Cassie Ventura shocks Diddy courtroom by naming insiders who helped arrange freak-offs: Live updates

During her testimony on Tuesday, Cassie mentioned several of Diddy's employees and allies, including his 'trusted assistants' Kristina Khoram and Neil Dominic.

Khoram was previously named by others as a 'fixer', who allegedly helped Diddy set up the infamous freak offs.

'Everything from scheduling to what kind of mood he was in,' Cassie said when asked what she discussed with Khoram. 'I talked to [Khoram] about a lot. She knew a lot of my personal things.'

Cassie also claimed Diddy's security guard, R. Rock 'used to take away her things as punishment' on the mogul's direction. She also said the guard would come find her when she tried to hide from Diddy.

'[I'd] get my car taken away, get kicked out of an apartment, I’d have jewerly taken away... It was very random depending on how [Diddy] felt.'

She also mentioned other security guards for Diddy, including Roger Bonds, Uncle Paulie, Faheem and Malik.

Kristina Khorram - once referred to as 'the Ghislaine Maxwell to [Diddy's] Jeffrey Epstein' - has not been accused of any wrongdoing or charged with any crimes. However, several 'high ranking supervisors' are mentioned, but not named, in a criminal indictment against the rapper.

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Judge Arun Subramanian provisionally denied a joint application by news outlets for the videos to be played in open court and be described by the media.

He agreed with a prosecution argument that playing them would 'revictimize' Ventura and one of the unnamed female victims who will testify later iun the trial.

The judge also denied an alternative proposal to allow three pool reporters to stay in court when they were played, and share reports with other outlets.

“I’m not seeing any case that would suggest in any way, shape, or form that images or videos of these types of acts that are alleged to be sexual abuse would be required to be shown in open court when they pose the obvious risk of revictimization,' he said.

Robert Balin, the lawyer who argued on behalf of the press, earlier said the First Amendment was 'at its zenith' in the case.

He argued it was important 'people, though the press, be able to see justice is being done'.

Balin said the best evidence of whether the sex acts in the 'freak offs' were coerced - which underpinned the prosecution's case - were the videos themselves.

The application was only ever to view the videos and describe them, not for the footage to ever become public.

Ventura told the court she left the 'freak off' after it became violent and she didn't want to have bruises at her first big movie premiere two days later.

'It got violent and I chose to leave... I had my premiere, I didn’t want to mess it up, so I left,' she said.

She waiting until Diddy was in the shower, grabbed her belongings, and ran away barefoot as fast as she could - he caught up to her.

'Sean followed me into the hallway by the elevators. He grabbed me up, threw me on the ground, kicked me, tried to drag me back to the room, took my stuff,' she said, describing the attack in the infamous video.

Johnson asked Ventura how many times Diddy threw her to the ground like the jury saw in the video.

'Too many to count. I don’t know,' she said.

Ventura said she never tried to fight back when Diddy hit her.

Federal prosecutors can only bring a case if they can show it took place in multiple states - or in Diddy's case, around the world.

Ventura, having allegedly been forced to participate in dozens of them, can testify to them being held all over the US and aboard.

She said they took place in New York City, Miami, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Las Vegas, Ibiza in Spain, and Turks and Caicos in the Caribbean.

The singer has begun her testimony about an incident in 2016 where Combs was caught on camera assaulting her in a hotel.

She told the court that the attack began as a 'freak off' between her, Combs and another escort.

The incident took place at the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles, just before her first movie premiere.

She described her terror after the freak off turned violent and she made her escape.

'I got hit by Sean and I had a black eye, and at that point all I could think about was getting out of there safely,” she said

The singer testified that Combs began recording the sex sessions early on in their relationship with little discussion.

She told the court that she later deleted the footage because she found it 'disgusting'.

'I never wanted anyone to ever see me like that,' she said.

Combs did not always stay in the room to watch Cassie have sex with male sex workers, she said.

Sometimes, he would go to another room and watch them via FaceTime, the iPhone video call app, she testified.

