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(NewsNation) — Singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura testified Tuesday that the sex parties Sean “Diddy” Combs would throw, called “Freak Offs,” could last as long as four days.
“The Freak Offs became a job,” Ventura told the jury in Combs’ federal sex crimes trial.
Ventura claimed they were typically 36 to 48-hour affairs, with some lasting longer. They would require frequent breaks due to dehydration and drug and alcohol use.
She said she participated in “Freak Offs” for about a decade, with the last one in 2017 or 2018. By that time, they were occurring weekly, Venutra testified.
Each “Freak Off” would need about 10 large-sized bottles of baby oil, Ventura testified.
“It was such a mess,” she said. “It was like, ‘What are we doing?’”
Some of Cassie’s music was never released
Ventura testified that because so much of her time was spent participating in “Freak Offs,” her music career suffered.
She claimed she created hundreds of songs, some of which were released on the internet without “proper release and some just didn’t see the light of day.”
“Freak offs became a job where there was no space to do anything else but to recover and just try to feel normal again,” Ventura said.
Cassie testifies about Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ ‘Freak Offs’
Ventura said for “Freak Offs,” she and Combs would hire an escort to set up “this experience so that I could perform for Sean (Combs).”
During her first “Freak Off,” Ventura testified that she was 22 years old and was “confused, nervous, but also loved him very much.”
“I just remember my stomach falling to my butt. Just the nervousness and confusion in that moment,” she said.
Ventura claimed she often couldn’t say no to Combs, afraid of threats of blackmail and violence. She claimed Combs threatened to post videos on the internet if she didn’t follow his instructions.
“Sean controlled a lot of my life, whether it was career, the way I dressed, everything, everything. I just didn’t have much say in it at the time,” she said.
“Sean is a really polarizing person, also really charming,” Ventura also said. “It’s hard to really be able to decide in that moment what you need when he’s telling you what he wants. I just didn’t know. I didn’t know what would happen.”
What is Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs charged with?
Combs faces federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and transportation to engage in prostitution.
The music producer has been held without bail since his September 2024 arrest; two of his homes were raided by federal investigators seven months earlier.
Prosecutors have alleged Combs used the resources of his music empire to create “a criminal enterprise whose members and associates engaged in, and attempted to engage in, among other crimes, sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.