Sean “Diddy” Combs’ legal team attempted to challenge disturbing allegations that he laced baby oil with a date rape drug during ‘freak-off’s” as his ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, testified against him in Manhattan court Thursday.
The R&B singer, who is eight months pregnant, was grilled on the stand as Combs’ lawyer Anna Estevao tried to shoot down a claim that the Bad Boys Records founder doused one victim with lubricant that was mixed with Rohypnol – or GHB – before a vicious assault.
Lawyer Anna Estevao cross-examines Casandra “Cassie” Ventura during Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial in New York City, New York, U.S., May 15, 2025, in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS“You testified yesterday that you would get Johnson & Johnson baby oil from the drug store, right?” Estevao queried Ventura, who was on the stand for a third day at Combs’ federal sex-trafficking trial.
“You testified you would heat up the baby oil and that’s the only thing you did to it, right?” she continued, before asking, “the pool filled with baby oil would require a lot, right?
Ventura answered yes to each question.
Singer Britney Spears, Rapper P. Diddy and Singer Cassie pose for photos at Cassie’s 21st Birthday at Jet Nightclub at The Mirage Hotel and Casino on September 08, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada. WireImageShe had told the captivated jury Wednesday that Combs once filled an inflatable pool with bottles of baby oil and other lubricants for a hotel-room “freak-off” – insisting the oil be heated and applied “every five minutes” so his sex-show participants would be “glistening.”
In October, an anonymous woman accused Combs in a lawsuit of soaking her with GHB-laced baby oil before he allegedly raped her alongside his bodyguard and a friend.
Sean “Diddy” Combs watches as his former girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura testifies at his sex trafficking trial in New York City, New York, U.S., May 13, 2025 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS
Cassie, Sean “Diddy” Combs and rapper French Montana attend the King of Hearts party at SL on February 19, 2012 in New York City. WireImageThe accuser was allegedly forced to remove her clothes when Combs threatened her with a knife – and later felt herself becoming “more and more limp” during the chilling ordeal, according to her suit.
The feds, in their criminal complaint against the “I’ll Be Missing You” rapper, accused Combs of using drugs to keep his victims “compliant” during violent, often days-long sex sessions.
Combs, 55, is accused of trafficking women for sex during the “freak-offs” and other serious crimes.
He has pleaded not guilty and faces life in prison, if convicted.
