Sean ‘ Diddy ‘ Combs’ attorneys are expected to conclude their cross-examination of his ex-girlfriend and main accuser Cassie Ve…

Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs’ attorneys are expected to conclude their cross-examination of his ex-girlfriend and main accuser Cassie Ventura on Friday.
As the trial against the mogul entered its fifth day, Justin Bieber‘s camp finally addressed explosive rumors connecting him, insisting the former child star was not among his alleged victims.
The
music mogul, 55, has kept a poker face this week as a pregnant Cassie
described being physically and emotionally abused throughout their
10-year relationship.
Combs’ defense says he is guilty of domestic violence –
which he is not charged with – but not of sex-trafficking or
racketeering, and that the government is targeting him for his sexual
preferences.
On
Thursday his lawyers portrayed Cassie as a willing participant in his
sexual lifestyle and say that, while he could be violent, nothing he did
amounted to a criminal enterprise. Combs denies all the allegations and
has pleaded not guilty to federal sex trafficking and racketeering
charge
Chris Brown comes up in Cassie’s testimony
Cassie says Combs was wary of her dating or giving attention to other men, even during breaks in their decade-long relationship.
She
says the hip-hop star took her phone from her on numerous occasions,
including when he found out she was dating a football player and when
she suspected her of dancing with the singer Chris Brown.
‘I don’t
remember besides the fact I wasn’t dancing with Chris Brown,’ she said
on the stand Friday when asked more details about the incident.
‘He’d take my phone, my car, my watch when he was angry,’ Cassie said of the music mogul.
Brown’s mention in the trial comes after he was charged with grievous bodily harm with intent over an alleged attack of a music producer with a bottle at a London nightclub in 2023.
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Diddy’s courtroom gesture to mom Janice as she leads family supporting him at trial
Diddy’s family document their every move as disgusting details of his freak-offs unfold in court
The emotional cost that Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s trial is having on his family is all being caught on camera, DailyMail.com can reveal exclusively.
One of the rap mogul’s trusted inner circle of film makers is shadowing his six children and his 85-year-old mother Janice to federal court in their large black minivan each day.
And
Roodmy Poulard is nailing their every move and emotion when they are
not actually inside the building, where cameras are not allowed.
‘I’m not a rag doll’
Diddy’s
attorney Anna resumed her cross examination with questions related to
the March 2016 recording of Combs attacking Cassie at the elevator bank
of a Los Angeles hotel. In it, Combs can be seen slinging Cassie to the
floor, kicking her and dragging her into a hotel hallway.
Estevao
had Cassie read aloud a text message in which she complained that Combs
was out of control from drugs and alcohol that day.
In the message, Cassie told Combs: ‘I’m not a rag doll. I’m somebody’s child.’
Watch full unedited video of Diddy beating Cassie in hotel
Jury recoils in shock as they are shown photos from ‘Freak Off’ sex parties
Jurors in the trial of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs were yesterday shown images from the sex parties that the hip-hop mogul masterminded.
The
New York courtroom fell silent as the jury members viewed five still
pictures of so-called ‘Freak Offs’ on their screens, which were blocked
from public view.
One male juror’s eyebrows went up as he saw the
images, while a female juror swallowed hard and appeared to move her
head side to side.
Diddy says he’s ‘proud’ of his lawyer as she grills Cassie on the stand
On
Thursday, Diddy mentioned to his lawyer Anna Estevao that he was
‘proud’ of her for the work she was doing on his case. The message was
caught on a hot mic in the courtroom.
Estevao confronted Cassie with loving emails and text messages she and the hip-hop mogul exchanged early on.
‘You
and [Sean Combs] were in love for 11 years, right?’ was the first
question from Diddy’s lawyer Anna Estevao, who will be cross-examining
Cassie.
‘Yeah,’ Cassie replied.
‘You loved him?’
‘I did.’
‘You believed he loved you?’
‘Yes.’
Estevao
continued a line of questioning that emphasized that Cassie ‘knew the
real Sean… a version he won’t let the rest of the world see.’
In one particularly damning exhange, Cassie wrote in a text to Diddy in March, 2017: ‘Please don’t play victim.
