A former male escort who filed a lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs and Cassie Ventura claims to possess photographic evidence that supports his allegations of trauma stemming from what he describes as “freak-offs” organized by the couple.
Lawsuit Alleges Trauma from Organized Sexual Encounters
The plaintiff asserts that the images document his travel arrangements and hotel accommodations for what he characterizes as marathon sex sessions. According to the legal filing, he was flown to various locations and housed in hotels to participate in these encounters.
Photographic Evidence Cited in Legal Filing
TMZ obtained details of the lawsuit, which centers on the plaintiff’s claim that the photos will help substantiate his case in court. The lawsuit alleges that the former escort suffered psychological harm as a result of his involvement in these activities.
The case adds to the mounting legal challenges facing the music mogul, who has faced multiple lawsuits in recent months alleging sexual misconduct and abuse. Representatives for Combs and Ventura have not publicly responded to this specific filing as of publication.
The Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs developments are coming thick and quick this week.
The disgraced music mogul’s identify has been hitting the headlines as soon as once more after a intercourse tape that includes him, Daphne Pleasure and one other man was leaked on-line.
The mannequin and mom of fifty Cent’s little one has spoken out in regards to the intimate footage ‘coming again to hang-out her’ – and days later, information about Diddy’s former girlfriend Cassie Ventura has now emerged.
The ‘Me & U’ singer, 39, has saved a low profile since she took to the stand throughout Diddy’s dramatic trial final 12 months.
Whereas he was dealing with fees together with intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to interact in prostitution, Cassie courageously delivered testimony about their poisonous 11-year relationship.
Diddy finally dodged a life sentence as jurors dominated he was not responsible of the weightiest cost levied in opposition to him – racketeering conspiracy. He was convicted of two counts of transportation for prostitution.
Cassie Ventura was in a relationship with Diddy from 2007 to 2018 (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)
The infant oil-obsessed Unhealthy Boy Data founder was finally sentenced to 50 months in federal jail. Based on experiences, his launch date just lately received introduced ahead.
Diddy has continued to take care of his innocence and pleaded not responsible to all the fees in opposition to him. He didn’t take to the stand in his personal defence.
Previous to the extraordinary eight week trial – the place jurors heard – harrowing courtroom testimony and considered a bunch of graphic proof – Cassie launched a lawsuit in opposition to the rapper in November 2023.
It contained allegations that the singer had been overwhelmed, abused and raped by Diddy throughout their relationship. The day after she filed it, Diddy settled the swimsuit however ‘vehemently denied’ the claims it included.
In a press release, Cassie stated she ‘determined to resolve this matter amicably on phrases that she had some stage of management’.
It’s believed that she obtained a payout of $20million, whereas she can also be stated to have scored one other $10million from the InterContinental Los Angeles Century resort.
(Johnny Nunez/WireImage)
She reached the $10m settlement with the resort in wake of her being attacked by Diddy in one of many hallways of the institution again in 2016, which was caught on digital camera.
Through the music star’s high-profile trial, Cassie was quizzed in regards to the settlement she obtained from her ex – and he or she advised the court docket she would reasonably give all of it again and nonetheless have her ‘company and autonomy’.
Now, it seems that the mother-of-three has made a clear break with the money – because it has been revealed that Cassie now not lives within the US and he or she has no intention of returning.
In a court docket declaration that’s dated 1 Could, 2026, the Connecticut-born songstress stated, as per Complex: “I reside exterior of the USA. I don’t intend to maneuver again to the USA.”
It additionally states that Cassie is a US citizen, however is just not a present resident of California.
(Shareif Ziyadat/Getty Pictures for Sean “Diddy” Combs)
The court docket docs had been submitted amid one other lawsuit centred round Diddy’s alleged debauchery, which has been filed by a male escort named Clayton Howard.
He has accused the presently incarcerated businessman and his former accomplice Cassie of hiring him to take part in ‘freak offs’ and claims he contracted an STD in consequence.
Howard additionally alleges that Cassie grew to become pregnant following their encounters and that she subsequently had an abortion. He claims to have suffered bodily and psychological hurt whereas being concerned with the previous couple.
