This article contains mentions of rape and sexual assault. Reader discretion is advised. On day 3 of rapper Diddy‘s federal sex-trafficking and racketeering trial, his ex-partner Casandra Cassie Ventura testified before the court and presented distressing details of their relationship.

Combs faces five federal charges of racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution, to which he has pleaded not guilty.

Cassie Ventura tells court at day three of trial that Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs raped her, describing physical abuse, control and violence at trial in New York City. | ITV National News

A lawyer for Sean “Diddy” Combs began grilling his longtime former partner, Casandra Ventura, on Thursday after the jury heard two days of devastating testimony from the R&B singer known as

Sean “Diddy” Combs overdosed on painkillers in February 2012, his lawyer revealed during his sex trafficking trial in New York.

Sean “Diddy” Combs’s federal sex-trafficking trial and high-profile case continues on Day 3 as Cassie Ventura testifies on alleged abuse, freak-offs and Kid Cudi.

Disgraced rapper Sean 'Diddy' Combs is back in court for day four of his trial as his former partner Cassie Ventura takes to the stand to be cross-examined by his legal team before reading out explici

In the Sean "Diddy" Combs trial, social media is flooded with thousands of opinions from people following the proceedings with heavy focus on the testimony of Cassie Ventura. NBC News' Maya Eaglin describes what people are saying and how the jurors will see evidence the public will not.