Diddy pounded our door with a hammer, friend of Cassie says
After his girlfriend Cassie Ventura fled a Los Angeles hotel with a black eye, Sean 'Diddy' Combs arrived at her home and began pounding at the front door with a hammer, a woman who was in the flat told a court in New York.
Kerry Morgan, 39, who was Ventura's best friend, testified on Monday that she had seen the hip-hop mogul assault Ventura several times and recalled two occasions in which she and her friend had tried to hide from him, once in a neighbour's front garden in Los Angeles and another time in a ditch outside a house in Jamaica.
Combs, 55, is charged with sex trafficking, racketeering and the transportation of prostitutes. Prosecutors allege that he forced Ventura and another woman to
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