In a 2016 incident Casandra Ventura
described in court testimony on Wednesday,
Sean Combs beat her and dragged her down a
hallway.
The still image is from a surveillance
video.
Department of Justice, via Reuters
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Casandra Ventura, the singer and model
known as Cassie, told a jury in Manhattan on
Wednesday that her life with Sean Combs had
its moments, but was largely filled with
beatings, threatened blackmail and even a
rape.
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During more than five hours of testimony in
Mr. Combs’s sex trafficking and racketeering
trial, Ms. Ventura recounted how he had
stomped on her in the back of his car and
how she suffered a gash above her eye when
he threw her against a bed frame.
She also recounted how, after the pair had
dinner in 2018, Mr. Combs raped her in her
living room.
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“I just remember crying and saying no, but it
was very fast,” she testified.
At the end of her testimony, Ms. Ventura said
through tears that after she had broken up
with Mr. Combs, the trauma remained and
she enrolled in treatment for drug abuse.
Even so, she said, she contemplated taking her
life by walking into traffic. She said her
husband stopped her
.
Ms. Ventura told the court she stayed with
Mr. Combs despite beatings and other abuse
partly because of the nagging, persistent fear
that videos of their sexual encounters with
male prostitutes, the hundreds of “freak-offs”
that she said Mr. Combs enjoyed watching
and recording, would be posted online.
Hers was not idle anxiety based on what she
viewed Mr. Combs might be capable of, she
said, but the consequence of repeated threats
he had made to use the material to damage
her if she deviated from his wishes. In one
case, she described sitting beside him on a
flight when he displayed for her videos that
she thought had been destroyed.
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