Cassie testified that she tried to speed up 'freak off' sessions with male sex workers so she could get to the part she liked: alone time with Combs.

She said Combs dictated every aspect of the encounters and that he’d get mad if they ended too soon.

'It was his fantasy,' she said. 'He was controlling the whole situation. He was directing it.'

Cassie said sometimes Combs would make her repeat sex acts with the escorts. On other occasions, she said, multiple escorts were involved.

Ventura was asked by prosecutor Johnson what happened at 'freak offs' after a male prostitute ejaculated on her after they had sex.

'Sean would want it put on his body in the next room,' she replied.

Johnson: Did you do that?

Ventura: I did.

Johnson: Where?

Ventura: Usually on his nipples.

Johnson: Did you want to do that?

Ventura: No.

Combs’ defense is taking a novel approach, arguing that the prosecution’s evidence might show other crimes he committed — but they’re not proof of the sex trafficking and racketeering crimes he’s charged with.

Geragos conceded that Combs’ violent outbursts might have warranted domestic violence charges. She condemned Combs’ actions in the now-infamous security camera recording of him beating then-girlfriend Cassie at a Los Angeles hotel in 2016.

Geragos called the beating 'horrible, dehumanizing violence,' but argued to jurors that “it is not evidence of sex trafficking. It is evidence of domestic violence.'

Prosecutors continued to grill the singer about how the narcotics allegedly used during 'Freak-Offs' were obtained.

She told the court that 'Sean' obtained the drugs and would replenish them when they ran out.

Diddy's defense said in opening statements Monday the alleged victims are ‘capable, strong, adult women.'

Each got something from being in a relationship with Diddy, they argued.

'These adult, capable women will have to take on the same level of responsibility (as Combs),' Geragos said in opening statements.

'When any person makes an adult choice, that is a free choice. A free choice had pros, it has cons. They made free choices every single day for years.'

Prosecutors showed the jury two cellphone videos and three hotel surveillance videos related to the attack by Combs on Cassie at the Los Angeles hotel.

Florez testified that he recorded the hotel’s video of the attack on his cellphone because he wanted to describe what he saw to his wife and feared she wouldn’t believe him.

Cassie and the jury have re-entered the courtroom after a brief recess.

The singer will now take the stand again and continue her testimony.

The singer requested a brief break during her the hearing.

The court was excused for ten minutes and her testimony will resume once it is over.

Lead prosecutor Maurene Comey told US District Judge Arun Subramanian last week that they were having a difficult time contacting 'Victim 3' and her attorney.

Prosecutors had mentioned Victim 3 planned to disclose 'very personal and explosive details' concerning abuse she allegedly suffered under Combs.

Cassie testified that she used drugs at 'all of the Freak Offs' she participated in.

'For me it was dissociative and numbing,' she told the jury.

'I couldn’t imagine myself doing any of that without having some sort of buffer or way to not feel it for what it really was, emotionless sex with a stranger I didn’t want to be having sex with.'

The drugs she took included marijuana, ketamine, GHB and sometimes mushrooms.

'Whatever was the drug of choice,' Cassie said, adding that Diddy provided them.

Cassie said she would use fake names to check into hotels for the Freak Offs, including Jackie Star.

Meanwhile Diddy would allegedly go by Frank Black and Frank White.

Cassie said the encounters took place all over the US and world, including in Miami, Atlanta, Ibiza and Turks and Caicos.

Male escort Daniel Phillip said on Monday that he would be paid anywhere $700 to $6,000 to have sex with Cassie.

He added, however, that sometimes he would not be paid at all.

Phillip said he was happy just to be included in the couple's extravagant lifestyle.

Cassie said on Tuesday that escorts could be paid from $1,500 to $6,000.

She said she was usually the one to give them the cash payment.

'I just felt it was all I was good for,' the pregnant singer said in court as she discussed the grueling sex sessions.

