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May 13, 2025

“The Trial of Sean Combs” Episode Six | Cassie Ventura Takes The Stand

“The Trial of Sean Combs” Episode Six | Cassie Ventura Takes The Stand
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Season 1

Day 2 of Witness testimony has wrapped up in the “Diddy Trial” and Jim Chapman is bringing you the update including the testimony of the prosecution’s “star witness” Cassandra “Cassie” Ventura.

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

Chapters
08:13 The Star Witness: Cassandra Ventura
09:24 Cassie Describes the Freak-Offs
20:22 Control and Manipulation
27:34 Voyeurism Unveiled
35:10 Choreographed Encounters
43:41 Violence Unleashed

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.

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 Diddy 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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Ditty'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 sixth episode in the Trial

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of Ditty. And this is day two of that trial,

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and Sean Combs has entered the courtroom. He was wearing

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a light colored crew neck sweater. He hugged some of

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his lawyers, he gritted his family. They were assembled, of course,

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in the spectator's gallery. Now, the judge in this case,

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he came in and before he allows the jury in,

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he addressed some of the questions from the media regarding

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whether they were going to be allowed to stay in

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the courtroom when the freak Off videos were played. And

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while he didn't make a ruling on this request, he

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did say it would likely be a First Amendment violation

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to allow media to stay in the courtroom as these

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videos were playing, because they depict obvious sexual situations and

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naked women and all those sorts of things, naked men.

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But he never made an official ruling, so we'll see

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how that goes. Now. The last time that I left you,

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Daniel Phillip was on the stand and a reminder, Daniel

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Phillip testified that he was paid to have sex with

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Cassandra Ventura while Shawn Combe's watched and masturbated and he's

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being cross examined by one of Shawan Combe's lawyers Xavier Donaldson.

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So Xavier continues that questioning, and he's trying to establish

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you can kind of tell this that Cassandra Ventura was

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a completely willing participant in the sexual encounters with Philip,

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and he asked, Philip, was Ventura the one who paid you?

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And Philip replied yes. He then stated to Philip she

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wasn't drunk or high, and Philip agreed that she was not.

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Donaldson then asked, is it fair to say she was

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in complete control of everything she did? And Philip replied,

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I can't say that, Daniel. Phillip then is questioned about

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how often he saw Cassie Ventura under the influence of drugs. Now,

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Philip testified yesterday that it was only once and at

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that time Comb's canceled their planned sexual encounter. And what

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Xavier Donaldson Come's lawyer is attempting to do here is

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highlight that the drugs were not a significant part of

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the sexual relationship between Seawan Comb's and Cassie. And the

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reason he's doing that is that issue would speak to

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consent and whether or not there was any coercion in

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the relationship between Combe's inventor remember giving someone drugs to

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perform sex acts. Now that's a blatant example of the

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need to coerce them. So if it was only one time,

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Donaldson's trying to make a point that she wasn't coerced. Now,

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of course she can coerce someone other than getting them high,

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but that's a really good example of it. And then

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Donaldson he gets into Philip in his personal feeling for Cassie,

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and Philip stated that he wanted their relationship to be

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deeper than just these voyeuristic sex nights. He said, quote,

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had she ever given me the chance to date her,

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I absolutely would have, and that he didn't care if

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he got paid one way or the other. At that point,

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Donaldson had no further questions, but the government kept him

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on the stand for rebuttal and Maureen Comy she gets

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up and she acknowledged that Cassandra Ventura may have appeared

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to enjoy herself if you will, during those sexual encounters,

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but she doesn't want the jury to forget the testimony

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about Shawn Combe's role in all this and the violence

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that came along with it. She asked, Philip, through all

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of your sexual activity with Cassie, who was in the room,

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and Philip responded, Shawn Combe's myself and Cassie. And then

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Maureen Combey asked him, is Shawn Comb's the same man

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who threw up liquor bottle across the room when Cassie

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asked him to wait a minute, and of course Philip

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responded yes. She then asked Philip to recount his recollection

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of the moments after he watched Sean Diddy Combe's drag

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Cassie into that bedroom and then what he heard and

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believed to be comes beating Ventura, and he said he

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experienced a rectile dysfunction because he said he was totally

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shook up by that altercation. Quote. I was completely shocked

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and messed up in my head. There was nothing I

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could do. She was afraid, and I could see she

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was afraid, you know, miss sounding like this guy was

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falling in love with Cassie. Right, And with that, Daniel

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Philip left the stand and then the lawyers go into

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a sidebar and something very interesting happens. Apparently Combe's defense

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wanted to bar the next witness, who, incidentally, y'all, is

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Cassie Ventura herself. The defense wanted to bar her husband

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from court during her testimony teeny Gergos she made an

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application that Cassie Venture's husband was being barred from the

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courtroom for her testimony, and her reasoning for that was

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she said Venture's husband may be called in Combe's defense

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if certain testimony came up. When Ventura took the stand,

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Gergo said, the defense will not make an application to

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bar any other family members of Ventura from the courtroom

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for her testimony, but they didn't want her husband in there.

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She also stated Ventura's brother and mother are expected to

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be in the courtroom to support her. But the prosecution,

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of course, they pushed back. They said Ventire needed her

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support system in full there, and I totally agree with

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them while she's on the stand. And after a few

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minutes they met in the middle, the prosecutor agreed that

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her husband would lead for Ventura's testimony regarding the allegation

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that comes raped her in twenty eighteen, but he could

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stay throughout the rest of the testimony, which also told

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us that that topic was going to come up. Really

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no surprise, and then it happened. The government called their

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star witness, if you will, to this entire case, Cassandra Ventura,

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and remember without her civil lawsuit being filed. We wouldn't

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be here right now. This podcast certainly would not be

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going right now as it relates to Sean Combs, because

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it was that civil case that I covered first way

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back in early twenty twenty four. So Ventura enters the courtroom.

