Victim 1

The trial of Pi didi began. The testimony is given by the main witness of the prosecution - the former girl of the rapper Cassie Ventura, whom he forced for sex with other men

On Monday, May 12, in New York, the trial of Shonom Combs began -in the past, a successful producer and rapper, who performed under the pseudonym Puff Deaddy, Pi Diddy, didi and just Pidi. The 55-year-old artist was arrested last year, he is accused of sexualized violence and human trafficking. On the second day of the hearing, the former girl Combs Cassy (Cassandra) Ventura began to testify. She, perhaps, is the main witness of the prosecution in this high -profile criminal case. In November 2023, Ventura filed a civil lawsuit in which she stated that Combs beat her, raped and forced her to sex with other men. The very next day, the lawsuit was settled - on what conditions, it is unknown. However, he sang a catalyst for dozens of similar claims and a criminal case against a Combs. "Medusa" tells what testimonies Ventura - in the indictment, she is called the victim 1 - already gave in court.

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The beginning of the relationship. Pi didi quickly began to control and beat the venture

Cassandra Ventura came to court at the eighth month of pregnancy. This is her third child in marriage with the fitness trainer Alex Fayn, whom she married in 2019 after a break with Pi didi. Journalists noticed that the defendant carefully watched her when she turned to the jury, but Ventura did not look at him. The meeting in court was the first for them in seven years.

Cassier met Didie in 2006; He was then 37 years old, she was 19, and she signed a contract for the release of 10 albums with his music label Bad Boy Records. After its 21st birthday, they began a novel. According to Ventura, she really fell in love with Didi: “I wanted to be next to the show for the same reasons as everyone else at that time is an incredible, interesting, cheerful guy who also held my career in his hands.”

Over time, Diddy began to control the venture more and more. He dictated how she should look, what to work on, with whom to communicate. If she did not pick up the phone, he continued to call and sent his guards to follow her. Didi rented an apartment for a girl in New York and Los Angeles near his own apartments, leaving a copy of the keys. After a quarrel, he could, as a punishment, drive her out of the apartment, pick up the car and even the phone.

According to Ventura, many quarrels took place on the basis of jealousy. At first, the singer thought that Didie was only meeting her, but then she realized that this was not so, and began to be very jealous. “He was himself, he was Puff Daddy, and Puff Deaddy has many women,” Cassie said in court. She also met with others , but noted that “most often” she and Diddy were in monogamous relations.

Very soon, Combs began to beat Ventura: “Dissatisfied expression - and the following that I remember, this is a blow to the face. If I behaved somehow wrong, he let me know that I needed to “fix my face” or “follow the tongue”. ”

Sex Vozdryinki. The rapper forced Ventura to have sex with other men with him

When asked how often the rapper resorted to physical violence, Ventura replied: "Too often." The court also showed a video from surveillance cameras at the Los Angeles Hotel Intercontinental in 2016, where ComBS beats Ventura. It was first published in the media a year ago. Ventura explained that Didi attacked her near hotel elevators (this moment hit the cameras) because she wanted to leave with the next Freak-OFF-that was the name of the sex pools that did Diddy arranged.

Cassie said that parties began with the rapper’s interest in voyeurism. The girl had to have sex with other men, and Didi watched and gave instructions. Men were sex workers. Combs forced Ventura to look for them on the Internet and paid everyone from one and a half to six thousand dollars. Some sessions lasted for two days in a row, and during this time Ventura had sex with several strangers. She recalled that she drank alcohol and took drugs that the Combs gave her so as not to fall asleep.

According to her, the rapper carefully directed everything - up to lighting - and shot on camera. “It was his fantasy. He controlled the whole situation. He led it. He told us where to be, what to say, how to behave, ” said Ventura. Combs first offered her such a sex session when she was 22 years old, and they continued almost until the end of their relationship, becoming almost weekly and often humiliating. “In the end, this essentially turned into my work,” Ventura said.

She stated that she felt “disgusting” because of the need to participate in this, but did not find the strength to refuse. Firstly, because I did not want to disappoint Combs. Secondly, because she was afraid of the consequences of the refusal: the rapper threatened her to publish a video from parties and destroy her career. Although there was actually no career: Ventura stated in court that during the relationship with Diddy, she recorded “hundreds” of songs, but out of ten albums that promised to release her, only one came out.

Ventura also explained the role of children's oil on Combs's evening -items - last year, during a search in the rapper’s house, a thousand bottles of such oil were discovered , and this became a meme. According to Ventura, the rapper asked the participants of the Sex Wedens to rub abundantly with oil. They used about 10 large bottles each time, and once the rapper even ordered to fill the air pool with oil, Ventura said. If the oil was not enough, the rapper’s staff or hotel staff where the orgies took place , they brought again.

What will happen next in court

Cassandra Ventura testified for four and a half hours. It is expected that she will continue at a new meeting - and will tell, including about the rape, after which, as stated in her lawsuit, she left Diddy. She is also waiting for an interrogation of the defense of the rapper, denying all charges. His lawyers are expected to insist that the relationship between Ventura and Combs was voluntary and mutually cruel. “We are going to take a position that there was mutual violence in the relationship,” said Rapper Mark Agnifilo's chief lawyer.

In addition to the venture, other alleged victims of Combs will give evidence in court - however, they will act anonymously. The prosecution reported that among them there is another former friend of the rapper, whom he forced to participate in the sex veils, and his former employee, whom he forced for sex. The judge also has to decide whether the videos of the parties themselves will be shown. The accusation wants only the jury to see them, so they are unlikely to demonstrate them to reporters and listeners of the process.

When Ventura testified, her husband Alex Fain was sitting in the courtroom. Also in the process there is a family of Didi - the mother of the rapper and six of his older children. They publicly supported him after accusations of sexualized violence. In January, NBC journalists released a documentary about Diddy, which said that in childhood he himself witnessed a sex-wide sex with alcohol and drugs that his mother arranged. After the release of the film, the rapper filed a claim for $ 100 million to NBC.