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Casandra Ventura says she was forced in sex with male escorts while Sean Combs looked and masturbated.
If she ignored his calls, his employees found her.
If she did not comply with his demands, he beat her malignant.
And on Tuesday, when she saw the pop singer known as “Diddy” in court, lawyers say it was the first time in years.
Heavily pregnant with her third child, Ventura, an artist who is generally known as 'cassie', took the position for marathon testimony against her ex as the star in the process in which prosecutors have accused Kammen officers of leading a criminal ring for sex trade.
Ventura wore a long, turtleneck brown dress, camel jacket and heels, jury members told them that she was met Kammen for the first time when she was 19 years old and signed a contract with his record label with his Bad Boy for a deal of 10 album-from which only one has ever made.
Despite an age difference of 17 years, Combs kissed her on her 21st birthday, she says, after which she cried and 'walked away'.
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But they would continue to meet each other to talk about her music career and the relationship eventually became sexual, she told jury members like Combs, now 55, imprisoned and noticeably old, looked up.
“I wanted to be near Sean for the same reasons as everyone else at that time,” testified the 38-year-old. “He was just this exciting, entertaining, fun guy – who happened to have my career in his hands.”
In unbearable testimony in detailed ventura detailed how she eventually fell in love with combs, but felt compelled to deal with so-called “freak-offs”: sometimes days-long sexual performances directed by the one-off billionaire in which Cassie was the star, and according to her the object.
“I was humiliated,” she told the court, her voice broke with tears while her husband observed from the gallery. “I couldn't talk to anyone about it.”
“I just had the feeling that it was all I was good for him.”
Combs would instruct her to take drugs for sex involving routine male escorts, and she indicated: “I was high, so there was not too much feeling,” she said jury members.
Asked by prosecutors if they ever asked the freak-offs, Ventura said she was trying, but it didn't help.
“Sean is a real polarizing person, also really charming,” said Ventura. “It is difficult to be able to decide at that moment what you need when he tells you what he wants.”
'Humiliating'
Defense lawyers indicated that they were planning to show that Ventura acted as a free adult who is involved in what they have cast as unconventional, but consensual, sexual activity.
But Ventura described highly orchestrated versions on behalf of Combs, which according to them demanded that rooms were filled with baby oil and lubricant and mood lighting.
He insisted that the Ventura dress was bought in pure outfits and platform heels from sex shops, she said.
At one point he instructed that she was filled in an inflatable swimming pool filled with lubricant and oil while she was wearing lingerie, she said.
Ventura said the choreographed sex parties took place in New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Atlanta also in Ibiza and Turks & Caicos.
“To be honest, you call it, we probably did it there,” said Ventura.
The medicines were a “buffer” to resist the “humiliating” and often filmed sexual encounters, she said.
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Towards the end of the testimony on Tuesday-Slechts, the first of the different in which Ventura is expected to take the position of Trilling her voice when she told a violent encounter in a hotel in Los Angeles, in which Combs tried to drag her back to a freak-off she tried to leave.
The disturbing images jury members have now seen it a few half dozen times in just the second day of testimony in the case of the Government is just an example of the physical abuse that Ventura says she has retained for more than a decade of their relationship.
When he was upset, she says, his eyes would “turn black – the version of him I was in love with was no longer there.”
“Make the wrong face,” Ventura told jury members, “and the next thing I knew was hit in the face.”
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