A distraught Cassie Ventura could be heard on a 2014 audio recording — revealed Friday during Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial — screaming and threatening to kill a man who claimed he’d seen a sexually explicit video of her.
Combs’ defense played the harrowing recording in Manhattan federal court as they grilled Ventura, 38, for a second day and tried to undercut her bombshell accusations against the Bad Boy Records mogul.
The recording revealed Ventura trying get more information out of a man who was allegedly shown an X-rated video depicting the R&B singer and now-former girlfriend to Combs.
Sean “Diddy” Combs watches as Casandra “Cassie” Ventura leaves for a break in her testimony during Combs’ sex trafficking trial in New York City, New York, U.S., May 15, 2025 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERSWhen the man wouldn’t divulge helpful details, Ventura went off the rails.
“I will kill you if you don’t show me right now,” Ventura could be heard yelling in the recording. “I will cut you up and put you in the f—ing dirt right now.”
“Put that s–t up right now,” the recording continued. “I’m tired of you talking s–t right now. It’s not going to be blood on my hands, someone else is going to do it.”
Ventura previously testified that Combs repeatedly threatened to release embarrassing explicit videos of her taken during the marathon sex parties the mogul called “freak-offs.”
Singer Cassie (Casandra Ventura) and Sean “Diddy” Combs at Justin’s Restaurant for The CORE DJs’ Retreat Bad Boy party in Atlanta, Georgia on April 25, 2009. Getty ImagesHis attorneys apparently introduced the audio recording as a way to argue Combs didn’t want to the video to be released.
Jurors also learned that Ventura messaged Combs about what the man told her — and the music producer replied that she should not let him “out of your sight.”
“It was a weird day,” Ventura testified.
“He (Combs) was sending me messages. We didn’t know whether or not it was a ‘freak-off’ video. He (Combs) text and called me quite a bit.”
Sean “Diddy” Combs’s defense team pass notes during the cross examination of Casandra “Cassie” Ventura during Combs’ sex trafficking trial in New York City, New York, U.S., May 16, 2025 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERSThe recording wasn’t the only dramatic exchange unveiled during the day, as jurors learned that Combs bizarrely texted Ventura how “horny” he was for her — just days after he infamously attacked her in a Los Angeles hotel
The pair’s text exchange after the 2016 caught-on-video beating was revealed just minutes into Ventura’s fourth day on the stand.
Jurors heard Ventura’s text from March 10, 2016 read aloud in the courtroom, in which she accused Combs of abuse during the altercation at the InterContinental Hotel in Century City.
Video surveillance grabs show Cassie Ventura trying to sneak out of the hotel, but Diddy catching up to her in a towel and dragging her down the hallway. U.S. Attorneys SDNY“When you get f–ked up the wrong way you always want to show me that you have the power and you knock me around,” she wrote.
“I’m not a rag doll, I’m someone’s child.”
But Combs didn’t appear to treat the incident with its proper gravity — within days he texted Ventura that he was “horny” for her, jurors learned.
“I’m so horny for you!!!” Combs texted Ventura on March 9, 2016.
Sean “Diddy” Combs and his defense team pass notes during the cross examination of Casandra “Cassie” Ventura during Combs’ sex trafficking trial in New York City, New York, U.S., May 16, 2025 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERSVentura gave a cold response: “You are? Why? What made you feel that way?”
From the witness stand, the eight months pregnant Ventura said she felt the text was a “little strange” to receive just days after the attack.
At another point, Ventura recounted how an angry Combs during a flight from Cannes allegedly threatened to release explicit video from another “freak-off.”
Cassie and Sean “Diddy” Combs at the New York Public Library in New York City, New York . WireImage“He pulled up a video I thought he deleted out of his computer of me having sex with an escort and he played it the whole way home,” she testified. “He said he was going to release it to embarrass me.”
Combs has pleaded not guilty to one count of racketeering conspiracy, two counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, and two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.
He could face life in prison, if convicted.






