In an emotional letter submitted to court docket forward of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Friday sentencing, Cassie Ventura wrote that she fears “swift retribution” if the disgraced music mogul “walks free.”
Ventura requested U.S. District Courtroom Choose Arun Subramanian to contemplate the “seemingly insurmountable level of trauma” brought on by Combs’ abuse as she urged him to ship a major sentence in a three-page sufferer influence assertion submitted to a New York court docket on Monday and obtained by Rolling Stone.
Filed alongside a prosecutor’s request for Combs to obtain at the least 11 years and three months in jail, Ventura’s letter argued that Combs’ sentence ought to “reflect the reality of the evidence and my lived experience as a victim” and “the truths at hand that the jury failed to see” throughout his eight-week trial earlier this summer time.
Combs was discovered responsible of two counts of transportation to have interaction in prostitution in July however was acquitted of the extra critical racketeering conspiracy and intercourse trafficking costs, a call Ventura mentioned she finds deeply unjust.
“For four days in May, while nine months pregnant with my son, I testified in front of a packed courtroom about the most traumatic and horrifying chapter in my life,” Ventura’s assertion learn. “I testified that from age nineteen, Sean Combs used violence, threats, substances, and control over my career to trap me in over a decade of abuse. He groomed me into performing repeated sex acts with hired male sex workers during multi-day ‘freak-offs,’ which occurred nearly weekly.”
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Claiming Combs “plied” her with medicine and alcohol to “control me like a puppet,” Ventura mentioned the experiences have been “degrading and disgusting, leaving me with infections, illnesses, and days of physical and emotional exhaustion before he demanded it all again.”
“Sex acts became my full-time job, used as the only way to stay in his good graces,” she alleged, calling her relationship with Combs “a horrific decade of my life stained by abuse, violence, forced sex, and degradation.”
Ventura mentioned the lasting trauma from the abuse continues to trigger her “nightmares and flashbacks,” which require continued psychological care.
Sharing how she considers Combs to be an ongoing menace to her security, the singer wrote that she lives “as private and quiet as I possibly can because I am so scared that if he walks free, his first actions will be swift retribution towards me and others who spoke up about his abuse at trial.”
“As much progress as I have made in recovering from his abuse, I remain very much afraid of what he is capable of and the malice he undoubtedly harbors towards me for having the bravery to tell the truth,” she continued.
Ventura additionally rejected protection attorneys’ claims Combs is repentant and reformed, writing how the suggestion that he may even be rehabilitated “disgusts” her.
“He is not being truthful. I know that who he was to me — the manipulator, the aggressor, the abuser, the trafficker — is who he is as a human,” she wrote. “He has no interest in changing or becoming better. He will always be the same cruel, power-hungry, manipulative man that he is.”
