Cassie Addresses Claim That Diddy Dangled a Woman Over Balcony in Testimony

Cassie is continuing her testimony in the trial of her ex-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs on Wednesday, May 14, answering questions from the prosecution at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Courthouse in New York City. Diddy was arrested in September 2024 and charged with sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to engage in prostitution. He pleaded not guilty to all charges and has denied all of the allegations against him.

The singer, 38, began on Wednesday by discussing the surveillance video from 2016 that showed Diddy, now 55, physically assaulting her at the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles. Cassie (full name Casandra Ventura) recalled her then-boyfriend throwing a vase with flowers in it at her.

“I didn’t get hit. I remember it hitting the wall,” she told Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily Johnson. “He was yelling at me and threw it at me.”

The video, which was published in an edited form by CNN last year, has no audio, so Cassie attempted to remember what Diddy was saying to her. She claimed he was telling her that she “couldn’t” leave him as she was trying to exit the hotel.

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The prosecution then displayed photos of Cassie in the aftermath of the assault, which showed her with a swollen lip. She told the court that she had a black eye under her sunglasses.

After the assault, Cassie claimed, Diddy tried to contact her, but she texted him, “Please stay far away from me.”

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When she returned home, a friend called the police and Cassie spoke to them about the incident, but she testified that she didn’t want to tell them who assaulted her. When asked by Johnson whether she wanted to “protect” Diddy, Cassie replied, “Yeah, of course.”

Cassie then alleged that Diddy came to her apartment too, at which point she heard “chaos outside of the door” including “banging, kicking [and] yelling.” She said she went to the home of D-Roc, one of Diddy’s security guards, shortly after the assault “to feel safe.”

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The prosecution also showed a photo of Cassie and Diddy at an afterparty following the premiere of her movie The Perfect Match, which took place two days after the assault. She pointed out a bruise on her right shin.

After discussing the assault, Cassie began answering questions about her role in Diddy’s freak offs, alleging she was often responsible for hiring male escorts who would participate in the events. “That was just my job, really,” she said. “It was expected of me.”

Prosecutors then showed an alleged text message from Diddy in 2016 where he told Cassie he wanted to have a “proper” freak off without using ketamine, because the events were “successful” if “we remember.” Cassie testified that she preferred using ketamine during freak offs because “it was very dissociative.”

Cassie went on to discuss how she was afraid Diddy would use sexually explicit videos he’d recorded of her as “blackmail materials,” alleging that he would mention the footage when he was angry with her. “One time I dated someone else and that’s what it was all about — ‘I’m going to put out two embarrassing videos of you,’” she claimed, telling the court that she thought he “just wanted to hurt me.”

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She recalled texting Diddy in 2013 to ask him to delete videos he had of her, and he allegedly responded by telling her that he had. Other times, however, she allegedly saw videos of herself that Diddy told her had been deleted.

Cassie also testified that she had an “off-and-on” addiction to opiates during her relationship with Diddy, which she said she used to come down from party drugs like ecstasy. “Opiates made me feel numb, which is why I relied on them so heavily,” she explained, claiming that Diddy sometimes gave her the drugs, more often in the beginning of their relationship. “I didn’t want to feel what was actually going on in my mind, in my life, in real time. It was just an escape for me.”

She added that the freak offs had physical implications for her as well, saying that she had frequent urinary tract infections when the events were occurring often. Cassie said she continued to perform despite her UTI symptoms, describing the pain as “horrible.”

When Johnson mentioned the defense’s argument that Diddy’s sexual preferences were simply the result of his “swinger” lifestyle, Cassie noted that she did not want to participate in the freak offs. She further alleged that Diddy took her to “sex clubs” several times against her wishes. If she told him she felt uncomfortable at these locations, he would allegedly try to reframe the outings as fun.

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During freak offs, Cassie claimed, Diddy would physically abuse her, sometimes while hired escorts were present. “He would grab me up,” she alleged. “Push me down. Hit me in the side of the head. Kick me. You name it.”

She went on to testify about an alleged instance of abuse that happened in 2013, claiming Diddy threw her down, which caused her to cut her eyebrow on the corner of a bed. She alleged his security brought her to a plastic surgeon’s office to treat the injury, noting she texted him a photo of the cut “so you can remember.” He allegedly replied, “You. Don’t know. When to. Stop. You [have] pushed IT Too far. And continue to push. Sad.” She said she has a permanent scar on her eyebrow from the incident.

