Sean Combs sex trafficking trial updates: Cassie's testimony ends after days of describing abuse

When a prosecutor asked why, she replied: "For me it was dissociative and numbing. I couldn't imagine myself doing any of that without having some sort of buffer or way to not feel it for what it really was, which was emotionless sex with a stranger that I didn't really want to have sex with."

During her testimony, Cassie identified some of the many male escorts she says she hired for "freak offs" at Combs' behest. As she spoke, prosecutors displayed photos of the men on courtroom monitors.

She identified some by their real names. Others she knew only by their nicknames, including "The Punisher."

Cassie said some of the men, procured online, were flown to "freak offs" in such places as Los Angeles, Miami and Las Vegas. Others were only used for encounters in New York City. One of those men, a stripper named Daniel Phillip, testified on Monday and Tuesday.

Cassie Ventura participated in freak offs at nearly every one of Sean Combs' homes and, most frequently, in hotels in New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Las Vegas, Ibiza, and Turks and Caicos, she told the jury.

"After a freak off the room was pretty bad off," she said. "Oil, candle wax all over the place."

The candles were used for lighting along with studio-type lights that gave the room a reddish hue, she testified. The jury saw a photo of Combs on a bed with a wad of cash in a room that was glowing with red light.

Ventura said she remembered the smell in the room being "super pungent" from candles, body odor and urine.

Ventura said Combs liked participants' bodies "to be glistening" with baby oil. They would go through ten large-sized bottles at a time, she testified.

Ventura told the jury that the freak offs fulfilled Combs's alleged desire for voyeurism. She described in graphic detail what she said were "disgusting" acts.

When the freak offs became more frequent, Ventura said she and Combs used an escort service to supply them with participants at locations across the country.

Combs sat back in his chair listening to Ventura's testimony, with his mother and children seated in the second row behind him.

Cassie said the "freak offs" were a "very choreographed experience," with lots of baby oil.

The substance would be heated up - a closed bottle placed in a sink filled with hot water - and applied liberally because Combs wanted her glistening constantly, she said.

Combs would call out Cassie when she "looked dry" and ordered her to reapply, sometimes requiring a new coat of baby oil every five minutes, or so, she said.

On one occasion, she said, a blow-up pool of baby oil and lubricants was placed in a hotel room and she was told to get inside in her "outfit" and shoes.

She said close to 10 large bottles of baby oil would be used during a "freak off."

"It was such a mess," she said. "It was like, 'What are we doing?'"

As she questioned Cassie, prosecutor Emily Johnson returned again and again to a simple, but important question: Whose decision was it?

"Sean," Cassie replied each time, referring to Combs.

It was his decision, she said, to involve her in "freak offs," to incorporate baby oil and male sex workers, to pour candle wax on her body, and more.

Cassie Ventura broke down on the witness stand as she described her participation in freak offs.

Ventura said she had just turned 22 when Sean Combs first proposed these marathon, drug-addled sex performances with male prostitutes and eventually, they "became almost weekly." She said it would be impossible to remember participating in all of them.

The average length was two or three days. She was awake the whole time, fueled by ecstasy, molly and cocaine given to her by Combs.

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"Who decided when a freak off was over?" prosecutor Emily Johnson asked.

"Ultimately that would be Sean," Ventura responded.

"Did you want to participate in every freak off?" Johnson asked

"No," Ventura answered. "I felt like it was all I was good for. It was disgusting. I felt humiliated. I didn't have the words for how horrible I really felt."

If she refused to participate, Combs "would be violent with me."

"His look would just change over. He would become a different person and I didn't know what was going to happen," Ventura said.

When Johnson asked if there was any part of the freak off she enjoyed, Ventura began to sob. She grabbed a tissue and, through tears, said "I thought it was the only time I could get."

The first freak-off occurred at one of the homes Combs was renting in Los Angeles. The jury saw a photo of the male escort who participated. Ventura did not remember his name. She said she wore "really high platform shoes" and a masquerade mask.

"Every freak off was directed by Sean. He knew specifically where he wanted everyone to be, the lighting," Ventura said.

The case against Combs also involves those around him and Johnson asked Ventura about associates Toni Fletcher and Kristina Khorram and security guards named Fahim and Uncle Paulie.

Ventura, who added a long camel coat to her witness stand wardrobe, recalled seeing guns in several of Combs' properties, "just laid out."

She recalled an evening when one of his employees told Combs record executive Shug Knight was nearby. Combs and others donned black clothing and guns.

"I was crying, I was screaming. Like, please don't do anything stupid," Ventura testified.