Cassie Ventura Exhibits $10M Settlement From LA Resort Over Combs Beating

UPDATE, 12:25 PM (Extra crucial capabilities from interior & exterior courtroom added) In entirely surprising testimony, Cassie Ventura admitted on the present time at Sean Combs‘ intercourse-trafficking trial that she has a settlement for $10 million coming from an L.A. resort.

Under questioning from protection lawyer Anna Estevao, a hesitant and rather stuttering Ventura published that she and her representatives catch reach to an agreement with the InterContinental Resort in Century Metropolis for the eight-figure payout. Captured in March 2016 on the InterContinental’s security cameras and investigated by one of the resort’s guards on the time, the beating of Ventura by the half of-bare Diddy has been widely seen in and out of courtroom because it became obtained and broadcast by CNN last spring.

Ventura’s testimony has now ended and he or she has left the courtroom after four days within the witness field. Because the very pregnant Ventura rose to exit, Think Arun Subramanian wished her, “a super weekend.”

Explaining that the settlement with the Intercontinental “had been reached within the past month”, Ventura acknowledged that she has no longer but got the cash. Nonetheless, this $10 million sum to reach follows the $20 million settlement Ventura reached rapidly with Combs in November 2023 after filing an abuse and assault civil suit in opposition to her longtime ex-boyfriend. Though Ventura had earlier this afternoon advisable Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily Johnson that she had no financial fate in Combs’ prison trial, the guidelines of the multi-million dollar resort settlement elicited gasps within the courtroom.

Extraordinarily deftly played by the protection, the disclosing of the $10 million resort settlement at what many assumed became going to be a low-key ending to Ventura’s testimony, comes as a blow to the prosecution.

First of all, it’s casting Ventura as lower than forthcoming, and raises questions about what else would maybe also catch been disregarded of her testimony – a station that creates the possibility of doubts with jurors. Secondly, the intel moreover emboldens the perception the protection has been making an are attempting to acquire that the singer became always a willing and consenting participant within the drug-fueled “freak-off” intercourse classes and numerous sordid aspects within the “toxic relationship” she had with the Putrid Boy Records founder for over a decade.

Earlier Friday afternoon, sooner than the $10 million settlement came up, a weeping Ventura addressed the subject of compensation. “I’d give it back (the $20 million settlement from Combs) if I never had to catch ‘freak-offs,’” she acknowledged along with her disclose breaking. “If I never had ‘freak-offs,’ I would catch had agency and autonomy, I wouldn’t catch had to work so laborious to procure it back.”

Later, exterior of the lower Sleek york federal courthouse, Ventura’s lawyer Doug Wigdor read an announcement from his client as Ventura exited the building from an underground automobile parking put.

“This week has been extremely attractive, however moreover remarkably empowering and therapeutic for me. I hope that my testimony has given energy and a disclose to numerous survivors, and would maybe back others who catch suffered to command up and moreover heal from abuse and grief,” Wigdor acknowledged for the singer. “For me, the more I heal, the more I’m in a position to endure in ideas. And the more I’m in a position to endure in ideas, the more I will never forget,” the notorious lawyer added.

“I prefer to thank my family and my advocates for his or her unwavering pork up, and am grateful for the total kindness and encouragement that I catch got. I’m jubilant to place this chapter of my life to leisure as I turn to focal point on the conclusion of my pregnancy, I seek knowledge from for privateness for me and for my rising family.”

Strolling out to a waiting automobile after being within the courthouse for the length of the week, Ventura’s husband Alex Gorgeous issued an announcement of his possess Friday. “I did no longer put Cassie, as some catch acknowledged, the used personal trainer and that you would possibly maybe additionally imagine protection witness acknowledged. “To claim that is an insult to the years of painful work my wife has executed to place herself. Cassie saved Cassie. She by myself broke free from abuse, coercion, violence and threats. She did the work of combating the demons that entirely a demon himself will catch executed to her. All I catch executed is love her as she has loved me. Her life is now surrounded by love, laughter and our family. This horrific chapter is without a sign of ending set behind us, and we’d no longer be making extra statements.”

