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Judge Subramanian: You don't have to put in a letter. You can just email me the cases and I'll take a look at them.
[Inner City Press would asks, Are these judicial documents going to go into the public docket? How much is being left off-docket in this case?]

Judge: We have a witness waiting in the back. Produce them before the cross examination starts. You can email me cases during the trial day. Let's get moving. Let's get Ms. Ventura back.
Witness entering
Judge: Welcome back

Judge: All rise!
[Jurors enter]
Judge: You are still under oath. Proceed.
AUSA Johnson: May I approach the witness?
Judge; You may.
AUSA Johnson: Ms. Ventura, I just handed you two drives. What is on them, GX 8?
Ventura: Messages and photos from my devices

AUSA Johnson: Yesterday you testified about Sean going armed to look for Suge Knight
Ventura: Sean took guns with him
AUSA: And he told you to ask the escorts if they were cops?
Ventura: I would begin by saying I was not a cop
AUSA: Sean told you to do that?
Yes

AUSA: What happened when you fought back?
Ventura: I did that more earlier in the relationship. It would make him more violent, want to push me harder
Defense: Objection to the speculation
Judge: Overruled.
AUSA: How would Sean react if you fought back?
A: Anger

AUSA: I'm going to show you the LA Inter Continental hallway again. Play from 1:43 to 1:46
AUSA: Who enters?
Ventura: Sean.
AUSA: What's in his hand?
Ventura: He doesn't appear to have anything.
AUSA: Play to 1:59... Now anything in his hand?
Ventura: My phone

AUSA: How did he get it?
Ventura: Well, he took all of my stuff.
AUSA: Where does he end up?
Ventura: Sitting in a chair in front of the window.
AUSA: What are you doing?
Ventura: I'm walking away from him

AUSA: Now who's in the video?
Ventura: Me and security.
AUSA: In this one, play from 5:31... Where did you go from the hotel?
Ventura: To my house. I took an Uber.
AUSA: Now let's turn to text messages. Can you read page 4?
Ventura: Pls call, I'm surrounded

AUSA: Who sent that?
Ventura: From Sean. He was running around in a towel. I told him to put the robe on
AUSA: Who sent these green messages?
Ventura: I did. I wrote to Sean, "Jules left, as long as you're quiet you can stay. Peace."
AUSA: Who was Jules?
A: Escort

AUSA: Is this Jules?
[Photo shown - big smile]
Ventura: Yes.
AUSA: B606 and 607, side by side.
[Cassie in big sunglasses]
Ventura: That's me, a selfie of me with a fat lip.
AUSA: When did you take it?
Ventura: In the Uber, with one of my phones

AUSA: What did you write here?
Ventura: I said, please stay away from me
AUSA: And what does he say?
Ventura: He says, I'm getting arrested.
AUSA: Was he?
Ventura: I don't think so.
AUSA: What did you write back?
Ventura: Plugging my phone in and going to bed

AUSA: Who was at your home when you got there?
Ventura: Kerry Morgan. She was upset when she saw me. She called the police.
AUSA: Did you speak with them?
Ventura: Yes. But I didn't say who I was talking about and they left.
AUSA: Why?
Ventura: I wasn't ready.

AUSA: Did Sean try to come to your apartment?
Ventura: Yes. He was banging. That was pretty normal from him. But this' a pretty private building.
AUSA: Did you hear from Ms. Khorran that day?
Ventura: Yes. And I went to see D-Roc and his wife, to try to feel safe

AUSA: In this photo, what are you wearing?
Ventura: A gown and sunglasses. I had a black eye.
AUSA: What if any other bruising was visible?
Ventura: I had several bruises on my leg. But I changed clothes.
AUSA: What's this?
Ventura: Me and Sean at the afterparty

AUSA: I'm going to show you escorts ... do you know the name of this person?
Ventura: No.
AUSA: In what cities did you use him?
Ventura: New York
AUSA: Who's this?
Ventura: Islander. He was on Latin Men. We used him in LA and maybe Vegas.
AUSA: Who's this, 2A-616?

