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(NewsNation) — Sean "Diddy" Combs allegedly attempted to interruption down Casandra "Cassie" Ventura's flat doorway with a hammer aft the 2016 onslaught successful a Los Angeles edifice room, according to grounds connected Monday from the singer's erstwhile friend.
Kerry Morgan, a reluctant witness, testified successful the Combs' national enactment crimes trial that the hammer-wielding rapper chased down Ventura aft the 2016 Intercontinental edifice convulsive assault to her location successful Los Angeles. Ventura returned location with a achromatic eye, Morgan said.
Morgan, the then-best person of Ventura's, said she witnessed Combs "banging connected the doorway with a hammer," saying the incidental near her terrified.
She said Ventura appeared to amusement small emotion and acted arsenic if she did not attraction if Combs "came successful and killed her."
Combs did not summation entree to the apartment, she said. Police officers were called a fewer hours aft the frightening incident; however, a constabulary study was not filed.
Witness Kerry Morgan testifies successful Manhattan national tribunal during the enactment trafficking and racketeering proceedings of Sean "Diddy" Combs, Monday, May 19, 2025, successful New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)
Witness Kerry Morgan arrives astatine Federal Court for the Sean "Diddy" Combs proceedings connected Monday, May 19, 2025, successful New York. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)
Witness Kerry Morgan arrives astatine Federal Court for teh Sean "Diddy" Combs trial, connected Monday, May 19, 2025, successful New York. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)
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Morgan testified that she witnessed Combs battle Ventura twice, pulling her hair, pushing her, and kicking her. She said connected the basal that Ventura was "owned" by Combs, and that the up-and-coming artist's vocation was nether his implicit control.
“He was successful complaint of her career,” Morgan said. “She would’ve mislaid each of her livelihood."
Combs is facing federal racketeering and enactment trafficking criminal charges. If helium is recovered guilty, helium could walk his beingness successful prison. He has pleaded not guilty.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
