Cassie Ventura revealed she settled with ex Sean “Diddy” Combs for $US20 million ($31 million) after filing a bombshell lawsuit against him in 2023.
“Who paid you $20 million?” prosecutor Emily Johnson asked Ventura in court Wednesday, per the New York Post, as the singer took the stand as a witness for her second day of testimony in Combs’ sex-trafficking trial.
“Sean and his companies,” Ventura responded.
As we previously reported, Ventura filed a civil lawsuit against Combs on November 16, 2023, accusing him of raping her, physically abusing her and forcing her to have sex with male prostitutes while he watched and masturbated.
At the time, Combs “vehemently” denied the “outrageous” allegations. But he settled with Ventura the following day in a then-undisclosed agreement.
As she took the stand as a witness against Combs this week, Ventura gave further details into the allegations she initially laid forth in the suit.
The Me & U singer — who dated Combs from 2005 to 2018 — testified about shocking alleged details regarding her participation in the disgraced mogul’s “Freak-Offs.”
“The ‘Freak-Offs’ became a job,” Ventura, 38, told the jury on Tuesday of the wild sex and drug-fuelled parties. “There was no time to do anything else but do them, then try to recover.”
Ventura claimed Combs, 55, introduced her to the “Freak-Offs” when she was around 22 years old and would “direct” her and sexual partners on how to perform.
“I was in love and I just wanted to make him happy,” she told jurors, explaining why she participated in the debaucherous events.
Ventura also detailed the years of alleged abuse by the rapper in her Tuesday testimony.
“He would bash me on my head, knock me over, drag me, kick me, stomp me on the head if I was down,” she claimed.
The Long Way 2 Go songstress claimed Diddy would become violent with her over minor disagreements and would instruct her to “fix [her] face or watch [her] mouth.”
“I also felt at certain times when I knew it wasn’t even about me … make the wrong face and the next thing I knew I was getting hit in the face,” she said.
In May 2024, CNN released hotel surveillance footage of the Bad Boy Records founder brutally assaulting Ventura as she tried to escape into an elevator.
In response to the video being made public, Combs issued an apology, calling the scene one of “darkest times” in his life.
On Monday, an LAPD officer who was at the scene of the 2016 hotel attack testified in court that Combs offered him a stack of money in exchange for his silence about the assault.
Combs is currently on trial facing charges of racketeering conspiracy; sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion; and transportation to engage in prostitution. He pleaded not guilty.
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If convicted, he could spend the rest of his life behind bars.
Aside from his federal case, the Last Night rapper is still looking at a long list of lawsuits from both men and women who have accused him of a range of sexual misconduct. He has denied all the allegations.
This article originally appeared in Page Six and was reproduced with permission
