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  • Cassie shares main quantity she was paid by Diddy inside 24 hours of submitting lawsuit



    Warning: This text comprises dialogue of sexual harassment, and home violence which some readers might discover distressing.

    Sean ‘Puff Daddy’ Combs paid his ex Cassie Ventura an eye-watering quantity simply 24 hours after she filed a rape, violent abuse and intercourse trafficking lawsuit towards him.

    This November 2023 lawsuit, which alleged 11 years of horrific remedy between 2007 and 2018, proved to be the catalyst for the police probe that might finally deliver down the music mogul, and Ventura has been closely concerned with the present tribunal that will land him in jail for all times.

    Her lawsuit accused Combs of frequently feeding her medicine and alcohol and forcing her to have sexual activity with male prostitutes, all whiles she claimed the hip-hop king filmed these ‘freak-off’ events and allegedly masturbated within the nook of the room.

    At yesterday’s (Could 14) court docket listening to, the singer and mannequin revealed the tens of millions she was paid in a silent settlement.

    Casandra ‘Cassie’ Ventura was paid tens of millions in a court docket settlement two years in the past (Rob Kim/Getty Pictures)

    “Who paid you $20 million?” requested prosecutor Emily Johnson earlier than ending up her examination of the central witness.

    “Sean and his firms,” Ventura answered.

    Discovering the braveness to depart him for good in 2018 – she went on to marry private coach Alex High-quality a 12 months later and the couple share two daughters – Ventura was then viciously raped another time in her house.

    This explicit case towards Combs noticed him plead not responsible, but shell out $20m out of court docket.

    Ventura and Diddy had been an merchandise for 11 years in whole (Thaddaeus McAdams/Getty Pictures)

    Addressing how the ‘freak-offs’ initially bought began, Ventura revealed to the court docket this week: “Throughout the first 12 months of our relationship, he proposed this concept. This sexual encounter that he referred to as voyeurism the place he would watch me be in intercourse with a 3rd get together, particularly with one other man.

    “Ultimately it grew to become a job for me, just about, so I knew if it was one thing he wished me to do, I had the contacts to set it up and get a resort room and all of that, however to start with, Sean set it up. He was in cost.”

    In case you are experiencing home violence, please know that you’re not alone. You possibly can speak in confidence to the nationwide home violence helpline Refuge on 0808 2000 247, out there 24/7, or by way of live chat, out there 10am-10pm, Monday to Friday.

    Alternatively, when you have been affected by any of the problems on this article and want to converse to somebody in confidence, contact The Survivors Trust free of charge on 08088 010 818, out there 10am-12.30pm, 1.30pm-3pm and 6pm-8pm Monday to Thursday, 10am-12.30pm and 1.30pm-3pm on Fridays, 10am-12.30pm on Saturdays and 6pm-8pm on Sundays.

  • Sharon Osbourne shared worrying facet impact of Ozempic in open well being admission



    Sharon Osbourne beforehand opened up a few worrying ‘facet impact’ she had suffered after utilizing Ozempic.

    The previous The X Issue decide has been open about her well being surrounding the weight-loss drug.

    She’s one among many celebrities who’ve admitted to utilizing the remedy, with the likes of Jeremy Clarkson and Amy Schumer having shared their experiences of it.

    Used to deal with Sort 2 diabetes (and solely permitted within the UK for this), Ozempic can be utilized for weight-loss remedy because it comprises semaglutide and will help to control an individual’s urge for food, preserving them fuller for longer in addition to usually lowering cravings.

    And for Osbourne, it appears this has been a long-lasting impression after stopping utilizing the injectable. The 72-year-old beforehand revealed she had ‘misplaced 42 kilos’ in ‘4 months’ from it.

    Osbourne stated she was struggling to regain weight. (Steve Granitz/FilmMagic)

    The Superstar Huge Brother star began Ozempic again in 2022 and revealed final November she had been off the drug for ‘some time.’

    In a podcast with Howie Mandel final 12 months, she was requested if she had a constructive expertise with the burden loss remedy which she replied: “Sure and no.”

