R&B singer Casandra Ventura, a onetime rising star in the New York hip-hop scene, testified that ex-boyfriend Sean "Diddy" Combs abused her and derailed her career when she took the stand at the rapper's trial on Tuesday.

The R&B singer Cassie could testify as soon as Tuesday in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial, as the Bad Boy Records founder faces charges that he orchestrated a deviant empire of exploitation that forced women into drugged-up sex parties called “freak-offs.

Witnesses in Sean "Diddy" Combs' criminal trial are expected to continue testifying after opening statements and the first round of cross-examination.

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The trial is expected to last throughout the year.

Prosecutors have called their first witnesses in the trial of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs. He denies all the federal charges. On the first day of Diddy’s trial, jurors have watched a video showing him assaulting his former long-time partner,