Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs’ violent attack on ex-girlfriend Cassie during a freak-off at a Los Angeles hotel was made public early Wednesday after the entire unedited footage was shown to court.
Cassie Ventura, 38, came face-to-face with the hip-hop mogul on the second day of his trial as she revealed intimate details of their sordid relationship.
The singer claimed she took part in his days-long sex parties because she feared he would blackmail her if she refused, jurors heard yesterday.
The unedited surveillance videos have been submitted as evidence at the trial and show various angles of the brutal attack as Diddy drags the R&B singer from an elevator and menacingly paces down the hallway in a towel.
Combs shook his head slowly from side to side and the packed courtroom fell silent as jurors were shown the 2016 hotel security camera video for the first time.
The video did not have sound.
Jurors watched intently on video monitors at their seats in the jury box, but there were no discernible, visible reactions.
First, prosecutors showed it all the way through. Then, they played it as the hotel’s assistant security director at the time, Israel Florez, described how the situation unfolded.
‘I don’t want to lose anything and I can lose it all,’ Florez described Diddy as saying.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ violent attack on ex-girlfriend Cassie during a freak-off in a Los Angeles was made public early Wednesday after the full unedited footage was shown to court
Cassie Ventura, 38, came face-to-face with the hip-hop mogul on the second day of his trial as she revealed intimate details of their sordid relationship
Prosecutors then played a different version of the footage that Florez recorded off a monitor with his iPhone.
Combs’ lawyer then showed it again as she sought to poke holes in Florez’s recollection of events.
The video shows clear footage of Cassie walking down the hall at the InterContinental Hotel in Century City and at one point, Combs clearly drags her across the floor, mid-tantrum.
As she tried to get into an elevator, he grabbed her by the back of the head and slammed her on to the ground.
He then kicked her as she lay on the ground motionless.
Diddy stood over her, kicked her again, and then dragged her back to their room by the hoodie.
Late in the clip, you see what appears to be a security guard walk into the fray.
Florez, the security guard in question, testified in court Tuesday and submitted an email showing his report of the incident that includes stunning photos of the aftermath in the hotel room.
The singer claimed she took part in his days-long sex parties because she feared he would blackmail her if she refused, jurors heard yesterday
The videos have been submitted, unedited as evidence at the trial and show various angles of the brutal attack as Diddy drags the R&B singer from an elevator and paces down the hallway in a towel
Now a Los Angeles Police Department officer, Florez wrote back in 2016 that at one point after diffusing the situation, Combs attempted to offer him a bribe, allegedly saying: ‘You take care of this, I got you, let’s go to my room.’
The security guard responds by telling Combs he knows who the mogul is before shaking his hand.
‘[I] said all I ask is for respect for the guest and myself, so do me the favor and lets return you to your room,’ he wrote.
At one point, Florez claims Diddy saw Ventura coming down the hall and ‘raised his voice’ toward her.
‘I then told him that if he didn’t respect the guest, then he would be escorted out of property,’ Florez said.
They arrive at the room, where Combs allegedly pulled out a band of about $100 in cash and said: ‘You take care of this and I take care of you.’
‘I declined the money and told Mr. Combs that all we needed was for him to stay in his room until check out, which is today,’ Florez said, before leaving the scene.
As he and an associate started to take photos, Diddy looked ready to yell at them, when Florez said he told him they ‘were not there to make it bigger than it already was.’
First, prosecutors showed it all the way through. Then, they played it as the hotel’s assistant security director at the time, Israel Florez (pictured), described what was happening
Now a Los Angeles Police Department officer, Florez wrote back in 2016 that at one point after diffusing the situation, Combs attempted to offer him a bribe, allegedly saying: ‘You take care of this, I got you, let’s go to my room’
Combs at one point tries to grab the associate’s phone, assuming he’s there to record him before he was told he wasn’t being filmed.
Florez clamed that Diddy calmed down and said: ‘It’s just that I don’t want to lose anything and I can lose it all.’
He reassures the rapper that they just want him to calm down and avoid further scenes before leaving.
The trial’s first witness, Florez, testified about responding to a report of a woman in distress and witnessing Combs tell Cassie: ‘You’re not going to leave.’
Florez said he recognized Diddy immediately after getting called up to his room and only later understood it was Ventura with him.
According to Florez, Diddy was ‘on the chair slouched down and was in a blank stare’
He said: ‘As soon as I walked out…it was a devilish stare, looking at me. When I got out of the elevator I’m looking at him, he’s looking at me with no movement. He was wearing just a towel and socks.’
Florez told the court that Ventura looked ‘scared.’
At one point, Florez claims Diddy saw Ventura coming down the hall and ‘raised his voice’ toward her
Florez told the court that Ventura looked ‘scared’
He said: ‘She was in the corner. She had her hoodie on, pretty much covered up, I couldn’t see her face. She was pretty much in a corner.’
Florez testified that he recorded the hotel’s video of the attack on his cellphone because he wanted to describe what he saw to his wife and feared she wouldn’t believe him.
As for her own testimony, Cassie claimed in a since-settled lawsuit that Diddy had paid the same hotel $50,000 for the footage after the attack.
