Disgraced rapper Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has faced claims he forced his former girlfriend Cassie to perform sex acts with escorts and ‘kept her drugged half of every week’
Sean “Diddy” Combs kept his girlfriend drugged “half of every week” and forced her to perform sex acts on male escorts at “freak-off” parties he filmed, a court heard.
The hip-hop mogul would then use the tapes to blackmail her, jurors were told. The explosive claims were made on the first day of the star’s criminal trial.
Assistant US Attorney Emily Johnson said his ex, singer and model Cassie Ventura, plus others endured a cycle of abuse. She told the New York court: “Half of every week, Cassie was in a dark hotel room, high and awake for days performing sex acts she did not want to do on male escorts. These sexual performances lasted multiple days, and they involved multiple escorts.”
Ms Johnson said Combs used lies, drugs, threats and violence to control Ventura and a woman referred to in court as “Jane”. She said Combs used footage of the encounters as blackmail.
Ms Johnson said: “He told her he could destroy her career by releasing the videos of her performing sex acts on dozens of male escorts. They were souvenirs of the most humiliating nights of her life.”
Ventura was allegedly forced to participate in one freak-off – the name given for his sex parties – with an open wound on her face. When Combs learned she had been seeing another man, he allegedly “beat her, kicking her in the back and flinging her like a rag doll”.
Ms Johnson said: “You are going to hear about 20 years of crimes but he didn’t do it alone. An inner circle helped him commit crimes and cover them up.” She added Combs called himself “the king and expected to be treated like one”.
Among the alleged offences are kidnapping, arson, drug trafficking, sex crimes, bribery and obstruction of justice. Combs has pleaded not guilty. He faces a life term if convicted.
Teny Geragos, defending, acknowledged his violent past, including a 2016 hotel assault on Ventura caught on video. She said: “What Combs did to Cassie on this videotape is indefensible. It is not evidence of sex trafficking. It is evidence of domestic violence.”
She added the musician is “a very flawed individual but still not a racketeer, trafficker or somebody transporting for prostitution”. The trial continues.
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