'Advocate Barbie', also known Cezanne Visser, was subjected to brutal sex when her former lover Dirk Prinsloo sought to punish her, the Pretoria High Court heard.

This was the evidence of the 31-year-old Visser in defence of the 14 sex charges against her.

"Sex in general was brutal with him, but when he punished me, it was even worse. Some times I had to drive through the streets to pick up prostitutes for him."

Visser said when she at first moved in with Prinsloo he had "romanticised" her. It was only later that things became brutal and cold.

She said her dreams of an advocate were shattered after she met Prinsloo as he wanted to turn her into a model.

She said it was "absolutely true" that Prinsloo wanted to make her "into his Barbie Doll."

She said it was on his instructions that she partook in Idols.

"Today I realised that I made myself into a national ridicule, that I made myself ridiculous."

Visser said a family violence interdict which she and Prinsloo obtained against her parents in October 2002 was on his instructions.

He prepared the affidavit and she merely had to sign.

Visser said she was terrified of Prinsloo as he often threatened to kill her.

Prosecutor Andre Fourie said Prinsloo threatened to kill many people, including his former wife, as well as some members of the prosecution.

"He seemed to have had a big mouth and was all talk and no do," Fourie said.

Visser said she believed that he would harm her or have her "taken out" by the Chinese Triad, as he often promised to do.

Shortly after their arrest she reluctantly agreed to turn State witness against him, as she was "pushed" into this by the police.

"I was very traumatised and it was horrible in jail."

Visser said she was, however, still in love with Prinsloo then and she did not turn against him at that stage as he was also paying for their defence.

However, a few months after the trial began in 2005 she decided to leave him as she had a supporting structure in place.

At the time she wanted to turn State witness and to join the witness protection programme as she still feared Prinsloo, but the State did not accept her offer of a plea bargain.

She said she was in fact so scared of Prinsloo that after dumping him, she, her mother and her grandmother moved in with her lawyer and that a member of National Intelligence was on standby to protect them if need be.