Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs is going through the third week of his sex-trafficking and racketeering trial in New York Metropolis.
The music mogul, 55, has sat by his crew of star legal professionals as prosecutors accuse him of utilizing his wealth and fame to coerce and threaten girls and workers into serving his each want and sexual fantasy.
Stylist Deonte Nash instructed the jury on Wednesday he noticed Diddy berating Cassie to interact in drug-fueled sexual encounters, ‘freak offs,’ and that Cassie confided to him that she didn’t need to however felt obliged.
Diddy’s ex-assistant took the stand subsequent and instructed the jury that she was sexually assaulted by the music govt a number of instances over time she labored for him.
Diddy denies all allegations towards him. His legal professionals admit he is a girl beater – though he doesn’t face home abuse expenses – however that he’s not responsible of intercourse trafficking or racketeering.
Mia particulars ‘nightmare’ freak off aftermath in testimony
After Diddy’s ‘freak off’ lodge nights with Cassie, Mia testified that assistants must ‘sweep’ lodge rooms to scrub up the mess he left behind ‘wherever he was.’
This was so ‘a housekeper couldn’t take and run to TMZ and expose any of his non-public enterprise.’
Mia alleged the lodge rooms have been a ‘nightmare’ to scrub.
‘They have been destroyed, actually messy,’ she described.
‘I noticed loads of candlewax that was inconceivable to get out, numerous moist towels, I’ve seen damaged glass, water everywhere in the flooring, generally blood, oil throughout furnishings and partitions and issues.’
Mia, is seen under. The choose dominated she was to not be identifed in courtroom sketches to guard her privateness.
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Diddy bodyguard Gene Deal clashes with followers exterior courthouse
Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs’ former bodyguard had an intense confrontation with followers exterior the New York Metropolis courthouse about his alleged involvement in freak-offs.
Whereas he appeared to enter the courthouse, Gene stopped in his tracks as a person off-camera shouted at him: ‘Hey G, I talked to Randy Pittman final evening, a white man, who mentioned in 2004, you was at a celebration with P. Diddy, and also you held him down with two minor children.
Mia says she was terrified to say no as Diddy repeatedly sexually abused her
Mia described one other time when Combs stunned her whereas she was getting some garments from his closet.
He appeared together with his penis out and compelled Mia’s head down and made him carry out oral intercourse, she instructed the jury.
Mia mentioned: ‘I used to be frozen. I didn’t do something, I let it (occur)’.
Requested how she felt: ‘Like trash. Scared and ashamed and like an fool’.
When requested why she did not say no, Mia replied: ‘I couldn’t inform him no a few sandwich, I could not inform him no about something…
‘Then he would know that what he was doing was flawed and I’d be a goal..
‘He’d hearth me and smash my future and someway twist the story into making me appear like a risk.
‘I knew his energy and his management over me, I didn’t need to lose everithing I labored so arduous for.’
Mia describes alleged brutal rape by Diddy
Mia mentioned on Thursday that someday in 2009 or 2010, she awakened in Diddy’s Los Angeles dwelling and he was on prime of her.
‘I bear in mind it was type of like him telling me, shhh, be quiet and utilizing one hand to get his pants off.’
Mia mentioned the mogul then raped her.
‘I simply froze, I didn’t react,’ she mentioned as she cried, including she felt ‘terrified and confused and ashamed and scared.’
When requested how lengthy the assault lasted, Mia replied: ‘It was fast however it felt like perpetually.’
Mia says Diddy sexually assaulted her at his star-studded fortieth celebration
Mia instructed the courtroom that she was first sexually assaulted by Diddy throughout his fortieth celebration on the Plaza Resort in New York Metropolis.
She mentioned the mogul approached her within the kitchen and complimented her on her work earlier than pouring pictures for her.
‘I felt like they hit me sort of arduous,’ she mentioned of the drinks.
‘I used to be in my 20s in New York. Two pictures wouldn’t have made me really feel that manner.’
Mia instructed the jury what occurred subsequent: ‘He was speaking and hastily his face [was] far nearer, my eyes couldn’t deal with his face as a result of it was so shut.
