Cassie ends Diddy testimony by revealing her $10 MILLION pay day from viral hotel beating: Live trial updates
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Sean 'Diddy' Combs' attorneys have concluded their cross-examination of his ex-girlfriend and main accuser Cassie Ventura.
As the trial against the mogul entered its fifth day, more celebrity names came up - including Chris Brown and mystery NFL player Cassie said she had an affair with.
Diddy's team did their best to undermine the jury's sympathy for Cassie.
They exposed more text messages where she declared her love for the rapper, despite the abuse she says she suffered, and prompted her to admit that she neither 'hated' the rapper when the alleged abuse happened, nor does she 'hate him' today.
She confirmed that they continued their relationship even after he beat her, and even cheated on her now husband, Alex Fine, with Diddy.
Cassie, who is eight months pregnant, fought back with a calm and composed demeanor.
She said Diddy raped her, was an out-of-control drug addict, and someone she felt she couldn't leave.
Cassie Ventura's testimony ends with $10M settlement bombshell
Cassie said she expects to receive a $10 million settlement from the Intercontinental Hotel in Los Angeles, where she was assaulted by Combs in 2016.
Security camera footage aired last year on CNN shows the hip-hop mogul hitting and kicking Cassie, knocking her to the floor as she attempted to leave a 'freak off' sexual encounter at the hotel.
Cassie revealed the figure during questioning by Combs’ lawyer in a phase of her testimony known as re-cross. She said the figure was an estimate and that the settlement was reached recently. She didn’t disclose the nature of her claim against the hotel.
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Jury hears of Freak Off supplies and details of Diddy's alleged baby oil demands
Cassie told the jury that Diddy would be very concerned with how well she prepared before a Freak Off.
She said his staff was in charge of buying the supplies: baby oil, Astroglide and condoms.
Cassie said Diddy preferred Johnson's baby oil and insisted everyone in the Freak Off had to be 'glistening.'
The baby oil 'was always heated' by being placed in the sink with hot water and the cap on, she added.
'If he felt like you were too dry he’d let you know,' Cassie recalled.
'He would say you’re too dry, you need to put more oil on, you need to be glistening, you need to be shining.'
Cassie said they could use as many as 10 large-sized bottles of baby oil during the Freak Offs and would apply it as often as every five minutes.
'It was a lot,' she said.
On one occasion, she said, a blow-up pool of baby oil and lubricants was placed in a hotel room and she was told to get inside in her 'outfit' and shoes.
'It was such a mess,' she said. 'It was like, "What are we doing?"'
Listen to Cassie Ventura's statement after testifying against Diddy
Singer recounts how Diddy attacked Ventura
American singer Dawn Richards is giving evidence about seeing Diddy abuse Ventura 'often'.
Diddy looked at Richards as she walked to the stand wearing a yellow on white chekered suit.
She was signed to Diddy's Bad Boy Records as part of Diddy Dirty Money and Dannity Kane, and testified that she saw Diddy attack his then-girlfriend in 2009.
'He came down the stairs screaming, belligerent, asking where his food was and hit her over the head and hit and kicked her on the ground,' she said.
Richards was asked if she saw Diddy abuse Ventura on any other occasions. She replied yes, 'often'.
Federal prosecutors can only bring a case if they can show sex trafficking crimes took place in multiple states - or in Diddy's case, around the world.
Cassie, having allegedly been forced to participate in dozens of them, can testify to them being held all over the US and abroad.
She said freak offs took place in New York City, Miami, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Las Vegas, Ibiza in Spain, and Turks and Caicos in the Caribbean.
Judge rules 'freak off' videos will NOT be shown in court
Judge Arun Subramanian provisionally denied a joint application by news outlets for the videos to be played in open court and be described by the media.
He agreed with a prosecution argument that playing them would 'revictimize' Ventura and one of the unnamed female victims who will testify later iun the trial.
The judge also denied an alternative proposal to allow three pool reporters to stay in court when they were played, and share reports with other outlets.
“I’m not seeing any case that would suggest in any way, shape, or form that images or videos of these types of acts that are alleged to be sexual abuse would be required to be shown in open court when they pose the obvious risk of revictimization,' he said.