    Osbourne defined: “I am unable to placed on weight now, and I do not know what it is completed to my metabolism, however I simply cannot appear to place any on, as a result of I believe I went too far.”

    She additionally added throughout a Unfastened Girls look: “The whole lot on weight with me was like ‘I need it now.’ The injections that I used to be on labored and simply appears now I am unable to put something on.”

    The star continued: “I misplaced over 40lbs, If I may I might put again one other 10.

    “I’m simply an odd one that received fortunate and I didn’t make the most of that. I by no means need to overlook I’m blessed and been actually fortunate in my life.”

    The star has been open about utilizing Ozempic. (MEGA/GC Photos)

    Throughout an outdated expertise on Invoice Maher’s Membership Random podcast, she shared why she determined to strive Ozempic: “You will have a weight drawback, and also you’ve tried the whole lot, after which anyone says, ‘Take this injection and also you’re going to be skinny.’”

    Osbourne additionally additional spoke of the unwanted side effects she skilled whereas taking it: “You’re not hungry, however for me—it’s completely different for everyone—however for me, the primary few weeks had been f*cking sh*t since you simply throw up on a regular basis and really feel so nauseous.

    “After a few weeks, it goes, and also you’re simply nice. You’re feeling nice, simply not hungry.”

    The commonest unwanted side effects of Ozempic can embrace: nausea, diarrhoea, abdomen ache, vomiting and constipation.

  • Cassie says Diddy organized for Child Cudi’s automobile to be blown up after discovering out she was courting rapper



    Warning: This text accommodates dialogue of home violence which some readers might discover distressing

    Cassie Ventura has informed a New York court docket that Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs lunged at her with a wine opener after he discovered she was courting one other man, after which mentioned he would blow up the person’s automobile, which later did explode.

    Combs is in court docket to face expenses of racketeering, intercourse trafficking and transportation to interact in prostitution, all of which he denies and has entered a plea of not responsible to.

    Among the many witnesses known as to present testimony on the trial is Diddy’s ex-partner Cassie Ventura, who dated him on and off between 2007 and 2018.

    In 2023 she filed a lawsuit towards him alleging that she had been subjected to years of bodily and sexual abuse. Diddy denied the claims however settled the lawsuit the next day.

    Throughout her time on the witness stand this week, Cassie has spoken about being a part of Combs’ ‘freak offs’, what occurred within the lead-up to that video the place folks noticed Combs assaulting her in a Los Angeles lodge, and the musician’s messages despatched within the aftermath.

    Cassie Ventura has been testifying on the trial of her ex-partner Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs (Laura Thompson / New York Every day Information through Getty Photographs)

    Now, she has claimed to the court docket that Combs tried to assault her with a wine opener as soon as he realized she was courting the rapper Child Cudi, in addition to threatening to explode his automobile.

    Cassie spoke about an alleged incident in 2011 the place she was at one in every of Diddy’s ‘freak offs’ and he’d learn some emails which made reference to Child Cudi, actual title Scott Mescudi.

    According to CNN, Ventura mentioned that Diddy ‘lunged at her’ with a wine opener in his hand, and that she was capable of escape the ‘freak off’ being held in a lodge room and go to a different lodge the place she was staying.

    She informed the court docket that she known as Mescudi on a burner cellphone and requested him to return and decide her up from the lodge, saying that she later went over to Combs’ home to speak issues out however discovered him to be ‘irate’.

    Ventura added that Diddy then threatened to launch movies of the ‘freak offs’, as she testified that: “He informed me about movies that he had that he was going to launch, and that he was going to harm Scott and I.”

    She additionally testified that Diddy informed her Child Cudi’s automobile can be blown up, claiming that he informed her he needed Child Cudi’s associates to see the automobile blown up on Mescudi’s driveway.

    A automobile owned by Child Cudi did really blow up, and afterwards Ventura claimed that she, Cudi and Diddy met as much as have a dialogue.

    At this assembly she claimed that Child Cudi requested about his automobile, and Diddy mentioned ‘what automobile?’.

