Cassie Ventura is ready to testify in opposition to her ex-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs in his upcoming intercourse trafficking trial subsequent month.
The “Me & U” hitmaker, 38, can be utilizing her identify in court docket quite than testifying anonymously, a movement filed Friday revealed.
Prosecutors acknowledged that “Victim-1” can be taking the stand within the disgraced music mogul trial. He has been accused within the fits of drugging and raping each women and men over a decades-long interval. Combs has denied wrongdoing and pleaded not responsible in his legal case.
In January, Rolling Stone recognized “Victim-1” as Ventura.
Combs, 55, additionally faces expenses of racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking and transportation to interact in prostitution. His trial is ready to start Might 5.
“She is prepared to testify under her own name,” the submitting states, per Individuals. “Victim-2, Victim-3, and Victim-4 have asked that their identities not be revealed to the press or the public.”
Moreover, prosecutors requested that the nameless victims “be referred to at trial using only pseudonyms.”
“This case has already received an exceptional amount of media coverage, which will presumably only increase as trial proceeds,” the submitting acknowledged.
“Permitting these measures will prevent unnecessary public disclosure of the victims’ identities, and the harassment from the media and others, undue embarrassment, and other adverse consequences that would almost certainly follow if these women were forced to reveal their true names publicly at trial.”
The Publish has reached out to Combs’ reps for remark.
Southern District of New York feds revealed Monday that they plan to incorporate testimony about “sexual abuse of other victims” at Combs’ trial on expenses of forcing lovers into drug-fueled, days-long intercourse marathons dubbed “Freak-Offs,” and operating Dangerous Boy Data as a legal enterprise.
Notably, the so-called “Freak Offs” — drug-fueled, dayslong performances of sexual depravity that an observing Combs would masturbate to, in response to the indictment — had been detailed in Ventura’s November 2023 lawsuit describing the decade-long nightmare she allegedly endured.
Ventura — an R&B singer as soon as signed to Combs’ label Dangerous Boy Data — mentioned the primary “Freak Off” occurred simply months into their relationship, when she was round 22 and he was 40.
After she filed the lawsuit, Combs threw a last-ditch try to hold the matter hushed by settling the go well with a day after she filed.
Nonetheless, allegations of the “Freak Offs” now function a predominant foundation for the bombshell federal intercourse trafficking and racketeering indictment unsealed on Tuesday.
Among the many myriad of allegations, Ventura’s go well with claims that Combs regularly had exploitative intercourse reveals happen at numerous accommodations.
She additionally alleges that the rapper forked out massive sums of money for escorts to participate within the sexual performances, throughout which he would typically bodily abuse her in entrance of them, the go well with claims.
Combs made Ventura the lead producer in his sicko classes, ordering her to search out male intercourse staff on-line, the go well with alleges.
When Ventura tried to protest collaborating in a session, she can be “brutally” overwhelmed, the go well with states.
Certainly, months after the go well with was settled, harrowing video footage from 2016 emerged that confirmed Combs beating Ventura in a resort hallway.
The “Long Way 2 Go” hitmaker’s lawsuit impressed quite a few different girls with comparable claims to return ahead.