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The jury's present, and she's visibly pregnant. She's actually in

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her third trimester. And incidentally, before we get into it,

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I do want to say she's very happy right now.

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I checked out her Instagram. She's in love with her husband.

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They've been married a little while now, she's given him

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some beautiful kids, and I was happy to see that.

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So she enters that courtroom and as soon as she does,

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Combs turns back in his chair and stares her down

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as she walks in and glares at her. Now Cassie

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Ventura's husband, whose name is Alex Fine. He then walks

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into the courtroom and he sits next to Doug Wingder,

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who is Ventura's attorney. And I love it because, from

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what I understand, he stared Combs down the whole time.

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So for this round of questioning, Prosecutor Emily Johnson is

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handling the questioning for the government and she shows Cassie

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Ventura a photo of Sean Diddy Combs, and he asked

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her to identify him, which she does. Johnson then asked

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Cassie how she knew Seawan Cones, and she said we

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were in a relationship for a little over ten years.

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Johnson then asked Cassie to describe that relationship with Combs,

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to which Cassie said, quote, there were violent arguments that

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would usually result in some sort of physical abuse, dragging,

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different things of that nature. And she said some of

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their arguments would be violent and result in some sort

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of physical abuse. Quote he would smash me in my head,

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knock me over, drag me, kick me, stomp me in

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the head if I was down. Johnson asked how frequently

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was physical violence in your relationship, and Ventura responded too frequently.

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Ventura said she suffered bruises from the abuse, including nods

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on her forehead, busted lips, bruises all over her body,

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black eyes except Cassie is then asked to describe what

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a freakof is and boy, they jumped right into it,

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and she responded by saying it basically entails the hiring

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of an escort in setting up this experience so that

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I can perform for Sean. Johnson then asked how she

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and Combes started doing freakofs. Cassie said, quote, within the

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first year of our relationship, he proposed the idea this

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sexual encounter that he called voyeurism, where he would watch

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me be in intercourse with the third party, specifically with

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another man. Vin Turna went on to say that the

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freakoff would entail hiring an escort and setting up this

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experience so I could perform for Sean. She said she

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couldn't remember where the name freakoff came from, but she

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said Sean introduced it to her. Quote Eventually it became

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a job for me pretty much, so I knew if

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it was something he wanted me to do. I had

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the contacts to set it up and get a hotel

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room and all that, but in the beginning, Seawan set

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it up. He was in charge. Johnson then asked her

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how the freakoffs made her feel, and Cassie said she

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felt a weird sense of responsibility. It was him sharing

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something like that with me. I was confused. I was nervous,

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but I also loved him very much and I wanted

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to make him happy. I knew it wasn't something I

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wanted to be doing, especially as regular as it became,

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but again, I was just in love and I wanted

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to make him happy. Ventura said she did not know

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how to refuse the freakoffs quote. It got to the

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point where I just didn't feel like I had much

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of a choice, didn't really know what to do or

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who to turn to. She said that partying with Sean

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Cones and freakoffs took a big chunk of my life.

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She recalled staying up for days on end, thinking, taking

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drugs and having sex with strangers. The freak offs ranged

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from roughly thirty six hours to four days, though they

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could last longer with brace. She said, then she would

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need to recover from the drugs, dehydration and sleep deprivation. Quote.

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The freak offfs became a job. There was no space

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to do anything else but to recover and just try

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to feel normal again. She said. Combs controlled a lot

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of her life, from her career to the way he

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drussed quote. I just didn't feel like I had much

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say in it at the time, being really super young, naive,

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and a total people pleaser. I didn't know if he

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would be upset enough to be violent, or if he

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would write me off and just not want to be

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with me at all. Cassie said those events caused her

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nervousness and confusion. She said she didn't understand how all

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these encounters can be a turn on, but she felt

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a responsibility to please Combs. She went on to say, ultimately,

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Sean controlled a lot of her life over time. The

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videos he shot of me during sexual encounters were blackmail

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materials which I feared could be put on the internet.

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He had so many resources to do that. She was

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so scared of this, in fact, that she testified she

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kept broken laptops, iPads, and phones because she had no

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idea what material was on them. She also said Sean

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is a really polarizing person. He's also very charming, so

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it's hard to be able to decide in that moment,

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like what you need when he's telling you what he wants.

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Cassandra Ventura was asked what she knew of Sean Comb's

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when she met him around two thousand and five, when

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she was just nineteen years old, and she stated, quote,

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I just knew that he was a larger than life entrepreneur,

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a musician. I was a fan of his music. I

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didn't know too much about him personally, she said. Soon

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after that, she signed a ten album deal with Combe's label,

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bad Boy Records, and y'all, she's speaking very softly on

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the stand at this point, She's lifting a tissue to

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dab at her nose and her eyes, and you can

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see she's kind of starting to get upset, she said.

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Early on she had a platonic relationship with Comb. She

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said he looked out for her when she had some

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rough performances. She went on to say that she saw

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Diddy about once a month at social outings in two

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thousand and six, and then in August of two thousand

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and seven, while celebrating her twenty first birthday in Vegas,

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Combs kissed her in a bathroom. She said, quote, I

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was really confused at the time. I was a young

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new artist, and I just didn't really know the lay

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of the land when it came to things like that,

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She said. After he kissed her, she cried and ran off.

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Johnson then asked, did you want Sean to kiss you

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on your twenty first birthday? And Cassie answered, no, not

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on my twenty first birthday. She went on to say

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he called most of the shots, well, all of the shots.

