NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs demanded $20,000 from Casandra “Cassie” Ventura's mother and threatened to release explicit sex tapes of his longtime girlfriend when he became angry that she was dating someone else, the mother testified Tuesday at the hip-hop mogul's sex trafficking trial.

Regina Ventura said she felt “physically sick” when she received an email from Cassie in late 2011 saying Combs was planning to release two explicit videos of her and send someone to hurt her and the man she was seeing, rapper Kid Cudi.

“I did not understand a lot of it. The sex tapes threw me,” Ventura told the Manhattan federal court.

Ventura, of New London, Connecticut, said she then received a demand from Combs for $20,000 “to recoup money he had spent on her because he was unhappy she was in a

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