Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. The defense showed emails and text messages from early in Combs and Ventura Fine's relationship, where they professed love for each other and she sought more attention from him.

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,

Ventura’s husband, Alex Fine, was Combs’ personal trainer before he became Ventura’s trainer, which led to them falling in love. The two wed in 2019, after her tumultuous relationship with Combs played out, off and on, between 2007 and 2018.

Jennifer Beidel, a former US attorney for the Southern District of New York, tells the BBC that because of the length of Casandra Ventura and Sean "Diddy" Combs' relationship - about a decade, on and off - Ventura's testimony in this case is crucial.