Sean Combs’ ex-girlfriend Kathy Ventura takes the stand at trial
On the second day of Sean Combs’ sex crimes trial, Combs’ ex-girlfriend gave emotional testimony on the stand.
The emotional outburst of Sean Combs: The Reckoning continues until the end.
In the conclusion of Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’s four-part documentary series, released on Netflix on Tuesday, Dec. 2, Combs’ alleged victims recall the abuse and trauma they endured at the hands of the Bad Boy founder.
Producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones says he suffered drug addiction and sexual assault while working on Combs’ 2023 album, The Love Album: Off the Grid. Bad Boy co-founder Kirk Burrows also recalls being tortured. “He not only abused me in an employer/employee capacity, but he also abused me in other ways…sexually deviant ways,” Burrows said. Below are other disturbing claims from episode 4 of the docuseries.
Aubrey O’Day asked after assault charge: ‘Does this mean I was raped?’
Aubrey O’Day, a member of Danity Kane, a female singing group formed during Combs’ reality show “Making the Band 3,” has no recollection of the alleged assault. However, eyewitnesses claim to have encountered the horrifying scene in 2005.
According to the affidavit, which O’Day read for the first time in front of the filmmakers, an unidentified person witnessed Combs “and be sexually assaulted…by another person.” Witnesses claim they opened the wrong door while looking for the bathroom.
“As soon as I opened the door, I saw Aubrey sprawled out on a leather couch, looking very drunk,” O’Day wrote, defending herself by saying, “I wasn’t drinking at all at the time.”
O’Day, now 41, was shirtless, according to the affidavit. “Puff Daddy was penetrating her” while another man penetrated her orally. “Aubrey looked outside and just lay there,” O’Day wrote.
With no recollection of the alleged assault, O’Day wonders, “Does this mean I was raped? Is this what it means?”
“I don’t even know if I was raped, and I don’t want to know,” O’Day continued. “I don’t want to know what that woman is talking about anymore.”
Alleged plot to kill Kid Cudi: “Get dressed. We’re going to kill him.”
Capricorn Clark, who started working as Combs’ assistant in 2004, told filmmakers about the day her boss allegedly plotted to kill rapper Kid Cudi, real name Scott Mescudi.
Clark said she moved to Los Angeles with Combs in 2011 and that Combs’ girlfriend at the time, Cassandra “Cathy” Ventura Fine, visited her while Combs was traveling. Clark said Ventura started dating Kid Cudi and asked him to go hiking with Clark and Ventura Fine.
“About a week after I went hiking, around 6 or 6:30 in the morning, I heard a knock on my door,” Clark said. “It’s Puff. His pants are torn like a madman and he’s foaming at the side of his mouth. He’s got a gun, and he’s crazy as hell.”
Clark said Combs expressed anger toward Kid Cudi. “He said, ‘Oh, that’s enough. Get dressed. I’m going to kill him,'” Clark said. When she objects, Combs claims to have kidnapped her and the two went to Kid Cudi’s house. Cassie tells Clark on the phone that Kid Cudi is not home.
“Then I saw Puff come back down the sidewalk, and he said, ‘Tell her I have you and I’m not going to let you go,'” Clark says. So Ventura Fine relented and told Clark to come get him. Combs “immediately started kicking her,” Clark recalled. “She was just crouching down and he was just kicking her.”
Combs then threatened to kill everyone if authorities learned what happened that day, Clark said.
Combs spokeswoman Judah Engelmayer declined to comment on the specific allegations in the documentary. “Many of the individuals featured have long-standing personal grievances, financial motives, or credibility issues that have been documented for years,” Engelmayer said in an emailed statement to USA TODAY.
“While some of these stories have already been featured in court filings, others have never been brought up in a legal forum simply because they are not true. This project is built around one-sided narratives led by publicly acknowledged adversaries, repeating claims without context, evidence, or verification,” Engelmayer said. “Sean Combs will continue to address legitimate issues through the legal process, not through a biased Netflix production.”
Combs, 56, was convicted of prostitution and is serving a 50-month sentence at Fort Dix, a federal correctional facility in New Jersey.
