Cassie Ventura welcomes baby after testifying in Diddy’s trial: Reports

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(NewsNation) — Casandra “Cassie” Ventura has reportedly given birth to her third child nearly two weeks after testifying in the federal trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs.

Multiple outlets have reported that Ventura, 38, has welcomed a baby boy with her husband, Alex Fine. On Wednesday, Ventura had reportedly been taken to a New York City hospital’s labor and delivery unit.

Ventura had first announced that she was pregnant on Feb. 19 in an Instagram post. Her post said: “🤰🏽💙 #3.” Ventura and Fine already have two daughters: Sunny, 3, and Frankie, 5. Fine and Ventura got married in 2019.

Cassie testifies in Diddy’s federal trial

Ventura spent about a week testifying in Combs’ federal trial. On May 13, she testified that the sex parties that Combs would allegedly throw, called “Freak Offs,” could last up to four days. She also said she participated in these parties for almost a decade, with the last one being around 2017 or 2018.

  • Charlucci Finney, speaking Monday on NewsNation's "CUOMO,"
  • Cassie Ventura
  • Courtroom rendering of Cassie Ventura taking the stand
  • Sean 'Diddy' Combs and Cassie Ventura attend the Costume Institute Gala 2018 at Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
  • Cassie Ventura and Diddy

“It was such a mess,” she told the court. “It was like, ‘What are we doing?’” Ventura also said her first
“Freak Off” was when she was 22 years old and she was, “confused, nervous, but also loved him [Combs] very much.”

She also said she felt like, if she said no, she could be faced with blackmail and violence. On May 14, she told jurors that Combs had raped her when she ended their relationship by forcing his way into her LA apartment.

At one point, Ventura was pressed to read explicit messages between her and Combs out loud while on the stand. One message exchange that happened in August 2009 showed Combs asking Ventura when she wanted the next party to be, and she responded with, “I’m always ready to freak off.”

Ventura’s last day on the stand was May 19.

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Calling the North Carolina Republican Party’s new congressional district map “surgical racism with surgical precision,” Bishop William J. Barber II of Repairers of the Breach was in Raleigh Thursday, announcing a lawsuit challenging the redistricting effort—pledging that the state’s voters will “challenge gerrymandering in the courts, in the streets, and at the ballot box.”

“This is a direct attack on the state’s Black Belt district and marginalized communities,” said Barber at a news conference announcing the legal challenge, a day after the state House of Representatives approved the new map in a party-line vote.

The new map, which was passed by the state Senate earlier this week and cannot be vetoed by Democratic Gov. Josh Stein under state law, will likely give the GOP an additional seat in the US House after the 2026 midterm elections.

President Donald Trump has called for mid-decade redistricting efforts by the GOP in states including Missouri and Texas, as well as North Carolina, with state Republicans heeding his demands.

North Carolina’s new map will likely give Republicans 11 of the state’s 14 districts by moving some Black voters out of the 1st District and into the 3rd District. Had the new map been in place in 2024, Trump would likely have won 55% of the vote in the new 1st District in 2024, up from the 51% he won.

Barber denounced the redistricting efforts across the country as “political robbery” by a party that wants “to rob people of their rights through this racially based gerrymandering... so that they can give power or keep power in the US Congress to engage in political violence,” including by cutting healthcare and blocking the passage of living wages.

“We’ve seen this pattern before—the use of redistricting and voting laws to divide, diminish, and deny,” said Barber. “But the truth is simple: When you steal people’s representation, you steal their healthcare, their wages, and their future. That’s why we will fight back... to make clear that in North Carolina, and across America, the people’s will cannot be gerrymandered out of existence.”

Barber said Republicans in the state Legislature are “gambling” to win another seat, instead of trying to win over voters.

“They’re saying, ‘Let’s move this county over here, let’s move this county over here,’ he said at the press conference. ”Black voters in Congressional District 1 make up approximately 40% of the population, and there’s a growing Latino population that makes up 7%... Black communities, Latino communities, and rural, working-class, poor white voters, if the districts are fair, have the power to build a fusion electorate that can overcome the greedy oligarchs’ will to control elections in our state.“

Along with filing a legal action against state lawmakers to challenge the legality of the map, Barber said Repairers of the Breach will hold a ”Mass Moral Fusion Meeting“ and public hearing on November 2.

”If they won’t hold public hearings, we will,“ said Barber. ”This is our Edmund Pettus Bridge moment... Black, white, and brown together—because our democracy is not for sale.“