It’s unclear the place Cassie is now residing exterior of the US.
Within the court docket docs, she stated that it will be simpler for the authorized proceedings in relation to Howard’s lawsuit to be held in New York as that is the place her attorneys are primarily based.
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The trial of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has come to an finish after the jury returned a not responsible verdict on three of his 5 prices.
The music mogul, who had been standing trial towards a slew of prices, was discovered not responsible of essentially the most severe offences, together with racketeering and intercourse trafficking following the eight week within the New York’s courtroom.
The US rapper was charged with intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to interact in prostitution, with witnesses testifying towards him and sharing their alleged experiences.
The fees and verdicts towards Diddy are as follows:
Depend 1: Racketeering conspiracy – Not responsible
Depend 2: Intercourse trafficking of Cassie Ventura – Not responsible
Depend 3: Transportation for prostitution of Ventura and others – Responsible
Depend 4: Intercourse trafficking of girl often called ‘Jane’: Not responsible
Depend 5: Transportation for prostitution of ‘Jane’ and others: Responsible
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was discovered responsible of two of the 5 prices (Noam Galai/Getty Pictures for MTV)
Nevertheless, Diddy has lengthy maintained his innocence and confirmed little emotion when proof was being given towards him all through the trial.
Diddy’s former companions – together with Cassie Ventura – fellow rapper Child Cudi and a male escort who’s tied to the ‘Freak Off’ events took to the stands, with an increasing number of stunning particulars coming to mild.
After a partial verdict was reached yesterday (1 July), the jury had been requested by the choose to proceed deliberating and returned as we speak (2 July) to achieve a full verdict, finally discovering him not responsible of racketeering conspiracy.
So, what occurs subsequent?
The rapper has proven little emotion all through the trial, it has been reported (Lexie Moreland/WWD by way of Getty Pictures)
What did Diddy’s attorneys ask for?
Diddy was additionally discovered not responsible of the intercourse trafficking of Cassie Ventura or his former girlfriend, ‘Jane’, and he was discovered responsible verdict on two counts of transportation for prostitution of each girls.
As Combs is not charged with intercourse trafficking, Diddy’s lawyer, Marc Agnifilo requested the choose that he be launched on circumstances to his residence in Miami and provided a $1 million bond.
His lawyer mentioned that Combs had ‘been given his life by this jury’ due to their partial not responsible verdict, and that: “He can be nothing wanting a idiot to do something that will violate any situation.”
Nevertheless, it’s not recognized whether or not the choose will undergo with this.
He was discovered responsible of transporting Cassie Ventura for prostitution (Mike Coppola/Getty Pictures for Individuals.com)
What does the prosecution say?
After the decision was learn towards Combs, his attorneys argued that he must be free and put up bail.
“A substantial change in his circumstances is warranted,” Agnifilo mentioned, bringing to mild that that is his first cost.
Nevertheless, prosecutors instantly fought this with Maureen Comey accusing Agnifilo of ‘downplaying’ how severe his responsible prices are, stating that he dedicated a ‘litany of crimes’, which additionally included violence towards girls in addition to drug trafficking.
She mentioned he ‘does pose a hazard’ and can ‘flagrantly disregard’ court docket circumstances if he was launched.
He might spend 20 years in jail (Gareth Cattermole/Getty Pictures)
When will Diddy be sentenced?
As of proper now, the choose is contemplating whether or not to ship Combs again to the New York Metropolitan Detention Middle, the place he has been locked up since September 2024. Nevertheless, the BBC reported that the music mogul indicated to the choose that he doesn’t want to return.
If his attorneys are profitable in posting bail, it might imply that he’ll have the ability to return to his residence, which was beforehand ransacked by the FBI once they had been combing for proof towards Diddy as prices had been being positioned upon him.
The choose mentioned to the court docket as we speak: “I do know Mr Combs doesn’t need to return to the MDC.”
