Inside court as Cassie completed shocking testimony in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial | ITV News

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Cassie Ventura completed 10 hours of Q&A led by the prosecution on Wednesday, filling two days with vivid, graphic testimony painting her ex-boyfriend Sean Combs - better known as Diddy - as violent and depraved, an insatiable sex addict, who exploited professional leverage over Cassie to subject her to years of abusive and degrading treatment.

For the third straight day, prosecutors found a way to show the jury their most damning evidence - the infamous security footage of Combs dragging Cassie back to their suite after she sought to escape a marathon "freak-off" sex party at a Los Angeles hotel.

The jury saw a selfie Cassie took revealing a fat lip and sunglasses covering her black eye. Back at her apartment, Cassie received numerous texts from Combs begging her to call and lying that "the cops are here."
Cassie only texted back: "It was time for me to go. You are sick to think it was okay what you have done. Stay far away from me."

Seeing Cassie's bruised face, a friend at the apartment did call police, but Cassie declined to name her assaulter.

Later, Combs showed up outside her 17th floor residence, yelling and banging on the front door.

Cassie did not let him in.

Incredibly, a few days later, she let Combs accompany her to the Hollywood premiere of 'The Perfect Match', a movie she was in. Her long gown did not cover up a bruise on her shoulder.

Other Cassie photos shown to the jury – a bloody, swollen eyebrow from a punch, a bruise on her lower back from a kick - underscored Comb’s years-long physical abuse in incidents sometimes witnessed by Combs’ security guards and assistants.

After a 2009 beating inside a Cadillac Escalade, his staff kept her cooped up in a LA hotel for over a week while she healed. Realising she could not leave the hotel, Cassie testified, "I understood his capabilities, his access to guns."

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