In the courtroom itself after what ended up being a first payment day for the protection on the credibility front, Combs made a point of giving Estevao a mountainous hug as she wrapped up questioning. That became a 180-degree turn for Combs, who has in most cases appeared agitated on the protection table, and rarely passing notes to his appropriate team.

In a single other twist in Combs’ prison trial, the protection in the present day is now objecting to the forthcoming testimony of Morning time Richard, the used Making the Band contestant and Diddy’s collaborator. Once one of the singers from the Combs’-fronted MTV sequence and numerous Diddy initiatives, Richard in September last one year sued her past producer for rape and more. Filed merely all around the time Combs became arrested on this prison case, that civil case is ongoing.

That objection ending up going nowhere and Richard became on the stand for about 20 minutes on the tip of the day.

Richard described how in 2009 she witnessed Ventura “being attacked by Sean Combs.” The ex-Danity Kane member acknowledged: “He came downstairs screaming, belligerent, asking the put his meals became, and proceeded to hit her over the prime kicked her and beat her to the ground in front of us.”

“She went into the fetal station.”

The jury became brushed apart for the day merely at 5 p.m. ET, with the resolve and the lawyers discussing the protection’s objections with Richard as a witness for the prosecution.

Court docket will resume on Could maybe maybe 19 at 9 a.m. ET and depart unless 3 p.m. day after day next week and for many of the eight-to-ten week trial.

PREVIOUS, 11:09 AM: The protection’s infamous-examination of Cassie Ventura at Sean “Diddy” Combs’ intercourse-trafficking trial has concluded.

In barely any time at all after getting back from the lunch smash, Combs’ lawyer Anna Estevao in the present day concluded her questioning of the considerable person witness. That abrupt switch came after a chain of questions the put Estevao appeared perplexed about dates and sequences of occasions, reminiscent of when Ventura and her family moved back East from Los Angeles in 2023.

The tip of the infamous-examination appears to catch sped up the timeline to procure the 8 1/2-month pregnant Ventura out of the witness field by EOD. The prosecution is soon to open a re-roar, which they earlier on the present time acknowledged must gentle take no greater than half of an hour.

Total, the trial, which would maybe peek Combs behind bars for life if chanced on responsible, is expected to last eight to 10 weeks.

PREVIOUSLY, 8:58 AM, UPDATED with more crucial capabilities: On Cassie Ventura’s doubtless last day as a witness in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ intercourse-trafficking trial Friday, the singer became in a credibility vs. coercion standoff along with her ex-boyfriend’s protection lawyers.

“You in most cases have to point me that you’ve got the power and you knock me around,” the jury heard as Ventura read aloud a 2016 text she sent then-boyfriend Combs after the Putrid Boy Records founder brutally attacked her in an L.A. resort hallway because the singer tried to flee one of the couple’s now defective drug-fueled “freak-offs.” The message continued: “I’m no longer a ragdoll I’m any individual’s child.”

Captured in March 2016 on the InterContinental’s security cameras and investigated by one of the resort’s guards on the time, the beating of Ventura by the half of-bare Diddy has been widely seen in and out of courtroom because it became obtained and broadcast by CNN last spring. Sitting with his protection team in Think Arun Subramanian’s Lower Sleek york courtroom, a steely-eyed and fidgeting Combs this morning listened because the “Me & U” singer resumed her testimony below questioning from lawyer Anna Estevao.

On the stand answering questions about her possess 2023 time at a rehab and trauma program in Arizona and receiving PTSD treatment, Ventura became moreover asked by Estevao if she knew Diddy entered a rehab facility soon after the L.A. resort incident nine years ago. The witness admitted she had a laborious time recalling that step by Combs in any factor.

The protection lawyer moreover considerable to understand, as Ventura had acknowledged beforehand, whether or no longer she believed her now-ex had “blacked out” from substance abuse on the time of the resort melee. “I mediate he became intoxicated,” Ventura answered. She added, “all people’s definition of blackout is numerous.”