‘I didn’t actually know what was taking place… he put his am subsequent to my head towards the wall and leaned in to kiss me and put his different hand up the aspect of my costume.’
Mia mentioned she didn’t need to kiss Diddy or have his hand up her costume.
‘I used to be shocked and I froze. I didn’t even course of what was taking place,’ she added.
The following morning, she awakened clothed on a chair within the mainroom of the penthouse Diddy had rented.
Diddy attacked Cassie at a Brad Pitt premiere, courtroom hears
In November 2012 whereas attending the star-studded premiere of the Brad Pitt movie Killing Them Softly, Diddy subtly attacked Ventura.
Mia mentioned: ‘I used to be sitting with Puff and Cass and it was silent and Puff was speaking to Cass however speaking like this together with his enamel clenched in an aggressive manner.
‘I seemed over and he was digging his nails into her arm.’
‘He is gonna kill me!’
On a vacation to the five-star Parrot Cay in Turks and Caicos in 2012, Mia was woken up by Ventura ‘operating and screaming into the room’, she instructed the courtroom Thursday.
‘She was screaming for assist and saying you gotta assist me, he’s gonna kill me,’ she mentioned. ‘Cass is often very chill and it was probably the most terrified like somebody screaming for his or her life.’
‘We began pushing furnishings in entrance of the door to dam it. Heavy wood furnishings, the mattress was fairly near the door. Possibly a chair and a trunk of some type.’
Diddy arrived and commenced banging and screaming to get in, so the 2 girls fled out the again and all the way down to the seashore the place they received onto two paddle boards to flee.
‘Diddy was operating forwards and backwards on the seashore behind the home screaming at us,’ Mia mentioned. They ultimately went again to shore.
Mia defined that she didn’t go to the police about any of the incidents as a result of she thought that his ‘authority was above the police’.
‘(Diddy) mentioned there have been so many individuals attempting to blackmail him and I got here to consider that reporting something was blackmail’.
Prince’s safety intervenes after Diddy attacked Cassie in 2012
Mia described how she and Cassie ‘snuck out’ of Diddy’s Beverly Hills lodge room in 2012 to attend an intimate social gathering hosted by Prince.
The pair have been having enjoyable earlier than Diddy ‘confirmed up,’ the place Mia and Cassie made eye contact with the mogul and ran by the home and into the bushes to cover.
‘Puff caught Cass. He caught as much as her and had her on the bottom,’ she mentioned.
‘He began to assault her however Prince’s safety swiftly intervened. I ended up hiding at a special lodge.’
Diddy threatened to ship Cassie’s intercourse tapes to her mother and father’ workplaces, jury hears
Deonte Nash instructed the jury earlier this week that he witnessed Diddy threatening to launch movies of Cassie having intercourse with different males.
He mentioned he heard Diddy telling Cassie he would ship the tapes to her mother and father’ workplaces if she didn’t do because the mogul instructed her to.
Nash mentioned he instructed Cassie that she ought to let Diddy launch the movies since he was additionally on them and could be affected.
However Cassie then apparently instructed him ‘[Diddy] wasn’t on the movies, it was [Diddy] taping her with different guys…. [She said] she was having intercourse with the opposite guys.’
Cassie then reportedly instructed Nash she didn’t need to have intercourse with different males however was doing it as a result of ‘Puff wished her to.’
Singer Daybreak Richard instructed the jury of dying threats throughout week one of many trial
Daybreak Richard received her massive break within the music enterprise as a solid member on Combs’ actuality TV present, Making the Band. She carried out with two Combs-backed acts, Danity Kane and Diddy — Soiled Cash.
However Richard mentioned throughout week one among testimony that Combs threatened her life after she noticed him beat Cassie and attempt to hit her with a skillet in 2009.
She mentioned Combs instructed her and one other girl that they ‘may go lacking’ in the event that they didn’t keep quiet.
She mentioned she noticed Combs beat Cassie ceaselessly. ‘He would punch her, choke her, drag her, slap her within the mouth,’ she mentioned.
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Who’s Diddy’s assistant Capricorn Clark?
