Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. The defense showed emails and text messages from early in Combs and Ventura Fine's relationship, where they professed love for each other and she sought more attention from him.

In Sean “Diddy” Combs’s sex-trafficking trial, star witness Cassie Ventura spent hours being cross-examined by the defense.

During cross-examination Thursday, Cassandra "Cassie" Ventura detailed in the federal sex trafficking and racketeering trial against hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs their group sexual encounters, the extent of their drug use and her own feelings toward Combs.

In its earliest days, a broad racketeering-conspiracy and sex-trafficking case has zoomed in on a single relationship.

Cassie Ventura has Sean “Diddy” Combs to thank, in part, for finding the true love of her life. Ventura’s husband, Alex Fine, was Combs’ personal trainer before he became Ventura’s trainer, which led to them falling in love.

Cassie Ventura took the stand in Diddy's trial and testified she received a $20 million settlement from a lawsuit filed in November and dismissed 24 hours later.

During testimony in Sean “Diddy” Combs’s sex-trafficking trial, Cassie Ventura shared details about Combs’s alleged abuse and her relationship with rapper Kid Cudi.

Cassie revealed Diddy paid $20M to end her 2023 sexual assault lawsuit. She is now detailing those same allegations at his criminal trial.