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May 14, 2025

“The Trial Of Sean Combs” Episode Seven | All Eyes on Cassie

“The Trial Of Sean Combs” Episode Seven | All Eyes on Cassie
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Season 1

The third day of testimony has wrapped up in the “Diddy Trial” and Jim Chapman is bringing you the update including the 2nd half of direct testimony of the prosecution’s “star witness” Cassandra “Cassie” Ventura.

#seancombs #Diddy #trial #exposed #podcast #badboyrecords #crime #court #cassie #juryselection

Chapters
01:53 Day Three: Cassie's Testimony Continues
05:25 Understanding Coercion in the Case
08:20 The Prosecution's Key Evidence
16:18 Text Messages: Proof of Sex Trafficking
21:35 Incidents of Abuse: A Pattern Emerges
31:05 Love and Control: The Duality of their Relationship
39:21 Fear and Silence: Why Victims Stay Quiet
49:39 The R$%e Incident: A Turning Point
52:54 Settling the Lawsuit

Welcome to The Trial of Sean Combs. Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs had it all. In the 90s and 00s, he produced global hits for the hottest stars in the world, including Biggie, Mary J. Blige and J Lo. Then came the business deals, from vodka to media companies - everything Diddy touched turned to gold. Now, he faces multiple federal charges in New York, including sex trafficking and allegedly running a criminal enterprise.

The Trial of Diddy is anticipated to be one of the most historic trials in United States history. This series will bring you all of the up to minute details of the Diddy party rumors, in which many were saying Diddy diddy go away by the time the party ended.

The theatrical atmosphere in this trial will be something you are going to want to hear about it and weekly updates just will not be enough so look for this series to drop daily as the trial moves along. Opening statements in the diddy trial are just days away and I am on it!

Podcast Disclaimer: The content of this podcast is for informational and entertainment purposes only. The views and opinions expressed by the hosts and guests are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of any affiliated organizations or institutions. While we strive to provide accurate and up-to-date information, we cannot guarantee the completeness, reliability, or suitability of the information discussed.

The podcast does not constitute professional advice, and listeners are encouraged to seek guidance from qualified professionals regarding any specific issues or concerns. By listening to this podcast, you acknowledge that you understand and accept these terms. We are not liable for any actions taken based on the content provided in this podcast.

Further Legal Note: This Case has not been decided and all persons discussed in this podcast are assumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The civil charges expressed in this podcast are taken from public record and any commentary discussed are for informational purposes may or may not be the opinion of the host and/or producers of this podcast.

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Get ready to dive deep into one of the most

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gripping legal battles of our time. I'm your host, Jim Chapman,

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and today we're unraveling the high stakes drama surrounding one

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of the music industry's most enematic figures, Sean didd He Combs,

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in a case that has captivated millions. The courtroom has

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become a battleground for fame, fortune, in the dark secrets

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that lurk beneath the glittering surface of celebrity life. As

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the gavel comes down, we'll explore the allegations, the testimonies,

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and the shocking twists that could change the course of

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Diddy's legacy forever. Was this case merely a clash of

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lifestyles or something much more sinister? With each episode, I

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will bring you exclusive insights, analysis, and witness testimony accounts

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that will leave you on the edge of your seat.

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So buckle up as we embark on this thrilling ride

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through the trial of the century, where the stakes are high,

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the drama is real, and the truth is anything but certain.

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This is the Trial of Sean Combs. Let's get started

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and welcome back to this seventh episode in the trial

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of Diddy. This is day three of the testimony phase

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of this trial. In Shawn Comb's has entered the courtroom

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at nine forty am New York time. He's wearing a

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cream colored sweater and gray pants. He sat back in

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his chair and he started watching lawyers sift through paperwork.

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Cassie Ventura, she's going to be continuing her testimony today Wednesday,

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May fifteenth. Now, she was on the stand for just

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over four and a half hours yesterday May fourteenth, and

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was in the midst of direct examination from prosecutors when

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court was adjourned for the day. Now, before the jury

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entered the courtroom, a little fireworks when the prosecution in

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defense they started arguing over text message threads between Shawn

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Comb's and Cassie Ventura that the defense said they may

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want to submit as evidence. During Ventur's cross examination, Prosecutor

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Marie Comey said the defense should have been given notice

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to the government about the exhibits much sooner. Apparently this

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was sprung on them in the morning right before court.

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So Combe's defense team they argued they've been pulling possible

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exhibits to respond to Ventura's direct testimony as it progresses.

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And the judge ruled in the favor of the defense

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in this matter, saying prosecutors should have brought up the

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issue sooner. And at nine to fifty four am, the

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jury entered the courtroom and Cassie Ventura entered. She took

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the stand for her second day of testimony. She's wearing

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a gray turtleneck dress and a coat, and as I

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told you yesterday, very much pregnant in her third trimester,

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and Combs tracked her with his eyes as she walked

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into that witness box. Now Prosecutor Emily Johnson she continued

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with with her questioning of Cassie Ventura, and she handed

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her a drive and that drive contained photos and messages

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from Ventura's electronic devices. Ventura said she reviewed what was

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on the drive, and Johnson submitted that drive into evidence.

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The questioning then picks up where it left off on Tuesday,

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and that was discussing the incident at the Intercontinental Hotel

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in twenty sixteen, that famous hallway incident. And for the

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third time, this jury has shown that infamous video where

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Sean Combs has just beaten the absolute shit out of Cassie.

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And similar to yesterday, Cassie walks the jury through what

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they are looking at. Ventura said she recalled Comb's throwing

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a vase with flowers in it. Quote, I didn't get hit.

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I remember it hitting the wall, and he was yelling

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at me when he threw it at me, she said.

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As she was trying to leave the hotel, con Eames

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was telling her something to the effect of quote that

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I wasn't going to leave there, that I couldn't. Now

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let me stop right there and discuss this for a second. Yesterday,

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when Cassie was testifying, I had an issue with some

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things that the prosecution, in my opinion, did not do.

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I felt like they didn't prove their case properly during

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the testimony. And what I mean by that is they

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didn't bring the accusations against Shawn Conbees full circle. Now,

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everyone needs to keep in mind Shawn Combes is not

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on trial for domestic abuse. If he were, he'd be

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found guilty. You wouldn't even have to have a trial

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because you've got a video out there and he would

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have definitely pled guilty to get a deal. But you

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can't file domestic abuse charges federally. That's a state crime.

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In this particular trial, Shawn Combs is on trial for

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sex trafficking and coercion. And let's talk about coercion real quick,

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because it's really important in this case. And I feel

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like yesterday it was not proved. What the prosecution basically

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has to prove is that Cassie was not into doing

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these things, that it was not her own free will.

