Hey everybody, I'm Ashley Banfield, and this is Drop Dead Serious.

Today we are back inside the federal courthouse in Manhattan, where Cassie Ventura

just gave what may be the most excruciating testimony we've heard yet in the government's

sex trafficking case against Sean Diddy Combs. And if you've been following it, yes,

it is gross. It is kinky. It's dirty. It's embarrassing. It's shocking. It's stuff I don't think I've ever heard of and I don't think I'm uprood.

But the most important thing is not the gross stuff necessarily. And by the way, plenty of that came today, right? Like mouth sores.

Cassie saying that she was having so much oral sex, she was developing mouth sores, that

she was developing constant UTIs, that even antibiotics wouldn't cure.

She talked about violence and even an alleged rape, saying that Sean Diddy Combs raped

her after they broke up.

But in the end, the gross stuff, the shocking stuff, everything you see in the

headlines everywhere, that's not necessarily the thing that's going to pack the punch. Really,

it's sometimes the little details that prosecutors are laying out that will prove what they're

trying to prove, which is a RICO case. They're not trying to prove that Sean Diddy Combs was kinky, dirty, and nasty. They're trying to prove which is a RICO case they're not trying to prove

that Sean Diddy Combs was kinky dirty and nasty they're trying to prove that he

was organized in his racketeering that they allege he was a leader of and little

things all the way through the stories that you're hearing amid all the grossness

and the dirtiness and the kink.

That's what's really going to end up proving this stuff, right?

So throughout this podcast, I'm going to stop down amid a lot of these details,

and I'm going to tie them back to RICO, racketeer-influenced corrupt organization, RICO,

and whether the jury is going to believe whether these

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