Ventura: We called him Tommy.
AUSA: Who is this?
Ventura: I know him as Greg, an escort in Miami.
AUSA: Who's this?
Ventura: Jonathan. We saw him in Miami.
AUSA: Who's this? [Red baseball cap, backwards
Ventura: I don't know. He looks familiar from the freak offs

AUSA: What did you write here?
Ventura: This is all we do, I'm just getting back on track. I'm sure you can call Kim or something.
AUSA: What did you mean by "this is all we do"?
Ventura: Freak offs.

AUSA: Did you try to avoid anything in the freak offs?
Ventura: I tried to avoid kissing, it seems too intimate. But Sean told me to do it, to kiss the escorts.
AUSA: What did Sean ask you to do on your 29th birthday?
Ventura: A freak off.

Ventura: He had me pulled out of the Blind Dragon for the freak off... Some security.
AUSA: What about blackmail material?
Ventura: He wanted me to fear-
Defense: Objection!
Judge: Overruled.
AUSA: When would Sean mention the freak off videos?
A: To hurt me

Ventura: One time I was dating someone else and he threatened to release the freak off videos. I'd have to answer to my mother... It's horrible and disgusting. No one should do that to anyone.
AUSA: What did Sean say the impact would be?
Ventura: Shame

AUSA: Let me show you a chat. Who's on it?
Ventura: Me and Sean. July 22, 2013.
AUSA: Read your message
Ventura: I wrote, Please delete the videos off your phone, too many people have access to your devices. He said, No iCloud, all good, ambien kicking in

AUSA: Sidebar?
Judge: Yes.
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11:10 am - Judge has taken a break to "change some things in the court room." During the break, Combs sit at defense table, his lawyer Xavier Donaldson leaning down to speak with him

AUSA Johnson: There's still some issues with the privacy screens, so we'll put that off and do something else now
Judge: OK.... Welcome back Ms. Ventura. Bring in the jury
[Jury enters]
AUSA Johnson: I offer more exhibits.

AUSA Johnson: What did you say here?
Ventura: I'd been told there was a sexually explicit video out there about me. I reached out to Sean.
AUSA: Then what?
Ventura: We were driving back to NYC from Atlantic City, to talk to this DJ ["Whoo Kid"?]

AUSA: Did that happen?
Ventura: At a restaurant
AUSA: What was security's role?
Ventura: To intimidate. They were lining the room.
AUSA: Who was there?
Ventura: Uncle Paulie, James Cruz

AUSA: How would you recover from a freak off?
Ventura: I'd take opiates. I wanted to feel numb. We'd get massages, I.V. fluids. The chef would cook us something.
AUSA: How often did you take opiates after freak offs?
Ventura: Often. I got Urinary Tract Infections

AUSA: Were the U.T.I.s painful?
Ventura: Very. Anti-bacterials didn't work anymore.
AUSA: How did it feel, during freak offs?
Ventura: Burning. I would not advise it.
AUSA: Let's read this out loud.
Ventura: "I have all these sores on my tongue. I have another UTI

AUSA: What sores?
Ventura: Friction in my mouth.
AUSA: From what?
Ventura: Oral sex.
AUSA: You said, another UTI, then sad face emoji
Ventura: I was open with him about them.
AUSA: "So you feel sick?"
Ventura: "Why are you sorry?" I took the blame for things

AUSA: Which escort would go to sex clubs with you and Sean?
Ventura: Jules.
AUSA: The escort from the Inter Continental in LA?
Ventura: Yes.
AUSA: Did you want to have sex with Jules, ever?
Ventura: No. (laughs). But I knew him
AUSA: Why did you do it?
A: Sean

AUSA: Who was present when Sean put his hands on you at freak outs?
Ventura: Sometimes the escort was there too.
AUSA: In the same room?
Ventura: Yes. Jules.
AUSA: & in the suite?
Ventura: Yes.
AUSA: Were they aware?
Defense: Objection!
Judge: Overruled.
A: Yes

