Cassie Ventura, Diddy’s ex-girlfriend has been on the stand for 3 days in a row giving her gut-wrenching testimony into their decade long relationship, and the alleged abuse she experienced at his hand. It’s now the defense’s turn to question Cassie about her claims, and for our listeners to get a word for word deep dive into all of the details. Listen in as Attorney’s Emily Anne Johnson and Anna Estevao, take Cassie back to the years of 2011, 2016, 2018 and 2023 in great detail. The Trial of Diddy is hosted by DailyMail.com’sManhattan-based, Kayla Brantley, reporter-at-large and TV correspondent at Daily Mail, and Germania-Rodriguez Poleo, Chief US Reporter. Our Listener Survey is here: https://ex-plorsurvey.com/survey/selfserve/550/g517/250305?list=6 Follow us on instagram @thetrialpod Email us [email protected] Whatsapp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’) Presenters: Kayla Brantley and Germania Rodriguez-Poleo Editor: Sam Morris Producer: Serita Wesley Writers: Caroline Cheetham & Liz Hull Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini Executive Producer: Jamie East A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the background and charges against Diddy?
Seriously popular. The following episode explores a number of allegations regarding the artist Diddy. He denies all charges and has pled not guilty to sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution.
Chapter 2: Who are the hosts and what is the podcast about?
Welcome to The Trial of Diddy. I'm Kayla Brantley. And I'm Germania Rodriguez-Poleo. We'll be back in a second.
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The biggest secret in the entertainment industry that really wasn't a secret at all.
At the height of his career, Sean Diddy Combs had it all.
Everything Diddy touched turned to gold. Now, he faces multiple federal charges in New York, including sex trafficking and allegedly running a criminal enterprise.
Another woman has now come forward, alleging Combs of sexual assault. Music mogul and rapper Sean Diddy. He claims she was drugged and sexually assaulted by Combs. Oh, this guy is dangerous.
From freak-offs to the mysterious list, the shocking case that has gripped the world is finally here. And we'll be bringing you every detail as it happens.
Welcome to The Trial of Diddy.
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Chapter 3: What is Cassie Ventura's testimony about her relationship with Diddy?
Welcome to the podcast. Right now, it's Thursday, May 15th. When we're recording this, it's 1.07 p.m. in New York. Today, Cassie is back on the stand for the third day in a row, and she's approaching nearly 20 hours of testimony. And so far, we've heard what can only be described as gut-wrenching testimony. But today, she's under cross-examination, and it has finally begun.
We'll be bringing you her words shortly, exactly as we heard them in court.
That's right, Kayla. Today we're going to discuss how Diddy allegedly raped Cassie after they split in 2018.
Yeah, you'll hear how she broke down and revealed that she considered, quote, walking into traffic because of recurring flashbacks from the hundreds of sex parties she says she was forced to partake in.
She said she was desperate for Diddy to read her book so he could understand the impact of what he had done to her.
And we'll hear how she settled her lawsuit for $20 million just 24 hours after she filed it back in 2023.
Welcome to the trial of Diddy. I can't carry the shame.
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Chapter 4: How did the relationship between Cassie and Diddy begin and evolve?
During those 11 years you took care of him? In the ways I could, yes. You believed he needed someone to take care of him? I don't know. In some ways? Yes.
She continued asking Cassie about her relationship with Diddy.
I haven't thought about that in a while. The beginning of the relationship was really fast and fast-paced. Scary, but the more time I spent with him and got to know him, his real personality or what I thought was his real personality came out and I liked who that was.
We've also just been shown a series of text messages between Diddy and Cassie, which were sent on August 5th, 2009.
Diddy, I miss you already. Me too. Diddy, when do you want to freak off? Laugh out loud.
LOL, I'm just going up to change. I'm always ready to freak off, lol, lol.
Much of the evidence we've heard so far today has been messages, and we're talking texts and emails which have been exchanged between Diddy and Cassie. Some of them are pretty graphic, as a lot of this case has been so far. We'll bring you more of those on Tuesday, but one email the court heard about was sent in December 2009.
So this was what the defense say was just a flavor of what the messages say. And what the defense claim these messages show is not what was happening during the freak offs, but rather what Cassie was anticipating or wanting to happen. This was an email sent by Cassie to Diddy, which Estevo made Cassie read out loud to the court.
I want it and I want to give you the same. I just think I have to trust you beyond it and just being sexual. Do you know what I mean? In order for me to be more open with the things we do in bed, I need to feel safe, like home. Like this is my husband. This is the only man that will ever have this aggressive slash sexual side of me.
