Rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs’ long-awaited sex trafficking trial got underway this week at a New York City courthouse, where jurors have already heard horrifying testimony from the musician’s former partner, Cassie, who made several allegations about the heinous abuse she says she suffered at his hands.

Dawn Richard told a jury in Manhattan federal court that Combs issued the threat the day after she witnessed the Bad Boy Records founder try to hit Cassie with a skillet and then beat her.

A federal indictment alleges that Combs and his associates lured female victims, often under the pretense of a romantic relationship.