Sean’s ex-girlfriend “Diddy”, Casandra Ventura, said on Wednesday that the hip-hop magnate defeated her during sexual parties fueled by drugs known as “Freak OFS”, threatened to publish videos of his participation and warned that he would ruin his career.
“He would catch me, pushed me down, struck me on the side of the head, Me Bota,” said Ventura, a singer of rhythm and blues known as Cassie, to jurors of the Federal Tribunal of Manhattan on the third day of the Combs trial on sexual milking and racketeering charges.
Ventura said that Combs was disdainful after she showed her a photo of a cut on the eyebrow she said he had given her in 2013 by throwing her against a bed frame.
“You. I don’t know. When.” You pushed it too far and continue to push. Sad.”
Ventura, 38, wore a turtleneck dress and a black jacket for her second day of testimony against Combs, and is the star witness of the accusation.
Combs, 55, pleaded not guilty to five indictment of racket conspiracy, sex trafficking and transport to engage in prostitution.
If he is found guilty of all the counts, he would risk a minimum of 15 years in prison and could face life behind bars.
Ventura spent more than a decade with combs in a relationship which, according to her, was once loving but deteriorated.
She told the jurors that the fight against combs sometimes slowed him down, but generally aggravated abuse.
“It would make him more violent, would make him stronger, would make him want to push me stronger,” said Ventura.
“He said that it would ruin everything for which I worked, that it would make me look like a slut. That I would be ashamed,” added Ventura. “No one should do that to anyone.”
The jurors watched a text from 2013 where Combs told Ventura that he had deleted the videos, but Ventura said that she had always seen them on her devices several times.
Ventura testified that she had participated for a decade in “Freak Offs”, often fearing that Combs would become violent if she was not doing it.
The combs wore a cream sweater on a white necklace collar shirt on Wednesday, with her mother and at least two children watching. He is imprisoned in Brooklyn when he is not in court.
‘Stay far’
Earlier this week, jurors saw a 2016 surveillance video from the corridor of a Los Angeles hotel where a towel dressed in Ventura on the ground and started kicking it.
Ventura said that the video had been taken after a “panic” where Combs had given her a black butter.
Combs apologized for the video.
On Wednesday, jurors also saw SMS after the hotel incident in which Combs asked Ventura to come back because the police arrived.
Ventura declined, saying that she had a lip with the eye with a black butter and the big, and wanted to be rested for a film first the next day.
“You are sick of thinking it was ok for you to do what you did,” sent a Ventura text. “Please stay away from me.”
Combs lawyers are expected to oppose Ventura after completing his direct testimony.
The trial could take up to two months.
Combs also faces dozens of civil proceedings by women and men who accuse him of sexual abuse. He denied reprehensible acts and declared that his relations were consensual.
Also known during his career as Puff Daddy and P. Diddy, Combs founded Bad Boy Records and is recognized for having helped to transform artists like Mary J. Blige, Faith Evans, Notorious Big and inaugurate stars in the 1990s and 2000.