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You wanted to hear something yesterday like Shawn Comb's made

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me do it. Shawn Combs told me if I didn't

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participate in a freak off, he was going to kill me,

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or he was going to make videos public that he

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took of me. Some sort of threat that forced her

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into doing these freak offs, that would be coercion. Now,

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she did say she was concerned about that, meaning the videos,

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but she never said Shawn Comb's threatened her with that,

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and that's important. I'll give you an example. If someone's

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in a relationship and they want you to have a

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freak off and you do it because you're in love

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with them, and you agreed to do it because of that,

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but they don't say if you don't do it, I'm

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going to do something to you, then that's on you.

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There's no coersion there. All they did was ask you. Technically,

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they didn't threaten you with something in order to get

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you to do it. And yesterday I heard a whole

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lot of I was in love with him and that's

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why I did it, or I was scared he may

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do something to me and that's why I did it.

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But never did I hear Sean told me he would

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do this if I didn't do it, meaning freak offs.

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So there's no coersion in there, at least they didn't

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prove it yesterday, and I'm hoping today that will come

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full circle, if you will now with what I just

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told you, which is Cassie saying that she wanted to

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leave that hotel, and remember she was in the midst

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of a freak off. We found out about that yesterday.

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At that point she said she wanted to leave that hotel.

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And not only did she just say Sean Combes told

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me you're not leaving, which she told him she wanted

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to leave, but you also found out yesterday along with myself,

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that he beat the shit out of her in that

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lobby because she was leaving the freak golf and folks,

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that is coercion if you leave or attempt to leave

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and someone beats the shit out of you to try

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to keep you to stay. That is coercion. And not

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only did she testify that Shawn Combes did not let

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her leave, but if you'll remember the officer that testified

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first in this trial, he said that Shawn Combe said,

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you're not leaving, and the officer actually told Shawn Combe

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she can leave as she wants to. So at this point,

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the prosecution is proving some coercion there. I just want

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to bring up that point, but let's move on with

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the trial. So the next thing the prosecutor has her

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do is read a series of text messages between Combes

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and herself after that altercation. Those texts read call me,

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and these are from showing to her and then YO,

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please call me, and then I got six kids, and

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then please call me again, and then YO, please call me.

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I'm surrounded and then call me and then for my kids.

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Help now. Ventura said that she responded eventually, and she

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responded with quote put the robe on. She said. She

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said that because he was running around in a towel

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last time she saw him and she was just looking out.

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And then he again texted her and said call me,

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call me. Now, Ventura said she responded again by telling

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Combes that she spoke to security and the escort had left.

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She told him, as long as you don't disturb any

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more guests, they'll leave you be so Prosecutor Emily Johnson.

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She then showed the jury two selfies of Cassie Ventura,

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which she said, we're taking on the Uber ride home

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from that hotel altercation, and she had Ventura kind of

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walk the jury through that. Ventura said she had a

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fat lip and she was seen wearing sunglasses, and she

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claimed that that was because she had a black eye underneath.

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So Combs again texted her asking her to call him,

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and this time he claimed the police were there and

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he was getting arrested. Quote call me, the cops are

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here and you're gonna abandon me all alone. So she

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responds back, and she said that she had a premiere

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coming up for what she said was the biggest thing

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she's ever done in her life so far. Quote have

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a black eye and a fat lip. You were sick

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for thinking it's okay to do what you've done. Please

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stay far away from me unquote. She then testified that

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her friend was at her apartment when she got home

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from the hotel after that altercation, and she said that

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her friend was super upset she had seen black eyes

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and busted lips before, and her friend called the police.

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Cassie said, I answered a couple of questions when the

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police showed up, but when they wanted me to say

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who I was talking about, I wouldn't say. They left,

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So then Prosecutor Johnson asked her why she wouldn't tell

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the police Sean Diddycombe's name, and Cassie responded, quote, just

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in that moment, I didn't want to hurt him that way.

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It was just too much going on. And she added

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that she wasn't ready yet. And then in some shocking testimony,

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Johnson asked Cassie what happened next, and she testified that

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Diddy actually showed up at her apartment after he done

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beat the shit out of her in that hotel hallway,

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and he was banging, kicking, yelling outside her door trying

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to get in her apartment. One of his assistants reached

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out to Ventura to tell her Combs was trying to

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get into her apartment, and Cassie went on to say, quote,

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the behavior outside her door was pretty normal for Combs.

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She said that after that she left, and she went

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to the home of one of Seawan Combe's security guards

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named d Rock, to feel safe. She later went to

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Combe's house to do a fitting for that upcoming movie premiere.

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The jury was then shown a photo of her in

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a gown that she wore to that event. She was

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in sunglasses, and when the prosecutor asked her why, she

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said it was to cover up that black eye. She said,

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I have bruises all over my body that weren't completely

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covered by the makeup, and I had quite a bit

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of makeup on my face. Now. That movie premiere that

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Cassie Ventur was attending was for a romantic comedy that

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she actually starred in, called The Perfect Match, and that

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was two days after that hotel assault. The jury was

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then shown a photo of the couple at an after party,

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and Ventura points out a bruise you can clearly see

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in that photo on her right shin. So the prosecutor

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then asked her to review a binder, and this binder

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contained more than a dozen photos of escorts that she

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and Sean Combs had hired for freak offs over the years,

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all in different cities. Ventur confirmed the escorts were hired

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for freak offfs, and she testified that these men were

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often found through a contact with a business called Cowboys

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for Angels, and they advertised mail companions and if you'll

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remember I briefly mentioned them in yesterday's testimony, they actually

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had a showtime series called Jiggilos at one point featuring

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this company, and Ventura identified the escorts with the name

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she knew them by, Ash, Tommy Gregg, and even a

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man known as Islander. She said she was the only

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one who typically reached out to the escorts to arrange

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for freak golfs because quote, it was her job, Combs

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wanted her to do it, and when she paid them,

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it was with Comb's money. So let me say something

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on this because it's creating a lot of contention on

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my Facebook page with some pretty heavy back and forth

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in the comment you get to my page, you'll see

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what I'm talking about at exposed podcast files on Facebook.

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And I got I admit, it's pretty bad optics for

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Cassie to be saying she was paying these escorts even

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if it was with Ditty's money. I mean, I do

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have an issue with the prosecution not saying well, at

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least yet following up with a question like why did

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you pay them and not ditty? And the reason this

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creates such bad optics is because it makes Cassie look

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like a fully willing participant. And I just wanted to

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point that out. I'm not saying she was. I'm just

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saying this is the contention. These are the things people

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are having problems with now. The prosecution then showed a

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twenty sixteen text message from Sean Combes to Cassie about freakoffs,

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and he suggested in this text that they have a

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quote proper freakolf without the drug ketamine involved. He actually

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wrote that a quote successful freakolf was when we can remember.

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He went on to say, I won't bring it up

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again until you were in the mood, suggesting that when

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she was, he would fly a man in known as

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Dave for the freak off. And right there, before we

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go any further, guess what that is proof of in

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text message form? That is proof of sex trafficking because

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he just admitted in that text that if she'd be

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willing to do the freak off, let him know, because

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he would fly Dave in, meaning Dave was in another state.