'I felt pretty horrible about myself. I felt disgusted. I was humiliated, I didn’t have those words to put together at the time, how horrible I felt. I couldn’t talk to anybody about it.'

Cassie continued tearing up as she was asked if there were any parts of the Freak Offs she enjoyed.

'The time spent with him,' she said, weeping. 'Just the one on one time I’d get. I did feel very close to him. As sad as it was it was the only time I could get.'

'There was no conversation, it was a turn on for him so it happened,' Cassie said when asked if she wanted to be urinated on.

Cassie said it felt was 'as humiliating if anyone was there to see it.

'It was disgusting, it was too much.'

She said one time she started choking as an escort urinated in her mouth.

'I was squeamish immediately and high and in the moment with this man so that’s what happened,' she shared of the experience.

'There’s not a whole lot of control you have having taken that many drugs and being on the floor with two men peeing on you.'

When asked why she did not say no, she replied: 'I thought it was obvious I didn’t want to do it.'

She said she was urinated on 'often enough' throughout the relationship.

Cassie told the jury that Diddy would be very concerned with how well she prepared before a Freak Off.

She said his staff was in charge of buying the supplies: baby oil, astroglide and condoms.

Cassie said Diddy preferred Johnson's baby oil and insisted everyone in the Freak Off had to be 'glistening.'

The baby oil 'was always heated' by being placed in the sink with hot water and the cap on, she added.

'If he felt like you were too dry he’d let you know,' Cassie recalled.

'He would say you’re too dry, you need to put more oil on, you need to be glistening, you need to be shining.'

Cassie said they could use as many as 10 large-sized bottles of baby oil during the Freak Offs and would apply it as often as every five minutes.

'It was a lot,' she said.

On one occasion, she said, a blow-up pool of baby oil and lubricants was placed in a hotel room and she was told to get inside in her 'outfit' and shoes.

'It was such a mess,' she said. 'It was like, "What are we doing?"'

Prosecutors showed the jury an email exchange between Diddy and Cassie where the two discussed their sex life.

'He wanted me to have a nickname for him... he asked me what I called my grandfather and I said PopPop,' Cassie told the jury.

'I thought it was weird and now I feel like it was disrespectful.'

Cassie said Diddy called her 'CC' which stood for Cassie Combs.

Cassie testified that her first 'Freak Off' occurred in Combs’ Los Angeles home when she was 22, around 2008.

She said she felt a mix of emotions when they were finished — dirty and confused, but also relief that Combs was 'really happy with me' that 'I did something right.'

The Freak Offs then allegedly became weekly 'for a consistent amount of years.'

When asked if she ever told the mogul she did not want to participate in them, Cassie replied: 'I brought it up gently. I didn't want him to just do it with someone else.'

Cassie then testified that she once tried to tell Diddy she did not want to do Freak Offs anymore, but she 'backpeddled' because she did not want him to be angry.

The prosecution's case revolves around four key alleged victims of Diddy's crimes, one of them being Cassie Ventura.

The other three are yet to be named and it's unclear if they will be publicly identified when it is their turn to testify, or there will be gag orders on their names.

Cassie recalled an incident in which Combs left her during a freak off at his Los Angeles home to confront rival record executive Suge Knight at Mel’s Drive-In, a landmark diner nearby

'R-Rock came in and said Suge was down at a diner. Sean drove over there.... I cried, said don't do something stupid,' Cassie said.

'It was like I wasn’t even there. They put on a bunch of black clothes, went in the safe, grabbed guns.

'Next thing I knew they were in the SUV just whipping down there. I saw them get dressed and leave the house.'

Knight, 59, was the CEO of Death Row Records while Sean 'Diddy' Combs, 54, was the CEO of rival company Bad Boy Entertainment.

Their beef began in the mid 90s as East Coast and West Coast rappers became entangled in a heated battle that shook up the hip-hop scene.

Judge Subramanian asked Cassie if the temperature in the room was okay as she went back on the stand following a lunch break.

Prosecutors asked her about Diddy's instructions for her appearance.

