Assistant Testifies She Saw Diddy Digging Nails into Cassie at Brad Pitt Premiere — and Knew Something Wasn’t Right

Sean “Diddy” Combs ’ former private assistant testified Thursday that the Bad Boy Records rich person allegedly sexually assaulted her a couple of occasions, dumped a bucket of ice on her head, threw her right into a swimming pool and slammed her arm right into a door right through an agonizing eight-year tenure operating for him. She additionally testified that her good friend, lead witness and R&B singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, had visual accidents right through the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

The girl, attesting at Combs’ sex-trafficking trial below the pseudonym “Mia,” has alleged that he put his hand up her get dressed, compelled her to accomplish oral intercourse and climbed into her mattress to have intercourse along with her in opposition to her will.

Mia, talking slowly and every now and then crying, portrayed Combs as brutal and controlling — hanging his personal wishes, needs and needs above the wellbeing of his body of workers, family members and Ventura, who used to be his female friend on the time. Mia testified Combs berated her for errors, even ones made by way of different staff, and gave her such a lot of duties she didn’t sleep for days on finish.

“It was chaotic. It was toxic,” mentioned Mia, who labored for Combs from 2009 to 2017 and co-founded the Revolt Films studio with him. “It could be exciting. The highs were really high and the lows were really low.”

Mia additional testified about a number of events the place she noticed Combs’ ex Ventura being assaulted — one in all them used to be on the premiere of Brad Pitt’s Killing Them Softly at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday, May 22, 2012.

While on the premiere, Mia claimed that Ventura and Combs had been seated within the silent film theater and speaking, then Combs gritted his tooth and began “digging his nails into her arms.”

Mia claimed that “no one ever leaves in the middle of a premiere event” however Combs insisted on Ventura leaving, which she did. Mia recalled different occasions she noticed Ventura’s busted lip and different accidents in a lodge room with Ventura’s hair stylist Deonte Nash.

After the premiere, PEOPLE reported on the time, Pitt hosted an intimate birthday party that night time at Villa St. George for shut buddies and those that had been concerned with the movie. About 100 folks attended the soiree, together with Combs, Kylie Minogue, Chris Tucker and Ray Liotta, who partied till the wee hours of the morning.

The birthday party felt nearly like a pre-bachelor birthday party for the newly engaged Pitt, with refreshments together with cigars and 250 bottles of Johnnie Walker whiskey. Towards the tip of the night time, Combs shared a celebratory drink with the actor over his engagement to Angelina Jolie (who he married in Aug. 2014 and finalized their divorce in Dec. 2024), earlier than inviting all the birthday party again to his yacht.

Ventura, who spoke for 4 days right through the trial’s first week of testimony, detailed the start of her dating with Combs of 11 years. She mentioned she first met him round 2005, when she used to be 19, describing her view of him on the time as “this larger-than-life entrepreneur musician.”

They had intercourse for the primary time two years later right through a shuttle to Miami, now not lengthy after Ventura’s 21st birthday — the place Ventura testified she cried after he kissed her for the primary time. Ventura mentioned Combs additionally gave her ecstasy right through their shuttle in combination, and the jury used to be proven a photograph of the pair: Ventura dressed in a gown and sun shades, with Combs draped round her. 

Ventura added Combs subjected her to loads of “freak-offs” — drug-fueled intercourse marathons by which she mentioned she engaged in intercourse acts with escorts whilst Combs watched, filmed and directed them. Ventura testified it would ultimate anyplace from 36 hours to 4 days. Ventura used to be 22 years outdated when she had her first freak-off, she mentioned, including, “eventually it became a job for me,” happening weekly right through the route in their dating.

She claimed the encounters had been “a very choreographed experience,” detailing the right series of the sexual encounters that Combs anticipated from her and the male escort to hold out for him. If they went too briefly, Combs allegedly made them start everywhere once more. Ventura mentioned she “hated” the freak-offs, discovering them “humiliating” and “disgusting.” She testified that there would now and again be blood at the sheets overlaying the lodge furnishings as a result of Combs compelled her to have intercourse whilst she used to be menstruating or ovulating.

Ventura went on to explain the keep an eye on and alleged abuse Combs exerted over her lifestyles whilst regularly conserving tabs on her. She testified that Combs made up our minds her dresser, nails, hair, the place she lived and ordered her “busy work” to occupy her time when he wasn’t round. “He had control over what I did every minute of the day,” Ventura mentioned, including, even orchestrating discussions about her breast implants.

On May 16, Ventura testified in Manhattan federal courtroom that she used to be in a state of outrage after Combs hit her and kicked her whilst she lay curled at the ground and dragged her again to their room within the now-infamous assault on the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles in 2016.

Not most effective used to be Ventura in ache from the black eye and different accidents Combs left her with after the May 6, 2016 beating, she used to be reeling from the fury the hip-hop rich person unleashed on her when she ran out of the room after a violent Freak Off consultation, she testified.

Combs, 55, has pleaded now not accountable to intercourse trafficking, racketeering and transportation to have interaction in prostitution fees, which he has adamantly denied. His legal professionals have conceded that he may well be violent every now and then, however he denies the use of threats or his tune business clout to devote or quilt up abuse.

If you or any individual you understand has been sexually assaulted, please touch the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or pass to rainn.org.