As Cassie Ventura neared her 12th hour on the witness stand, she told jurors that the threats and incessant sexual demands from her ex-boyfriend, Sean "Diddy" Combs -- as well as a pattern of coerced sex with strangers -- drove her into addiction, exposed her to regular spates of violence and led her to contemplate suicide.

Star witness in the government’s sex-trafficking prosecution of the hip-hop mogul testified that he attacked her and blackmailed her with videos of sex parties as a means of controlling her.

I agreed to settle 24 hours later for $20 million,” Cassie Ventura revealed Wednesday afternoon during tear-filled testimony at the Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex-trafficking trial in New York City. “I wanted to be compensated for the time,