The singer says on the third day, Sean “Diddy” Combs routinely defeated her and threatened to ruin her career with a sexual encounter video.
Cassandra Ventura, a singer commonly known as the former girlfriend of rap mogul Shaun “Diddy” Combs, took her to the eyewitness stands on the third day of his trial, portraying a relationship defined by physical abuse and routine humiliation.
Testifying in court Wednesday, Ventura said Combs, who is facing sex trafficking and assault charges, threatened to release a compromised video that could defeat her and undermine her career.
“He grabs me, pushes me down, bumps me into the side of my head and kicks me,” Rhythm and Blues singer Ventura told the ju judge in Manhattan federal court.
“It would make him more violent, make him stronger and push him stronger,” Ventura said of her efforts to resist Combs’ violent actions during their decades of relationship.
Prosecutors allege that Combs used his wealth and control of his entertainment empire to manipulate and force women through physical violence, sometimes through physical violence, to take part in a drug-fueled sex party known as “FREAK-OFF” and use videos of sexual encounters as blackmail.
“He said he’d ruin everything I was working for and make me look like a woman. “You shouldn’t do that to anyone.”
She said her participation in “Freak Off” began to feel like a job that “had no work where there was no space to do anything other than recover and try to feel normal again,” and developed an opioid addiction to deal with it.
In one case in 2013, Ventura sent combs photos of the injuries she was injured when she threw into the bed frame so that he could “remember” what he did.
“I don’t know when it’s going to stop. You pushed it too much and kept it,” he replied. “sad.”
Combs’ lawyers admit that the rapper had an offensive temperament and physically assaulted people, but he said he was falsely charged with assault and sex trafficking, and that the freewheel sexual lifestyle has been misunderstood by prosecutors.
Combs admits that he has not committed any crimes in five count conspiracy, sex trafficking or transport to engage in prostitution. If he is convicted of all charges, he faces a mandatory minimum prison sentence of 15 years.