Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ defense is cross-examining his ex-girlfriend and main accuser Cassie Ventura as he faces trial for sex-trafficking and racketeering in New York.
The music mogul has kept a poker face this week as a pregnant Cassie described being physically and emotionally abused throughout their 10-year relationship.
He whispered that he was proud to his defense attorney Anna Estevao before she started grilling Cassie on the stand on Thursday, getting the singer to read damning messages including one where she said she ‘loved freak offs.’
The R&B singer testified Wednesday that Combs raped her when she ended their decade-long relationship, after he locked her in a life of physical abuse by threatening to release degrading sexual videos of her.
In humiliating detail, she recounted a turbulent relationship with Combs that she said was consumed by violence and his obsession with a form of voyeurism where ‘he was controlling the whole situation.’
That included directing her encounters with male sex workers right down to the copious amounts of baby oil she applied to maintain the ‘glistening’ look he desired – as many as 10 large bottles a session.
Combs’ defense says he is guilty of domestic violence, but not of sex-trafficking or racketeering, and that the government is targeting him for his sexual preferences.