The mogul’s ex-employee has been talked about a few dozen instances by varied witnesses who’ve taken the stand within the trial, and prosecutors declare she was kidnapped twice by Diddy or his bodyguards.
The courtroom takes a break for lunch
Mia will proceed giving her testimony when the lunch break ends at about 1.15pm EST.
Diddy ‘didn’t permit employees to depart his properties’
Mia mentioned on Thursdasy from the witness stand that she lived in Diddy’s properties when she labored for him and as soon as received in ‘massive bother’ as a result of she went out after he was asleep to see some associates.
One among his safety crew referred to as her and mentioned Diddy was ‘sending them to search out me’.
Mia wasn’t allowed to lock her door within the dwelling, although Diddy’s safety have been, she instructed the courtroom.
Diddy didn’t permit ex-assistant ‘Mia’ to sleep for 5 days, courtroom hears
When legal professionals requested how lengthy she was required to go with out sleep, Mia mentioned: ‘On a regular basis.’
She mentioned: ‘I can often energy by however I bear in mind after I was youthful waking up for college, okay Mia, you get out at 3 o’clock you may sleep then. I bear in mind considering I’d been awake for 2 days. I didn’t have something to carry onto for after I may fall asleep’.
Prosecutor Madison Smyser requested what was the longest time frame with no sleep.
Mia mentioned: ‘5 days’.
She defined that she was working and touring with Diddy consistently.
Mia needed to depend on her ADHD medicine, Adderall tablets, to maintain her awake as they have been the prolonged launch model.
‘I assume it was a lot stronger than the traditional, it allowed me to quasi operate’, Mia mentioned.
Diddy lastly let her sleep when she had a ‘bodily breakdown’.
Mia mentioned: ‘I bear in mind my listening to went, it felt like I used to be underwater, my equilibrium was off, I began not seeing issues however blurred imaginative and prescient, lights that weren’t there.
‘I out of nowhere burst into tears, I used to be hysterical and couldn’t cease crying’.
Mia additionally shared a listing of her duties as Diddy’s assistant.
One activity learn: ‘EVERY SINGLE DAY IS DIFFERENT – PD CAN ASK YOU TO DO 17,000 THINGS AT ONE TIME THAT RANGE FROM CRACKING HIS KNUCKLES TO WRITING HIS NEXT MOVIE TO DOING HIS TAXES.
‘HE CAN ASK YOU TO STAND NEXT TO HIM FOR 22 HOURS DOING NOTHING’.
‘Mia’ tells the courtroom about terrifying first day working for Diddy
Mia mentioned that on her first day working for Diddy in 2009, she didn’t sleep in any respect.
She was initially despatched to his dwelling in Alpine, New Jersey, to do a listing of what work wanted doing.
However at evening time she was ordered to go and meet Diddy within the studio. She didn’t get again dwelling till 1pm the next day.
‘I bear in mind being too nervous to threat it by taking a nap’, Mia mentioned, telling the jury she was instructed she was on a two-week trial interval initially of her employment.
‘I took it as a problem or perhaps this was for the trial interval. Or perhaps it was like is that this how it’s’.
Mia’s wage was alleged to be $55,000 however she was solely paid $50,000 – with no time beyond regulation.
Protection requested for mistrial after LA official mentioned somebody destroyed Child Cudi proof
On Wednesday, Diddy’s legal professionals have the choose for a mistrial after arguing the prosecution made an unacceptable suggestion in entrance of the jury.
The protection mentioned it was ‘outrageous’ when prosecutors appeared to recommend the mogul had destroyed fingerprints taken from Child Cudi’s home after the January, 2012 bombing of his automobile.
Prosecutors had requested LAFD official Lance Jimenez in regards to the fingerprints, and he mentioned the proof was destroyed in August 2012.
Jimenez mentioned ‘someone inside LAPD’ licensed the destruction of the proof.
That is when Diddy’s crew objected.
‘They know what they have been doing,’ the protection mentioned of prosecutors.
‘They have been suggesting that somebody on this courtroom has one thing to do with improper and suspicious destruction of those fingerprint playing cards and that’s outrageous.’
The attorneys added: ‘The one correct treatment to remedy the outrageous prejudice is a mistrial.’
