Diddy and Cassie Ventura's former stylist testifies in rapper's sex trafficking trial

Celebrity stylist Deonte Nash testified that he last spoke to Cassie Ventura on Tuesday before the singer had her baby.

Nash claimed he also spoke to Cassie about what clothes he should wear while he was testifying.

Cassie and her husband, Alex Fine, now share three kids together after marrying in 2019.

Their third baby is a boy, according to People magazine, who confirmed she had her baby after sources told the outlet Cassie was rushed to a New York City hospital's labor and delivery unit on Tuesday. TMZ was first to report the news of the baby's birth.

Fox News Digital reached out to Cassie's representative for comment.

Fox News' Maria Paronich contributed to this report.

Judge Arun Subramanian appeared annoyed during celebrity stylist Deonte Nash’s cross-examination.

Nash asked for a break while Sean “Diddy” Combs’ defense lawyer, Xavier Donaldson, questioned him.

The prosecution previously told the federal judge that court would need to run late to accommodate Nash’s entire testimony as he has a flight booked back to Los Angeles Wednesday night.

Judge Subrmanian asked how much time Donaldson had left on cross. Donaldson told the judge he has “absolutely no reason to believe he will be done by 4.” The defense attorney suggested that they let the jury leave for a break. The judge seemed annoyed and asked if this was a “late breaking development.” The prosecution said many of the questions seemed repetitive and noted Nash is not fighting Donaldson.

Nash’s cross-examination resumed after a short break. The stylist took the stand again wearing a jacket.

"It's freezing in here,” he said. “How do you all do this all day."

Fox News' Maria Paronich contributed to this report.

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ former stylist corrected the rapper’s defense lawyer while on the stand Wednesday.

During Deonte Nash’s cross-examination, Diddy’s lawyer referred to Cassie Ventura as Ms. Ventura. Nash corrected Xavier Donaldson and said “Mrs. Fine.”

Cassie married her now-husband, Alex Fine, in 2019. The “Me & U” singer testified for four days in Diddy’s trial.

Cassie told the jury about the alleged abuse she experienced at the hands of the rapper. Cassie claimed she was physically abused and forced into participating in "freak offs," where Diddy would coerce her into having sex with a male escort while he watched.

Fox News' Maria Paronich contributed to this report.

Deonte Nash, Sean “Diddy” Combs' former stylist, said that he doesn’t “hate” the rapper even after testifying about allegedly violent incidents and being afraid of him.

Nash said he stopped working for Diddy in 2018 and remains close with Cassie, Diddy’s ex, who he testified he saw Diddy attack more than once.

He also testified that Diddy choked him once while accusing the stylist of going out with Cassie without his permission.

He said that he met with prosecutors five times before the trial only because they asked him to and he ended his meetings early.

Nash testified that he stayed in contact with Diddy after he left his employment, sometimes texting with him, calling the tone “loving.”

He said he spent his 20s with the rapper and that’s what he was used to.

He also noted that he doesn’t hate Diddy, that it is not in him.

Fox News' Maria Paronich contributed to this report.

Deonte Nash, the former celebrity stylist for Sean “Diddy” Combs, testified that he’s not considering filing a civil lawsuit against the rapper.

During his cross-examination Wednesday, Nash told Diddy’s defense lawyer, Xavier Donaldson, he has not sent a demand letter to Diddy asking for money.

Donaldson asked if Nash was considering a lawsuit against Combs. Nash said, “No, I'm focused on getting outta here.” Donaldson showed him a document to refresh his memory. Nash said it did not. “I have counsel to protect me. I don’t do federal court,” he told the jury. Nash insisted he only has counsel for this case.

Fox News' Maria Paronich contributed to this report.

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ former stylist testified on Wednesday that he kept cash on him for renting hotel rooms because he “didn’t want Puff to find me.”

Deonte Nash said that he once went to a hotel because he didn’t think it was safe to go home after an alleged incident in which Diddy came to Nash’s home searching for Cassie.

The celebrity stylist said that the rapper was searching for her everywhere in his home, including the closets and the oven and he allegedly took Nash’s car keys.

After Cassie called Nash from a hotel in West Hollywood, Nash testified that Diddy told him to drive to the hotel with him and get her.

Nash said that he went to Cassie’s room with his security guard, D-Roc and Toni Fletcher, Diddy’s old chief of staff.

He claimed Cassie was frightened and tried to climb over the balcony to escape when she realized Diddy was trying to find her.

