Casandra Ventura testified about her relationship with Sean Combs, alleged control, freak-offs, and a Century City hotel incident as Daniel Phillip completed his testimony and the court resolved evidentiary and access issues.
Full day summary
The court resolved several evidentiary and courtroom-access issues before Casandra Ventura testified. It allowed limited use of a reported bar-fight incident in a text-message context, admitted two prior consistent statements while reserving two others for possible rebuttal, and set procedures concerning witness exclusion and proposed press access to sexually explicit exhibits.
Daniel Phillip completed cross-examination, redirect, recross, and further redirect. He disputed the defense characterization of Ventura's control during the encounters, described her as visibly afraid after an Essex House argument, and testified that Combs directed sexual activity involving him and Ventura. The court struck part of one answer and instructed the jury to disregard it.
Ventura testified about her relationship with Sean Combs, including her account of increasing control over her career, appearance, communications, housing, and possessions. She described freak-offs involving escorts, drugs, recordings, and directions she said came from Combs, and said she continued participating because she feared his reaction. She also identified hotel-surveillance footage while recounting an alleged Century City hotel incident. The court admitted numerous exhibits subject to connection, directed the government to condense cumulative questioning about supplies, and provisionally denied the news organizations' request for pool-reporter access to the video exhibits pending further submissions.