The First Week of The Sean "Diddy" Combs Trial Has Wrapped and We Heard Stories Straight Out Of A Horror Movie On The Stand From Cassie, As Well As Confirmation That Kid Cudi Is Lucky To Be Alive After His Car Suspiciously Exploded After Diddy Threatened It
After three days of the some of most harrowing, surreal courtroom drama we've heard of in years, Cassie Ventura, Sean "Diddy" Combs' former girlfriend and now the government’s star witness wrapped up her testimony on Friday afternoon. And it was as gut-wrenching, messy, and damning as anything ever seen in a federal sex trafficking case.
What she had to say while on the stand for the better part of 5 days wasn’t some vague, suggestive testimony. Cassie stood up, nine months pregnant and visibly shaking, and told the world that for ten years, she lived inside what sounds like a coked-out, sex-crazed dystopian horror movie.
According to her, Diddy wasn’t just a controlling partner, he was allegedly orchestrating freaky, drug-fueled orgies like some sort of degenerate Caligula with a billion-dollar budget and a drawer full of burner phones.
I am trying my best to do my best Jerry impersonation, covering this trial. But it's considerably difficult when it's not being shown on tv, and the only accounts we get are from those who are sitting in the court room first hand via newspaper outlets and social media. The first half of the week was covered here -
Like I mentioned and linked to several times in that blog, the best unofficial media member I have found, who is covering this trial daily from the courthouse is Emilie Hagen.
Through everything I've heard from her and a couple others, and everything I've read, here's what I've got to wrap up week 1's proceedings-
As mentioned in that first blog, we had a key witness "mysteriously go missing". A former Bad Boy artist who gave prior testimony to witnessing, and being abused first hand by Combs has disappeared into the wind. Rumors are she was paid off to lay low and go into hiding, but prosecutors and authorities can't find her.
The prosecution also had another key witness struck from their roll-call. None other than the woman who was shot in the face at the famous Club NY shooting involving Combs and his then girlfriend Jennifer Lopez. For which Shyne took the fall and went away for 10 years.
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As for the testimony the jury did get to hear, Cassie said she was introduced to “freak offs” within the first six months of her and Diddy's relationship. At age 22. Poor girl told countless stories about Diddy, watching from the sidelines, getting off as she performed sex acts with escorts, dancers, or strangers he allegedly hired. Including one he nicknamed "the punisher". This was his "fantasy."
As for hers? Being treated like a human being, which she said she never really got the chance to be.
Anybody who has seen any of the documentaries on this whole thing already knows, but Combs allegedly plied Cassie with the promise of making her a superstar. He signed and promised to produce 10 albums for her. But after she put her first one out, we never heard from the girl again.
The most disturbing aspect of it all? She testified that she felt like "basically a sex worker." And when she finally cried out that she’d give back every cent of her $20 million settlement if it meant never having to endure another freak off, everybody in the courtroom supposedly teared up.
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On top of the sexual degradation, she described near-constant drug use. Opiates, GHB, ketamine, MDMA, you name it, she says Diddy had it, used it, and pushed it. Apparently, the guy was basically an amateur chemist.
He once overdosed so badly on painkillers in 2012 (the same weekend Whitney Houston died) that Cassie had to rush him to the hospital. They referred to themselves as “get-high partners.” If that doesn’t sound like an emotionally broken co-dependency straight out of a Requiem for a Dream reboot, I don’t know what does.
On a side note, Diddy's bodyguard, who has been extremely vocal over the past year about what he witnessed and was paid to keep quiet about, went on Piers Morgan's show and talked about just how intense and prolific Diddy's use of chemical substances was.
We also had the spotlight shown back on that CNN surveillance video from 2016 that shows Diddy attacking Cassie in a Los Angeles hotel. Except this time, straight from Cassie's mouth, we found out that that was the tip of the iceberg. She detailed how he allegedly kicked her, dragged her by the hair, and followed up by trying to have sex like nothing happened.
And he apparently texted her afterward like a horny frat guy, saying “I’m so horny for you,” to which she replied, “Not a good vibe.” Understatement of the year.
One of the most WILD parts of Cassie’s testimony this week wasn’t even about her directly, it was about what she says Diddy was willing to do to someone else over jealousy.
Back in 2011, while she and Diddy were “on a break,” Cassie quietly started dating Kid Cudi. But it wasn’t a Ross and Rachel sitcom situation, it was allegedly a “get a burner phone so he doesn’t find out and try to murder everyone” situation. Sneaky shit.
According to Cassie, Diddy found out. And he went ballistic.
