The “freak offs” are a key element of the prosecution’s case in opposition to the hip-hop mogul, with the orchestrated sexual encounters detailed extensively by Ventura in her testimony a couple of weeks in the past.

Ventura dated Combs from 2007 to 2018, after he’d signed her to his Dangerous Boy Information label in 2005. On the stand, she detailed graphic sexual eventualities, or “freak offs,” with Combs — dropping allegations of drug utilization, violence, blackmail, and even rape. Get a full breakdown of her testimony right here.

Shawn Dearing, who additionally spoke with TMZ (video above), was one among greater than 10 males allegedly employed to have intercourse with Ventura whose identities had been revealed in courtroom. Talking to Folks, he mentioned he’d had no intention of talking out, however as soon as his identification was uncovered, he determined to share his story to lend “some credence” to Ventura’s testimony.

Whereas speaking about her, the outlet says that Dearing teared up, saying, “You bought me tearing up! I would like what’s finest for her, actually, as a result of she … she’s a badass woman, man. She’s superior. So I would like her respect before everything.”

He went on to explain the artist as “so uplifting — the kindest and most respectful particular person. She was real all through the entire expertise.”

Ventura recognized Dearing as “Skyler” on the stand Wednesday, Could 14, as that was the title she knew him by when she employed him via the Cowboys4Angels web site. He confirmed the hiring, telling Folks that he had no concept who he was going to be assembly that first evening, solely that they had been “A-list.”

Finally, he mentioned he was employed to carry out “greater than a dozen” classes with Ventura, saying they came about largely at The Beverly Hills Lodge or a condominium off of Sundown Blvd. he believes Ventura owned.

“It was solely me, him, and her,” Dearing mentioned. “He by no means touched me. We did all the things beneath his path.”

Whereas he mentioned he by no means witnessed any overt abuse, Dearing mentioned he did discover “varieties” of what he thought could be “psychological” abuse. “She was there beneath his management, and there was that realizing and understanding that if she did not do what he said– I do not know what the results might have been, however I might inform there was that fixed power of realizing that we should carry out for him or else.”

He described one uncommon side of the experiences that has caught with him, and that is how Ventura would successfully shut down when Combs wasn’t within the room. In a single occasion, he described it as if she was like “a drone” that had shut off.

“She simply sits there staring on the floor, and I ask her a query. She’s like, ‘No, no, no. Not till he will get again,’” Dearing recalled. “So it’s like, ‘Oh, okay.’”

He mentioned that when classes would flip “darkish,” her demeanor would change, describing it as “form of just like the spirit was leaving the physique.”

A while after these experiences, Dearing mentioned he would depart Los Angeles, finally discovering religion and residing his life “on a special path as of late.” He instructed Folks he returned to Hawai’i, the place he was born and raised, to get “again to my roots.”

On the stand, Ventura testified that she didn’t benefit from the alleged “freak off” classes, and even took medication to take care of the experiences, which might typically go for hours.

She described finally being put in control of coordinating them in addition to collaborating in them, describing it as like a full-time job that she felt was derailing her profession ambitions. The protection has asserted that she was a prepared participant in these sexual actions.

Ventura additionally alleged an abusive relationship with Combs, with a lot of the prosecution’s depiction of his habits centering across the viral video of Ventura getting assaulted by Combs in a lodge hallway. His protection has argued that he’s “not charged with being imply, he is not charged with being a jerk.”

“Home violence just isn’t intercourse trafficking,” mentioned protection lawyer Teny Geragos in courtroom, whereas conceding the video itself is “indefensible.” However, the insistence to the jury was that they “should not right here to guage him for his sexual preferences.”

Combs has been charged with intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy, and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. He is maintained his innocence. If convicted on all fees, which additionally embrace arson and bribery, he might face a compulsory 15-year jail sentence, with the potential of life behind bars.

The trial in opposition to Combs is ongoing.

The Nationwide Sexual Assault Phone Hotline — 800.656.HOPE (4673) — offers free, 24/7 assist for these in want.