“The Bad Boy Records’ Longtime Staff Celebrity Stylist Who Worked with and Befriened Cassie Ventura Fine During the During the R&B Singer Was Wednesday at the Rap Mogul’s Federal Trial, Detailing to the Jury the Years of Alleged Abuse and Blackmailing that He”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Combs, 55, has pleaded not guilty to an indement of alleging he abused Ventura Fine, HIS Longtime Girlfriend, and others. If Convicted, He Could Face 15 Years to Life in Prison.
Deonte Nash Brough Somee Levity to Very Serious Tastimony as He Told the Court of A Complex Relationship with Combs Over A Decade of Employment, Wichh He Began AT 2008. there, immediatally moved into a Celebrity style Role. Specifically, Nash Worked for Ventura Fine, Aka Cassie, Who He Said He Introduced Himself to Early on And Befriened As She Was Launcing A Semingly. But as nash told the jury Over Several Hours of TESTIMONY, COMBB Wuld Threaten Her Career Prospects, Dangle Sex Tapes of Her WitH Her Men that Tho a Said HE’D HE’DAAIL. Described from the witness staand, violently attacck her – And at Times, HIM.
One of the Seese Instances Occurred in 2013 or 2014, Nash Said, and Involved Combs Storming Into Ventura Fine’s La Apartment While Nash and An Assistant, Being Referred Tore, W Wing. for a trip. Ventura Fine Was Asleep WHEN Combs Arrived, Shouting About Her Not Pricking Up Her Phone, Nash Told The Court. Combs Ten Began Hitting and Kicking Ventura Fine, He Said; Durying the Attack, he testified, nash and “mia” jumped on combs’ back to stop him but he thruw they Off and Continued Beating Her; Eventualally, She Hit Her Head On a Bed Frame and Began Bleeding.
“WHEN HE NOTICED THE BLOOD, HE JUST PANICED,” Nash Said, Telling The Jury That Combs Ten Said To “Mia” and HIM, “LOOK WHAT Y’Lall Made Me Do.”
Nash testified that at that point, he called 911 but was told by by someone in the room to hang up, which he did. Combs then said that ventura fine would be sent to a plastic surgeon with a member of his security team. AT A Video Shoot The Following Day, Nash SAID, HE SAW THAT HIS FRIEND AND CLIENT HAD A STITCHED-UP GASH ON HER Forehead, Near Her Eyebrow. Earlier in the day -long tastimony and cross-examination by combs’ Defense Lawyer, Nash Descripted How this Impacted Ventura Fine.
“Shew Cry, sometimes she would Just Stay in the House for Days and GO in a Cocoon,“ He Said.
Nash told the Court How Combs Wound Use His Vast Empire and Staff to Control Ventura Fine – A Key Element That Prosecution Must Prove to the Trial’s Jury for a Racket. Combs frequently wold Tell Ventura Fine he would not release the musical she made and he Controlled, Nash Said, and Threated to See Her Parents Fired their Jobs. From the witness Stand, Nash Also ConfirMed Ventura Fine’s Testimony from the Beginning of the Trial That Combs Wuld Threaten to Release Sexually Explicit Videos of Ventura; This would happen “Anytime she did sometimee he didn’s,” nash testified. From the stand, he recalled the moment that he learned the Nature of the “freak-out” Videos that combs is accounting of dangling to MainTain Control of Ventura Fine.
IT WAS Following An Instance of Violence He Said He Witnessed, ALSO AROUND 2013 OR 2014, at Ventura Fine’s APARTMENT. After Arriving Angry and Speaking with Ventura Fine in the Apartment’s Bedroom, Nash Told The Court Combs “GrabBed Her Her Hir and the Back of Her Shirt and Started Pushing Her Out.” He then, as nash have a bald head, was “popping me in the back of the head” and grabbed him by his shirt to get him out of the room as well, he testified. The Two Left The APARTMENT But Were Held Back by Combs’ Security Men, Thatn Eventuly Drove Away. A Call from Combs Was Received, He Said, Telling Them To Pull Over. At that Point, Combs Came Up to the Car and Told Ventura Fine he’d upload Videos of her to the Internet, Nash told the Court, Saying He’d “Release Them on Schely” Starting. Before Walking Off, Nash Said Combs told Her HE is “The ONLY ONE THAT PROTEked Her.”
Nash Tht the Court That She Was Sobbing As They Continued Driving Off, and He Told Her That She Should Go Ahead and Let Him Release of the Tapes, Since He’s in Them Too.
“She said that he wasn’t on the Videos, that it was ham taping her with of other guys,“ he testiified, saying she Told Him that she did the she ner wanted to have sex with. “Because Puff Wanted Her To.”
That day, Nash said hepaped off Ventura Fine on Sunset Boulevard to Get a Yellow Cab To a Hotel. Later, he was informed by his boss, style derek roche, that he’d handed combs’ Security Nash’s Address. Combs, Roche and the Mogul’s Security Arrived to Look for Ventura Fine, He Testified, Telling The Court He Looked EverWhereWhere for Her WHY HE LOOKED IN THE OVEN. ”). WHEN NASH’s Phone Rang With a Call from a Nearby Hotel, Combs, He Said, Knew Where to Find Her and Made Nash Wheedle His Way Up To Her Room With Hotel Staff. WHEN COMBS ‘Security Guard and Chief of Staff, Toni Fletcher, Ented Ventura Fine’s Hotel Room, She Said She’d “Go Over The Balcony” WHEN TOLD to GO DOWN AND See Combs.
In detailing his own relationship with the defense, nash testified about Multiple Times Combs Became Physically Aggressive Town Him. In addition to the instance the style said that he was “popping me in the back of the head,” in 2013 while they were were on a music video short, combs threw him on a parked car, nash tasty. about going out y’all wildin ”; This referred to an instance WHEN NASH Told the Court HE DID NOT GO OUTAUSE VENTURA FINE Wuld Want to Join Him and that Willd Anger Combs.
Despite all of the testimony implicating combs, nash said he does not hate the Fallen Mogul. This Was Told to DEFENSE ATTORNEY XAVIER R. DONALDSON, WHO SPENT PLENTY OF TIME WEDNESDAY QUESTING NASH’s CAREER TRAJECTORY AND IMPLYING Combs Deserves Credit for All Thot. That Celebrity Stylist Who Worked for Combs for A Decade Plans to Sue Him in Civil Court, Joinging Dozens of Other Who Have Filed Complaints.
“This Man’s Sanity Was My Safety.… It Was Just What I Was Used To,“ Nash Told Donaldson of Working with Combs Amid Alleged Harrowing Abuse. “I DON’T HATE HIM. IT’S JUST NOT IN ME.”