Cassie Ventura mentioned she fears “swift retribution” from Sean “Diddy” Combs in a blistering three-page sufferer influence assertion submitted to a federal decide forward of the music mogul’s sentencing, warning that if he walks free, she fears swift retaliation.
The letter, filed Monday (September 29) in U.S. District Courtroom, accompanied a request from prosecutors urging Choose Arun Subramanian at hand Combs a minimal sentence of 11 years and three months.
Combs is ready to be sentenced Friday (October 3), after being convicted of two counts of transporting people throughout state traces for prostitution.
“I’m so scared that if he walks free, his first actions shall be swift retribution in the direction of me and others who spoke up about his abuse at trial,” Ventura wrote within the letter, per Rolling Stone.
Ventura’s assertion recounts what she described as greater than a decade of abuse, starting when she was 19.
She testified that Combs used bodily violence, threats, medicine and manipulation to manage her each personally and professionally.
“For 4 days in Could, whereas 9 months pregnant with my son, I testified in entrance of a packed courtroom about essentially the most traumatic and horrifying chapter in my life,” she wrote. “He groomed me into performing repeated intercourse acts with employed male intercourse staff throughout multi-day’ freak-offs,’ which occurred practically weekly.”
She alleged she was pressured to put on particular outfits and devour medicine and alcohol throughout these encounters “so he might management me like a puppet,” she wrote.
Ventura additionally described repeated bodily assaults. “Over the practically eleven years we had been collectively, Sean Combs would hit me, punch me, stomp on my face, pull my hair, and throw my physique to the bottom and in opposition to the wall,” she said.
Combs’ authorized points escalated in November 2023 when Ventura filed a civil lawsuit accusing him of abuse.
The case drew nationwide consideration after CNN launched surveillance footage exhibiting Combs assaulting Ventura in a Los Angeles resort hallway in 2016.
Through the eight-week trial, jurors convicted Combs of transporting male escorts for intercourse however cleared him of racketeering and intercourse trafficking prices involving Ventura and one other girl who testified underneath a pseudonym.
Ventura expressed disappointment with the jury’s choice. “Whereas the jury didn’t appear to know or imagine that I engaged in freak-offs due to the pressure and coercion the defendant used in opposition to me, I do know that’s the reality,” she wrote.
She urged the courtroom to impose a sentence that displays the hurt she endured. “His sentence ought to mirror the truth of the proof and my lived expertise as a sufferer.”
She additionally pushed again in opposition to the protection’s portrayal of their relationship. “Whereas the protection attorneys at trial prompt that my time with Combs was akin to a ‘nice trendy love story,’ nothing may very well be farther from the reality,” she wrote.
Ventura rejected the concept that Combs has modified or is now dedicated to serving to others. “This disgusts me,” she wrote. “He’s not being truthful. I do know that who he was to me—the manipulator, the aggressor, the abuser, the trafficker—is who he’s as a human.”
She revealed that the trauma led to substance abuse and suicidal ideas, crediting her household for intervening and serving to her search therapy.
Ventura’s letter arrives as prosecutors press for a sentence of no less than 135 months (11 years and three months) together with a $500,000 high quality, arguing Combs’ crimes demand accountability.
Protection attorneys, in contrast, have urged the courtroom to impose simply 14 months, citing his time already served, his reported sobriety, and claims of mentoring fellow inmates.
The choice now rests with Choose Arun Subramanian, who will weigh Ventura’s harrowing testimony in opposition to the sharply divided sentencing suggestions when Combs seems in Manhattan federal courtroom on Friday (October 3).
