Hi, I'm Brian Bukmeyer, an ABC News legal contributor and host of Bad Rap, The Case Against Diddy.

You're about to hear our latest episode following everything going on in Sean Combs' trial from the prosecution and the defense.

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sexual assault, and suicide. So please take care when listening. This week, USA v. Sean Combs has been mostly about one witness, singer Cassie Ventura,

who was in a romantic relationship with Sean Combs for over a decade.

Cassie brought the first civil lawsuit against Combs in 2023.

It included allegations of sex trafficking and was settled quickly with no

admission of guilt. This week, we learned through her testimony the amount of that settlement,

$20 million. For a long time, that lawsuit was the only look we had into her experience with

Sean Combs. I remember when we were

researching earlier episodes of this podcast, the lawsuit was one of the very few sources of

information we had to draw from to try to understand her side of things. And now here's Cassie Ventura,

city in court, very pregnant, answering question after question,

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