Ventura: The escorts would ask me if I was OK, afterward.
AUSA: In what cities did he put his hands on you?
Ventura: NY, LA, Miami...
AUSA: How frequently?
Ventura: Too frequently.
AUSA: What's The Abbey?
Ventura: A gay club in LA. I went there with my friend

AUSA: Where were you going?
Ventura: To a music festival in Canada run by Drake. Sean came to my home & tried to attack me. I was thrown into the bed frame.
AUSA: What's this?
Ventura: A photo of my eye afterward
AUSA: Who took you to the doctor?
Ventura: D-Roc

AUSA: Did you send this photo to Sean?
Ventura: Yes. And I wrote, So you can remember. I wanted him to be sorry about it, at least.
AUSA: In this photo where were you?
Ventura: In the green room in Toronto. I put my hair over my eye. Then we went to the Hamptons

Ventura: Sean wanted to have a freak off in the Hamptons. We got a hotel and an escort
AUSA: Which one?
Ventura: Dave. I took GHB. I went into a "G hole" and blacked out. I woke up nude in the shower. Dave and Sean were freaking out. I bugged out. It wasn't pretty

AUSA: Then what?
Ventura: I spoke to a friend of Sean's... and then we had a freak off.
AUSA: What's this?
Ventura: My eye brow, healed up a little bit, a week later. I have a permanent scar on my eyebrow.
AUSA: What's this?
Ventura: Me at the Cannes Festival

AUSA: What happened at Cannes?
Ventura: Sean accused me of taking drugs from his boat. He threw me off - but my passport was still on the boat.
AUSA: And you were on the red carpet that same night?
Ventura: Yes.
AUSA: Did you attend the movie?
Ventura: Yes.

AUSA: How did you get back to New York?
Ventura: On a commercial flight. I traded my seat to get away. But he traded to get next to me.
AUSA: What did he show you?
Ventura: Freak off videos. He played them for me on one of his laptops. He said he'd release them

AUSA: How did you feel?
Ventura: Trapped.
AUSA: When you landed in New York, what did you do?
Ventura: We went to a dinner. Then he wanted to have a freak off. So we had a freak off.
AUSA: Why did you do it?
Ventura: To make him not threaten me

AUSA: Let's read these from June 13, 2013 - had Sean been violent with you before this?
Ventura: Yes.
AUSA: Had you told him before you didn't want to do freak offs?
Ventura: Yes.
AUSA: You said you needed GHB?
Ventura: Yes. And that 2 escorts not available

Ventura: I wrote, only Paul available, or Jake the white guy. But he can't do until 11. The other guy can do earlier. It's just one more person knowing our secret.
AUSA: What did you mean?
Ventura: The freak offs.
AUSA: What is SLS?
Ventura: A hotel in Hollywood.

AUSA: When would you take Valium before a freak off?
Ventura: When I had anxiety. Sean's driver was bringing me the Valium. It was Raheem, I think.

Judge: Jurors, you can take lunch now.
[Jurors leave]
Judge: Ms. Slavik, are there still disagreements on the exhibits?
AUSA Slavik: Yes. The defense wants the exhibit to be longer and about masturbation.
Defense: They wanted to cut it off at "looking at my iPad

Defense: We just heard this morning about videos on his devices, so this is relevant.
AUSA Slavik: We can agree to more, something less than the ten pages...
And now:
Hecker Fink for "the witness known as Mia" - he says: there is a jury instruction about victims

Hecker Fink lawyer: Mia would have taken this to her grave. I don't know how to support her if we can't discuss her pain, what she went through. We will not put words in her mouth. Her nerves are through the roof

Judge: We are trying to prevent witnesses being counseled on how to testify, what to say or not say. Anything else, OK - would that be acceptable?
Hecker Fink lawyer: I'm afraid she'll have a moment, lose it.. then ask me, Did I forget something? I worry

Now counsel to "Jane Doe" says, I am worried that Jane Doe will not know what she can ask me.
Judge: As long as you don't coach testimony.
WIgdor (counsel to Cassie Ventura) I have nothing to add
Judge: Ms. Shapiro, we've spoken with each attorney

AUSA: We need more time to print the binders.
Judge: We'll break
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1:53 pm - they are belatedly back
All rise!
Judge: As to exhibit 619, the objection to the defendant's proposal is overruled. Let's have Ms. Ventura back, then we'll bring in our jury.

