Diddy, Cassie and Ventura Fine
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The rapper's lawyers have also alleged she was motivated by money to get back at him.Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. The defense showed emails and text messages from early in Combs and Ventura Fine's relationship,
Diddy on trial newsletter: Step inside the courtroom as music mogul ... She recalled a time when she went home to her husband Alex Fine and children, "I remember telling him, 'You can do this without me.'" Ventura Fine said during testimony it all just ...
Cassie Ventura's husband Alex Fine wrote angry texts to Sean "Diddy" Combs, according to Combs' defense attorney. Teny Geragos, the lawyer for Combs, asked the judge to ban Fine from the courtroom on May 12 because he might be called as a witness during Combs' trial,
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.