Sean Combs sex trafficking trial updates: Cassie's testimony ends after days of describing abuse

Cassie Ventura concluded her first day of dramatic, graphic and emotional testimony by recalling the time she tried to leave a "freak off" before it was over and it returned jurors to a visceral piece of evidence.

"There's an instance in Los Angeles where it got violent, and I chose to leave," she said, the time in March 2016 at the InterContinental Hotel in Century City depicted on widely seen video.

"There was a lot of drinking, a lot of partying. I'm not sure what happened but in the middle of it I got hit by Sean and got a black eye," Ventura said.

"When I chose to leave, I grabbed what I could and got out and Sean followed me into the hallway by the elevators, grabbed me, tried to drag me back to the room."

Jurors have already seen the video during the testimony of a prior witness, but it was played again. "That's me," Ventura said.

Ventura said she made it to the elevators when "the next thing I knew I was just thrown to the ground." She said Combs grabbed her by the back of the hoodie and threw her down. She told the jury Combs had previously thrown her to the ground on multiple occasions, "too many to count."

Ventura earlier described how degrading the "freak offs" became.

"The idea of objectifying me was tossed around like it was nothing, putting me in these compromising positions with strangers," she said.

She said Combs insisted on recording the sessions, which she said "made me feel insane" because it was "humiliating, disgusting. Never wanted anyone to see me like that."

When a prosecutor asked why, she replied: "For me it was dissociative and numbing. I couldn't imagine myself doing any of that without having some sort of buffer or way to not feel it for what it really was, which was emotionless sex with a stranger that I didn't really want to have sex with."

During her testimony, Cassie identified some of the many male escorts she says she hired for "freak offs" at Combs' behest. As she spoke, prosecutors displayed photos of the men on courtroom monitors.

She identified some by their real names. Others she knew only by their nicknames, including "The Punisher."

Cassie said some of the men, procured online, were flown to "freak offs" in such places as Los Angeles, Miami and Las Vegas. Others were only used for encounters in New York City. One of those men, a stripper named Daniel Phillip, testified on Monday and Tuesday.

Cassie Ventura participated in freak offs at nearly every one of Sean Combs' homes and, most frequently, in hotels in New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Las Vegas, Ibiza, and Turks and Caicos, she told the jury.

"After a freak off the room was pretty bad off," she said. "Oil, candle wax all over the place."

The candles were used for lighting along with studio-type lights that gave the room a reddish hue, she testified. The jury saw a photo of Combs on a bed with a wad of cash in a room that was glowing with red light.

Ventura said she remembered the smell in the room being "super pungent" from candles, body odor and urine.

Ventura said Combs liked participants' bodies "to be glistening" with baby oil. They would go through ten large-sized bottles at a time, she testified.

Ventura told the jury that the freak offs fulfilled Combs's alleged desire for voyeurism. She described in graphic detail what she said were "disgusting" acts.

When the freak offs became more frequent, Ventura said she and Combs used an escort service to supply them with participants at locations across the country.

Combs sat back in his chair listening to Ventura's testimony, with his mother and children seated in the second row behind him.

Cassie said the "freak offs" were a "very choreographed experience," with lots of baby oil.

The substance would be heated up - a closed bottle placed in a sink filled with hot water - and applied liberally because Combs wanted her glistening constantly, she said.

Combs would call out Cassie when she "looked dry" and ordered her to reapply, sometimes requiring a new coat of baby oil every five minutes, or so, she said.

On one occasion, she said, a blow-up pool of baby oil and lubricants was placed in a hotel room and she was told to get inside in her "outfit" and shoes.

She said close to 10 large bottles of baby oil would be used during a "freak off."

"It was such a mess," she said. "It was like, 'What are we doing?'"

As she questioned Cassie, prosecutor Emily Johnson returned again and again to a simple, but important question: Whose decision was it?

"Sean," Cassie replied each time, referring to Combs.

It was his decision, she said, to involve her in "freak offs," to incorporate baby oil and male sex workers, to pour candle wax on her body, and more.