the allegations which were talked about in the course of the Diddy trial:
Cassie took the stand New York Metropolis’s Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Courthouse throughout ex-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs’ trial, testifying about their relationship and her allegations in opposition to him. The singer, 38, started her testimony on Tuesday, Might 13, by describing her relationship with Diddy, 55, claiming that it was marked by violence. “There have been violent arguments […]
2004
Capricorn Clark, who previously labored as an assistant for Diddy, claimed the mogul and a bodyguard referred to as Uncle Paulie introduced her to Central Park and threatened her after discovering out she’d beforehand labored for Suge Knight. Diddy allegedly instructed her “if something occurred [with Suge] he must kill me.”
That very same yr, Clark was allegedly accused of stealing jewellery from Jacob Arabo, a.okay.a. Jacob the Jeweler. She claimed she was pressured to bear 5 days of lie detector testing concerning the incident.
2005
Cassie (full identify Casandra Ventura) testified that she met Diddy for the primary time when she was 19. She quickly signed a 10-album take care of his document label, Unhealthy Boy.
2006
Cassie’s first and solely album, which was self-titled, debuted in August. It spawned the hit single “Me & U,” which peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Scorching 100. Not one of the different albums within the deal ever got here out, which Cassie alleged was completely Diddy’s determination as she recorded “lots of” of songs.
The protection, in the meantime, tried to level out cases the place Diddy was supportive of Cassie. “Phrases had been useful,” Cassie stated in response to a query about how her ex would construct her up. “He’s received that vitality, that inspiring vitality.”
Clark, for her half, claimed Diddy received violent along with her this yr whereas she was staying with him at his house on Star Island in Miami Seashore. “He charged me,” she alleged, claiming he pushed her backward on her shoulders. She briefly stopped working for Unhealthy Boy thereafter as a result of “that was crossing my boundary.”
Cassie and Diddy attend the Met Gala in 2018. Getty Photos
2007
Throughout her Might 14 testimony, Cassie alleged that her first kiss with Diddy occurred at her twenty first birthday celebration in Los Angeles. At that time he was her boss, however they weren’t but courting. She instructed the court docket that she cried and ran away after the kiss as a result of she wasn’t used to an employer behaving in that means.
After the social gathering, Cassie claimed Diddy started inviting her to conferences in resort rooms, the place she believed they might focus on her profession. As an alternative, Diddy allegedly “launched” her to oral intercourse and “made me really feel loopy for not reciprocating” after he carried out it on her for the primary time. She added she was “utterly sexually inexperienced” on the time and courting another person.
In response, the protection confirmed the jury texts between Cassie and ex-boyfriend Ryan Leslie in an try and show that she was not sexually inexperienced when she met Diddy.
Cassie testified their romantic relationship started in earnest a number of months after her birthday, throughout a visit to Miami the place Diddy allegedly gave her a “blue dolphin” ecstasy tablet.
Cassie is constant her testimony within the trial of her ex-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs on Wednesday, Might 14, answering questions from the prosecution on the Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Courthouse in New York Metropolis. Diddy was arrested in September 2024 and charged with intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. He pleaded […]
2007-2008
Cassie alleged that Diddy bodily assaulted her for the primary time after she noticed him flirting with another person throughout an outing. Once they received into his automotive after the occasion, she claimed he “knocked me round and was simply actually imply,” hitting her within the aspect of the top in entrance of his driver and a safety guard and knocking her to the ground. “I used to be simply shocked,” she instructed the court docket.
The protection has argued that Diddy’s anger points had been brought on by alcohol and drug use in addition to opioid withdrawal. In addition they tried to show that Cassie was bodily abusive to Diddy as effectively.
2008
Cassie claimed that she participated in her first freak off when she was 22, alleging that Diddy organized for a male dancer to have intercourse along with her early of their relationship. She claimed they took ecstasy and drank alcohol in the course of the encounter. Whereas she felt “soiled” afterward, she felt she couldn’t say no to extra freak offs, which she stated occurred virtually weekly after the primary time and continued by means of 2017 or 2018.
Throughout cross-examination, the protection pointed to loving textual content messages Cassie despatched to Diddy as proof that she willingly participated in freak offs with the intention to please him. “I’m all the time prepared for a freak-off lolol,” she wrote to him at one level.
The identical yr of Cassie’s first freak off, Diddy allegedly ordered his assistant David James and different members of his entourage to confront his rival Suge Knight within the car parking zone of a diner. James claimed that his former boss had three handguns on his lap when he made the alleged request. “I used to be actually shook up by it,” James instructed the court docket. “My life was at risk.”