    Ventura claims that Diddy ‘lunged at her’ after he discovered she was courting Child Cudi (Wealthy Polk/Deadline through Getty Photographs)

    Rolling Stone reported that Child Cudi’s automobile, a 2011 Porsche 911 Turbo S, had been set on fireplace by an ‘incendiary gadget’ on 9 January, 2012 inflicting round $10,000 value of injury.

    When Cassie Ventura filed a lawsuit towards Diddy in 2023 it talked about the declare that he had threatened to explode Child Cudi’s automobile, and a consultant for Child Cudi told the New York Instances ‘that is all true’.

    Through the trial the jury was proven an electronic mail despatched in December 2011 that Ventura had despatched to her mom and one in every of Combs’ employers saying that the musician had threatened to launch ‘express intercourse tapes’ of her.

    She has additionally been telling the court docket about numerous different alleged incidents of violence, claiming that Diddy beat her up and threw baggage at her after she went to a celebration at Prince’s home and did not inform Combs for concern he would not let her go.

    Ventura testified that she ‘didn’t have the sources I wanted to get out and transfer’ away from Combs, saying: “I understood Sean’s capabilities, his entry to weapons, and the threats that he made previous to that.”

    The trial continues.

    If you’re experiencing home violence, please know that you’re not alone. You’ll be able to discuss in confidence to the nationwide home violence helpline Refuge on 0808 2000 247, out there 24/7, or through live chat, out there 10am-10pm, Monday to Friday.

    Alternatively, when you’ve got been affected by any of the problems on this article and want to converse to somebody in confidence, contact The Survivors Trust free of charge on 08088 010 818, out there 10am-12.30pm, 1.30pm-3pm and 6pm-8pm Monday to Thursday, 10am-12.30pm and 1.30pm-3pm on Fridays, 10am-12.30pm on Saturdays and 6pm-8pm on Sundays.

  • Cassie testifies about Diddy second that left her ‘shocked’ as jurors are proven ‘freak off’ get together movies in courtroom



    Warning: This text incorporates allegations of sexual harassment and home violence which some readers might discover distressing

    Cassie has offered one other ‘surprising’ testimony about Diddy as jurors are proven photographs from the ‘freak off’ get together movies in courtroom.

    The rapper stands accused of intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to have interaction in prostitution, which he has repeatedly denied.

    Sean Combs’ ex-girlfriend has returned to courtroom for a second day after testifying on Tuesday (13 Might) in regards to the drug-fuelled ‘freak offs’, which might ‘last as long as 4 days’.

    Cassie and Diddy’s relationship

    The R&B singer, whose authorized title is Casandra Ventura, was 19 when she met Diddy, then 37, for the primary time in 2005.

    After he signed her to his Dangerous Boy Data label, on her twenty first birthday, she claims she was shocked when the music mogul, now 55, allegedly kissed her.

    They had been then concerned in an on-and-off relationship between 2007 and 2018, which Cassie testifies concerned an alleged common cycle of abuse.

    Cassie has alleged that her former boyfriend would pressure her to have intercourse with intercourse staff (Steve Granitz/WireImage)

    She claimed that Diddy threatened to launch movies of her participating within the so-called ‘freak-offs’, which had been alleged encounters with male intercourse staff that he orchestrated while she was below the affect of medicine.

    “I feared for my profession. I feared for my household. It’s simply embarrassing. It’s horrible and disgusting. Nobody ought to do this to anybody,” Cassie mentioned.

    “He pulled up ‘freak off’ movies on his laptop computer that I assumed had been deleted,” she added. “He was displaying them with different folks round. I mentioned, ‘You’re embarrassing me’.

    “I used to be scared, I felt trapped, how do you get out of this case?”

    Juror’s reactions to images of ‘freak-off’ movies in courtroom

    On Wednesday (14 Might), jurors had been proven sexually express photographs taken from the ‘freak off’ movies.

    Cassie has testified that she was on medication throughout the ‘freak offs’ (Kevin Mazur/Getty Photographs for Roc Nation)

    CNN’s dwell courtroom report states that one ‘feminine juror set free a deep breath and rested her hand on her chest as a picture was positioned on the monitor earlier than her’.

    The outlet additionally stories {that a} ‘male juror appeared on the display screen at one of many photographs and his eyes appeared to maneuver away rapidly’.