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Chapter 5: What were 'freak-offs' and how did they affect Cassie?
That's a great question. I wanted to make him happy. I was in a really significantly mature relationship that I don't think I was prepared for. Now when I look back at it, but yeah, I loved him. I didn't want him to think that I thought anything bad of him for it. I just wanted to make him happy.
She said the freak offs became a weekly occurrence and she was given ecstasy and later cocaine to help her stay awake and perform for Diddy for days on end. But pretty quickly, she says she realized she didn't want to be involved.
I just felt like it was all I was good for him. I just felt pretty horrible about myself. I felt disgusting. I was humiliated. I didn't have those words to like put together at the time, like how horrible I really felt. And I didn't. I couldn't talk to anybody about it, so.
The jury was shown several stills from videos of Cassie and various escorts at freak-offs. And we should say here that the public and media in the court were unable to see these intimate photographs to protect her.
She said the sex parties took place at both their homes in New York and Miami and in hotels all over the world, including in Ibiza and Turks and Caicos. She said they used fake names to make their reservations, She called herself Jackie Star or Veronica Bang or Anita Crawford and Diddy went by Frank Black or Frank White.
She said his staff also booked the hotels for them and bought the baby oil, lubricants and condoms for the sex sessions.
She said expensive scented candles would be used in the hotel rooms and as many as 10 large bottles of baby oil were poured all over her and the escort during each freak-off because Diddy liked them to appear, quote, glistening. She also recounted one occasion at the La Hermitage Hotel in Beverly Hills where a blow-up pool full of baby oil was set up for them to get into.
Later, she said Diddy asked his assistants to bring studio lighting, lighting which changed colors in time to the music, to the freak-offs. She also said that the rooms would be left in a mess with baby oil all over the walls and all over the furniture. And sometimes hotels demanded they pay compensation because they need to be cleaned up or redecorated.
The jury was shown lots of text messages between Cassie and Diddy discussing potential escorts for these sex parties. And she said eventually it became her job. She said she contacted them via Craigslist, Backpage, or various agencies, including one called Cowboys for Angels and another called Latin Men. She was shown pictures of 19 different male escorts.
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Chapter 6: What drugs were involved in the freak-offs and how did Cassie cope?
I just feared for my career. I feared for my family. Just embarrassing, all of it. It's horrible and disgusting. No one should ever do that to anyone.
What, if anything, did Sean say to you about the impact of releasing the freak-off videos?
That it could ruin everything that I worked for, just make me look like a slut. I would be shamed. And I wasn't supposed to be on those videos. I didn't want to be in them.
Cassie also said she and Diddy visited sex clubs together in New York and one in Las Vegas called The Green Door.
What was your reaction to visiting these sex clubs?
It was just confusing. By that point, I was pretty messed up. I remember there being a time where I got just way too drunk to do anything and we had to leave. It's just uncomfortable when it's not something you're into. I'm not into seeing the person I'm in love with be with somebody else that's not my thing.
What, if anything, did you tell Sean about whether you wanted to go to sex clubs? I was vocal about it. I told him it made me uncomfortable.
He knew. He knew how I behaved.
She explained that several times she tried to leave a freak off and would end up in alleyways behind the hotel they were at or in the hotel kitchen, but Diddy would always end up finding her and taking her back.
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Chapter 7: How did the alleged abuse and control impact Cassie's career and wellbeing?
plugging my phone in and going to bed. You should do the same.
She said when she got home, her best friend, Carrie Morgan, was there. Her friend Carrie was so upset when she saw the state of Cassie's face that she's the one who called the police. But when the officers arrived, Cassie said she decided she didn't want to report Diddy. She said she wanted to protect him.
And Cassie told the jury that it wasn't the first time Diddy put his hands on her and hit and kicked her during a freak off. She said his bodyguards and assistants would also witness the physical assaults. She said one actually quit after witnessing it.
Were you ever injured after Sean was physically abusive with you?
Yes. How often? Anytime he was physical, there would be at least some trace, a bruise or something.
What, if anything, did you do to recover from these times?
Recovery was days worth. I would just kind of hide out for that period.
Where would you hide?
Hotel rooms. Cassie also recalled an incident in January 2009 when they were at a party at a nightclub in LA called the Ace of Diamonds. She said she had been speaking to a music producer at the club and when they left, Diddy called her a slut in the car. She said she was drunk and she punched him hard in the face.
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