Cassie testified that she witnessed this alleged incident as effectively, telling the jury that certainly one of Diddy’s safety guards interrupted a freak off to inform him about Knight’s location. She additionally claimed she was given a gun to place in her purse, and this “terrified” her.
The protection questioned James about why he didn’t object when Diddy requested him to search for Knight. “Respectfully, sir, you could have somebody with three weapons that shut proximity, I didn’t suppose I had the choice to say one thing,” he instructed lawyer Marc Agnifilo earlier than agreeing with the lawyer’s declare that the incident was “a radical departure” from common occasions throughout his time working for Diddy.
Throughout her second day of testimony, Cassie claimed that Sean “Diddy” Combs threatened her after studying about her relationship with Child Cudi. On Wednesday, Might 14, Cassie (actual identify Casandra Ventura) recalled Diddy discovered that she was courting Cudi (actual identify Scott Mescudi) in 2011 when Diddy searched by means of Cassie’s emails throughout a “freak […]
2009
Danity Kane’s Daybreak Richard claimed in her Might 16 testimony that she was as soon as at Diddy’s home when she noticed him try and hit Cassie with a sizzling skillet that had simply been used to prepare dinner eggs. “He got here downstairs screaming, belligerent, asking the place his meals was and continued to hit her within the head and kick her on the bottom in entrance of us,” Richard alleged. “He got here downstairs indignant and was saying, ‘The place the f*** was his eggs’ and he was telling Cassie she by no means will get something proper and the place the f*** was his meals. And he came visiting to the skillet with the eggs in it and tried to hit her over the top, and she or he fell to the bottom.”
The singer went on to assert that Diddy stored beating Cassie whereas she was on the ground then “proceeded to take his arm round her neck and dragged her by the hair up the steps.” The next day, the mogul allegedly invited Richard and her Soiled Cash bandmate Kalenna Harper to document with him within the studio, the place he instructed them the assault they’d each seen was “ardour.” Richard additional claimed he threatened them, saying, “Individuals who say one thing can find yourself lacking.”
The protection questioned Richard about whether or not she was having a tough time protecting her story “straight,” however she replied that she didn’t agree with that evaluation. Throughout cross-examination, Diddy’s lawyer Nicole Westmoreland claimed Richard’s testimony didn’t all the time match what she’d alleged in her personal lawsuit in opposition to the rapper or what she’d instructed the federal government’s investigators.
“Each day it will get simpler to recollect sure issues,” Richard stated throughout redirect questioning. “I attempt my finest to do it to the most effective of my capacity.”
2010
In her Might 19 testimony, Richard claimed Usher was current on one event when Diddy allegedly punched Cassie within the abdomen at a restaurant. “She instantly bent over, [Diddy] instructed her to go away,” Richard alleged. “Nobody intervened.”
The identical yr, Cassie’s pal and make-up artist Mylah Morales testified that she was current throughout certainly one of Diddy’s assaults. She claimed she was napping on a sofa in her resort suite the weekend of the Grammys when Diddy barged in in search of Cassie, asking, “The place the f*** is she?” Morales alleged Diddy then went into Cassie’s room and stated she heard “yelling and screaming” earlier than the rapper got here again out. The make-up artist claimed Cassie left the room “distraught” and had “a swollen eye and a busted lip and knots on her head.”
Cassie and Diddy attend the Met Gala in 2017. Getty Photos
2011
Cassie began courting rapper Child Cudi throughout a break in her relationship from Diddy however quickly ended the connection as a result of she feared for her and Cudi’s security. She claimed she was having a freak off with Diddy when he noticed emails about her romance with the opposite rapper and lunged at her with a wine bottle opener. Whereas she escaped unhurt, she famous that she communicated with Cudi (actual identify Scott Mescudi) utilizing a burner cellphone.
The protection tried to hyperlink Diddy’s response to the Cudi romance as proof of broader problems with infidelity and jealousy in Diddy and Cassie’s relationship.
After Diddy discovered Cassie was courting Cudi, he allegedly broke into Cudi’s house within the Hollywood Hills. Cudi testified that he discovered presents unwrapped and his canine locked within the rest room, however he famous throughout cross-examination that his house had been unlocked and nothing was broken. He additionally agreed with the protection’s assertion that he and Diddy had been “performed” by Cassie, as neither man knew she was seeing them each on the identical time.
Diddy allegedly threatened to launch two specific movies of Cassie as retaliation for her relationship with Cudi and attacked her at his house. When she returned to her resort, she claimed, her room had been trashed, with urine and feces within the rest room.
