New shocking photos released Monday show Cassie Ventura’s gruesome injuries from ex-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs’ alleged beatings.
Over a dozen images shown to jurors last week in Combs’ federal sex-trafficking and racketeering trial captured the R&B singer with multiple injuries, including large bruises on her body, black eyes, and swollen lips from the alleged attacks.
Other photos, also made public after being introduced as evidence in the Manhattan trial, revealed how Ventura attempted to conceal some of the wounds, including with large sunglasses, makeup, or hairstyling.
Three selfies Ventura took of herself in an Uber after leaving the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles on March 5, 2016, show her wearing big black sunglasses to hide a black eye and her swollen lips from the notorious beating by Combs that was captured on surveillance video.
“That’s me,” Ventura, 41, now a married mom pregnant with her third child, testified Wednesday. “Just a selfie of my fat lip wearing sunglasses … Because I had a black eye underneath. Just trying to cover it.”
Ventura was also photographed in a gown and in a cocktail dress two days after the infamous assault at the Century City hotel when she attended a movie premiere with Combs, and then the after-party.
One picture shows her at Combs’ house doing a fitting for the event and wearing a gold gown and large sunglasses — to obscure her black eye.
The second photo shows Ventura at the premiere’s after-party sitting next to Combs, wearing a green cocktail dress, with a faint bruise visible on her leg.
The evidence came out during the “Me & U” singer’s harrowing four days of testimony last week, detailing alleged beatings by Combs during their tumultuous decade-long relationship that ended in 2018.
Ventura, who is eight months pregnant, also told the jury that Combs forced her to participate in countless sickening “freak-off” sessions where he looked on and filmed as she had sex with male escorts.
A slew of other photos taken by law enforcement after they raided Combs’ room at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Manhattan were also made public Monday and included images of bottles of baby oil, personal lubricant, $9,000 in cash, and bags of pink drugs.
The images were shown to jurors Friday as Department of Homeland Security Special Agent Yasin Binda testified about the items found in the Bad Boy Records founder’s room on Sept. 16, 2024, after his arrest.
Two of the photos released Monday were taken by Ventura’s mother in December 2011, showing bruises on her daughter’s lower back and right thigh — after Combs allegedly roughed her up when he found out she had been seeing rapper Kid Cudi.
Another pair of images displayed a bloody gash on Ventura’s right eyebrow taken in 2013 when Combs allegedly threw her onto a bed, causing her to hit her face on the corner of it.
Ventura testified that Combs flew into a rage because she’d fallen asleep and hadn’t started packing yet for their trip to rapper Drake’s OVO Fest in Toronto, Canada.
Another picture showed Ventura donning sunglasses to cover bruises because Combs had allegedly beaten her on a 2013 trip in Jamaica with friends.
One more eerie photo showed a kitchen knife wedged in the door handle at Ventura’s home toward the end of their relationship in 2018.
She testified on Wednesday that she had placed the knife there because “I was getting a lot of unannounced visits from Sean and I was trying to k!ll two birds with one stone.”
“Lock [the door] and I had a weapon,” she said.
The 55-year-old fallen music mogul has pleaded not guilty to charges that could send him to prison for life, if convicted.
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