Cassie To Testify Against Diddy Using Real Name In Trafficking Trial

The dominoes continue to fall for Diddy as his sex trafficking trial approaches. The 55-year-old artist’s ex-girlfriend Cassie will testify against him, under her real name, in court come May.

This past Friday (April 4), prosecutors filed a motion stating that “Victim-1” would not testify anonymously in the upcoming trial. People confirmed with sources that “Victim-1” was Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, who dated the Bad Boy co-founder from 2007 to 2018; Rolling Stone also previously confirmed this in January. Three other alleged victims will be testifying against Puff, but they are choosing to preserve anonymity. The prosecution requested that they be addressed using pseudonyms during trial.

“This case has already received an exceptional amount of media coverage, which will presumably only increase as trial proceeds,” the prosecution wrote. “Permitting these measures will prevent unnecessary public disclosure of the victims’ identities, and the harassment from the media and others, undue embarrassment, and other adverse consequences that would almost certainly follow if these women were forced to reveal their true names publicly at trial.”

This is a significant revelation as it brings this entire experience full circle for the former couple; Cassie sued Diddy in November 2023 for rape, assault, and trafficking, creating a major uproar in the entertainment space. They quickly settled outside of court, but this opened the floodgates for several other alleged victims to come forward with additional lawsuits. Women claimed the “Last Night” artist took advantage of them when they were teenagers, and he has even had some men accuse him of sexual assault as well.

Things took a dark turn when footage of “Brother Love” assaulting the “Long Way 2 Go” singer in a hotel in 2016 surfaced online. The three-time Grammy winner apologized for his behavior, acknowledging that he was “f**ked up” at the time, but notably did not say his ex-girlfriend’s name in the apology.

Reports came out that the couple was legally restricted from saying each other’s names in public, but the court of public opinion had little grace to offer him regardless. Diddy has been behind bars since September 2024 after being arrested for racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and more. The lawsuits continue coming in, and he has had bail denied on multiple occasions.