(AP Photo/Seth Wenig) FILE - Cassie Ventura, left, and Sean "Diddy" Combs appear at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating "China: Through the Looking Glass ...

Cassie Ventura broke down in Manhattan court Tuesday as she testified how Sean “Diddy” Combs’ eyes would suddenly “just go black’’ when he launched into violent rages against her.

NEW YORK (AP) — Cassie, the R&B singer and former girlfriend of Sean “Diddy” Combs, testified Tuesday that the mercurial music mogul — powerful, abusive and controlling — beat her ...

This report contains descriptions of physical and sexual violence. On Wednesday, Casandra "Cassie" Ventura finished her second day of testimony in the trial of Sean Combs. Ventura testified about ...

A courtroom sketch depicts Sean "Diddy" Combs listening to opening statements in his federal sex trafficking trial in New York City on Monday. (Jane Rosenberg/Reuters) ...

Cassie, a key prosecution witness expected to testify Tuesday, met Combs in 2005 when she was 19 and he was 37. He signed her to his Bad Boy Records label and, within a few years, they started dating.

NEW YORK — Cassie, the R&B singer and former girlfriend of Sean “Diddy” Combs, testified on Tuesday that the music mogul abused and sexually exploited her for years, as she took the witness ...