Robert Balin, the lawyer who argued on behalf of the press, earlier said the First Amendment was 'at its zenith' in the case.
He argued it was important 'people, though the press, be able to see justice is being done'.
Balin said the best evidence of whether the sex acts in the 'freak offs' were coerced - which underpinned the prosecution's case - were the videos themselves.
The application was only ever to view the videos and describe them, not for the footage to ever become public.
Cops found baby oil, drugs, in Diddy's room after he was arrested
Special Agent Yasin Binda began her testimony by saying she works for Homeland Security Investigations' human trafficking division.
Binda participated in searches related to the Combs investigation and was involved in coordinating logistics for his arrest last September at a Manhattan hotel.
She was one of the agents who arrested Diddy in New York last year.
She told the court that police found 'mood lighting,' baby oil and drugs including ketamine and MDMA in his room.
'This is one zip lock bag filled with Johnson’s baby oil and you see another zip lock bag filled with Astroglide that was in the hallway closet,' she said of what she found in Diddy's room at the Park Hyde hotel on September 16, 2024.
Diddy had been in New York for 11 days before his arrest and prosecutors said he was 'waiting potentially for his arrest.'
The mogul looked stress as agent Binda spoke and put his hand on the back of his head.
WATCH: Diddy and Cassie's first kiss described in courtroom testimony
Cassie's husband Alex Fine shares statement
Over the past five days, the world has gotten to witness the strength and bravery of my wife, freeing herself of her past. There has been speculation online surrounding how it must feel for me to sit there and listen to my wife’s testimony. I have felt so many things sitting there. I have felt tremendous pride and overwhelming love for Cass. I have felt profound anger that she has been subjected to sitting in front of a person who tried to break her. So, to him and all of those who helped him along the way, please know this: You did not. You did not break her spirit nor her smile that lights up every room. You did not break the souls of a mother who gives the best hugs and plays the silliest games with our little girls. You did not break the woman who has made me a better man.
I did not save Cassie, as some have said. To say that is an insult to the years of painful work my wife has done to save herself. Cassie saved Cassie. She alone broke free from abuse, coercion, violence and threats. She did the work of fighting the demons that only a demon himself could have done to her. All I have done is love her as she has loved me. Her life is now surrounded by love, laughter and our family. This horrific chapter is forever put behind us, and we will not be making additional statements. We appreciate all of the love and support we have received, and we ask that you respect our privacy as we welcome our son into a world that is now safer because of his mom.
Diddy's lawyers try to stop Dawn Richard from taking the stand
Defense attorney Marc Agnifilo objected to the next witness in Diddy's trial, former Danity Kane member Dawn Richard.
Prosecutors say her testimony is relevant because she witnessed Diddy being violent towards Cassie.
They said 'Richard has flown across the country to be here today.'
Cassie issues message after end of her testimony against Diddy
Casie's lawyer Doug Wiggdor shared a statement from her after her testimony concluded on Friday.
This week has been extremely challenging, but also remarkably empowering and healing for me. I hope that my testimony has given strength and a voice to other survivors, and can help others who have suffered to speak up and also heal from the abuse and fear.
For me, the more I heal, the more I can remember. And the more I can remember, the more I will never forget. I want to thank my family and my advocates for their unwavering support, and I’m grateful for all the kindness and encouragement that I have received.
I’m glad to put this chapter of my life to rest. As I turn to focus on the conclusion of my pregnancy, I ask for privacy for me and for my growing family.
What prompted the 2016 hotel beating
Ventura told the court she left the 'freak off' after it became violent and she didn't want to have bruises at her first big movie premiere two days later.
'It got violent and I chose to leave... I had my premiere, I didn’t want to mess it up, so I left,' she said.
She waiting until Diddy was in the shower, grabbed her belongings, and ran away barefoot as fast as she could - he caught up to her.
'Sean followed me into the hallway by the elevators. He grabbed me up, threw me on the ground, kicked me, tried to drag me back to the room, took my stuff,' she said, describing the attack in the infamous video.
Johnson asked Ventura how many times Diddy threw her to the ground like the jury saw in the video.
'Too many to count. I don’t know,' she said.
Ventura said she never tried to fight back when Diddy hit her.