    In the meantime, one other male juror was writing one thing on his notepad.

    Cassie testifies after ‘freak off’ photographs proven in courtroom

    Cassie – who’s eight months pregnant and shares two kids along with her husband Alex Wonderful – testified that after Diddy allegedly abused her, it might take days to get better.

    “Any time he was bodily, there would at the least be some hint — a bruise or one thing,” she mentioned.

    She claims she witnessed abuse for the primary time throughout the first few years of their relationship, with the singer recalling a time when she was out for dinner with Combs, who was mentioned to have been flirting with someone else.

    The pair had been in a relationship for over 10 years (Laura Thompson/New York Day by day Information through Getty Photographs)

    She claims one other particular person noticed that she had seen, and she or he simply shrugged her shoulders.

    After they bought into Diddy’s automobile after dinner, she testified that ‘he hit me within the aspect of my head and I fell to the ground of the automotive’.

    “I used to be simply shocked, and I didn’t essentially perceive what occurred and why he was so indignant aside from the little bit he mentioned as he was hitting me within the automotive,” she mentioned. “And I simply went residence and form of hid out after that.”

    Cassie sued Diddy in 2023, a 12 months earlier than 2016 lodge video leaks

    Though the singer sued him in 2023, alleging years of abuse, the go well with was settled simply hours after it was filed.

    The next 12 months, a 2016 video of Combs carrying a towel while allegedly punching, kicking, and dragging Cassie within the hallway of a Los Angeles lodge was shared by CNN.

    “I take full duty for my actions in that video,” Diddy mentioned in a public apology on the time.

    In case you are experiencing home violence, please know that you’re not alone. You possibly can speak in confidence to the nationwide home violence helpline Refuge on 0808 2000 247, accessible 24/7, or through live chat, accessible 10am-10pm, Monday to Friday.

    Alternatively, in case you have been affected by any of the problems on this article and want to communicate to somebody in confidence, contact The Survivors Trust free of charge on 08088 010 818, accessible 10am-12.30pm, 1.30pm-3pm and 6pm-8pm Monday to Thursday, 10am-12.30pm and 1.30pm-3pm on Fridays, 10am-12.30pm on Saturdays and 6pm-8pm on Sundays.

  • Liam Gallagher to be grandad as daughter proclaims she’s pregnant with Liverpool footballer boyfriend



    Liam Gallagher is about to grow to be a grandad after his daughter Molly introduced that she was anticipating a child along with her companion, the Liverpool and Derby County footballer Nat Phillips.

    Molly posted a sequence of images to Instagram with the caption ‘bulking season’, together with photographs of what seems to be like a child bump and garments for the kid.

    Her mum Lisa Moorish and brother Gene Gallagher have each despatched their congratulations, and there have been loads of effectively needs headed the best way of the anticipating couple.

    Phillips wrote: “Can’t wait, love you each masses.”

    The child would be the first grandchild for Liam Gallagher, and it is one other bunch of fine information for him forward of what guarantees to be a busy summer season as he and brother Noel have gotten the band again collectively.

    Oasis followers can be hoping it is all comparatively plain crusing within the Gallagher household from right here on out as Liam and Noel seem to have reconciled sufficient to place collectively a massively anticipated reunion tour.

    They introduced the tour final summer season and confronted enormous demand for tickets, and anybody apprehensive that there is going to be some form of falling out may be reassured in regards to the a lot friendlier noises coming from the Gallaghers now.

    After assembly up earlier this 12 months in London, Liam mentioned the brothers ‘had a stunning chat and a cuddle’ throughout the assembly which bodes effectively for familial relations and Oasis followers.

    Noel was likewise complimentary of his brother when he went on the radio a number of weeks later and mentioned he’d spent the day with Liam, as he mentioned: “He is nice. I used to be with him yesterday really. He is alright. He is on tip prime type.”

    Grandpa Gallagher-to be on ‘tip prime type’ sounds splendid heading right into a summer season the place Oasis are anticipated to carry out.

    He will be a grandad (ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP by way of Getty Photos)

    Extra to comply with.

