Casandra Ventura, the R&B singer and actor identified merely as Cassie, has welcomed her third baby, a son.
The information arrived Wednesday within the midst of the continuing Sean “Diddy” Combs intercourse trafficking trial, at which Cassie is a vital witness. She completed testifying earlier this month whereas visibly pregnant over 4 emotional days on the stand, throughout which she described being crushed and raped by a person she as soon as beloved.
Reviews from a number of media retailers stated Cassie gave delivery in a New York hospital Tuesday.
Stylist Deonte Nash, who labored for Combs for a decade, testified Wednesday that he talked to Cassie the day gone by to congratulate her on the delivery.
Cassie, 38, is maybe greatest identified for the platinum-selling 2006 hit single “Me & U.” She married private coach Alex Advantageous in September 2019. Their first daughter, Frankie Stone Advantageous, was born that very same 12 months they usually welcomed their second daughter, Sunny Cinco Advantageous, in 2021.
The Related Press doesn’t usually title individuals who say they’ve been sexually abused except they arrive ahead publicly, as Cassie has.
Combs, 55, is on trial in New York on costs that he exploited his standing as an leisure government to pressure girls, together with Cassie, into drug-fueled “freak-offs” with male intercourse staff and engaged in different abusive acts in opposition to individuals who relied on him for his or her careers.
Combs has pleaded not responsible to federal intercourse trafficking and racketeering costs.
After departing the trial, Cassie, who dated Combs for a decade, launched an announcement by means of her lawyer saying she hoped her testimony helps others “heal from the abuse and fear.”
Representatives for Cassie and Advantageous didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
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AP author Mike R. Sisak and Larry Neumeister contributed to this report.