Round this time, Cassie additionally instructed her mom, Regina Ventura, concerning the abuse for the primary time. In her personal testimony, Regina claimed Diddy demanded $20,000 in trade for a promise to not launch the movies. Regina took out a house fairness mortgage and wired him the cash, however he allegedly returned it a number of days later.
Regina additionally took images of Cassie’s accidents from the alleged assault, noting she needed to ascertain a document. “She was bruised and I needed to ensure we memorialize it,” she stated. “I used to be scared for my daughter’s security.”
Clark claimed that she was current in the course of the alleged break-in and accused Diddy of kidnapping her and forcing her to go to Cudi’s home with him. The protection, in the meantime, hinted that Clark willingly accompanied Diddy to cease him from doing “one thing silly,” however she pushed again on that concept. “I didn’t wish to go,” she stated. “It was not my selection.”
Clark additional alleged that she witnessed Diddy beat Cassie after he discovered about her relationship with Cudi and suggested Cassie’s mom to name the police.
The trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs continued on Thursday, Might 15, with extra testimony from his ex-girlfriend Cassie. Diddy, 55, was arrested in September 2024 and charged with intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. He has pleaded not responsible to all costs and has denied the entire allegations in opposition to him. […]
2012
After discovering out about Cassie and Cudi’s relationship, Diddy allegedly threatened to explode Cudi’s automotive and stated he needed his associates to be there when it occurred. Following their cut up, Cudi allegedly met with Cassie and Diddy, the place they talked concerning the automotive. “What about my car?” Cassie recalled Cudi asking. Diddy allegedly replied, “What car?” Cassie then famous, “And that was the top of the assembly.”
Based on a police report obtained by Rolling Stone, Cudi’s automotive was set on hearth by an “incendiary system” in January 2012.
One other witness, escort Sharay “The Punisher” Evans, testified that his first freak off with Cassie and Diddy came about this yr. He went on to take part in round a dozen freak offs with the pair and instructed the jury he didn’t initially know who they had been, as Diddy allegedly wore a veil over his face and Cassie wore sun shades and a wig.
Whereas Evans stated throughout direct testimony that he noticed Cassie expressing hesitation at a few of Diddy’s freak off directives, he instructed the protection that he didn’t see any cues indicating she was experiencing discomfort.
That very same yr, Diddy allegedly overdosed on opioids whereas attending a celebration on the Playboy Mansion.
2013
Cassie alleged Diddy threw her down at one level, which brought on her to chop her eyebrow on the nook of a mattress. She claimed his safety introduced her to a plastic surgeon’s workplace to deal with the damage, noting she texted him a photograph of the minimize “so you may keep in mind.” He allegedly replied, “You. Don’t know. When to. Cease. You [have] pushed IT Too far. And proceed to push. Unhappy.” She stated she has a everlasting scar on her eyebrow from the incident.
Throughout cross-examination, the protection referenced an announcement Cassie made in Might 2024 concerning the CNN video of Diddy assaulting her, the place she wrote that home violence is “THE concern.” The protection was seemingly attempting to level out that home violence, whereas against the law, will not be one of many costs that Diddy is going through.
Deonte Nash, a former stylist for Diddy and Cassie, claimed he witnessed the incident which led to the minimize on Cassie’s eyebrow. He testified that he tried to name the police however was instructed to hold up the cellphone. That very same yr, Diddy allegedly received violent with Nash throughout a music video shoot as a result of he’d been going out to golf equipment with Cassie. On one other event, Nash claimed he noticed Diddy pulling Cassie by the hair and threatening to launch specific movies of her.
Cassie emotionally recounted allegedly being raped by ex-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs in the course of the mogul’s intercourse trafficking trial. Through the singer’s testimony on Wednesday, Might 14, Cassie, 38, recalled a dinner she had with Diddy, 55, in 2018 after she had already begun courting her now-husband, Alex Tremendous. After Diddy introduced Cassie (actual identify Casandra Ventura) […]
2014
Cassie was internet hosting an occasion in Atlantic Metropolis, New Jersey, when somebody she was working with instructed her they’d seen a sexually specific video of her. “Ask what the room seemed like … lady you want to get this data,” Diddy allegedly texted her after the incident. “You gotta inform him that is your life and that is severe. … That is loopy! Don’t let him out of your [sight]. Wtf.”
Throughout cross-examination, the protection performed audio of Cassie threatening to “kill” a DJ who claimed to have seen specific movies of her.
