Cassie Ventura is a singer and model who signed with Combs' Bad Boy Records in 2006. Their relationship lasted over a decade. In 2023, she filed a lawsuit alleging rape, physical abuse, and coercion into sex acts with other men. The case was settled a day later but prompted additional lawsuits and further criminal investigation.

Sean “Diddy” Combs ran out in the middle of a “freak-off” to go confront his rival Suge Knight, the disgraced music mogul’s ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura testified Tuesday at his bombshell sex-trafficking trial in Manhattan.