Sean “Diddy” Combs Trial Day 4: Defense Cross Excumes Cathy
Shawn “Diddy” Combs’ defense strategy began to focus as his lawyer cross-examined his ex-girlfriend, Kathy Ventura.
On the third day of testimony, Kathy Ventura Fine revealed the scope of her and Sean’s “Diddy” Combs’ drug use over the course of 10 years.
Cross-examination of Ventura Fine, one of Anna Estevao, one of Combs’ lawyers, revealed that she had overdose of painkillers in 2012. Estebao asked if Ventura recalls the overdose, and Ventura placed the incident around the same time Whitney Houston passed away on February 11, 2012.
Ventura Fine recalls that they had “freak-off” that night and went to a sex club in San Bernardino, California. She says that Combs later went to a party at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles, but she went home.
The comb overdose with painkillers and she took him to the hospital, Ventura Fein told Estevao.
Ventura Fine revealed that they sometimes tried to stop using drugs in their relationship, but rehabilitation didn’t feel like an option for them. They consumed a lot of material for “freak-off” and called each other “collecting” partners, she said.
Combs use “daily” drugs. Ventura Fine testified. On May 14, during a question from the prosecutor, she said she saw the comb using ecstasy, cocaine, marijuana, ketamine and GHB. Combs got a prescription for opiates from a doctor who said “it was not used very often by anyone.” She testified.
She told the court that Combs had gone through multiple departures and that his mood had changed to them.
USA Today contacted the Combs representative for comment.
Cathy continues to wake up using drugs and “paralyze” while “freak-off.”
In an opening statement, Tenny Jelagos, one of the combs’ lawyers, told the judge and ju judge that the drug was for “personal use” by combs and women taking part in “freak off.” Meanwhile, prosecutors suggest that the drug is a way to ensure that he “wakes for hours and hours and performs for him for days.”
On May 14th, Ventura Fine revealed that she developed an opioid addiction during her 10-year on-off relationship with Comb, seeking expert help five or six times. She said the last time she used opium was in 2022.
Drugs help her create a “numbing sensation” in “freak-off.” She is a sexual performance with combs and escorts that she said lasted for four days, which she described as “hell” on her body.
She used drugs like ecstasy during “freak off,” which meant she “didn’t like doing something,” so she was able to “stay just high and not experience.” She said on May 13th.
Contributors: Pamela Avila, Patrick Ryan, Aisha Baguch, USA Today
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