Jury entering
AUSA Johnson: I have a binder for the court... The gallery will not be able to see these exhibits. Ms. Ventura, I will show you some exhibits. 2A-404, who is it?
Ventura: She worked for Sean.

AUSA Johnson: We will call her Mia... When you gave your devices to the government, were they working?
Ventura: No, they were broken.
AUSA: Put up 602-A, for Ms. Ventura and the jury only. What's on your skin?
Ventura: Oil

AUSA: When did Sean first hurt you physically?
Ventura: It started in the first year.
AUSA: What staffer were present when Sean was physical with you?
Defense: Objection - physical is vague.
AUSA: Punching, hitting...

AUSA Johnson: When did Sean first use violence on you?
Ventura: In New York City. We were in a car, with his security, and he knocked me around.
AUSA: What did he do?
Ventura: He hit me in the side of the head. I fell to the floor of his Escalade.

AUSA: In January 2009 did you attend an event in LA with Sean?
Ventura: Yes
AUSA: What happened as you left?
Ventura: I'd been speaking to a producer about music. Sean called me a slut. I hit him in the face. I had been drinking
AUSA: Did you see any injuries?
No

Ventura: I was on the floor of the car &he stomped on my face
AUSA: How long did this last?
Ventura: Ten minutes. Then I tried to get away but Sean's security brought me back.
AUSA: Who?
Ventura: Roger Bonds.
AUSA: What did they tell me?
Ventura: To go to a hotel

Ventura: They snuck me into the hotel covered up so no one could see my face.
AUSA: How long were you at the London Hotel?
Ventura: A week, a little more. An assistant brought me ice cream.
AUSA: What was the assistant's name?
Ventura: Genevieve

AUSA: Did you feel you could leave the London Hotel?
Ventura: No. I understood his capability, his access to guns, the threats he made.
AUSA: When you were taken to the hotel after the assault?
Ventura: No.

AUSA: Did you know that this assault incident was reported?
Ventura: I know there was a blind item on the Internet without our names
AUSA: Who raised the blind item to you?
Ventura: My mother
Defense: Objection
AUSA: Not for the truth
Judge: Overruled

Ventura: This was before Facetime was very popular, so I could hide myself. She asked if it was me.
AUSA: What did you say?
Ventura: No. I did not want my mother to know something of that magnitude, and be in danger.

AUSA: When you went to a party with your girlfriends, what happened?
Ventura: I saw executives from BET - then I heard that Sean was there.
AUSA: What did you do?
Ventura: I left. I ran out as fast as I could.
AUSA: Why?
Ventura: I thought he was angry

AUSA: Did he come to the hotel where you were staying?
Ventura: Yes, he beat me up & called me names. My face was bruised.
AUSA: This photo, who is it?
Ventura: Scott Mescudi, known as Kid Cudi. We dated in 2011.
AUSA: Did Sean find out?
Ventura: Yes, in my phone

Ventura: Sean went through my phone during a freak out. He found an email.
AUSA: About what?
Ventura: Taking my toiletry bag to Scott's the next day. Sean put a wine opener in his hand and threatened me. I called Scott on a burner phone.
AUSA: Where did you go?