What became no longer numerous in anyone’s definition became Ventura’s declaration that Combs took or promised to take her passport, numerous ID and cellphone(s) when he became offended along with her or belief she became dishonest on him. To that, the courtroom heard Combs would react harshly when he suspected something became happening between Ventura and singer (and no stranger to controversary himself) Chris Brown and an unnamed NFL participant.

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In the undeniably sophisticated and unorthodox relationship Ventura and Combs had from 2007-2018, such actions would maybe repeat a considerable element in proving the costs in opposition to the defendant and the dearth of agency Ventura aka Sufferer-1 in actuality had.

Emphasizing their client’s drug abuse (which became spotlighted by revelations of a 2012 OD on Thursday) and Combs’ immediate temper when below the affect, the protection team catch tried to paint the couple’s years together as two broken other folks out of alter and feeding into every numerous’s worst, most raw and most sinister wants. It is far a portrait that the protection concedes is unfortunate and in all likelihood pathetic however no longer against the law below the costs Combs in going through.

Nonetheless, a crying Ventura’s shining recollection in testimony on Could maybe maybe 14 of being raped in 2018 by Diddy in her L.A. residence after they broke up would maybe repeat a laborious blow to the protection’s memoir. Nowadays, Estevao probed Ventura for missteps and conflicting statements in her retelling of the alleged rape every in courtroom and to regulation enforcement.

While that effort didn’t in actuality bound considerable of any place, the protection lawyer herself introduced a new factor when Estevao brought up Combs having bi-polar dysfunction. Apparently never talked about sooner than, knowledge became raised within the context of Combs performing “strangely” on the “closure” dinner he and Ventura were having in Malibu on the day the producer is acknowledged to catch raped his then ex-lady friend seven years ago.

Arrested on September 16 at an upscale NYC resort foyer, the 55-one year-broken-down Combs is charged with intercourse trafficking, racketeering and transportation to interact in prostitution. The allegations within the initial and since amended indictment would maybe peek the Grammy-a hit performer in prison for the leisure of his life if he’s chanced on responsible. Up in opposition to dozens of civil suits claiming assault and abuse as well, Combs has denied all accusations, entered no longer responsible pleas, and exclaimed he is being persecuted for his unconventional however completely consensual sexual obsessions by a prudish authorities and gold diggers.

With statements love the 2009 text “I’m always in a position to freak-off,” from Ventura to Combs that became read out the day earlier than on the present time, the prosecution knows that on re-roar Friday it will catch to invent certain that the Step-Up 2 actress puts basically the most obtrusive of the litany of correspondence in some context. Under a discussion with the resolve sooner than the jury became brought in, the prosecution pledged to catch a immediate re-roar and attain Ventura’s testimony if the protection can procure its infamous-examination executed by 4:30 p.m. ET at basically the most fresh.

Aggravated Friday by the protection’s usually nearly dithering reach to pulling up texts and numerous evidence, Think Subramanian has made it crystal determined that he sees it as considerable the about-to-give-birth-any-day Ventura is out of the witness field ASAP. The fashioned prefer became to catch her testimony wrapped up sooner than the 12:30 p.m. ET lunch smash, however that belief has evidently been revised. The alternate of belief is in share attributable to protests by the protection. The lawyers convey they’ve lots to seek knowledge from the considerable person witness sooner than they lose her permanently once she goes into the sanatorium for the birth of her and husband Alex Gorgeous’s third child.

To punctuate how serious that timetable is, earlier on the present time the feds sent a letter to the resolve floating that Combs and his protection in actuality considerable Ventura to enter labor on the stand so that they’d use the flurry as pretext for a new mistrial circulation. “The inefficiency of infamous-examination the day earlier than on the present time raises the inference that the defendant hopes to enact precisely that final consequence,” the story starkly declared. (Read the letter here).

