Cassie Ventura is anticipated to testify beneath her personal identify at her ex-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs’ federal trial in Could.
Appearing U.S. Legal professional Matthew Podolsky filed a movement on Friday revealing that Sufferer-1 of Combs’ indictment “is ready to testify beneath her personal identify.” Rolling Stone reported in January that Ventura is Sufferer-1, and was “the central goal of the purported ‘legal enterprise’ that allegedly used violence, threats, and manipulation to satisfy Combs’ ‘sexual gratification.’”
Along with Ventura’s testimony, the federal government expects Sufferer-2, Sufferer-3 and Sufferer-4 to testify anonymously. Prosecutors requested that the court docket seal any reveals that reveal the identification of the opposite victims, noting that the case has already acquired an “distinctive quantity of media protection” and that continuing anonymously will forestall “the harassment from the media” and “undue embarrassment.”
Representatives for Combs and Ventura didn’t instantly reply to Selection‘s request for remark.
Ventura initially filed a surprising lawsuit in opposition to ex-boyfriend Combs in Nov. 2023, accusing him of rape and abuse over a decade. The go well with was settled the following day, however set off a wave of lawsuits which have since amounted to over 60 instances. Although Ventura has not spoken publicly concerning the go well with, a video launched by CNN confirmed Combs allegedly assaulting Ventura in a lodge hallway in 2016.
Combs was arrested in Sept. 2024 and charged with three counts of intercourse trafficking, racketeering and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. Prosecutors filed two superseding indictments, together with one final week that added two costs of intercourse trafficking and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. He’s at the moment incarcerated in New York Metropolis in anticipation of his trial, which begins Could 5.
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