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He just proved it right there. Ventura then testified that

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kenymine was her preferred drug during freak Offs, and she

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said it was because kenymine was very disassociative, meaning she

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would forget what she did after the freak off. Now

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that's also the drug. Incidentally, the Matt Perry Odda on

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if you'll remember, I did that case on exposed. She

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then testified that she tried to avoid kissing escorts during

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the freak Offs. She felt it was quote to intimate

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and made her squeamish, but she said that Sean would

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request to see it, so she would do it. She

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was asked how she recovered from the freak Offs, and

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she said, quote that she had an off and on

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addiction to opiates. She said she took them to come

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down after party drugs such as ecstasy, which she said

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she also used during the freak Offs. Quote, opiates made

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me feel numb, which is why I relied on them

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so heavily. She added, I didn't want to feel what

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was actually going on in my mind, in my life

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in real time. It was an escape for me. She

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said that Combs gave her the opiates at times, more

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commonly at the beginning of their relationship. And she testified

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she had a regular gastro intestinal issue from the drugs

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that she took, and she went on to say she

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had frequent UTIs from the freak ass. These urinary track

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infections were so frequent, she said she would often have

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an infection during freak afs and typically medications would stop working.

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Cassie then got into her account of how videos of

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the freak Alls were turned into blackmail materials as it

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related to her, and she said several times Shawan Combs

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brought up the subject of sexually explicit videos of her

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when he was angry at her for something. She said,

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quote one time I dated someone else and that's all

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it was about. I'm going to put out two embarrassing

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videos of you. She added that she thought it was

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just to hurt her. The jury was shown a text

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from twenty thirteen where she Combs and she said, quote,

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please delete any video out of your iPhone that you have.

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Too many people have access to my stuff, and Combs

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responded to that text with I deleted them, But there

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were times in their relationships, she said, when she saw

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those videos still existed and she was under the impression

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they had been deleted. The prosecutor then asked Cassie about

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her twenty ninth birthday party, and Cassie testified that to

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celebrate that twenty ninth birthday, she wanted to go to

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a club called the Blind Dragon, and she wanted to

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do karaoke with her friends, but she said that Diddy

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told her he wanted to have a freak off. She said, quote,

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I told him that I wanted to stay out and

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celebrate with my friends, and in my mind, I just

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didn't want the burden of having to do that. At

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the end of the night, I just wanted to have

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my birthday. She went on to say they went to

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the Blind Dragon for a little bit, but then Combs

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pulled her aside so many times. She just gave up,

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and she said, we went and we had a freak off.

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And at this point, the court took a break and

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privacy screens were being placed on multiple monitors in the courtroom,

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which I suspected means they're about to start showing the

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freak off videos or pictures of the freak off videos.

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They returned from the break and they could not figure

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out how to make these privacy screens work. So the judge,

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in some obvious frustration tells the prosecution to just cover

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another line of questioning and when they break for lunch,

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they'll figure out the privacy screen issues. Which was kind

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of funny to me because you got all these genius

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lawyers that get millions of dollars tons of them and

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they can't figure that out, but a tradesman could probably

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figure it out in about thirty seconds. Just made me laugh. Now,

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for those interested, Sean Combe's three sons, Quincy Brown, Christian Combs,

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and Justin Combes, they were in the court room. They

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were seated in the spectator's gallery. Justin had his arm

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around Combe's mother, Janus Combs, and somewhat of a surprise,

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three of Shawn Combe's daughters, who had been attending the trial,

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including his twins, they were absent. Now, it came out

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later that at least in the twins' case, they weren't

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there because they had prom and apparently it was prom

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for somebody that lives out of the state, so they

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had to fly to it. The prosecutor continued, and in

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this line of questioning, asked Cassie about a March twenty

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fourteen incident in which someone told Cassie that he had

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actually seen a sexually explicit video of her while they

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were at an event in Atlantic City, and Cassie testified

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that immediately her thoughts went to this dude's unseen a

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freak off video, and the jury was then shown a

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text message thread between Ventura and Diddy. Combs told her

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to find out more about what this guy knew about

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the video and where it came from. Combs told her

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to ask the person what the room looked like in

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that video. He then texted, quote, this is crazy. Do

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not let him out of your sight. You gotta tell

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him this is your life. This is serious. So she

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communicates us to the guy that told her about the

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video and sets up a meeting for the next day

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between the man and the DJ who actually had the

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video and had shown it to this guy, and she

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brought security with her and that was at Combe's direction,

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she claimed. She said that Combs wanted to quote intimidate

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the man. Her manager, James Cruz, was also at that dinner,

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and then the prosecutor showed another text chain between Ventura

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and Combs and Ventura tells Combes that she was suffering

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from sores on her tongue. Ventura testified that She attributed

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the sores to activities during the freak aus you think,

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including taking drugs and performing oral sex. He expressed sympathy

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for the message to her, writing quote, I'm sorry. Cassie

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then testified that Combs took her to sex clubs several times,

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where she at times had sex with Combs and a

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male escort named Jules. She said she was uncomfortable there,

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but she went on to say that if she told

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Combs she didn't want to go, he would typically try

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to convince her by framing it as quote a fun outing.

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She then testifies about Combs assaulting her at times when

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escorts were still in the hotel rooms. Johnson asked her

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how often Combs would get violent during these freakoffs, and

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Cassie testified that she was injured during freakoffs on several

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occasions when Sean would put his hands on her. She

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said it happened quote too frequently, and there were many

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times when Combs would assault her with an escort still

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in the hotel room. Quote. He would grab me up,

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push me down, hit me in the side of the head,

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kick me, you name it. Vin Turor then described an

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altercation with Combs that left her with a permanent scar

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on her eyebrow. She said that when she was with

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two friends in her apartment before traveling to a music festival,

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Sean Combe suddenly entered the room and began yelling about

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her sleeping on the couch rather than packing for this truck.

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She said, that's when Comb's moved to attack her. Her

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friends jumped on his back, and during the altercation, Comes

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threw her down and she cut her eyebrow on the

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corner of the bed. Afterwards, Combs had security bring her

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to a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills to suiture the gash.

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She said. She later texted him a photo of the

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injury and wrote quote so you can remember which I

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thought that was a pretty badass retort on her part.

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She was then asked by the prosecutor why she responded

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with that photo, and she said, I didn't want him

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to forget what he did, saying quote at the very least,

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I just wanted him to be sorry about it. The

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jury saw a photo of Ventura and French Montana at

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a music festival shortly after the incident, and she testified

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that and you could apparently see it in this picture

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where she styled her hair over the wound so it

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would not be visible. Ventura then pointed to her eyebrow

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on the witness stand and she said she had a

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permanent scar from that injury. I cover it with makeup.

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She added. Now, Sean Combs, if you're curious what his

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response was to seeing this picture of what he did

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to Cassie, the jury was shown that response, that text message,

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and he responded back, quote, you don't know when to stop.

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You have pushed it too far and continue to push sad.

