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Cassandra Ventura Fine is 8 months pregnant.
She sits in front of the courtroom and shares that the escort once urinated in her mouth in front of her boyfriend Sean “Diddy” comb as she says she wants to see. Sometimes I even took part in until I suffocated the comb.
She shares how he entered an inflatable pool filled with baby oil because he requested it. “If Sean wanted it to happen, then it was going to happen, so there was no way around it,” she says under oath.
She tells this, but Combs sits a few feet away next to his lawyer. He is at one point holding the Bible and staring at her.
She doesn’t see him. It’s the first time they’ve seen each other in six years.
“I felt trapped,” she says at one point.
In a four-day testimony and cross-test of music mogul Combs’ assault and sex trafficking cases, Ventura Fine testifies that he is punched, kicked and dragged by a comb. The daily “freak-off” where she was drugged and had sex with other men and women, had sex with, or with, combs. It’s too drugs to remember many details. She also spoke about how much she loves Combs and sent him a loving, seductive text.
Diddy Trial: Cathy gives an overview of sexual and physical abuse from the stand
Sean Combs’ ex-girlfriend, Kathy, was in the position on the third day of the trial, explaining Combs’ physical, sexual and psychological abuse.
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Combs pleaded not guilty to the charges and denied all allegations against him. His defense portrays their relationship as consensus, she was controlled, and they were “swingers.” They acknowledge that the comb abused Ventura and was violent.
The gaze of this ordeal in the life of Ventura Fine, professionally known as Cathy, comes mainly from the description of security tapes and “freak-off.” The rest of her life is filled with moments shot on red carpets, exclusive parties, or trinkets shared on celebrity magazines. We see her through distorted sketches from the courtroom where the camera is not permitted.
The life Cassie shares in court is actually her past.
Ventura Fine is currently 38 years old and is looking for a third child with her husband, Alex Fine. On various days of her testimony, she wears a brown turtleneck dress, a gray dress that can be described as “workwear”, and a black suit with a dress shirt decorated on her pregnant belly. She’s no longer addicted to opioids. She has been to treatment and rehabilitation. Her Instagram feed is filled with photos of her husband and two children.
She sits in a room at 26A on the 26th floor of Manhattan’s Southern New York district.
Some of the Ventura Fine’s stories feel familiar to past victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence.
And it’s a story of hope.
Diddy, when Cathy met, and where their relationship came from.
The woman in the stands graduated a year from high school, a private university prep school on the Connecticut Coast when she met Combs. He was 36 years old. She moved to New York and took modelling from department stores and Seven-family magazines to bigger ones.
He signed a record for Bad Boy, a label he co-owned when she was 20 years old. It’s a 10-album deal, which connects her with artistic and economic appeal for years.
And they began dating the following year when she was the face of Sean John from his clothing line.
Combs’ relationship with Ventura Fine lasts for 11 years, taking them from the film’s premiere to exclusive Met Gala and from hotel rooms in New York and Miami to federal court.
Her first hit, “Me&U,” was one of 2006’s biggest singles, and remains on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 27 weeks. She records hundreds more songs under Combs, but barely hits the charts at No. 97. Her job was to “Freak Offs” rather than music.
In the court, Ventura Fine listened to the most humiliating parts of the past shared with eight men and four women on the ju apprentice, as well as journalists, lawyers and family galleries from both Combs and Ventura Fine. Next to me, I listened to an overflow room packed with additional journalists on my live feed.
The ju-deferee will watch videos and text messages on the screen. They lean in and get closer. The privacy screen ensures that no one else can see because the judge sealed off the unusually off sexually explicit evidence.
Reporters take notes on paper, dash out during their break, call editors and enter into news stories that are broadcast and published around the world.
“Kathy says Diddy threatened to release a freak-off video,” TMZ publishes. “Diddy is said to have given sex workers shocking behavior in Cathy’s mouth while on “freak-off.”
Her last Instagram post showed her in a black dress more than a month ago, captioned “Acquiring Peace.” Her feed is filled with happy photos with her two girls, Frankie 5, Sunny and four. She is laughing with her husband.
32-year-old Alex Fine sits in the gallery looking at his wife and occasionally looking at the comb.
Cassie Ventura’s testimony proves her power to leave abuse
The extent of domestic violence is not always measured in attacks, but over the years of abuse. At the depth of abuse, It can be normalized and you may feel that you cannot see the path. Most women try to leave seven times before they can, but when they do, they are at the highest risk of danger.
Ventura Fine explains how difficult it is to leave.
Instead, Combs’ lawyer says she wants to stay in the relationship and while Comb lies and tricks her into disappointing her, “You’ve come back to him for 11 years.”
“I wouldn’t use ‘Go back’,” she replied.
Prosecutor attacks Sean Combs video from the 2016 hotel video Cathy
Prosecutors have released Hotel Surveillance Video since 2016, indicating that Sean Combs is physically attacking his then-girlfriend, Cassie. This is the complete video edited to include five camera angles presented in court.
In one of the times she was about to leave, there is video evidence of what happened.
Ventura Fine testified that she was taking part from a violent freak before leaving her room at the now shy InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles. The video shows Ventura finely punching, kicking and dragging in the hotel hallway. CNN released the video last May after Combs’ associates attempted to pay $100,000 to their security guard and keep it hidden. Prosecutors released the full version of the 2016 surveillance video in court this week, and ju-degree members saw it several times.
Ventura Fine parted ways with Combs in 2018, and she is now dating her husband. One night that year she had dinner with a comb. He drove her house, she said, and raped her.
“I remember crying and saying no, but it was very fast,” she testified. She said the two would have sex once afterwards.
By the spring of 2019, she was pregnant and she had argued that she had or married first, and she had shared with Vogue. He surprised her with the suggestion.
According to Vogue Magazine, they got married a month later at a backyard celebration with black tie in Malibu. She finished the evening with a heart-shaped pizza, dressed in a swirl white off-shoulder dress that houses the growing baby bumps.
Their baby girl was born four months later.
Ventura Fine shared her husband’s birthday post in March 2021 to give a glimpse into their lives.
“It’s been an unstoppable laugh and love ever since I met you. You taught me that I didn’t take myself too seriously and just didn’t enjoy the moment, so I’m forever grateful for that,” she wrote on Instagram. “I always promise to kiss you the sheen of my lips and make you laugh. Thank you for making me a mom and be the best dada. I can’t believe we’re trying to do it again!”
She will tell the court two years later in 2023 that she had “spin-out.” Ventura Fine testified, “At that point I didn’t want to live anymore.”
She filmed a music video with another artist having “terrifying flashbacks” and triggers with another artist, and remembers when she got home to her husband and children, saying, “I can do this without him.” ”
Ventura Fine just felt it was “too painful” and said, “I tried to try to get around the door, but my husband wouldn’t let me.”
Later that year, in her private lawsuit against Combs, she would say, “She believes that her children saved her from the trauma she consumed over the course of more than a decade of her life.” combs settled down at $20 million the next day.
She went to rehabilitation in 2024 for trauma therapy and addiction.
There will be six more weeks of witness testimony. At that time, Cathy will have her third child.
So, the prosecutor asked her this week why she was here today.
“We can’t carry this anymore. We can’t carry shame, guilt,” she said when asked why she was testifying. She said she was led to treat people “as if they were disposable.”
She says there were combs and hundreds of “freak-offs.”
How many times has she been asked since?
None, she said.
After the final day of testimony, outside the court, her lawyer shared a statement from her.
“I hope my testimony will give strength and voice to other survivors and help others who are struggling to speak out from abuse and fear and healing.”
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Contributions: Aisha Baguch and Patrick Ryan