Regardless that the racketeering conspiracy carried a minimal life sentence, and Diddy was spared the cost, he might nonetheless spend a big interval behind bars after the 2 responsible verdicts had been returned towards him.
The utmost sentence for the transportation for prostitution is 10 years in jail, but it surely might take a while earlier than the rapper is formally sentenced, notably if the defence workforce succeeds of their plea for Diddy to be bailed out and returned to his residence.
All in all, federal prosecutors mentioned they’d search the utmost of 20 years in whole for the 2 prices he was discovered responsible of.
The jury has reached a verdict within the high-profile trial of music mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, which has gripped the world for the final two months.
The disgraced rapper, 55, has been discovered not responsible of the weightiest cost levied towards him – racketeering conspiracy – that means he has dodged a life sentence.
Jurors additionally dominated that he was not responsible of the intercourse trafficking of Cassie Ventura or his former girlfriend, Jane.
Nonetheless, Diddy has been discovered responsible of the transportation for prostitution of each ladies.
Each of those fees include a most sentence of 10 years in jail.
It comes after jurors endured an intense eight weeks of listening to harrowing courtroom testimony and viewing a number of graphic proof.
Diddy was accused of racketeering, intercourse trafficking and transportation to interact in prostitution after his bombshell arrest final September, which noticed his previously affluent empire crumble.
He was flanked by his eight attorneys as the decision was learn out, whereas his household have been sat on the second row of the gallery.
Combs has maintained his innocence all through the trial and had pleaded not responsible to the entire fees levied towards him. He didn’t take to the stand in his personal defence.
Jurors reached a verdict on 4 of the 5 counts on Tuesday (1 July), however have been initially unable to return to an settlement about whether or not prosecutors had proved the racketeering conspiracy cost.
The 12 women and men knowledgeable Choose Arun Subramanian that they’d come to an deadlock regarding the most severe of the fees towards Combs, which carries a most sentence of life in jail.
Diddy has constantly denied the entire fees towards him following his dramatic arrest 9 months in the past (Paras Griffin/Getty Pictures)
Prosecutors had alleged that the child oil-obsessed Dangerous Boy Information founder used his numerous companies as a prison organisation ‘to fulfil his sexual needs, shield his status, and conceal his conduct’.
And after being ordered to ‘maintain deliberating’ by the decide, the jury have now decided that Diddy will not be responsible of this cost.
The daddy-of-seven confronted as much as life behind bars if convicted on all counts.
The decision brings eight lengthy weeks of chaos within the New York courtroom to an in depth, though Combs’ authorized troubles are removed from over, given there’s additionally dozens of lawsuits lodged towards him.
During the last eight weeks, jurors heard from 34 witnesses about what it was prefer to be a part of Combs’ world.
His former girlfriends, together with ‘Me & U’ hitmaker Cassie Ventura, took to the stand to share their disturbing accounts of alleged abuse, violence and coercion.
The 38-year-old bravely testified, whereas closely pregnant, in regards to the tons of of ‘freak-offs’ she was compelled to take part in with prostitutes, the bodily and psychological abuse she endured, how she was ‘blackmailed’ and what led as much as the infamous footage of her being attacked by Diddy at Los Angeles’ InterContinental Resort in 2016.
The jury initially couldn’t come to an settlement on the racketeering cost (Nicholas Hunt/Getty Pictures)
One other of Combs’ former girlfriends, who testified beneath the pseudonym Jane to guard her id, additionally advised the courtroom about how she was coerced into participating in ‘resort nights’ to please him.
Throughout these ‘debauchery’ drenched intercourse periods, the rapper would watch her have intercourse with escorts whereas plying her with numerous medication, the courtroom heard.
Jane additionally advised jurors how she was locked right into a ‘love contract’ with Combs, which concerned him giving her a $10,000 month-to-month allowance, paying her hire and a financing her contemporary set of veneers – so long as she stored up the ‘resort nights’.
Male escorts concerned with each the ‘freak offs’ and ‘resort nights’ – akin to ‘The Punisher’ – additionally gave proof throughout the trial, as did a number of Combs’ former staff.