Dawn Richard seen in court ahead of testimony
Richard, 41, crossed paths with Diddy in 2004 while appearing on his MTV series Making The Band and became a member of the girl group Danity Kane on the show.
Cassie breaks down as she speaks of $20M settlement with Diddy
As the prosection tries to add context to some of the exhanges seen by the jury during cross-examination, Cassie broke down describing Diddy's alleged abuse.
'Worthless, just like dirt, like I didn’t matter to him, like I was nothing, absolutely nothing,' she said of how he made her feel.
Cassie also said she canceled her tour after settling with Diddy becasue she was 'overwhelmed.'
'I couldn’t continue doing that at that point,' she told the court.
'I’d give that money back if I never had to have Freak Offs,' Cassie said of the $20M settlement.
'I would have agency and autonomy. I woldn’t have had to work so hard to get it back.'
Cassie said she was initially open to the idea of engaging in the drug-fueled sex marathons because she wanted to make Combs happy and spend time with him, but she grew weary of them as the years went on.
'I worried for my safety. I worried for my career,' she told jurors, and she worried Combs wouldn’t love her anymore.
Prosecutors try to explain Cassie's text messages
Prosecutor Emily Johnson — questioning Cassie in a phase of testimony known as re-direct — had Cassie read more of the messages to provide additional context.
'I want to see you, but I’m emotional right now,' Cassie told Combs. 'I don’t want to do one last time. I’d rather not do it at all.'
Near the end of her cross-examination, Combs’ lawyer Estevao highlighted a post Cassie made on Instagram in May 2024 after CNN broadcast previously unaired security footage of the hip-hop mogul attacking her at a Los Angeles hotel in 2016.
'Domestic violence is the issue,' Cassie wrote in the post.
Estevao was underscoring the defense’s contention that while Combs was abusive, his behavior didn’t warrant sex trafficking and racketeering charges.
Cassie names the entourage Diddy 'would use to help control her'
During her testimony on Tuesday, Cassie mentioned several of Diddy's employees and allies, including his 'trusted assistants' Kristina Khoram and Neil Dominic.
Khoram was previously named by others as a 'fixer', who allegedly helped Diddy set up the infamous freak offs.
'Everything from scheduling to what kind of mood he was in,' Cassie said when asked what she discussed with Khoram. 'I talked to [Khoram] about a lot. She knew a lot of my personal things.'
Cassie also claimed Diddy's security guard, R. Rock 'used to take away her things as punishment' on the mogul's direction. She also said the guard would come find her when she tried to hide from Diddy.
'[I'd] get my car taken away, get kicked out of an apartment, I’d have jewerly taken away... It was very random depending on how [Diddy] felt.'
She also mentioned other security guards for Diddy, including Roger Bonds, Uncle Paulie, Faheem and Malik.
Kristina Khorram - once referred to as 'the Ghislaine Maxwell to [Diddy's] Jeffrey Epstein' - has not been accused of any wrongdoing or charged with any crimes. However, several 'high ranking supervisors' are mentioned, but not named, in a criminal indictment against the rapper.
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Cassie and Diddy's warm messages after their breakup
Cassie and Diddy kept exchanging warm messages after their breakup, even after she married her husband, Alex Fine, in 2019.
In one message, Combs described Cassie as his 'ride or die always,' and one of the 'greatest women in the world.' She told Combs that the messages “blew my mind a bit' and told him 'I don’t hate you. I never have.'
In another message, she told him: 'I wouldn’t be at this beautiful point in my life if I hadn’t been with you.'
Diddy's lawyers deliver final blow to Cassie's testimony
Diddy's attorney Anna Estevao used her last moments questioning Cassie to push the argument that the mogul is guilty of domestic violence, which he is not charged with, but innocent of sex-trafficking and racketeering.
Estevao brought up Cassie's words on social media after CNN released a video of Diddy assaulting her. On the post, Cassie said ''Domestic Violence is the issue.'
Cassie said 'there was more to it' when pressed by Estevao, who then moved on to discuss the $20M settlement the singer received from Diddy in 2023.
Estevao questioned Cassie about her financial situation once she married Alex Fine, mentioning the singer canceled a planned tour after she received the settlement from Diddy.
'That wasn't the reason why,' Cassie replied.