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The prosecutor then asked her to describe her life early

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on dating Diddy, and she said that after he kissed

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her on her twenty first birthday, Comes began inviting her

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to hotel rooms in New York, where he stayed while

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his home was being renovated. She said they started to

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develop a more comfortable relationship with each other. Quote. I

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wanted to be around Sean for the same reasons as

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everyone else at the time. He was this exciting, entertained,

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a fun guy that also happened to have my career

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in his hands. It felt special because not a lot

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of people got that time with Shawn Combs. Ventura described

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herself as being sexually unexperienced at the time. During one

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of those New York visits, she said, Combs performed oral

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sex on her and then he made her quote feel

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crazy for not reciprocating. I didn't even have the vocabulary

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for some of the things that we talked about, she added.

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I was also still in a relationship with someone else,

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she said. Eventually, Combs, Ventura and other friends took a

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trip to Miami. Ventura said at that trip in Miami,

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she took an ecstasy pill called a Blue Dolphin that

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Combs gave her while they were drinking and partying on

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a boat. Ventura said that was the night she and

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Combs had sex for the first time on that boat.

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And for those of you that may be curious about

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what a blue Dolphin ecstasy pill is, it's light blue

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with white and a few dark blue speckles. It's often

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stamped with a dolphin emblem, hence the name, and the

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pill is part of ecstasy tablets that are marketed with

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different icons and logos, such as Pink Honda, Blue Martini,

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and White Dolphin. The Blue Dolphin pill has gained notoriety

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as one of the most popular ecstasy pills globally, with

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festival goers frequently consuming it. So there you have it,

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Thank you, chat GBT, and we'll continue on. She said

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that after that trip and the first time they had sex,

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she became one of Seawan Combe's girlfriends. She said, Seawan

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Combes at that time had many girlfriends. I knew that

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we were spending a lot of time together one on one,

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and I really felt like we were a monogamous relationship

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for at least some period of time. Their relationship wasn't

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public for years, she said, because she was his artist

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and because of his family. She went on to say

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that quote, this lifestyle was much different. He had assistance

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at his beck and call. He could get anything done quickly,

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he had respect from everyone, and he traveled quite a bit.

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She said. She fell in love with Combs. I traveled

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with him everywhere. I was in his studios. I was

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just like his little shadow for a little while, she testified.

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Ventura said at this point their relationship was fun, describing

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it as her first real adult relationship, and she noted

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that Comb's lifestyle was much different than her own. She said,

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early on in their relationship, showing Combe's wanted Cassie to

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call him by her grandfather's name. Let me say that again.

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Early on, Combs wanted Cassie to call him her grandfather's name.

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How freaky is that? He asked me what I called

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my grandfather, and I said, quote pop pop. I thought

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it was weird at the time, and now I just

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feel like it was disrespectful. She said. He called her

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c C, which she said stood for Cassie Combs. Early on,

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I was just enamored by him, but later on I

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began to experience a different side of him, which was

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his abusive side. She said. On a typical day, she

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talked to Sean Combs all day. Throughout the day, she said,

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sometimes she wouldn't answer his calls or messages right off,

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and he would be an incessant caller, or he would

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have his staff call her until she answered. She said

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there were times Comes assistance or security personnel would locate

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her for him in person. Prosecutor Emily Johnson then asked

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Ventura to give an example of how Comb's moods impacted her,

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and Ventura said, Comes moods would swing different ways quite

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a bit. Quote the most complicated and the greatest examples

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are the abuse. Because I also felt at certain times

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when I knew it wasn't even about me, that if

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I made the wrong face, the next thing you knew,

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I was getting hit in the face. She said. Sean

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Combs would check in on what music she was working on,

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and he would give her what she called busy work

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on projects that never were released. She said, quote, I

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think the busy work, just the way I interpreted it

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was just control, control over what I was doing, over

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every minute of the day. Ventura said, that if she

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didn't respond to Combs, he would call her constantly and

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sometimes send someone, usually his security, to her home to

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check on her. She said as security personnel was around

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twenty four hours a day quote, security protected him and

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kept an eye on me all at the same time.

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Cassie Ventura then said she was asked to describe the

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complicated side of her relationship with Diddy. She testified that

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she thought they were in a monogamous relationship at one point,

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but soon realized they were not. Quote. I didn't get

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that he was him. He was puff Daddy, and puff

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Daddy has many women, and she said she felt jealous

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about seeing him with other women. Quote. He likes the

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company of women, and I just really had to learn

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that over time, despite what he would tell me was

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just between us. She continued by saying, he made me

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feel like we were in a monogamous relationship more often

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than not. It was really me figuring out that we

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were not. She said. Eventually, she moved to Los Angele

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full time from New York to be closer to seawan Combe's,

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saying he wanted to be near his kids, so she

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went to quote, I moved because I was in love

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and I wanted to be near him. When she lived

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in Los Angeles, Cassie Ventura said she had her own apartment,

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but Shawn Combs had keys and used them whenever he wanted. Quote.

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It was a stomach in knots moment when he visited,

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she said, because she never knew what kind of mood

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Combs would be in, whether he would yell and bang

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on the door, or if he would come in smooth

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and in control. She said, others around her notice Combe's

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control and they said things to her. She testified. Her manager,

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James Cruz, who was an employee of Bad Boy Records,

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told her that he was managing her with one hand

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tied behind his back. She said he meant that decisions

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about her career also had to go through Combs, who

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was not not only the head of the record label

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but also her boyfriend. She said she spent a lot

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of time grooming herself for the freak offs quote, I

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had to look a certain way, adding that the tenor

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of his comments about her appearance would have a major

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effect on her self confidence over time and at times

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in their relationship, Cassandra Ventura said Shawn Combe's or his

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security would take away her electronic devices, including her laptop

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her phone. She said she would get him back eventually.