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That was his response to throwing her on the ground,

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hitting her head on the side of a bed where

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it split her freaking eyebrow open. What a piece of shit,

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She testified after that twenty thirteen attack in her apartment

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that caused her eyebrow gash. Then turned Combs and went

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to the Hamptons to have a freak off at a

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hotel with an escort named Dave. She said she blacked

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out on the drug GCHB before the freak off and

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woke up nude in the shower not long after they

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went forward with that freak off. Even after this chick

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is passed out off GGB. She then testified about a

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boat that her and Diddy stayed on a friend of

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theirs had one time to attend the Cans Film Festival,

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and they'd gotten an argument over this boat after he

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accused her of stealing drugs from him. She said, quote,

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he kicked me off the boat with no shoes early

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one morning, and I walked over to his staff hotel

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and I stayed in somebody's room, she said. The next

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day she went to the festival and Combs kept giving

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her an evil glare. Quote. He would grab my leg

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and like squeeze my thigh as tight as he could,

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and I was wearing a beaded dress, so it was

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really painful. She went on to say. On the flight

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back home, she switched seats so she would not have

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to sit next to Combs, but he traded seats with

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another person and sat next to her. On that flight,

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she said, he played videos of freak offs from his iPad,

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and Combs told her that he was going to embarrass

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her and release these videos. When they landed in New York,

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she said, they went to dinner and then he wanted

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to have a freak off. Can you believe that shit?

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But this girl is so twisted by this point, by

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him that she had the freak off. When the prosecutor

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asked her why, she said, whatever was going make him happy,

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not be angry at me, threatening me, I was willing

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to do. I just didn't want to feel scared anymore.

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And it was the one thing he made me feel

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like I was good at. And at this point, she's

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a couple of hours into her testimony today and she's

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speaking with a very controlled and matter of fact I

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guess she could describe it tone. The jury was then

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shown more text between Combes and Ventur, including messages from

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twenty thirteen, which showed Diddy and Cassie planning a freak

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off and discussing which escorts to invite. Quote, it's just

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one more person knowing our secret, Ventura said to Combs.

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In that text, she testified that she was referring to

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the shame of the secret of the freakof saying I

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didn't want to do him. I just didn't want to

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be part of that. In another text message, dated January

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seventh of twenty seventeen, Van Tura told nothing good comes

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out of freak offs anymore. She went on to say

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in that text, you treat me like Ike Turner treated Tina,

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which was bad. Y'all. Just trust me. He beat the

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shit out of Tina on the daily. When asked what

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she meant by the Turner reference, Ventura testified Combes was

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abusive and controlling. Quote. I mean he was actually physically abusive.

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He put me down a lot. As much as I

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was built up. He would put me down verbally. But

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it's also just the sheer embarrassment, like how he treated

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me in front of other people. Now, Among the mini

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text between Cassie and Seawan Combes that were read into

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evidence today, there were some loving messages between the couple.

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One thing that Ventura texted him was you are truly

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the most extraordinary man, and this was on father Day.

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She went on to say thank you for always showing

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00:31:03.279 --> 00:31:05.640
me love and happiness the way it's supposed to be,

454
00:31:06.640 --> 00:31:09.559
adding she couldn't wait until the couple had a baby

455
00:31:09.599 --> 00:31:11.400
of their own. And when she was asked by the

456
00:31:11.440 --> 00:31:16.880
prosecutor why she sent those messages and most people right

457
00:31:16.920 --> 00:31:19.200
now are probably like all the things he's done, and

458
00:31:19.279 --> 00:31:22.200
she sends him that, well, her response was because I

459
00:31:22.279 --> 00:31:25.119
loved him and it was Father's Day. And it was

460
00:31:25.160 --> 00:31:28.720
at this point that the court recessed for lunch, and

461
00:31:28.799 --> 00:31:32.799
before the jury was brought back into the room after lunch,

462
00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:36.640
several things came out that were pretty interesting. First, Come's

463
00:31:36.680 --> 00:31:42.759
attorneys said the defense had to adjust strategy since Ventura's

464
00:31:42.799 --> 00:31:46.920
testimony was a little different than they expected. They were

465
00:31:46.960 --> 00:31:51.640
talking about what exhibits the defense might submit into evidence.

466
00:31:51.680 --> 00:31:57.160
Seawan Comb's attorney, Tiny Gerge, said Cassie Ventura's direct examination

467
00:31:57.359 --> 00:32:01.559
went differently than the defense had so they need to

468
00:32:01.599 --> 00:32:05.799
adjust their strategy. And in addition to all of that,

469
00:32:06.319 --> 00:32:09.599
the judge had to instruct attorneys not to engage in

470
00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:14.839
witness coaching. The judge said he won't instruct the witnesses,

471
00:32:14.920 --> 00:32:18.200
but told the attorneys for the victim witnesses not to

472
00:32:18.319 --> 00:32:22.000
engage in what's known as witness coaching, or passing on

473
00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:26.759
messages from prosecutors to their clients while they're testifying. An

474
00:32:26.839 --> 00:32:32.359
attorney for the victim witness, Mia, going by her pseudonym,

475
00:32:32.519 --> 00:32:34.640
said he needed to be able to talk to her

476
00:32:34.759 --> 00:32:38.279
on breaks during her testimony. Quote, we are not going

477
00:32:38.319 --> 00:32:40.880
to put words in her mouth, but I need to

478
00:32:40.920 --> 00:32:43.519
be able to support her when she wants to talk

479
00:32:43.559 --> 00:32:47.400
about what she's experiencing on the stand. Quote to be candid,

480
00:32:47.640 --> 00:32:50.960
her nerves are through the roof. She would have taken

481
00:32:51.000 --> 00:32:54.119
these things to her grave. These are the worst things

482
00:32:54.160 --> 00:32:56.799
that have ever happened to her. And what brought all

483
00:32:56.799 --> 00:32:59.640
this up was the defense had asked that the victim

484
00:32:59.680 --> 00:33:02.920
witness this is being instructed not to speak to their

485
00:33:02.960 --> 00:33:06.759
attorneys or the prosecutors about their testimony while they're on

486
00:33:06.799 --> 00:33:11.519
the stand. There was also more discussion between prosecutors and

487
00:33:11.559 --> 00:33:15.359
the judge about showing sealed evidence only to jurors. If

488
00:33:15.359 --> 00:33:18.880
you remember yesterday I mentioned about the freak offsin would

489
00:33:18.960 --> 00:33:21.640
that be shown in open court or how that was

490
00:33:21.680 --> 00:33:24.359
going to work. Of course, as I mentioned earlier in

491
00:33:24.400 --> 00:33:28.599
this podcast, they were looking at privacy screens. The prosecution

492
00:33:28.920 --> 00:33:34.680
also clarified that it only planned to display potentially explicit images,

493
00:33:34.880 --> 00:33:39.279
not video for now, but that the defense may use

494
00:33:39.400 --> 00:33:44.440
explicit video later. In addition to private screens. Videos would

495
00:33:44.480 --> 00:33:48.400
require the use of headphones for the jurors. But that

496
00:33:48.519 --> 00:33:52.160
seemed like my problem for another day, and we're going

