Sean “Diddy” Combs once forced his longtime girlfriend Cassie Ventura to come home from a night out because he was angry she’d gone to a gay club with singer Rita Ora and others, a celebrity stylist testified Wednesday.
Deonte Nash, who styled Ventura and considered them “very close,” dropped details of their night out at the Los Angeles club when he took the stand during Combs’ federal trial in Manhattan.
The celebrity stylist told jurors that the British songstress and Cheetah Girls singer Adrienne Bailon-Houghton had joined them in the club around 2013 when Ventura suddenly got a call from Combs.
With the call on speakerphone, Nash said he overheard the Bad Boy Records founder telling Ventura that “she better bring her a-s to his house.”
“She started to panic,” Nash told the jury.
“Then [Combs] called back and he talked to me and told me that we were wildin’ and that he thought he told us not to be going out since every time I go out that b—h wanna go.”
Nash testified that Ventura “just packed her stuff and went to his house.”
The stylist, who also worked for Combs from 2008 to 2018, said this was one of two times the disgraced music mogul had told him and Ventura that they needed permission from him before going out.
As Ventura’s stylist, Nash said he had to repeatedly seek approval from Combs for her outfits and appearance.
He alleged, too, that an irate Combs once put his hands on him before the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscars party after the rapper blew up because Ventura had opted to wear her hair down.
“She looked bomb…Her hair was long,” Nash said, alleging that a fuming Combs told him: “I thought I told you to keep her hair up.”
He testified that Combs then “grabbed me by my jacket and lifted me up.”
Once Nash had pinned Ventura’s hair up, he said Combs declared: “I was right, it looks better that way.”
Meanwhile, Nash — who noted he spent almost every day with Ventura — alleged he also constantly overheard Combs berating and threatening his then-girlfriend.
Asked what threats he overheard, the stylist responded: “That he would beat her ass. That he wouldn’t put her music out. That he would get her parents fired from her jobs and that he would send her sex tapes to their jobs.”
“He told her that she was an outright h-e. He told her she was nothing but a s–t anyway,” Nash added.
Combs, 55, has pleaded not guilty to charges including racketeering conspiracy and sex-trafficking. He could face life in prison, if convicted.
