Never-before-seen photos reveal aftermath, broken vase Diddy threw at Cassie Ventura during 2016 hotel beating
Newly released photographs show a shattered vase and disarray in the aftermath of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ attack on then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura during the infamous caught-on-video 2016 hotel beating.
Pictures displayed in court during the disgraced hip hop mogul’s trial show the remains of a vase that broke after Combs threw it at Ventura during the sickening attack at a Los Angeles hotel.
“I just remember it coming towards me. I remember it hitting a wall,” Ventura said of the vase as she testified in court for a second day.
The photos show fragments of the vase scattered across the floor of the hotel room and flecks of soil speckled across the wall.
Selfies Ventura took with a swollen lip as she was shuttled away from the hotel in an Uber were also shown in court.
She wore sunglasses because she had a black eye, she said.
She arrived at her nearby apartment, where her friend was “super upset” because she’d “seen me with black eyes and busted lips before,” she testified.
Ventura’s friend called the police, but Ventura declined to tell them who had attacked her, she said.
“In that moment, I didn’t want to hurt him that way. I wasn’t ready,” she testified.
In the wake of the attack, Combs claimed to Ventura that he was about to be arrested by police, she said.
Combs told her if she didn’t pick up the phone, she would “never hear my voice again,” after she refused to accept his phone calls, Ventura told the court.
A hotel security guard testified earlier that when he arrived upstairs after the attack, he saw the damage and told Combs he would have to pay for it.
Jurors also saw photos of Combs and a bruised Ventura at the premiere of her movie, “The Perfect Match,” which was two days after the March 2016 attack.
Ventura had worn dark sunglasses to shield her black eye and tried to cover up the bruises with makeup, but was unable to mask all of them, she said.
She sneaked into a popcorn closet at the movie theater so she could change into a longer dress to hide the bruises on her leg, she said.
Ventura also recounted another occasion where Combs was allegedly violent with her.
In 2013, she suffered a “pretty significant gash” above her left eye after she said Combs threw her into a bed frame after a scuffle with her friends while they were packing to go to a Drake concert in Canada.
Combs’ security personnel brought her to a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon to get the wound stitched up, she told the court.
Afterward, Ventura texted Combs a picture of her wounded face and wrote, “So you can remember,” she testified, triggering a threatening response from Combs.
“You don’t know when to stop. You pushed it too far. And continued to push. Sad,” Combs reportedly replied.
Ventura said she “felt trapped” by Combs, recounting their trip to the Cannes Film Festival in 2013 when he allegedly kicked her off the yacht they were staying on without her shoes, her belongings or even her passport.
She ended up having to crash at a hotel where Combs’ employees were staying, she said.
On their way back to the US, Combs threatened to release videos of her having sex during the “freak offs,” she said.