Two days later, the pair appeared on the red carpet holding hands for the premiere of The Perfect Match.
At trial Tuesday, Ventura said Combs, 55, forced her to participate in the parties, known as ‘Freak Offs’, where she would have sex with male escorts while he watched.
They became her ‘job’ and she carried on taking part because she feared Combs would release videos he had filmed of the parties, the court heard.
The R&B singer said Combs, who signed her to his Bad Boy Records label, controlled every aspect of her life during their decade-long relationship and kept her in check through violence, and left guns lying around to ‘scare’ her.
Ventura described how he would ‘stomp me in the head if I was down’ and beat her so badly that the whites of her eyes would turn red.
Florez said of Cassie: ‘She was in the corner. She had her hoodie on, pretty much covered up, I couldn’t see her face. She was pretty much in a corner’
Florez took photos of the aftermath of the attack in the hotel room
Diddy was apparently not thrilled with the attempt to gather photos and thought he was being filmed by the security team
Prosecutors claim that Combs, who won three Grammys during a music career spanning four decades, ran a ‘criminal enterprise’ built around coercing women into sex and threatening them if they went public.
His lawyers claim that all the sex acts were consensual and that his appetites were ‘kinky’ but did not amount to sex trafficking.
Ventura gave evidence to the trial in New York despite being eight-and-a-half months pregnant with her third child. Her husband Alex Fine, 32, is a personal trainer who was hired by Combs to work with her.
Combs’s lawyers sought to have Ventura seated in the witness box before the jury came in on the grounds that her being so heavily pregnant might influence them.
But the judge disagreed and she was allowed to walk into court wearing a brown, tight-fitting bodysuit which showed off her baby bump.
Her testimony came a day after prosecutors showed jurors a video of him beating her in a hotel in 2016.
Ventura detailed the arguments she had with Combs, who she began dating in 2006 when she was 19 and he was 17 years older.
She said: ‘He would bash me on my head, knock me over, drag me, kick me, stomp me in the head if I was down.’ Prosecutor Emily Anne Johnson asked how frequently this happened. ‘Too frequently,’ she replied.
Florez testified that he recorded the hotel’s video of the attack on his cellphone because he wanted to describe what he saw to his wife and feared she wouldn’t believe him
Ventura gave evidence to the trial in New York despite being eight-and-a-half months pregnant with her third child
Cassie and Diddy first met in 2005, when she was 19 and he was a 39-year-old superstar (Pictured: New York, 2006)
Ventura said she remembered ‘my stomach falling to my butt’ when Combs suggested the idea of ‘Freak Offs’. She told the court: ‘Within the first year of our relationship Sean proposed to me this idea this sexual encounter that he called voyeurism where he’d watch me in sexual activity with a third party, specifically another man.’
She added: ‘Pretty quickly I knew that it wasn’t something I wanted to be doing. Especially as regularly as it became but I was in love and wanted to make him happy. It got to a point I didn’t feel I had much of a choice.’
Ventura said she did not want to make Combs ‘angry’ because he ‘controlled a lot of my life’ and she feared he would put the explicit videos of her online. She told jurors: ‘Over time it turned into the fact there were blackmail materials to make me feel if I didn’t do it, it would be hung over my head or these things would become public.’
Ventura said that before she met Combs, she thought he was a ‘larger-than-life’ figure in the music industry, while she was ‘completely sexually inexperienced’. She repeatedly called herself ‘naive’ and said: ‘I was insanely jealous but also super young, didn’t get it at all, I didn’t get that he was him.
‘As he would say, I’m Puff Daddy and Puff Daddy has many women, he likes the company of women. I had to learn that over time. He made me feel like we were in a monogamous relationship.’
Ventura wept as she spoke about her first ‘Freak Off’ party and how she did not want to engage in any of them. ‘I just felt it was all I was good for,’ she said.
‘I felt pretty horrible about myself. I felt disgusted. I was humiliated, I didn’t have those words to put together at the time, how horrible I felt. I couldn’t talk to anybody about it so.’
Ventura said the only part of the ‘Freak Offs’ she enjoyed was the ‘time’ she spent with Combs during them. She told the court: ‘Plainly the Freak Offs became a job where there was no space to do anything else but to recover and try to feel normal again. Staying up for days on end, taking drugs and other substances, drinking. Having sex with a stranger for days.’
Asked how long the ‘Freak Offs’ lasted, Ventura replied: ‘They ranged anywhere from 36, 48 to 72 hours. The longest one ever was four days. Maybe even more on and off with breaks.’ She said about 10 large bottles of baby oil were used at each party.
Ventura also claimed that Combs would leave guns lying around his homes to scare her.
‘The guns came out here and there – I always felt it was a little bit of a scare tactic,’ she said.
Earlier, Judge Arun Subramanian indicated he could make the ‘Freak Off’ videos and photos public despite pleas from Ventura to keep them sealed.
Combs, who has worked with Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Lopez, who he also dated for a time, denies racketeering conspiracy, two charges of sex trafficking and two charges of transportation to engage in prostitution. He faces life in jail if convicted.
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