Dawn Richard, a former member of Danity Kane who sued Sean “Diddy” Combs last year for sexual violence and abuse, appeared in court on Friday to testify against the embattled mogul in his sex trafficking and racketeering trial.
The 41-year-old singer took the stand after Casandra “Cassie” Ventura alleged that she endured horrific violence during her 11-year relationship with Combs. Richard previously claimed to have witnessed Combs physically assaulting multiple women, including Ventura.
Richard repeated the claim on the witness stand, saying she saw Ventura “being attacked” by Combs in his Los Angeles home in 2009. “He came downstairs screaming, belligerent, asking where his food was, and continued to hit her in the head and kick her on the ground in front of us,” Richard testified, according to The Washington Post.
“He came over to the skillet with the eggs in it and tried to hit her over the head, and she fell to the ground,” Richard added.
According to CNN, Richard said that after that altercation, Combs dragged Ventura upstairs by her hair with his arm around her neck. She claimed to hear “glass breaking and yelling,” but didn’t intervene or call the police because she was “scared to do anything in fear of what that might mean for me, too,” she said.