Cassie claimed Diddy once told her she 'looked too Mexican with her hair like that.'

The mogul allegedly demanded her nails be painted white, with french tips.

The rapper also allegedly told her to work out to prepare for the Freak Offs.

The singer used the rapper's birth name, Sean, as she spoke about their relationship on Tuesday.

The two did not look at each other throughout her testimony.

Diddy passed notes to his attorneys and whispered to them as she spoke from the stand.

Shown still images from the now-infamous 2016 security camera footage of Combs beating her at a Los Angeles hotel, Cassie said prior to the altercation: 'We were having an encounter called a ‘Freak Off’ and I was leaving there.'

Assistant US Attorney Emily Johnson pressed Cassie to explain what happened to her music career and the nine albums that were never released.

Cassie said she created hundreds of songs, some of which were released on the internet prior to 'proper release and some just didn’t see the light of day.'

She said participating in the Freak Offs began taking much of her time and energy and her career stalled.

The court has gone on lunch break.

Before the break, a heavily pregnant Cassie testified that her relationship with Combs ran the gamut from good times to arguments and physical altercations.

After touching on the violence and 'Freak Offs' that are central to the federal charges, Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily Johnson returned to eliciting biographical and historical information about Cassie, including when she first signed to Bad Boy Records in early 2006.

She said after they become a couple, Combs would get abusive over the smallest perceived slights — if she wasn’t smiling at him the way he wanted, or if he thought she was acting like a brat.

'You make the wrong face and the next thing I knew I was getting hit in the face,' she said.

Cassie told the court the Freak Offs could last for days on end and that she had to stay awake throughout them.

'When I wasn’t working on my music I was recovering from partying that took a big chunk out of my life,' she said.

'The Freak Offs became a job where there was no space to do anything else but to recover and try to feel normal again.

'Staying up for days on end, taking drugs and other substances, drinking. Having sex with a stranger for days.'

Cassie added that she could spend anywhere from 33 to 72 hours engaged in a Freak Off.

The last one, she told then jury, lasted four days.

'I was insanely jealous but also super young, didn’t get it at all,' Cassie said of being nonmongomous with the music mogul.

'I didn’t get that he was him. As he would say, "I’m Puff Daddy and Puff Daddy has many women."

Cassie added of Diddy: 'He likes the company of women. I had to learn that over time.'

She said that as time passed, she came to believe 'more often than not' that they were in a monogamous relationship. 'He expected that of me so I assumed it was the same.'

She said Combs told her: 'I’m not dealing with anyone else. It’s just us.'

When the prosecutor questioned her about 'freak offs,' she said she was barely 22 when Combs first asked her to do them. She said she was 'confused, nervous, but also loved him very much.'

Elaborating on why she felt it was so difficult to refuse Combs’ demands, Cassie reiterated her fears of violence and blackmail videos from 'freak offs' being disseminated on the internet.

Diddy has claimed the encounters were consensual.

Cassie told the jury she eventually began to 'experience a different side of' Diddy.

'His abusive side,' she called it. 'Very controlling over my life, the things I wanted to do... But there’s still love there.'

She added: 'Control was everything from the way I looked to what I was working on that day, who i was speaking to. Control was an all around thing to a certain point.'

'You make the wrong face and the next thing I knew I was getting hit in the face,' she said.

Cassie said that if she didn’t respond to his call right away, there would be incessant calls until she did and Combs’ staff, including security workers, would join in the pursuit.

Cassie told the court that she fell in love with Diddy after their relationship became physical when she was 21.

She said she started traveling and going to the studio with him, refering to herself as his 'little shadow.'

We had fun. It was my first adult relationship, or I thought it was. It was so different than anything as you can imagine. His lifestyle was much different than mine

He had assistants at his beck and call, he could get anything done quickly. He had respect from everyone. And traveled quite a bit, he was moving around a lot.

The singer, who is heavily pregnant, has repeatedly taken breaths as she recalls her relationship with Diddy.

