Sean Diddy Combs sex trafficking trial live: Bombshell allegations from day three
Shocking images have been shown at the sex-trafficking trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs. Here are the key revelations from day three. Warning: Graphic
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Sean “Diddy” Combs’s former partner Casandra “Cassie” Ventura returned to the witness stand again at the hip-hop mogul’s sex-trafficking trial, testifying about the horrific toll that Combs’ ‘freak offs’ had on her body and mind, claiming that the sex marathons forced her deeper into drug use.
Here are the bombshells from day three.
DAY 3:
Newly released photographs showing the shocking aftermath of Sean Combs’ attack on Ms Ventura during the infamous 2016 hotel beating were shown on day three.
Pictures displayed in court showed the remains of the broken vase Combs threw at Ventura during the sickening attack, which was caught on tape, the New York Post reports.
The photos show fragments of the vase scattered across the floor and flecks of soil speckled across the wall.
“I just remember it coming towards me. I remember it hitting a wall,” Ventura said of the vase as she testified in court for a second day.
IV FLUIDS, DAYS TO RECOVER
Ms Ventura said after a freak off, she and Combs would take days to recover.
“Usually we’d get IV fluids, massages, we’d eat, the chef would cook us some food, just trying to take care of ourselves,” she said.
She told the court she developed an addiction to opiates that she would use to disassociate in the aftermath of freak offs.
“Opiates made me feel numb and that’s why I relied on them so heavily.”
‘THAT’S ME’: CASSIE IDs HERSELF IN PIC WITH BABY OIL
Ms Ventura maintained her composure as she was shown confronting photos taken from videos of freak offs.
Asked to identify who is in the photos, she spoke in a flat voice as she told the court, “that’s me”.
“That’s me and Greg,” she said of one photo.
She said one image was her covered in baby oil with candles and lubricant cap bottles on the nightstand near her.
Another she said was “me and Dave. We are in a freak off.”
Ms Ventura said one photo depicted her on a couch at a freak off wearing high heels.
URINARY INFECTIONS, STOMACH ISSUES
The court heard evidence from Ventura that she developed health issues as a result of the days-long sex parties including stomach issues from the drug use and urinary tract infections that often didn’t go away for weeks.
“I was actually doing the freak offs with the (UTI) infection,” she said.
“I was just a mess. It was really painful for a long time. I actually can’t believe I dealt with that.”
She said participating in the sex parties with a UTI was “horrible” and that while Combs knew she had an infection, he encouraged her to continue.
TONGUE LESIONS FROM LICKING OIL, LUBE
Ms Ventura said she also developed painful sores on her tongue from licking body oil and lubricant and from the friction of oral sex with escorts.
In one text message shown to the court, she tells Combs: “I have all these sores on my tongue so it’s kind of uncomfortable and I think I have another UTI,” she messaged him with a sad face emoji.
VENTURA TOOK ‘NUMBING AND DISSOCIATIVE’ DRUGS TO COPE
Ms Ventura said that during the encounters she took drugs including ecstasy, ketamine and cocaine, and that the “drugs honestly helped” her meet Combs’s demands to stay awake for days on end.
The drugs also had a “dissociative and numbing” effect, she said, “a way to not feel it for what it really was.”
In text messages shown to the court, Combs tells Ms Ventura they need to stop using the drug ketamine during freak offs because it interrupted the event.
“…[A] successful freak off is one we remember,” he told her.
Ms Ventura told the court said ketamine was her preferred drug of choice during the sex parties because it allowed her to disassociate from what was happening.
She said the drug would put her in what she called a “K hole” where she was mentally not present in the room.
BRUISES, BLACK EYES, SPLIT EYEBROW COVERED WITH MAKEUP
Ms Ventura said she had tried to avoid the violence with Combs because she was due to walk the red carpet for the premier of a film she had starred in, The Perfect Match.
She said later that day, she attended a dress fitting at Combs’ LA mansion. The court was shown a photo of her in the dress with dark sunglasses on to hide her black eye.
Later photos of the film premiere show Ms Ventura and Combs on the red carpet together.
A bruise is visible on her left shoulder.
“I got hit in the face so I had a black eye,” she said.
Ms Ventura said she used makeup to conceal most of her injuries.
A photo of her in a green dress at the premier after party was also shown to the court.
In it, a bruise is visible on her left shin.
Ms Ventura described one episode of violence when Combs came to her apartment in LA when she was meant to be packing for a music festival in Canada thrown by Drake.
She said Combs became furious when he saw her napping on her couch and attacked her.
He chased her into the bedroom where he knocked her to the ground and her head smacked into the bedframe, splitting her eyebrow open.
