Prosecutors said that at one of Combs’ alleged freak-off sex parties, he forced a male sex worker to urinate in Ventura’s mouth — an ordeal during which prosecutors said she “felt like she was choking,” according to People.
According to the New York Times, Ventura was also asked to describe a “freak-off” on Tuesday.
“It basically entails the hiring of an escort and setting up this experience so that I could perform for Sean,” she said. It involved Combs “being able to watch me with the other person and actually direct us on what we were doing,” she added. “Eventually it became a job for me, pretty much.”
Ventura testified that Combs recorded videos of her during sexual encounters as “blackmail materials” and feared that they could one day wind up on the internet. “He had many resources to do that,” she claimed.
Videos of Combs’ alleged freak-offs have been referenced as sealed evidence in his criminal trial. On Monday, lawyers for news organizations (including the New York Times and the Washington Post) filed a letter asking the judge in the case to keep the courtroom open to the public when visuals of those sexual exploits are played or at least “designate three pool reporters to watch and listen to the video exhibits as they are being shown,” Legal Affairs and Trials reported.
Ventura’s lawyers opposed the request to unseal those videos, stating in the letter, “Making the sexually explicit sealed videos public will effectively punish Ms. Ventura for testifying and re-traumatize her as the public will watch her abuse when she was at her most vulnerable.”
They added, “It would be profoundly unfair for Ms. Ventura’s brave choice to testify publicly and using her own name to require such a gross invasion of her dignity.”
On the stand, Ventura said Combs’ alleged freak-offs “took a big chunk of my life,” noting that she’d stay up for “days on end,” taking drugs, alcohol, and fornicating with “strangers.”
She claimed the sexual encounters would last anywhere from 36 hours to four days, though they could extend with breaks, and mostly occurred at hotels. She also noted that after they began, they became an almost weekly occurrence, leaving her little time to recover from the drugs, dehydration, and lack of sleep.
“The freak-offs became a job where there was no space to do anything else but to recover and just try to feel normal again,” Ventura said.
When asked to describe the aftermath of the freak-offs, Ventura told the prosecution that baby oil was left behind on the hotel walls and door handles, and sometimes even blood on the sheets, as she was “expected” to still participate during her period. She said urine was also on the linens sometimes, matching prosecutors’ earlier claim that a sex worker once urinated on Ventura.
“I just felt humiliated,” Ventura said on the witness stand, NBC News reported. “It was disgusting, it was too much. I choked, I didn’t want to be doing that. I was in a position I couldn’t easily get out of. I eventually put my hands up, and Sean saw and told him to stop. I was choking, too much urine in my mouth.”
She added, “Sean urinated on me at the same time.”
According to the New York Times, Ventura shared that Combs would become a different person during their sexual encounters, saying: “His eyes go black. The version of him I was in love with was no longer there.”
Even after telling Combs multiple times how the freak-offs made her feel “worthless,” Ventura said he was “pretty dismissive” of her concerns.
Ventura testified that one time, Combs asked her to get inside a blown-up pool full of baby oil at a hotel, which she didn’t want to do, but “at that point I couldn’t say no” for fear of his temper.
“Something that Sean wanted to happen, that’s what was going to happen,” she said.
Expanding on the alleged freak-offs, Ventura said she’d spend considerable time preparing herself for them because of Combs’ control over her appearance. “I had to look a certain way,” she explained.
