Why Did Cassie Bring Up Bruce Willis in Scathing Text to Diddy?
Casandra 'Cassie' Ventura appeared disheartened with the way Sean 'Diddy' Combs was keeping her out of parts of his personal life when the two were in a relationship, according to text messages read in court Thursday.
Ventura appeared in court May 15, on the fourth day of Combs' sex-trafficking and racketeering trial, where a jury has heard lurid details of the music mogul's sexual fantasies and encounters — which Ventura alleges he enforced upon her for years.
The pair were together for about 11 years until their split was confirmed in 2018.
During this time, Ventura often expressed her frustration over not being made a bigger priority in Combs' private life, including being integrated into his life with his six children.
'It could be a little heartbreaking," she told the court during cross-examination.
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On the third day of the trial, Ventura had told the jury that she had felt being a participant in Combs' 'Freak Offs' sex sessions had become her primarily role in his life.
Her text messages revealed on Thursday showed she wanted to be more than a sexual partner to Combs — and brought up examples of other men who were doing it in a respectful manner despite having children from previous relationships.
'As much as you think you're Bruce Willis, you aren't. He's married, and before he was married, the family as a whole went on trips together or just him and his woman,' she wrote in a message in 2013, seven years into their relationship.
She was seemingly making references to Willis' successful co-parenting with ex Demi Moore even after the couple split, while they each maintained healthy relationships with their new partners.
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'Eddie Murphy and Paige took his kids away on their own,' she added, likely referring to Paige Butcher successfully blending in with Murphy's children from his previous relationship.
'I don't think that you sympathize with my feelings," Ventura wrote in the July 2013 exchange, explaining she had been disturbed for days at the time. "I understand you feeling like you need to protect your children but after a while…it's like for what?'
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Thursday marked the third day of Ventura taking the stand. She is expected back on Friday.
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