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Cassie Ventura wipes the tears out of her eyes when she testified in New York at the Federal Court of Manhattan on Tuesday, May 13, 2025. (Elizabeth Williams about AP)

New York (AP) -The R&B singer Cassie said on Wednesday that her ex-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs kept her in a cycle of abuse and exploitation by threatening to publish videos of her encounters with male sex workers, which he orchestrated.

Cassie spoke to the courtroom in Manhattan for a second day in Combs 'Federal Sex Trade Trial and said, although she deteriorated to bring sex with strangers under drugs, she could not reject Combs' demands because he would look like a bitch “.

“I feared my career. I feared for my family. It's just embarrassing. It's terrible and disgusting. Nobody should do that to someone,” said Cassie, whose legal name is Casandra Ventura. In 2023 she sued and accused him of physical and sexual abuse for years. The lawsuit was enclosed within a few hours, but dozens of similar legal claims from other women, which triggered the criminal investigation against him.

The prosecutors showed the jury five statues from the sex videos that were recovered by electronic devices that Cassie made available to the investigators. Cassie said the pictures showed them with male sex workers and in various phases of the encounters, which comments called “freak-offs”, which sometimes took days. The eyes of a juror widened and another shook his head from one side to the other.

The prosecutors have accused combs of exploiting their status as a powerful music manager, forced to force cassie and other women to participate in sexual encounters. He is charged with violence, fraud or compulsion for five cases.

Combs denies all allegations and has not guilty. His lawyers recognize that he could be violent, but say that the gender in which he and others were involved was mutually acceptable and that nothing that he did, the sex trade or racketeering is.

Combs' lawyers were expected to have Cassie later on Wednesday to question their credibility or to challenge holes in their report on what happened.

During her first testimony, she spent hours to tell details about her decades of relationships, including the freaky offs she said she said in 2017 or 2018. She also said that Combs beat her several times. The encounters took place in private, often in dark hotel rooms, in contrast to Combs, very public parties, the celebrities of the A list attracted.

Cassie reveals the dark side of a prominent relationship

Cassie's testimony is to uncover the dark underside of a relationship, the couple's pictures, which smiled on red carpets and prominent events, played publicly. She said she met Combs in 2005 when she was 19 and he was 37 years old. Combs signed her for a 10-year contract with his Bad Boy Records label. They started dating within a few years, said Cassie.

They were photographed in 2016 to attend the premiere of the film “The Perfect Match”, just two days after the fitting and occurred by Cassie in a hotel in Los Angeles after an attack on the television played on television and in court. After the film material was leaked last year, Combs apologized. Jurors were shown by the Prime Minister photos of them.

Cassie, now 38, calmly and after an emotional first day full of testimony, said she used Make -up to cover up her blue spots, and wore a sunglasses to hide a blue eye for the premiere. She said she sneaked into a popcorn cabinet in the cinema to change the clothes for a post -party so that bruises on her legs were not visible.

On another opportunity in 2013 when she grabbed to go to Drake's music festival in Canada, Cassie said that combs fell with her friends and threw them into a bed frame. She suffered a “fairly significant cut” over her left eye. The Combs Security Personal brought them to a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills to sew the wound, she said.

Then she said she wrote Combs a photo of her injured face and wrote: “This way you can remember.” Combs replied: “You don't know when you should stop. You have pushed it too far. And pushed on. Sad.”

Her song “Me & U” from 2006 went platinum, but when the public prosecutor asked on Tuesday what happened to her music career, Cassie said that a large part of her week finally went into the freak's containment until they became “a job”. She left Combs' record label in 2019.

Cassie says that Combs routinely threatened with her publication of sex videos

She said that combs would be routinely threatened to embarrass them by publishing videos about their sexual acts. She said he would do it if he was angry or scares her as she started going out with someone else.

After a trip to the Cannes Film Festival in 2013, Combs began recording a freak-off on his laptop computer when he and Cassie sat together on a commercial flight. Cassie said Combs told her that he “embarrassed me and release her”.

The deputy US lawyer Emily Johnson asked whether it was “people around you” when Combs played the videos on the phone. Cassie said there was. After landing in New York, she said that they went to dinner and then had another flout immediately afterwards.

She felt “empty” and took drugs to deal with it

Also on Wednesday, the public prosecutors Cassie showed a folder with photos and she identified 13 as male sex workers, of whom she said, she had hired Combs' awareness of encounters in Las Vegas, Miami and Los Angeles. She said she had sex with everyone, although she couldn't remember all of her names. She identified half a dozen other sex workers on Tuesday.

On Tuesday, she said that Combs would pay the men thousands of dollars to have sex with her at 36 or 48 hours, and the longest lasted four days. The encounters left them emotionally “really empty and I only felt gross.”

“It was something I hated it,” she said, but she had endured because she was in love with combs and “had the feeling that she had done my job.”

Cassie said on Wednesday that she would recover by getting IV fluids, massages and cooking cooking dishes. She said she developed an opioid dependency by using it as an coping mechanism after the encounters.

Combs, 55, has been detained since September. He faces himself in prison for at least 15 years when he is convicted. The attempt is expected to take about two months.