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If anyone should be worried about retribution for testifying against Sean Combs, AKA Diddy, it’s his former girlfriend Cassie Ventura. Her testimony about the alleged abuses she suffered during her 11-year-long relationship with the disgraced music mogul was a key reason why he was convicted on two counts of violating the Mann Act.
“I still have nightmares and flashbacks on a regular, everyday basis, and continue to require psychological care to cope with my past,” Page Six reports Cassie wrote in a three-page impact statement submitted to the judge that will be sentencing Diddy on Friday.
“My worries that Sean Combs or his associates will come after me and my family is my reality,” she continued. “I have in fact moved my family out of the New York area and am keeping 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 also stated, “Sean Combs used violence, threats, substances, and control over my career to trap me in over a decade of abuse,” and added that “he also threatened people around me and those close to me, including my family. I regularly worried that displeasing him meant putting my family and friends’ safety at risk.”
Cassie Ventura closed her letter to Judge Arun Subramanian by asking that his “sentencing decision reflects the strength it took for victims of Sean Combs to come forward” and “considers the many lives that Sean Combs has upended with his abuse and control.”
Last year, attorney Tony Buzbee said he was representing over 120 alleged victims of Sean Combs. Diddy still faces numerous lawsuits, including the most recent one filed by his long-term stylist Deonte Nash who has accused him of sexual battery, human trafficking, and false imprisonment.
In legal documents, prosecutors have asked the judge to sentence Combs to “at least 135 months” in prison. They claim Diddy has been “unrepentant,” that “his victims should shoulder the blame,” and that all of the alleged abuse was nothing more than a mutually toxic relationship.
“There is nothing mutual about a relationship where one person holds all the power and the other ends up bloodied and bruised,” prosecutors wrote, according to TMZ.