She has been taking pauses before answering questions on the stand.

At times in her testimony, Cassie rested her hands on her pregnant belly. At particularly emotional points, she sniffled and dabbed her eyes with a tissue.

The singer said she first had sexual intercourse with Diddy during a trip to Miami after her 21st birthday party.

She told the jury Diddy gave her ecstasy in a pill that had a blue dolphin on it.

'I was out of it, with friends, laughing,' she recalled.'I didn’t know what it was until later.'

Cassie said her interactions with Combs, who owned the label she was signed to, were platonic at first. But then he kissed her during her 21st birthday trip to Las Vegas in the bathroom of his hotel suite. 'I was just really confused at the time,' she said. 'And young.'

'I remember being introduced to the idea of oral sex. It wasn’t something I really understood or did at that point,' Cassie said as she took repeated breaths.

'He basically taught me how... He made me feel crazy for not reciprocating. At that time I didn’t understand that kind of sexual relatioinship. I was also still in a relationship with someone else.

'I was so young. I didn’t have even the vocabulary for some of the things we talked about.'

Sean is a really polarizing person, also really charming... It’s hard to really be able to decide in that moment what you need when he’s telling you what he wants. I just didn’t know. I didn’t know what would happen.

Casse said she was barely 22 when Combs first asked her to do them. She said she was 'confused, nervous, but also loved him very much.'

Cassie said: 'I just remember my stomach falling to my butt. Just the nervousness and confusion in that moment.'

She said she didn’t feel like she could say no to Combs because she 'didn’t know what ‘no’ could be, or what ‘no’ could turn into,' which she said she learned could include violence and blackmail threats.

'Sean controlled a lot of my life, whether it was career, the way I dressed, everything, everything. I just didn’t have much say in it at the time,' Cassie testified.

He would bash me on my head, knock me over, drag me, kick me, stomp me in the head if I was down.

I’d get knots in my forehead. Busted lips, swollen lip,swollen eyes... whites of eyes would be red. Bruises all over my body.

Asked how frequently Combs became violent with her, Cassie softly responded: 'Too frequently.'

The singer and star witness has taken the stand and begun her testimony against Diddy on Tuesday.

Diddy makes a hand gesture to family members arriving at his sex trafficking trial on Tuesday.

Diddy's lawyers have told the judge they want Cassie's husband Alex Fine to not be in the courtroom while she testifies because they may want to call him up as a witness later in the trial.

The defense is claiming Fine has relevant information regarding an alleged rape of Cassie by Diddy in the the fall of 2018.

Diddy's attorney said Fine sent Diddy a text message saying he 'wanted to beat the f word out of him.'

They added they are okay with Cassie's brother to remain in the room while she testifies.

Prosecutors argued that Fine is part of the emotional support system for Cassie, who’s pregnant with their third trial and should be in the courtroom when she testifies.

A judge ruled that her husband, Alex Fine, can be in the courtroom for most — but not all — of her testimony.

Fine is seen arriving to court on Tuesday.

Cassie Ventura settled a lawsuit with the music mogul just a day after it was filed in November, 2023.

The suit was settled for an undisclosed amount.

Daniel Phillip's time on the stand has concluded.

Cassie's testimony should begin within minutes after a 10-minute sidebar.

The judge presiding over the racketeering and sex trafficking trial of hip-hop mogul Sean Combs said last week there was no evidence to back up his lawyers’ claim he was treated differently because of his race.

Judge Arun Subramanian said Combs had shown no evidence of discriminatory effect or intent based on his race, when his lawyers made their arguments in Manhattan federal court in February. In a separate written opinion, the judge also refused to suppress evidence in the case.

The lawyers had written that the prosecution was unprecedented because, 'most disturbingly, no white person has ever been the target of a remotely similar prosecution.'

Defense attorney Donaldson is grilling Daniel Phillip on discrepancies between his testimony and previous statements to prosecutors.