Cassie denied a defense suggestion that she was having financial trouble before suing Combs in November 2023.
Estevao noted that Cassie, her husband and children had moved in with her parents in Connecticut prior to the lawsuit.
As their final evidence, Estevao pulled out a 2012 text where Cassie wrote to Diddy: 'I don’t want to Freak Off for a last time. I want to Freak Off for the rest of our lives.'
The next witness will be up shortly
After fears that Cassie’s testimony could spill over to next week, Estevao says she’ll finish questioning Cassie 'much sooner' than expected this afternoon, even before the next break.
The defense questioning may have been speeded because Cassie has been a cooperative witness throughout her four days on the witness stand. She hasn’t challenged Combs’ lawyer or claimed often that she can’t remember what happened during a period of her life when she concedes she was addicted to drugs.
The jury should hear from th enext witness by the next of the day.
Cassie's husband Alex Fine leaves courtroom as dramatic testimony continues
Cassie's husband Alex Fine exited the courtroom as she described being raped by Diddy in 2018, and then having consensual sex with him some time later.
Diddy's lawyers previously asked that Fine not be in the courtroom while she testified about the alleged rape because they may want to call him up as a witness later in the trial.
On Friday Cassie shared that Fine punched a wall after learning of the alleged rape.
Cassie and Fine met after Diddy hired her to be her physical trainer.
Court hears that Diddy threatened Kid Cudi over romance with Cassie
Cassie said Diddy found out that she had been dating Kid Cudi after going through her phone following a Freak Off in Los Angeles in 2011.
'It was a time when we were not in the greatest place,' Cassie said of her relationship with Diddy.
'I remember him pulling a wine bottle opener between his fingers and lunging at me. Eyes blacked out, super angry and I got out of there.'
He told me about videos he had he was going to release and he was going to hurt Scott (Cudi) and I.
Cassie said after the assault she used a burner phone to call Cudi, who then picked her up.
The singer's settled lawsuit with Diddy claimed he blew up Kid Cudi's car after learning of their romance.
Diddy's lawyers reveal Cassie's texts about Kim Porter.. four days after she died
Diddy's defense presented an unflattering text in which Cassie complained about him referring to Kim Porter, the mother of some of his children, as his 'soulmate' after her shock death in 2018.
The defence tried to depict Cassie as a scorned ex-girlfriend who never received the status she asked for in her 11-year romance with the mogul.
'You posted Kim was your soul mate. What was the 11 years all about? That hurt my feelings,' she wrote, four days after Porter's death from pneumonia.
By then, Diddy and Cassie's relationship was falling apart.
It was after the 2016 beating in a California hotel, and after years of freak-offs.
When Porter died suddenly, Diddy took to social media.
He wrote of her: 'We were more than best friends, we were more than soulmates. WE WERE SOME OTHER S**T!! And I miss you so much. Super Black Love.'
Cassie previosuly admitted she’d get angry that Combs was going on vacations with his children and Porter, and that he was spending holidays with them instead of her.
Cassie says Diddy's relationship with Gina Huynh was ‘the nail in the coffin’ for her
Cassie testified that she broke up with Diddy for good in August 2018 after she saw a photo of him with another woman he’d been dating for the last few years of their decade-long relationship.
'I just don’t trust anymore. That last shot put the nail in the coffin,' Casse texted Combs, referring to the photo of Combs with a woman identified in court as Gina.
'I promised myself I wouldn’t be with you anymore if you did that to me again,' Cassie wrote, telling Combs 'you lied to me' and 'she never went away.'
Soon after, Cassie said, she started dating her now husband, Alex Fine.
Gina Huynh, who says she dated the music executive for five years, described in a resurfaced interview from 2019 a time at which he allegedly became violent with her.
The model told the controversial blogger Tasha K that he allegedly 'stomped' on her stomach and repeatedly punched her in the head during one disturbing encounter.
Gina's relationship with Diddy reportedly began during a period in which he and Cassie (real name: Casandra Ventura) were on and off.
'He stomped on my stomach really hard — like, took the wind out of my breath,' Gina said in her interview, via Page Six.
'I couldn’t breathe. He kept hitting me. I was pleading to him, "Can you just stop? I can’t breathe,"' she added.
