Cassie Ventura testifies about violence and 'freak offs' in Sean 'Diddy' Combs trial

When asked if she ever left one of Combs' alleged "freak offs," Cassie Ventura said yes, "in Century City," alluding to the 2016 incident at a Los Angeles hotel in which security video footage showed the rapper assaulting her.

“I chose to leave,” Ventura said. “I got out and Sean followed me into the hallway, and grabbed me, shoved me to the ground, kicked me and dragged me back to the room and took my stuff.”

In a setback for Combs’ legal team, Judge Subramanian had said in April that the video, first broadcast by CNN last year, was admissible as evidence.

After the jury was shown the video, Ventura was asked how many other times Combs had thrown her like that.

“Too many to count," she said.

Cassie Ventura detailed explicit events that she said would happen in the "freak offs" that Sean Combs requested her to participate in.

Sometimes, she said Combs would join in as she had intercourse with the sex worker, and other times he would watch from a corner. He would also set up phones on FaceTime so he could watch from another room, she said.

"It was his fantasy to direct it — what to say, how to act," she said. "I did that to speed the process along so I could get it done. I wanted it to be over and get to the other room where we could spend time alone."

Ventura said Combs began recording some of the "freak offs" in the first year.

"I didn't want to do it," she said. "I would watch them with Sean afterwards, while we were having intercourse. If i saw them on my devices i would delete them, I felt disgusted."

Cassie Ventura testified that she used "marijuana, ketamine, mushrooms, whatever was the drug of choice at that point" to get through "freak offs."

"I couldn’t imagine myself doing any of that without having some sort of buffer, " Ventura told the court.

Ventura has testified, at length, about her having intercourse with sex workers while her then-boyfriend Combs watched. Even when she became ill, she said Combs told her to keep going.

"I would actually vomit," she said. "When I got sick during a 'freak off,' he would encourage me to get up and continue on with it."

Cassie Ventura said she questioned the legality of soliciting sex workers online when Combs would ask to see the escort to check if they were a cop.

This prompted an objection from defense attorneys. Judge Arun Subramanian told the jury to disregard Ventura's comment concerning legality.

Ventura said she would contact sex workers online at Combs' request and tell them that it was his fantasy to watch her having sex with another man, she said in court.

Sex workers were paid $1,500 to $6,000, she said.

Cassie Ventura said she used several websites to find sex workers across the country — and always under Combs' direction.

Craigslist, the now-defunct Backpage and the escort service Cowboys 4 Angels were among the sites Ventura testified that she used. But any final hire had to have Combs' OK, she said.

"I showed the photos to Sean to see if he was interested. If he wasn't interested I would tell them 'no' and ask for someone else," she said. "Sean had to approve."

Cassie Ventura told the court that she was expected to participate in "freak offs" during her period against her will at Combs' request, resulting in blood getting on furniture.

Ventura also said Combs had an escort urinate on her during an encounter because it was a "turn on" for him. Combs also participated, she said.

"I just felt humiliated, it was disgusting, it was too much," she said. "I choked, I didn’t want to be doing that, I was in a position I couldn’t easily get out of."

Ventura was asked why she didn't say no.

"I was squeamish immediately, but high in the moment," she said. "That’s about it, you don't have a lot of control at that moment."

Baby oil was used in "freak offs" at Sean Combs' request, according to Cassie Ventura, who said everyone involved, including her, would pour it all over their bodies.

"Sean wanted it heated and he wanted it to be glistening so we applied every five minutes," Ventura said.

Ventura said there was "a pool filled with baby oil" during a "freak off" at the Montage Beverly Hills, which she got into at Combs' request.

"If Sean wanted it to happen, that was what was going to happen, there was no way around it," she said. "We used 10 bottles of baby oil, regular size."

Ventura also mentioned other items used in "freak offs," including Astroglide lubricant and condoms. Staff would bring the items, but if the "freak off" was last minute, Ventura would bring them, she said.

Cassie said she was always conscious of appeasing Combs and did everything possible to stay in his good graces.

"I didn't want him to be upset or not trust me," she testified. "He was a scary person, he would be violent."

She said they engaged "in freak offs in all the homes" and hotels, listing several places in Southern California and across the country.

Cassie Ventura got emotional in court this afternoon when she was asked what she enjoyed about being with Sean Combs.

Ventura, who is eight months pregnant, was crying and grabbed a tissue as she answered the question.

"When we had one-on-one time," she said. "When you care about somebody and love them, you don't want to disappoint them."

Ventura began to cry again when shown an email she wrote to Combs, in which said, "I really need 2 f--."

"So who you wanna f--, gonna call someone?" Combs wrote back.

"I want to f-- you are you crazy," Ventura responded.

When asked why she wrote that, she said, "Because that's how I felt."