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Cassie Ventura's parent testified Tuesday astir the alleged maltreatment her girl endured from Sean "Diddy" Combs.
Regina Ventura took the basal astatine the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse successful New York and told the tribunal that, among different things, the "Bad Boy for Life" vocalist attempted to blackmail their family.
Cassie's mom's grounds whitethorn beryllium to beryllium a important constituent to the U.S. Attorney's Office's lawsuit against the disgraced euphony mogul, according to ineligible experts.
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Regina Ventura, Cassie Ventura's mother, testified Tuesday successful Sean "Diddy" Combs' national trial. (Jane Rosenberg/ Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)
"Generally speaking, relatives tin beryllium perceived arsenic highly biased witnesses. However, credibility is mostly babelike connected the demeanor of the individual," Los Angeles litigator John J. Perlstein exclusively told Fox News Digital.
"It is irrelevant to the lawsuit whether Ventura’s parent spoke to Diddy oregon not, and would improbable favour either side. What volition beryllium applicable is her grounds regarding the $20,000 outgo speech for keeping enactment tapes from being released, which successful my opinion, tin beryllium precise damaging to the suspect arsenic it shows what small worth a antheral of large means placed upon this mediocre woman."
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The assemblage was shown Tuesday an email Cassie sent to her ma connected Dec. 23, 2011. In the integer correspondence, Cassie said that Diddy would merchandise 2 enactment tapes. Cassie’s email besides claimed that Diddy would person idiosyncratic wounded her and rapper Kid Cudi, whom she was dating astatine the time.

Regina and Rodrick Ventura, Cassie Ventura's parents, arrived successful tribunal Tuesday. Regina testified connected behalf of the authorities successful the Sean "Diddy" Combs national trial. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)
Cassie and Cudi, whose afloat sanction is Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi, dated successful 2011 erstwhile she was connected a interruption successful her narration with Diddy.
"The threats that person been made towards maine by Sean ‘Puffy’ Combs are that are that (sic) helium is going to merchandise 2 explicit enactment tapes of me," Cassie allegedly wrote successful the email. "One connected Christmas Day, possibly earlier oregon close aft and different 1 immoderate clip soon aft that. He has besides said that helium volition beryllium having idiosyncratic wounded maine and Scott Mescudi physically (he made a constituent that it wouldn't beryllium by his hands, helium really said he'd beryllium retired of the state erstwhile it happened)."

The authorities introduced email grounds betwixt Cassie and her mother, Regina Ventura. (SDNY)

The U.S. Attorney's Office provided photograph grounds of alleged maltreatment Cassie Ventura endured. (SDNY)
Regina testified that she "was physically sick" and did not recognize a batch of it. She claimed the enactment tapes threw her, but she understood that Diddy was allegedly going to wounded Cassie. She testified that Diddy demanded $20,000 to recoup the wealth helium spent connected Cassie.
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At the time, Diddy was allegedly aggravated that Cassie was with different person. It was expected the wealth would travel from Regina and her husband.
Regina claimed they took a location equity indebtedness to wage the "Last Night" rapper. When Regina received wiring instructions, she claimed she wired the wealth from her checking relationship to the Bad Boy account. About 4 to 5 days later, the wealth allegedly came back. Regina said she did not person immoderate conversations with Diddy astir the money, and besides does not person a transcript of the wiring instructions.
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"I was frightened for my daughter’s safety," Regina told Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily Johnson.
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"Ventura’s mother’s grounds is further corroboration of the allegations that person been made by her girl and further supports the repetitive signifier of intimidation that the prosecution is trying to prove," Perlstein told Fox News Digital.
"It is apt that the defence whitethorn person recovered the witnesser to beryllium damning and thus, declined cross-examination, but it is antithetic arsenic it is communal signifier to inquire immoderate witnesser connected the basal astatine slightest a question adjacent an irrelevant softball question."
He added, "Avoiding cross-examination creates the cognition that the witnesser is to beryllium believed successful each respect successful the eyes of the jury."
"Ventura’s mother’s grounds is further corroboration of the allegations that person been made by her girl and further supports the repetitive signifier of intimidation that the prosecution is trying to prove."
— John J. Perlstein
Regina Ventura testified Tuesday for 15 minutes. (Jane Rosenberg)

Cassie Ventura gave affectional grounds portion connected the basal for 4 days successful the Sean "Diddy" Combs national trial. (Jane Rosenberg)
Diddy's attorney, Marc Agnifilo, didn't inquire to cross-examine Regina, which is simply a communal courtroom strategy erstwhile it comes to a victim's mother, according to erstwhile national authoritative Neama Rahmani.
"You don't privation to crook disconnected the jurors," Rahmani told Fox News Digital.
Cassie testified astir allegedly being raped by Diddy aft their break-up and claimed to participate rehab astatine the opening of 2023 aft suffering "horrible flashbacks" of the abuse.
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The singer, who is large with her 3rd kid with hubby Alex Fine, besides claimed that Diddy's "freak offs" became a job. "Freak offs" were "elaborately produced enactment performances that Combs arranged, directed, masturbated during, and often electronically recorded," according to the indictment.

Cassie was visibly large with her 3rd kid with hubby Alex Fine. (Jane Rosenberg)
The "freak offs" would past betwixt 24 and 72 hours. Ventura recalled the longest "freak off" was 4 days. When she wasn't participating, she was recovering from "the drugs, dehydration, staying awake," she said.
On Wednesday, Cassie besides disclosed she received a $20 cardinal colony 24 hours aft filing a lawsuit against Diddy successful November 2023.
Diddy was charged with racketeering conspiracy; enactment trafficking by force, fraud oregon coercion; and proscription to prosecute successful prostitution successful a national indictment unsealed Sept. 17. He has maintained his innocence. If recovered guilty, helium faces a minimum of 15 years down bars oregon a maximum condemnation of beingness successful prison.
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Fox News' Maria Paronich contributed to this report.