  • Cassie explains why she selected to take ketamine throughout Diddy ‘freak offs’ in testimony



    Cassie has informed a court docket on the trial of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs why she selected to take ketamine throughout his ‘freak offs’.

    The musician is in court docket in New York and amongst these giving testimony is his former girlfriend Cassie Ventura, who he dated between 2007 and 2018, with the pair having met in 2005 when he was 39 and she or he was 19.

    In November 2023, Cassie launched a lawsuit towards Diddy alleging years of bodily and sexual abuse.

    Combs denied her allegations, however they settled the lawsuit the next day, and now she stands in court docket to testify about Combs’ behaviour together with that of his notorious ‘freak offs’.

    He stands in court docket accused of intercourse trafficking by pressure, fraud or coercion, transportation to have interaction in prostitution, and racketeering conspiracy – fees which he has repeatedly denied – and will spend the remainder of his life in jail if discovered responsible.

    Ventura mentioned she took ketamine throughout Diddy’s ‘freak offs’ so she may disassociate (John Shearer/Getty Photographs for The Hollywood Reporter)

    With Ventura offering testimony, the court docket has heard how she and Combs used medicine on the ‘freak offs’ as she defined why she determined to take ketamine.

    Throughout her testimony, Ventura mentioned that Combs despatched her a textual content saying he needed to have a ‘correct FO’ as he informed her he did not wish to take ketamine for it.

    Diddy allegedly wrote in a textual content: ” we now have to have a correct FO with out no Okay … I hate Okay!!!!”

    He informed her ‘a profitable FO is one we keep in mind’, and Cassie informed the court docket that the rationale why she most well-liked taking ketamine throughout ‘freak offs’ was as a result of it allowed her to disassociate from the expertise.

    “It took me out of it for too lengthy. We’re simply excessive and never doing any… intercourse,” Ventura informed the court docket of her option to take ketamine.

    Ventura informed the court docket that she took ketamine as ‘it took me out of it for too lengthy’ (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)

    Cassie mentioned that the one factor she loved in regards to the ‘freak offs’ was the time she spent with Combs, telling the court docket she felt prefer it was the one time she may have with him.

    “I felt disgusting. I used to be humiliated. I didn’t have the phrases to place collectively on the time how horrible I actually felt, and I couldn’t discuss to anyone about it,” she mentioned, giving testimony that she’d tried to speak to Combs about how she did not wish to be a part of the ‘freak offs’.

    She mentioned she ‘didn’t wish to upset him or make him indignant with me’, so she would ‘tread it calmly’ and generally e-mail him about it as an alternative.

    The trial continues.

  • Surprising second Fred and Rose West have been retweeted by Donald Trump after president tricked by Twitter person



    Netflix’s latest documentary, Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story, has introduced the terrible serial killers again into the general public consciousness.

    What many won’t know, nonetheless, is that probably the most highly effective man on the earth, President of the US Donald Trump, was as soon as tricked into retweeting a message of assist for the pair by a sneaky Twitter person.

    While Trump is now a much more prolific poster on his personal social media web site, Fact Social, he was a frequent poster on Twitter, which is now often called X.

    This even led to the politician reaching a $10 million greenback settlement with the corporate now owned by Elon Musk after they suspended his account for almost two years within the wake of the January 6th rebel.

    

    Years prior, nonetheless, a Twitter person was in a position to persuade him to publish an image of Fred and Rose West, main Trump to threaten to sue them.

    That they had tweeted at Trump in 2014, who was but to be president at this level, saying: “My dad and mom who handed away at all times stated you have been large inspiration. Are you able to pls RT for his or her reminiscence?”

    The image was not, nonetheless, of their dad and mom, it was of the notorious serial killers.

    On account of how Twitter used to work as properly, the tweet learn as coming straight from Trump’s account in an embarrassing gaff.

    The orange-tinted politician would later tweet: “I believed I used to be being I suppose this teaches you to not be good or trusting.”

    Trump was tricked into retweeting the photograph of serial killers Fred and Rose West (X)

    He later said that he was contemplating suing them, saying: “Some jerk fraudulently tweeted that his dad and mom stated I used to be an enormous inspiration to them + pls RT-out of kindness I retweeted.

