P Diddy trial latest: Sean Combs sent me to Beverly Hills plastic surgeon after attack, Cassie tells court
'Combs blackmailed me with freak off sex videos'
The court is hearing about more texts exchanged between Sean Combs and Cassie Ventura, this time from January 2016.
"I want to have a successful FO," read one message from Combs, the court hears, and included the letter "K".
Prosecutor Emily Johnson asks what "K" is. Ms Ventura says it is ketamine, which was her preferred drug as it was "most dissociative".
Discussion then moves on to a night celebrating her birthday.
After dinner, Ms Ventura says she was going with friends to a club but Combs said he wanted to have a freak off. She says she told him she didn't want to at that time so went with her friends.
However, she says Combs "pulled me out so many times I gave up".
Ms Johnson also asks about "blackmail materials" and the times that Combs mentioned them.
"Sex videos, things that made me look not great," Ms Ventura says. Combs would "remind" her of them if he was angry or upset about something, she says. "It was a common thing."
She tells the court she was worried it would damage her career and hurt her family.
"It is embarrassing, it is horrible and disgusting, no one should do that to anyone," she says. "It could ruin everything I worked for, make me look like a slut. I wasn't supposed to be on those videos, I didn't want to be in them."
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an hour ago
- The Independent
Mapped: the 37 cities where anti-ICE protests have erupted across the US
Los Angeles remains the epicenter of unrest after protests erupted in the wake of a string of raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Friday. Now, demonstrations have been sparked across the country, with dozens reported in at least 21 states since Friday. The first protests followed after crowds attempted to thwart ICE agents' detention efforts in downtown LA last week. The following morning, President Donald Trump caused fresh outrage after deploying the National Guard before eventually mobilizing the U.S. Marines on Monday evening. Dozens of demonstrations have erupted around the country, both in solidarity with the LA protesters and as a form of broader protest against the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. The Independent has identified anti-ICE protests in at least 37 U.S. cities since Friday, with the majority occurring on Monday through Wednesday. On Thursday, cities across the nation braced for more upheaval. So far, they have been spread across 21 states, with the highest concentrations in California, Texas, Oregon, and Pennsylvania. There have been at least 565 arrests so far at various protests, mainly in LA, with 30 people arrested last night in Spokane, Washington, following a significant police response. Further afield, marches also took place on Wednesday in Eugene, Raleigh, St. Louis, San Antonio, Indianapolis, and Seattle. The nationwide demonstrations have varied in size, with some cities reporting dozens or hundreds of protesters. Meanwhile, other areas have seen thousands of protesters take to the streets, with the National Guard called in to two cities and hundreds of arrests made nationwide. Spokane, Washington After a protest Wednesday afternoon outside an ICE office in Spokane, Mayor Lisa Brown imposed a curfew in the city's downtown area running from 9.30 p.m. until 5 a.m. Thursday. More than 30 protesters were arrested, and officers deployed 'pepper balls' on the crowd, according to Spokane Police Chief Kevin Hall. Brown told reporters that the curfew is meant to 'protect public safety,' adding that the vast majority of protesters were peaceful Chicago, Illinois Thousands of protesters marched through downtown Chicago on Tuesday. Demonstrations were largely peaceful, but Fox News reported that some protesters vandalized police vehicles and were involved in altercations. On Tuesday night, a car ploughed through crowds of protesters in the downtown area. The driver allegedly ignored police attempts to stop the car, according to the network. There have been no reported injuries. Seventeen arrests were made on Wednesday as thousands flooded the streets at Federal Plaza. Four were charged with felonies, including aggravated battery of a police officer. Multiple vehicles were tagged with anti-ICE graffiti. Denver, Colorado Hundreds gathered outside the Colorado Capitol in Denver on Tuesday, according to CBS News, for largely peaceful protests. Reports say that protesters spilled into the streets, but no widespread unrest was reported. Later that evening, Denver Police reportedly used smoke and pepper balls to disperse the crowd. Eighteen arrests were made Tuesday, police said. In nearby Aurora, home to Colorado's only ICE detention center, an additional 150 people joined the protest, according to local news reports. New York City Around 20 anti-ICE protesters were also led away by police in New York, following demonstrations in Manhattan on Monday. The following morning, two dozen people were arrested during a sit-in protest at Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue. Clashes broke out between police and protesters near an ICE office on Tuesday, which saw demonstrators thrown to the ground as police tried to handcuff them. Others lobbed water bottles at officers. The NYPD prepared for further anti-ICE protests Thursday after demonstrators marched from Foley Square before moving down Broadway, and later up to the Manhattan Detention Center. Atlanta, Georgia A rally began on Monday outside the ICE office in Atlanta, with protesters calling for the end of immigration raids and the release of the detained union leader, David Huerta, in California. Hundreds of protesters gathered Tuesday night along Buford Highway in Brookhaven. Many carried signs and chanted in English and Spanish during the march, denouncing the Trump administration's stringent deportation efforts. Officials say that they arrested six people after protesters failed to leave after the rally's designated cut-off point and clashed with law enforcement officials. The protests in LA are expected to enter their seventh day on Thursday. More than 700 Marines awaited deployment in Los Angeles on Thursday, marking the latest escalation of Trump's response to the immigration raid protests. Around 400 people involved in protests have been arrested by the LAPD alone, according to CNN. Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, enforced a curfew for a second night in a portion of downtown LA in response to looting and vandalism, with the Los Angeles Police Department stating that it made 'mass arrests' after the restriction was imposed. The curfew is currently in place from 8.00 p.m. Wednesday to 06:00 a.m. Thursday local time. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told a Senate hearing Wednesday that military personnel could be sent to other cities if law enforcement were threatened as protests flare up across the nation.
