Cassie told Combs ‘I’m not a rag doll’ after hotel attack, trial hears

Singer Cassie has been giving evidence (Lionel Cironneau/AP)

R&B singer Cassie told Sean “Diddy” Combs “I’m not a rag doll, I’m somebody’s child” after he beat her at a Los Angeles hotel in 2016, his sex trafficking trial heard.

But just days later, she and Combs were expressing love for each other again in messages read aloud during a second day of cross-examination in a New York court, with Cassie saying in one text: “We need a different vibe from Friday.”