Sean Combs sex trafficking trial updates: Cassie's testimony ends after days of describing abuse

Cassie Ventura testified about a time in August 2016 when she and Sean Combs were in a car and he allegedly swiped her phone from her hand, jumped from the vehicle and ran down Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles.

"Right before my 30th birthday, I think, and I was dating someone else and I'm not sure how he found out," she testified. "He grabbed my phone and ran out of the car."

When she returned home without her phone, Ventura said her mother called the police. Ventura said she did not know how Combs found out she was seeing the other person, whom she said was an NFL player.

"Mr. Combs was insanely jealous?" defense attorney Anna Estevao asked. "He was upset with you when he suspected you of cheating?"

Ventura responded, "When I was with anyone else. I don't know if I would call it cheating"

Estevao said, "You understood he thought it cheating."

Ventura responded, "That's a technicality. We weren't married."

The defense has been highlighting episodes of infidelity and jealousy that plagued their relationship.

Estevao asked about another instance of jealousy: "He found out that you were dancing with another person in the entertainment industry and took your phone?"

"I honestly don't know," Ventura responded.

"You remember the occasion when he suspected you of dancing with Chris Brown?" Estevao asked, referring to the R&B singer.

Ventura said that she remembered Combs being upset but she denied dancing with Brown.

Jurors heard a recording of a distressed Cassie screaming at a friend who said he had seen a video of performing sex acts.

In the recording, made by Cassie in 2013, the man claimed to have the video on his phone. Cassie is heard pleading to see the video and then threatening to kill him if it became public.

"I've never killed anyone in my life, but I will kill you," Cassie told the man, punctuating her threats with profanity.

Cassie acknowledged in her testimony that Combs subsequently made efforts to keep the video private.

Defense attorney Anna Estevao resumed her cross-examination Friday with questions related to the March 2016 recording of Combs attacking Cassie at the elevator bank of a Los Angeles hotel. In it, Combs can be seen slinging Cassie to the floor, kicking her and dragging her into a hotel hallway.

Estevao had Cassie read aloud a text message in which she complained that Combs was out of control from drugs and alcohol that day. In the message, Cassie told Combs: "I'm not a rag doll. I'm somebody's child."

Through text messages read aloud to the jury, Estevao then showed that Combs and Cassie were expressing love to one another again just days later as they tried to recover from the hotel attack. Cassie told Combs in one text: "We need a different vibe from Friday."

Cassie said Combs was wary of her dating or giving attention to other men, even during breaks in their decade-long relationship. The hip-hop star took her phone from her on numerous occasions, including when he found out she was dating a football player and when she suspected her of dancing with the singer Chris Brown. Cassie didn't name the player and denied dancing with Brown.

Cassie Ventura returned to the witness stand for a fourth day Friday to continue cross-examination.

She took her seat wearing a baggy pin-striped suit and long, untucked light-colored shirt. She appeared calm and composed, as she has throughout her testimony.

"You understand you are still under oath?" Judge Arun Subramanian asked her. "Yes," she replied.

The expectation is this will be Ventura's last day on the witness stand after prosecutors argued she could give birth as soon as this weekend. Ventura is eight months pregnant.

Prosecutors accused the defense of being inefficient with cross-examination on purpose, hoping to "risk a mistrial," if she goes into labor. The defense argues that they should have the right to thoroughly cross-examine the witness.

The testimony picked up where it left off Thursday, at the InterContinental Hotel in Century City where Ventura testified there was a "freak off" in 2016 she attempted to escape after she alleged Combs became violent prior to the premiere of her movie "The Perfect Match."

"I believe that he was intoxicated," Ventura testified, describing Combs during the encounter. She then read a message she sent him afterwards: "When you get f----- up the wrong way you always want to show me you have the power and knock me around. I'm not a rag doll. I'm someone's child."

The defense has argued Combs became violent because of his drug use and not as a means to strong-arm Ventura into sex.