Casandra Ventura testified for the prosecution about her relationship with Sean Combs, alleged abuse and control, and freak-offs involving escorts, drugs, hotels, and recorded sexual activity. Cross-examination tested her account through messages, later contact, drug use, and questions about specific allegations; on redirect, she reaffirmed that she later did not want freak-offs or 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 gave extensive prosecution testimony over Days 6 through 9 about her relationship with Sean Combs. She described alleged physical and psychological abuse, increasing control over her career, appearance, communications, housing, and finances, and freak-offs involving escorts, drugs, hotels, and recorded sexual activity. She also identified sealed still images that she said depicted freak-offs and described alleged assaults, injuries, hotel stays, contacts with staff and security, and alleged threats involving recorded sexual material.
Defense cross-examination used messages, photographs, recordings, treatment-related questioning, drug use, a burner phone, and Ventura's continued contact with Combs after their 2018 breakup. Counsel questioned her account of the alleged 2018 rape and presented later affectionate and reflective messages. Ventura acknowledged some matters, including shared drug use and periods of opiate dependence, while qualifying defense characterizations of particular messages, timing, and motives.
On redirect, Ventura said that kind and loving periods in the relationship did not last and that freak-off demands affected her career and self-worth. She said she was initially open to trying freak-offs but later did not want them or feel able to refuse, citing safety, career, and relationship concerns. She reaffirmed her account of being hit and pursued from a March 2016 InterContinental Hotel freak-off, said she had no doubt Combs raped her in August 2018, and said she expected no payment for testifying.
During deliberations, the court resolved the jury's request for excerpts of Ventura's testimony, including the permitted scope of testimony about the InterContinental Hotel incident and limited testimony about her 2024 Instagram post.
Key Points
Ventura described an 11-year relationship with Combs that she said involved increasing control, alleged abuse, and freak-offs involving escorts, drugs, hotels, and recorded sexual activity. [1][2]
Cross-examination focused on messages, relationship conflicts, drug use, later contact, and Ventura's account of the alleged 2018 rape; she repeatedly qualified defense characterizations of messages, timing, and motives. [1][2][3]
On redirect, Ventura said she initially agreed to try freak-offs but later did not want them or feel able to refuse, citing concerns for her safety, career, and relationship. [1]
During deliberations, the court resolved which portions of Ventura's testimony would be furnished to the jury, including limited testimony about the InterContinental Hotel incident. [1]
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