Regina Ventura, the mother of Combs' ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura Fine, told the court on May 20 she was "physically sick" over the rapper's alleged abuse and said she was once pressured to send him $20,000 after he raged at her daughter. "I was scared for my daughter’s safety," Ventura told jurors.

Diddy’s ex described falling “in love” with the rapper before becoming subjected to his “control,” “beatings,” and days-long sex “performances.”

The singer was also asked about the music mogul's drug use including a 2012 incident where he overdosed on painkillers.

His love of baby oil, is that a federal crime?” He got laughs in the overflow room where I was sitting for that, but it was also a signal of the testimony we were about to hear that would include hours of disturbing descriptions of Combs’ obsession with holding “freak-offs,

The fourth day of Diddy's trial was held on May 15, 2025, and the defense team cross-examined his ex-girlfriend and key prosecution witness, Cassie Ventura.