NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs’ latest ex-girlfriend advised Combs that she cried for 3 days after studying R&B artist Casandra “Cassie” Ventura’s 2023 lawsuit towards the music mogul, a case that described lots of of drug-laced marathon intercourse classes with Combs and different males as “horrific encounters.”
The girl, who is understood in courtroom by the pseudonym Jane, testified Monday that she felt like she was “reading my own sexual trauma” as she learn the lawsuit, which was settled inside a day for $20 million.
She learn aloud in Manhattan federal courtroom a textual content message that she despatched Combs three days after the lawsuit was filed in November 2023. She stated that she had been crying for 3 days and felt nauseated.
She stated three pages of the lawsuit addressing what Cassie known as “freak-offs” and what Jane has referred to as “hotel nights” adopted her expertise with the Dangerous Boy Leisure founder “word for word, exactly my experience.”
Assistant U.S. Lawyer Maurene Comey raised the topic of the lawsuit as Jane testified for a 3rd day about her experiences with Combs for over three years till his arrest final September.
Cassie testified for 4 days earlier within the trial, saying she engaged within the weekly sexual performances as Combs largely watched or filmed her sexual actions with male intercourse staff in classes that usually lasted for days. Cassie dated Combs for almost 11 years, ending in 2018.
Combs has pleaded not responsible to intercourse trafficking and racketeering conspiracy expenses that might put him in jail from 15 years to life if he’s convicted.
Previous to citing Cassie’s lawsuit on Monday, Comey elicited from Jane that she had protested the best way Combs was treating her within the weeks earlier than Cassie sued.
She learn aloud for the jury lots of of textual content messages that she had exchanged with Combs, together with some during which she complained that he appeared to be forcing her into the sexual encounters by threatening to remove her Los Angeles dwelling. He had begun paying for the residence months earlier.
She pleaded with him to acknowledge the harm the intercourse marathons had been doing to her, writing: “I am not an animal.”
Jane’s testimony was anticipated to fill the majority of the trial’s fifth week, as prosecutors transfer nearer to ending the presentation of their proof earlier than the protection will get its flip.
As in her earlier two days on the stand final week, Jane turned emotional and cried briefly on Monday, however was largely composed as she mentioned her experiences with a person she stated she beloved.
She acknowledged that she had reviewed a number of the intercourse classes with prosecutors previous to starting testimony final Thursday. Comey requested her what she noticed on them.
“I saw me,” she responded, earlier than including: “following a pattern.”
She added that with the “majority of these tapes it was like the same show over and over again.”
Jane stated that after she expressed her frustrations and need to solely have sexual relations with Combs, the verbal fights between them would generally be resolved when he would say all of the issues she needed to listen to and promise to spend time together with her with no “hotel night.”
Then, she stated, when she noticed Cassie’s lawsuit, “I almost fainted.”
