The R&B singer Cassie testified Wednesday that her ex-boyfriend Sean 맥스카지노�Diddy맥스카지노� Combs kept her in a cycle of abuse and exploitation by threatening to release videos of her engaging in 맥스카지노�freak-off맥스카지노� encounters with male sex workers that he orchestrated. Addressing the Manhattan courtroom for a second day in Combs' federal sex trafficking trial, Cassie said that even though she loathed having drugged-up sex with strangers, she couldn맥스카지노�t reject Combs맥스카지노� demands because he would make her 맥스카지노�look like a slut.맥스카지노�맥스카지노�I feared for my career. I feared for my family. It맥스카지노�s just embarrassing. It맥스카지노�s horrible and disgusting. No one should do that to anyone," said Cassie, whose legal name is Casandra Ventura. She sued Combs in 2023, accusing him of years of physical and sexual abuse. The suit was settled within hours but dozens of similar legal claims followed from other women, sparking the criminal investigation against him.Prosecutors showed the jury five still images from the sex videos, recovered from electronic devices that Cassie provided to investigators. Cassie said the images showed her with male sex workers and at various stages of the encounters, which Combs called 맥스카지노�freak-offs,맥스카지노� that sometimes lasted days. One juror's eyes widened, and another shook his head from side to side.Prosecutors have accused Combs of exploiting his status as a powerful music executive to violently force women into drugged-up sex parties. Combs is charged with five counts, including sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion. He denies all of the allegations.Combs맥스카지노� attorneys have acknowledged Combs could be violent but maintain that the sexual acts were consensual. They say nothing he did amounted to sex trafficking or racketeering.Combs denies all of the allegations and has pleaded not guilty. His attorneys acknowledge he could be violent, but say the sex he and others engaged in was consensual and that nothing he did amounted to sex trafficking or racketeering.Combs맥스카지노� lawyers were expected to begin cross-examining Cassie later Wednesday, when they would get the chance to challenge her credibility or poke holes in her account of what happened.During her first day of testimony, she spent hours recounting details of her decade-long relationship with Combs, including the freak-offs which she said ended in 2017 or 2018. She also said Combs beat her numerous times. The encounters took place in private, often in dark hotel rooms, unlike Combs맥스카지노� very public parties that attracted A-list celebrities.Cassie exposes the dark side of a celebrity relationshipCassie맥스카지노�s testimony is exposing the dark underside of a relationship that, for years, played out publicly in pictures of the couple smiling on red carpets and celebrity events. She said she met Combs in 2005, when she was 19 and he was 37. Combs signed her to a 10-year contract with his Bad Boy Records label. Within a few years, they started dating, Cassie said.They were photographed in 2016 attending the premiere of the film 맥스카지노�The Perfect Match,맥스카지노� only two days after Combs beat and kicked Cassie at a Los Angeles hotel after a freak-off 맥스카지노� an attack captured on security camera footage played on TV and in court. After the footage was leaked last year, Combs apologized. Jurors were shown photos of them at the premier.Cassie, now 38, calm and poised after an emotional first day of testimony, said she used makeup to coverup her bruises and wore sunglasses to hide a black eye for the premiere. She said she sneaked into a popcorn closet at the movie theater to switch dresses for an afterparty so that bruises on her legs wouldn맥스카지노�t be visible.On another occasion in 2013, while she was packing to go to Drake맥스카지노�s music festival in Canada, Cassie said Combs scuffled with her friends and threw her into a bed frame. She sustained a 맥스카지노�pretty significant gash맥스카지노� above her left eye. Combs맥스카지노� security personnel brought her to a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills to get the wound stitched up, she said.Afterward, she said she texted Combs a photo of her injured face and wrote: 맥스카지노�So you can remember.맥스카지노� Combs replied: 맥스카지노�You don맥스카지노�t know when to stop. You pushed it too far. And continued to push. Sad.맥스카지노�Her 2006 song 맥스카지노�Me & U맥스카지노� went platinum, but when prosecutors asked on Tuesday what happened to her music career, Cassie testified that eventually much of her week went toward engaging in and recovering from the freak-offs, until they 맥스카지노�became a job.맥스카지노� She left Combs맥스카지노� record label in 2019. Cassie says Combs routinely threatened to her release sex videosShe said Combs would routinely threaten to embarrass her by releasing videos of her engaging in sex acts. She said he맥스카지노�d do it when he was angry or to instill fear in her, like when she started dating someone else.After a trip to the Cannes Film Festival in 2013, Combs began playing a recording of a freak-off on his laptop computer as he and Cassie sat together on a commercial flight. Cassie said Combs told her that he was 맥스카지노�going to embarrass me and release them.맥스카지노�Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily Johnson asked if there were 맥스카지노�people around you맥스카지노� when Combs was playing the videos on the phone. Cassie said there were. After landing in New York, she testified, they went to dinner and then had another freak-off right afterward. She felt 맥스카지노�empty맥스카지노� and took drugs to copeAlso Wednesday, prosecutors showed Cassie a binder of photos and she identified 13 as male sex workers she said she recruited at Combs맥스카지노� behest for encounters in Las Vegas, Miami and Los Angeles. She said she had sex with all of them, though she couldn맥스카지노�t remember all of their names. She identified a half-dozen other sex workers in court on Tuesday.She testified Tuesday that Combs would pay the men thousands of dollars to have sex with her for 36 or 48 hours, and the longest lasted four days. The encounters left her feeling emotionally 맥스카지노�just really empty, and I felt just gross.맥스카지노�맥스카지노�It was something I hated doing,맥스카지노� she said, but she endured them because she was in love with Combs and 맥스카지노�felt like I did my job.맥스카지노�Cassie testified Wednesday she would recover by getting IV fluids, massages and having a chef cook meals. She said she developed an opioid addiction from using them after the encounters as a coping mechanism.Combs, 55, has been jailed since September. He faces at least 15 years in prison if convicted. The trial is expected to last about two months.