After that alleged assault, Cassie said she went to the Hamptons for a freak off with Diddy and an escort named Dave. At one point, she blacked out on the drug GHB and woke up naked in the shower; the freak off then allegedly continued not long after she awoke.

She went on to recall another moment on a plane when Diddy allegedly showed her explicit videos of herself that she thought he’d deleted. “I just felt trapped,” she said, claiming that he threatened to release the videos to embarrass her. She agreed to a freak off upon landing. “At that point, whatever was going to make him not be angry at me and threatening me, I was willing to do,” she explained. “I just didn’t want to feel scared anymore. It was the one thing he made me feel like I was good at.”

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Cassie later aloud from a text message she sent Diddy in 2017, which read, “You treat me like you’re Ike Turner,” referencing the late Tina Turner’s abusive ex-husband. She explained that she made the comparison because Diddy was allegedly “abusive and controlling.”

After a lunch break, Cassie resumed her testimony by discussing images of freak offs shown only to her and the jury. She claimed the images were taken from videos stored on a device she believed to be broken, but the device was later handed over to the prosecution as evidence.

Cassie went on to allege that multiple employees of Diddy witnessed him abusing her through the years, including his security guards, assistants and members of his management team. She added that one assistant told her they quit because of the way Diddy allegedly treated Cassie.

She also addressed the defense’s claims that her relationship with Diddy was mutually abusive, admitting she initiated physical fights with him but noting he did not sustain injuries during those incidents. When he allegedly hit her, however, she would spend days in hiding to recover from her bruises.

Cassie alleged that Diddy physically assaulted her for the first time in 2007 or 2008 after she saw him flirting with someone else during an outing. When they got into his car after the event, she claimed he “knocked me around and was just really mean,” hitting her in the side of the head in front of his driver and a security guard and knocking her to the floor. “I was just shocked,” she added.

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Detailing a separate incident of alleged abuse, Cassie recalled wanting to go home and stay with her mother but said she knew “it wouldn’t be safe.” Instead, she hid out at a hotel for a week.

“I understood Sean’s capabilities, his access to guns, the threats he made prior to that,” she claimed. “I was privy.”

Later, her mom sent her an online blind item about the alleged assault and asked whether it was about her and Diddy.

“I didn’t tell my mom the truth because I was ashamed,” Cassie recalled. “I also didn’t want to put my mother in danger for knowing anything of that magnitude.”

On another occasion, Cassie attended a party where Prince was set to perform. She didn’t tell Diddy she was going because she was afraid he would tell her she couldn’t go, but he ended up attending separately. “I ran out as fast as I could to the front yard,” she recalled of the moment she saw him. “I knew he was angry at me.”

After the party, she claimed, Diddy physically assaulted her and threw luggage at her.

Cassie then began answering questions about her relationship with Kid Cudi, whom she met around late 2011. At the time, she was off and on with Diddy, so she began dating Cudi, now 41. Soon after their relationship began, she was allegedly having a freak off with Diddy when he saw emails about her romance with Cudi and lunged at her with a wine bottle opener. While she escaped unharmed, she noted that she communicated with Cudi (real name Scott Mescudi) using a “secret burner phone.”

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Later, Diddy allegedly threatened to release two explicit videos of Cassie as retaliation for her relationship with Cudi and attacked her at his home. When she returned to her hotel, she claimed, her room had been trashed, with urine and feces in the bathroom.

Cassie then began to describe the first time she told her mother about the alleged abuse she was experiencing at the hands of Diddy. She recalled lying to her mom and telling her that the bruises she had in December 2011 marked the first time he had attacked her (she claimed earlier on Tuesday that he first abused her in 2007 or 2008).

At the time, she did not tell her mother about the freak offs, saying, “I couldn’t hurt her like that. You can’t justify it to anyone. Especially not your mom.”

As her testimony turned emotional, Cassie requested a break, and the judge granted her 10 minutes.

Upon returning from the break, Cassie spoke again about her relationship with Cudi, which she said she ended in late 2011 because of Diddy’s alleged threats against her and the “Day ‘n’ Nite” rapper — which included his threat to blow up Cudi’s car. (The alleged car threat was first detailed in Cassie’s 2023 lawsuit against Diddy.)

