Sean ‘Diddy’ combs trial day 9: Ventura Spars with defense lawyers during the last day of testimony

Cassie Ventura concluded four days of often painful and intimate testimony on Friday, since he faced lawyers for his ex -boyfriend, Sean “Diddy” Peines, about the consistency of his testimony and the damage he supposedly suffered at the hands of the rap Mogul.

Ventura’s testimony, just arriving at the beginning of the long -awaited criminal trial of the combs, seemed to sit a basis for the case of prosecutor’s prosecutor and sexual trafficking against Peins. They allege the combs subjected to Ventura to regular violence and blackmail threats to keep it in line so that she fulfills her sexual desires organizing sexual parties of days called “Freak offs” and “Wild King Nights”.

Comps declared himself innocent of sexual traffic charges, transport to participate in prostitution and extortion conspiracy, and his lawyers, through two days of interrogation, tried to rethink Ventura as a willing sexual couple who enjoyed the lifestyle of a swinger and contributed to an admitted relationship. His lawyers have acknowledged that ComBs was violent with Ventura, but argued that their actions do not equal sex or extortion, as federal prosecutors have alleged. They also highlighted episodes when Ventura was violent to combs to demonstrate his point that the ugliness that marked his relationship was both ways.

Ventura largely maintained her composure through two days of defense questions, even when the lawyers faced her with text messages and emails full of graphic sexual details, and some jurors seemed to lose the approach during the interrogation of Serpalientes and sometimes dismantled. When his lawyer Anna Estevao concluded the interrogation, Comps hugged Estevao in the court and seemed to thank him for the intense interrogation.

When the prosecutors interrogated him one last time on Friday, Ventura broke in response to questioning how he suffered after the regular containers of the combs, telling the jury members that he felt “without value, just like the Earth, which did not care, as if it were nothing.” Ventura told the jury that he would return the $ 20 million civil agreement that he received from combs in 2023 if that meant that he never had to participate in a monster.

“I would return that money if I never had to make promotions. He would have agency and autonomy,” he said through tears. “I wouldn’t have had to work so hard to recover it.”

Defensor lawyers try to refuse moments of violence in the center of Ventura’s testimony

The defense lawyers focused on two central moments described by Ventura during their direct exam: an assault of 2016 at a Los Angeles hotel and an alleged rape near the end of their relationship. During the interrogation, combs lawyers tried to use those episodes to question Ventura’s credibility.

When asked about the 2016 hotel assault, Ventura said he believed that combs was intoxicated during the match. On Thursday, during the third day of Testimony of Ventura, defense lawyers tried to suggest the drugs he was taking at that time contributed to their violence.

“When you get f —– in the wrong way, you always want to show me that you have the power and knock me down. I am not a rag doll. I am someone’s son,” Ventura wrote in a text message after the incident that was introduced in evidence on Friday.

The defending lawyer Anna Estevao also investigated Ventura about her memory of how her relationship with the combs ended. The singer at once recruited and commented testified at the beginning of the week that ComBs raped her after dinner, said she planned when her relationship was coming to an end.

“You say nothing in the sense of ‘The last time we saw that they raped me,” said Estevao about the messages of Ventura with combs at that time.

Previously, the defense showed transcripts of Ventura of his interviews with agents of application of the law, pointing out that she told them that the night of the alleged combs of rape was acting “pleasant but strangely.” The defense also pointed out how Ventura wondered if the alleged attack occurred due to combs bipolar disorder, the first time this diagnosis was mentioned in the trial. Combs has previously said that it is not bipolar but has humor changes.

Defensor lawyers focus on the alleged infidelity of Ventura

During the interrogation, the defense introduced dozens of text messages that contained a combination of affection, jokes with sexual load, domestic negotiation, disputes and jealousy. Jealousy emerged for the first time as a central principle during defense’s opening statements, when combs lawyers told the jury that the case against their client is about “love, jealousy, infidelity and money.”

Ventura reported how combs would become jealous if she suspected that she was seeing another man, and on multiple occasions, she took her phone to learn about the suspicion of infidelity.

“Did Mr. Combs be incredibly jealous?” The defending lawyer Anna Estevao asked. “Was I upset with you when you suspected that they cheated you?”

Ventura replied: “When I was with someone else. I don’t know if I would call it trap.”

Estevao said: “Did you understand that he thought it was a trap?”

Ventura replied: “That is a technicalism. We were not married.”

Defensor lawyers try to show a different side of Ventura

The jury members listened to a dramatic audio recording of a March 2014 conversation in Atlantic City between Ventura and a man named Sugit, who had told him that he had seen her in a sexually explicit video taken during a “monster.” Multiple jury members seemed attentive and took notes during the testimony, since they heard a remarkably more aggressive version of Ventura than had appeared on the stretch, who seemed fun by the reaction captured on the tape.

“Tell me what you saw exactly,” it is heard what Ventura says to Sugit. “You told me that someone else was there f —— me.”

A moment later, your voice is heard when you get up. “Do you have it? Why didn’t you show me?” Ventura asked.

“Because I’m not disrespectful,” Sugit is heard answering meekly.

“Have you had it all the time?” Ventura said. “It’s my fucking life and I’ll kill you. I will kill you if you don’t show me. Pass it. If you have it, throw that s — I will kill you!”

Ventura recognized aggressiveness in his voice, having testified in a direct examination about a constant fear that ComBs could release the sex tapes of the monsters that would destroy their career and reputation. Ventura testified that combs had shown him the videos and used them as blackmail, threatening to release them if he disobeyed him.

“He was sick about it and felt pressure on Sean,” Ventura told the jurors, adding that Comps ordered him to talk to Sugit.

At the end of his testimony, Ventura, through a statement read by his lawyer Douglas Wigdor outside the court, thanked his followers for his kindness and promised never to forget what he said that ComBs did to him.

“I hope that my testimony has given strength and a voice to other survivors and I can help others who have suffered to speak and also heal abuse and fear. For me, the more cure, the more I can remember and the more I can remember, the more I will never forget,” he said in a statement.

Prosecutors call the federal agent, Dawn Richard by Danity Kane to witness the position

Federal prosecutors called two additional witnesses on Friday after the conclusion of Ventura’s testimony.

The special agent Yasin National Security Research Binda said in the jury about a search in the combs hotel room at the time of his arrest in 2024, when his lawyers said he traveled to New York to surrender to the authorities. Binda testified that the agents confiscated $ 9,000 in cash, substances that later gave positive for ketamine and mdma, multiple bottles of baby oil and a device used for “mood lighting”, which Ventura meant that they were the type of items that the combs would use during the freak offs. The jury members were able to touch and examine some of the seized materials in the combs room.

For his fifth witness, prosecutors called Dawn Richard, a singer and songwriter who, in a civil lawsuit, accused the combs of sexual assault, forced labor and forced imprisonment. A former member of the Danity Kane girls group, Richard, allegedly witnessed multiple cases in which combs abused Ventura, including an incident that he described in his testimony. Combs had widely denied the accusations in that case.

Richard testified that he witnessed that ComBs beat Ventura in Los Angeles in 2009, describing how combs had a violent outbreak while Ventura tried to cook breakfast.

“He became angry. He said: ‘Where F —- is his eggs?'” Richard testified. “He took the pan with the eggs” and gave a turn to Ventura, and added that Ventura fell to the ground, “literally trying to hide his face or his head.”

After a series of objections, the judge postponed the Court until Monday, while considering potentially striking portions of Richard’s testimony.