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The defence has been taking the jury through a series of break-up texts between Cassie Ventura and Sean Combs from August 2018.<\/p>\n

The singer testified that she had decided to end their relationship after seeing a photograph of Combs with a woman named in court as \u201cGina\u201d. Combs had been dating her for several years, Ventura said.<\/p>\n

She texted Combs: \u201cI just don\u2019t trust anymore. That last shot put the nail in the coffin.\u201d <\/p>\n

She agreed in court that she had not brought up the rape allegation with Combs in text messages discussing the evening.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t hate Combs, Ventura tells court\"Anna<\/p>\n

Anna Estevao cross-examines Cassie Ventura in court on Friday<\/p>\n

JANE ROSENBERG\/REUTERS<\/p>\n

Anna Estevao, for the defence, has asked Cassie Ventura whether she still had feelings for Sean Combs after he allegedly raped her in August 2018.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou didn\u2019t hate him then and you don\u2019t hate him now?\u201d Estevao asked. \u201cI don\u2019t hate him,\u201d Ventura responded. \u201cYou still have love for him?\u201d Estevao pressed. \u201cI have love for the past, what it was,\u201d Ventura replied.<\/p>\n

Jury told of \u2018rape after dinner\u2019 in 2018<\/p>\n

Cassie Ventura\u2019s testimony has turned to an incident in 2018 when she alleges that Sean Combs raped her at her home after they had gone to dinner at an Italian restaurant in Malibu.<\/p>\n

She previously testified that it occurred at a time when she was seeking closure in her relationship with Combs and was dating Alex Fine, 32, who is now her husband. Combs had recently returned from attending the Burning Man festival in Nevada, she said.<\/p>\n

\"Alex<\/p>\n

Cassie Ventura\u2019s husband, Alex Fine, left, enters the court in Manhattan<\/p>\n

DAVID \u201cDEE\u201d DELGADO\/REUTERS<\/p>\n

Afterwards, he sent the singer a text asking for a chance to \u201cmake things right\u201d. Cassie said that Combs had taken care of her \u201cmaterialistically, not where I needed it\u201d.<\/p>\n

Ventura recounts therapy for PTSD and addiction\"Casandra<\/p>\n

Casandra \u201cCassie\u201d Ventura said she processed her memories of violence against her during therapy<\/p>\n

JANE ROSENBERG\/REUTERS<\/p>\n

Cassie Ventura has testified that she spent 45 days in a rehabilitation facility in Arizona in 2023 to receive treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and drug addiction.<\/p>\n

The singer said she had participated in several kinds of therapy, including eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing, which helped her \u201crecount memories and process them\u201d. Describing the treatment, Ventura said she would envisage events in her past, when she was trapped in a room and being beaten up, then reimagine the scenario so she could find a way out.<\/p>\n

She also received neurofeedback treatment, she said, which involved her brain being connected to a machine that regulates neural waves.<\/p>\n

Jury hears audio of Ventura\u2019s anguish over sex video<\/p>\n

The jury has been played a recording from 2013 of Cassie Ventura screaming at a friend who claimed to have seen a video of her performing sex acts.<\/p>\n

Ventura can be heard pleading to see the video, then threatening to kill the male friend if it became public. \u201cI\u2019ve never killed anyone in my life, but I will kill you,\u201d she said. Ventura testified that she believed someone had secretly filmed her and Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs during a \u201cfreak off\u201d [a drug-fuelled sex session]. She said she told Combs, who claimed he would \u201ctake care of it\u201d.<\/p>\n

Combs\u2019s threats to release footage of the \u201cfreak offs\u201d have been a consistent theme throughout Ventura\u2019s testimony.<\/p>\n

Justin Bieber: I am not a Diddy victim\"Sean<\/p>\n

Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs, Justin Bieber and the rapper Rick Ross at a party in Atlanta in 2014<\/p>\n

PRINCE WILLIAMS\/GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n

Justin Bieber has denied persistent social media speculation that he was victimised by Sean Combs.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough Justin is not among Sean Combs\u2019s victims, there are individuals who were genuinely harmed by him,\u201d a representative for the Canadian singer told TMZ. \u201cShifting focus away from this reality detracts from the justice these victims rightfully deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n

