Cassie Says She Has Nightmares About Diddy, Has Left N.Y.C. in Fear of 'Swift Retribution' Janelle GriffithOctober 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM 0 Johnny Nunez/WireImage Cassie in New York City on Dec. 14, 2022 Sean "Diddy" Combs is scheduled to be sentenced on two prostitutionrelated charges on Friday, Oct.
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Sean "Diddy" Combs is scheduled to be sentenced on two prostitution-related charges on Friday, Oct. 3
In a letter to the judge who will sentence him, Casandra "Cassie" Ventura, the government's star witness at Combs' sex trafficking and racketeering trial, says she continues to fear for her safety
Prosecutors have asked that Combs be sentenced to at least 11 years and three months in prison
Casandra "Cassie" Ventura has asked a New York federal judge to consider "the many lives that Sean Combs has upended with his abuse and control" as he decides the music mogul's sentence on prostitution-related charges.
Ventura, the 39-year-old R&B singer who was in a relationship with Combs, 55, for about a decade and was signed to his record label, was the government's star witness at his sex trafficking and racketeering trial this year. She is one of seven people whose letters were part of a legal filing prosecutors submitted to the court on Tuesday, Sept. 30.
Prosecutors asked Judge Arun Subramanian to sentence Combs to at least 11 years and three months in prison. Combs' attorneys have requested a sentence no longer than 14 months.
Prosecutors alleged Combs sex trafficked Ventura and another former girlfriend who testified under the pseudonym Jane and coerced them into drug-fueled sexual encounters with male sex workers that Combs called "freak-offs" or "hotel nights."
The prosecutors' filing also includes letters from Ventura's parents and a former personal assistant to Combs who testified under the pseudonym Mia and alleged that he sexually assaulted her, which Combs has denied. It did not include a letter from Jane, whom Combs dated until his arrest.
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A jury acquitted Combs of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges but convicted him of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, a felony violation of the federal Mann Act.
Ventura testified over four days in May while nine months pregnant with her son.
In her letter, the singer claimed that Combs "used violence, threats, substances, and control over my career to trap me in over a decade of abuse" and groomed her into performing in multi-day freak-offs, "which occurred nearly weekly."
"These events were degrading and disgusting, leaving me with infections, illnesses, and days of physical and emotional exhaustion before he demanded it all again," she alleged. "Sex acts became my full-time job, used as the only way to stay in his good graces."
Ventura said "the horrors" she endured led her to consider suicide — something she also testified to at his trial — which prompted her to seek professional care at her family's urging.
"I have been to rehab and have taken part in dozens of types of therapy modalities to confront, compartmentalize, and cope with the horrific memories of sexual and emotional abuse I endured for nearly ten years," she wrote. "I still have nightmares and flashbacks on a regular, everyday basis, and continue to require psychological care to cope with my past."
Ventura said she has moved her family out of New York and is living a private life out of fear that if Combs were to be released, she and others who spoke up about his abuse would face "swift retribution."
Ventura said she does not believe Combs' attorneys claims that he is "a changed man" who wants to mentor abusers.
"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."
Ventura said that after she filed a civil suit against Combs, which accused him of repeated physical abuse over more than a decade and of forcing her to have sex with male sex workers while he masturbated and filmed them, "he flatly denied" the allegations "again and again."
"It was only after actual video footage corroborated the exact words in my civil complaint that he issued an insincere apology on the internet," she wrote, referring to a security video that was central to the prosecution's case. It showed Combs kicking and striking Ventura in a hallway at a Los Angeles hotel in March 2016. Ventura and prosecutors have said she had been trying to escape a freak off that day.
"While the jury did not seem to understand or believe that I engaged in freak offs because of the force and coercion the defendant used against me," Ventura wrote in her three-page letter, "I know that is the truth, and his sentence should reflect the reality of the evidence and my lived experience as a victim."
Combs has been held at a federal detention center in Brooklyn since his arrest in September 2024.
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