The defense claims Phillip told prosecutors in March that the mogul did not direct his sexual encounters with Cassie, which contradicts what he said on the stand on Monday.

Phillip said on Tuesday he always felt he 'had a bond' with Cassie and admitted he would have liked to date her.

'I was attracted to her and had she given me the chance to date her, I absolutely woul have,' he said.

Diddy's lawyers are depicting Phillip as jealous of the rapper.

Combs — who shares seven kids with four different women — disclosed that he had fathered his youngest child on December 10, 2022.

Diddy has never confirmed having a relationship with Tran, and little is known about how they met.

Sarah Chapman is a close friend of Diddy who had a baby with him in 2006, while his late partner Kim Porter was pregnant with twins.

Fine and Cassie met while he was a physical trainer for Diddy.

The couple is expecting their third child together in just a few weeks.

Assistant US Attorney Emily Johnson argued against letting media outlets see sexually explicit videos, saying there was good legal precedent to keep such materials out of the public record.

Combs’ attorney, Marc Agnifilo, said there was no aspect of the videos that was not 'in the nature of adult pornography.' He said they all contained images of people who are nude having sex or about to have sex.

On behalf of news outlets, attorney Robert Balin told the judge the First Amendment is 'at a zenith' in this type of case and that it was important that the 'people, though the press, be able to see justice is being done.'

He said the best evidence of whether sexual acts that were recorded were coerced — as prosecutors allege — was the videos themselves.

Diddy's lawyers have resumed their cross-examination of Phillip, who told the jury he was paid to have sex with Cassie as Diddy watched.

Phillip told jurors that Combs was coy about his identity when they first met in 2012 at a Manhattan hotel.

The rap star wore a ball cap, obscured his face with a bandana and claimed to be in the importing and exporting industry, Phillip said.

The witness testified that it wasn’t until a subsequent encounter at a different hotel when Combs revealed who he was, answering the door in a suit and peacoat.

• The trial’s first witness, Israel Florez, who was working hotel security at the time, testified about responding to a report of a woman in distress and witnessing Combs tell Cassie:, “You’re not going to leave.”
• Jurors also heard from Daniel Phillip, who said he was a professional stripper who was paid to have sex with Cassie while Combs watched and gave instructions. He testified that he once saw Combs drag her by her hair as she screamed.

Opening statements have just begun in the trial of Sean 'Diddy' Combs, yet the case against the multi-millionaire hip-hop superstar may already have been won… or lost.

For it all comes down to the jury.

From a pool of 150 potential jurors, the judge, defense team and federal prosecutors have selected 12 people (and six alternates should one of the active jurors become, for whatever reason, incapable of fulfilling their obligations).

Judge Arun Subramanian has granted Combs permission to wear regular clothes in court, instead of jail garb.

He is allowed up to five button-down shirts, five pairs of pants, five sweaters, five pairs of socks and two pairs of shoes without laces.

On Monday, he sported a gray sweater and a white button-down shirt. Because hair dye isn’t allowed in jail, his normally jet black mane is now mostly gray.

For decades, the music mogul ran a 'criminal enterprise' built around trafficking victims, with his 'inner circle' helping to cover up his offences, prosecutors told the opening of his trial in New York.

He once stamped on a girlfriend's head, dangled one woman from a balcony and allegedly tried to set fire to another man's car, it was claimed.

The singer was pictured leaving her home on Tuesday as she is scheduled to testify against her ex and alleged abuser Sean 'Diddy' Combs.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs blew a kiss to his mom and made a heart with his hands as she led his family into the courtroom to support him in his racketeering and sex trafficking trial.

Diddy's baby mama Dana Tran made a surprise appearance on the first day of his sex trafficking trial.

Tran, who has a two-year-old daughter with the disgraced rapper named Love Sean, strolled into the Southern District of New York Federal Court on Monday.

The cybersecurity director arrived in an all-black outfit of a frilly blouse, pants, high heels and sunglasses and carried a matching Chanel purse.

