Forward of his sentencing, Cassie revealed in an emotional letter that she is “so scared” Sean “Diddy” Combs would possibly retaliate in opposition to her if he “walks free.”
In a three-page sufferer impression assertion submitted to a New York courtroom on Monday, September 29, and obtained by Rolling Stone, the singer — who dated Diddy on and off from 2007 to 2018 — urged Choose Arun Subramanian to contemplate a sentence that displays “the truth of the proof and my lived expertise as a sufferer” after she testified at his trial in Might.
Diddy is because of be sentenced on Friday, October 3, on two counts of transportation to have interaction in prostitution. He was discovered responsible of the fees in July, nonetheless, a jury acquitted him of three additional fees: two counts of intercourse trafficking and one rely of racketeering conspiracy.
In Might, a closely pregnant Cassie, 39, alleged in her testimony that Diddy, 55, pressured her to take part in “freak offs,” sexual encounters involving escorts, and claimed she endured sexual and bodily abuse throughout her relationship with the disgraced music mogul.
“For 4 days in Might, whereas 9 months pregnant with my son, I testified in entrance of a packed courtroom about probably the most traumatic and horrifying chapter in my life,” Cassie wrote in her letter, per Rolling Stone. “I testified that from age nineteen, Sean Combs used violence, threats, substances, and management over my profession to lure me in over a decade of abuse. He groomed me into performing repeated intercourse acts with employed male intercourse employees throughout multi-day ‘freak offs,’ which occurred practically weekly.”
“I used to be pressured into lingerie and heels, advised precisely learn how to look, and plied with medication and alcohol so he might management me like a puppet. These occasions have been degrading and disgusting, leaving me with infections, diseases, and days of bodily and emotional exhaustion earlier than he demanded all of it once more. Intercourse acts grew to become my full-time job, used as the one option to keep in his good graces,” she continued.
Cassie alleged that Diddy “managed each a part of my livelihood and threatened to destroy my repute by leaking intercourse tapes, a risk he repeated usually” if she didn’t take part in freak offs.
“Whereas the protection attorneys at trial advised that my time with Combs was akin to a ‘nice fashionable love story,’ nothing might be farther from the reality,” Cassie wrote. “Nothing about this story is nice, fashionable, or loving — this was a horrific decade of my life stained by abuse, violence, pressured intercourse, and degradation.”
Cassie got here nose to nose with ex-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs throughout her first day of testimony in his intercourse trafficking trial, and Us Weekly has a glance contained in the courthouse. The singer, 38, was within the direct eyeline of Diddy, 55, when she took the stand on Tuesday, Might 13, in keeping with courtroom sketches obtained by […]
Writing concerning the impression of Diddy’s alleged abuse, Cassie stated she nonetheless suffers from “nightmares and flashbacks” that require psychological care.
Cassie stated that she lives “as non-public and quiet as I presumably can” as a result of “I’m so scared that if he walks free, his first actions will likely be swift retribution in direction of me and others who spoke up about his abuse at trial.”
Describing Diddy as “the manipulator, the aggressor, the abuser, the trafficker” in her alleged ordeal, Cassie urged Choose Subramanian at hand him a sentence that displays “justice and accountability,” noting that whereas the trial “jury didn’t appear to know or consider that I engaged in freak offs due to the drive and coercion the defendant used in opposition to me, I do know that’s the fact” and that she hopes the decide “considers the truths at hand that the jury didn’t see.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Diddy’s representatives for remark.
Sean “Diddy” Combs is on trial for very severe fees, however there have nonetheless been a number of moments of levity within the courtroom — significantly with regard to jury choice. As proceedings kicked off in New York Metropolis the week of Monday, Might 5, Us Weekly was contained in the courtroom as Choose Arun Subramanian questioned […]
Final week, Diddy’s legal professionals filed a movement asking Subramanian to contemplate a 14-month jail sentence adopted by supervised launch with obligatory drug remedy, particular person remedy and group remedy. They argued “the proposed sentence is the one simply and truthful sentence for Mr. Combs,” as a result of tips for “Mr. Combs’s crimes of conviction” are normally six to 12 months.
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