Cassie Ventura said once she started dating Sean “Diddy” Combs, she broke ties with her management company, which also managed her former boyfriend.
After the Miami trip, she said she fell in love with Combs.
“I traveled with him everywhere. I was in studios. I was just like [his] little shadow for a little while,” she testified.
Ventura said that at this point, the relationship was “fun,” describing it as her “first adult, real adult relationship.” She also noted that Combs’ lifestyle was “much different” than her own.
“He had assistants at his beck and call. He could get anything done quickly. He had respect from everyone. He traveled quite a bit,” Ventura said.
Ventura testified that early on, she was “just enamored by him.” But later on, she began to “experience a different side of him, which was his abusive side.”
She said Combs was “very controlling over my life and the things that I wanted to do, but there was still love there.”
”Control was everything from the way that I looked to what I was working on that day, who I was speaking to. Control was kind of an all-around thing to a certain point,” she testified.