One detailed the gruelling work schedule they have been compelled to abide by, whereas Diddy’s ex-assistant Capricorn Clark revealed she was ‘kidnapped’ at gunpoint by him throughout a plot to ‘kill’ rapper Child Cudi.
Finally, the testimony didn’t persuade jurors past an inexpensive doubt that Diddy was responsible of the heinous crimes he was charged with.
Diddy blew up Child Cudi’s Porsche and broke into his dwelling after discovering his relationship with Cassie Ventura, a courtroom has heard.
The disgraced rapper, actual title Sean Combs, is presently on trial for intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to have interaction in prostitution, all of which he denies.
He has pleaded not responsible to the entire costs, for which he might spend the remainder of his life in jail if convicted.
As we speak (22 Might), Scott Mescudi – higher recognized by his stage title, Child Cudi – has taken to the stand to testify about how turned embroiled in Diddy’s relationship with Cassie.
The 41-year-old musician, from Ohio, briefly dated the ‘Me & U’ singer in 2011, whereas she was additionally nonetheless concerned with Diddy.
Mescudi informed the courtroom that he struck up a friendship with Cassie after they met in 2008, earlier than they started relationship for a brief interval three years later – whereas he was beneath the phantasm that ‘she and Sean Combs had some issues they usually weren’t relationship anymore’.
Mescudi stated he obtained a name from the Honey 3 actress, 38, in December 2011 at round 6am within the morning, informing him that Diddy had turn into conscious they had been an merchandise.
Child Cudi, actual title Scott Mescudi, seen arriving at courtroom at present (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP through Getty Photographs)
Whereas taking to the stand herself final week, Cassie claimed that Diddy had scoured by means of her emails throughout a ‘freak off’ and located that she had been speaking with Mescudi.
She alleged that in wake of this, the Unhealthy Boy mogul had threatened to launch footage of her sexual encounters with escorts and warned that ‘he was going to harm’ her and Mescudi.
Cassie additionally testified that Diddy informed her Mescudi’s automotive could be blown up – which did actually occur.
Discussing his model of occasions, Mescudi defined that Cassie had requested to be ‘picked up’ when she referred to as him, as per CNN, telling the courtroom: “She sounded actually burdened on the telephone, nervous, scared, so I went to go decide her up.”
The pair then went to a close-by resort, earlier than contacting one among Diddy’s workers, Capricorn Clark, who Mescudi stated was ‘very scared’ and ‘gave the impression of she was on the verge of tears’.
Clark then informed them that Diddy was inside Mescudi’s dwelling with an affiliate, in response to the rapper’s testimony, and that she had been ‘compelled to go together with them’ and wait outdoors in a automotive.
Child Cudi then rang Diddy to seek out out whether or not this was actually the case, who informed the ‘Pursuit of Happiness’ rapper that he ‘simply wished to speak’ and was ‘over right here ready for you’, the courtroom heard.
Cassie pictured with Diddy in late 2012 (Jeff Vespa/Getty Photographs For GQ)
Child Cudi defined that his property appeared to look regular when he obtained again, however later realised his safety cameras had been moved – which he says he didn’t do.
Mescudi recalled how a lot of items he had bought for his family members had been opened and littered throughout the kitchen counter, whereas his canine had been locked in a rest room – one thing which he additionally says he didn’t do.
The rapper insisted he would let his pet, who he’d had for 3 years on the time, ‘roam’ round his property when he wasn’t in – whereas saying the canine was ‘jittery’ and ‘on edge the entire time’ ever since this incident.
Mescudi informed how he contacted Diddy to ‘confront him’, admitting he even ‘wished to struggle him’, however in the end determined to name the police as he ‘did not know what [Diddy’s] intentions’ had been.
Following what appeared to have been a break-in at his residence, the rapper filed a police report in regards to the incident the next day.
Mescudi then went to Connecticut with Cassie to spend the Christmas interval along with her household, telling the courtroom that Diddy tried to contact him through textual content message a number of occasions whereas he was there.
