Sean Combs sex trafficking trial updates: Cassie's testimony ends after days of describing abuse

Cassie said the "freak offs" were a "very choreographed experience," with lots of baby oil.

The substance would be heated up - a closed bottle placed in a sink filled with hot water - and applied liberally because Combs wanted her glistening constantly, she said.

Combs would call out Cassie when she "looked dry" and ordered her to reapply, sometimes requiring a new coat of baby oil every five minutes, or so, she said.

On one occasion, she said, a blow-up pool of baby oil and lubricants was placed in a hotel room and she was told to get inside in her "outfit" and shoes.

She said close to 10 large bottles of baby oil would be used during a "freak off."

"It was such a mess," she said. "It was like, 'What are we doing?'"

As she questioned Cassie, prosecutor Emily Johnson returned again and again to a simple, but important question: Whose decision was it?

"Sean," Cassie replied each time, referring to Combs.

It was his decision, she said, to involve her in "freak offs," to incorporate baby oil and male sex workers, to pour candle wax on her body, and more.

Cassie Ventura broke down on the witness stand as she described her participation in freak offs.

Ventura said she had just turned 22 when Sean Combs first proposed these marathon, drug-addled sex performances with male prostitutes and eventually, they "became almost weekly." She said it would be impossible to remember participating in all of them.

The average length was two or three days. She was awake the whole time, fueled by ecstasy, molly and cocaine given to her by Combs.

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"Who decided when a freak off was over?" prosecutor Emily Johnson asked.

"Ultimately that would be Sean," Ventura responded.

"Did you want to participate in every freak off?" Johnson asked

"No," Ventura answered. "I felt like it was all I was good for. It was disgusting. I felt humiliated. I didn't have the words for how horrible I really felt."

If she refused to participate, Combs "would be violent with me."

"His look would just change over. He would become a different person and I didn't know what was going to happen," Ventura said.

When Johnson asked if there was any part of the freak off she enjoyed, Ventura began to sob. She grabbed a tissue and, through tears, said "I thought it was the only time I could get."

The first freak-off occurred at one of the homes Combs was renting in Los Angeles. The jury saw a photo of the male escort who participated. Ventura did not remember his name. She said she wore "really high platform shoes" and a masquerade mask.

"Every freak off was directed by Sean. He knew specifically where he wanted everyone to be, the lighting," Ventura said.

The case against Combs also involves those around him and Johnson asked Ventura about associates Toni Fletcher and Kristina Khorram and security guards named Fahim and Uncle Paulie.

Ventura, who added a long camel coat to her witness stand wardrobe, recalled seeing guns in several of Combs' properties, "just laid out."

She recalled an evening when one of his employees told Combs record executive Shug Knight was nearby. Combs and others donned black clothing and guns.

"I was crying, I was screaming. Like, please don't do anything stupid," Ventura testified.

Cassie recalled an incident where Combs left her during a "freak off" at his Los Angeles home to confront rival record executive Suge Knight at Mel's Drive-In, a landmark diner nearby.

Combs sprang into action after his bodyguard came in and told him of Knight's whereabouts, she said. Combs and the bodyguard dressed in black clothes, grabbed guns from a safe and loaded into an SUV, she said.

"I was crying. I was screaming, like 'Please don't do anything stupid,'" Cassie testified. "I was really nervous for them. I didn't know what they were going to do."

She said, "It's like I wasn't even there."

Cassie said Combs later returned, but she didn't say if he told her what happened. It's unclear if he ended up encountering Knight at the diner.

"The freak offs became a job," she said, noting that other encounters took anywhere from 36 or 48 hours.

The marathon sessions frequently required periods of recovery from dehydration, fatigue and drug use, she said.

Before the trial paused for a 40-minute lunch break, Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily Johnson pressed Cassie to explain what happened to her music career and the nine albums that were never released.

Cassie said she created hundreds of songs, some of which were released on the internet prior to "proper release and some just didn't see the light of day." Cassie testified that much of her week went toward the "freak offs."

"Freak offs became a job where there was no space to do anything else but to recover and just try to feel normal again," she said.