Cassie Tells Court ‘Freak Offs’ Became Her Full-Time ‘Job’

Cassie Ventura took the stand Tuesday in the sex trafficking trial of her former boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs.

Before the singer, actress and model, began her testimony, defense attorney Anna Estevao asked the judge to request Ventura’s husband, Alex Fine, leave the courtroom.

“We’d like Ms. Ventura’s husband to not be allowed in the courtroom during her testimony, we may need to call him as a witness later,” Estevao said, according to live tweeting from court by journalist and attorney Matthew Russell Lee of Inner City Press.

Ventura, known to fans simply as Cassie, climbed the charts with her 2006 single “Me & U.”

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On Tuesday, she told the court she met Combs in 2005 when she was 19 years old and he was in his late 30s.

She said the relationship started out platonic. Things changed when he kissed her for the first time during her 21st birthday celebration in Las Vegas inside his hotel suite. “I was just really confused at the time… and young,” Cassie told the court, according to the Associated Press.

The mother-of-two, who is currently pregnant with her third child, said she was relatively innocent at the time. “He introduced me to oral sex. I didn’t understand it,” she testified.

She said Combs signed her to an unusual 10-album recording contract.

“How many albums on your deal were not released?” a prosecutor asked. “Nine,” Cassie replied. Asked if she was paid for the remaining nine albums on the contract, Cassie responded, “No.”

She noted that she wrote “hundreds” of songs but said, “Most were never released. Some got leaked on the internet, some on mixtapes.”

She said the mogul introduced her to “freak off” sex parties.

“I just remember my stomach falling to my butt. Just the nervousness and confusion in that moment,” she said.

Asked why she initially agreed to a “freak off,” she said, “I wanted to make him happy.”

But over time, she learned there were serious consequences, including violence, when she told Combs “no.”

“I didn’t know what ‘no’ could turn into,” she stated. “Through time, he had blackmail materials.”

“Sean controlled a lot of my life, whether it was career, the way I dressed, everything, everything. I just didn’t have much say in it at the time,” she continued.

Eventually, she said, music became a fading memory as Combs’ demands for drug-fueled “freak offs” with male escorts became more frequent. She testified that it was her responsibility to find the escorts.

She said Combs preferred Black men as he watched the encounters, pleasured himself and recorded video.

“The freak offs became a job. There was no time to do anything else but do them, then try to recover,” she testified. “The longest was four days.”

She said the mogul kept almost constant tabs on her, even when he was seeing other women.

“We didn’t live far apart. He’d send security to come find me. Or a trusted assistant,” Cassie said. When a prosecutor asked who he would send, she replied, “David James, Kristina Khorram.”

James has described himself as Diddy’s personal assistant on social media. Khorram was the mogul’s chief of staff, who he personally called his “right hand” in a 2021 Facebook post. She’s been named as an alleged co-conspirator in several lawsuits. But in a March interview with Rolling Stone, Khorram denied the allegations against her and called them “unthinkable.”

Cassie filed a 35-page civil lawsuit against Combs in November 2023 alleging rape, sexual battery, and human trafficking. He settled in one day. Although an attorney for the mogul said the settlement was not “an admission of wrongdoing.”

During Tuesday’s testimony, she revealed she turned evidence over to the federal government, including “laptops.”

Combs was arrested in September 2024. He is charged with five felony counts, including racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution. He pleaded not guilty to all charges.