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Quote it depended on how long I was being punished for.

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He would always give him back. If I agreed to

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go to his house. She went on to say, I

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would get my car taken away. I got kicked out

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of the house, I got kicked out of my apartment.

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I had jewelry taken from me. It was very random,

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depending on how Sean felt. The prosecution then shifted to

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focus on the associates of Shawn comb with whom ca

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Andra Ventura had contact with. One of those was Tonny Fletcher,

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a former bad Boy executive. Ventura said she discussed financial

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issues with her. Another is Christina Kiahm, who was the

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chief of staff for Combs and knew the in and

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outs of Ventura's schedule. Also, the prosecutor brought up a

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security guard by the name of d Rock, and Ventura

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got asked about who he was, and she said he

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was one of the people who went looking for her

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when Combs did not know her location. Cassandra Ventura then

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testified about a time in which she said she and

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Shawn Combs were having a freak off at one of

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his homes in Los Angeles. When that same security guard

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d Rock, he alerts Combs that sug Knight, a long

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time music industry rival, was at a diner in the city.

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She said they immediately started getting ready to go meet him,

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which made her scream and cry and fear. They all

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left in an suv and she was handed a gun

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to put in her purse. She said it wasn't the

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only time she was asked to handle a gun for Combs,

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which terrified her. And of course, for those of you

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that may not know, sug Knight is the founder of

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death Row Records and also the other individual shot when

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Tupac Shakur was shot and killed in Las Vegas. He

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was actually driving Tupac from a Mike Tyson fight and

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they were headed to one of sug Knight's nightclubs in

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Las Vegas when that shooting went down, and many believed

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Poc was killed as a result of a bounty placed

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on his head by Seawan Combs. That's not confirmed, that's

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just what a lot of people believe. Cassie went on

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to say there was always cash and jewelry in sometimes

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tapes as decards from cameras, guns, depending on the safe,

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it would have all those things in it. She testified

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she saw handguns and comes to residences in New York,

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Los Angeles, Miami, and Alpine, New Jersey. And obviously the

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prosecution is trying to show that Sean comes as a

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violent person the handguns, saying, look, I'm in South Louisiana. Everybody,

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all of us down here in the dirty South, got

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at least ten guns apiece. So it doesn't necessarily mean

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you're a violent person because you got a lot of guns.

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It could be for protection, could be because you like

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the shoot guns and you enjoy it. But I see

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what they're trying to do. The prosecutor then turned the

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conversation back to voyeurism and freak alls, and she asked

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Cassie when she first learned about comes fascination with voyeurism.

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And before we get into that, I want to say,

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you know, the prosecution is all women. It's six awesome prosecutors,

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all female. And initially, when this case started, I was

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curious as to why not that there's anything wrong with it.

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These are top notch lawyers, but I was curious as

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to why they chosen all female prosecution team. And now

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I think I've figured it out already. This stuff is

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so sensitive what we're about to get into. I think

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it would have came off differently if a man would

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have been questioning Cassie Ventura just my thoughts, but we'll

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continue on. So the prosecutor asked her about Come's fascination,

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apparently with voyeurism, and Cassie said did He presented it

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to her within the first six months of them dating

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as a fantasy. She said, he would want to see

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me with another male having sexual interaction. He also brought

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up swinging. Ventura said she was shocked when Comes first

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told her about the voyeurism. Quote. I didn't know to react.

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I didn't want to upset him. If I said that

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it scared me, or if I said anything outside of okay,

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let's try it. She went on to say for their

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first freak off showing Combe's arranged for a dancer from

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Las Vegas to have sex with Cassie, she said they

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took ecstasy and drank alcohol. She added that she felt

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very dirty and confused after that, but she felt she

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couldn't say no to continuing the encounters. Quote. I didn't

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want to make him upset. Quote I didn't want to

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make him angry and regret telling me about this experience

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that was so personal. After the freak all started, Ventura

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said they became almost weakly. She testified that the freak

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offs could last two to three days when no sleep.

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Despite her desire to get rest, drugs helped keep us

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all awake. She went on to say they would take

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ecstasy or cocaine and that Combs would give it to her.

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Looking back tears, she said the encounters made her feel

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disgusting and humiliated. She said Conbes was a different person

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during those events. Quote and listen to this. His eyes

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go black. The version of him I was in love

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with no longer existed there unquote and let me say this,

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So she's talking about now these three four day freak offs,

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Hi the whole time, and you're so basically blasted by

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the end of this thing that it takes you four

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or five days to recover. And as an entrepreneur in

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an owner of several media businesses, it makes me wonder,

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00:30:44.400 --> 00:30:47.400
how the hell did shown Conbes have time for this.

454
00:30:47.559 --> 00:30:51.480
I mean, he's a billionaire. I'm nowhere near a billionaire. Hell,

455
00:30:51.559 --> 00:30:54.519
I can't find time to eat dinner half the time.

456
00:30:54.680 --> 00:30:58.400
With friends, much less half four day freakoffs. I guess

457
00:30:58.400 --> 00:31:01.279
it's the entrepreneur in me, just like ma'am, where do

458
00:31:01.319 --> 00:31:04.079
you get time to do this? But I'll move on.

459
00:31:04.319 --> 00:31:07.759
She said. Combs would decide when the freak OFFFS would end.