Nevertheless, the protection’s movement for a mistrial was denied.
See all of the surprising images launched from Diddy trial as far as star fights intercourse trafficking expenses
The jaw-dropping pictures confirmed the weapons, medicine, industrial portions of ‘freak off’ paraphernalia and bins of ladies’s excessive heels that have been seized by investigators from Combs’ $40 million dwelling on the ultra-exclusive Star Island.
Diddy legal professionals reveal identification of Cassie’s ‘secret NFL fling’
Throughout cross-examination, Diddy’s legal professional grilled stylist Deonte Nash about whether or not he knew about Cassie’s affair with an NFL participant in 2016.
Xavier Donaldston requested him if he knew former Miami Dolphins participant Andre Department.
Nash replied: ‘Oh the lovable soccer participant? Yeah, however I’ve by no means met him.’
The legal professional then requested Nash if he was conscious that Cassie was in a relationship with ‘Brandon’ from the NBA round that point.
Social media customers shortly reacted to Department being talked about in courtroom on Thursday.
Is Diddy’s trial being streamed reside?
The mogul’s trial shouldn’t be being televised, and recording units will not be allowed within the courtroom, as a result of it’s a federal case.
Federal trials usually don’t permit recording units.
Alleged Diddy sufferer Mia takes the stand
An alleged sufferer who’s going by the pseudonym Mia has taken the stand for the prosection.
She instructed the courtroom she labored for Diddy from 2009 till 2017 first as a private assistant after which director of growth and aquisitions for Revolt Movies.
Mia testified that Diddy was usually violent in direction of her and sexually assaulted her a number of instances.
Prosecutors search to show racketeering
A lot of the case offered by prosecutors to this point has revolved round accusations that Combs bodily and sexually abused Cassie for years, and coerced her into sexual encounters referred to as ‘freak-offs’ with males who have been paid hundreds of {dollars} to have intercourse together with her.
But Combs isn’t merely charged with intercourse crimes. He’s charged with racketeering. Prosecutors say they’ll show that Combs used his companies and workers ‘to hold out, facilitate, and canopy up his acts of violence, abuse, and industrial intercourse.’
A few of these workers testified in Week 2.
George Kaplan, a private assistant for Combs from 2013 to 2015, instructed jurors he’d toss out liquor bottles and medicines and clear up child oil from Combs’ lodge rooms after the music producer completed freak-offs.
He mentioned he by no means reported abuse to authorities, even after Combs beat up Cassie on a personal jet.
One other private assistant, David James, testified that Combs had him inventory lodge rooms with Viagra, condoms, child oil and lubricant, amongst different provides.
He additionally recounted how Combs had three handguns on his lap as they drove to a Los Angeles diner searching for his file trade rival, Dying Row Information co-founder Suge Knight.
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Stylist is questioned about Cassie’s twenty ninth birthday incident
Cassie was content material celebrating her twenty ninth birthday with drinks, medicine and karaoke with associates, however her boyfriend Diddy had a special thought, Diddy’s ex-stylist Deonte Nash instructed the courtroom.
The hip-hop mogul insisted on taking her to a Los Angeles lodge for an additional of his ‘freak off’ intercourse marathons, her pal and former stylist testified at Combs’ federal intercourse trafficking trial.
Nash instructed jurors that he noticed the temperamental Combs berating Cassie as she pleaded for him to let her get pleasure from her birthday on her personal phrases.
Later that evening, Nash mentioned, Cassie instructed the stylist, ‘I don’t need to freak off,’ however that she needed to as a result of Combs was making her.
Nash testified that the 2015 dialog was one among a number of instances Cassie confided to him that she didn’t need to interact in Combs’ drug-fueled lodge encounters.
Deonte Nash seen leaving the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse in Decrease Manhattan
Prosecution says they’re forward of schedule
Assistant US Legal professional Maurene Comey mentioned they’re operating forward of schedule and even seeking to lower some witnesses.
The prosecution is hoping to relaxation their case by the second week of June, however famous it might proceed into the next week.