“I suppose he was at midnight about issues and wished to speak, however at that time, post-break-in, I didn’t need to discuss,” Child Cudi stated at present. “You broke into my home, you messed with my canine, I don’t need to discuss to you.”
In January 2012, a month later, Mescudi claimed he then obtained a name from the one who was taking care of his canine to alert him to the truth that his automotive was on hearth.
Child Cudi testified that he believed Diddy and Cassie had been over when he started relationship the singer in 2011 (Mike Coppola/Getty Photographs for Folks.com)
The musician, who was about 45 minutes away from his dwelling, was then despatched images of the broken Porsche in his driveway earlier than he arrived again.
After photographs of the burnt out motor in courtroom, he stated it depicted ‘the injury of the Molotov cocktail in my Porsche’, including: “It seems like the highest of my Porsche was lower open, and that’s the place the Molotov cocktail was put in.”
When requested what his response was to this incident, Child Cudi stated: “What the f**okay.”
Just a few days later, he obtained in contact with Diddy and ‘lastly informed him that we would have liked to satisfy up, to speak’, as he thought issues had been ‘getting out of hand’ following the automotive hearth.
Discussing the assembly, Mescudi stated: “Sean Combs was standing there, staring out the window along with his fingers behind his again, like a Marvel supervillain.
“We mentioned just about the entire story about how me and Cassie first began thus far to what it was to the way it ended.”
He claimed that Diddy stated he ‘did not know what he was speaking about’ when he quizzed him in regards to the automotive hearth, and that the music mogul gave him ‘his phrase’ that he did not have any involvement in it.
He additionally testified that following all of this, he and Cassie ‘simply stopped speaking’ regardless of being in touch every day for round 12 months, whereas including: “I used to be upset to seek out that she had form of went again to him.”
In 2015, Mescudi ran into Diddy at an unique members membership and stated that Diddy informed him: “Man I simply need to apologize for the whole lot and all that bullsh*t.”
“That was the very last thing I used to be anticipating to get from him,” Mescudi stated, including that he ‘discovered peace’ with the scenario following this encounter.
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A psychologist took the stand throughout Diddy’s trial this week to elucidate why it typically takes victims a number of makes an attempt to sever ties with their abuser.
Dr Daybreak Hughes, a board-certified medical and forensic psychologist, is the primary knowledgeable witness to be known as to testify by prosecutors within the high-profile court docket case.
Diddy, 55, is presently going through expenses of intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to have interaction in prostitution, all of which he denies. The rapper has pleaded not responsible.
Yesterday (21 Might), Dr Hughes provided up her data on the advanced nature of abusive relationships, which is available in wake of Cassie Ventura’s emotional testimony final week.
The heavily-pregnant singer, 38, shared vivid particulars of the ‘freak offs’ she was allegedly compelled to take part in by Diddy, actual identify Sean Combs, as she claimed she solely did so to please her former associate.
Cassie stated she agreed to the numerous sexual encounters with escorts – regardless of feeling ‘disgusting’ and ‘humiliated’ by them – all through her 11-year on-off relationship with the music mogul, as she feared the rapper’s response if she refused.
She additionally claimed that Diddy ‘blackmailed’ her and threatened to launch footage of the freak offs, whereas her mom Regina Ventura testified that Diddy demanded $20,000 in return for not publicising the movies.
Cassie Ventura was in a relationship with Diddy from from 2007 till 2018 (Thaddaeus McAdams/Getty Photos)
Cassie instructed the court docket she ‘did not have the sources to get out’ of the connection, as Diddy managed just about each facet of her life, together with her profession, funds and housing.
“I understood Sean’s capabilities, his entry to weapons, and the threats that he made previous to that,” Cassie stated beforehand.
The ‘Me & U’ hitmaker additionally mentioned alleged violent assaults she endured and the way she struggled to interrupt free from the connection.
Different witnesses known as to the stand, corresponding to singer Daybreak Richard, have additionally testified in regards to the abuse they declare to have witnessed Cassie endure by the hands of Diddy.
