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Four months after giving a devastating testimony in the criminal trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs in New York, Casandra “Cassie” Ventura On Monday night, 29, he presented a statement of impact of the victim, asking a judge to apply to the discredited tycoon of the song a sentence that reflects “the truths in the game that the jury has no longer seen.”

The new letter of Harshnesswith three pages, was filed with the promoters’ request that Combs Being convicted on Friday, 3, to at least 11 years and three months in prison for its recent conviction on two shipping charges for prostitution purposes. In the eight -week trial, the jurors concluded that he transported male escorts through state borders to participate in highly orchestrated sex marathons with Harshness and another ex-girlfriend, who deposed under the pseudonym Jane. The jury acquitted Combs of the most serious accusations of extortion conspiracy and the alleged sexual trafficking of Harshness and Jane.

“For four days in May, my son’s nine -month pregnant woman, I witnessed before a crowded court about the most traumatic and horrible chapter of my life. I reported that since she was 19, Sean Combs He used violence, threats, substances, and control over my career to imprison me in over a decade of abuse. He manipulated me to perform repeated sexual acts with male escorts hired during ‘freak offs’ that lasted several days and happened almost weekly, ”he wrote Harshness in your letter. “I was forced to wear lingerie and high heels, instructed exactly about how it should seem, and doped with drugs and alcohol so that he could control me like a puppet. These events were degrading and disgusting, leaving me with infections, diseases and days of physical and emotional exhaustion before he demanded everything again.

Harshness39, told the federal judge Arun Subramanian that, when Combs55, asked for a freak off, she had no choice. “Refusing meant punishment – losing my car, my phone or worse. He controlled all parts of my livelihood and threatened to destroy my reputation by spreading sexual ribbons, a often repeated threat,” he wrote. “When I believed I had displeased him or was not sufficiently receptive, he also threatened the people around me and close to me, including my family. I was worried that I displeased him to endanger the safety of family and friends.”

The singer said that, in addition to the alleged threats, Combs controlled it with brutal violence. “Over the almost eleven years we have been together, Sean Combs I beat me, punched, stepped on my face, pulled my hair and threw my body on the floor and against the wall. The jury saw photos of the bruises on my back, caused by kicks of Combsand saw the deep cut above my eye, caused when he throwed me against the structure of a bed, ”he continued.“ The entire court watched the real images of Combs Kicking and beating myself as I tried to escape a Freak Off in 2016. People watched this video dozens of times, watching my body thrown to the floor, my hands on my head, shrunk in a fetal position to protect me from the worst blows. ”

Harshness He wrote that he ended up developing dependence on the drugs he used to “anesthetize” in the face of the physical and emotional pain he suffered. “While defense lawyers suggested in the trial that my time with Combs It was like a ‘great story of modern love’, nothing could be farther from the truth. Nothing in this story is great, modern or loving – it was a horrible decade of my life, stained with abuse, violence, forced sex and degradation, ”she said.

The “seemingly insurmountable level of trauma” that suffered it to have suicidal thoughts, said Harshness. The artist credits the intervention and support of her family for saving her.

Harshness He said he still suffers from “nightmares and flashbacks” and continues to “need psychological care to deal” with the past. Wrote that it still fears that Combs Either your associates can attack it, or to your family. She added that while her family has moved from the New York region, she maintains “the biggest privacy and discretion possible because I am very afraid that if he leaves free, his early actions will be a quick retaliation against me and against others who talked about their abuses in trial.” She added:

“As much as I have advanced in my abuse recovery, I’m still very afraid of what he is capable and the malice that undoubtedly keeps against me for having the courage to tell the truth.”

Harshness mocked the allegation of the lawyers of Combs that he is a changed man and now intends to guide others in matters of domestic violence. “It causes me to repulsive,” he wrote. “He’s not being true. I know who he went to me – the manipulator, the aggressor, the abuser, the trafficker – who he is like a human being. He has no interest in changing or improving. He will always be the same cruel man, thirsty for power and manipulative he is.”

She said that when she filed a first action against CombsIn November 2023, he denied his accusations of abuse. Only after a video, released by CNNshowed the 2016 aggression against Harshness within today’s closed Intercontinental HotelIn Los Angeles, he finally filed a public apology, she said.

“Thanks to the images and my testimony, this will also be something with which he will be forever associated. For over a decade, Sean Combs It made me feel helpless and insignificant, but my experience was real, horrible and deserves to be considered, ”she wrote.“ Although the jury seems to have not understood or believed that I participated in the freak offs due to the strength and coercion that the defendant exercised about me, I know this is the truth, and his sentence must reflect the reality of evidence and my experience as a victim. ”

Ventura said that while waiting for “justice and liability,” he learned “not to trust anything.” Still, it maintains some faith that the judge Subramanian It will give a sentence that “consider the truths at stake that the jury could not see,” he wrote.

In his own memorandum of sentence, filed last week, the defense of Combs He asked for a maximum of 14 months in prison. The judge Subramanian will have wide margin of decision in the sentence of Combsscheduled for October 3rd. It is unclear how he will decide, but on the day of the jury verdict – when many speculated that the acquittal of Combs In the most serious accusations he would lead to his immediate release under the sentence – the judge adopted a rigid stance. He denied the release based on the fact that the defense of Combs voluntarily admitted during the trial that Combs It was violent with Harshness and Jane.

The main defense lawyer for Combs, Mark agnifilohe explicitly said to the jurors in his final statement that the defense was not contesting the allegations of domestic violence made by women. “In terms of assuming, only as a matter of personal responsibility… to assume domestic violence, we assumed. It happened,” he said Agnifile to the jury in his final speech on June 27. “If he had been charged with domestic violence, we would not all be here on trial, because he would have declared himself guilty – because he did it.”

In his own letter, filed on Monday, the parents of Cassie They asked the judge to consider the precedent that the sentence will establish for future cases. “Sentencing mildly in this case, which involved such visual and cruel abuses against our daughter’s body, safety and dignity, is disregarding her own existence,” the parents wrote. “Sentenced mildly would also send a dangerous message. A sentence in months, instead of years, conveys the message that such repulsive behavior can happen without significant consequences.”

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