"Sex acts became my full-time job."
In May 2025, Cassie Ventura gave harrowing testimony during the trial of her ex-boyfriend, Sean Combs.
Also known as Diddy, Combs was facing charges of racketeering, sex trafficking by force, and transportation for purposes of prostitution.
In her testimony, Cassie said that Combs abused, victimised, and threatened her during their relationship.
Despite this, on July 2, the singer was acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering charges.
However, Combs was convicted on two counts of transportation for the purposes of prostitution.
Ahead of the rapper’s sentencing, Cassie Ventura wrote a long letter to Judge Arun Subramanian, beseeching him to bring Sean Combs to justice.
Cassie wrote: “For four days in May, while nine months pregnant with my son, I testified in front of a packed courtroom about the most traumatic and horrifying chapter in my life.
“I testified that from age 19, Sean Combs used violence, threats, substances, and control over my career to trap me in over a decade of abuse.
“He groomed me into performing repeated sex acts with hired male sex workers during multi-day ‘freak-offs,’ which occurred nearly weekly.
“I was forced into lingerie and heels, told exactly how to look, and plied with drugs and alcohol so he could control me like a puppet.
“These events were degrading and disgusting, leaving me with infections, illnesses, and days of physical and emotional exhaustion before he demanded it all again.
“Sex acts became my full-time job, used as the only way to stay in his good graces.
“Refusing meant punishment – losing my car, my phone, or worse.
“He controlled every part of my livelihood and threatened to destroy my reputation by leaking sex tapes, a threat he repeated often.
“When he believed I had wronged him or was not sufficiently responsive, he also threatened people around me and those close to me, including my family.
“I regularly worried that displeasing him meant putting my family and friends’ safety at risk.”
Cassie Ventura, who is also an acclaimed singer and dancer, went on to detail to Judge Subramanian the levels of the alleged abuse she suffered at the hands of Combs.
She continued: “Over the nearly eleven years we were together, Sean Combs would hit me, punch me, stomp on my face, pull my hair, and throw my body to the ground and against the wall.
“The jury saw pictures of bruises on my back from Combs kicking me and saw the deep gash over my eye he caused when he slammed me into a bed frame.
“The entire courtroom watched actual footage of Combs kicking and beating me as I tried to run away from a freak-off in 2016.
“People watched this footage dozens of times, seeing my body thrown to the ground, my hands over my head, curled into a fetal position to shield me from the worst blows.
“While the defence attorneys at trial suggested that my time with Combs was akin to a ‘great modern love story’, nothing could be further from the truth.
“Nothing about this story is great, modern, or loving.
“This was a horrific decade of my life stained by abuse, violence, forced sex, and degradation.”
Cassie also admitted her fear of Combs walking free and also informed Judge Subramanian of her recovery process.
She said: “I am so scared that if he walks free, his first actions will be swift retribution towards me and others who spoke up about his abuse at trial.
“As much progress as I have made in recovering from his abuse, I remain very much afraid of what he is capable of and the malice he undoubtedly harbours towards me for having the bravery to tell the truth.
“I know that who he was to me – the manipulator, the aggressor, the abuser, the trafficker – is who he is as a human.
“He has no interest in changing or becoming better.
“He will always be the same cruel, power-hungry, manipulative man that he is.
“Thanks to the footage and my testimony, this is also something he will forever be associated with.
“For over a decade, Sean Combs made me feel powerless and unimportant, but my experience was real, horrific, and deserves to be considered.
“While the jury did not seem to understand or believe that I engaged in freak-offs because of the force and coercion the defendant used against me, I know that is the truth, and his sentence should reflect the reality of the evidence and my lived experience as a victim.”
In a separate letter, Cassie Ventura’s parents also implored Judge Subramanian for a heavy sentence.
They wrote: “To sentence lightly in this case that involved such vicious abuses of our daughter’s body, safety and dignity is to dismiss her very existence.
“To sentence lightly would also send a dangerous message.”
“A sentence that is handed down in months instead of years, sends a message that such repulsive behavior can happen without meaningful consequence.”
Prosecutors have desired for Judge Subramanian to sentence Combs for at least 11 years along with a fine of $500,000 (£372,029).
Meanwhile, his defence lawyers called for a sentence of no longer than 14 months.
As the quantum of Sean Combs’ sentence gets set to be announced, all eyes are on Judge Subramanian for the result.
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