“HUMBLED AND BROKEN”
Ventura, the 39-year-old singer often called Cassie, testified for days whereas closely pregnant.
She described in wrenching element bodily, emotional and sexual abuse she suffered whereas in a greater than decade-long relationship with Combs.
Ventura and one other girl, recognized as Jane, stated they had been coerced into performing so-called “freak-offs”: sexual marathons with employed males that Combs directed and generally filmed.
“All the courtroom watched precise footage of Combs kicking and beating me as I attempted to run away from a freak off in 2016,” Ventura wrote.
“Individuals watched this footage dozens of instances, seeing my physique thrown to the bottom, my fingers over my head, curled right into a fetal place to defend me from the worst blows,” she stated, noting she has nightmares and flashbacks “on an everyday, on a regular basis foundation.”
Ventura stated she and her household had left the New York space for worry of “retribution” from Combs if he’s launched.
The defence did not deny Combs’s sexual exercise however insisted it was consensual.
Additionally they did not deny Combs’s years of violence in opposition to each romantic companions in addition to workers, however they stated it did not meet the authorized threshold for the grave costs he confronted.
Jurors took their facet.
The conviction on lesser if nonetheless critical counts stemmed from a federal statute that makes it unlawful to move folks throughout state traces for prostitution.
Combs has been incarcerated in Brooklyn for greater than a 12 months.
He stated his time in jail has left him “reborn.”
“I’ve been humbled and damaged to my core,” Combs wrote.