Male escort Daniel Phillip said his sexual encounters with Cassie and Diddy could last anywhere from one to 10 hours. He said after he was done having sex with Cassie, she and Diddy would head to the bedroom. 'I would be sitting in that room for hours, just sitting there,' Phillip said. 'Sometimes they’d come out and say, OK you can go. Other times they’d ask me if I’m ready to go again.'

Diddy's mother and children arrived to Manhattan court shortly before Judge Arun Subramanian started the prooceedings.

As Sean 'Diddy' Combs faces charges of sex-trafficking in Manhattan federal court, his relationship with the singer Cassie is at the center of the horrific allegations.

The music mogul's staggering downfall began when Cassie, real name Cassandra Ventura, filed a bombshell lawsuit in 2023 detailing terrifying claims of sexual abuse and violence.

The lawsuit was settled for an undisclosed amount just a day after it was filed, but it was too late for Diddy's reputation, and the rapper was then hit with dozens of lawsuits including similar claims.

Janice Combs has entered Manhattan federal court on Tuesday as she supports her son Diddy during his sex-trafficking trial.

The first witness called on Monday was Israel Florez. He’s now a Los Angeles Police Department officer, but in March 2016, he was working at a Los Angeles hotel as assistant director of security when he got a call that a woman was in distress on the sixth floor and encountered Combs.

Florez said he recognized Diddy immediately after getting called up to his room and only later understood it was Ventura with him.

According to Florez, Diddy was ‘on the chair slouched down and was in a blank stare’

He said: ‘As soon as I walked out…it was a devilish stare, looking at me. When I got out of the elevator I’m looking at him, he’s looking at me with no movement. He was wearing just a towel and socks.'

Florez told the court that Ventura looked ‘scared.'

He said: ‘She was in the corner. She had her hoodie on, pretty much covered up, I couldn't see her face. She was pretty much in a corner.'

Cassie addressed the chilling video in a statement, which read: 'Thank you for all of the love and support from my family, friends, strangers and those I have yet to meet.

'The outpouring of love has created a place for my younger self to settle and feel safe now, but this is only the beginning.

'Domestic Violence is the issue. It broke me down to someone I never thought I would become. With a lot of hard work, I am better today, but I will always be recovering from my past.'

Days after the video was released, Diddy posted a video apologizing.

Eight men and four women are on the final panel of 12 with a further four men and two women listed as alternates. On the main juror panel, four are white, two are Hispanic, five are black and one is Asian. Of the six alternates, four are white and two are black.

Diddy's lead attorney, Marc Afnifilo has entered Manhattan deferal court for day two of the mogul's trial.

Cassie Ventura's attorney Douglas Wilder has also arrived ahead of her scheduled testimony.

On the latest installment of the Mail's The Trial of Diddy podcast, reporter Germania Rodriguez described Sean 'Diddy' Combs' muted reaction to the prosecution's opening remarks against him, which included 'graphic' detail from the rapper's former partner Cassie Ventura.

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Diddy's former partnet Misa Hylton was seen at court today.

Hylton was Diddy's first public relationship and the pair share 30-year-old son Justin Combs together. She also has a son and daughter with ex-husband Jojo Brim.

Just a year before she was last seen with Diddy, Cassie married Alex Fine, who was originally Diddy's personal trainer.

Cassie became pregnant soon after she started dating Fine. The couple is currently expecting their third child.

Fine was seen in court on Monday for the first day of Diddy's trial.

Combs shook his head slowly from side to side and the packed courtroom fell silent as jurors were shown the 2016 hotel security camera video for the first time.

The video didn’t have sound.

Jurors watched intently on video monitors at their seats in the jury box, but there were no discernible, visible reactions.

Jurors ended up seeing the video four times.

First prosecutors showed it all the way through. Then, they played it as the hotel’s assistant security director at the time, Israel Florez, described what was happening.

Prosecutors then played a different version of the footage that Florez recorded off a monitor with his iPhone.

Combs’ lawyer then showed it again as she sought to poke holes in Florez’s recollection of events.

