Cassie Ventura has welcomed her third child on the heels of testifying as the star witness against Sean “Diddy” Combs at his federal sex trafficking and racketeering trial.
The “Me & U” singer, 38, and husband Alex Fine welcomed their youngest on Tuesday, the same day Ventura was seen checking into the labor-and-delivery unit at a New York hospital, TMZ reports.
Insiders previously told the outlet that Ventura might be contending with complications.
Ventura was in a contentious, on-off relationship with Bad Boy Records founder Combs, 55, from 2007 to 2018. She married trainer Fine in 2019.
The couple shares daughters Frankie, 5, and Sunny, 4. They announced in February that they were expecting a third child.
Ventura’s November 2023 lawsuit accusing the Harlem-born Combs of rape, sex trafficking and longstanding abuse effectively served as the canary in the coal mine preceding his current legal predicaments.
Though Ventura and Combs settled the following day, dozens of similarly disturbing lawsuits have since been filed by male and female accusers. The federal charges for which he is currently standing trial were also filed in the wake of Ventura’s claims.
Combs was arrested this past September and faces life in prison if convicted. His trial, which began earlier this month, is expected to span eight weeks.
News of Ventura’s new arrival broke Wednesday, the same day celebrity stylist Deonte Nash testified that, while working for the couple, he heard Combs threaten to “beat her a–, that he wouldn’t put her music out, that he would get her parents fired from their jobs and he would send her sex tapes to their jobs.”
During Ventura’s four-day testimony, which ended May 16, she recounted the origins of her relationship with Combs, as well as blackmailing and physical abuse she says occurred “too frequently.”
Ventura wrapped her testimony nearly a year to the day after CNN published security footage of Combs brutalizing her in a hotel hallway in 2016. Combs was not charged in the attack, though it seems to be the one misdeed to which he has admitted, He issued an apology in the wake of the video’s initial publication.
“I was disgusted then, when I did it,” Combs said in a since-deleted video. “I’m disgusted now.”
Ventura testified Combs punched her during a “freakoff” sex party when she was caught on video trying to leave. The unedited 15-minute video of the incident was released after her second day of testimony.
The indictment against Diddy describes “freak-offs” as “elaborate and produced sex performances that Combs arranged, directed, masturbated during, and often electronically recorded.”
Combs has pleaded not guilty to all charges against him and denied the allegations in the estimated 70 civil lawsuits against him. Multiple accusers say they were underage at the time of Combs’ alleged misdeeds, which included drugging and sexual assault.
Originally Published: May 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM EDT