The significance of Ventura to the authorities’s case can not be overstated, which is one motive the jurors catch been confirmed command and surprising in every other case sealed photos of the newborn oil and drug-sopping wet “freak-offs.”

One can, because the Assistant U.S. Attorney Maurene Comey-led prosecution surely does, draw a straight line between the on the moment incarcerated Combs in courtroom now and the abuse and assault suit Ventura filed in opposition to him in November 2023. Peaceful, while sticking to his line that he did nothing rotten, Combs did settle with Ventura within 24 hours of the filing of her suit. Sources advisable Time restrict on the time that Combs paid Ventura “around $30 million,” however on Could maybe maybe 14 the singer published officially for the predominant time it became in actuality $20 million.

On Could maybe maybe 15, Ventura became asked by protection lawyer Estevao if she identified that Combs’ “profession became ruined at that point,” after her immediate-lived and heaps more and heaps-lined suit became filed. Without considerable of a stop, Ventura answered: “I would maybe realize that, yeah.”

Because the suits piled up and the put unsleeping Combs grew to turn right into a pariah within the song industry and nearly in every single station else, the innocence proclaiming mini-multi-millionaire did command regret for the severity of his abuse in his relationship with Ventura after the safety digicam photos emerged in Could maybe maybe of him hitting and kicking her in 2016. On the time, as it moreover became published that Combs provided the photos for $50,000 the day after the incident, Ventura’s lawyers slammed his apology as “disingenuous.”

Whether or no longer or no longer that is lawful, it is a indisputable truth that the apology has since been deleted invent Combs’ social feeds. Now, after dispute the accuracy of the video for a variety of months, the protection concedes that the photos is traumatic to illustrate of domestic violence. Centering the incident as a fight over a cellphone, as lawyer Teny Geragos did within the protection’s opening commentary, Combs’ team asserted what all people can peek doesn’t upward thrust to the costs the feds catch hit the “All In regards to the Benjamins” performer with.

After the U.S. Attorney’s station of job intent earlier this week to strongly indicate that self-admitted domestic violence predator Combs became responsible of the costs in his constant coercive efforts to force a basically unwilling Ventura into filmed intercourse with male escorts and more with threats of battering, profession catastrophe and public humiliation, the protection sought to flip the script Thursday. To that, with gentle nudging and a determined discovering out of evidence love the text message, Estevao tried Thursday and on the present time to reiterate the protection’s opening commentary of Could maybe maybe 12 that while Combs in most cases is a violent drug-utilizing ass, Ventura became an energetic and consenting agent in everything the couple did – no longer subject how sordid.

Correspondingly, on the stand for virtually 15 hours to this point this week, a usually tearful, triggered and disclose-cracking Ventura has greater than held her possess in opposition to protection lawyer Estevao since the day earlier than on the present time. With out a doubt, as a variety of the day became spent analyzing the copious texts and emails Combs and Ventura sent every numerous over their 11-one year on-and-off “toxic relationship,” aspects of the protection’s ways gave the impression to nearly be doing the job of the prosecution. An agitated Combs will almost definitely be seen many cases passing notes to lawyers and talking in the present day to Estevao at one point right through a smash.

Nowadays Diddy appeared more peaceable, though how long that will last is TBD. During a immediate smash Friday, Combs became by myself on the protection table as his lawyers left the room to prepare for the leisure of the morning session. Looking bored, the now white haired and once entourage leading defendant had a staffer back him with the station of the display screen in front of him.

With the agenda in flux, it is unknown merely now when the prosecution’s next witness, Morning time Richard, will open her testimony. Once one of the singers from the Combs’-fronted MTV sequence Making the Band and numerous Diddy initiatives, Richard in September last one year sued her past producer for rape and more. Filed merely all around the time Combs became arrested on this prison case, that civil case is ongoing.

This prison case is expected to last eight to 10 weeks. Think Subramanian advisable the jury after they were seated on Could maybe maybe 12, promising to free them up by the July 4^th holiday. On the cease and commence waddle the lawsuits are on the moment going, that nick back-off date would maybe repeat elusive.