Diddy’s Defense Pushes Back on Cassie’s Blackmail Claims

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Sean “Diddy” Combs’s team pushed back on notions that he controlled Casandra “Cassie” Ventura with blackmail material from “Freak Offs,” suggesting at his sex-trafficking trial that the rapper had just as much to lose if intimate videos of their encounters with male escorts got released.