Dawn Richard testifies she saw Sean Diddy Combs get violent with Cassie Ventura often

Dawn Richard testified about how once in 2009 she saw a “belligerent” Sean “Diddy” Combs attack Cassie Ventura.Richard said Combs was “screaming, belligerent, asking where his food was and proceeded to hit [Ventura] over the head and beat her on the ground in front of us.”Richard said she saw the Bad Boy Records founder get violent with Ventura “often.”Richard — a singer in a band founded by Combs, Danity Kane — described how Combs screamed “where the f–k was his eggs” and then took a skillet with the eggs inside and tried to his Ventura over the head with the pan.Ventura managed to partially deflect the pan by balling up into the fetal position on the floor, Richard said.But then Combs continued the vicious beating by punching and kicking Ventura before putting his arm around her neck, grabbing her hair and dragging her upstairs, Richard testified.She said she was so shocked and scared that she didn’t intervene or go to the police over what she saw and the next day Combs locked Richard and another person in he recording studio in his house and threatened them.“He said what we saw was passion and what lovers in passionate relationships do,” Richard recalled.“He said [Ventura] was OK and it would be in our best interests if we didn’t say anything.”Combs told them he was trying to take them to the top of the industry before menacingly saying, “where he was from, people go missing if they talk,” the witness said.Then he gave them flowers, Richard said.She said she understood Combs was threatening “death.”...