Casandra "Cassie" Ventura returned to her second-day testimony at Sean Combs' criminal trial Wednesday and detailed details of her ex-boyfriend's 2016 physical assault at the Intercontinental Hotel captured in the surveillance video. The testimony was after the first day of Tuesday’s booth, where she painted extremely graphic pictures of “humiliation” sexual behavior, where she said she endured the violence of avoiding the comb and maintaining the love of hip-hop tycoons.
According to media reports, the jurors once again showed her surveillance footage after Ventura read a series of text combs aloud. These included multiple requests to call him with him: “I have six kids,” “Yo Pls Call Im surrounded,” and “Help for my kids.” Ventura sent her a comb to the comb she talked to with the safe sex, “Your guest will leave as long as you don’t bother them.”
She continued to testify that the comb gave her fat lips and dark eyes. According to media reports, she texted him: "You think you can do what you can do." She said she refused to name the comb as a police officer because "I don't want to hurt him that way. It's so much."
Ventura, considered a star witness in the southern part of the New York Attorney case, wore a gray turtleneck sweater on Wednesday. The 38-year-old R&B singer slammed the federal investigation into action after a civil lawsuit against the comb in November 2023. In September, SDNY prosecutors charged two women with sexual trafficking, extortion and transportation to engage in prostitution between 2009 and 2024.
Combs, 55, pleaded not guilty to five felony charges against him. If convicted, he faces up to 15 years in prison.
Most of Ventura's testimony on Tuesday involved the stage where she found herself unable to say "no" to the comb, who became her record company owner when she signed with Bad Boy in 2006. She claimed that shortly after her birthday on August 21, 2007, Combs began pursuing her romantically, saying she felt "confusing" at first.
But Ventura said she quickly became "infatuated" with the comb, and by later that year, after a fake job in Miami, the two had sex first, and Ventura first deliberately accepted the party drug Molly - Ventura said they were in a relationship.
During the first year of the date, Ventura claimed that the comb “provoked me the idea, which he called voyeuristic sexual contact, and he would look at me as being- having sex and sexual acts with a third party, especially another man.”
She would know these sexual encounters were “freaks” and said Combs asked for freaks almost every week in their decade-long relationship. "It's obvious that the freak became a job, and there was nothing else but recovering and trying to feel normal again," Ventura testified.
Ventura briefly testified that her claim of physical abuse began early in their relationship and “has often happened.” She said: "He'll smash me, knock me down, drag me, kick me, well, if I'm frustrated, step on me."
She also talks about the so-called control comb has in her life, including her life arrangements, appearance, music career, and is full of “busy work” when not with him.
However, most of the day is focused on “humiliation” and “disgusting” sexual behavior, with hair combing allegedly instructing her and her male escort to perform during the freak. Ventura claims that the comb “controls” the carefully arranged sexual encounters, approved male escorts, and she says her mission is to recruit and wear clothing.
Ventura said she felt she could not say "no" to the comb, worried that something bad would happen. "His temper," Ventura explained. "If that's what he wants, Sean wants to happen, that's what's going to happen. There's no other way."
She also expressed anxiety that if she refused the comb, the permanent bachelor would throw her away and find another woman with it. She testified that her self-worth plummeted during the course of their relationship.
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