Sean 'Diddy' Combs trial updates: Cassie Ventura breaks down as testimony concludes

Cassie Ventura concluded her first day of dramatic, graphic and emotional testimony by recalling the time she says she tried to leave a "freak off" before it was over, returning jurors to a visceral piece of evidence.

“There’s an instance in Los Angeles where it got violent and I chose to leave,” Ventura said, referring to the March 2016 incident at the InterContinental Hotel in Century City, depicted on video shown to jurors Monday and today.

“There was a lot of drinking, a lot of partying. I’m not sure what happened but in the middle of it I got hit by Sean and got a black eye,” Ventura said.

“When I chose to leave, I grabbed what I could and got out and Sean followed me into the hallway by the elevators, grabbed me, tried to drag me back to the room,” Ventura said.

The video was played again for the jury. “That’s me,” Ventura said, referring to the footage.

Ventura said she made it to the elevators when “the next thing I knew I was just thrown to the ground.”

Ventura said Combs grabbed her by the back of the hoodie and threw her down. She told the jury that Combs had previously thrown her to the ground on multiple occasions: “too many to count,” she said.

Earlier, Ventura described how degrading the "freak offs" became.

“The idea of objectifying me was tossed around like it was nothing, putting me in these compromising positions with strangers,” she said.

She said that Combs insisted on recording the sex sessions, which she said “made me feel insane” because it was “humiliating, disgusting. Never wanted anyone to see me like that.”

Testimony has ended for the day. Ventura will return to the witness stand on Wednesday.

During her continuing testimony, Cassie Ventura flipped through the pages of a three-ring binder that contained photographs of the male escorts she said were hired for "freak offs."

She said she remembered their names – Dave, Daniel, Jules, Johnny and one guy known as “The Punisher” – the men she said she was made to have sex with for prolonged sessions while Combs watched and masturbated.

Some of the men she said she encountered in one city. Some of them traveled to meet Combs and Ventura in multiple cities, she testified.

Ventura said the escorts were paid in cash for their participation, up to $6,000.

Ventura said Combs wanted her to evaluate the men to make sure they were not police officers. “I learned that this whole situation was not legal,” she said, prompting an objection from the defense and an instruction to the jury from the judge to disregard the remark.

Ventura was soft-spoken on the witness stand as she recounted her alleged sexual experiences with Combs: the men allegedly involved, the “disgusting” acts in which she said she took part, the drugs that she said were part of all of it.

“How many 'freak offs' did you use drugs at?” prosecutor Emily Johnson asked.

“All of them,” Ventura replied. “I couldn’t imagine doing all of that without some sort of buffer or a way to not feel it, which was emotionless, or sex with a stranger I didn’t want to be having sex with.”

“How did you know how far in advance to take drugs?” Johnson asked.

Ventura answered: “I would ask.”

“Who would you ask?” said Johnson.

“Sean,” Ventura replied.

Cassie Ventura participated in freak offs at nearly every one of Sean Combs’ homes and, most frequently, in hotels in New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Las Vegas, Ibiza, and Turks and Caicos, she told the jury.

“After a freak off the room was pretty bad off,” she said. “Oil, candle wax all over the place.”

The candles were used for lighting along with studio-type lights that gave the room a reddish hue, she testified. The jury saw a photo of Combs on a bed with a wad of cash in a room that was glowing with red light.

Ventura said she remembered the smell in the room being “super pungent” from candles, body odor and urine.

Ventura said Combs liked participants’ bodies “to be glistening” with baby oil. They would go through ten large-sized bottles at a time, she testified.

Ventura told the jury that the freak offs fulfilled Combs’s alleged desire for voyeurism. She described in graphic detail what she said were “disgusting” acts.

When the freak offs became more frequent, Ventura said she and Combs used an escort service to supply them with participants at locations across the country.

Combs sat back in his chair listening to Ventura's testimony, with his mother and children seated in the second row behind him.

Jurors are now seeing messages allegedly exchanged between Combs and Cassie Ventura, beginning April 19, 2010 under the subject line “I really need 2 f---.”

The message is from “Pop Pop.”

“He wanted me to have a nickname for him,” Ventura said of Combs. “He asked me what I called my grandfather and I said, ‘Pop Pop.’”

The messages recipient is “BG new new Pin,” which Ventura said were the initials of Combs’ nickname for her: “Baby Girl.”

Ventura replied to the message, “So who u gonna f---. Wanna call someone?”

She described the message as the initiation of a freak off.

In other messages, Ventura said she tried to express her feelings about participating in freak offs. In one reply allegedly from Combs that was shown in court, he told her to make it happen anyway.