Diddy’s legal professionals concentrate on Cassie’s texts, attempt to painting her as keen participant in ‘freak-offs’

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R&B singer Cassie was pressured beneath cross-examination Thursday to learn aloud express messages along with her former boyfriend Sean (Diddy) Combs, a few of which expressed enthusiasm for intercourse with different males at Combs's behest that she beforehand testified she "hated doing."

It was the third day on the stand for the 38-year-old Cassie, whose authorized title is Casandra Ventura, after two days of questioning by prosecutors in a New York courtroom.

Attorneys for Combs are looking for to indicate the jury that Cassie was a keen participant in his sexual life-style and say that, whereas he might be violent, nothing he did amounted to a felony enterprise.

Combs has pleaded not responsible to federal intercourse trafficking and racketeering expenses.

Prosecutors say he exploited his standing as a robust music government to violently drive Cassie and different girls to participate in these drug-fuelled encounters with intercourse staff, referred to as "freak-offs," which typically lasted days.

He is additionally accused of utilizing his entourage and staff to facilitate unlawful actions, together with prostitution-related transportation and coercion, a key ingredient of the federal expenses.

Cassie pressured to learn textual content messages in cross-examination Messages between Combs and Cassie — each romantic and lurid — had been the main focus of the fourth day of testimony in entrance of a Manhattan courtroom.

Defence legal professional Anna Estevao learn what Combs wrote, whereas Cassie recited her personal messages.

Cassie learn messages to Combs containing graphic particulars about what she needed to do through the freak-offs.

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In August 2009, Combs requested when she needed the following encounter to be, and he or she replied "I am at all times able to freak off." Two days later, Cassie despatched an express message and he replied in keen anticipation.

She responded: "Me Too, I simply need it to be uncontrollable." Combs's legal professionals have insisted that every one the intercourse on the freak-offs was consensual.

Later that yr, nonetheless, she additionally despatched Combs messages that she was annoyed with the state of their relationship and wanted one thing extra from him than intercourse.

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"I had fallen in love with him and cared about him very a lot," Cassie mentioned.

Cassie, nonetheless, did complain as soon as that jurors weren't listening to the total context of the messages the defence was highlighting, saying, "There's lots we ignored."

Cassie's testimony on cross-examination was in distinction to Wednesday, when she described the violence and disgrace that accompanied her "a whole lot" of encounters with male intercourse staff throughout her relationship with Combs, which lasted from 2007 to 2018.

Whereas prosecutors have centered on Combs's want to see Cassie having intercourse with different males, she testified that she typically watched Combs have intercourse with different girls.

She mentioned Combs described it as a part of a "swingers life-style." Estevao requested Cassie immediately whether or not she thought "freak-offs" had been associated to that life-style.

"In a sexual approach," Cassie responded, earlier than including: "They're very completely different."

Cassie mentioned Tuesday that Combs was obsessive about a type of voyeurism the place "he was controlling the entire state of affairs."

The freak-offs occurred in non-public, typically in darkish lodge rooms, not like Combs' very public events that attracted A-list celebrities.

She testified she typically took IV fluids to get well from the encounters and finally developed an opioid dependancy as a result of it made her "really feel numb" afterward.

When questioned by Estevao, Cassie agreed that Combs as soon as communicated to drug sellers in Los Angeles to cease delivering medicine to her, and he instructed she get therapy.

Cassie mentioned Combs solely needed her to do medicine with him, not pals.

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After the jury had left the room, the choose instructed defence legal professionals they might have as much as 5 hours to query Cassie on Friday.

Prosecutors mentioned they anticipated to have not more than a half hour of questions for Cassie as soon as the defence is completed.

Combs legal professional Marc Agnifilo mentioned he'll let the courtroom know within the morning whether or not the defence can end in order that Cassie would not need to testify on Monday.

Subramanian famous earlier the perimeters had beforehand agreed that she could be executed by week's finish, since she's pregnant and resulting from give beginning quickly to her third baby.

Combs, 55, has been jailed since September. He faces at the very least 15 years in jail if convicted. The trial is anticipated to final about two months.

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