He said that he told her they would sneak her out the side, and when he went back to the front of the hotel and saw Diddy with four to five security guards he told the rapper Cassie had left.

Diddy allegedly accused Nash of playing him, and when Nash got back in his car to drive home he noticed one of the cars was following him.

He said he turned off his lights and drove really fast until he lost them, driving to a hotel because he didn’t think it was safe to go home.

When he got home the next morning, he realized his backpack had been stolen, which had his ID, his iPad, and $1,000 cash he kept as a deposit for a hotel room inside.

Fox News' Maria Paronich contributed to this report.

Deonte Nash, Sean “Diddy” Combs and Cassie Ventura’s former stylist, testified that the “Me & U” singer would go to hotels weekly with the rapper.

Nash claimed that he saw Cassie go to hotels with Combs nearly every week. Before heading to the hotel, Cassie would allegedly pack a duffle bag with sex toys. Nash said Cassie would tell him she didn’t want to go.

Nash testified that when Cassie returned, she was typically tired. Cassie would also take drugs and allegedly became addicted to prescription drugs.

Nash also testified that he witnessed Cassie and Diddy head to a hotel on the musician’s 29th birthday.

Nash said Diddy asked if he should throw Cassie a party. Nash told Assistant U.S. Attorney Maurene Comey, “Girl, I was not about to tell him he couldn’t give that girl a party.”

Nash said Cassie and Diddy argued at the party about going to a hotel to freak off. Nash used the term as a verb, not a noun. Nash claimed Cassie did not want to go, that she wanted to enjoy her birthday. After dinner, they went to the Blind Dragon club. Diddy was allegedly pointing in Cassie’s face.

After the club, a small group of people went back to Cassie’s home. Nash claimed he saw Cassie go to her room to pack her black bag with sex toys and money. He said Cassie told him that she didn’t want to go with Diddy to the hotel, but was going because “he was making her do that s---.”

Nash claimed Diddy and Cassie left the house and drove off in a golf cart. He said Cassie was “super high” and Combs was also high. According to Nash, Cassie was more intoxicated.

Fox News' Maria Paronich contributed to this report.

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ former stylist Deonte Nash claimed the rapper became physical with him during a music video shoot in 2013.

Nash told the jury he was outside smoking a cigarette near a car. Diddy allegedly started choking him out. Combs was yelling about Nash and Cassie going out without his permission.

Nash testified that he never reported any of this violence to the police “out of fear.”  He claimed he was afraid “of retaliation from Puff.”

Nash said he told two people about the alleged violence, including Diddy’s former Chief of Staff Kristina Khorram, also known as KK. According to Nash, Kristina told him she would talk to Diddy. Nash claimed the violence did not stop.

Fox News' Maria Paronich contributed to this report.

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ former stylist Deonte Nash testified on Wednesday that he once saw the rapper beat his then-girlfriend Cassie at her home.

Nash said that while he and Diddy’s former assistant, who goes by the pseudonym “Mia,” were packing Cassie for a Drake music festival in 2013 or 2014, he heard a knock on the door and answered it while Cassie was asleep on the couch.

Nash claimed it was Diddy and he shouted at Cassie: “B---- didn’t I tell you to answer the phone?”

Diddy then grabbed Cassie by her hair, dragged her off the couch and began to hit her “pretty hard,” Nash claimed.

He said he, Mia and Cassie tried to run to her bedroom and shut the door, but Diddy, who was allegedly “enraged,” pushed it open and continued to hit and kick her.

Nash said he and Mia both jumped on Diddy’s back to try to get him to stop, but Mia was thrown off.

Diddy continued to hit Cassie, Nash claimed, until her head hit the edge of the bedframe, causing her to bleed profusely. 

Nash claimed Diddy said to her, “Look what you all made me do,” while Mia went to get towels.

He said he tried to call 911, but was told to hang up so he did, adding that he doesn’t remember if it was Diddy who told him to hang up.

Nash added that Diddy sent Cassie to a plastic surgeon after the attack, and when Nash saw her the next day she had a gash and stitches on her forehead.

Fox News' Maria Paronich contributed to this report.

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ former stylist recalled the rapper threatening his girlfriend Cassie Ventura during a violent outburst.

