AUSA: Did you try to avoid anything in the freak offs?
Ventura: I tried to avoid kissing, it seems too intimate. But Sean told me to do it, to kiss the escorts.
AUSA: What did Sean ask you to do on your 29th birthday?
Ventura: A freak off.
Ventura: He had me pulled out of the Blind Dragon for the freak off... Some security.
AUSA: What about blackmail material?
Ventura: He wanted me to fear-
Defense: Objection!
Judge: Overruled.
AUSA: When would Sean mention the freak off videos?
Ventura: To hurt me
Ventura: One time I was dating someone else and he threatened to release the freak off videos. I'd have to answer to my mother... It's horrible and disgusting. No one should do that to anyone.
AUSA: What did Sean say the impact would be?
Ventura: Shame
AUSA: Let me show you a chat. Who's on it?
Ventura: Me and Sean. July 22, 2013. AUSA: Read your message
Ventura: I wrote, Please delete the videos off your phone, too many people have access to your devices. He said, No iCloud, all good, ambien kicking in
11:10 am - [Judge has taken a break to "change some things in the court room." During the break, Combs sit at defense table, his lawyer Xavier Donaldson leaning down to speak with him]
AUSA Johnson: There's still some issues with the privacy screens, so we'll put that off and do something else now
Judge: OK.... Welcome back Ms. Ventura. Bring in the jury
[Jury enters]
AUSA Johnson: I offer more exhibits.
AUSA Johnson: What did you say here?
Ventura: I'd been told there was a sexually explicit video out there about me. I reached out to Sean.
AUSA: Then what?
Ventura: We were driving back to NYC from Atlantic City, to talk to this DJ ["Whoo Kid"?]
AUSA: When did that happen?
Ventura: At a restaurant
AUSA: What was security's role?
Ventura: To intimidate. They were lining the room.
AUSA: Who was there?
Ventura: Uncle Paulie, James Cruz
AUSA: How would you recover from a freak off?
Ventura: I'd take opiates. I wanted to feel numb. We'd get massages, I.V. fluids. The chef would cook us something.
AUSA: How often did you take opiates after freak offs?
Ventura: Often. I got Urinary Tract Infections
AUSA: Were the U.T.I.s painful?
Ventura: Very. Anti-bacterials didn't work anymore.
AUSA: How did it feel, during freak offs?
Ventura: Burning. I would not advise it.
AUSA: Let's read this out loud.
Ventura: "I have all these sores on my tongue. I have another UTI
AUSA: What sores?
Ventura: Friction in my mouth.
AUSA: From what?
Ventura: Oral sex.
AUSA: You said, another UTI, then sad face emoji
Ventura: I was open with him about them.
AUSA: "So you feel sick?"
Ventura: "Why are you sorry?" I took the blame for things
AUSA: Which escort would go to s***clubs with you and Sean?
Ventura: Jules.
AUSA: The escort from the Inter Continental in LA?
Ventura: Yes.
AUSA: Did you want to have s***with Jules, ever?
Ventura: No. (laughs). But I knew him
AUSA: Why did you do it?
A: Sean
AUSA: Who was present when Sean put his hands on you at freak outs?
Ventura: Sometimes the escort was there too.
AUSA: In the same room?
Ventura: Yes. Jules.
AUSA: & in the suite?
Ventura: Yes.
AUSA: Were they aware?
Defense: Objection!
Judge: Overruled.
A: Yes
Ventura: The escorts would ask me if I was OK, afterward.
AUSA: In what cities did he put his hands on you?
Ventura: NY, LA, Miami...
AUSA: How frequently?
Ventura: Too frequently.
AUSA: What's The Abbey?
Ventura: A gay club in LA. I went there with my friend
AUSA: Where were you going?
Ventura: To a music festival in Canada run by Drake. Sean came to my home & tried to attack me. I was thrown into the bed frame.
AUSA: What's this?
Ventura: A photo of my eye afterward
AUSA: Who took you to the doctor?
Ventura: D-Roc
AUSA: Did you send this photo to Sean?
Ventura: Yes. And I wrote, So you can remember. I wanted him to be sorry about it, at least.
AUSA: In this photo where were you?
Ventura: In the green room in Toronto. I put my hair over my eye. Then we went to the Hamptons
Ventura: Sean wanted to have a freak off in the Hamptons. We got a hotel and an escort
AUSA: Which one?
Ventura: Dave. I took GHB. I went into a "G hole" and blacked out. I woke up nude in the shower. Dave and Sean were freaking out. I bugged out. It wasn't pretty.
AUSA: Then what?
Ventura: I spoke to a friend of Sean's... and then we had a freak off.
AUSA: What's this?
Ventura: My eye brow, healed up a little bit, a week later. I have a permanent scar on my eyebrow.
AUSA: What's this?
Ventura: Me at the Cannes Festival
AUSA: What happened at Cannes?
Ventura: Sean accused me of taking d**** from his boat. He threw me off - but my passport was still on the boat.
AUSA: And you were on the red carpet that same night?
Ventura: Yes.
AUSA: Did you attend the movie?
Ventura: Yes.
AUSA: How did you get back to New York?
Ventura: On a commercial flight. I traded my seat to get away. But he traded to get next to me.
AUSA: What did he show you?
Ventura: Freak off videos. He played them for me on one of his laptops. He said he'd release them
AUSA: How did you feel?
Ventura: Trapped.
AUSA: When you landed in New York, what did you do?
Ventura: We went to a dinner. Then he wanted to have a freak off. So we had a freak off.
AUSA: Why did you do it?
Ventura: To make him not threaten me
AUSA: Let's read these from June 13, 2013 - had Sean been violent with you before this?
Ventura: Yes.
AUSA: Had you told him before you didn't want to do freak offs?
Ventura: Yes.
AUSA: You said you needed GHB?
Ventura: Yes. And that 2 escorts not available