Combs helped Bieber, 31, break into the music industry in the late 2000s. The pair appeared together in several joint television interviews in the ensuing years that have resurfaced since allegations about sexual offences by Combs came to light.<\/p>\n

Combs\u2019s children show support\"Quincy<\/p>\n

Quincy Brown, Sean Combs\u2019s stepson, Justin Combs and King Combs outside the court<\/p>\n

TIMOTHY A CLARY\/AFP\/GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n

Three of Sean Combs\u2019s children, his sons Justin Combs, 31, and Christian Combs, 27, and his daughter Chance Combs, 19, are back in court on Friday.<\/p>\n

Family members have attended on each day of the trial so far. On Monday, Combs\u2019s daughters \u2014 Chance, and twins D\u2019Lila and Jessie, 17, left the court during graphic testimony about their father\u2019s alleged sexual encounters.<\/p>\n

The adult children were seen with Combs\u2019s mother, Janice Combs, holding hands and embracing in a prayer circle on Wednesday after Cassie Ventura\u2019s direct evidence concluded.<\/p>\n

\u2018Jealous Combs took Ventura\u2019s phone\u2019<\/p>\n

Cassie Ventura, wearing a dark-striped suit jacket over a light-coloured blouse, testified that Sean Combs took her phone and other possessions on numerous occasions after suspecting that she was seeing other people.<\/p>\n

Combs snatched her phone out of her hand while they were in a car in Los Angeles in 2016, she said, after finding out that she was dating an unidentified NFL player. Her mother called the police after Ventura returned home without the phone. On another occasion, Combs grabbed her phone after suspecting that she was seeing the R&B singer Chris Brown, she said.<\/p>\n

Combs also took her watch, passport and car when he became angry with her, even if they were on a break in their relationship, she testified.<\/p>\n

I am not a rag doll, Ventura told Combs <\/p>\n

Anna Estevao, for the defence, has begun by asking Cassie Ventura about Combs\u2019s drug use at the time in 2016 that Sean Combs was seen on hotel surveillance cameras assaulting her.<\/p>\n

Ventura was reminded that she had previously said Combs was \u201cblackout\u201d \u2014 when a person loses their memory because of drug use. \u201cEverybody\u2019s definition of blackout is different,\u201d Ventura replied.<\/p>\n

She was then asked to read a text message, describing the hotel incident, which she sent to Combs four days afterwards: \u201cWhen you get f***ed up the wrong way you always want to show me that you have the power and you knock me around. I\u2019m not a rag doll, I\u2019m someone\u2019s child,\u201d it read.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors appeal to judge over lengthy cross-examination<\/p>\n

Prosecutors have accused the defence of trying to drag out their cross-examination of Cassie Ventura in an overnight letter to the judge.<\/p>\n

Sean Combs\u2019s lawyers appeared intent on forcing Ventura to return to the witness box on Monday so the rapper could review transcripts over the weekend and prepare additional questions. They raised the risk of a mistrial if Ventura was required to return on Monday but instead goes into labour over the weekend. She is due to give birth to her third child in June.<\/p>\n

The defence had earlier claimed that prosecutors purposely delayed calling Ventura to testify so they would have less time to cross-examine her.<\/p>\n

A fourth day of testimony<\/p>\n

Casandra \u201cCassie\u201d Ventura\u2019s marathon spell in the witness box continues on Friday.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Anna Estevao, Combs\u2019s lawyer, had Ventura read out dozens of messages that she exchanged with the hip-hop mogul, 55, about her participation in the days-long sexual performances with male sex workers that he called \u201cfreak offs\u201d. In August 2009, Combs asked when she wanted the next encounter to be, and she replied: \u201cI\u2019m always ready to freak off.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a 2017 text message, Ventura, 38, told Combs: \u201cI love our \u2018freak offs\u2019 when we both want it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The defence has been taking the jury through a series of break-up texts between Cassie Ventura and Sean…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[48883,16340,16337,77,32642,17272,9461,21830,35323,48884,31522,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-106764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-about","9":"tag-cassie","10":"tag-diddy","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-judge","13":"tag-letter","14":"tag-live","15":"tag-p","16":"tag-receives","17":"tag-testimony","18":"tag-trial","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114518553972242503","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}