497
00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:55.039
to get back to this trial. Shortly after all of this,

498
00:33:55.319 --> 00:33:58.920
comes entered the courtroom after lunch, as did Cassie, and

499
00:33:59.000 --> 00:34:04.200
the jury and the prosecutors continued direct examination of Cassie,

500
00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:08.400
So Cassie was asked by the prosecutor to look over

501
00:34:08.440 --> 00:34:12.119
some images from freak Offs that only she and the

502
00:34:12.199 --> 00:34:15.480
jury could see, and in one of those images, she

503
00:34:15.639 --> 00:34:19.760
identified a future witness for the prosecution who has been

504
00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:23.639
referred to under the pseudonym Mia, but is listed in

505
00:34:23.760 --> 00:34:27.760
court papers as victim number four. Now this person a

506
00:34:27.840 --> 00:34:32.079
former employee of Combes who accused Combes of coercing her

507
00:34:32.239 --> 00:34:36.960
into sex. Ventura is also identifying still images from a

508
00:34:36.960 --> 00:34:41.039
freak Off video of her having sexual contact with Jules,

509
00:34:41.400 --> 00:34:45.440
Dave and Greg, three of the escorts that have been

510
00:34:45.559 --> 00:34:49.880
referred to in her testimony. Several times she said the

511
00:34:49.960 --> 00:34:52.960
images were taken from videos that were saved on an

512
00:34:53.039 --> 00:34:57.519
electronic device that she was under. The impression was broken,

513
00:34:58.079 --> 00:35:02.039
but turned over as broken evidence to the government as

514
00:35:02.159 --> 00:35:07.159
potential evidence, so apparently they were able to pull off

515
00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:11.280
whatever they needed to. The jury was then shown sexually

516
00:35:11.320 --> 00:35:15.519
explicit images taken from some of the freak Off videos,

517
00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:20.079
and when they were shown this, one female juror lets

518
00:35:20.119 --> 00:35:24.480
out a deep breath and rested her hands on her

519
00:35:24.599 --> 00:35:28.960
chest as the image was placed on the monitor before her.

520
00:35:29.719 --> 00:35:32.800
A male jur actually looked at the screen at one

521
00:35:32.880 --> 00:35:36.079
of the images, and his eyes appeared to move away

522
00:35:36.320 --> 00:35:40.519
like quickly in a different male juror. He looked up

523
00:35:40.519 --> 00:35:43.960
at the image and then started writing notes on his notepad.

524
00:35:44.400 --> 00:35:48.760
Cassie then testified that multiple employees of Sean Combs also

525
00:35:48.920 --> 00:35:52.800
witnessed him abusing her over the years, including members of

526
00:35:52.880 --> 00:35:57.519
his security team, his management team, assistance, and she said

527
00:35:57.639 --> 00:36:01.280
one assistant actually told her they because of the way

528
00:36:01.480 --> 00:36:06.199
Combs treated her. She testified that she initiated physical fights

529
00:36:06.239 --> 00:36:10.519
with Shawn Combs at times herself during their relationship, but

530
00:36:10.639 --> 00:36:13.559
that he was not injured by her during any of

531
00:36:13.599 --> 00:36:18.000
those incidents. However, she said when he was physical with her,

532
00:36:18.239 --> 00:36:21.440
there would be bruises that would often require days of

533
00:36:21.559 --> 00:36:26.239
hiding out to recover from. And then Johnson asked her

534
00:36:26.280 --> 00:36:30.599
about the first time Combs had ever been physical with her.

535
00:36:30.760 --> 00:36:33.880
She wanted to know how it happened and what were

536
00:36:34.360 --> 00:36:38.559
Cassie's thoughts when she saw this side of Combs, this

537
00:36:38.679 --> 00:36:42.039
more physical side, and Cassie said she was at a

538
00:36:42.119 --> 00:36:46.280
dinner when she saw Combs flirting with somebody else, and

539
00:36:46.320 --> 00:36:51.360
she said another person saw that Cassie had noticed this

540
00:36:51.480 --> 00:36:55.559
flirting and didn't have let's just say, an approved look

541
00:36:55.639 --> 00:36:59.639
on her face, and this person shrugged their shoulders, but

542
00:37:00.239 --> 00:37:04.599
he suspected They went and told Seawan Combes that Cassie

543
00:37:04.719 --> 00:37:07.920
was noticing all this and was none too happy. Well,

544
00:37:07.960 --> 00:37:11.000
they get in the car after dinner and she said, quote,

545
00:37:11.039 --> 00:37:13.079
he hit me in the side of my head and

546
00:37:13.119 --> 00:37:15.440
I fell to the floor of the car. She went

547
00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:19.079
on to say his security and driver were also present

548
00:37:19.199 --> 00:37:22.639
in that car. Quote, I was just shocked. I didn't

549
00:37:22.679 --> 00:37:27.039
necessarily understand what had happened and why he was so angry,

550
00:37:27.440 --> 00:37:29.920
except for the little bit he said as he was

551
00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:33.320
hitting me in the car. She said, I just went

552
00:37:33.360 --> 00:37:36.840
home and kind of hit out after that until the

553
00:37:36.920 --> 00:37:41.239
injuries healed. She then testified about another time where she

554
00:37:41.480 --> 00:37:45.320
was stomped on and beaten by Sean Combes. She recalled

555
00:37:45.360 --> 00:37:47.719
being made to hide out at a hotel for a

556
00:37:47.880 --> 00:37:52.599
week so her visible wounds could heal. Ventura wanted to

557
00:37:52.639 --> 00:37:56.079
go home to her mother, she said, but she knew

558
00:37:56.239 --> 00:37:59.920
she was not allowed, and she also said that wouldn't

559
00:37:59.920 --> 00:38:04.559
be He's safe. Quote. I understand Sewan's capabilities, his access

560
00:38:04.599 --> 00:38:08.280
to guns, the threats he made prior to that, she said,

561
00:38:08.320 --> 00:38:11.239
I was privy, she said, I never wanted to tell

562
00:38:11.239 --> 00:38:14.960
my mom the truth about the abuse because I was ashamed.