Dr Hughes has since been known as in as a ‘blind knowledgeable’ – that means she is unaware of the main points and will not check with the specifics of the case – to teach the jury about why folks keep in abusive relationships for such lengthy durations of time.
“It’s common to remain in an abusive relationship,” she instructed the court docket, as per Sky Information. “They keep as a result of they [abusers] are utilizing a variety of behaviours that make folks really feel entrapped – psychological, emotional, financial abuse – all to maintain victims in [a] relationship to make them really feel like they cannot depart.”
The psychologist defined that victims typically type an ‘intense psychological bond’, or ‘trauma bond’, with their abuser – whereas the sufferer’s mind ‘reorganises’ to give attention to surviving the connection, moderately than escaping it, the BBC reported.
Dr Hughes detailed the psychological influence which abuse has on victims (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Photos)
Discussing bodily abuse, Dr Hughes stated: “It would not should occur on a regular basis. As soon as they present the flexibility to do it, the threats, the controlling and the put-downs, that solidifies the specter of utilizing extra bodily violence.
“It makes them really feel afraid of the threats and so they cannot get out due to that worry, this proverbial feeling of strolling on egg shells and never figuring out what’s coming subsequent.”
Dr Hughes then defined that victims are likely to ‘minimise’ the hurt they’re struggling, as there may be additionally ‘love and kindness along with the abuse’.
“The sufferer needs that, they need that again,” Dr Hughes stated. “So when that’s proven to the sufferer, that’s very reinforcing.”
The psychologist identified that break ups are tough ‘beneath the very best of circumstances’, however they’re even more durable when an individual resides in worry of one other assault.
“When you’ve gotten all this violence and abuse, you are simply making an attempt to dwell daily on this very micro method,” the knowledgeable continued. “No sufferer needs to be abused. They keep within the relationship as a result of it isn’t nearly hitting. It is about a variety of abusive behaviours that make a sufferer really feel trapped.”
By way of sexual abuse – which the psychologist dubbed ‘one of many highest forms of traumatic stress’ – Dr Hughes stated that this additional isolates victims and stops them from searching for assist, as they’re typically coping with a variety of disgrace.
Diddy has denied all expenses and maintains his innocence (Paras Griffin/Getty Photos)
“You’re strolling round injured and harmed, they expertise an incredible quantity of disgrace, humiliation, they do not need to make it public, it prevents them from getting assist to get out of the connection,” she stated.
That is much like how emotional abuse can influence victims, in accordance with Dr Hughes, who defined this facet of ill-treatment removes a sufferer’s ‘motivation to do something that may be useful’, saying: “If you cannot discuss what’s occurring within the relationship, you possibly can’t get assist.”
The psychologist additionally testified that leaving these type of relationships is especially laborious when there may be standing, energy or wealth at play too.
“When you’re going in opposition to somebody who has wealth, entry and privilege…,” she instructed the court docket, saying {that a} sufferer might imagine: “Who’s going to guard me?”
Cassie beforehand instructed the court docket she took substances throughout freak offs to ‘disassociate’, and Hughes stated this behaviour is usually appear in victims who need to ‘numb ache’, whereas ‘eliminating’ the recollections, in addition to worry and nervousness.
The trial, which is anticipated to span for roundeight weeks, continues.
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An unique dancer often called ‘The Punisher’ has testified that Diddy wore a non secular face masking throughout his notorious ‘freak-offs’.
Sean Combs’ racketeering and sex-trafficking trial reached day seven in New York on Tuesday (20 Might), and Sharay Hayes is without doubt one of the 10 witnesses who has taken to the stand to this point.
Prosecutors allege that the rapper ‘directed’ ‘freak off’ intercourse occasions that have been ‘coercive, manipulative occasions designed to interrupt down victims and maintain them dependent’.
His ex-girlfriend Cassie, legally often called Casandra Ventura, testified to the court docket that she was typically bodily abused throughout the freak offs, which may last as long as 4 days.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has pleaded not responsible the costs (Noam Galai/Getty Photos for MTV)
The court docket yesterday heard from Hayes, who testified that he initially wasn’t conscious he was assembly Diddy as a result of he wore a face masking throughout freak-offs.
