New Bombshells Revealed in Diddy Trial Including Mogul’s Overdose

Day four of testimony in the sex trafficking and racketeering trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs brought more bombshells.

The music mogul’s former girlfriend Cassie Ventura spent her third day on the witness stand in Manhattan federal court. The difference on Thursday, May 15 — the singer and actress was cross-examined by the defense.

The music mogul’s attorney Anna Estevao grilled the “Me & U” singer, who is known to fans as Cassie, at times opening the door for the pregnant celebrity to dish more dirt on Combs.

Related: Cassie Testifies About ‘Disgusting’ Acts Diddy Demanded During’Freak Offs’

Text Messages
Estevao presented Cassie with dozens of pages of lurid text messages and emails the couple exchanged during their decade-long relationship. They dated on and off from 2007 to 2018.

The attorney used the messages to establish that Cassie loved Combs and to counter her previous testimony that she was forced to organize and participate in sex sessions Diddy called “freak offs” with male escorts, while the mogul watched, recorded and pleasured himself.

“I’m always ready to freak off,” Cassie wrote in a text exchange from August 2009, according to the Associated Press.

In another message, she wrote: “I feel like I want to f–k.”

Combs replied: “I’m so horny I can’t concentrate.”

Drug Use
Cassie testified that she and Combs were heavily into drugs. Estevao asked her if she tried to get into rehab.

“There was a time I lost all sense of smell and taste and woke up in a hospital with an IV in my arm,” Cassie replied. “I tried then to get help.”

While questioning the singer, Estevao let slip that Combs had overdosed on painkillers in 2012. The attorney asked the singer if she remembered the overdose.

“Was that around the time Whitney Houston died? I believe so,” Cassie replied.

“That evening we had a ‘freak off.’ We went to a sex club in San Bernardino [California]. And then he had a party at the Playboy Mansion that night, and I went home,” the singer continued. “From what [Combs] told me, he took a really strong opioid that night, but we didn’t know what happened. So, we took him to the hospital.”

Whitney Houston died on Feb. 11, 2012.

Jealousy
Cassie admitted she and Combs both cheated and were both very jealous.

The singer said she was jealous of Diddy’s various girlfriends, including the late Kim Porter, who was the mother to three of the mogul’s children.

Cassie said Diddy introduced her to rapper Kid Cudi, whose real name is Scott Mescudi. She began dating the “Day ‘n’ Nite” artist, and used a burner phone to communicate with him so Combs wouldn’t find out.

During a “freak off,” she said Combs discovered the burner phone, went through it and lost his temper. She told the court the mogul lunged at her with a wine opener in his hands, but she ran away. She said eventually he found her, kicked her in the back, and left her with bruises.

“Sean said he was going to hurt the both of us,” Cassie testified.

While they were out of the country, she said Diddy issued a threat telling her: “Scott’s car would be blown up.”

The 35-page rape and sex trafficking civil lawsuit Cassie filed against Combs in November 2023, said the mogul made good on the threat, stating: “Kid Cudi’s car exploded in his driveway” in 2012.

In a statement published by The New York Times in 2023, a spokesperson for Kid Cudi said, “This is all true.”

The defense is expected to complete its cross-examination of Cassie sometime Friday morning.

Diddy’s attorneys told Judge Arun Subramanian they needed more time to question the prosecution’s star witness, possibly into next week, according to the Associated Press.

But the judge balked on Thursday, and told the defense to speed up its cross-examination of the singer, who is eight months pregnant.

Diddy, 55, is charged with five felony counts. He pleaded not guilty to all charges.

The defense has said all of the sex acts he engaged in were consensual.