Combs had a plastic surgeon’s office open on a Sunday to suture the wound and she later attended the music festival as planned.
A photo of Ventura at the festival alongside musician French Montana was shown to the court.
In it, her hair is styled over her eye to cover the injury.
COMBS ALLEGEDLY TRASHED HOTEL ROOM IN JEALOUS RAGE
The court heard in about 2011, Ms Ventura began secretly dating rapper Kim Cudi, real name Scott Mescudi.
Ms Ventura said Combs found out while the pair were in the middle of a freak off when he went through her phone and looked at emails she had exchanged with one of his staff members.
“He (Combs) put a wine bottle opener between his fingers and lunged at me,” she said.
“His eyes were black … I got out of there.”
Ms Ventura said she later went to Combs’ LA house to resolve the fight.
“I went in his room and he was irate he was just so angry,” she said.
Combs allegedly threatened to hurt Ventura and Mescudi and said he would release videos of her having sex with escorts at freak offs.
“When I was leaving, Sean kicked me in my back on the way out…I fell to the floor … I had a huge bruise on my back,” she said.
Ms Ventura said when she got back to the first hotel room, it had been “torn up”.
“Someone peed all over the bathroom … my clothes were everywhere … there was poop in the toilet … the furniture was everywhere,” she said.
DAY 2:
‘COMBS WOULD URINATE ON VENTURA’
Combs would allegedly urinate on Ventura, sometimes at the same time he directed a male prostitute to urinate on her during their “freak-offs,’’ she testified.
Sometimes Sean, he himself or the escort, would urinate on me,’’ she said. “Sean urinated at the same time.”
She said that once when an escort peed into her mouth during the “humiliating’’ encounters, “It was overwhelming. I choked,’’ the witness said. “Too much urine in my mouth. … Laid on a position on the floor [in a position] that I couldn’t easily get out of.”
Ventura said she put up her hands to get Diddy to stop the escort but nothing was done.
‘SEAN INTRODUCED ME TO VOYEURISM’
“Within the first year of our relationship Sean introduced to me this sexual encounter he called voyeurism where he would watch me have sexual intercourse with a third party, specifically another man,” she said.
“It basically entails the hire of an escort and setting up this experience so I could perform for Sean.”
Ms Ventura stopped to compose herself while describing the first time Combs proposed the act, saying her stomach dropped.
“I didn’t have a concept of how that would be a turn on … I was confused, nervous, but loved him very much and wanted to make him happy”.
She said she quickly decided it was something she didn’t want to do.
“Again I was just in love and wanted to make him happy,” Ms Ventura said when asked why she kept participating.
“I didn’t feel like I had much of a choice, I didn’t know what ‘no’ could be or what ‘no’ could turn into.”
‘COMPLETELY INEXPERIENCED’: 21-Y.O. VENTURA FLED DIDDY’S ADVANCES
The pair dated on and off for more than a decade after meeting when Combs signed Ventura, a model and singer, to his label Bad Boy Records for a 10 album deal.
Ms Ventura is the star witness in the federal racketeering and sex trafficking case against Combs who has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.
The court heard the pair were first romantically involved when Combs kissed Ms Ventura in the bathroom of his Las Vegas hotel room on her 21st birthday after the MTV Music Awards.
Ms Ventura said she was young, naive and confused by the sexual advance from the powerful music boss and she ran from the hotel room crying.
ORAL SEX IN THE TRUMP HOTEL
In the months after that, she said Combs would invite her to his hotel room at the Trump hotel in New York City where he lived while his apartment was being renovated and it was there he introduced her to oral sex.
“I was just so young I didn’t even have the vocabulary for the things we talked about … (I was) just completely sexually inexperienced at the time,” she said.
Ms Ventura said she was excited about the prospect of spending time with the business mogul.
“I wanted to be around Sean for the same reasons as everyone else at the time, he was this exciting, entertaining, fun guy who also happened to have my career in his hands,” she said.
“It felt special because not a lot of people got to spend that kind of time around him.”
DIDDY GAVE VENTURA ECSTASY ON A BOAT
She said the pair first had sex when Combs hired a boat in Miami. He introduced her to drugs on that trip, giving her an ecstasy pill that she said made her feel euphoric.
Prior to that, she had smoked marijuana and drank wine, and had accidentally had ecstasy when she unknowingly drank another person’s Gatorade laced with drugs.
After the Miami trip, they started a relationship that she believed was monogamous but later learned was not.
“After Miami I really fell in love with him,” Ms Ventura said.
“We had fun, it was kind of like my first real adult relationship.”
The Manhattan federal court was shown a series of photos of the pair in the 2000s, on red carpets, in his car, at a strip club and other events.
