Cassie's Rage Caught on Tape-Leaked "Freak-Off" Audio Adds New Twist to Explosive Diddy Trial

In a stunning twist about 11 weeks into the federal sex trafficking trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs, a fiery 2014 audio recording of Cassie Ventura exploded into the public domain on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, and it's been raising eyebrows well beyond the courtroom.

The audio, played in court for the first time on May 16, features Ventura in a raw, emotional showdown against a man known only as "Sujit." In chilling footage, Cassie... lets rip with a long string of threats over what she believed was a sex tape referred to in court as a "freak-off" in which she was involved.

"It's my f###### life and I'll kill you," Ventura can be heard screaming in the recording. "If you don't show it to me right now, I will kill you, and I will bury you, and I will chop you up and put you in the f###### dirt."

She adds, "I'm gonna kill you, and then he's gonna kill you again … it's not going to be blood on my hands. "Somebody else is going to do it."

Jurors froze in their seats as the defense played the audio, which they entered as evidence to suggest Ventura wasn't always the passive victim the prosecution had portrayed. Instead, they said she could be aggressive, especially when guarding her image and privacy.

Ventura has told the courts Diddy used tapes like that one as "psychological weapons." He threatened to distribute sexually explicit footage of her with male escorts if she did not fulfill his demands, she said. She said she felt caught up in a toxic spiral, humiliated, panicked, and increasingly on edge about being exposed publicly.

"Combs made Ventura accuse Sujit to his face," the accuser claimed in court the same meeting that we now know was memorably recorded for posterity. She said Diddy trained her on how to engage him and allegedly told her she had to get the tape back, whatever it took. Her tone in the clip, she says, arose from fear and shame and manipulation, not natural violence.

To Cassie, the specter of that footage leaking was reason enough to remain in an abusive relationship. For years, she said, the threat of humiliation kept her quiet.

In the trial's final stretch, those risks are impossibly high. Though the judge indicated Wednesday that jury instructions for the case were being prepared, deliberations will probably not start until early next week. The prosecution is expected to rest by Monday, June 23, 2025, and the defense will have five days to present its final arguments.

With each new revelation, this case is looking less like one about celebrity and more about control, survival, the puzzle of how people can stay in abusive relationships, and all the painful gray areas. Whether the jury interprets Cassie's threats as the result of trauma or a developing gap in her story, the truth is as messy as it is gutting.