Cassie Ventura will reportedly use her real name in the upcoming trial against Sean "Diddy" Combs.
As People reports, a motion was filed on April 4 identifying Ventura as “Victim-1” of Diddy's upcoming trial, which will see him face charges for sex trafficking, transportation to engage in prostitution, and racketeering.
Ventura "is prepared to testify under her own name," the filing states. "Victim-2, Victim-3, and Victim-4 have asked that their identities not be revealed to the press or the public."
The anonymous victims have been requested by prosecutors to “be referred to at trial using only pseudonyms” and for the court to require the defense to not share any details that identify them.
"This case has already received an exceptional amount of media coverage, which will presumably only increase as trial proceeds," prosecutors state in the filing. "Permitting these measures will prevent unnecessary public disclosure of the victims’ identities, and the harassment from the media and others, undue embarrassment, and other adverse consequences that would almost certainly follow if these women were forced to reveal their true names publicly at trial."
Diddy was recently hit with two more criminal charges ahead of his trial next month. Prosecutors filed a superseding indictment that gives him an additional charge of sex trafficking and one additional charge of transportation to engage in prostitution.
These charges are on top of the other charges that he’s already facing: one count of each of the two previously mentioned charges, plus one count of racketeering.
Diddy’s legal team clarified that these charges aren’t from new accusers.
"These are the same individuals, former long-term girlfriends, involved in consensual relationships," his lawyers said. "This was their private sex life."
The new sex trafficking charges allege Diddy to have "recruited, enticed, harbored, transported, and maintained Victim-2, and attempted, aided and abetted, and willfully caused Victim-2, to engage in commercial sex acts, knowing and in reckless disregard of the fact that Victim-2 was engaging in commercial sex acts as a result of force, fraud, and coercion."