‘That’s all you wanted and that’s why I was upset.
‘I love our FOs when we both want it.’
Who is on the Diddy jury?
Eight
men and four women are on the final panel of 12 with a further four men
and two women listed as alternates. On the main juror panel, four are
white, two are Hispanic, five are black and one is Asian. Of the six
alternates, four are white and two are black.
WATCH: ‘Disturbing’ footage of Diddy with young Justin Bieber
Footage of an interview with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and Justin Bieber has gone viral following the rapper’s arrest.
Diddy
has been charged with a host of sex trafficking and racketeering
offenses with upwards of 120 victims already coming forward.
A video has now resurfaced of Diddy, 54, and Justin, now 30, an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! together when the singer was only 16-years-old.
Diddy looks at Cassie as she takes the stand Friday
Cassie has taken the stand Friday to continue being grilled by Diddy’s lawyer Anna Estevao.
She took a breath as she sat down – with Diddy looking at her as she did so.
Cassie appeared calm and appeared to be showing off her bump.
Diddy then turned to face the jury, appearing to be trying make eye contact with one of them.
It follows on from last week when the mogul appeared to attempt eye contact with jurors during jury selection.
Diddy’s lawyers scrambling to respond to Cassie’s claims on the stand
Judge Arun Subramanian admonished the defense for continuing to file documents well into the night during the trial.
‘Leters have come in at 3am… I’ve come in early,’ he said on Friday.
‘This is a problem, we’re running out of time to address issues’.
Defense attorney Teny Geragos suggested to the judge Wednesday that they had to change today’s gameplan on the fly.
She
told Judge Subramanian that the questioning of Cassie by prosecutors
over two days ‘has gone much differently than I expected. … So we are
kind of changing our strategy.’
Agnifilo later told the judge that
questioning Cassie about infidelities is important. ‘Everybody knows
that we are going to bring up infidelities, that we’re going to want to
bring up text messages of infidelities, and these text messages are
often in colorful language,’ he said.
Diddy was addicted to opiates, court hears
Diddy’s lawyer Anna Estevao questioned Cassie about addictions as it related to Combs.
‘Would you say he was an addict?’ the defense lawyer asked. ‘I would say he was an addict,’ Cassie responded.
‘What was he addicted to?”’ Estevao asked.
‘Success,’ Cassie initially said.
When the lawyer asked if Combs was addicted to opiates, Cassie said: ‘At a point, yes.’
Estevao asked her how she knows. Cassie answered: ‘Because he told me.’
Cassie said Combs would become more violent when he was going through Opioid withdrawals.
Diddy looks relaxed as his lawyer grills Cassie
Combs appears relaxed at the defense table, sitting back in his chair with his hands folded before him and his legs crossed.
He has been allowed to wear his own clothes for the trial.
However, he has to rotate between five looks throughout the trial, which is expected to last about eight weeks.
He can only have up to five pairs of pants, shirts and socks and only two pairs of shoes – with no laces.
Diddy’s daughters missing from trial as Cassie’s graphic testimony resumes
The
mogul’s family, including his mother Janice and six of his seven kids,
has supported him since his arrest last year and have been present in
the courtroom every day this week.
His three daughters – 18-year-old daughter Chance and 17-year-old
twins D’Lila and Jessie – were in court on Monday and Tuesday and heard
horrific testimony from the first three witness including Cassie.
However, Diddy’s daughters were not seen going inside the federal courthouse on Wednesday as Cassie is to resume her testimony.
Only
Diddy’s mother Janice Combs and sons Quincy, 33, Justin, 30,
and Christian, 26, were seen entering court on Wednesday and Thursday.
Diddy’s lawyers suggest prosecutors want to limit their questioning of Cassie
Judge
Subramanian said there had been pre-trial discussions for months about
the need to finish Cassie’s testimony this week, given her advanced
pregnancy.
Agnifilo tried to blame prosecutors, saying it ‘seems
strategic’ that they called two other witnesses before Cassie, and
suggesting they did so in an effort to limit the cross examination.
