Singer Cassie Ventura offered a chilling and tearful account of alleged scenes of abuse at the hands of music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs, dishing intimate private stories that rocked a federal courtroom in Manhattan. Ventura said the mood got scary when she informed Diddy she was going to Drake's OVO Fest in Toronto. That simple choice, she said, provoked more than a violent outburst.
Ventura testified that "he came to my house and attempted to assault me. "I was thrown in the bed frame."
This assault was one of many she says she suffered over the years: physical abuse, forced interactions with male prostitutes, drug use, and one thing she referred to as a "freak off" orgies, she says, that were contrived by Combs himself.
Although the concept may sound like an absurd euphemism, Ventura's description was not hypothetical. She frankly discussed how she got recurring urinary tract infections once the sessions began. "Very Anti-bacterial had stopped working," she said, her voice shaking, describing the pain.
Her testimony created a portrait of manipulation and domination. Ventura alleges that Diddy recorded many of the sexual encounters, which he used as blackmail to keep her quiet and obedient. "He'd played them for me on one of his laptops," she said. "He said he'd release them." When speaking about how that made her feel, she boiled it down to one word: "Trapped."
That feeling of confinement was not confined to the bedroom. In one horror story of an incident, Ventura detailed passing out from GHB after a "freak-off" in the Hamptons, only to wake up naked in a shower. Diddy then reportedly had her thrown off his yacht during the Cannes Film Festival, accusing her of using drugs. "My passport was on the boat, was still on the boat," she said, emphasizing the power imbalance and her isolation.
And the torture did not relent even in the air. She said that on a return flight to New York, Diddy intentionally sat next to her again and played more explicit videos for her, and even took her out to dinner again and on another "freak-off."
When asked how she dealt, Ventura didn't have to think twice: "I would take opiates. I wanted to feel numb." Post-encounter maintenance included massages, IVs, and meals made by their chef as if to repair the physical and emotional damage."
Her words are being used as part of a federal sex trafficking trial that may send Diddy to prison for the rest of his life. Among the charges are sex trafficking, racketeering, and transporting people for prostitution.
The world listens as the courtroom does. Ventura's raw, humbled, and heartbreakingly clear voice tells her truth and reveals a dark underbelly of power, silence, and survival in the spotlight.
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