Ms Ventura said over time, she began to experience a different side to him that was abusive and controlling but told the jury “there was still love there”.
Combs would control everything about her life, including what she wore, who she went, who she talked to and her career.
Ms Ventura said if she didn’t answer a call or text message, Combs would repeatedly call and message until she answered, or send his bodyguards and assistants to physically find her.
‘HIT HER IN THE FACE’
The violence also escalated and she said during the relationship she was hit, kicked, thrown to the ground and stomped on by Combs.
“You make the wrong face and the next thing I know I was getting hit in the face,” she said.
“If I wasn’t smiling at him the way he wanted, if I just looked a certain way…”.
She said the relationship was marked by jealousy on both sides and they were both unfaithful during the decade-long on and off romance.
“I was insanely jealous but also super young and I didn’t get it at all, I was young and jealous,” she said.
“I didn’t get that was him – as he would say, ‘I’m Puff Daddy and Puff Daddy has many women’.”
CASSIE TASKED WITH FINDING ‘BLACK MALE WITH LARGE PENIS’
Ms Ventura testified that Combs tasked her with finding the male escorts for “freak-offs”, which she initially sourced through classified companies Craigslist and Backpage.
She said she answered ads on Craigslist for male sex workers who Combs preferred to be “a black male with a large penis.”
RECOVERING FROM ‘FREAK-OFFS’ TOOK DAYS
Ms Ventura, who goes by the recording name Cassie, said despite her 10 album deal with Bad Boy Records, recording hundreds of songs and her relationship with the head of the company, Combs only allowed her to release one of the albums promised.
She said when she wasn’t recording music, she was recovering from days long “freak offs”.
“Plainly the freak-offs became a job where there was no space to do anything but recover and try to feel normal again,” Ms Ventura said.
She said the sex parties ranged anywhere from 36 to 72 hours, with the longest one lasting for four days.
Ms Ventura said recovering from sex with strangers, dehydration and the drugs took days.
DAY 1:
The mammoth trial against rapper and record producer Sean Combs, known as Diddy, P. Diddy and Puff Daddy, began in New York on Tuesday.
Hundreds of people packed into the Manhattan courthouse to witness the 55-year-old’s trial on charges of sex trafficking and racketeering.
Here are the bombshell moments from day one of the trial.
‘I SAW HIM HIT HER’: MALE ESCORT TESTIFIES
One of the men allegedly paid to have sex with Combs’ then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura was 41-year-old Daniel Philip.
Mr Philip testified that he was asked to perform as a stripper at a bachelorette party at the Gramercy Park Hotel in Manhattan but when he arrived, Ms Ventura handed him thousands of dollars and asked if he could rub baby oil on her and give her a massage.
The escort said he and Ms Ventura had sex while Combs sat in a corner and masturbated.
Mr Philip said he met with the couple multiple times after that at various hotels in New York, and at both their homes where he would have sex with Ms Ventura while Combs watched and directed them.
“He was always sitting in a corner masturbating,” Mr Philip said of Combs’ involvement.
The escort said on one occasion, Ms Ventura asked him to urinate on her while Combs watched but said he did it wrong.
“Cassie (Ms Ventura) was actually the one that asked me urinate on her,” Mr Philip said. “She asked me if I had ever done that before. She told me to do it.”
Mr Philip said his association with the couple ended because he could no longer become aroused “after the first time I saw him hit her”.
He said Combs grabbed Ms Ventura by her hair and dragged her to the bedroom.
“She was screaming,” Mr Philip said. “I could hear what sounded like him slapping her … and him (saying) ‘bitch, when I tell you to come here you come now, not later’.”
‘DEVILISH STARE’: HOTEL SECURITY GUARD ON COMBS
Israel Florez, a security guard at the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles and now a police officer, testified that he was in the InterContinental Hotel in Century City during the 2016 assault of Ms Ventura.
“I received a call … saying there’s a woman in distress on the sixth floor,” he said.
When asked by prosecutors who he saw on the floor, he said he observed a man and woman in the elevator lobby.
“Mr Combs – Sean Combs,” he said, before identifying Combs in the courtroom.
Combs had a “devilish” look on his face following his alleged brutal caught-on-video beating of Ventura, jurors heard.
“He was on the chair, slouched down and he [had] a blank stare. As soon as I walked out, the best way I can describe it is a devilish stare. He was just looking at me … Looking at me with no movement,” Florez testified.
Cassie looked “scared,” Florez told the jury. “She had her hoodie on. She was pretty much covered up. I couldn’t see her face.”
Combs offered Florez a “stack of money” topped with a $100-bill, telling him to “take care of this.”
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