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Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

Cassie Under Fire: Diddy’s Defense Uses Her Own Words Against Her | United States vs. Sean Combs Day 4

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

True Crime

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

It's Day 4 of Diddy's Trial.... and Cassie Ventura’s cross-examination in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ federal sex trafficking trial took a sharp turn. The defense came out swinging, armed with a stack of Cassie’s old text messages, emails, and surveillance footage. And one by one, they used her own words against her. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down the pivotal moments in the courtroom… how Cassie held up under pressure… and whether Diddy’s legal team managed to plant seeds of doubt in the minds of the jury.

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0:00.0

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

0:12.1

I'm so glad you're with me today.

0:14.2

This is again one of those podcasts where I'm going to be saying some things.

0:20.3

I'm going to be saying some dirty things. I'm going to be saying some things. I'm going to be saying some dirty things.

0:22.6

I'm going to be reading some dirty texts.

0:25.0

And I'm going to be using some foul language.

0:27.5

So all in the interest of being very accurate with reporting from court.

0:33.5

Because when it comes to court testimony, they don't typically sanitize things, right?

0:39.0

Texts are read as they are written.

0:42.7

And so today I'm going to be giving you a lot of that stuff.

0:45.0

So if you've got like some kind of sensitivity to, you know, racy stuff,

0:51.4

well, plug half an ear.

0:57.2

This is one of those days that was like pretty embarrassing for Cassie Ventura. I've got to say she's under cross-examination in the Sean Combs' sex

1:05.9

trafficking and racketeering trial, right? If you hear panting, it's my dog Atlas who is like just inches away from

1:13.0

the microphone. He's a golden doodle. He's about 70 pounds. And for whatever reason, he's very

1:17.0

antsy. We had some weather today, and I think he just gets antsy when there's weather. So he's

1:21.6

going to be traipsing around the studio. He's always in here. But you might hear him because he's

1:26.5

very close to the microphone.

1:28.0

You're right, bud?

1:29.6

Yeah, you're okay.

1:31.5

So, yeah, this was one of those days where Cassie, who's now on, you know, cross-examination by Sean Combs' lawyers, is having to endure some pretty embarrassing stuff.

1:43.2

I mean, they made her read her own

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