Ventura: To Scott's house. Then I talked with Capricorn Clark, one of Sean's assistants.
AUSA: Then what?
Ventura: I went to the house Sean was staying at. He told me he would release videos and hurt Scott and I.
AUSA: What videos?
Ventura: Freak off videos. Of me

Ventura: Sean kicked me in the back, I got a bruise.
AUSA: Where'd you go?
Ventura: To my hotel, with the burner phone. The room was torn up. Someone peed all over the floor, pooped in the toilet and didn't flush it. It was gross. This was just before Christmas

Ventura: I sent an email to my mom and Capricorn, from my flight to Boston and Connecticut.
AUSA: What did you write?
Ventura: That Sean said he would release the tape of me on Christmas and he'd had Scott and I hurt, he said he would be out of the country then

AUSA: What are these photographs?
Ventura: My mother took there in Connecticut, of the bruises on my back.
AUSA: Were you entirely honest with your mother about the abuse?
Ventura: No, I said this was the first time.
AUSA: Did you tell her about the freak offs?
No

Ventura: Is it possible to take a break?
Judge: Yes. Break.
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3:09 pm - they're back.
Judge: Ms. Johnson, any estimate?
AUSA Johnson: An hour more. The goal is to finish the direct and allow the start of cross examination today.
Judge: Bring the witness and then the jury back in.

Jury entering.
AUSA Johnson: Did anyone come to see you in Connecticut?
Ventura: Scott did, for a few days. I broke it off with him. It was too dangerous
Defense: Objection!
Judge: Overruled.
Ventura: Sean said he would hurt both of us.

AUSA: Where did you go after Connecticut?
Ventura: I went to see Sean, he was in Arizona, his son, college. I told my mother I was going to LA for work.
AUSA: Did Sean talk about Scott's car?
Ventura: Sean said he wanted Scott's friends to see Scott's car blown up

AUSA: What happened next?
Ventura: We met, Sean, Scott and me. Scott said, What about my vehicle? And Sean said, What vehicle? And that was the end of the meeting.
AUSA: Put up the photo. What is this?
Ventura: Me and Sean in Kingston, Jamaica for SoundClash

AUSA: Were you bruised?
Ventura: Yes.
AUSA: And this photo - what is it?
Ventura: Me in Sean's bathroom, Sept 18, 2015.
AUSA: What were you doing there?
Ventura: Recuperating from being beaten up by Sean in Las Vegas.

Ventura: We were having an after-party in our suite. I talked to a producer and Sean tapped me on the shoulder, called me into our room and beat me. Kicked me as I tried to hide behind the toilet.
AUSA: What stopped it?
Ventura: D-Roc and James Cruz came in.

Ventura: It made D-Roc sad.
AUSA: What are these communications?
Ventura: From D-Roc to me, he says, Where you at? It's time to ice your face.
AUSA: Why?
Ventura: I had just been beaten up by Sean

AUSA: Were these all the times he beat you?
Ventura: No, there were more.
AUSA: With who else did you see Sean be violent?
Ventura: I saw him drag an assistant out of bed. I saw him punch Eli [or Ely] in his head. One time in Turks & Caicos he dragged a person

Ventura: I believe we had a freak off in Turks & Caicos.
AUSA: What floor did you live on in 875 Comstock?
Ventura: 17th floor.
AUSA: Did a friend stay with you?
Ventura: Yes, Sean came and held her and threw her on the patio furniture out on the balcony.

Ventura: I saw Sean bring her back in from over the balcony then throw her on the patio furniture...
AUSA: And Kerry Morgan?
Ventura: I saw Sean hit her in the head...
AUSA: Did you get drugs on your own?
Ventura: Occasional drug dealers. Opiates. Xanax. Valium

Ventura: Sean would put the pills in a Vitamin C bottle on the sink in the New York apartment. He'd say, you can take him. He had doctors who would write the scripts in the name of an assistant, or in my name.

AUSA: Your brother's birthday party in Connecticut in 2013, what happened?
Ventura: My mother told me someone was taking pictures of me. I went and punched her in the head.
AUSA: You testified your relationship with Sean ended in 2018 - how was your health?