    “Perhaps I will sue. I believed I used to be being good to anyone re their dad and mom. I suppose this teaches you to not be good or trusting. Unhappy!”

    Past reminding folks that Trump used to finish almost each tweet with the phrase ‘Unhappy!’ the tweet – it harks again to a lawless period of the web previous to social media managers when this was a much more frequent prevalence.

    The late nice boxer George Foreman was one unfortunate sufferer, having been tricked into posting an image of Raoul Moat by somebody who tweeted saying he was his uncle and an enormous fan of the fighter.

    Trump was tricked on Twitter previous to changing into President (Andrew Harnik by way of Getty Photos)

    Hulk Hogan, the controversial WWE star, was equally fooled, with somebody @ing him with an image of Madeleine McCann, cruelly saying she was an enormous fan and had just lately received a cover and search competitors.

    Alan Sugar, the man The Apprentice alumnus, was additionally fooled, being tricked into retweeting an image of Harold Shipman.

    Within the case of Trump, nonetheless, it doesn’t seem as if the property mogul and President ever sued the trickster.

  • Authorized knowledgeable explains tactic Diddy prosecution is utilizing in court docket throughout ex-girlfriend Cassie’s testimony



    Warning: This text accommodates dialogue of sexual harassment and home violence which some readers might discover distressing

    A authorized knowledgeable has defined why they assume the prosecution is utilizing the 2016 lodge surveillance video as proof in court docket in opposition to Diddy.

    The music producer’s ex-girlfriend Cassie has returned to court docket after testifying yesterday (13 Could) about Sean Combs’ ‘freak offs’, which might ‘last as long as 4 days’.

    The R&B singer, whose authorized title is Casandra Ventura, has claimed that she was in an abusive, drug-fuelled, relationship with Combs, who allegedly pressured her to have intercourse with escorts.

    It comes after prosecutors wrote within the 14-page indictment that ‘freak offs have been elaborate and produced intercourse performances that Combs organized, directed, masturbated throughout, and sometimes electronically recorded’.

    Cassie has testified about Diddy’s alleged ‘freak-offs’ on day three of the sex-trafficking trial (Larry Busacca/Getty Pictures)

    Cassie first met Diddy in 2005 when she was 19 and he was 37. They began relationship a couple of years later after he signed her to his Unhealthy Boy Information label.

    She sued him in 2023 and alleged years of abuse, however the go well with was settled someday after it was filed.

    A yr later, a 2016 video of Combs allegedly punching, kicking, and dragging Cassie within the hallway of a Los Angeles lodge was shared by CNN in 2016.

    “I take full accountability for my actions in that video,” the music mogul mentioned in a public apology on the time.

    Footage from the incident has been proven to the court docket all through Cassie’s testimony, and a authorized knowledgeable claims this has been deliberate.

    CNN senior authorized analyst Elie Honig has suggested that the video has been proven a number of instances to ‘assist her credibility’.

    “As a result of it’s so visceral. As a result of for those who’re a juror or a standard particular person, whenever you see that video the violence turns into so actual,” Honig defined.

    Cassie first met Diddy in 2005 when she was 19 and he was 37 (Mike Coppola/Getty Pictures for Individuals.com)

    “One, they’re supporting Cassie Ventura’s credibility as a result of what’s she’s saying the jury doesn’t must take it at her phrase, they’ll see it within the video.

    “And the second factor, they’re utilizing Cassie Ventura to relate that video as a result of it tells you a large number but it surely doesn’t inform you all the things.”

    The analyst mentioned that ‘for those who can have one of many individuals explaining precisely to the jury what’s taking place, that’s going to seize their consideration and that’s going to mutually bolster the witness and the video on the similar time’.

    Testifying on the stand in the present day (14 Could), Ventura mentioned her good friend was at her condominium when she received dwelling from the lodge altercation.

    “She was tremendous upset, she had seen each black eyes and busted lips earlier than,” Ventura mentioned, revealing that her good friend went and known as the police.

    “I answered a few questions however once they needed me to say who I used to be speaking about, I might not. In order that they left,” Cassie mentioned.