The
judge told the defense to finish its cross in the morning Friday to
leave time for prosecutors to ask Cassie followup questions. He left
open the possibility that Cassie might have to return to the witness
stand next week.
Jury sees text where Cassie said she ‘loved freak offs’
Cassie wrote in a text to Diddy in March, 2017: ‘Please don’t play victim.
‘That’s all you wanted and that’s why I was upset.
‘I love our FOs when we both want it.’
Diddy’s
attorney has been trying to prove that, despite her claims, Cassie was
not coerced into participating in the grueling sex sessions.
When asked about what she wrote, Cassie replied: ‘I would say that loving FOs were just words at that point.’
Will Diddy take the stand?
The decision to have Combs testify would be made after the government finishes presenting its case weeks from now.
And ultimately, it will be up to Combs to decide.
In
most criminal trials, defendants choose not to testify. With a
celebrity, the decision whether to take the stand can be complicated and
risky, especially if lawyers believe prosecutors failed to prove their
case.
Court hears details of Cassie’s affair with Michael B Jordan
Diddy suspected Cassie was having a revenge affair with the actor Michael B. Jordan, the court heard.
Cassie
said she dumped the hip hop mogul in 2015 after seeing a video of him
and a woman called Gina at an event while she was in South Africa
filming ‘Honey 3: Dare to Dance’.
She told a court in New York
that Diddy suspected she got together with Jordan, who was in Cape Town
at the same time while doing filming of his own.
Cassie said she ‘wasn’t there’ to see how Combs reacted when he found out about her relationship with Jordan.
Cassie and Diddy eventually patched things up and stayed together until 2018.
The
singer did not say she had an affair with the actor while on the stand,
but she did reveal the romance in her 2023 civil lawsuit against the
mogul.
Cassie said that she began a ‘flirtatious relationship’
with Jordan while she was in South Africa – and that they did have an
affair.
‘She spent New Year’s Eve with this actor but Mr Combs soon found out’, the lawsuit stated.
‘Mr.
Combs called the actor and threatened him; the actor proceeded to call
Ms. Ventura and tell her: ‘You really need to call ‘Mr Combs’.
Cassie is expecting her third child with Alex Fine
Just a year after she was last seen with Diddy, Cassie married Alex Fine, who was originally Diddy’s personal trainer.
Cassie became pregnant soon after she started dating Fine.
The
couple is currently expecting their third child, which means Cassie has
been testifying as she is just weeks away from giving birth.
Very pregnant Cassie steps out as she heads back to the stand Friday
Cassie is on her way to a Manhattan federal courthouse to continue her testimony against Diddy on Friday.
Her
lawyers have said she must finish her testimony today because she is
near the end of her third pregnancy and due to give birth soon.
Full timeline of Diddy and Cassie’s relationship
As Sean ‘Diddy’
Combs faces charges of sex-trafficking in Manhattan federal court, his
relationship with the singer Cassie is at the center of the horrific
allegations.
The music mogul’s staggering downfall began when
Cassie, real name Casandra Ventura, filed a bombshell lawsuit in 2023
detailing terrifying claims of sexual abuse and violence.
The
lawsuit was settled for an undisclosed amount just a day after it was
filed, but it was too late for Diddy’s reputation, and the rapper was
then hit with dozens of lawsuits including similar claims.
Diddy overdosed in 2012, his lawyer reveals
Diddy’s defense attorney questioned Cassie about a time when the rapper overdosed in February, 2012, after taking painkillers.
‘Was that around the time Whitney Houston died?’ Cassie asked Diddy’s attorney.
Yes…
We had a Freak Off. We went to a sex club in San Bernardino. He had a
party at the Playboy Mansion that night and I went home.
He took a very strong opioid that night, we didn’t know what was happening so took him to the hospital.
Whitney Houston died on February 11, 2012, in an accidental drowning after taking cocaine.
It’s unclear why the defense brought up her death.
Houston and Diddy are seen in 2010.
Truth revealed on Justin Bieber’s relationship with Diddy
Justin Bieber has broken his silence on explosive rumors connecting him to Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs just days after the disgraced music mogul’s sex trafficking trial began.
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