460
00:31:07.920 --> 00:31:12.039
He'd tell her at some point a session would be

461
00:31:12.119 --> 00:31:16.000
the last one, and she'd think, hopefully that will be

462
00:31:16.079 --> 00:31:19.880
the last one. The prosecutor then asked her what she enjoyed,

463
00:31:20.200 --> 00:31:23.400
if anything, about the freak OFFFS, and Cassie at this

464
00:31:23.559 --> 00:31:27.960
point burned down in tears. She said, quote the time

465
00:31:28.240 --> 00:31:31.920
I spent with him. She added that she felt like

466
00:31:32.119 --> 00:31:36.799
it was the only time she could have with him. Quote.

467
00:31:36.880 --> 00:31:40.319
I felt disgusting. I was humiliated. I didn't have the

468
00:31:40.359 --> 00:31:43.440
words to put together at the time about how horrible

469
00:31:43.519 --> 00:31:47.279
I really felt, and I couldn't talk to anybody about it.

470
00:31:47.839 --> 00:31:51.240
She said. She tried to gently bring it up, not

471
00:31:51.359 --> 00:31:54.759
wanting to do the freak OFFFS anymore with Sean Combs,

472
00:31:55.279 --> 00:31:57.559
but she said I didn't want to upset him or

473
00:31:57.640 --> 00:32:01.000
make him angry with me. For even she I would

474
00:32:01.039 --> 00:32:04.200
just tread lightly when I brought it up. Sometimes I

475
00:32:04.200 --> 00:32:07.279
would just email him about it because I didn't want

476
00:32:07.319 --> 00:32:11.119
anything bad to happen, meaning she was scared he'd beat

477
00:32:11.200 --> 00:32:14.359
the shit out of her if she explained that she

478
00:32:14.400 --> 00:32:18.240
didn't want to do these freak offs anymore. Remember Sewan

479
00:32:18.319 --> 00:32:20.759
Combes don't like to be told no. The jury was

480
00:32:20.799 --> 00:32:24.440
then shown an email exchange in which Cassie made a

481
00:32:24.640 --> 00:32:30.440
sexual invitation to Comb's and Comes responds by saying, want

482
00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:33.920
me to call someone, referring to an escort. And she

483
00:32:34.119 --> 00:32:37.000
replied in that email that she just wanted to be

484
00:32:37.079 --> 00:32:40.160
with him, and she wrote that she wanted to talk

485
00:32:40.200 --> 00:32:44.440
to him about something too, and he responds back, Now

486
00:32:44.599 --> 00:32:48.720
you don't want to do any more freakoffs? I already know,

487
00:32:49.160 --> 00:32:52.640
And then he added, you're so predictable. And what's he

488
00:32:52.720 --> 00:32:55.559
doing there? He's trying to degrade her for not wanting

489
00:32:55.640 --> 00:32:58.880
to do that stuff anymore. She was then asked by

490
00:32:58.880 --> 00:33:02.240
the prosecutor to the places in which they would have

491
00:33:02.319 --> 00:33:05.519
the freak offs, the cities, etc. And she said they

492
00:33:05.559 --> 00:33:10.799
occurred mostly in hotels in New York City, Miami, Los Angeles, Atlanta,

493
00:33:10.920 --> 00:33:14.960
Las Vegas, Turks and Cacos. And she said sometimes she

494
00:33:15.160 --> 00:33:18.519
booked the hotel rooms. She said Tony Fletcher, a bad

495
00:33:18.559 --> 00:33:22.440
boy employee, would book them, and typically they would book

496
00:33:22.480 --> 00:33:26.839
them under pseudonyms including Frank Black and Frank White. And

497
00:33:26.920 --> 00:33:30.240
you may wonder why is this important where they had them,

498
00:33:30.319 --> 00:33:35.440
what cities? Well, remember the charges, y'all sex trafficking. The

499
00:33:35.519 --> 00:33:40.960
government has to prove people specifically traveled to different places,

500
00:33:41.519 --> 00:33:46.119
different cities, different states to participate in these freak offs,

501
00:33:46.720 --> 00:33:51.519
so the locations are extremely important. She was asked about

502
00:33:51.559 --> 00:33:54.759
how Combs would make her alter her appearance for the

503
00:33:54.799 --> 00:33:58.559
freak offs, and she testified that she was made to

504
00:33:58.559 --> 00:34:02.519
get a wax, get her nails done. Her nails had

505
00:34:02.519 --> 00:34:06.279
to be painted white or with a white French tip,

506
00:34:06.440 --> 00:34:10.159
and that was per Combe's instructions. She also described getting

507
00:34:10.239 --> 00:34:15.719
piercings at Combe's suggestion, and she's talking about nipple piercings.

508
00:34:16.000 --> 00:34:19.559
Ventura said she would wear sea through netted outfits and

509
00:34:19.760 --> 00:34:24.199
quote extremely high heels. The prosecutor then asked her about

510
00:34:24.199 --> 00:34:27.320
the details that led up to the freak offs et cetera,

511
00:34:27.559 --> 00:34:31.199
and Cassie said assistance and security guards would stock the

512
00:34:31.280 --> 00:34:35.440
room with condoms, baby oil and astroglide, and she said

513
00:34:35.519 --> 00:34:38.880
that was a type of lubricant. She testified that Seawan

514
00:34:38.960 --> 00:34:42.239
Combs asked that the baby oil be heated and that

515
00:34:42.360 --> 00:34:47.239
he wanted her quote glistening with it, requiring that she

516
00:34:47.400 --> 00:34:52.079
apply it in frequent intervals. Ventura said they used somewhere

517
00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:56.920
around ten large bottles of baby oil per freak off.