According to her, Diddy then began to pull at her hair and punch her repeatedly in the back of her head.
Why isn’t there a livestream of Diddy's trial?
Unlike other high-profile cases, the rapper's trial will not be televised as it is in federal court.
Electronic media, including cameras, are banned in the Manhattan court room.
A sketch artist's work will be the only visuals coming out of the courtroom.
Diddy embraced his attorney as he entered court Friday
Diddy embraced defense attorney Anna Estevao as he entered court on Friday.
The mogul was caught on a hot mic telling the lawyer on Thursday that he was proud of her.
Estevao has kept a nonaggresive demeanor as she grills Cassie about her claims against the music executive.
Suge Knight claims Trump will pardon Diddy
The imprisoned co-founder of Death Row Records made the bombshell allegations on Wednesday, hours after Diddy's ex Cassie Ventura addressed the duo's feud during her testimony in his criminal trial.
WATCH: Diddy's family, Cassie's husband seen as they left court Thursday
Diddy's mother Janice and his three sons have been in the courtroom every day this week, as has Cassie's husband Alex Fine.
Cassie admits she 'still does not hate' Diddy
'I don’t hate him,' Cassie replied when asked if she hated Diddy.
When asked if she still had loved for the mogul, she replied: 'I have love for the past and what it was.'
The exchange happened as Diddy's lawyer Anna Estevao grilled Cassie about her claims that the mogul raped her in 2018.
The defense accused Cassie of changing the date of the alleged rape.
They also showed the jury loving messages she sent Diddy following the alleged sexual assault.
Cassie underwent same trauma therapy used by Prince Harry
Cassie Ventura underwent Prince Harry's favorite trauma therapy method to cope with the impact of Diddy's freak-off parties, she testified today.
The R&B singer told Sean 'Diddy' Combs' sex trafficking trial that she received mental health care at the Willow House treatment facility in 2023.
Ventura said she received treatment for PTSD and neuro feedback during her 45-day stay at the facility.
Who else is testifying in Diddy's trial?
Dawn Richard, a member of the Diddy-created group Danity Kane, is expected to testify next during his trial.
Richard claims the disgraced Bad Boy mogul sexually assaulted her, deprived her of food and sleep and refused to pay her adequately. Her case is among dozens of claims filed against Combs in various states.
Fellow former Danity Kane member Aubrey O'Day is also expected to take the stand.
Judge is frustrated with lawyers over delays
Judge Arun Subramanian complained to lawyers during the 10-minute break that Diddy lawyer Anna Estevao’s cross examination has been interrupted too often by disputes over evidence.
The judge has tried to clear the way for jurors to be brought in on time for what was hoped to be Cassie’s last day on the witness stand.
In the video, Combs says he has 'God in my heart.' The judge watched it and then decided the argument was moot because the defense agreed not to show the video to the jury.
One item in dispute: A recording Combs made when he went to rehabilitation after a March 2016 attack on Cassie at the elevator bank of a Los Angeles hotel.
Prosecutor Emily Johnson said the video showed Combs 'wandering through nature' as he spoke of 'religion and God.' She described it as an effort by Combs’ lawyers to seek sympathy from the jury.
WATCH: Resurfaced clip shows Cassie embracing her husband
The expecting 38-year-old was around six months pregnant with her first child with the 32-year-old fitness trainer when he completed the Ultra Marathon in LA on August 30, 2019 - two days after their Malibu wedding.
Fine impressively raised over $50K for the Compton Cowboys Youth Program and Haven Homes of Detroit, a non-profit that provides safe housing for women leaving human trafficking.
Cassie appears frustrated during cross-examination
Diddy's attorney Anna Estevao questioned Cassie about her prior statements, where she claimed she was still developing when she met Diddy.
'Women keep developing after 22, don't you think?' Cassie asked.
'You’re not suggesting you were not fully developed at 22?' Estevao asked Cassie, who then looked up and turned her head from side to side.
'No,' she replied.
Cassie 'threatened to kill man who 'had Freak Off video on his phone'
Jurors heard a recording of a distressed Cassie screaming at a friend who said he had seen a video of her performing sex acts.
