From the stretch of the Manhattan court, Casandra Ventura, singer and model known as Cassierevealed the abuses he suffered during his prolonged courtship with the rapper Sean combs, known as “Diddy.” One of these abuses was presented on video by the Prosecutor’s Office, which accuses him of five crimes, including conspiracy, organized crime and sexual trafficking.
During his testimony, it was revealed that Ventura was identified as the “victim 1” in a series of judicial records that motivated the investigation against the artist. In addition, he confessed that the rapper would have paid US $ 20 million to withdraw a demand filed in 2023.
In the trial, the Prosecutor’s Office tried to demonstrate how Diddy would have established a system of abuse and control over the life of the model, in a relationship that lasted for more than ten years.
The New York Times He stressed that the prosecutors informed the judge that Diddy “offered him musical opportunities that never concretized, hit her when she did not behave as she owed and struck her with drugs, forcing her to keep marathon sessions of sex with prostitutes while he recorded the encounters.”
For its part, the defense described Cassie as “an extortionist woman who only sought money and not justice.”
Although the initial complaint was withdrawn after a millionaire agreement, its dissemination in media led to the presentation of multiple additional complaints, which led to the current case facing justice.
The testimony of Casandra Ventura
The model was called to declare in the early week, in several sessions, in which she related the abuses suffered during her relationship with Diddy, which began in 2005, when she started working for the rapper.
The newspaper The country It emphasizes that the testimony of Ventura, which extended for more than five hours in his second day of statement, “was as hard as revealing.” Casandra Ventura reported that combs forced her to participate in orgies with male sex workers – to which he called Freak offs – while recording the meetings.
In addition, she described how she underwent constant physical aggressions and a psychological abuse that led her to drug use. Finally, the relationship ended in 2019, after several years of violence.
The first complaint against Sean combs
In the chronology of facts related by Ventura, it was detailed that in August 2018, after a dinner in Malibu that sought to be the closing of the relationship, Diddy would have sexually abused it.
“I had been friendly and romantic at dinner,” he explained. Then he paused for the stretch: “And then raped me in the living room of my house. I just remember crying and say no, but everything was very fast. I don’t even know if he noticed that he was crying,” he says The country About his statements.
That same year, Ventura denounced combs for continuous violation and abuse. However, the lawsuit was withdrawn 24 hours later, after an agreement between both parties. This was the first case that put Diddy in the center of public scrutiny.
Physical aggression video in 2016
During the trial, prosecutor Johnson interrogated Casandra Ventura about an event that occurred in March 2016, at the Intercontinental Hotel in Los Angeles. Ventura explained that, during an orgy – to which he forced her to participate – he tried to approach combs, and he hit her on the face. She tried to flee the place.
In his escape attempt, he pursued her through the halls, knocked her down with a blow and dragged her back to the room to continue the abuses. Ventura said that, as on other occasions, it was paralyzed by fear and was threatened with the dissemination of intimate videos.
The testimony was accompanied by a video presented by the Prosecutor’s Office that shows the aggression suffered by Ventura in that episode.
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Complaint that triggered the process and adds a millionaire
After recounting various acts of violence lived during his courtship with Diddy, the model said that in 2023 she sought to relieve her pain, after trying to commit suicide for memories.
It was then that he began writing a book in which he embodied the facts and feelings lived with combs, with the hope that he would read it. Through his lawyer, Ventura offered the rapper the copyright for US $ 30 million, as a form of compensation. He never got an answer.
“I wanted compensation for all the pain and the years in which I had to try to fix my life,” said the agency EFE When you cite your testimony.
Finally, in 2023, Cassie filed a lawsuit for the abuses suffered, which was withdrawn shortly after, after reaching an extrajudicial agreement for US $ 20 million.
The trial continues behind closed doors
The country It emphasizes that the trial will continue behind closed doors, since the Prosecutor’s Office will present explicit images of the Freak offs organized by Diddy, in addition to other visual tests that will not be shown publicly.