Phillip testified that he didn’t ask for money during his encounters with Cassie and sometimes he wasn’t paid, saying: 'In my head, I was just excited I was in this world and happy to be involved with people of such notoriety.'

On cross-examination, defense attorney Xavier Donaldson tried to attack Phillip’s credibility, mocking the slogan of the male review show company Phillip worked for and its slogan that it 'provided the ultimate ladies night experience.'

Phillip testified that when he got to the door of the New York hotel room the first time he met Cassie, she told him that his boss had told her that she had to give him $200 upon his arrival. 'And then she handed me $4,000.'

A male escort who began his testimony on Monday is set to retake the stand when court reconvenes on Tuesday.

Phillip told jurors that Combs was coy about his identity when they first met in 2012 at a Manhattan hotel.

The rap star wore a ball cap, obscured his face with a bandana and claimed to be in the importing and exporting industry, Phillip said.

The witness testified that it wasn’t until a subsequent encounter at a different hotel when Combs revealed who he was, answering the door in a suit and peacoat.

Lawyers for Sean 'Diddy' Combs requested if the rap mogul's ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura could be readily seated when she testifies against her ex in court, instead of walking to the stand in front of the jury.

Marc Agnifilo, one of Combs' attorneys, made a request of District Court Judge Arun Subramanian to stop her from walking to the stand in front of potential jurors, hoping to avoid emotionally swaying from those deciding his fate.

Diddy's mother Janice Combs and six of his seven children arrived in court for opening statements Monday.

They were escorted past a crowd of media and would-be trial watchers and brought straight into the building.

They sat together during witness testimony, with the rapper's sons looking uncomfortable as sordid details were shared on the stand.

In November, prosecutors claimed that the rapper had tried to reach out to prospective witnesses and influence public opinion from jail in a bid to affect potential jurors ahead of the trial.

Prosecutors wrote that a review of recorded jail calls made by Combs showed he asked family members to reach out to potential victims and witnesses and urged them to create 'narratives' to influence the jury pool. They said he also encouraged marketing strategies to sway public opinion.

An attorney for Combs, Anthony Ricco, said in court that the prosecution’s portrayal of Combs as 'a lawless person who doesn’t follow instructions' or 'an out-of-control individual who has to be detained' was inaccurate.

Judge Arun Subramanian denied the bail application, saying evidence showed Combs to be a 'serious risk of witness tampering.'

If any other man had asked how she was feeling, pregnant Fox5 reporter Michelle Ross wouldn't have batted an eyelid.

But coming from the lips of the most famous showbiz villain in the world, the simple 'how are you?' carried what could be perceived as a seedy undertone.

Ross, who is seven months pregnant, isn't the only expectant mother on the rapper's mind.

Next week, Cassie Ventura, who is also heavily pregnant, is expected to take the stand in Diddy's blockbuster sex trafficking trial.

The rapper's ex-girlfriend and victim of the notoriously violent smackdown video that was the catalyst for his arrest, she now holds the key to the most hotly anticipated celebrity trial in recent memory.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs faces a slew of charges related to his alleged sexual and physical abuse of women.

He was charged with three crimes - racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution.

The singer, who is expecting her third child with husband Alex Fine, was spotted in New York this week as jury selection in her ex partner's case dragged on.

She announced her pregnancy in February this year, and is understood to be in her third trimester.

Unlike other high-profile cases, the rapper's trial will not be televised as it is in federal court.

Electronic media, including cameras, are banned in the Manhattan court room.

A sketch artist's work will be the only visuals coming out of the courtroom.

Daniel Phillip, 41, took to the stand for an hour yesterday afternoon to allege how Combs paid him up to $6,000 each time to take part in orchestrated sexual relations with R&B singer Casandra 'Cassie' Ventura.

Diddy would often direct their encounters, forcing them to engage in awkward 'role play' before giving Mr Phillip specific instructions on when and where to orgasm, the male escort alleged.