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Cassie Ventura has Sean “Diddy” Combs to thank, in half, for locating the true love of her life.
Ventura’s husband, Alex Fine, was Combs’ private coach earlier than he grew to become Ventura’s coach, which led to them falling in love. The two wed in 2019, after her tumultuous relationship with Combs performed out, off and on, between 2007 and 2018.
Based on their social media posts and interviews, the connection Fine and Ventura share is in direct distinction to the horror she says she suffered by the hands of Combs. As she has testified about these allegations in the federal sex-trafficking trial towards Combs this week, Ventura’s husband has been in courtroom supporting her, very similar to he vowed to do in an open letter he shared on social media in 2019.
“I promise you that I will do every single thing in my power to support you and help you,” he wrote at the time. “I promise that you will never be alone. I promise that you will be loved beyond expectation and we will show our children how to be in a healthy relationship.”
Fine has a nickname he makes use of as his social media deal with on Instagram.
“I’m Alex to everyone, but to close friends I’m ‘Poonie,’ a nickname I’ve had since I was young,” he told Zero magazine.
In Fine, Ventura discovered a man who may sympathize with the violence she has mentioned she was subjected to by Combs. Attorneys for Combs have mentioned the violence in his relationship with Ventura was “mutual.”
In a March 2020 post on his Almost Home web site, Fine defined why he selected to run a 50-mile marathon to lift cash for his home violence charity, impressed by experiences his beloved mom had suffered.
“When I got the news that my mom had been the victim of domestic abuse and violence, I really didn’t know how to handle it,” he wrote on the time.
Fine mentioned his “anger” over the abuse is mom endured deeply affected him.
“I didn’t want to give in to those paralyzing feelings,” he wrote. “So, I decided to channel my anger and feelings of helplessness by running fifty miles to bring awareness and hopefully raise some money for other victims of domestic violence.”
That sort of sensitivity was readily available when he proposed to Ventura in 2019.
“I knew that Alex was designing a ring, but I honestly wasn’t expecting a super elaborate proposal because we already had the wedding date set, but he planned such a beautiful experience for me,” she told Vogue. “I was so surprised!”
A cowboy at coronary heart, the coach turned mannequin and actor was on location with the Compton Cowboys and requested Ventura to satisfy him for what turned out to be a shock proposal.
“He told me to come ready because we were driving straight to dinner to celebrate my birthday early that night as my family was coming into town,” she recalled. “I was running a little late, so he called me to check in.”
Ventura mentioned she heard a Stevie Wonder music taking part in and noticed “the guys on their horses waving at me.”
“I looked up and saw our initials tied up above them, then Alex came around on his horse. When he got down on one knee, everything just stopped,” she instructed the publication. “I felt like I lost my sense of hearing; I just saw his mouth moving, and he said ‘I want to spend the rest of my life with you.’”
They then went to Playa del Rey, the place Fine had organized for 2 of their associates to arrange dinner and a bonfire on the seashore.
“I will never forget how special Alex made me feel that night,” Ventura mentioned.
“Being a dad and husband is the greatest thing I’ve ever done”
Fine has continued to point out Ventura that she is unequalled in his affection.
They are the dad and mom of two daughters, Frankie 5, and Sunny, 3. Ventura is because of give beginning to their third youngster quickly.
“I’m a father, husband, and actor,” he instructed Zero. “Family and work take the most importance and focus in my life. I became the man I am today a lot from the environment I grew up in. My mom and dad are the best.”
“Being a dad and husband is the greatest thing I’ve ever done and I don’t know how I got to be so blessed,” Fine mentioned.
Ventura has returned the reward.
In honor of Father’s Day final 12 months, she shared a series of photos and video of Fine.
“There is just no one like you,” Ventura wrote in the caption.
Fine paid a public tribute to his spouse on their third marriage ceremony anniversary.
“I’m so lucky that I got to marry my best friend and most beautiful wife in the world. Every morning I wake up and see you and the babies I get so happy,” he wrote in the caption of a series of wedding photos.
On Wednesday, Fine appeared stoic as he left the Manhattan courthouse of the Combs trial, the place his spouse has spent greater than eight hours testifying to date about her troubled previous relationship with the embattled music business vet.
“She’s holding up strong,” Douglas Wigdor, Ventura’s lawyer, instructed reporters exterior courtroom.
When requested how Ventura’s husband was doing, he mentioned, “put yourself in his shoes.”
Combs has pleaded not responsible to fees that embrace racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. His protection crew has mentioned they might name Fine to the stand to testify.
A problem he and Ventura will doubtless get via, collectively.