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 regularly, she mentioned in federal courtroom on Wednesday.
Ventura additionally revealed that the settlement in her civil case towards the rap mogul, after what she mentioned 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 circumstances towards Combs. Ventura additionally revealed she had been writing a ebook about her experiences with Combs on the time.
“I wished to be compensated for the time and the ache and the numerous, a few years of getting to attempt to repair my life,” she informed the courtroom. “I can’t carry the disgrace, the guilt.”
Prosecutors contend Combs, the 55-year-old rapper, producer and vogue 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 costs within the five-count indictment and has claimed he’s harmless of all crimes of which he has been accused.
Ventura testified a couple of bevy of alleged crimes and violence perpetrated by Combs towards 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 search out closure of their relationship, she informed the courtroom, and since he was being candy, she invited him to her residence. On the time, Venrtura was courting the person who’s now her husband.
“After which he raped me in my lounge,” Ventura informed the courtroom. “On the ground.”
Ventura and Combs had intercourse another time after this, Ventura mentioned, explaining {that a} long-term relationship isn’t straightforward to show off when you’ve developed a reference to the individual. She has had just a few exchanges with him since 2018, she mentioned.
Ventura additionally detailed how Combs found that she was courting rapper Child Cudi throughout a “freak-off” whereas going by way of her telephone 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 occasion, main Ventura to flee and fall right into a bush. Later, she mentioned, he turned up at her residence and threw baggage at her, main her to flee to a pal’s house.
Throughout a lot of their time collectively, Ventura mentioned she lived in worry 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 mentioned. “It may wreck all the things 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 per week, she informed the courtroom, explaining that his safety workers would present as much as verify on her and guarantee she was staying inside. She additionally testified that she witnessed an encounter at her residence that has grow to be the topic of a civil swimsuit filed by one in every of her associates. Bryana “Bana” Bongolan, alleges in a sexual battery lawsuit towards 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 dialogue of the “freak-offs” she says Combs compelled her into, which concerned intercourse with male intercourse staff whereas he seemed on, masturbating. Ventura mentioned that she felt “trapped” in a horrible string of conditions with Combs, who had signed her to his Dangerous Boy Data 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 mentioned, and she or he wakened in a lodge bathtub to search out Combs and a employed escort standing above her in misery, not understanding what to do together with her. On a visit to the Cannes Movie Pageant, she mentioned, a combat led to her altering seats on the airplane house; Combs switched seats too and remained by her aspect, the place she says he proceeded to play movies of two “freak-off” classes on the airplane, in view of different passengers.
On Wednesday morning, Ventura additionally informed 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 all the time Combs’ thought; this was not one thing she was into, Ventura testified.
“I used to be all the time terrified, and would drink fairly a bit,” she informed the courtroom.
At a degree, she mentioned she developed an opiate dependancy so she may really feel numb following the “freak-off” classes.
Ventura’s direct testimony ended on Wednesday afternoon. She is going to return to the stand for cross-examination on Thursday.