Sean “Diddy” Combs’ ex-boyfriend Casandra Ventura testified on Wednesday that hip-hop mogul beat her during drug-crowned sex parties known as “freak offs”, threatened to release videos of her who attended, and warned he would ruin her career.
“He would grab me, push me down, hit me in the side of my head, kick me,” Ventura, a rhythm and blues singer known as Cassie, told the jurist in Manhattan Federal Court on the third day in Combs’ trial of sex trade and racketing charges.
Ventura said Combs was dismissive after she showed him a photo of a gash on her eyebrows, which she said he gave her in 2013 by throwing her against a bed frame.
“You. Don’t know. When are you going to. Stop,” Ventura Combs told her. “You’ve pushed it too far and continue to push. Sad.”
Ventura, 38, wore a turtle dress and dark jacket for his second testimony to Combs and is the prosecutor’s witness.
Combs, 55, has not pleaded guilty to five crime counts of racketing conspiracy, sex trade and transport to participate in prostitution.
If he is judged in all counts, he would have at least 15 years in prison and could face life behind pillars.
Ventura spent more than a decade of combs in a relationship she once said lovingly but deteriorated.
She told jurist that fighting Combs sometimes slowed him down but usually worsened the abuse.
“It just wanted to make him more violent, make him stronger, make him want to push me harder,” Ventura said.
“He said it would ruin everything I had worked for it to make me look like a slut. That I would be ashamed,” Ventura added. “No one has to do it against anyone.”
Jury leader saw a 2013 text in which Combs told Ventura he deleted the videos, but Ventura said she still saw them on his units on several occasions.
Ventura has testified that she participated in a decade in “Freak Offs”, often afraid that Combs would become violent if she didn’t.
Combs wore a cream sweater over a white collar shirt to court on Wednesday, with his mother and at least two children watching. He is imprisoned in Brooklyn when he is not in court.
‘Stay far away’
Earlier this week, jurist saw a 2016 monitoring video from the hallway at a Los Angeles hotel where a towel-clad comb threw Ventura to the ground and began to kick her.
Ventura said the video was taken after a “freak off” where Combs gave her a black eye.
Combs have apologized for the video.
Lawors on Wednesday also saw texts after the hotel event, where Combs asked Ventura to come back because police arrived.
Ventura rejected and said she had a black eye and fat lip, and would rest for a movie premiere the next day.
“You are sick of thinking it was ok for you to do what you have done,” the Ventura Combs texted. “Please stay far away from me.”
Combs’ lawyers are expected to cross-examining ventura after she finishes her direct testimony.
The trial can take up to two months.
Combs also faces dozens of civilian litigation from women and men who accuse him of sexual abuse. He has denied wrongdoing and said his relationship was consensus.
Also known during his career as Puff Daddy and P. Diddy, Combs founded Bad Boy Records and credited to help turn artists like Mary J. Blige, Faith Evans, Notorious Big and Usher to stars in the 1990s and 2000s.
