Diddy trial live updates: Cassie told Combs 'I'm not a rag doll' - as hip-hop mogul's ex-partner is questioned
16:07:21
Cassie opens up on treatment for trauma and drug addiction
The line of questioning moves on to Cassie's use of drugs, and she tells the court she has been taking Suboxone for an opioid addiction since 2022.
The prescription medication is a combination drug containing Buprenorphine and Naloxone.
Cassie says she sought further help as an inpatient at Willow House, a rehabilitation centre in Arizona, in 2023.
She describes receiving EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) treatment once a week during her 45-day stay.
Cassie says it helps "recount memories" and "process them", adding: "They hook you up to a machine, and it regulates your brain waves… it lets you complete a trauma that [you] cut off."
The rehabilitation centre describes itself as offering "inpatient treatment for women experiencing a wide range of sex and intimacy issues including love addiction, sexual compulsivity, unhealthy relationship patterns, sexual trauma, toxic relationships, and co-occurring mental health and substance abuse issues".
Cassie says she wasn't treated for sex or love addiction.
15:58:36
In pictures: Diddy's sons arrive at court
As today's hearing continues - and we will keep bringing you the latest - pictures have recently come in of Diddy's family arriving at court.
His sons, Christian and Justin Dior, are there now, with his family showing up again as they have on every other day of the trial.
15:48:06
Concern over use of escorts from TV show called Gigolos
An escort service used by Sean Combs for his parties - Cowboys 4 Angels - is discussed, and the fact it appeared in a TV show called Gigolos.
Cassie agrees she had been concerned that escorts involved in the Showtime programme had also been invited to freak offs, and that there was the risk of details of the parties becoming more widely known.
When asked about one escort who was featured, and if they had been invited to a freak off, Cassie says: "I have never seen the show, so I don't know".
15:40:12
Cassie heard saying in audio recording: 'I will f*** you up and it won't be my hand'
Estevao asks about Cassie learning of a recording of her out in the public, and her concern "it might have been a freak off".
Estevao says one of Combs's security staff was with her in Sedona, Arizona at the time, which was a trip "to take a break from drugs and partying".
Cassie agrees Combs was encouraging her "to get to the bottom of it".
A conversation is then played to the court of Cassie appearing to threaten a man she believes may have the video. Cassie asks him if he has it on his phone, and then threatens him when he doesn't show her.
She is heard saying: "Where is it? You are telling me nothing right now, you have it, or you don't have it? I want to f***ing see that, it is my f***ing life and I will kill you… if you have it, pull it up, or I will kill you and he will kill you again, I am tired of you talking s***."
She goes on to accuse the man of "playing games", adding "I will kill you, I have never killed someone in my life, but you are f***ing with me and my life now, I would show you the video, you are playing games because you said you saw the video, I will f*** you up and it won't be my hand".
Estevao goes on to say Combs "spent time and money" to make the problem of the recording "go away". Cassie says she doesn't know the details.
15:18:12
Cassie denies dance with Chris Brown - as Diddy 'ran off' with her phone
Estevao movies on to an incident in which Combs is said to have believed Cassie was cheating on him in August 2018, and Cassie answers "the relationship was over by then".
When asked how Combs learned of the relationship, Cassie says she's not sure, and says: "We were not in a great place. I was dating someone else. I am not sure how he found out, he grabbed my phone, and ran out of the car."
Cassie says Combs then ran off with her phone and was gone "for a couple of hours", later speaking with the man she was dating, who is described as "a professional NFL player".
Estevao uses the word "cheating" in her description of the relationship, which Cassie says is incorrect as it was "a boyfriend girlfriend relationship" between her and her new partner.
Cassie is then asked about a time she was "dancing with Chris Brown", answering "I don't remember it", adding she wasn't dancing with the singer.
At this point the prosecution objects, and the line of questioning moves on, with Cassie confirming there were other occasions when Combs "took my phone, my car, my watch" when he was angry with her.
14:57:40
Cassie told Diddy: 'I'm not a ragdoll'
Cassie Ventura is back on the stand, and the defence's cross-examination continues.
Defence attorney Anna Estevao picks up her line of questioning, asking about the period around the incident at the InterContinental in March 2016.
This is when the hip-hop mogul allegedly attacked Ventura as she tried to leave during a "freak off" sex session.
Estevao asks about Sean "Diddy" Combs's drug use at that time, and Cassie says she believes he was "intoxicated" while at the hotel.
The court is shown a text Cassie sent to Combs on 10 March, 2016, in which she says: "When you get f***ed up the wrong way, you always want to show me you have the power to knock me around, I am not a rag doll, I am someone's child."
14:34:24
Court is in session
Proceedings have now begun for the fifth day - we'll have the latest here.
Cassie is now returning and taking to the stand, the jury is about to enter as well.
14:24:01
In pictures: Queue forms outside court as Cassie's husband arrives
Alex Fine, Cassie's husband, has been pictured arriving at the Manhattan court, along with Marc Agnifilo from the defence team.
As has been the case on each day of this trial, people from the public have been queueing to get inside.
14:14:07
What happened yesterday?
Cassie will return to the stand shortly, as Sean 'Diddy' Combs's defence team cross-examines her for a second day.
They started yesterday, so here's a reminder of what happened in court:
Combs's defence lawyer Anna Estevao began with questions about their relationship, asking Cassie if she loved the rapper and if she knew a version of him the public didn't - to which she said yes;
Text messages between the couple, who were together for around 11 years from 2007, were the focus of much of this hearing;
Combs called her "babygirl" and said "I love you so much it makes me cry" in messages from 2009, while Cassie said "I love you so much I can't wait till we don't care anymore";
Questioning then turned to the "freak offs" we have heard so much about at the trial so far - sessions during which Diddy paid male escorts to have sex with Cassie while he watched;
Sexually explicit messages showed her express enthusiasm about the freak offs she has alleged she was forced into;
"Can't wait," Cassie said in one text message, talking about taking part in a freak off; in another message, Combs told her he was "horny" and she replied: "Omg I was just about to text you the same thing";
But in a later message, she said a freak off had made her feel "grimy" and "dirty";
Diddy's lawyers painted his sexual preferences as part of a "swingers" lifestyle that has been mentioned previously at trial, saying people might not agree with it, but it does not make him guilty of sex trafficking;
Cassie's relationship with Kid Cudi and Diddy's with Kim Porter, the late mother of four of his children, were discussed, with Cassie admitting she was jealous of Kim;
Cassie alleged Diddy was "addicted to opiates and used ecstasy, MDMA and cocaine" and recalled an occasion where he overdosed on opiates at the Playboy Mansion;
The witness also told the court there were never any drugs in the baby oil used during freak offs after Combs was accused in a lawsuit last year of spiking the lubricant with GHB.
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