Sean “Diddy” Combs’ former girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie, took the witness stand in his sex trafficking trial on Tuesday, a day after prosecutors showed jurors video of the music mogul beating her in a hotel in 2016. Testimony from Cassie, whose legal name is Casandra Ventura, is central to prosecutors’ attempts to portray Combs as used his status as a powerful executive to orchestrate a deviant empire of exploitation, coercing women into abusive sex parties he called “freak-offs” and becoming violent if they refused. MORE: https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/sean-diddy-combs-ex-girlfriend-cassie-testifying-sex-trafficking-trial/507-8b11b19b-3208-45a5-8a2e-95044256a8f7