In the recording, made by Cassie in 2013, the man claimed to have the video on his phone. Cassie is heard pleading to see the video and then threatening to kill him if it became public.
'I’ve never killed anyone in my life, but I will kill you,' Cassie told the man, punctuating her threats with profanity.
Cassie acknowledged in her testimony that Combs subsequently made efforts to keep the video private.
The porn stars Diddy 'forced' onto Cassie at sick freak-offs... including Trump hotel shooter
Cassie Ventura's emotional testimony this week included sordid details of more than a dozen porn stars and male escorts she was allegedly forced to have unprotected sex with as her ex, Sean 'Diddy' Combs, watched.
Now, DailyMail can reveal the men she was talking about.
Cassie admits participating in Freak Off with Trump hotel shooter Jonathan Oddi
Cassie said on the stand that she and Diddy believed Oddi had taken a video of them during a sex session.
No one believed Jonathan Oddi when he bizarrely told Florida cops he that was Sean 'Diddy' Combs' sex slave in 2018.
In May 2018, he opened fire in Trump Doral Miami. He was taken down by police then interrogated about his motives.
It was then that he revealed his links to Diddy and his ex, Cassie Ventura, who is expected to testify at his sex trafficking trial in New York City.
'I had sex with Cassie [Ventura] and Sean [Combs]. Basically, he would masturbate and tell me what to do to Cassie. I was like a sex slave.
'For them, that's what I was,' depleted Oddi told police after being arrested following a shootout at the Florida hotel.
Daily Mail confirmed Oddi did know Diddy - and was guarding a secret so scandalous that the rapper asked him to sign an NDA agreement to protect it.
Diddy's sons in court again
They arrived at court just before Cassie resumed her testimony. Justin Combs is the defendant’s eldest son whom he had with fashion designer Misa Hylton.
The mother of his stepson Quincy Brown and son Christian Combs was the late model and actor Kim Porter.
Quincy Brown and Christian Combs arrive at Federal court
Justin Dior Combs arrives at Federal court
Diddy's courtroom gesture to mom Janice as she leads family supporting him at trial
Diddy's family document their every move as disgusting details of his freak-offs unfold in court
The emotional cost that Sean 'Diddy' Combs's trial is having on his family is all being caught on camera, DailyMail.com can reveal exclusively.
One of the rap mogul's trusted inner circle of film makers is shadowing his six children and his 85-year-old mother Janice to federal court in their large black minivan each day.
And Roodmy Poulard is nailing their every move and emotion when they are not actually inside the building, where cameras are not allowed.
Chris Brown comes up in Cassie's testimony
Cassie says Combs was wary of her dating or giving attention to other men, even during breaks in their decade-long relationship.
She says the hip-hop star took her phone from her on numerous occasions, including when he found out she was dating a football player and when she suspected her of dancing with the singer Chris Brown.
Cassie didn’t name the player and denied dancing with Brown.
'He’d take my phone, my car, my watch when he was angry,' Cassie said of the music mogul.
Cassie and Chris Brown are seen in his music video for the song Psychic in 2023.
Brown's mention in the trial comes after he was charged with grievous bodily harm with intent over an alleged attack of a music producer with a bottle at a London nightclub in 2023.
'I'm not a rag doll'
Diddy's attorney Anna Estevao resumed her cross examination with questions related to the March 2016 recording of Combs attacking Cassie at the elevator bank of a Los Angeles hotel. In it, Combs can be seen pulling Cassie to the floor, kicking her and dragging her into a hotel hallway.
Estevao had Cassie read aloud a text message in which she complained that Combs was out of control from drugs and alcohol that day.
In the message, Cassie told Combs: 'I’m not a rag doll. I’m somebody’s child.'
Jury recoils in shock as they are shown photos from 'Freak Off' sex parties
Jurors in the trial of Sean 'Diddy' Combs were yesterday shown images from the sex parties that the hip-hop mogul masterminded.
The New York courtroom fell silent as the jury members viewed five still pictures of so-called 'Freak Offs' on their screens, which were blocked from public view.
One male juror's eyebrows went up as he saw the images, while a female juror swallowed hard and appeared to move her head side to side.
