“I Will F--king Kill You”: Cassie’s Explosive Audio Rocks the Courtroom | United States vs. Sean Combs Day 5

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

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🗓️ 17 May 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Day 5 of Diddy’s trial just blew the roof off. Jurors heard a 2014 audio recording of Cassie Ventura screaming at a man who claimed he saw one of her sex tapes. “I will f--king kill you. I will cut you up and put you in the f--king dirt.” In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down the final day in week 1 of Diddy's Federal Trial.

He was the king of Bad Boy Records: a billionaire mogul, a Grammy winner, and the face of luxury in hip-hop. Sean “Diddy” Combs is facing a slew of federal charges in New York, accused of running a criminal enterprise for over two decades. Combs has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, I'm Ashley Banfield and this is Drop Dead serious.
0:11.8	Five days down, dozens more to go in the Sean Diddy Combs federal sex trafficking trial.
0:19.5	But today was day four for his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura.
0:24.6	She's been on the stand as the government's star witness, but today she was finally able to wrap
0:29.8	things up. Cassie's testimony officially ended at 3.20 p.m. today, and that might not seem like
0:36.1	such a big deal, but trust me when I say it was.
0:40.2	It was a big old deal because the prosecutors were starting to sweat.
0:45.0	They were worried that the defense was deliberately dragging their feet and trying to stretch
0:50.8	Cassie's testimony out just long enough to force her back into court on Monday.
0:57.0	And that matters, because it would have given P. Diddy the entire weekend to just hang out in his cell with a transcript and a pen and basically mark up everything that Cassie has said on the stand so far.
1:10.0	He'd have hours upon hours to pick it apart
1:12.3	detail by detail and then prep his lawyers for another round of blistering cross-examination next week.
1:19.0	And there is also that other big thing, like huge, her tummy. Cassie is about nine months pregnant,
1:26.8	and the prosecution was absolutely facing the
1:29.4	possibility that she could have gone into labor before even finishing her testimony. But she made
1:35.1	it through, and what came out in the final stretch was pretty explosive. Beyond the kinky free coughs,
1:42.8	there was cringe-worthy cheating, bombshell information
1:47.0	about a $10 million settlement. That would be on top of a $20 million settlement. Cassie also broke
1:54.6	down in tears on the stand and the defense, played a jaw-dropping audio tape that made Cassie sound a hell of a lot more
2:03.4	gangster than a calm and poised pregnant mom of two on the stand. So let's go back to the
2:09.4	beginning of the day and walk through it all. Diddy is still wearing that same outfit. I do not get it. It's the same cream colored sweater,
2:21.3	the same white collared shirt, the same light colored pants. This is the fifth day in a row.
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