Diddy buried Cassie Ventura’s assault with a threat and ‘sack of money’

A former hotel security guard’s testimony is bringing new details to the ongoing sex trafficking trial against Sean “Diddy” Combs. Israel Florez, now an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department, shared information about a 2016 incident at the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles, which involved an alleged assault on singer Cassie Ventura and a reported attempt by Combs to bribe him.

Florez testified in the federal trial, explaining his response to a call about a woman in distress on the sixth floor of the hotel. When he arrived, he saw Ventura looking scared, crouched in a corner with her face covered by a hood. There was a broken flower vase on the floor. Combs, wrapped only in a towel, was also there. Per NBC News, the guard said, “She was scared. She was in the corner, hood on, covered up. I couldn’t see her face, she was pretty much in the corner. On the floor was a destroyed flower vase.”