Cassie Ventura’s Mom Testifies That Diddy Demanded $20,000 from Her

"He was trying to hurt my daughter," Ventura said on the stand on Tuesday.

By Audra Heinrichs | May 20, 2025 | 6:22pm

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Cassie Ventura’s Mom Testifies That Diddy Demanded $20,000 from Her

On Tuesday, Cassandra “Cassie” Ventura’s mother took the stand in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex-trafficking and racketeering trial. According to Rolling Stone, Regina Ventura’s 40-minute testimony included the bombshell claims that Combs not only threatened her daughter’s life and to release footage of her forced participation in “freak offs,” but demanded she pay him $20,000 to “recoup money” for investing in her daughter’s career.

Regina claimed that, in December 2011, Cassie sent her a letter claiming Combs was threatening to release videos from the “freak offs” after she began a relationship with Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi. She also told Regina that Combs was threatening to have someone “hurt” her and Mescudi, and that he would not be in the United States when it happened. During this time, Regina claimed that Combs also contacted her directly to ask for $20,000 to make up for what he did for Cassie’s career.

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Because Regina and her husband couldn’t afford it, Regina testified that she and her husband took out a home equity loan to pay Combs out of fear for what could happen to Cassie. “That’s the only way we could get the money,” Regina said in court, adding that Combs “demanded it.”

“I was physically sick,” Regina said while recalling receiving the letter from Cassie. “I did not understand it, the sex tape threw me. He was trying to hurt my daughter.”

Elsewhere in her testimony, Regina also alleged that she’s the one who documented Cassie’s injuries sustained by Combs, saying, “She was bruised, and I wanted to make sure that we memorialized it.” She also testified that she and Combs once had a “bitter argument” in which he maintained possession of Cassie’s phone.

“We were arguing about the phone, I wanted the phone back and he was holding it,” Regina said, adding that one of his bodyguards was between the two of them. “I was yelling, screaming, and trying to hit him but I wasn’t successful.”

In addition to Regina Ventura, David James, Combs’ former assistant, and Sharay Hayes, an exotic dancer hired by Combs throughout his relationship with Cassie, also took the stand this week. Mescudi is expected to testify later on Wednesday or Thursday.

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