Hayes, who obtained his nickname from taking part in basketball in his teenagers, has been within the escort trade since 1995.
He testified that the primary time he met Diddy, with out figuring out it was really him, was when he was employed in 2012 by somebody who known as themselves ‘Janet’.
The writer of In Search of Freezer Meat claimed he was greeted on the door by Cassie at Trump Tower in Midtown, who ‘handed me’ $800.
“I used to be particularly informed to not acknowledge her husband, not to take a look at him, no communication between me and him,” he claimed.
Sharay Hays, often called ‘The Punisher,’ testified he was employed by Diddy as much as eight instances (Instagram/@getpunished)
The dancer testified that he and Cassie began placing oil on themselves when a unadorned man sporting a head masking walked in.
“I couldn’t see his face,” Hayes mentioned. “He had what the Muslim ladies put on, the place their face is totally coated and you might solely see his eyes.”
Hayes added that the masked man was carrying a bottle of lubricant and masturbated within the dimly lit room.
When Cassie left the room, she allegedly gave Hayes one other $1,200.
The dancer informed the court docket that he was employed by them one other eight to 12 instances.
“My understanding was we have been making a scene, an attractive scene, that was pleasant to her associate,” he mentioned.
Diddy pictured together with his ex-girlfriend Cassie, who testified in opposition to him in court docket final week (Jeff Vespa/Getty Photos For GQ)
Hayes says he solely found who the masked man was when he went to fulfill the couple on the Essex Home Resort in New York with a welcoming signal which learn ‘Mr. Sean Combs’, including that his final encounter with Diddy and Cassie was in 2015.
Combs has pleaded not responsible to at least one rely of racketeering conspiracy, two counts of intercourse trafficking by power, fraud or coercion, and two counts of transportation to interact in prostitution.
If discovered responsible on all prices, the 55-year-old faces life in jail.
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Daybreak Richard has spoken out on the alleged horrific issues she noticed Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs do in direction of Cassie.
The singer took to the stand throughout his trial as he faces prices of racketeering, intercourse trafficking and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. Diddy denies all prices.
Richard was signed on the rapper’s Unhealthy Boy Data label together with her lady group, Danity Kane, from 2009 till 2011, throughout which she is alleged to have witnessed Cassie be assaulted by him.
Full title Casandra Ventura, she was in a long run relationship with Combs from 2007 to 2018 and through her testimony final week she uncovered extra in regards to the drug-fuelled ‘freak offs’ he allegedly orchestrated.
In her testimony, Richard claimed that she noticed the Hip-Hop mogul hit the singer over the top with an egg skillet in 2009, knocking her to the bottom.
Diddy and Cassie separated in 2018. (Neilson Barnard/Getty Pictures)
Having been ‘shocked’ and ‘scared’ by what she witnessed, she added that the next day, Combs informed her: “You might go lacking.”
Prosecutor Christy Slavik requested Richard in court docket: “When Mr. Combs informed you folks may go lacking, how did you interpret it?”
“That individuals may die. I could not imagine that this could possibly be the start of a journey for us,” the previous lady group member responded.
After witnessing this skillet incident, Richard claimed she ‘incessantly’ noticed him being violent towards Cassie.
“He would punch her, choke her, drag her, slap her within the mouth,” she mentioned. “I noticed him kick her, punch her within the abdomen.”
Richard performing with Diddy. (George Napolitano/FilmMagic)
The singer additionally claimed that members of Comb’s employees would see these alleged assaults which left accidents on Cassie’s ‘face, eyes, legs, arms, and knees’.
“They would not react, they would not do something,” she added.
On one other event, Richard alleges she noticed Combs punch Cassie within the abdomen whereas they had been at a restaurant. After they left, she mentioned they had been arguing within the automotive with Combs’ companion ’embarrassed’ by what occurred.
Richard testifies that when Cassie informed him he should not have performed that in public, ‘He grabbed her by the neck and popped her, slapped her within the mouth’ informed her to close up.