Stylist says he hooked Cassie up with Michael B Jordan
Deonte Nash instructed the courtroom that he was the one to arrange Cassie with actor Michael B Jordan whereas the 2 have been in South Africa engaged on totally different initiatives.
‘He positive. She positive. Why not?’ Sprint replied when requested about it.
Nash mentioned throughout this time, Cassie was upset that Diddy was seen out in Miami with one other girlfriend, Gina.
‘[Cassie said, “Why does he keep humiliating me and trying to ruin my career?”
Nash added: ‘[Cassie] wasn’t that pressed about Gina. When Puff be with Gina, she be like alright lady it’s time to exit.
‘The difficulty with Gina is Gina saved popping up and it was hurting her profession with Puff operating round with different girls.’
Diddy’s mom again in courtroom to assist him
Diddy’s mother, Janice, has stood by her 55-year-old son’s aspect whereas he’s on trial for intercourse trafficking.
The 85-year-old has been pictured on the Manhattan federal courthouse most days of the trial.
She is seen arriving on Thursday.
Stylist Deonte Nash is again on the stand
Cassie’s pal and stylist is being cross-examined by the protection on Thursday morning.
Nash is being questioned about his relatoinship with Diddy’s former assistant Capricorn Clark.
He instructed jurors on Wednesday that he noticed the temperamental Combs berating Cassie as she pleaded for him to let her get pleasure from her birthday on her personal phrases. Later that evening, Nash mentioned, Cassie instructed the stylist, ‘I don’t need to freak off,’ however that she needed to as a result of Combs was making her.
Together with shedding mild on Cassie’s emotions about freak offs, Nash additionally corroborated her testimony that Combs ceaselessly beat and tormented her. Combs would threaten to hinder Cassie’s fledgling music profession and mentioned he’d smash her status by releasing recordings of their sexual encounters, Nash mentioned.
Will Diddy take the stand? All of the witnesses at rapper’s blockbuster trial
To this point, the blockbuster trial has consisted of plenty of bombshell testimonies from his ex-girlfriend and primary accuser Cassie Ventura, rapper Child Cudi, Daybreak Richard, a former member of Combs’ pop group Danity Kane, and his former govt assistant George Kaplan, amongst others.
Here’s a full checklist of everybody who has taken the stand to this point:
Usher, Ne- Yo, dragged into Daybreak Richard’s testimony throughout week one
Former Danity Kane member Daybreak Richard mentioned on the stand throughout the first week of the trial that Diddy punched Cassie within the abdomen throughout a personal argument at a West Hollywood restaurant in 2010.
She claimed a number of celebrities have been on the dinner, together with Usher, Ne-Yo and famous person music govt Jimmy Iodine.
‘Mr Combs punched Cassie within the abdomen,’ Richard instructed the jury.
‘They have been having a personal dialog, we have been all sitting consuming on the tables collectively. A few of Unhealthy Boy label mates, some celebrities have been within the room.
‘They have been secretly arguing [and] he punched her within the abdomen.
Richard added: ‘[Cassie] instantly bent over and he instructed her to depart, I may see him level out and she or he went out.’
Prosecutors ask for privateness measures for alleged sufferer ‘Mia’
Prosecutors on Thursday requested the courtroom to chop the witness field from the reside feed proven within the courtroom’s overflow room when Mia takes the stand.
The choose declined the request, saying there was not sufficient area and the overflow room ‘is an extension of this room.’
Nevertheless, the choose dominated that no sketches be made from Mia when she’s testifying and that there are not any cellphones to doc her look in any manner.
Mia’s lawyer, Michael Ferrara, mentioned his consumer will inform in regards to the worst issues ever to occur to her.
These issues, he mentioned, she in any other case would have taken ‘to her grave.’ He mentioned she’s going to need emotional assist throughout her testimony.
‘Candidly, her nerves are by the roof,’ he mentioned of Diddy’s former assistant.
‘I don’t know how one can assist her if we will’t focus on the ache she’s going to expertise from having to inform the world about her worst experiences.’
