Casandra Ventura testified for the prosecution about alleged abuse and control in her relationship with Sean Combs and about sexual encounters involving escorts, drugs, hotels, recordings, and staff. Defense counsel used messages expressing affection, shared drug use, later contact, and her help arranging some encounters to challenge her account. Ventura said she later did not want the encounters and did not feel able to refuse.
Witness
Casandra Ventura
Musician and entertainer known professionally as Cassie, and a former partner of Sean Combs.
Appeared2025 Federal Trial
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Casandra Ventura testified for the prosecution on Day 6 and Day 7 about her relationship with Sean Combs and what she described as physical and psychological abuse, control over parts of her career and daily life, and sexual encounters called freak-offs. She described escorts, hotels, drugs, detailed preparation, recordings, and staff involvement, and said she continued participating because she feared making Combs angry. Ventura said Combs sometimes set up a FaceTime call to watch from another room and expected her to continue the encounter while he could see her.
Her direct testimony also addressed alleged assaults and injuries, threats involving recorded sexual material, the March 2016 InterContinental Hotel incident, drug dependency and treatment, and her allegation that Combs raped her in 2018. Photographs, messages, electronic-device material, recordings, and sealed video stills were used during the examination.
On Day 8 and Day 9, defense counsel cross-examined Ventura with messages, photographs, and recordings concerning affection, conflict, planning for freak-offs, shared drug use, secrecy, later contact, and the civil settlement. Ventura acknowledged that she sometimes helped prepare for encounters, used drugs with Combs, exchanged loving messages, and remained in contact after their breakup. She nevertheless disputed characterizations that reduced her participation to voluntary sexual preference, denied wanting the encounters recorded, and qualified counsel's descriptions of particular messages, dates, and motives.
On redirect, Ventura said periods when Combs was kind did not last and that his moods and demands affected her career and sense of self. She said she was initially open to trying freak-offs but later did not want them and felt unable to refuse because of concerns about her safety, career, and relationship. After further recross and redirect about videos, drug use, career issues, and settlement timing, she denied a financial stake and said she kept broken devices because she feared they contained explicit videos.
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