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Sean "Diddy" Combs' ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura took the stand Tuesday in his federal sex trafficking and racketeering trial in NYC. She repeatedly cried on the stand as she recounted in graphic detail the "freak offs" she participated in.

Jennifer Beidel, a former US attorney for the Southern District of New York, tells the BBC that because of the length of Casandra Ventura and Sean "Diddy" Combs' relationship - about a decade, on and off - Ventura's testimony in this case is crucial.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs' trial for sex crimes isn't being broadcast due to rules banning cameras in courtrooms during federal criminal proceedings

Regina Ventura, the mother of Combs' ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura Fine, told the court on May 20 she was "physically sick" over the rapper's alleged abuse of her daughter, and she was once pressured to send him $20,000 over an angry fit.

Day four of Diddy's sex trafficking trial has ended. It was the third straight day the court saw Cassie Ventura in the witness box. This time, Sean 'Diddy' Combs' attorneys were cross examining her and her testimony for the prosecution.