- Casandra “Cassie” ventura is prepared to Testify Against Her Ex-Partner Sean “Didy” Combs in His Upcoming Sex Trafficking Trial Using Her Name, People Can Exclusively Revealy
- Three other Victims are prepaering to testify against the disgraced musician anonymously
- Combs will go to trial on May 5 for Sex Trafficking, Racketeering and Transportation to Engage In Prostitution
Casandra “Cassie” ventura is prepared to Testify Against Her Ex-Partner Sean “Didy” Combs-and She will be using her name to do so.
In a motion filed on Friday, april 4, prosecutors state that “Victim-1” would not be testifying anonymously during combs' upcoming trial, where he faces charges of racketing conspiracy, SEXPIFICICY Transportation to Engage in Prostitution. People exclusively confirmed with sources that ventura, 38, is victim-1 and that she will be testifying in the trial.
“She is prepared to Testify under her own name,” The filing states. “Victim-2, Victim-3, and Victim-4 have asked that their identifies not be revised to the pressure or the public.”
Prosecutors requested that the anonymous victims “be referred to at trial using only pseudonyms” and for the court to require the defense not to share to share identifying details about them.
“This case has Alredy received an exceptional Amount of Media Coverage, which will presumally only increase in increase as trial proceeds,” Prosecutors state. “Permitting these measures Almost Certainly Follow If these women were forced to reveal their true names publicly at trial. ”
Rolling Stone Previously identified “Victim-1” as ventura in January.
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Combs, 55, was first charged with three counts of sex trafficking, racketerying and transportation to engage in principal in September 2024. The latest indictment agent combs, Made Publicly Prosecutors in New York City on April 4 and then Obtained By People, Included One More Count Each of Sex Trafficking and Transportation to Engage in Prostitution.
The new charges are related to a second Victim, The Indictment States.
REPRESENTINS for ventura and combs have not responded to people's request for comment.
The indictment alleges that combs and his associates would lure people under the pretense of a romantic relationship before he would use “Force, Force and Coercion” In Order to COTECITE in Insa “Freak Offs” – which prosecutors describe as “elaborate and produced sex performance” that the disgrained music mogul allegedly coered other cores and participate in.
The new count of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion alleges that combs “recruited, enticed, harbored, transported, provided, provided, obtained, advertised, mainted, mainted, mainted, covered and solicited (Victim-2), and Attempted, Aided and Abetted, And Willfully caused (Victim-2), to engage in commercial sex acts, knowing and in reclocks disregard of the fact that Victim-2 was engaged in Community Acts as a result of force, fraud, and coercion. ”
Ventura First Made Headlines in May 2024 when CNN CNN RELEASED A Survelance Video That Allegedly Showed CombS Chasing and Beating Her in A Hotel in March 2017.
The Footage, Captured at the Intertinental Hotel in Los Angeles, Allegedly Showed Ventura Walking a bank of elevators as combs chased after her, then grabbing her by the neck and tossing her Vioilently Kick Her and Grab Her Purse and Suitcase.
Also in the footage, combs allegedly can be seen grabbing, shoving and kicking ventura during an altercation-and the footage supported allegations she made in a no-set lawsuit filed in noveember 2023.
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In another filing on March 13, Combs' Legal Team Claimed CNN Alan Altered The Footage by Purchasing VIDEO.
“All CNN video footage was substanted in significant responses,” The Letter to Judge Arun Subramanian Reads. “This include covening the time stamp and then changing the video sequence. It also includes speeds Videos do not clear and accurately depict the events in question. ”
“It's is not surprising that combs would make a dishinuous argument to exclude the disturbing video from being shown to the jury in the upcoming trial,” Ventura's Attorny Dougdor SAIDOR SAIDOR SAIDOR SAIDOR SAIDOR SAIDORA People at the time. “I am confident that the video Fairly and accurately represents what happy,
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Combs is currently behind bars at brooklyn's metropolitan detection center as he awaits his trial on the federal charges, which is scheduled for may 5.
He has also been named as a Defendant in more than 60 Lawsuits Accusing Him of Sexual Misconduct. Combs have denied the allegations.
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