    The singer, who’s eight months pregnant, mentioned she ‘wasn’t prepared’ to discuss what occurred as a result of ‘in that second, I didn’t need to damage him that method. It was simply an excessive amount of happening’.

    If you’re experiencing home violence, please know that you’re not alone. You possibly can speak in confidence to the nationwide home violence helpline Refuge on 0808 2000 247, out there 24/7, or through live chat, out there 10am-10pm, Monday to Friday.

    Alternatively, when you have been affected by any of the problems on this article and want to converse to somebody in confidence, contact The Survivors Trust without cost on 08088 010 818, out there 10am-12.30pm, 1.30pm-3pm and 6pm-8pm Monday to Thursday, 10am-12.30pm and 1.30pm-3pm on Fridays, 10am-12.30pm on Saturdays and 6pm-8pm on Sundays.

  • All the pieces Cassie shared about Diddy’s ‘freak-off’ events as she took stand in



    Warning: This text accommodates dialogue of sexual harassment and home violence which some readers could discover distressing

    Right here is all the pieces which Cassie has revealed about ‘freak off’ events held by former associate Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs as she gave proof at his trial.

    The trial of Combs is presently ongoing at a New York federal courtroom, with a closely pregnant Ventura, his former associate of 11 years, giving her testimony yesterday (13 Could). Combs faces expenses of intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to interact in prostitution — which he denies.

    Ventura’s testimony hinged closely on a 2016 CCTV video wherein Combs may very well be seen bodily assaulting her in a resort hall, in addition to her involvement in his notorious ‘freak off’ events.

    Right here is all the pieces which she has mentioned concerning the gatherings.

    What allegedly occurred at Diddy’s ‘freak offs’?

    Singer and dancer Cassie Ventura gave proof on the second day of the trial (John Shearer/Getty Photographs)

    In accordance with the 14-page indictment towards Combs, the hip-hop producer’s alleged ‘freak off’ events have been ‘elaborate and produced intercourse performances’ which Combs ‘organized, directed, masturbated throughout, and infrequently electronically recorded’.

    “Freak Offs occurred frequently, typically lasted a number of days, and infrequently concerned a number of business intercourse employees,” the indictment learn.

    Throughout Ventura’s testimony, the 38-year-old revealed that Combs broached the concept of ‘freak off’ events throughout ‘the primary yr of our relationship’.

    “This sexual encounter that he referred to as voyeurism the place he would watch me be in intercourse with a 3rd celebration, particularly with one other man,” she instructed the courtroom.

    She added that ‘freak offs’ would contain ‘hiring an escort and organising this expertise, in order that I might carry out for Sean’.

    Cassie and Diddy’s relationship

    Combs has pleaded not responsible on expenses of intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to interact in prostitution (Shareif Ziyadat/Getty Photographs)

    Ventura supplied particulars about her and Combs 11-year-long relationship, revealing that she’d been launched to the rapper and hip-hop producer in 2005 when she was 19 and he was 37.

    Recalling the early days of their relationship, she mentioned (via NBC Information): “I used to be confused, I used to be a brand new artist that did not know the lay of the land and issues like that. I wasn’t used to an government or anybody being that ahead that means with me, in a greater than buddies means, a sexual means, a romantic means.

    “I used to be simply so younger and didn’t have the vocabulary for among the issues we talked about. I used to be simply making an attempt to grasp it, simply utterly inexperienced at that time.”

    ‘Freak off’ events ‘turned a job’ for Cassie

    Ventura went on to assert the ‘freak offs’ finally turned a ‘job’ the place she had ‘no area to do anything’.

    “Ultimately it turned a job for me, just about, so I knew if it was one thing he needed me to do, I had the contacts to set it up and get a resort room and all of that, however to start with, Sean set it up. He was in cost,” she instructed the courtroom.

    Ventura continued: “The ‘freak offs’ turned a job, the place there was no area to do anything however to get better and simply attempt to really feel regular once more.”

