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Shocker! Cassie Ventura Reveals $10M Settlement From Hotel Over 2016 Sean “Diddy” Combs Beating – Update
On Cassie Ventura's likely last day as a witness in Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex-trafficking trial, the very pregnant singer was in a credibility vs. coercion battle with defense lawyers
“You always want to show me that you have the power and you knock me around”, the jury this morning heard Ventura read aloud a 2016 text she sent then boyfriend after the Bad Boy Records founder brutally attacked her in an LA hotel hallways as the singer tried to escape one of the couple’s now infamous drug-fueled “freak-offs.” The message continued: “I’m not a ragdoll I’m someone’s child.” After the U.S. Attorney’s office intent earlier this week to strongly show that self-admitted domestic violence predator Combs was guilty of the charges in his constant coercive efforts to force a fundamentally unwilling Ventura into filmed sex with male escorts and more with threats of battering, career disaster and public humiliation, the defense has sought to flip the script Thursday. To that, with gentle nudging and a distinct reading of evidence like the text message, Estevao tried Thursday and today to reiterate the defense’s opening statement of May 12 that while Combs is can be a violent drug using ass, Ventura was an active and consenting agent in everything the couple did – not matter how sordid.
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