Diddy’s former assistant breaks down in tears as she recollects terrifying threats by his employees
Taking the stand on Tuesday, Capricorn Clark mentioned she was left ‘petrified’ after being delivered to an deserted constructing in New York and locked in whereas being questioned in regards to the hip hop mogul’s lacking jewellery.
One other time, she claimed Diddy kidnapped her at gunpoint and drove her to a love rival’s home the place he meant to shoot the person lifeless, the courtroom heard.
The extraordinary claims emerged throughout the testimony of Clark, 46, who repeatedly broke down in tears whereas describing her nightmarish employment with Diddy.
The unbelievable {photograph} of two feminine megastars that is buried in Diddy proof information
Buried in a file submitted as a part of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ protection is a black and white {photograph} of two world well-known feminine stars mendacity on a mattress in bikinis beneath a seedy mirrored ceiling.
Diddy arrives to courtroom
The disgraced mogul is sporting a beige sweater and is presently locked in dialog together with his lead legal professional, Marc Agnifilo.
Diddy is allowed to put on his personal garments to the trial however with some circumstances.
He can solely have as much as 5 pairs of pants, shirts and socks and solely two pairs of footwear – with no laces.
Cassie wished up to now Jay-Z, in keeping with Diddy’s ex-assistant Capricorn Clark
Diddy’s former assistant Capricorn Clark instructed the jury on Tuesday that Cassie as soon as instructed she wished up to now Jay-Z.
In a gathering with Diddy’s legal professionals in April 2024, Clark mentioned she as soon as instructed Cassie up to now different individuals than Diddy – however Cassie apparently replied that Jay-Z was taken.
Agnifilo requested Clark: ‘Do you bear in mind saying on the assembly that … you instructed Cassie, it’s important to — it is best to transfer away from [Diddy] and date different individuals, proper?’
The legal professional added: ‘And she or he mentioned to you that Jay-Z was taken, who would she [date]?’
She added: ‘She did [say that.]’
Diddy, Beyonce and Jay-Z are pictured collectively in 2005.
Cassie Ventura provides beginning simply days after taking the stand
Cassie Ventura welcomed her third baby with husband Alex Effective simply days after testifying in her ex Diddy‘s intercourse trafficking trial.
TMZ studies the Me and U singer welcomed child quantity three on Tuesday at a hospital in New York Metropolis, citing sources with direct information.
The insiders say the infant arrived barely forward of schedule, however Cassie and her baby are wholesome and nicely.
The lacking Diddy witness who mysteriously vanished days earlier than trial
The lacking Diddy ‘sufferer’ who mysteriously vanished throughout the first week of testimony has haunted his trial ever since.
The girl – referred to solely as ‘Sufferer quantity 3’ – was scheduled to testify for the prosecution after Cassie Ventura.
Her testimony was going to bolster the prosecution’s case towards the beleaguered rapper and assist the racketeering cost that Diddy’s crew says is totally out of the blue.
When she vanished, there was an onslaught of conspiracy theories coupled with a strategic scramble from the prosecutors.
Nobody may discover the girl. They nonetheless cannot.
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Who will testify at present?
Diddy’s lawyer Xavier Donaldson will proceed cross analyzing stylist Deonte Nash, pictured under, within the morning.
Diddy’s ex-assistant Mia and radio character Enrique Santos are anticipated to take the stand following Nash.
Celebrities ‘are anxious about being referred to as to testify in Diddy’s trial’
A brand new report claims that panicked celebrities are so anxious about presumably being referred to as as a witness within the Diddy trial that they’re lawyering up.
‘I’ve heard that there are some celebrities anxious about being referred to as to testify and have even lawyered up attempting to struggle that,’ TMZ founder Harvey Levin mentioned on Fox Information Digital.
Harvey didn’t specify which celebrities are reportedly involved abotut being referred to as as witnesses, however a number of A-list stars have been named-dropped all through the bombshell testimony.
Diddy’s ex-assistant Capricorn Clark uncovered the mogul’s checklist of celebrities enemies and plenty of different A-listers have come up in testimony.
The trial has even impressed deep faux movies that use AI-generated pictures to falsely declare that sure celebrities, comparable to Oprah and Jennifer Lawrence, have been talked about within the mogul’s sex-trafficking case.
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