In Early Testimony Cassie Says Combs Controlled a Lot of My Life

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00:00In early testimony, Cassie Says Combs controlled a lot of my life.

00:04Cassandra Ventura said, during Sean Combs' sex trafficking and racketeering trial,

00:09that his demands for sexual freak-offs became a full-time job, stifling her music career.

00:15The star witness of the federal sex trafficking trial of the music mogul Sean Combs

00:20took the stand for the first time on Tuesday. His former girlfriend Cassandra Ventura,

00:25the singer known as Cassie, who filed a civil suit in 2023 that accused him of rape and years of

00:31physical abuse. Ms. Ventura's suit, which was quickly settled, was followed by a criminal

00:37investigation that led to the trial in federal district court in lower Manhattan. Parts of

00:42the indictment against Mr. Combs, who is also known as Diddy and Puff Daddy, closely mirror the details

00:47and language of the lawsuit. Here's what else to know. Cassie's testimony. When asked to describe

00:54her long-term relationship with, Mr. Combs on Tuesday, Ms. Ventura, who is the prosecution's

01:00star witness, testified that, there were violent arguments that would usually result in some sort

01:04of physical abuse. Sexual encounters. Daniel Phillip, the prosecution's second witness,

01:10who said he was paid for sexual encounters with Ms. Ventura while Mr. Combs watched,

01:15completed his testimony on Tuesday. Is it fair to say she was in complete control of

01:20everything she did? Asked Xavier Donaldson, a lawyer for Mr. Combs. I cannot say that,

01:27Phillip responded. Hotel video, Israel Flores, a security guard at the Intercontinental Hotel in

01:34Los Angeles, told jurors on Monday that Mr. Combs was caught on security cameras striking,

01:40hitting and kicking Ms. Ventura in a hallway in 2016. Mr. Flores said that Ms. Ventura had a purple eye

01:47and that Mr. Combs offered him cash. Opening statements. Emily A. Johnson, one of the

01:53prosecutors, sought to portray Mr. Combs as a serial abuser and sex trafficker who hurt and

02:00manipulated women for decades and controlled an organization that helped him do it. One of Mr.

02:05Combs's lawyers, Tini Garagos, said that the music mogul had been violent toward Ms. Ventura, but that

02:11was consensual. Rat about the prosecutors and defense lawyers, who is Cassie? The criminal charges

02:18against Mr. Combs stem from Ms. Ventura's decision to pour her allegations into a lawsuit. She was a

02:24piano player and dancer as a child before pursuing modeling and music. Who is Sean Combs? Mr. Combs

02:30played a major role in making hip-hop a global cultural force and helped turn rap and R&B artists

02:36like the notorious B.I.G. and Mary J. Blige into household names. The jurors, eight men and four

02:42women, who range in age from their 30s to their 70s, were sworn in as anonymous jurors. They will not

02:49be sequestered so must shield themselves from the media coverage about the case.

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