Cassie Ventura mentioned she fears “swift retribution” fromDiddy/”> Sean “Diddy” Combs in a blistering three-page sufferer affect assertion submitted to a federal decide forward of the music mogul’s sentencing, warning that if he walks free, she fears swift retaliation.

The letter, filed Monday (September 29) in U.S. District Court, accompanied a request from prosecutors urging Judge Arun Subramanian handy Combs a minimal sentence of Diddy-prosecutors-push-for-11-year-sentence/” goal=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>11 years and three months.

Combs is ready to be sentenced Friday (October 3), after being convicted of two counts of transporting people throughout state traces for prostitution.

“I am so scared that if he walks free, his first actions will be swift retribution towards me and others who spoke up about his abuse at trial,” Ventura wrote within the letter, per Rolling Stone.

Ventura’s assertion recounts what she described as greater than a decade of abuse, starting when she was 19.

She testified that Combs used bodily violence, threats, medication and manipulation to regulate her each personally and professionally.

“For four days in May, while nine months pregnant with my son, I testified in front of a packed courtroom about the most traumatic and horrifying chapter in my life,” she wrote. “He groomed me into performing repeated sex acts with hired male sex workers during multi-day’ freak-offs,’ which occurred nearly weekly.”

She alleged she was pressured to put on particular outfits and eat medication and alcohol throughout these encounters “so he could control me like a puppet,” she wrote.

Ventura additionally described repeated bodily assaults. “Over the nearly eleven years we were together, Sean Combs would hit me, punch me, stomp on my face, pull my hair, and throw my body to the ground and against the wall,” she acknowledged.

Combs’ authorized points escalated in November 2023 when Ventura filed a civil lawsuit accusing him of abuse.

The case drew nationwide consideration after CNN launched surveillance footage displaying Combs assaulting Ventura in a Los Angeles lodge hallway in 2016.

During the eight-week trial, jurors convicted Combs of transporting male escorts for sex however cleared him of racketeering and sex trafficking prices involving Ventura and one other girl who testified underneath a pseudonym.

Ventura expressed disappointment with the jury’s choice. “While the jury did not seem to understand or believe that I engaged in freak-offs because of the force and coercion the defendant used against me, I know that is the truth,” she wrote.

She urged the court docket to impose a sentence that displays the hurt she endured. “His sentence should reflect the reality of the evidence and my lived experience as a victim.”

She additionally pushed again in opposition to the protection’s portrayal of their relationship. “While the defense attorneys at trial suggested that my time with Combs was akin to a ‘great modern love story,’ nothing could be further from the truth,” she wrote.

Ventura rejected the concept that Combs has modified or is now dedicated to serving to others. “This disgusts me,” she wrote. “He is not being truthful. I know that who he was to me—the manipulator, the aggressor, the abuser, the trafficker—is who he is as a human.”

She revealed that the trauma led to substance abuse and suicidal ideas, crediting her household for intervening and serving to her search remedy.

Ventura’s letter arrives as prosecutors press for a sentence of a minimum of 135 months (Diddy-prosecutors-push-for-11-year-sentence/” goal=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>11 years and three months) together with a $500,000 effective, arguing Combs’ crimes demand accountability.

Defense attorneys, against this, have urged the court docket to impose simply 14 months, citing his time already served, his reported sobriety, and claims of mentoring fellow inmates.

The choice now rests with Judge Arun Subramanian, who will weigh Ventura’s harrowing testimony in opposition to the sharply divided sentencing suggestions when Combs seems in Manhattan federal court docket on Friday (October 3).

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