Diddy trial latest: Witness testimony to continue after Cassie Ventura cross-examined over texts

Cassie Ventura was the star prosecution witness testifying against her ex Sean “Diddy” Combs in the first week of the trial.

Ventura told the jury she had initially consented to the drug-fuelled sex marathons called “freak-offs” to please Combs, but grew sickened by them.

Detailing how Diddy hit her during multiple “freak-offs,” she broke down on the stand Friday, grabbing tissues to pat down her tear-stained cheeks. The prolonged abuse made her feel “worthless, just like dirt… like I was nothing,” she testified.

Ventura said she often took drugs, including ecstasy, cocaine, ketamine, and GHB, before and during the sometimes days-long freak-offs to stay awake and “feel numb.”

She also testified that after a closure conversation following her 2018 breakup with Diddy, the disgraced mogul raped her on her living room floor.

The trial is set to resume today in New York with more testimony from prosecution witnesses.

Pop singer Dawn Richard is expected to return to the witness stand to continue testifying against Sean “Diddy” Combs.

On Friday, she told the jury that she often saw Combs beat his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura.

Richard recounted an incident at Combs’s Los Angeles home in 2009 when Combs beat Ventura and dragged her upstairs by the hair. Richard then said she heard breaking glass and screaming.

Ventura spent four days last week testifying that Combs physically and emotionally abused her throughout their 11-year relationship.

After four days on the witness stand the R&B singer released a statement, read by her lawyer outside the courthouse in New York.

“This week has been extremely challenging, but also remarkably empowering and healing for me. I hope that my testimony has given strength and a voice to other survivors, and can help others who have suffered to speak up and also heal from the abuse and fear,” it read.

“For me, the more I heal, the more I can remember. And the more I can remember, the more I will never forget. I want to thank my family and my advocates for their unwavering support, and I’m grateful for all the kindness and encouragement that I have received.”

Sex workers from Craigslist, baby oil, “freak offs” and explosive testimony from Cassie Ventura were key features of the first week of the sex trafficking trial against Sean “Diddy” Combs.

Here is what you need to know about what the jury has heard so far: