Singer Cassie testifies against Puff Daddy, says music mogul r@ped, abused her  

The s3x trafficking and racketeering trial of American music mogul Puff Daddy continued on Wednesday with his ex-girlfriend Cassie testifying against him, saying Combs r@ped, abused her and forced her to take part in freak-off parties against her will.

8-and-a-half-month-pregnant Cassie, who is a key witness in the case, started by revisiting the 2016 hotel CCTV film of Puff Daddy pulling her down a hallway from an elevator.

She said, “I didn’t get hit. I remember it hitting the wall. He was yelling at me and threw it at me,” before claiming Combs told her “she wasn’t going to leave him there.”

Cassie claimed that if she refused to participate in a Freak Off session, “it would be a problem,” and the pair would “end up fighting.” The singer stated that violence was “always a concern if we weren’t agreeing on something.”

“I feared for my career, my family. It is horrible and disgusting; no one should do that to anyone. It could ruin everything I worked for and make me look like a s***. I wasn’t supposed to be on those videos. I didn’t want to be in them.” She added.

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Cassie’s testimony comes days after federal prosecutors in the high-profile case claimed that Puff Daddy ran a criminal enterprise.

The prosecutors also claimed during opening statements of the case on Monday morning, May 12, that “there was another dark side” to the hip-hop impresario.

Reporters in the courtroom said that Emily A. Johnson, a member of the prosecution team, used her statements to accuse Combs of threatening, drugging, and brutally coercing women into s3x during the government’s opening statement.

According to her, Combs had an inner circle of friends who helped him hide the alleged crimes, and he used corporate funds to satisfy his s3xual fantasies.

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