Casandra ‘Cassie’ Ventura penned a letter urging the New York federal judge heading the Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs case to keep him behind bars. In her latest and final plea, the 39-year-old R&B singer who was not only in a relationship with the disgraced rapper but also signed to his record label in the past, said her ex’s victims, including herself, “will never be safe.”
With Diddy scheduled to appear in court on October 3 for sentencing for his two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, Cassie also shared that she and her family had left New York over fears tied to the future.
Her letter was included in the legal filing prosecutors sent to the court on Tuesday (US time) along with other such notes written by six other people.
Cassie details disturbing aftermath of Diddy abuse
The “Is It You” songbird revealed that she had been to rehab and participated in dozens of therapies to “confront, compartmentalize, and cope with the horrific memories of sexual and emotional abuse” she endured for nearly a decade during while she was still linked to Combs.
Contradicting his attorneys’ statements about how he is a “changed man,” Cassie asserted that he would always remain a “manipulator,” “aggressor,” “abuser,” and “trafficker” for her. She insisted, “He has no interest in changing or becoming better. He will always be the same cruel, power-hungry, manipulative man that he is,” while noting that the “Mo Money Mo Problems” rapper’s “victims and survivors will never be safe.”
Ventura, who testified for over four days in May, bared her heart in the letter, saying Combs relied on violent measures, threats, substances and control over her career to “trap” her in an abusive cycle that lasted over 10 years. She also insisted that Diddy was responsible for grooming her partake in his sex-crazed activities called ‘freak-offs,’ which happened nearly on a weekly basis.
Detailing the aftermath of “the horrors,” the Step Up 2 actress called the ‘freak-offs’ “degrading and disgusting,” indicating that they left her with infections and illnesses.” Cassie even confessed that sex acts ultimately became her “full-time job,” which she had to engage in to stay in Diddy’s “good graces.”
Years down the line, now that she has a family of her own, with the controversial music mogul nowhere in the picture, she still claims to have “nightmares and flashbacks” of the harrowing past “on a regular, everyday basis.”
Ventura reiterated her ex-partner “flatly denied” allegations of the repeated physical and sexual abuse “again and again.” Noting how the jury probably didn’t believe that she was forced to bow down to such sexual acts, she found some sense of vindication after the footage of Combs assaulting her was released last year. While the video corroborated all her claims in the civil lawsuit she filed in 2023, the footage’s exposé pulled out an “insincere apology on the internet.”
Latest on the case ahead of Diddy sentencing
Prosecutors have since requested Indian-origin Judge Arun Subramanian to announce an at least 11-year-and-three-month-long prison sentence verdict for the Revolt founder. Meanwhile, Combs’ side is hoping for a lower sentence of up to 14 months.
Meanwhile, Judge Subramanian has denied the Bad Boy Records founder’s motion to toss his convictions on the two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution on Tuesday. He is currently being held at a Brooklyn federal detention centre, and was acquitted on one count of racketeering conspiracy and two counts of sex trafficking by forces, fraud or coercion.