The hip-hop mogul is charged with sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy.
NEW YORK -- After four days on the witness stand, Cassie Ventura concluded her testimony Friday at the trial of her ex-boyfriend, Sean "Diddy" Combs.
It came shortly after the defense concluded nearly two days of cross-examination.
Prosecutors allege Combs, 55, used his fame and fortune to orchestrate an empire of exploitation, coercing women into abusive sex parties.
If Combs is convicted on all charges, which include racketeering, kidnapping, arson, bribery and sex trafficking, he would face a mandatory 15 years in prison and could remain behind bars for life.
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Estevao asked Cassie if she still had feelings for Combs after he allegedly raped her in August 2018.
"You didn't hate him then. And you don't still hate him now," Estevao said.
"I don't hate him," Cassie responded.
"You still have love for him?"
"I have love for the past, what it was."
Cassie testified that she broke up with Combs for good in August 2018 after she saw a photo of him with another woman he'd been dating for the last few years of their decade-long relationship.
"I just don't trust anymore. That last shot put the nail in the coffin," Casse texted Combs, referring to the photo of Combs with a woman identified in court as Gina.
"I promised myself I wouldn't be with you anymore if you did that to me again," Cassie wrote, telling Combs "you lied to me" and "she never went away."
Soon after, Cassie said, she started dating her now husband, Alex Fine.
Cassie Ventura testified she has been taking Suboxone, a treatment for opiate addiction since 2022.
In 2023, she attended a 45-day in-patient treatment program in Arizona that included neuro-feedback therapy and EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, a psychotherapy technique meant to help process distressing memories, according to her testimony.
"You understood that you were being treated for PTSD?" defense attorney Anna Estevao asked. "Yes," Ventura testified. She denied being treated for sex or love addiction, which the facility also offers.
The testimony has been interrupted by calls for conferrals between the parties.
The judge called a recess to remind the defense of his rules and to impose new ones.
The jury heard a dramatic recording of a March 2014 conversation in Atlantic City between Cassie Ventura and a man called Sugit, who claimed he had seen her in a sexually explicit video taken during a "freak off."
"Tell me what exactly you saw," Ventura is heard telling Sugit. "You told me somebody else was in there f------ me."
A moment later her voice is heard rising.
"You have it? Why didn't you show me?" Ventura said. "Because I'm not disrespectful," Sugit is heard answering meekly.
"You've had it the whole time?" Ventura said. "It's my f------- life and I'll kill you. I'll kill you if you don't show me. Pull it up. If you have it pull that s--- up or I'm going to kill you!"
Ventura is heard telling Sugit, "We're staying here until you show me that s---. I'm going to kill you I don't give a f---. I'll kill you because you're f------ with me!"
Ventura testified about another time she said she became concerned about a sex tape, one taken by one of the male escorts who participated in a "freak off."
"I was in the room with him and I saw the phone up so I told Sean about it after," Ventura testified,
"You were concerned he was recording?" defense attorney Anna Estevao asked. "Yes," Ventura answered.
"What happened when you told Mr. Combs your suspicion?" Estevao asked. "He said, 'I'll take care of it,'" Ventura responded.
Ventura testified she also grew concerned that some of the male escorts hired for "freak offs" were participating in a reality television show featuring the escort service she said she and Combs used.