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Describing another alleged incident of abuse from 2015, Cassie claimed Diddy told her to put on more makeup to cover her bruises so one of his sons, who was then staying at his house, wouldn’t see them.

Cassie went on to testify that she witnessed Diddy abusing other people as well, including an employee whom he allegedly punched in the head. She also claimed she saw him drag a woman out of bed during a trip. (That woman, known as Mia during the trial, is referred to as Victim-4 in the indictment.)

As her testimony continued, Cassie described a 2016 incident where Diddy allegedly dangled her friend Bryana “Bana” Bongolan over a balcony and then threw her onto patio furniture. (Bongolan sued Diddy last year, and he denied her claims in a statement via his lawyer.)

Cassie also recalled losing touch with a friend of 17 years following a 2018 incident where Diddy allegedly hit the friend in the head with a wooden spoon after finding out she and Cassie were planning to take drugs together.

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Diddy’s drugs, Cassie claimed, were stored in a Louis Vuitton “med bag” and included MDMA, cocaine, marijuana, ketamine and GHB. She noted that she also did drugs on her own, using opiates like Norco and Percocet as well as benzodiazepines like Xanax or Valium. While she attempted to stop taking opiates multiple times throughout their relationship, she said she was “heavily” dependent on them and got “flu sick” during withdrawals. She eventually went to rehab in 2023 and no longer takes opiates.

Cassie’s second day of testimony ended with her discussing the last days of her relationship with Diddy as well as its aftermath. She claimed that in 2018, near the end of their relationship, she and Diddy went to dinner, and afterward, they went back to her home, where he raped her.

By that point, she was already dating her now-husband, Alex Fine, and she thought her rapport with Diddy had been friendly at dinner. “And then he raped me in my living room,” she alleged. “I just remember crying and saying no, but it was very fast.”

She said she had sex with him “by choice” one more time before their relationship ended for good. “You don’t just turn feelings off that way,” she explained. “I still had a good vision of who he was as a person.”

Cassie went on to say she maintained intermittent contact with Diddy after their split, but in March 2019, he allegedly sent her a message referring to “iPads full of skeletons,” which she believed meant explicit videos he’d recorded. She also claimed he wanted to be reimbursed for personal training sessions he paid for when Fine had been training her.

The singer broke down while discussing the years following their breakup, saying she decided to attend rehab and trauma therapy in 2023 because she “didn’t want to be alive anymore at that point.”

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While filming a music video, she recalled having horrible flashbacks and suicidal ideation when she got back home. “You can do this without me,” she recalled telling her husband, through tears. “You don’t need me anymore.” She then tried to walk out the door into traffic, but Fine managed to stop her.

She then began writing about her time with Diddy as a means of “trauma therapy” post-rehab and initially sent him some of the chapters. She had a lawyer reach out to Diddy’s team about paying her for the rights to her story, but she was not paid at that time.

Following her lawsuit, she said, she and Diddy settled for $20 million. Before court broke for the day, Cassie estimated she participated in “hundreds” of freak offs during her relationship with Diddy.

Since Diddy’s arrest last year, his legal team has repeatedly denied the allegations against him.

“We are disappointed with the decision to pursue what we believe is an unjust prosecution of Mr. Combs by the U.S. Attorney’s Office,” Diddy’s attorney Marc Agnifilo said in a statement in September 2024. “He is an imperfect person, but he is not a criminal. To his credit Mr. Combs has been nothing but cooperative with this investigation and he voluntarily relocated to New York last week in anticipation of these charges. Please reserve your judgment until you have all the facts. These are the acts of an innocent man with nothing to hide, and he looks forward to clearing his name in court.”

Diddy’s arrest came nearly one year after Cassie filed a lawsuit against him accusing him of sexual and physical abuse throughout their relationship, which lasted off and on from 2007 to 2018. The mogul denied her claims in a statement shared by his attorney.

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“Mr. Combs vehemently denies these offensive and outrageous allegations,” Diddy’s lawyer Ben Brafman said at the time.

One day after the suit was filed, Diddy and Cassie settled out of court. In May 2024, CNN published the hotel surveillance video of Diddy kicking and grabbing Cassie in 2016. He later apologized for his actions in a video shared via Instagram.

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