    Longest ‘freak off’ celebration lasted for 4 days

    Cassie’s testimony included particulars about what allegedly occurred on the rapper’s ‘freak offs’ (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Photographs)

    The singer and dancer additionally alleged that ‘freak offs’ might typically go on for days at a time, with the rapper allegedly offering her with a mixture of ecstasy and cocaine with a purpose to keep awake.

    Detailing her expertise of the events, Ventura instructed the courtroom: “Staying out for days on finish, taking medicine and ingesting, having intercourse with a stranger, they’d be 36, 48, 72, hours.

    “The longest one was 4 days, much more on and off together with recovering, recovering from the medicine, dehydration.”

    Ventura additionally broke down in tears when requested if there was something she loved concerning the ‘freak offs’, telling the courtroom: “The time spent with him.

    “I felt disgusting. I used to be humiliated. I didn’t have the phrases to place collectively on the time how horrible I actually felt, and I couldn’t discuss to anyone about it.”

    In case you are experiencing home violence, please know that you’re not alone. You’ll be able to discuss in confidence to the nationwide home violence helpline Refuge on 0808 2000 247, accessible 24/7, or through live chat, accessible 10am-10pm, Monday to Friday.

    Alternatively, if in case you have been affected by any of the problems on this article and want to communicate to somebody in confidence, contact The Survivors Trust without spending a dime on 08088 010 818, accessible 10am-12.30pm, 1.30pm-3pm and 6pm-8pm Monday to Thursday, 10am-12.30pm and 1.30pm-3pm on Fridays, 10am-12.30pm on Saturdays and 6pm-8pm on Sundays.

  • Cassie breaks into tears as she explains the one factor she loved about Diddy’s ‘freak off’ events



    Warning: This text comprises dialogue of sexual harassment and home violence which some readers could discover distressing

    It is day two of the Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs federal court docket trial in New York, with quite a lot of witnesses taking to the stand to offer proof in opposition to the US rapper to this point at present.

    A former male escort Daniel Phillip, who was paid hundreds of {dollars} to have intercourse with Mr Combs’ girlfriend Casandra Ventura (Cassie), was first as much as the stand as he shared his personal reminiscences of the rapper’s now notorious ‘freak off’ events.

    Ms Ventura, who’s closely pregnant, additionally appeared to talk in entrance of the jury, as her former accomplice faces prices of intercourse trafficking by pressure, fraud or coercion, transportation to have interaction in prostitution, and racketeering conspiracy.

    

    He has pleaded not responsible to all 5 prices, however may face life in jail if he’s discovered responsible.

    Ms Ventura bravely took to the stand to share her personal traumatic experiences throughout her relationship with Diddy, which allegedly included him dragging throughout a resort room flooring and commonly abusing her, whereas forcing her to have intercourse with different males whereas he watched.

    Whereas she has gone into element about what precisely occurred in the course of the ‘freak off’ events, which noticed the 55-year-old personal round 1000 bottles of child oil, she has now shared with the court docket maybe the one factor she loved about these harrowing sexual events.

    Cassie has been talking in federal court docket (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Photographs for Paramount+)

    Requested what she loved, if something, concerning the ‘freak offs,’ Cassie Ventura broke down in tears.

    “The time spent with him,” she said. She added that she felt prefer it was the one time she may get with him.

    “I felt disgusting. I used to be humiliated. I didn’t have the phrases to place collectively on the time how horrible I actually felt, and I couldn’t discuss to anyone about it,” Ventura added.

    Ventura stated she tried to ‘gently’ deliver up not eager to do ‘freak offs’ with Combs.

    Diddy may face life in jail if discovered responsible (Samir Hussein/Getty Photographs for Sean Diddy Combs)

    “I didn’t need to upset him or make him indignant with me for even sharing it,” she stated. “However I might simply tread it flippantly after I introduced it up. Typically I might e-mail him about it. I didn’t need something unhealthy to occur.”

    The 38-year-old, who’s now married, had recommended that a number of the ‘freak offs’ may final so long as 4 days, together with her former accomplice having quite a lot of guidelines on how she ought to look and costume in the course of the events.

    She additionally shared extra particulars on the primary time the 2 engaged in intercourse, suggesting that she was given ecstasy whereas on a ship in Miami.

    The trial continues.