In Sean “Diddy” Combs’s sex-trafficking trial, star witness Cassie Ventura spent hours being cross-examined by the defense.

Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. The defense showed emails and text messages from early in Combs and Ventura Fine's relationship, where they professed love for each other and she sought more attention from him.

R&B singer Casandra Ventura, known as Cassie, gave her second day of testimony as the prosecution's key witness in the sex-trafficking trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs Cassie detailed beatings and sexual violence she says she experienced during the relationship and described the toll it took on her mental and physical health Jurors in the case were shown videos of the so- called "freak-offs" - sexual encounters with male escorts which Cassie says Combs demanded,