Ventura: I was sleep walking, I had PTSD
Defense: Objection!
Judge: Overruled.
AUSA: What's this?
Ventura: A photo of my front door in 2018.
AUSA: Publish it to the jury.. Why is there a knife there?
Ventura: Sean was coming around a lot. So I had it

AUSA: August 2018, what happened?
Ventura: We were having a closure conversation at a restaurant in Malibu, he was trying to convince me to go to Burning Man.
AUSA: Were you seeing anymore?
Ventura: My now husband

AUSA: What happened next?
Ventura: Sean came to my house and raped me on my living room floor. His eyes were black. It was like taking something from you.
AUSA: You cried - what did Sean do?
Ventura: He continued and finished inside of me. Then he got up and left

AUSA: Did you ever have sex with him again?
Ventura: Yes, voluntarily. We had a good night, I went back to his house.
AUSA: Can you explain why you did that after he raped you?
Ventura: We had been together 10 years...

AUSA: Who did you stay in touch with?
Ventura: Most people, though I pulled away...
AUSA: What did you message Sean about after that?
Ventura: Just checking in.
AUSA: What did he send you?
Ventura: That he had iPads full of images, get him his money.

AUSA: Money back for what?
Ventura: For having paid my now husband to be my trainer.
AUSA: What did you write back?
Ventura: Do you want me to tell the truth? It's much deeper than iPads - there was abuse, more than freak offs.

Ventura: There was a time I couldn't take the pain, tried to walk out in traffic. My husband wouldn't let me. I had trauma therapy.
AUSA: Did you write?
Ventura: A book with chapters. My mom helped.
AUSA: What did you want with the book?
Ventura: That Sean read it

AUSA: What pain did Sean put you through?
Ventura: Shame. To carry the things that were shameful for him. I took on a lot of responsibility for that that I never should have. He brought the concept to me when I was 22. It was expected of me. I felt terrible

AUSA: How did you get chapters to Sean?
Ventura: Through my attorney. And I reached out to K.K. I asked her if he read it. She said it was not taken seriously.
AUSA: How much did you ask for the book?
Ventura: $30 million.
AUSA: Did you sue?
Ventura: Nov 2023

AUSA: What happened with the lawsuit?
Ventura: It settled for $20 million, in 24 hours.
AUSA: Why are you testifying in this trial?
Ventura: I can't carry this anymore. What's wrong is wrong. I tried people like they were disposable. Escorts, anybody

AUSA: How many freak offs did you have with Sean?
Ventura: Impossible to know. Hundreds.
AUSA: After you broke up with Sean, did you ever do a freak off?
Ventura: No.
AUSA: No further questions.

AUSA: Sidebar before cross?
Judge: Yes
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With jury out:
Judge: Why don't we put off the cross until tomorrow?
AUSA Johnson: We'd like to start now, to be sure to finish.
Judge: Ms. Estavao?
Combs' Estavao: She will be finished by the end of the week.
Judge: So no cross today

Judge Subramanian: We'll just make up the time in other ways. Get the jury.
AUSA: The witness can be excused?
Judge: Yes.

Jury entering!
Judge Subramanian: Sorry to bring you out only to send you home. Don't read anything about this case. Have a great evening. All rise!
Jury exits.
Judge: Ms. Comey?
AUSA Comey: Here's what the defense sent us about Rule 412

AUSA Comey: We believe we had agreed that other sexual acts by the witness were not admissible. But we understand they intend to cross examine her about other relationships - with texts about sex, about Ms. Ventura "f*cking someone else." Why is that necessary?

AUSA Comey: I don't want to read these into the record, so I'll hand copies up.
Judge: Defense?
Combs' Agnifilo: These are messages about jealousy, in the vocabulary of "Are you f-ing that person." That's fair game. This is the real world way people express hurt

AUSA Comey: The rule requires that this be sealed.
Judge: Let's proceed without specifics.
Combs' Agnifilo: Saying, "Are you f-ing that person" is just a vulgar way of asking, Are you cheating? Both sides opened on infidelity. This is not 412

Judge: We could do it in the robing room
AUSA: The defendant would have to be present
Judge: So in the courtroom [sealed?]
AUSA: Counsel for Victim 1 would like to be heard
Judge: I see his hand. Mr. Wigdor?
Wigdor: We are entitled to notice

Judge: So, tomorrow morning. Adjourned.
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