518
00:34:57.920 --> 00:35:00.559
She said when they ran out of lubricant during a

519
00:35:00.559 --> 00:35:04.000
freak off, they would call someone on Combe's staff or

520
00:35:04.119 --> 00:35:07.320
the hotel desk to bring more. Combs would call an

521
00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:11.920
assistant himself or direct Ventura to call them, and keep

522
00:35:11.920 --> 00:35:16.320
in mind that law enforcement they seized more than a

523
00:35:16.480 --> 00:35:21.079
thousand bottles of baby oil in lubricant during searches of

524
00:35:21.239 --> 00:35:25.039
comes homes in Miami and LA last year. Ventura went

525
00:35:25.079 --> 00:35:30.440
on to say the freak off encounters were very choreographed experiences,

526
00:35:30.840 --> 00:35:36.880
directed specifically by Shawn Combs. She described one instance where

527
00:35:36.920 --> 00:35:40.000
Seawan Combs asked her to get into a blown up

528
00:35:40.079 --> 00:35:44.400
pool filled with baby oil inside a hotel room. She

529
00:35:44.639 --> 00:35:47.639
said she was wearing her clothes and shoes and didn't

530
00:35:47.639 --> 00:35:51.159
want to that quote At that point, I couldn't say

531
00:35:51.199 --> 00:35:55.559
no because she worried about his temper, something that Sean

532
00:35:55.679 --> 00:36:00.880
wanted to happen. Quote that was going to happen. The prosecutor,

533
00:36:01.000 --> 00:36:05.119
Emily Johnson then asked Cassie for a detailed description of

534
00:36:05.119 --> 00:36:08.559
what a hotel room would look like after the freak

535
00:36:08.639 --> 00:36:12.039
offs and wait to you hear this. Ventura said there

536
00:36:12.079 --> 00:36:15.400
would be baby oil all over the walls and the

537
00:36:15.440 --> 00:36:19.719
door handles. There would sometimes be blood on the linens

538
00:36:19.880 --> 00:36:24.360
because she was expected to have freak offs while menstruating,

539
00:36:25.119 --> 00:36:28.400
and there could be urine on the sheets because Sean

540
00:36:28.519 --> 00:36:33.000
Combs would sometimes direct an escort to urinate on her.

541
00:36:33.559 --> 00:36:36.400
She did not want this to happen, she said, but

542
00:36:36.480 --> 00:36:39.880
there were no conversations about her preferences. It was a

543
00:36:39.920 --> 00:36:43.639
turn on for him, so it happened. The prosecutor then said,

544
00:36:43.679 --> 00:36:47.400
why didn't you say no when it happened, and Cassie

545
00:36:47.440 --> 00:36:50.880
responded with I thought it was obvious that I didn't

546
00:36:50.920 --> 00:36:53.800
want to do it. Cassie said that she would try

547
00:36:53.840 --> 00:36:57.000
to clean up a bit and typically they'd leave a

548
00:36:57.039 --> 00:37:00.440
really good tip. I bet they would. Many times one

549
00:37:00.440 --> 00:37:03.960
of Shawn Diddycomb's staff members would go in and clean

550
00:37:04.079 --> 00:37:08.280
up some more. Combs was often charged by hotels for

551
00:37:08.360 --> 00:37:12.880
the damages. Ventura said she recalled hearing Combs staff members

552
00:37:12.960 --> 00:37:17.039
take calls from hotels about the matter. One specific time,

553
00:37:17.199 --> 00:37:21.440
Ventura recalled the Intercontinental in New York, charging Comb's a

554
00:37:21.960 --> 00:37:26.000
really high number for damages to a hotel room. The

555
00:37:26.000 --> 00:37:29.679
prosecutor then asked Cassie about how they went about finding

556
00:37:29.960 --> 00:37:33.679
the escorts for the freak offfs, and Cassie testified that

557
00:37:33.840 --> 00:37:37.400
did he tasked her with finding escorts for the freak Offs,

558
00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:42.000
and that Combs had very specific physical requirements for the men.

559
00:37:42.679 --> 00:37:46.519
Ventura said she'd find escorts by responding to ads on

560
00:37:46.639 --> 00:37:51.039
Craigslist and Backpage at Combe's direction, and it was at

561
00:37:51.039 --> 00:37:55.599
that point that jury reviewed a text message conversation between

562
00:37:55.719 --> 00:37:59.679
Ventura and a man that she said would facilitate escorts,

563
00:37:59.880 --> 00:38:02.320
and the man said he would send her photos of

564
00:38:02.599 --> 00:38:05.639
men that she could hire, and she went on to say,

565
00:38:05.719 --> 00:38:08.800
I'd usually show them to Sean and see if that

566
00:38:08.880 --> 00:38:12.719
person was of interest for a freak off. Combs had

567
00:38:12.760 --> 00:38:16.639
to approve the escorts, and I definitely had to show him.

568
00:38:17.119 --> 00:38:20.320
She went on to say that as time went along,

569
00:38:20.760 --> 00:38:25.280
they eventually found a service called Cowboys for Angels, which

570
00:38:25.440 --> 00:38:30.480
had a website that offered mail escorts, and the defense

571
00:38:30.760 --> 00:38:33.840
noted that the service was far from underground. It was

572
00:38:33.920 --> 00:38:39.000
featured in a Showtime reality series actually called jigglows. Ventura

573
00:38:39.079 --> 00:38:41.760
testified that she would tell the escorts that it was

574
00:38:41.840 --> 00:38:45.880
her quote husband's fantasy to watch her having sex with

575
00:38:46.000 --> 00:38:49.800
another man. And Cassie said the escorts were painting cash,

576
00:38:50.239 --> 00:38:53.280
typically fifteen hundred dollars all the way up to six

577
00:38:53.400 --> 00:38:57.599
thousand dollars, and that sometimes Sean Combs brought the cash,

578
00:38:58.039 --> 00:39:01.280
sometimes a member of his security team brought the cash.

