Singer talks about in-patient treatment center she went to in 2023 after prosecutors agreed to re-question her

Singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, a former girlfriend of Sean “Diddy” Combs and a key witness in the federal sex-trafficking and racketeering trial of the music mogul,returned to the stand on Friday for further examination by Combs’s legal team.

Combs’s defense team resumed their cross-examination of Ventura on Friday morning, with questions focusing on the time around the 2016 video footage of Combs attacking Ventura at the elevator lobby of a hotel in Los Angeles, and Combs’s state of mind at that time.

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