563
00:38:15.039 --> 00:38:17.519
I also didn't want to put my mother in danger

564
00:38:17.719 --> 00:38:22.239
for knowing anything of that magnitude. And I think that

565
00:38:22.360 --> 00:38:27.719
really speaks a lot to this whole deal. Look, as

566
00:38:27.719 --> 00:38:31.559
I mentioned earlier the Facebook, some of these posts I'm

567
00:38:31.559 --> 00:38:34.079
putting up about Sean Combs is like fifty to fifty

568
00:38:34.119 --> 00:38:38.079
one way or the other, with people defending him, people

569
00:38:38.599 --> 00:38:43.119
saying he's a piece of shit, etc. As I've been

570
00:38:43.159 --> 00:38:48.159
posting these updates on the Facebook page, it's an absolute

571
00:38:48.280 --> 00:38:51.280
war in some of these Go check it out. You've

572
00:38:51.320 --> 00:38:55.000
got people basically on both sides of this deal. And

573
00:38:55.039 --> 00:38:59.199
I just want to say, first of all, anyone who

574
00:38:59.280 --> 00:39:04.599
is in any way trying to defend a grown ass

575
00:39:04.760 --> 00:39:09.920
man Sean Combs or anybody else beating the shit out

576
00:39:09.960 --> 00:39:13.760
of a little teeny tiny woman like Cassie Ventura over

577
00:39:14.000 --> 00:39:18.360
and over again, that says a lot about you. I'm

578
00:39:18.360 --> 00:39:22.119
just going to tell you the truth a lot about you. Second,

579
00:39:22.440 --> 00:39:25.760
and some of these people feel they're making a valid

580
00:39:25.920 --> 00:39:29.360
point by saying, why did it take her so long

581
00:39:29.400 --> 00:39:34.079
to leave? She must have liked it, etc. And shockingly,

582
00:39:34.239 --> 00:39:38.480
most of the women saying that are women, which surprises

583
00:39:38.519 --> 00:39:42.320
me anyway. But here's what I say to that. It

584
00:39:42.400 --> 00:39:46.480
is a valid question to ask, but it also shows

585
00:39:46.559 --> 00:39:50.800
that you're only looking at the face of this whole deal.

586
00:39:51.239 --> 00:39:56.880
Look deeper, ask yourself what kind of power this guy possessed.

587
00:39:56.920 --> 00:40:00.559
I mean, he had so much power he could likely

588
00:40:00.880 --> 00:40:05.880
make someone disappear with very little effort. Most of us

589
00:40:06.760 --> 00:40:09.960
ninety nine point nine to nine percent will never understand

590
00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:13.679
that power, will never have that kind of money. So

591
00:40:14.360 --> 00:40:17.840
you think she might have been a little scared to

592
00:40:17.880 --> 00:40:22.320
say anything? Would you have said something? Ladies out there

593
00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:25.519
that are criticizing her for not coming forward, singer, would

594
00:40:25.519 --> 00:40:29.360
you have I'm sure you're all billy badasses and it

595
00:40:29.400 --> 00:40:32.639
don't matter who it is you're gonna tell, which is bullshit.

596
00:40:33.079 --> 00:40:35.480
You've got a guy willing this much power. I don't

597
00:40:35.519 --> 00:40:40.239
think any of us would know what we would do

598
00:40:40.559 --> 00:40:43.880
until we're actually in that position. And with what I

599
00:40:44.039 --> 00:40:46.880
just told you she testified to, which was the fact

600
00:40:46.960 --> 00:40:50.800
she was even scared to tell her own mother because

601
00:40:50.800 --> 00:40:54.039
she was worried her mother then may know too much.

602
00:40:55.000 --> 00:40:57.639
I think that tells you all you need to know

603
00:40:58.280 --> 00:41:01.440
about why she didn't say anything sooner, but we'll get

604
00:41:01.559 --> 00:41:05.440
back to the questioning. The prosecutor stays on kind of

605
00:41:05.480 --> 00:41:10.880
that same course, discussing with Cassie these details of physical abuse,

606
00:41:10.960 --> 00:41:15.239
and Cassie describes yet another time that Shawn Combs was

607
00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:18.639
violent with her. She said that after a party at

608
00:41:18.679 --> 00:41:23.480
an LA club, Combs called her names. Ventura said she

609
00:41:24.079 --> 00:41:29.559
drunkenly punched him in the face in response, which prompted

610
00:41:29.679 --> 00:41:33.039
Combs to beat her, stomping on her face as she

611
00:41:33.199 --> 00:41:36.840
lied on the floor of an escalade. When they got

612
00:41:36.880 --> 00:41:39.880
to the house, she said she jumped out of the car.

613
00:41:40.039 --> 00:41:42.280
She tried to run down the street because she knew

614
00:41:42.280 --> 00:41:45.519
that ass was about to be kicked, and Comb's security

615
00:41:45.599 --> 00:41:48.599
eventually caught up with her and brought her into the house.

616
00:41:48.719 --> 00:41:52.000
Ventura said she finally looked at her face once she

617
00:41:52.199 --> 00:41:56.280
was at Combe's house, and she didn't even recognize herself.

618
00:41:56.679 --> 00:41:59.800
She said, her whole face was just not and bleeding.

619
00:42:00.280 --> 00:42:03.880
Everything was swollen, and I looked to horrible. In another

620
00:42:04.039 --> 00:42:09.960
incident she detailed involving domestic violence, she testified that sometime

621
00:42:10.079 --> 00:42:13.599
during the first half of her relationship with Seawan Comb's,

622
00:42:14.000 --> 00:42:17.239
she and her friends went to a party at Prince's house.

623
00:42:17.639 --> 00:42:22.199
That's right, Prince, like nineteen ninety nine, Prince now. She

624
00:42:22.360 --> 00:42:25.360
said she didn't want to tell Combs about this party

625
00:42:25.440 --> 00:42:28.000
she was going to with a friend because Combs would

626
00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:31.440
get pissed and not let her go. She arrives at

627
00:42:31.480 --> 00:42:37.159
the party and row Combs is there and he sees her.

628
00:42:37.639 --> 00:42:39.559
He didn't know she was coming to this party, and

629
00:42:39.599 --> 00:42:43.519
he was pissed, so she said she ran out of

630
00:42:43.559 --> 00:42:47.440
the party as fast as she could. She said later

631
00:42:47.679 --> 00:42:51.880
Combs burst into the room at a hotel she was at,

632
00:42:52.360 --> 00:42:55.719
and she said they went into the bedroom so her friend,

633
00:42:56.159 --> 00:42:59.639
who was sleeping on the couch wouldn't hear anything, and

634
00:42:59.679 --> 00:43:03.480
she said, quote, he beat me up in that room.

635
00:43:04.000 --> 00:43:07.639
He was throwing luggage at me and calling me all

636
00:43:07.760 --> 00:43:11.000
kinds of names. She said she had bruises on her

637
00:43:11.119 --> 00:43:15.800
face and knots on her head. Afterwards, then the jury

638
00:43:15.840 --> 00:43:19.639
gets shown an email Cassie sent to her mom in

639
00:43:19.760 --> 00:43:23.320
one of Sewan Combe's employees, and this was in December

640
00:43:23.400 --> 00:43:26.840
of twenty eleven, and that email said that Combs had

641
00:43:26.960 --> 00:43:31.639
threatened to release quote explicit sex tapes of her, including

642
00:43:31.800 --> 00:43:36.559
one on Christmas Day. In the email, Ventura also said

643
00:43:36.599 --> 00:43:41.159
Combs threatened to hurt her and Scott miss Cuddy, who

644
00:43:41.280 --> 00:43:45.960
was also known as kid Cuddy, who Ventura was dating

645
00:43:46.320 --> 00:43:49.920
at this time, but when Comb's brought up hurting her

646
00:43:50.079 --> 00:43:52.800
in him it was not with his own hands. Combs

647
00:43:52.800 --> 00:43:55.639
said he'd be out of the country when it happened.

