Cassie Testified About Years of Diddy's Alleged Abuse — Yet Rapper's Attorney Claims She's Case's 'Winner'

Defense attorneys for Sean “Diddy” Combs are seeking to undermine prosecutors and their star witness, Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, claiming she was actually the “winner” in the legal fallout surrounding Combs.

During his remarks on Friday, June 27, Marc Agnifilo pushed back against prosecutors’ portrayal of Ventura as a victim who was mistreated in her relationship with Combs, saying, “Cassie is nobody’s fool.”

“If you had to pick a winner in this whole thing, it’s Cassie,” he said.

“She is sitting somewhere in the world with $30 million,” Agnifilo said, referring to the $20 million settlement Ventura received from Combs to resolve her bombshell lawsuit and the $10 million Ventura testified she would receive from the owner of the InterContinental Hotel, where Combs assaulted her in March 2016.

Agnifilo further claimed to the jury that Ventura had agency, highlighting that she dated rapper Scott Mescudi, known as Kid Cudi, and Combs at the same time. “She played them both,” he said.

During her testimony, Ventura had said she dated Mescudi when she was on a break from her relationship with Combs, which was often volatile and punctuated with separations across 11 years.

Eventually, she and Mescudi broke off their brief relationship out of fear for their safety, after Combs allegedly threatened to blow up Mescudi’s car weeks before the car did blow up, per testimony from Ventura and Combs’ former assistant Capricorn Clark.

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Agnifilo, who walked back and forth in the courtroom while delivering his remarks to the jury on Friday, also said if there is one word to describe Ventura, it is “unafraid.”

His remarks came a day after the prosecution rested their case, delivering a damning picture of what prosecutors have said was a criminal enterprise Combs ran alongside his associates.

Prosecutor Christy Slavik, in her closing remarks Thursday, wove together weeks of testimony to present a comprehensive case for the charges Combs faces: sex trafficking, racketeering, and transportation to engage in prostitution.

Combs has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

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