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(NewsNation) — Sean “Diddy” Combs’ ex spouse Casandra “Cassie” Ventura volition attest for a 2nd time Wednesday aft giving affectional and lurid details astir the maltreatment she allegedly faced astatine the hands of the disgraced euphony mogul.
Ventura, the prosecution’s prima witness, gave disturbing revelations during her archetypal time of testimony.
“If they were convulsive arguments, it would usually effect successful immoderate benignant of carnal maltreatment and dragging, conscionable antithetic things,” Ventura told jurors.
She claimed Combs would resistance her, footwear her and stomp her successful the head. When asked however often this happened, she responded, “Too frequently.”
Ventura was asked astir the enactment parties called “Freak Offs,” which the prosecution claims were orchestrated by Combs. She said they would prosecute an escort to acceptable up “this acquisition truthful that I could execute for Sean" Combs.
Sean 'Diddy' Combs, right, turns astir and looks astatine the assemblage during assemblage enactment astatine Manhattan national tribunal connected May 5 successful New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)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.
“For me, it was dissociative and numbing. I couldn’t ideate myself doing immoderate of that without having immoderate benignant of buffer oregon mode to not consciousness it for what it truly was, which was emotionless enactment with a alien that I didn’t truly privation to person enactment with,” she said.
Ventura said her singing vocation was derailed due to the fact that the intersexual events yet turned into a “full clip job" requiring days of recovery.
Ventura is delivering her grounds portion precocious successful the 3rd trimester of her gestation with her 3rd child.
She often rubbed her tummy portion answering the prosecution’s questions, and spoke successful a soft, tense tone.
Prosecutors could decorativeness their questioning Wednesday making mode for a apt aggravated transverse introspection by Combs’ defence team.
Combs’ defence argued during opening statements that the acts were consensual and that those testifying against him were motivated by “payouts.”
Combs has pleaded not blameworthy to charges including 1 number of racketeering conspiracy, 2 counts of enactment trafficking by force, fraud oregon coercion, and 2 counts of proscription to prosecute successful prostitution.
