Casandra “Cassie” Ventura told jurors at Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial that he forced her to have sex while she was on her period.
The “Me & You” singer, who is married to personal trainer Alex Fine and eight months pregnant with their child, told jurors on Tuesday, May 13, how the hip-hop mogul forced her to participate in sex encounters known as “Freak Offs” that Combs frequently filmed.
Ventura told the jury that she did whatever Combs allegedly asked of her, primarily out of fear.
“I was expected to have freak offs on my period,” she testified. “Sean would expect it. I do not think anyone wants to do that.”
Combs, she continued, or one of the male escorts hired to have sex with her, “would urinate on me” during these Freak Offs.
When Assistant US Attorney Emily Johnson asked Ventura if she wanted an escort to urinate on her, she said emphatically, “No.” However, there was no conversation. It was a turn-on for Combs, so it happened.”
Ventura testified that she was “choking” because there was “too much urine in my mouth,” which was caused by both Combs and the escort participating simultaneously.
“I don’t want anyone to urinate on me,” she explained. “Sean would urinate in my mouth — not super often but often enough.”
Johnson questioned Ventura’s decision not to decline. “I was squeamish, high and in the moment with this man, so that’s what happened,” Ventura told me. “You don’t have much control when two men are standing over you and peeing. I thought it was clear I didn’t want to do it.”
After a Freak Off, Ventura claims she was left to clean up the hotel room, which was typically covered in blood and urine.
Combs was arrested in September 2024 and pleaded not guilty to five counts of sex trafficking, racketeering, and transportation for prostitution.
On the first day of the trial, Monday, May 12, jurors in Manhattan federal court saw surveillance video of the hip-hop mogul beating and kicking Ventura in the elevator bank of a hotel lobby in 2016.
In her opening statement, Johnson told jurors that Combs is the mastermind behind a vast criminal enterprise in which he allegedly lured women, drugged them, and forced them to have sex.
Teny Geragos, Combs’ defense attorney, stated in her opening statement that any sex between her client and Ventura was consensual, as was her client’s 10-year relationship with him.
Combs could face up to life in prison if convicted on all charges. Since his arrest in 2024, he has been held at the Metropolitan Detention Complex in Brooklyn.