Cassie testifies that Sean 'Diddy' Combs blackmailed her with sex videos
NEW YORK (AP) — The R&B singer Cassie testified Wednesday that her ex-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs kept her in a cycle of abuse and exploitation by threatening to release videos of her encounters with male sex workers that he orchestrated. Addressing the Manhattan courtroom for a second day in Combs' federal sex trafficking trial, Cassie said that even though she loathed having drugged-up sex with strangers, she couldn’t reject Combs’ demands because he would make her “look like a...
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