She said Combs discovered emails between her and his assistant about sending her toiletry bag to Cudi’s house. Diddy, being the psychopath that he is reportedly flipped out, demanded answers from her, lunged at her with a wine opener in his hand like a cracked-out Edward Scissorhands, and then jump kicked her in the back as she was walking out of his house.
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She fled to a hotel room that had been used for a freak-off the night prior, only to find it destroyed. Talking piss all over the floor, shit in the toilet, and furniture flipped over. More telltale signs of a healthy relationship.
But here’s the part that makes this whole fucked up situation not just toxic, but criminal. She testified that Diddy told her he was going to “blow up Kid Cudi’s car” and wanted Cudi’s friends to see it happen.
Well, wouldn't you know it? Cudi’s Porsche actually exploded in January 2012.
At the time, it was reported by the L.A. Fire Department that the luxury car was destroyed by an “incendiary device.”
Kid Cudi himself later confirmed the explosion happened, and now in 2025, it’s being connected to this case in open court.
Cassie testified that after the explosion, she went to a meeting at SoHo House with Diddy and Cudi to clear the air about the entire thing because she didn't want to see anybody wind up dead. Cudi supposedly asked “What about my vehicle?” And according to her, Diddy allegedly looked him dead in the eye and said, “What vehicle?”
That’s mob movie shit. That’s Joe Pesci in Casino type sociopathy.
We also had LOTS of talk about baby oil.
According to Cassie, Diddy was such a huge fan of the stuff because "he wanted everybody to glow".
I know this is far from a joking matter, but I can't help but think of this when hearing that -
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On Thursday, Diddy's team's cross-examination was all about trying to make Cassie look like a jealous, manipulative ex. His lawyers brought up her relationships with Kid Cudi, Michael B. Jordan, and "an unnamed NFL player." They showed friendly post-breakup texts and tried to argue that this was all just "a twisted love story between two consenting adults", just with some light voyeurism, a dash of extortion, and the occasional sexual hostage situation.
They even grilled her over how she might have gotten back together with Diddy after the 2018 alleged rape she described in graphic detail.
“You don’t say anything to the effect of ‘you raped me,’” Diddy's lawyer Geragos pointed out.
She responded that she wanted to “only wanted to keep the peace.”
Again, not exactly a ringing endorsement for a consensual love story.
Diddy also allegedly thought Cassie was cheating with Chris Brown. Which every time I would read or hear that made me want to scream out "how the fuck is nobody asking how he defined "cheating" if this was the consensual, open, and swinging relationship the defense claims?
On Friday, Danity Kane’s Dawn Richard took the stand and described witnessing Diddy fly into a rage over breakfast eggs.
According to her, one morning Diddy stormed into the kitchen, screamed at Cassie for messing up his eggs, then tried to hit her with a fucking iron skillet. Luckily he missed, so then he allegedly grabbed her by the hair and dragged her up the stairs like a lunatic in a Lifetime movie.
Richard says she heard glass shattering upstairs and ran upstairs to find Cassie curled in the fetal position.
Prosecutors asked her if she confronted Diddy. Which she claims she did. Diddy’s explanation? “That’s passion,” he allegedly said.
Federal agent Yasin Binda testified that when they arrested Diddy at the Park Hyatt in NYC, they found:
a shit ton of bottles of baby oil and lube (of course), a Louis Vuitton bag with clonazepam prescribed to an alias: "Frank Black" (F- here for prosecutors not asking what this meant in reference to Notorious B.I.G.'s famous self-given nickname "Frank White"), Ketamine, MDMA, stacks of cash, and cell phones belonging to him and his "right hand" Kristina “KK” Khorram.
After her four-day emotional tour through hell, Cassie walked out of that courtroom, dropped the mic, and asked for privacy as she awaits the birth of her third child with husband Alex Fine. Everybody who heard her testimony in person was blown away by her courage and composure. And disturbed by how cool and calm Combs seemed during it all.
And shoutout to her husband Alex, by the way, who gave an all-time great "I'm not your white knight" statement. When asked for comment from the media on Thursday, he said “Cassie saved Cassie. I just loved her as she loved me.”
That’s how you support someone who walked through hell and lived to tell the story.
If this trial was a movie, we'd be at the part where the audience shifts uncomfortably in their seats and starts Googling how to sue a music label. Cassie’s testimony hit like a fucking sledgehammer. As expected. And Dawn Richard’s corroboration backed it up.
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If the defense was hoping to paint Diddy as a misunderstood artist in love, they’re gonna need a bigger brush.
(Experts expect this trial to last a total of 8 weeks)
p.s. - this still plays.