Cassie Ventura: Sean ‘Diddy' Combs made me call him this disgusting, incestuous nickname during ‘Freak-Offs'
Cassie Ventura claimed that ex-boyfriend Sean 'Diddy' Combs forced her to call him a sickening, incestuous nickname during his wild 'Freak-Offs.'
The 'Me & U' singer made the claim after showing jurors an email between her and a person referred to as 'Pop Pop' during her testimony at the rapper's sex-trafficking trial in Manhattan federal court Tuesday.
'He wanted me to have a nickname for him,' Ventura, 38, explained in court. 'He asked me what I called my grandfather, and I said I called him Pop Pop.'
The pop star explained that she thought the Bad Boy Records founder's ask was 'weird at the time.'
'But now I think it's just disrespectful,' she said.
Elsewhere in her harrowing testimony, Ventura detailed the horrific abuse Combs, 55, allegedly inflicted upon her.
'He would bash me on my head, knock me over, drag me, kick me, stomp me on the head if I was down,' she testified while taking to the witness stand.
Ventura claimed that Combs would strike her if she made the 'wrong' facial expression.
'I also felt at certain times … I knew it wasn't even about me … [I would] make the wrong face and the next thing I knew I was getting hit in the face,' she said.
Ventura broke down in tears as she recalled how 'violent' the 'I'll Be Missing You' rapper would get during their relationship.
'His look would just change over, he would just become a different person,' she said. 'The best way to describe it is his eyes just go black. The version that I was in love with is no longer there.'
The hitmaker explained that Diddy introduced her to 'Freak-Offs' when she was just 22. She alleged that Combs would 'direct' her and a sexual partner on what to do in an act of what she believed was 'voyeurism.'
'I was in love and I just wanted to make him happy,' Ventura said, adding, 'It basically entails the hiring of an escort and setting up this experience so that I could perform for Sean.'
The longest 'Freak-Off' lasted four days, Ventura said, and she often needed a recovery period due to her drug use and dehydration.
Ventura testified that Combs 'controlled' all aspects of her life, from pressuring her to get implants to influencing what hairstyles she wore. He also allegedly encouraged her to get her clitoris and nipples pierced.
The songstress, who took to the witness stand while pregnant with baby No. 3, has been dubbed by prosecutors as 'Victim 1' and is a key witness in the case.
In 2023, Ventura filed a lawsuit accusing Combs of raping and physically abusing her throughout their decade-long relationship.
Combs denied her claims and settled the case with Ventura less than 24 hours later. But he was forced to make a public apology months later when a video of Combs brutally assaulting Ventura at a hotel in 2016 surfaced online.
Since then, dozens of people have come forward accusing Diddy of sexual abuse and other crimes.
Last year, Combs' homes in Miami and Los Angeles were raided by feds.
In September 2024 he was arrested in New York City on charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution.
He has since been locked behind bars at Brooklyn's notorious Metropolitan Detention Center after being denied bail and he continues to deny any wrongdoing.
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