Deonte Nash claimed there was an incident in 2013 or 2014 when he and Cassie were cooking in her apartment. Diddy allegedly came over to talk to Cassie. Nash testified they went to the bedroom. According to Nash, the rapper grabbed Cassie by her hair saying, “I don’t give a f---, you’re going to get up outta my house…”

Nash said he did not hear how the argument started. He claimed he saw Combs grab Cassie by the back of her hair and shirt and push her halfway out the door. Nash claimed Diddy then “popped [him]” in the back of the head. Nash and Cassie allegedly went downstairs and saw Combs’ security. Nash testified that security told him to wait for Diddy and recalled he was blocked in. He said Combs and Cassie came down and the singer-songwriter got in Nash’s car.

According to Nash, Diddy “began to berate us both…you’re not going to be playing with him…take your broke a– and ride into the sunset…” Cassie and Nash drove away and allegedly got a call from Diddy to pull over. Nash remembered Diddy coming to the window to talk to Cassie, telling her that “she f----- up, that he was going to put her sex tapes on the Internet…start by first selling them to her parents’ jobs…her brother was a b---- and he was the only one who protected her.”

Nash recalled Cassie was in tears and Diddy was angry. He claimed they drove to Nash’s house. Nash said he told Cassie if Combs wanted to release the sex tapes to let him because Diddy was on them too. Cassie told Nash that Combs was not on the tapes, that he recorded Cassie having sex with other guys. Nash testified that Cassie told him she didn’t want to have sex with other guys but did because “Puff wanted her to.”

Fox News' Maria Paronich contributed to this report.

Cassie Ventura and Sean “Diddy” Combs’ former stylist claimed the rapper would threaten to not release the singer’s music during their relationship.

Deonte Nash claimed Cassie recorded music in the studio pretty often. The stylist said towards the end of her relationship with Diddy, Cassie was recording an album. They were at the studio so often, there was a set up for them to sleep in.

Nash testified that Cassie recorded a lot of music during her relationship with Diddy, but only 10% of her music was released.

After the lunch break, Assistant U.S. Attorney Maurene Comey asked Nash about Diddy threatening Cassie regarding her music. Nash recalled Combs saying, “if she keeps having a smart a-- mouth, her little mixtape won’t come out.”

Fox News' Maria Paronich contributed to this report.

Sean “Diddy” Combs hired Marc Agnifilo to spearhead his legal defense after being arrested in September following a federal indictment.

Diddy, 55, was charged with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, and transportation to engage in prostitution. He faces a minimum of 15 years behind bars or a maximum sentence of life in prison if found guilty.

Agnifilo is no stranger to high-profile cases as a criminal defense lawyer based in New York. The former assistant district attorney previously worked for Brafman & Associates for more than 15 years before founding his own firm, Agnifilo Intrater, in 2024.

He’s familiar with high-profile trials and district attorney investigations after representing a number of prominent clients, including “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli and NXIVM sex cult leader Keith Raniere.

Raniere was found guilty in 2019 on seven counts, including racketeering, sex trafficking and wire fraud conspiracy, and was sentenced to 120 years in prison.

Shkreli was convicted in 2017 on two counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy and sentenced to seven years in prison in addition to more than $70 million in fines and restitution to victims. He was released from a low-security federal prison in 2022.

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ former stylist Deonte Nash testified on Wednesday that the rapper once got physical with him over the way he had styled Cassie Ventura's hair.

Nash said that he attended the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscar Party with Diddy and Cassie, and when the “I’ll Be Missing You” rapper saw that her hair was styled straight down, he grabbed Nash by his jacket, telling him he had wanted her hair up.

Nash claimed that he and Cassie went into a bathroom to fix her hair, but when they returned, Diddy agreed it had looked better down.

Fox News' Maria Paronich contributed to this report.

Sean "Diddy" Combs' former stylist Deonte Nash testified on Wednesday that the rapper told him twice that he and Cassie, Diddy’s then-girlfriend, weren’t allowed to go out together without his permission.

Once in 2013, Nash and Cassie had planned to go out to a gay club, but Diddy called her while she was at home and told her she’d “better bring her a-- to his house.”

Nash testified that Diddy said he’d already told them not to go out and Cassie, whom Nash said Diddy called “that b----,” only wanted to go out because Nash was, and so he’d better “keep his a-- home”

Nash claimed after the call, Cassie quickly left for Diddy’s house.

He also testified that he needed Diddy’s approval for the outfits Cassie wore, saying they'd send him photos.

Fox News' Maria Paronich contributed to this report.