In his personal testimony, Nash claimed Diddy threatened him due to the way in which Cassie’s hair checked out a Vainness Truthful social gathering, allegedly grabbing him by the jacket and lifting him up. Regardless of alleged incidents like this, Nash stated he was nonetheless near Diddy, telling the court docket, “I don’t hate him. It’s simply not in me.”
2015
After one incident of alleged abuse, Cassie claimed Diddy instructed her to placed on extra make-up to cowl her bruises so certainly one of his sons, who was then staying at his home, wouldn’t see them. Nash, for his half, claimed he noticed Cassie with two black eyes throughout a FaceTime dialog along with her.
The identical yr, she started courting actor Michael B. Jordan throughout one other certainly one of her breaks from Diddy. On the time, Diddy was allegedly courting one other certainly one of his on-off girlfriends, which Cassie stated “harm” her.
One among Diddy’s former assistants, George Kaplan, claimed he was on a aircraft with Diddy, Cassie and some safety guards when he heard glass shatter from behind him. He rotated and allegedly noticed Diddy holding a cocktail glass over Cassie, who was mendacity on the bottom. Kaplan claimed nobody did something, and after Diddy walked to the entrance of the aircraft, nobody went to the again to examine on Cassie.
That very same yr, Kaplan alleged he received a name on the intercom at Diddy’s home to come back to the bed room, the place he discovered Cassie on the mattress “clearly upset” with a bruised eyebrow and brow.
Kaplan finally stop working for Diddy later that yr after he allegedly noticed his boss assaulting one other girlfriend named Gina, saying that was “the ultimate straw” for him.
Nicholas Hunt/Getty Photos Sean “Diddy” Combs and ex-girlfriend Cassie weathered many ups and downs throughout their romance earlier than parting methods for good in 2018. Whereas Cassie (actual identify Cassandra Ventura) has since married Alex Tremendous and turn out to be a mom, her relationship with Diddy hasn’t stopped making headlines. The New York Instances reported in November 2023 […]
2016
Diddy was captured on surveillance video bodily assaulting Cassie on March 5 on the InterContinental Resort in Los Angeles. (An edited model of the video was printed by CNN in Might 2024.) Throughout her testimony, Cassie claimed Diddy was attempting to pull her again to a freak off occurring in a resort room. After the assault, Cassie alleged, Diddy tried to contact her, however she texted him, “Please keep far-off from me.”
Throughout cross-examination, the protection confirmed a textual content message Cassie despatched through which she instructed Diddy she needed to attend the freak off “so dangerous” however was afraid of exhausting herself earlier than a film premiere occurring two days later.
In September, Cassie allegedly witnessed Diddy dangling her pal Bryana “Bana” Bongolan over a balcony after which threw her onto patio furnishings. (Bongolan sued Diddy in 2024, and he denied her claims in an announcement through his lawyer.)
That very same yr, Diddy allegedly took Cassie’s cellphone when he believed she was courting an expert soccer participant. Regina testified that she known as the police and had a “bitter argument” with Diddy exterior her daughter’s condominium constructing as she tried to get the cellphone again from the mogul whereas Cassie was inside.
2018
Close to the top of their relationship, Cassie had dinner with Diddy, they usually returned to her house afterward. She alleged that he then raped her on her front room ground. “I simply keep in mind crying and saying no, nevertheless it was very quick,” she recalled, including that that they had intercourse “by selection” on September 27 one different time after the top of their relationship.
Throughout cross-examination, the protection questioned the timeline of the alleged rape, noting that Cassie testified it occurred in August whereas telling the prosecution it occurred in September.
Previous to their cut up, Diddy allegedly attacked Cassie’s pal Kerry Morgan with a picket hanger in a match of anger over one other man Cassie was courting on the time. “I had a concussion. I used to be dizzy. I vomited a number of occasions,” Morgan testified, including that the incident ended her friendship with Cassie. She went on to assert that Diddy and Cassie later requested to signal a $30,000 nondisclosure settlement after the alleged altercation. Throughout her cross-examination, Morgan agreed with the protection’s assertion that Diddy is a “flawed particular person.”
Cassie started her fourth day of testimony within the Sean “Diddy” Combs trial on Friday, Might 16, by discussing the 2016 incident the place he bodily assaulted her on the InterContinental Resort in Los Angeles. The singer, 38, stated she doesn’t keep in mind “an entire lot” concerning the incident however agreed with protection lawyer Anna Estevao that […]
2019
In March, months after their cut up, Diddy allegedly despatched Cassie a message referring to “iPads filled with skeletons,” which she believed meant specific movies he’d recorded. She additionally claimed he needed to be reimbursed for private coaching periods he paid for when her now-husband had been coaching her.
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