Cassie first met Bad Boy Records mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs at just 19 years old as she was launching her music career. Nearly a decade later, the recording artist spoke out against the alleged violence she experienced while dating her record label-owning ex at his federal sex trafficking trial in May 2025.

Key prosecution witness Cassie Ventura, known as Cassie, took the stand for the first time in the sex trafficking trial against Sean "Diddy" Combs on Tuesday.

Cassie and Alex Fine tied the knot less than one year after going public with their romance in 2018 and went on to welcome two daughters

On the stand in court Tuesday, Cassie alleged Combs would "bash my head, knock me over, drag me, kick me, stomp me in the head if I was down."

Diddy sat motionless as federal prosecutors revealed graphic allegations against him at the trial’s opening, calling it "just the tip of the iceberg."

Diddy also had one of his longest relationships with Ventura, dating her on and off for approximately 11 years before the pair finally called it quits. And although many untold truths have emerged about Diddy since,