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.

Ms. Ventura said she participated for days at a time, sometimes without sleep. “Something that Sean wanted to happen, that’s what was going to happen,” she testified.

Prosecutors allege Combs used his fame and fortune to orchestrate an empire of exploitation, coercing women into abusive sex parties.