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Casandra “Cassie” Ventura is prepared to testify against its ex-partner Sean “Diddy” Combs – And she will use her name to do it.
In a proposal submitted on Friday, April 4, prosecutors say that “Victim-1” would not testify to anonymously during Comb’s upcoming trial, where he is facing allegations of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transport to get involved in prostitution. People confirmed exclusively with sources such as Ventura, 38, is victim-1 and that she will testify in the trial.
“She is prepared to testify under her own name,” the archiving says. “Victim-2, Victim-3 and Victim-4 have asked that their identity is not revealed to the press or the public.”
Prosecutors requested that the anonymous victims “be referred to at the trial with only pseudonyms” and for the court to require the defense not to share identifying details about them.
“This case has already received an exceptional amount of media coverage, which will probably only increase as the trial continues,” prosecutors say. “Allowing these measures will prevent unnecessary disclosure of the victims’ identities, and harassment from the media and others, unnecessary embarrassment and other negative consequences that would almost certainly follow if these women were forced to reveal their real names publicly at the trial.”
Police stone Previously, “Victim-1” identified as Ventura in January.
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Combs, 55, were first accused of three bills of sex trading, racketeering and transport to engage in prostitution In September 2024. The most recent prosecution against Combs, published by Federal Prosecutors in New York City on April 4 and then obtained by humans, included another bill each of sex trafficking and transport to participate in prostitution.
The new charges are related to a second victim, the prosecution says.
Representatives of Ventura and Combs have not responded to people’s request for comment.
The indictment claims that Combs and his co -workers would attract people under claim a romantic relationship before he would use “power, threat of power and compulsion“To get them to participate in” freak offs ” – as prosecutor describes as”prepared and produced sex performances“That the shameful music mogul is alleged to forced others to participate in.
The new bill of sex trafficking with violence, fraud or coercion claims that chambers “recruited, attracted, ended up, transported, predicted, obtained, advertised, maintained, condescending and urged (victim-2), and attempted, Aided and entered and intentionally caused victims (victim-2), to engage in commercial sexual acts, to know, and in the case of a commercial Notification to a victim to engage in commercial sexual acts, to know and in the relapse of the factor that is a bit that was a victim to get the result of one will commercially make it commercial.
Ventura first made headlines in May 2024 when CNN released a Surveillance video It was said that Combs chased and beat her at a hotel in March 2016.
The pictures, captured at the Intercontinental Hotel in Los Angeles, showed that Ventura went against an elevator bank when Combs chased after her, then took her in the neck and threw her on the floor before turning to violently kick her and grab her handbag and suitcase.
Even in the pictures, Combs is said to be seen as grip, shoot and kick Ventura during a change and pictures supported accusations she made in a now resident trial submitted in November 2023.
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In another archiving on March 13, Comb’s legal team claimed that CNN changed images By purchasing the only known copy of the surveillance films, upload it to a free editing software and edit the original video.
“All CNN video films changed significantly in significant respects,” reads the letter to Judge Arun Subramanian. “This includes covering the time stamp and then changing the video sequence. It also includes speeding up the video so that it is incorrectly shown as the measures in the video happens faster than they are. As a result, the CNN videos show not fairly and precisely the events that are questioned.”
“It is not surprising that Combs would make an unclear argument to exclude the disturbing video from being shown to the jury in the upcoming trial,” Ventura’s lawyer Douglas Wigdor said in a statement to people at that time. “I am convinced that the video fairly and exactly represents what happened, will be adopted in evidence and that Combs will be held responsible for his ruin.”
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Combs is currently behind bars at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center when he is waiting for his trial on the federal allegations, which is scheduled for May 5. He has not relied on.
He has also been appointed defendant in more than 60 trial accuses him of sexual behavior. Combs has denied the charges.
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