Disgraced hip-pop mogul , “Diddy” Combs, former partner Cassie Ventura, is set to testify under her real name in his upcoming federal trial. In a motion filed on Friday, April 4, prosecutors state that “Victim-1” would not be testifying anonymously during Combs’ upcoming trial, where he faces charges of racketeering conspiracy, sx trafficking, and transportation to engage in prost!tution. Ventura, 38, is Victim-1 and that she will be testifying in the trial. “She is prepared to testify under her own name,” the filing states. “Victim-2, Victim-3, and Victim-4 have asked that their identities not be revealed to the press or the public.” Prosecutors requested that the anonymous victims “be referred to at trial using 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 presumably only increase as trial proceeds,” prosecutors state. “Permitting these measures will prevent unnecessary public disclosure of the victims identities, and the harassment from the media and others, undue embarrassment, and other adverse consequences that would almost certainly follow if these women were forced to reveal their true names publicly at trial.” Combs, 55, was first charged with three counts of sex trafficking, racketeering, and transportation to engage in prostitution in September 2024. The latest indictment against Combs, made public by federal prosecutors in New York City on April 4 and then obtained by PEOPLE, included one more count each of sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prost!tution. The new charges are related to a second victim, the indictment states. The indictment alleges that Combs and his associates would lure people under the pretense of a romantic relationship before he would use “force, threats of force and coercion” in order to get them to participate in freak offs which prosecutors describe as “elaborate and produced sex performances” that the disgraced music mogul allegedly coerced others to participate in. The new count of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion alleges that Combs recruited, enticed, harbored, transported, provided, obtained, advertised, maintained, patronized and solicited [Victim-2], and attempted, aided and abetted, and willfully caused [Victim-2], to engage in commercial sex acts, knowing and in reckless disregard of the fact that Victim-2 was engaging in commercial sex acts as a result of force, fraud, and coercion. Ventura first made headlines in May 2024 when CNN released a surveillance video that allegedly showed Combs chasing and beating her in a hotel in March 2016. The footage, captured at the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles, allegedly showed Ventura walking toward a bank of elevators as Combs chased after her, then grabbing her by the neck and tossing her to the floor before turning to violently kick her and grab her purse and suitcase. Also in the footage, Combs allegedly can be seen grabbing, shoving and kicking Ventura during an altercation and the footage supported allegations she made in a now-settled lawsuit filed in November 2023. The post Diddy’s ex Cassie Vantura to testify using her name in sx trafficking trial appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog.
