Cassie Ventura will reportedly testify under her legal name in the upcoming trial against Sean “Diddy” Combs.
According to People, a motion filed on April 4 identifies Ventura as “Victim-1” in Diddy’s upcoming trial, where he faces charges of sex trafficking, transportation to engage in prostitution, and racketeering.
Ventura “is prepared to testify under her own name,” the filing states. “Victim-2, Victim-3, and Victim-4 have asked that their identities not be revealed to the press or the public.”
Prosecutors have requested that the anonymous victims “be referred to at trial using only pseudonyms” and that the court require the defense not to share any identifying details about them.
“This case has already received an exceptional amount of media coverage, which will presumably only increase as trial proceeds,” prosecutors explain in the filing. “Permitting these measures will prevent unnecessary public disclosure of the victims’ identities, and the harassment from the media and others, undue embarrassment, and other adverse consequences that would almost certainly follow if these women were forced to reveal their true names publicly at trial.”
Diddy recently faced two additional criminal charges ahead of next month’s trial. Prosecutors filed a superseding indictment adding another charge of sex trafficking and another charge of transportation to engage in prostitution.
These are in addition to his existing charges: one count each of the two previously mentioned charges, plus one count of racketeering.
Diddy’s legal team clarified that these charges don’t involve new accusers.
“These are the same individuals, former long-term girlfriends, involved in consensual relationships,” his lawyers stated. “This was their private sex life.”
The new sex trafficking charges claim Diddy “recruited, enticed, harbored, transported, and maintained Victim-2, and attempted, aided and abetted, and willfully caused Victim-2, to engage in commercial sex acts, knowing and in reckless disregard of the fact that Victim-2 was engaging in commercial sex acts as a result of force, fraud, and coercion.”