648
00:43:55.760 --> 00:43:59.199
She testified that Combs went into a rage when he

649
00:43:59.280 --> 00:44:02.800
found out she was dating kid Cuddy, and she said

650
00:44:02.840 --> 00:44:06.639
Combs lunged at her with a wine opener between his

651
00:44:06.840 --> 00:44:11.480
fingers after he read through some emails referencing kig Cuddy

652
00:44:11.639 --> 00:44:14.760
on her phone, and she also added at this time

653
00:44:14.840 --> 00:44:17.599
it was in the middle of a freakolf that this

654
00:44:17.679 --> 00:44:20.760
is all going on. She said she managed to escape

655
00:44:20.760 --> 00:44:23.519
the freakof in a hotel room to go to another

656
00:44:23.599 --> 00:44:28.119
hotel where she had been staying. She then called Scott

657
00:44:28.280 --> 00:44:31.880
Muscuddy Kid Cuddy on a burner phone to come pick

658
00:44:31.920 --> 00:44:35.440
her up, and Ventura said after speaking with one of

659
00:44:35.519 --> 00:44:39.239
Combe's employees, she went over to Combe's house to talk

660
00:44:39.280 --> 00:44:42.719
about things and try to resolve the situation, but he

661
00:44:42.880 --> 00:44:47.079
was totally irate. Quote. He told me about videos that

662
00:44:47.199 --> 00:44:49.719
he had that he was going to release, and that

663
00:44:49.800 --> 00:44:52.519
he was going to hurt Scott and adding that the

664
00:44:52.639 --> 00:44:57.119
video he was referring to were freakolf videos. Then the

665
00:44:57.119 --> 00:45:00.960
prosecutor asked her about a specific incident with Kid Cuddy

666
00:45:01.320 --> 00:45:04.360
and a bomb in his car, and Cassie said that

667
00:45:04.480 --> 00:45:08.320
Combs told her that rapper Kid Cutty's car would be

668
00:45:08.440 --> 00:45:11.159
blown up, and she said Combs told her that he

669
00:45:11.320 --> 00:45:15.239
wanted Kig Cutty's friends to see the car blown up

670
00:45:15.400 --> 00:45:18.960
in the driveway of his home. And well, just a

671
00:45:18.960 --> 00:45:23.679
short time later, Kid Cutty's car blows up. Now, some

672
00:45:23.840 --> 00:45:28.559
time after the car blew up Comb's Ventura in Kid Cuddy,

673
00:45:28.639 --> 00:45:31.320
they had a meeting at what is known as Soho

674
00:45:31.400 --> 00:45:37.239
House about the relationship and Kid Cuddy asked about his vehicle.

675
00:45:37.679 --> 00:45:44.239
Cassie said Combs responded what vehicle, which prompted that meeting

676
00:45:44.440 --> 00:45:48.920
to end. After that, she then testified about an altercation

677
00:45:49.079 --> 00:45:52.679
in twenty fifteen in which she said Sean Combs beat

678
00:45:52.760 --> 00:45:55.920
her up in a Las Vegas hotel while he hosted

679
00:45:55.920 --> 00:45:59.360
a party in an adjoining room. Quote he punched me,

680
00:45:59.559 --> 00:46:01.639
kick me. I was trying to run away and I

681
00:46:01.679 --> 00:46:04.760
made it into the bathroom. She described how she was

682
00:46:04.800 --> 00:46:08.880
trying to hide underneath the toilet to get away from him.

683
00:46:09.199 --> 00:46:13.239
Members of Combe's security and management teams finally came into

684
00:46:13.320 --> 00:46:16.400
the room to end it, she said, and she described

685
00:46:16.400 --> 00:46:20.039
how she had black eyes and golf ball sized knots

686
00:46:20.400 --> 00:46:22.480
on her forehead. Man he loved to hit her in

687
00:46:22.519 --> 00:46:25.480
the face. She said that one of Come's security guards

688
00:46:25.519 --> 00:46:29.519
actually started to cry when he saw her. She said

689
00:46:29.920 --> 00:46:32.119
she had to stay at Comb's home for a little

690
00:46:32.199 --> 00:46:35.079
less than a week to recover from those injuries, and

691
00:46:35.119 --> 00:46:38.159
that Combe's son was also staying at the house with

692
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her at the time. When Combe saw her injuries during

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a FaceTime call that he placed with her, he told

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her to put on a more makeup so his son

695
00:46:48.519 --> 00:46:52.039
wouldn't see the injuries. Well, it's all coming out now,

696
00:46:52.119 --> 00:46:55.599
ain't it shown. The prosecution then asked Cassie about comes

697
00:46:55.719 --> 00:46:59.440
violence with people outside of her. Did she ever witness

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abuse by other people outside of herself, and she said yes,

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even to include some of his employees. She recounted one

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00:47:09.920 --> 00:47:13.719
time that she saw Combs punch someone else in the head.

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On a separate occasion, on an international trip, Ventura testified

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00:47:18.679 --> 00:47:22.559
she saw Combs drag his assistant Mia out of her

703
00:47:22.559 --> 00:47:26.239
bed and onto the deck outside of her room after

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00:47:26.360 --> 00:47:29.800
she resisted when he tried to take her phone. Cassie

705
00:47:29.800 --> 00:47:33.679
went on to describe seeing Comb's hold her friend over

706
00:47:33.760 --> 00:47:40.599
the balcony railing at her Los Angeles apartment early one morning, saying, quote,

707
00:47:40.880 --> 00:47:43.440
there was an incident where I was asleep in my

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00:47:43.639 --> 00:47:46.599
room and when I came out, Sean was holding her

709
00:47:46.679 --> 00:47:50.320
and threw her onto the patio furniture. I saw him

710
00:47:50.360 --> 00:47:53.199
bring her back over the railing of the balcony and

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then throw her onto that patio furniture. Prosecutor Emily Johnson

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00:47:59.199 --> 00:48:04.000
then displayed it headshot of Ventura's friend, and Ventur confirmed

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00:48:04.079 --> 00:48:06.800
that that was her and said to this day, she's

714
00:48:06.800 --> 00:48:10.440
still friends with that woman. She went on to detail

715
00:48:10.480 --> 00:48:14.800
an incident where Combs destroyed a friendship she had for

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00:48:14.880 --> 00:48:19.599
seventeen years, saying that friendship was with someone she termed

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00:48:19.599 --> 00:48:23.679
her best friend. It ended in twenty eighteen after an

718
00:48:23.719 --> 00:48:27.480
altercation was shown when he came in and saw that

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00:48:27.599 --> 00:48:30.079
they were going to do drugs her and this girl,

720
00:48:30.280 --> 00:48:33.480
and he hit the girl in the head with a

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00:48:33.639 --> 00:48:38.559
wooden hangar. The prosecutor then asked her she was still

