A male escort claimed he was handed over to cash, had sex with Casandra "Cassie" Ventura, while Sean "Diddy" Combs watched and on Monday proved the freak in detail and explicitly with the hip-hop tycoon, claiming his fear of "Danger" and ultimately fear of his life.
Daniel Phillip, 41, became the second witness to the South of New York prosecutor on the first day of Combs' high-profile sex trafficking and blackmail trial. Combs - pleaded not guilty to five federal charges against him - turned around and watched Philip enter the courtroom and sat his seat in the witness box.
Phillip described his initial excitement at the part of the couple's bedroom fantasy, about after seeing the comb and Ventura for the first time in 2012. At the time, when his boss called him, he worked as a manager of male entertainment and said the bachelor party asked for black male strippers. No one is suitable for instructions, so Philip said his manager asked him to fill in, and he had to fulfill his obligation to use the NYPD T-shirt as his outfit.
But after he arrived at the luxury Gramercy Park hotel in New York City, there were no bachelor parties waiting inside. Instead, the "most beautiful" woman answered the door with a red wig, red lingerie, high heels and dark sunglasses. Philip said he later met the woman Ventura.
Ventura allegedly told Phillip that it was her birthday and she wanted to do something "special" with her "husband" to celebrate the occasion. Ventura handed Philip a bunch of cash and asked if he could rub each other with them to see how her claiming spouse looked.
Phillip entered the suite at the Dark and Candlelight Hotel and saw a robbed man sitting in the corner of the room, a headscarf covering his face and a baseball hat hanging over his head. But once he heard a speech professed to be an "importer and exporter," Philip said, he immediately realized that the person was a comb.
In the following years, Philip said that after the encounter, Ventura's private midtown home in New York City, and Ventura's own apartment lasted over 10 hours after encountering paid. He said his visit fares range from $700 to $6,000.
Phillip described the freak as a ritual of height, the room was built in a similar way and directed his and Ventura's every move. He claimed that sometimes, sometimes another person used mid-air oil and lubricant in the room in front of him.
But Philip testified that his enthusiasm diminished when he first claimed to attack Ventura in the freak. The comb called on Ventura to come to the bedroom, but when she didn't follow immediately, Phillip claimed that the comb threw a bottle of wine in her direction and the bottle hit the wall. The comb allegedly dragged the screaming Ventura back to the room, where he heard the slap, Ventura apologized and said, "I'm sorry, sorry!"
"Bit, when I told you to come, you won't come later now." Philip claimed he heard the comb tell Ventura. Phillip testified that the two later left the room with the comb hoping the freak will recover. "You guys are all ready to go on," Combs allegedly asked.
"It's everywhere," Philip told the court. "I'm scared. I don't know what to do."
After the incident, Philip said he was not doing well in the freak with Ventura and the comb. Phillip said they were alone in another freak and he tried to warn Ventura about the "danger" he thought he was in, asking why she was staying in the comb when he "strikes" her. Philip said Ventura tried to assure him that she would be fine.
Phillip's testimony follows the government's first witness, former hotel security guard Florez. Florez testified that he responded to the 2016 "women who died." When he arrived he saw Ventura looking scared, her hoodie raised her head. However, he could say she had "purple eyes". He added that there was a "devil stare" on the comb's face.
According to Florez, Combs provided him with a bunch of cash to keep silent to keep everything he witnessed. "Don't tell anyone," he said, Combs ordered him. Florez added that he did not call the police because “there are no victims there and obviously no one is forcing the charge.”
Ventura is expected to testify against the comb this week. In her opening remarks, Emily Johnson, an assistant U.S. attorney, said she would testify “a dark hotel room” and that the comb kept her for several days at a time and that she was allegedly forced to have sex with a male sex worker she was hired. During these days, Ventura was allegedly compatible and sober in various drugs, including ecstasy.
Combs' attorney Teny Geragos argued in her opening remarks that the case was not about sex trafficking, but about the motivation for people to come forward after so many years. She argued that Ventura and another prosecutor who claimed Combs physically abused her as a fully capable woman, and they made the choice because they had some relationship with the combs and gained something. She told jurors that Ventura filed a civil lawsuit before reporting alleged abuse to authorities. “Ask yourself why,” Gragos said. "The answer is money." Geragos acknowledged that Combs was violent in past relationships, but did not engage in any sexual trafficking.