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2 hours ago
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The Democrat mayor in denial about the violence ripping her city apart
A few months ago, Karen Bass was accused of standing by as Los Angeles burned. Now, the city's mayor has been accused of 'fanning the flames' – but this time of the rioting, violence and looting that has consumed its downtown area. Critics say Ms Bass has provoked clashes between law enforcement and protesters, who have been demonstrating against raids by immigration authorities since Friday, and is in denial about the scale of the crisis that has gripped the City of Angels. A constant presence on Left-leaning CNN and MSNBC this week, she has routinely downplayed the violent scenes even as cars have been torched and journalists have been injured by non-lethal rounds. When immigration officials raided workplaces in downtown Los Angeles on Friday, Ms Bass declared herself 'deeply angered' and hit out at what she claimed was an attempt to 'sow terror in our communities'. Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, later claimed the mayor had 'embarked on one of the most outrageous campaigns of lies this country has ever seen from an elected official, blaming President Trump and brave law enforcement officers for the violence'. Critics say Ms Bass's words inflamed the tensions between immigration officials and demonstrators, provoking riots that have lasted for days. 'Karen Bass whipped all of this up,' Ric Grenell, Donald Trump's presidential envoy for special missions, wrote on social media. 'She attacked the rule of law. She undermined democracy. The mayor of LA is creating chaos in LA.' This week, she issued a statement downplaying the scale of the violence, even as several journalists caught up in the ensuing melee were shot by police using non-lethal rounds, including The Telegraph's Jon Putman. Mr Putman, who was struck in the ear, narrowly avoided serious injury, but said a clean shot would have put him 'out of commission'. Nick Stern, a British news photographer, was shot in the leg with a non-lethal round on Saturday, and when a paramedic cut off his clothes found a 'five centimetre hole with muscle hanging out of it'. If Ms Bass is an effective rabble rouser as her critics claim, then the evidence shows she is less adept at cooling tensions. Over the weekend, she called on rioters to stop looting businesses in downtown Los Angeles, but the dozens of masked figures who raided the CVS, Adidas and T-Mobile shops among others seem to have been unmoved. Finally, with crime spiralling out of control, Ms Bass decided to act on Monday. 'We reached a tipping point,' she said at a news conference, announcing a curfew between 8pm and 6am local time after more than two dozen businesses were vandalised. Others might have reached the same conclusion days ago. At that point, she conceded the 'vandalism and violence' had been 'significant', long after images of burned-out cars and masked protesters had made their way around the world. Moses Castillo, a former LAPD detective who responded to the Rodney King riots that gripped Los Angeles in the early 1990s, criticised Ms Bass for being too slow and indecisive. 'I think she's trying to play catch up,' he told Fox News. 'I think if she had been very forceful in the beginning that we're not going to tolerate these crimes and allow police officers to do their job and arrest people on sight, I think it would have been different. 'She's now saying that these crimes will not be tolerated, looting will not be tolerated, but it's a little bit too late.' To Ms Bass's political enemies – and there are many, including within her own party – these are familiar themes from the Los Angeles mayor's playbook. When the city found itself in the grip of devastating wildfires back in January, she fumbled her public statements, rowed with officials, and belatedly tried to get a grip on the crisis. Ms Bass wasn't in Los Angeles when the fires broke out. She wasn't even in California, or the US. She was in Ghana to attend the inauguration of its president, and hours after the Pacific Palisades blaze started she was posing for photographs at a reception organised by the US ambassador. The trip was a 'mistake', she later conceded, adding: 'I hated the fact that I was out of the city when the city needed me the most.' When she did return, Kristin Crowley, the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) chief blamed her for slashing their budget, leaving her colleagues defenceless when the fires broke out. By the time the smoke cleared, the wildfires had consumed some 16,000 buildings, forced 200,000 people to evacuate, and killed 30. But for some ill-judged comments about Cuba's Communist regime, it's possible that Los Angeles could have been spared the worst of these crises. Joe Biden, the former US president, briefly considered Ms Bass as a potential running mate for the 2020 election, before she won the mayoral election two years later. But it subsequently emerged that Ms Bass had visited Communist Cuba several times as a young woman in the 1970s, and when Fidel Castro died in 2016 after ruling the country for decades, she lamented 'a great loss to the people of Cuba'. That was enough to end the prospect of any role in the Biden campaign. Ms Bass's loss, as it turned out, was Los Angeles' loss too.
Daily Mail
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