NEW YORK— The R&B vocalist Cassie go back to the witness box Wednesday after a day invested stating monstrous and embarrassing information of life with her ex-boyfriend, Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Throughout her very first day of testament Tuesday at Combs’ sex trafficking test, Cassie explained being pushed right into derogatory sex-related experiences with paid sex employees. She likewise stated being defeated various times by Combs when she did points that displeased him– like grinning at him the upside-down.
” You make the incorrect face and the following point I recognized I was obtaining struck in the face,” she claimed.
Cassie, whose lawful name is Casandra Ventura, implicated Combs of getting her entry by intimidating to openly launch video clips of her with male sex employees.
Combs’ lawyers have actually recognized Combs might be terrible yet preserve that the sex-related acts were consensual. They claim absolutely nothing he did totaled up to sex trafficking or racketeering– the fees that he encounters.
Legal representatives for Combs have yet to cross-examine Cassie, a kind of examining that will certainly provide a chance to test her reputation or poke openings in her accounts of what occurred.
The test is anticipated to last regarding 2 months.
District attorneys have actually implicated Combs of manipulating his condition as an effective songs exec to strongly compel females right into drugged-up sex celebrations he called “fanatic offs.”
Cassie satisfied Combs in 2005, when she was 19 and simply at the beginning of an occupation as a vocalist, design and star. She had a hit tune, “Me & & U,” in 2006 off a cd launched by Combs’ Poor Young Boy Records.
Combs, that was 37 when they satisfied, supported her job at an early stage and likewise became her partner for a years.
Cassie left Combs’ document tag in 2019 and afterwards sued him in 2023, implicating him of years of physical and sexual assault. She informed jurors throughout her testament Tuesday that there were caring minutes throughout their partnership yet that Combs was constantly managing and usually terrible.
Cassie claimed she was 22 when Combs initially asked her to do a “freak off,” with the very first one taking place in his Los Angeles home with a male pole dancer that left her sensation filthy and overwhelmed, yet eased that Combs enjoyed.
” It was his dream,” she claimed. “He was managing the entire scenario. He was routing it.”
Combs, 55, has actually been incarcerated given that September. He encounters a minimum of 15 years behind bars if founded guilty.
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