An “enraged” Sean “Diddy” Combs as soon as repeatedly struck his longtime girlfriend Cassie Ventura “pretty hard” in entrance of her buddies as a result of she didn’t reply her cellphone, a star stylist testified Wednesday.
Deonte Nash advised jurors at Combs’ bombshell federal trial in Manhattan that he witnessed the disgraced music mogul fly right into a violent rage in Ventura’s condominium because the stylist was serving to her pack for a visit in 2013.
“B–h, didn’t I tell you to answer the phone?” Nash recounted Combs saying.
He “grabbed her by the hair, pulled her off the couch and started hitting her,” the stylist mentioned.
The alleged ordeal, which unfolded as Ventura was prepping to depart for Drake’s OVO pageant in Toronto, happened in entrance of the stylist and a handful of others, Nash testified.
Nash — who was Ventura’s long-time stylist and regarded them shut buddies — additionally advised jurors that Combs tried to regulate each side of his then-girlfriend’s life.
He as soon as compelled the R&B singer to return dwelling from a 2013 night time out at a Los Angeles homosexual membership as a result of he was indignant she’d gone there with Nash, singer Rita Ora and Cheetah Ladies singer Adrienne Bailon-Houghton.
The celeb stylist advised jurors they have been on the membership when Ventura took a name from Combs on speakerphone throughout which he allegedly advised her that “she better bring her ass to his house.”
“She started to panic,” Nash advised the jury.
“Then [Combs] called back and he talked to me and told me that we were wildin’ and that he thought he told us not to be going out since every time I go out that b–h wanna go.”
Nash testified that Ventura “just packed her stuff and went to his house.”
The stylist, who additionally labored for Combs from 2008 to 2018, mentioned this was one in all two occasions the disgraced Dangerous Boy Data founder had advised him and Ventura that they wanted permission from him earlier than going out.
The “I’ll Be Missing You” rapper even bought violent with Nash a “few” occasions, together with as soon as choking him for going out with Ventura, he testified.
Combs “threw me on the car and started choking me out,” Nash testified of the incident that allegedly happened in 2013 whereas Ventura was taking pictures a music video for her tune “I Love It.”
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As Ventura’s stylist, Nash mentioned he needed to repeatedly search approval from Combs for her outfits and look.
He alleged, too, that an irate Combs as soon as put his fingers on him earlier than the 2014 Vainness Honest Oscars social gathering after the rapper blew up as a result of Ventura had opted to put on her hair down.
“She looked bomb…Her hair was long,” Nash mentioned, alleging {that a} fuming Combs advised him: “I thought I told you to keep her hair up.”
Combs then “grabbed me by my jacket and lifted me up,” he testified.
As soon as Nash had pinned Ventura’s hair up, he mentioned Combs declared: “I was right, it looks better that way.”
Nash — who famous he spent virtually on daily basis with Ventura — alleged he additionally consistently overheard Combs berating and threatening his then-girlfriend.
Requested what threats he overheard, the stylist responded: “That he would beat her ass. That he wouldn’t put her music out. That he would get her parents fired from her jobs and that he would send her sex tapes to their jobs.”
“He told her she was nothing but a s–t anyway,” Nash added.
The stylist testified, too, that the alleged abuse drove Ventura “crazy.”
“She would be super emotional, would cry, sometimes she would just stay in the house for days and go into a cocoon,” he mentioned.
It bought to the purpose that Nash mentioned he’d assist Ventura “hide” at lodges to get away from Combs’ violent moods — “too many [times] to count,” he testified.
When the hip hop artist couldn’t discover his on-and-off girlfriend, he “would blow everyone’s phones up and threaten everybody” to attempt to get her to return dwelling, Nash testified.
“He would call incessantly,” saying “that we needed to get back to the house,” Nash recounted.
Combs, 55, has pleaded not responsible to expenses together with racketeering conspiracy and sex-trafficking. He may face life in jail, if convicted.
Throughout Ventura’s four-day stint on the witness stand on the first week of trial, she testified concerning the controlling, degrading and abusive 10-year relationship she had with Combs.
Ventura — who testified whereas eight months pregnant — claimed Combs compelled her to have intercourse with male prostitutes whereas she was excessive on social gathering medicine for the typically days-long “freak-off” intercourse periods, throughout which he filmed and pleasured himself.
Jurors have been proven handfuls of images of Ventura with bruises throughout her physique, a gash on her eyebrow and swollen lips — all of which she bought from Combs’ repeated beatings.
Ventura, 38, gave delivery to a child boy in New York Metropolis simply days after testifying whereas her husband Alex Advantageous regarded on from the courtroom gallery. Ventura and Advantageous now share three youngsters, together with daughters Frankie and Sunny.
Nash will proceed testifying Thursday morning.
An nameless alleged sufferer of Combs, who’s being known as “Mia” at trial — is anticipated to start testifying after Nash wraps up.
Mia was Combs private assistant for years and is slated to testify that he compelled her to carry out oral intercourse on him and raped her.