722
00:48:38.599 --> 00:48:41.719
addicted to drugs, and she went on to say that

723
00:48:41.760 --> 00:48:46.599
Shawn Combs kept a Louis Vatine toiletry bag and he

724
00:48:46.679 --> 00:48:49.920
called it his med bag or medicine bag, and it

725
00:48:50.000 --> 00:48:53.159
was full of drugs that he obtained from dealers that

726
00:48:53.239 --> 00:48:58.960
he knew. She said his drugs of choice included MDMA, cocaine, marijuana, ketamine,

727
00:48:59.039 --> 00:49:03.119
and GHB. She said that she and Combs took these drugs,

728
00:49:03.320 --> 00:49:07.440
especially during freak offs, and she admitted that sometimes she

729
00:49:07.559 --> 00:49:11.519
did the drugs on her own, especially opiates like Norco

730
00:49:11.800 --> 00:49:16.320
or percocet in downers like xanax or volume. When she

731
00:49:16.400 --> 00:49:20.800
attempted to stop taking opiates at various points during the relationship,

732
00:49:21.039 --> 00:49:24.559
she said she would begin to experience severe withdrawals and

733
00:49:24.679 --> 00:49:29.119
described it like flu sick, and she admitted she heavily

734
00:49:29.199 --> 00:49:32.559
depended on opiates. But she went on to say that

735
00:49:32.599 --> 00:49:36.880
in twenty twenty two she sought professional help, attended rehab,

736
00:49:37.039 --> 00:49:40.840
and is no longer taking pills. And then she tells

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of this horrible situation that occurred in twenty eighteen near

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the end of the relationship. She said they had dinner

739
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and afterward they went back to Ventur's home, and she

740
00:49:53.599 --> 00:49:58.880
said that is where Combs raped her Ventur was at

741
00:49:58.880 --> 00:50:03.679
this point together with her now husband Alex Fine, but

742
00:50:03.920 --> 00:50:07.480
she said that her and Combs, they had a nice meal.

743
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The rapport was playful, even romantic, She said, as he

744
00:50:11.719 --> 00:50:15.920
brought her home quote, and then he raped me in

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my living room. I just remember crying and saying no,

746
00:50:20.679 --> 00:50:25.320
over and over again. But it was very fast. Now,

747
00:50:25.360 --> 00:50:29.960
if you'll remember, I told you the defense was trying

748
00:50:29.960 --> 00:50:33.119
to get her husband removed from the courtroom for all

749
00:50:33.159 --> 00:50:36.800
the testimony, and the prosecution would not allow that to happen,

750
00:50:36.840 --> 00:50:39.039
but they did agree that he would have to leave

751
00:50:39.239 --> 00:50:43.480
during a rape accusation. Well, what I just told you,

752
00:50:44.000 --> 00:50:46.400
he was not in the courtroom for. She went on

753
00:50:46.440 --> 00:50:49.719
to say that later, after a positive outing, she had

754
00:50:49.760 --> 00:50:52.880
sex with him one more time. Ventura said that time

755
00:50:53.039 --> 00:50:57.079
was by choice. When asked why she had sex with

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00:50:57.159 --> 00:51:01.159
him that time, she pointed to their decade together and said, quote,

757
00:51:01.239 --> 00:51:05.280
you just don't turn your feelings off that way. She

758
00:51:05.360 --> 00:51:08.800
went on to say that she maintained interminute contact with

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00:51:08.880 --> 00:51:12.199
Sean Combs after they finally broke up, and she said

760
00:51:12.239 --> 00:51:15.679
typically they texted casually to check in on each other,

761
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but in March of twenty nineteen, Combs sent her a

762
00:51:19.280 --> 00:51:25.480
message referring cryptically to quote iPads full of skeletons, which

763
00:51:26.000 --> 00:51:30.440
she says meant sexual videos they had recorded. I think

764
00:51:30.440 --> 00:51:34.800
anybody with a brain would derive at that conclusion and

765
00:51:35.119 --> 00:51:39.960
messages from twenty nineteen, Combs told Ventura if I was you,

766
00:51:40.480 --> 00:51:43.719
I'd get my money, and Ventura said that Combs wanted

767
00:51:43.760 --> 00:51:48.599
to be reimbursed because her current husband, Alex Fine, was

768
00:51:48.719 --> 00:51:53.920
formerly her personal trainer who Combs paid for. Combs also

769
00:51:53.960 --> 00:51:57.519
a message her quote you will not be threatened me

770
00:51:58.039 --> 00:52:02.719
and said that she had two men iPads full of skeletons.

771
00:52:03.239 --> 00:52:05.880
Vent Tur responded with do you want me to tell

772
00:52:05.920 --> 00:52:10.519
the truth. It's way deeper than iPads. She went on

773
00:52:10.599 --> 00:52:13.679
to say there were way more than freak offs. There

774
00:52:13.719 --> 00:52:17.280
was abuse, and there was many things that happened over

775
00:52:17.480 --> 00:52:21.280
our relationship. Now all of these texts back and forth

776
00:52:21.320 --> 00:52:23.920
are being shown in open court, and it was at

777
00:52:24.000 --> 00:52:27.079
that point that she broke down in tears as she

778
00:52:27.199 --> 00:52:31.519
talked about going to rehab in trauma therapy. In February

779
00:52:31.599 --> 00:52:35.719
of twenty twenty three, she said she was having flashbacks

780
00:52:35.880 --> 00:52:39.239
during a shooting for a music video with another artist,

781
00:52:39.400 --> 00:52:42.920
and she also said she was suicidal quote. I didn't

782
00:52:42.960 --> 00:52:46.199
want to be alive anymore. At that point, I couldn't

783
00:52:46.239 --> 00:52:49.400
take the pain that I was in anymore, and so

784
00:52:49.519 --> 00:52:52.199
I just tried to walk out the front door into traffic,

785
00:52:52.440 --> 00:52:55.639
and my husband would not let me. Ventur was then

786
00:52:55.719 --> 00:52:59.079
asked how much the lawsuit she had with Combs was

787
00:52:59.119 --> 00:53:02.760
settled for, and she testified that she settled her lawsuit

788
00:53:02.920 --> 00:53:08.119
against Combs for twenty million dollars and she's referring to

789
00:53:08.400 --> 00:53:13.599
the civil suit she had with Combs that actually got

790
00:53:13.599 --> 00:53:18.719
me covering this whole deal over a year ago. The

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00:53:18.800 --> 00:53:22.159
last question the prosecution asked was an estimate of how

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many freak offs she participated in, to which Cassie said

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00:53:27.000 --> 00:53:31.480
hundreds of freak offs, and she added that since breaking

794
00:53:31.599 --> 00:53:35.079
up with Combs in twenty eighteen, she hadn't done any

795
00:53:35.079 --> 00:53:42.599
freak offs and that was it. Tomorrow, the defense is

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going to cross examine Cassie and you're gonna hear the

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other side of this saga, and of course I will

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bring you all the details. Thank you so much for listening.

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