579
00:39:01.559 --> 00:39:05.119
She said the escorts were almost always men, with only

580
00:39:05.199 --> 00:39:09.760
a few exceptions. Cassie then described how she would vet

581
00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:13.519
a new escort if they hadn't used that escort before.

582
00:39:14.199 --> 00:39:17.960
She said Sean would want her to quote clarify if

583
00:39:18.000 --> 00:39:21.400
that person was a cop or not. The prosecutor then

584
00:39:21.519 --> 00:39:25.079
has Cassie run through a list of a ton of

585
00:39:25.199 --> 00:39:30.760
escorts who she says participated in freakoffs, sometimes traveling to

586
00:39:30.800 --> 00:39:35.559
get there, and the men used names common names like Dave,

587
00:39:36.320 --> 00:39:39.360
and then some different names like Jewels, and then one

588
00:39:39.400 --> 00:39:45.519
guy's name was quote the punisher whoa prosecutor Emily Johnson,

589
00:39:45.599 --> 00:39:48.559
then showed the Jerry photos of some of the escorts

590
00:39:48.559 --> 00:39:53.480
who participated in freakoffs. Some of those pictured participated in

591
00:39:53.519 --> 00:39:59.440
freakoffs in multiple states. Cassie Ventura testified and that right there,

592
00:39:59.519 --> 00:40:04.320
that's try right. Ventura said that the escort's travel was

593
00:40:04.360 --> 00:40:08.800
sometimes coordinated by her, and sometimes by a travel agent,

594
00:40:08.960 --> 00:40:13.280
and sometimes by the escort himself. Ventura testified she would

595
00:40:13.360 --> 00:40:17.239
tell combs travel agent that she needed to arrange travel

596
00:40:17.559 --> 00:40:20.320
for a new staff member when she needed to fly

597
00:40:20.400 --> 00:40:24.079
an escort in for a freak off. Now. She also

598
00:40:24.199 --> 00:40:28.840
testified that she used drugs at every freak off and

599
00:40:28.920 --> 00:40:33.920
took all kinds of drugs, including ecstasy, marijuana, and mushrooms.

600
00:40:33.960 --> 00:40:38.440
She said, quote, for me, it was disassociative and numbing.

601
00:40:38.840 --> 00:40:42.199
I couldn't imagine myself doing any of that without having

602
00:40:42.239 --> 00:40:45.239
some sort of buffer or just some way to not

603
00:40:45.559 --> 00:40:49.039
feel it for what it really was. She said Combs

604
00:40:49.199 --> 00:40:54.280
provided the drugs and sometimes his staff would drop them off, saying, quote,

605
00:40:54.440 --> 00:40:58.039
someone would drop off drugs to me wherever I was.

606
00:40:58.159 --> 00:41:02.280
She said the drugs often made her feel sick. Sometimes,

607
00:41:02.320 --> 00:41:05.960
she said she would feel like she wanted to vomit, saying, quote,

608
00:41:06.079 --> 00:41:08.280
if we were in a freak off, he would be

609
00:41:08.440 --> 00:41:11.519
encouraging me to get up and continue with it, even

610
00:41:11.559 --> 00:41:16.559
in that condition. Unbelievable. So then the prosecutor asked Ventur

611
00:41:16.719 --> 00:41:21.159
to describe the pattern that most of these freakoffs followed,

612
00:41:21.679 --> 00:41:25.400
and Ventura said it was established pretty early on in

613
00:41:25.519 --> 00:41:28.360
doing the freak offs that Sean enjoyed a lot of

614
00:41:28.400 --> 00:41:33.039
conversation and describing Cassie said a freak off would typically

615
00:41:33.119 --> 00:41:37.480
start with oil and touching. After that, she said participants

616
00:41:37.519 --> 00:41:41.679
would engage in oil sex before progressing into intercourse, saying

617
00:41:41.719 --> 00:41:46.199
it was quote a gradual process. Cassie said she would

618
00:41:46.199 --> 00:41:49.599
often ask Combs if they could move into the next

619
00:41:49.679 --> 00:41:52.880
act in that pattern, saying she wanted to speed up

620
00:41:52.880 --> 00:41:56.320
the process and get it over with, and again stated

621
00:41:56.360 --> 00:42:00.000
he was controlling the whole situation. He was directing it

622
00:42:00.239 --> 00:42:04.440
like a director would direct a movie. She further said,

623
00:42:04.639 --> 00:42:08.320
I felt like I was an object. I was being

624
00:42:08.400 --> 00:42:13.280
heavily objectified by men in that scenario. And if you

625
00:42:13.360 --> 00:42:17.519
look real deep into where the prosecution is taking the

626
00:42:17.559 --> 00:42:20.639
line of questioning with Cassie, you can see it as

627
00:42:20.679 --> 00:42:25.320
clear as day. They're highlighting the control that Combs possessed.

628
00:42:25.559 --> 00:42:29.960
Shawn Combe's level of control is really the undercurrent of

629
00:42:30.280 --> 00:42:34.840
just about the entire testimony thus far as it relates

630
00:42:34.880 --> 00:42:38.599
to the freak offs. So, continuing with the testimony of Cassie.

