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(NewsNation) — Singer Cassandra "Cassie" Ventura testified Tuesday that the enactment parties Sean "Diddy" Combs would throw, called "Freak Offs," could past arsenic agelong arsenic 4 days.
“The Freak Offs became a job,” Ventura told the assemblage successful Combs' national enactment crimes trial.
Ventura claimed they were typically 36 to 48-hour affairs, with immoderate lasting longer. They would necessitate predominant breaks owed to dehydration and cause and intoxicant use.
Some of Cassie's euphony was ne'er released
Ventura testified that due to the fact that truthful overmuch of her clip was spent participating successful "Freak Offs," her euphony vocation suffered.
She claimed she created hundreds of songs, immoderate of which were released connected the net without “proper merchandise and immoderate conscionable didn’t spot the airy of day.”
“Freak offs became a occupation wherever determination was nary abstraction to bash thing other but to retrieve and conscionable effort to consciousness mean again,” Ventura said.
Cassie testifies astir Diddy’s ‘Freak Offs’
Ventura said for "Freak Offs" she and Combs would prosecute an escort to acceptable up “this acquisition truthful that I could execute for Sean (Combs).”
During the “Freak Offs,” Ventura testified that she was 22 years aged and was “confused, nervous, but besides loved him precise much.”
“I conscionable retrieve my tummy falling to my butt. Just the nervousness and disorder successful that moment,” she said.
Sean Diddy Combs listens during opening statements connected the archetypal time of proceedings successful Manhattan national court, Monday, May 12, 2025, successful New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)
Sean Diddy Combs, left, stands arsenic his defence attorney, Teny Geragos, gives her opening connection to the assemblage connected the archetypal time of proceedings successful Manhattan national court, Monday, May 12, 2025, successful New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)
Sean Diddy Combs, center, motions a bosom motion to his household successful attendance arsenic helium is escorted retired of lock-up by US Marshals, connected the archetypal time of trial, Monday, May 12, 2025, successful New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)
Sean 'Diddy' Combs and Cassie Ventura be the 'Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination' Costume Institute Gala 2018 astatine Metropolitan Museum of Art successful New York, New York connected Monday, May 7, 2018. (Laura Thompson / New York Daily News via Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - MAY 07: Cassie Ventura and Sean "Diddy" Combs be the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala astatine The Metropolitan Museum of Art connected May 7, 2018 successful New York City. (Photo by John Shearer/Getty Images for The Hollywood Reporter)
Cassie Ventura, a longtime subordinate and erstwhile woman of Combs, antecedently filed the civilian suit that triggered the transgression investigation.
Singer and exemplary Cassie Ventura (L) and Rap mogul P Diddy (aka Sean Combs) get for the traditionnal Clive Davis enactment connected the eve of the 60th Annual Grammy Awards connected January 28, 2018, successful New York. / AFP PHOTO / Jewel SAMAD (Photo recognition should work JEWEL SAMAD/AFP via Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 27: Cassie (L) and signaling creator Sean "Diddy" Combs be the Clive Davis and Recording Academy Pre-GRAMMY Gala and GRAMMY Salute to Industry Icons Honoring Jay-Z connected January 27, 2018 successful New York City. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)
LOS ANGELES, CA - MAY 03: Music creator Cassie Ventura attends the VH1's 3rd Annual "Dear Mama: A Love Letter To Moms" - Cocktail Reception astatine The Theatre astatine Ace Hotel connected May 3, 2018 successful Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Leon Bennett/Getty Images)
Ventura claimed she often couldn’t accidental nary to Combs, acrophobic of threats of blackmail and violence. She claimed Combs threatened to station videos connected the net if she didn’t travel his instructions.
“Sean controlled a batch of my life, whether it was career, the mode I dressed, everything, everything. I conscionable didn’t person overmuch accidental successful it astatine the time,” she said.
“Sean is simply a truly polarizing person, besides truly charming,” Ventura besides said. “It’s hard to truly beryllium capable to determine successful that infinitesimal what you request erstwhile he’s telling you what helium wants. I conscionable didn’t know. I didn’t cognize what would happen.”
What is Diddy charged with?
Combs faces national charges of racketeering conspiracy, enactment trafficking by force, fraud oregon coercion and proscription to prosecute successful prostitution.
The euphony shaper has been held without bail since his September 2024 arrest; 2 of his homes were raided by national investigators 7 months earlier.
Prosecutors person alleged Combs utilized the resources of his euphony empire to make “a transgression endeavor whose members and associates engaged in, and attempted to prosecute in, among different crimes, enactment trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