Diddy says he's 'proud' of his lawyer as she grills Cassie on the stand
On Thursday, Diddy mentioned to his lawyer Anna Estevao that he was 'proud' of her for the work she was doing on his case. The message was caught on a hot mic in the courtroom.
Estevao confronted Cassie with loving emails and text messages she and the hip-hop mogul exchanged early on.
'You and [Sean Combs] were in love for 11 years, right?' was the first question from Diddy's lawyer Anna Estevao, who will be cross-examining Cassie.
'Yeah,' Cassie replied.
'You loved him?'
'You believed he loved you?'
Estevao continued a line of questioning that emphasized that Cassie 'knew the real Sean... a version he won't let the rest of the world see.'
In one particularly damning exhange, Cassie wrote in a text to Diddy in March, 2017: 'Please don’t play victim.
'That’s all you wanted and that’s why I was upset.
'I love our FOs when we both want it.'
Who is on the Diddy jury?
Eight men and four women are on the final panel of 12 with a further four men and two women listed as alternates. On the main juror panel, four are white, two are Hispanic, five are black and one is Asian. Of the six alternates, four are white and two are black.
WATCH: 'Disturbing' footage of Diddy with young Justin Bieber
Footage of an interview with Sean 'Diddy' Combs and Justin Bieber has gone viral following the rapper's arrest.
Diddy has been charged with a host of sex trafficking and racketeering offenses with upwards of 120 victims already coming forward.
A video has now resurfaced of Diddy, 54, and Justin, now 30, an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! together when the singer was only 16-years-old.
Diddy looks at Cassie as she takes the stand Friday
Cassie has taken the stand Friday to continue being grilled by Diddy's lawyer Anna Estevao.
She took a breath as she sat down - with Diddy looking at her as she did so.
Cassie appeared calm and appeared to be showing off her bump.
Diddy then turned to face the jury, appearing to be trying make eye contact with one of them.
It follows on from last week when the mogul appeared to attempt eye contact with jurors during jury selection.
Diddy's lawyers scrambling to respond to Cassie's claims on the stand
Judge Arun Subramanian admonished the defense for continuing to file documents well into the night during the trial.
'Leters have come in at 3am... I’ve come in early,' he said on Friday.
'This is a problem, we’re running out of time to address issues'.
Defense attorney Teny Geragos suggested to the judge Wednesday that they had to change today’s gameplan on the fly.
She told Judge Subramanian that the questioning of Cassie by prosecutors over two days 'has gone much differently than I expected. ... So we are kind of changing our strategy.'
Agnifilo later told the judge that questioning Cassie about infidelities is important. 'Everybody knows that we are going to bring up infidelities, that we’re going to want to bring up text messages of infidelities, and these text messages are often in colorful language,' he said.
Diddy was addicted to opiates, court hears
Diddy's lawyer Anna Estevao questioned Cassie about addictions as it related to Combs.
'Would you say he was an addict?' the defense lawyer asked. 'I would say he was an addict,' Cassie responded.
'What was he addicted to?”' Estevao asked.
'Success,' Cassie initially said.
When the lawyer asked if Combs was addicted to opiates, Cassie said: 'At a point, yes.'
Estevao asked her how she knows. Cassie answered: 'Because he told me.'
Cassie said Combs would become more violent when he was going through Opioid withdrawals.
Diddy looks relaxed as his lawyer grills Cassie
Combs appears relaxed at the defense table, sitting back in his chair with his hands folded before him and his legs crossed.
He has been allowed to wear his own clothes for the trial.
However, he has to rotate between five looks throughout the trial, which is expected to last about eight weeks.
He can only have up to five pairs of pants, shirts and socks and only two pairs of shoes - with no laces.
Diddy's daughters missing from trial as Cassie's graphic testimony resumes
The mogul's family, including his mother Janice and six of his seven kids, has supported him since his arrest last year and have been present in the courtroom every day this week.
His three daughters - 18-year-old daughter Chance and17-year-old twins D’Lila and Jessie - were in court on Monday and Tuesday and heard horrific testimony from the first three witness including Cassie.
However, Diddy's daughters were not seen going inside the federal courthouse on Wednesday as Cassie is to resume her testimony.
Only Diddy's mother Janice Combs and sons Quincy, 33, Justin, 30, and Christian, 26, were seen entering court on Wednesday and Thursday.
