Cassie Ventura's husband Alex Fine wrote angry texts to Sean "Diddy" Combs, according to Combs' defense attorney. Teny Geragos, the lawyer for Combs, asked the judge to ban Fine from the courtroom on May 12 because he might be called as a witness during Combs' trial,

“You make the wrong face and the next thing I knew I was getting hit in the face,” she said.

Prosecutors told jurors that, for years, Combs used his status as a powerful executive to coerce women into abusive sexual encounters and became violent if they refused.