Cassie Reveals Why She Cried When Diddy Kissed Her for the First Time

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13-05-2025

Sean Diddy Combs is on trial on charges of sex trafficking to engage in prostitution and transportation to engage in prostitution
Opening arguments in the high-profile trial began on Monday, May 12, at a federal court in Manhattan
Federal prosecutors allege that Combs is the mastermind behind a criminal enterprise that forced women — including his ex-girlfriend — to perform sex acts he filmed
Cassandra "Cassie" Ventura wasn't swooning when Sean 'Diddy' Combs kissed her for the first time.
The R&B singer told jurors at his high-profile federal sex crimes trial on Tuesday, May 13, that when Combs kissed her in August 2007 on her 21st birthday in Las Vegas after a VMA event that she cried.
'There was a 17 year age difference," Ventura, the prosecution's star witness, said on the stand.
"I was really confused at the time, you know, new artist," she said, exhaling. "I was pretty naive.'
Asked if she wanted the kiss, Cassie replied, 'No, not on my birthday.'
After her birthday in Vegas, they hung out in New York. She'd visit him at the Trump Hotel in Columbus Circle.
'I wanted to be around Sean for the same reasons as everyone else at the time — this exciting, entertaining, fun guy who also happened to have my career in his hands," she said.
The "Me & You" singer, who is married to personal trainer Alex Fine and eight months pregnant with their child, is testifying about how her powerful ex-boyfriend of 11 years allegedly forced her to perform sex acts and abused her physically and emotionally.
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Arrested in September 2024, Combs pleaded not guilty to five counts of sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution.
On the first day of the trial on Monday, Mon. 12, in Manhattan federal court, jurors saw surveillance video of the hip-hop mogul beating and kicking Ventura in the elevator bank of a hotel lobby in 2016.In her opening statements, U.S. Attorney Emily Johnson told jurors how Combs allegedly used his influence in the music business to drug women and force them to take part in orchestrated sex acts with him and sometimes male prostitutes at so-called 'Freak Offs."
In her opening statement, Combs' defense attorney Teny Geragos said that any sex between her client and Ventura was consensual, as was the fact that she stayed with him for more than a decade.
'She made a choice, every single day for years — a choice to stay with him, a choice to fight for him, because for 11 years, that was the better choice," she told jurors. When she made the choice to leave, Geragos said, "she communicated it to him, and ran into the arms of another man — a physical trainer Combs had hired to train her,' Geragos said.
Combs could face up to life in prison if he is convicted on all counts. Since his 2024 arrest, he has been held at the Metropolitan Detention Complex in Brooklyn.
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