Diddy's lawyers suggest prosecutors want to limit their questioning of Cassie
Judge Subramanian said there had been pre-trial discussions for months about the need to finish Cassie’s testimony this week, given her advanced pregnancy.
Agnifilo tried to blame prosecutors, saying it 'seems strategic' that they called two other witnesses before Cassie, and suggesting they did so in an effort to limit the cross examination.
The judge told the defense to finish its cross in the morning Friday to leave time for prosecutors to ask Cassie followup questions. He left open the possibility that Cassie might have to return to the witness stand next week.
Jury sees text where Cassie said she 'loved freak offs'
Cassie wrote in a text to Diddy in March, 2017: 'Please don’t play victim.
'That’s all you wanted and that’s why I was upset.
'I love our FOs when we both want it.'
Diddy's attorney has been trying to prove that, despite her claims, Cassie was not coerced into participating in the grueling sex sessions.
When asked about what she wrote, Cassie replied: 'I would say that loving FOs were just words at that point.'
Will Diddy take the stand?
The decision to have Combs testify would be made after the government finishes presenting its case weeks from now.
And ultimately, it will be up to Combs to decide.
In most criminal trials, defendants choose not to testify. With a celebrity, the decision whether to take the stand can be complicated and risky, especially if lawyers believe prosecutors failed to prove their case.
Court hears details of Cassie's affair with Michael B Jordan
Diddy suspected Cassie was having a revenge affair with the actor Michael B. Jordan, the court heard.
Cassie said she dumped the hip hop mogul in 2015 after seeing a video of him and a woman called Gina at an event while she was in South Africa filming 'Honey 3: Dare to Dance'.
She told a court in New York that Diddy suspected she got together with Jordan, who was in Cape Town at the same time while doing filming of his own.
Cassie said she 'wasn't there' to see how Combs reacted when he found out about her relationship with Jordan.
Cassie and Diddy eventually patched things up and stayed together until 2018.
The singer did not say she had an affair with the actor while on the stand, but she did reveal the romance in her 2023 civil lawsuit against the mogul.
Cassie said that she began a ‘flirtatious relationship’ with Jordan while she was in South Africa - and that they did have an affair.
‘She spent New Year’s Eve with this actor but Mr Combs soon found out’, the lawsuit stated.
‘Mr. Combs called the actor and threatened him; the actor proceeded to call Ms. Ventura and tell her: ‘You really need to call ‘Mr Combs’.
Cassie is expecting her third child with Alex Fine
Just a year after she was last seen with Diddy, Cassie married Alex Fine, who was originally Diddy's personal trainer.
Cassie became pregnant soon after she started dating Fine.
The couple is currently expecting their third child, which means Cassie has been testifying as she is just weeks away from giving birth.
Very pregnant Cassie steps out as she heads back to the stand Friday
Cassie is on her way to a Manhattan federal courthouse to continue her testimony against Diddy on Friday.
Her lawyers have said she must finish her testimony today because she is near the end of her third pregnancy and due to give birth soon.
Full timeline of Diddy and Cassie's relationship
As Sean 'Diddy' Combs faces charges of sex-trafficking in Manhattan federal court, his relationship with the singer Cassie is at the center of the horrific allegations.
The music mogul's staggering downfall began when Cassie, real name Casandra Ventura, filed a bombshell lawsuit in 2023 detailing terrifying claims of sexual abuse and violence.
The lawsuit was settled for an undisclosed amount just a day after it was filed, but it was too late for Diddy's reputation, and the rapper was then hit with dozens of lawsuits including similar claims.
Diddy overdosed in 2012, his lawyer reveals
Diddy's defense attorney questioned Cassie about a time when the rapper overdosed in February, 2012, after taking painkillers.
'Was that around the time Whitney Houston died?' Cassie asked Diddy's attorney.
Yes... We had a Freak Off. We went to a sex club in San Bernardino. He had a party at the Playboy Mansion that night and I went home.
He took a very strong opioid that night, we didn't know what was happening so took him to the hospital.
Whitney Houston died on February 11, 2012, in an accidental drowning after taking cocaine.
It's unclear why the defense brought up her death.
Houston and Diddy are seen in 2010.
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