The singer added that after Cassie was allegedly left with a black eye from a punch, she and one in all her bandmates wore sun shades together with her in public ‘to have solidarity, to be a pal, to be a assist system for somebody who wanted it’.
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Cassie Ventura has spoken out after finishing her testimony and spending time being questioned by each the prosecution and defence on the witness stand at Diddy’s trial.
She has spoken about many issues, together with the ‘freak offs’ that her former associate Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs held and the abuse she alleges Combs focused her with.
The courtroom has been proven textual content messages between the pair and heard Ventura communicate on a number of incidents, whereas the defence had their likelihood to talk to her as effectively.
Diddy’s trial is anticipated to proceed for a number of extra weeks and there can be many different witnesses referred to as earlier than the jury deliberates and a verdict is handed.
If discovered responsible Combs may find yourself spending the remainder of his life in jail.
Cassie Ventura was relationship Diddy between 2007 and 2018, and has given testimony (Laura Thompson / New York Day by day Information by way of Getty Pictures)
After the tip of her testimony, Cassie Ventura launched an emotional assertion reflecting on her time within the courtroom and the incidents she was referred to as upon to talk about.
She stated: “This week has been extraordinarily difficult, but additionally remarkably empowering and therapeutic for me.
“I hope that my testimony has given power and a voice to different survivors, and can assist others who’ve suffered to talk up and likewise heal from abuse and concern.
“For me, the extra I heal, the extra I can keep in mind. And the extra I can keep in mind, the extra I’ll always remember.”
Additionally current within the courtroom was Alex Fantastic, Ventura’s husband, who launched an announcement of his personal displaying assist for his spouse and paying tribute to her ‘power and bravado’.
Ventura stated that regardless of the challenges, her time on the witness stand had been ‘remarkably empowering and therapeutic’ (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)
“Over the previous 5 days, the world has gotten to witness the power and bravado of my spouse, releasing herself of her previous,” Fantastic stated in his assertion.
“There was hypothesis on-line surrounding the way it should really feel for me to take a seat there and take heed to my spouse’s testimony. I’ve felt so many issues sitting there. I’ve felt large delight and overwhelming love for Cass.
“I’ve felt profound anger that she has been subjected to sitting in entrance of an individual who tried to interrupt her. So, to him and all of those that helped him alongside the best way, please know this: You didn’t.”
Ventura has needed to give detailed testimony about a number of that might be very tough to talk about, together with an incident in a lodge in 2016 the place video footage confirmed her being assaulted by Combs.
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Cassie Ventura’s husband has launched an emotional assertion amid the singer’s ongoing testimony within the trial in opposition to P Diddy.
Alex Advantageous, who married Cassie in 2019, launched an announcement to CNN, saying: “Over the previous 5 days, the world has gotten to witness the energy and bravado of my spouse, releasing herself of her previous.
“There was hypothesis on-line surrounding the way it should really feel for me to take a seat there and take heed to my spouse’s testimony. I’ve felt so many issues sitting there. I’ve felt great pleasure and overwhelming love for Cass.
“I’ve felt profound anger that she has been subjected to sitting in entrance of an individual who tried to interrupt her. So, to him and all of those that helped him alongside the way in which, please know this: You didn’t.
“You didn’t break her spirit nor her smile that lights up each room. You didn’t break the souls of a mom who provides the perfect hugs and performs the silliest video games with our little ladies.
“You didn’t break the girl who has made me a greater man.”
He went on so as to add: “I didn’t save Cassie, as some have stated. To say that’s an insult to the years of painful work my spouse has performed to avoid wasting herself. Cassie saved Cassie. She alone broke free from abuse, coercion, violence and threats.
“She did the work of preventing the demons that solely a demon himself might have performed to her. All I’ve performed is love her as she has beloved me. Her life is now surrounded by love, laughter and our household.
“This horrific chapter is endlessly put behind us, and we won’t be making further statements.
“We admire the entire love and assist we’ve obtained, and we ask that you simply respect our privateness as we welcome our son right into a world that’s now safer due to his mother.”