Deonte Nash, who worked as a stylist for Sean “Diddy” Combs and Cassie Ventura, testified that the rapper would threaten his girlfriend often.

Nash claimed that he learned “very early” about the relationship between Cassie and Combs. He told the jury he and Cassie were very close.

According to Nash, Diddy called Cassie “Baby girl, CC, Cas, b----, s---, h--.” He claimed Combs called Cassie a "b----" a lot, “it was his fave.” Diddy would allegedly tell Cassie she “was an outright h--.”  When Combs called Cassie a "h--" or "s---," he was “very irate.” Nash continued that Cassie would be sad, sometimes cry or sometimes go into a depression.

Nash testified Combs threatened Cassie a lot, telling her angrily that “he would beat her a--.”

According to Nash, Diddy threatened to not put out Cassie's music whenever she did something he didn’t like. Nash claimed that Diddy also once threatened to get Cassie’s parents fired from their jobs in 2012 or 2013.

Fox News' Maria Paronich contributed to this report.

Sean “Diddy” Combs and Cassie Ventura’s former stylist took the stand after the arson investigator testified Wednesday.

Deonte Nash, who worked with Diddy and Cassie in 2008, claimed he was only there because he was subpoenaed to testify.

When asked if he wanted to testify, he said, “absolutely not.”

When working for Diddy, Nash was an intern for the rapper’s main stylist. He testified that he stopped working for Combs in 2018.

Fox News' Maria Paronich contributed to this report.

During cross-examination, arson investigator Lance Jimenez doubled down on what he believed started the car fire that damaged Kid Cudi’s Porsche.

Jimenez testified that his opinion is that the bottle got dropped from the roof, struck a seat, the wick came out and the bottle deposited some of the gasoline in the Porsche, creating the burn pattern.

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ defense lawyer Marc Agnifilo asked if finding the glove would have been significant. Jimenez told the jury it would not have been significant if the glove belonged to the owner.

Jimenez claimed he does not recall when he reached out to Diddy’s assistant, Capricorn Clark, or Cassie Ventura regarding the car fire or whether it was before or after the DNA report came back. He said he reached out and left messages. At one point, Jimenez got Capricorn's brother on the phone and got into a verbal confrontation with him. He testified he was able to contact Cassie’s father, a firefighter, but never heard from Cassie.

Jimenez claimed he did not do any further investigating on the glove once he learned it belonged to Kid Cudi.

Fox News' Maria Paronich contributed to this report.

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ defense questioned arson investigator Lance Jimenez on why a driving glove found inside Kid Cudi’s car was not tested for DNA.

A photo of the black glove on the backseat of Kid Cudi’s Porsche was shown to the jury.

Jimenez testified that he does not remember finding a second glove. He confirmed they did not test the glove for DNA. “I believe it belonged to the owner,” Jimenez told the jury. Jimenez said it was a driving glove.

Jimenez testified that he did not think it was significant that a single glove was in the backseat of the car. He explained he did not take the glove as a piece of evidence. Jimenez agreed he has no idea how the glove got into the car.

Diddy’s defense lawyer, Marc Angifilo, asked if the person holding the Molotov cocktail would wear a glove. Jimenez told the lawyer it’s possible. However, the arson investigator corrected Diddy’s lawyer when Agnifilo claimed a Molotov cocktail would be hot.

Fox News' Maria Paronich contributed to this report.

Arson investigator Lance Jimenez reached out to Sean “Diddy” Combs’ assistant and his on-and-off-again girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, in connection to Kid Cudi’s car fire.

Jimenez confirmed he interviewed Kid Cudi, one of his drivers, as well as one of his assistants. The arson investigator also said he made attempts to reach out to others unsuccessfully, including a suspect, an assistant of the suspect and a common female.

According to Jimenez, he reached out to Diddy’s assistant Capricorn Clark and Cassie. He claimed he was unable to get in contact with Capricorn despite multiple phone calls and door knocks. Jimenez said he also attempted to make contact with Cassie, but was unsuccessful.

Capricorn testified Tuesday that she was contacted by arson investigators in the summer of 2012 for a statement about what had happened. She told the jury she hung up the phone because she “wanted this whole thing to be over…” and speaking to the police would have made it worse.

According to Jimenez, there were no charges brought with respect to the Kid Cudi car fire case, but he never closed the case. It is currently listed as “inactive.”

Fox News' Maria Paronich contributed to this report.