Pop singer Dawn Richard told a jury on Friday (16) at Sean’s “Diddy” trial for sexual trafficking, which often See the hip hop tycoon assault his then girlfriend Casandra Ventura, who had already witnessed that Combs abused her physically and emotionally during her 11 years of relationship .
The singer reported an incident at the Combs House in Los Angeles in 2009, when the Artist hit Ventura and dragged her stairs up his hair . Then she said she heard glasses breaking and screams.
“He went down the stairs screaming, aggressive, asking where his food was and began to hit her in the head and beat her on the floor in front of us,” Richard told the Manhattan Federal Court on the fifth day of testimonials.
Richard said that the next day Combs called her and other people who witnessed the assault on the studio, gave everyone flowers and said their careers would be harmed if reported what happened.
Combs, 55, declared himself innocent of five criminal accusations of conspiracy for extortion, sexual trafficking and transportation with the intention of promoting prostitution. He has been in prison since September at a Brooklyn penitentiary when he is not in court. If convicted of all the charges, he could take 15 years in prison to life imprisonment.
Ventura, 38, a R&B singer known as Cassie, told the jury earlier that Combs coerce with her and blackmailed to participate in drug parties watered at drugs he called “freak offs”, the central element of the accusation.
She claimed to have suffered years of physical and emotional abuse during their tumultuous relationship.
Dawn Richard is expected to resume his testimony on Monday (19). Judgment can last up to two months.
Combs, previously known as Puff Daddy and P. Diddy, founded Bad Boy Records label and is credited with helping artists such as Mary J. Blige, Faith Evans, Notorious Big and Usher into stars in the 1990s and 2000s.
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This content was originally published in pop singer witness that Sean “Diddy” Combs abused girlfriend on CNN Brazil.
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