631
00:42:38.760 --> 00:42:42.159
She testified that Shawn Combs was often in the room

632
00:42:42.400 --> 00:42:45.639
or right beside her during these freak offs, and if

633
00:42:45.679 --> 00:42:49.360
he wasn't in the room, he would even sometimes watch

634
00:42:49.559 --> 00:42:53.599
over FaceTime. She said within the first year the encounters,

635
00:42:53.639 --> 00:42:57.400
he began recording the freakoffs, saying at first they were

636
00:42:57.480 --> 00:43:01.599
recorded on a video camera and later they were recorded

637
00:43:01.719 --> 00:43:06.519
on both his and her electronic devices such as cell phones,

638
00:43:06.880 --> 00:43:09.639
and that she often asked for them to be deleted

639
00:43:09.920 --> 00:43:13.559
or she would delete them herself, saying, quote, I never

640
00:43:13.599 --> 00:43:17.280
wanted anyone to seeming like that. She said. There wasn't

641
00:43:17.320 --> 00:43:21.679
really a conversation before he began recording. She said, Sean

642
00:43:21.920 --> 00:43:24.320
just brought out a camera set it up. She went

643
00:43:24.360 --> 00:43:28.480
on to say she would choke after men urinated in

644
00:43:28.519 --> 00:43:31.719
her mouth, and she would raise her hand to beg

645
00:43:31.800 --> 00:43:35.239
for it to stop. She said escorts were actually paid

646
00:43:35.360 --> 00:43:39.920
less if they ejaculated at times other than when Sean

647
00:43:40.039 --> 00:43:44.920
Combs directed them to. And then she gets into that

648
00:43:45.440 --> 00:43:51.920
twenty sixteen hotel hallway altercation, which she said started as

649
00:43:51.920 --> 00:43:56.079
a free call, and that's the first time we found

650
00:43:56.079 --> 00:43:59.039
that out. She said, it got violent and I chose

651
00:43:59.119 --> 00:44:03.480
to leave. Sean followed me into the hallway by the elevators.

652
00:44:03.519 --> 00:44:06.119
He grabbed me, threw me on the ground, kick me,

653
00:44:06.320 --> 00:44:08.639
try to drag me back to the room, and took

654
00:44:08.719 --> 00:44:11.800
my stuff. And she went on to elaborate on that.

655
00:44:11.960 --> 00:44:15.480
She said, a couple of days before this, she was

656
00:44:15.519 --> 00:44:20.119
scheduled to have her first big movie premiere. She said,

657
00:44:20.199 --> 00:44:24.320
comes and sent a text message that she interpreted as

658
00:44:24.400 --> 00:44:29.360
him wanting a freak off. As damage control, She said

659
00:44:30.119 --> 00:44:33.719
she told him she would do it, saying, quote, if

660
00:44:33.719 --> 00:44:37.400
I pleased him with a freakof, then my premiere is

661
00:44:37.480 --> 00:44:42.519
going to run smoothly. So an escort named Jules was

662
00:44:42.679 --> 00:44:46.599
there during this altercation in twenty sixteen, and she said

663
00:44:46.639 --> 00:44:50.440
it was also during that freakof that Comes beat her

664
00:44:50.760 --> 00:44:54.960
and gave her a black eye. She testified, at this point,

665
00:44:55.000 --> 00:44:57.840
all I could think about was getting out there safely.

666
00:44:57.880 --> 00:45:01.719
And if you'll remember the first person who testified in

667
00:45:01.760 --> 00:45:05.079
this trial that I just covered, he said that she

668
00:45:05.239 --> 00:45:08.880
had a black eye. A purplish was his comment. So

669
00:45:09.039 --> 00:45:12.119
the video of that altercation in the hallway was then

670
00:45:12.320 --> 00:45:16.239
shown again and Cassie walked the jury through it from

671
00:45:16.320 --> 00:45:20.000
her perspective. She said, after comes third to the ground,

672
00:45:20.119 --> 00:45:23.079
she covered her face and stayed on the ground because

673
00:45:23.079 --> 00:45:25.800
she didn't want him to do any more damage than

674
00:45:25.840 --> 00:45:29.920
he had already done with her eye right. The prosecutor

675
00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:32.519
asked her how many times Combs had thrown her to

676
00:45:32.559 --> 00:45:36.039
the ground like that in their history of being together,

677
00:45:36.679 --> 00:45:40.719
and she responded with, quote, too many to count. Johnson

678
00:45:40.800 --> 00:45:44.000
then asked her, quote, are their occasions when you tried

679
00:45:44.039 --> 00:45:48.880
to fight back when Sean hit you? And Cassie responded

680
00:45:48.960 --> 00:45:56.119
with no way. And with that they adjourned court for Tuesday,

681
00:45:56.559 --> 00:46:00.280
May thirteenth, and they will pick back up when's day

682
00:46:00.320 --> 00:46:06.840
May fourteenth with continuing testimony from Cassandra Ventura. And that's

683
00:46:07.079 --> 00:46:09.440
just what we're going to do in the next episode.

684
00:46:09.559 --> 00:46:14.800
You here, and what a day today was. The things

685
00:46:14.840 --> 00:46:20.039
we found out that have never been known before, absolutely shocking.

686
00:46:20.519 --> 00:46:24.280
Thank you all for listening to our continued coverage of

687
00:46:24.519 --> 00:46:29.360
the trial of Sean Combs. Remember to hit that falla

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Look even these episodes which we record, edit, produce, and

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drop all on the same day. These Patreon celebrity members

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get them commercial free and early, at least a couple

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of hours early in this case. So consider following us

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and supporting the show on Patreon. You can do it

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for as little as two dollars and fifty cents a week,

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and I can't tell you how far that goes into

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ensuring that we continue to bring you quality content. And

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until next time for exposed scandalous files of the Elite,

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I'm your host, Jim Chapman. Much love,