Ventura questioned about loving, explicit messages exchanged with Combs
Ventura testified that she loved Combs and believed he loved her, and that the two exchanged “loving” messages.
The jury was shown one such message from early in their relationship. “It makes me so happy that you would fly to ATL just to see me. I’m a very lucky man,” an email from Combs read.
“I’m a very lucky woman. I miss you so much. I’d fly wherever you needed me, whenever,” Ventura sent in reply.
“What about him made you fall in love with him?” defense attorney Anna Estevao asked Ventura.
“I haven’t thought about it in a while," Ventura responded. "The beginning of the relationship, I spoke about it already, it was really fast, fast-paced, scary. But the more time I spent with him and got to know him his real personality, or at least what I thought was his real personality, came out,”
Ventura further testified that Combs in the early stages of their relationship was “very sweet, attentive.”
The jury was shown an August 2009 message from Combs to Ventura, telling her to look at his latest tweet. Ventura responded “OMG!!! Pop pop … Can I respond or write something about my man," using a nickname for Combs that she testified on Tuesday Combs had requested.
Ventura testified that at the time she was looking forward to going public about their relationship.
In another message, from April 4, 2010, two-and-a-half years into their relationship, Ventura sent a message to Combs that read “I love you so much it consumes my life.”
The defense has argued that Ventura was not sex trafficked, as the prosecution claims, but rather was a willing partner in what the defense has described as Combs’ “swingers lifestyle.” Ventura pushed back against a defense attorney’s suggestion that she willingly partook in so-called "freak off" sex sessions.
“To make him happy you told him that you wanted to do 'freak offs',” defense attorney Anna Estevao said.
“No,” Ventura replied. “There’s a lot more to that.”
Estevao then confronted Ventura with a message from August 5, 2009, in which Ventura told Combs, “I’m always ready to 'freak off.'”
Two days later, the defense said Ventura sent Combs an explicit message expressing excitement about participating in a sexual event.
Combs responded, “I can’t wait to watch you. I want you to get real hot.”
Ventura replied, “Me too. I just want it to be uncontrollable.”
After the defense introduced an additional, explicit, message, Ventura asked the judge for a break.
