Nada Tawfik
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Diddy On Trial
Ex-employee says Diddy threatened to 'go kill' Kid Cudi
Yeah, I think prosecutors have said that a lot of Cassie's career was controlled by Combs and also restricted. And Capricorn spoke about what she observed as what was available to her at that time when she was at Bad Boys. They said that she had all the access and all of Bad Boys' weight was put behind her at one point.
Diddy On Trial
Ex-employee says Diddy threatened to 'go kill' Kid Cudi
Just kind of speaking to this idea that there was a lot of resources on the table for her.
Diddy On Trial
Ex-employee says Diddy threatened to 'go kill' Kid Cudi
Yeah, so Capricorn said that in summer of 2016, she received a call from someone with the Los Angeles Fire Department that was investigating an arson. And Capricorn said she just hung up the phone. Capricorn said that she just wanted it to be over and the drama and kind of that period with Sean and Cassie.
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Ex-employee says Diddy threatened to 'go kill' Kid Cudi
Over the years, Capricorn reached back out to Combs and this idea of begging for forgiveness for what happened between Cassie and Kid Cudi. And this last email, Capricorn was really, really emotional. And she was saying that she just wanted her life back. She just wanted to work in the music industry. And she referenced some earlier points in 2012 where she felt like she couldn't get a job.
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Ex-employee says Diddy threatened to 'go kill' Kid Cudi
But that's why she explained that she went back in 2016 and to work for Cassie again. That's where she felt like was her only option to work in this industry. Capricorn said at this level of business, he held all the power as it related to me. So that's why she kept going back to work for him.
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Ex-employee says Diddy threatened to 'go kill' Kid Cudi
Yeah. She said that she was ultimately hired back in 2016 and 2018 because she said, quote, Combs did what Cassie wanted and Cassie wanted me back. And it hurt her feelings that she had a relationship with Combs even before all of this.
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Ex-employee says Diddy threatened to 'go kill' Kid Cudi
And the only way that she was coming back to work after she couldn't work was because Cassie said, OK, she can come back now or I want her to work for me or work with me.
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Ex-employee says Diddy threatened to 'go kill' Kid Cudi
I think she kind of explained it that she did a really good job and she was working towards a common goal that Holmes had and everyone at Bad Boy had was to make him successful to be part of a successful thriving business.
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Ex-employee says Diddy threatened to 'go kill' Kid Cudi
Yeah, she said that she has a son who has autism and she says that she needed to provide for herself and for her son. And she couldn't find work, she says, anywhere but for combs.
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Ex-employee says Diddy threatened to 'go kill' Kid Cudi
Yeah, she said that she showed up at CAA, which is a talent agency, and she said that Combs and Andre Harrell, his mentor, followed her around. She said that she had a meeting at Interscope, which she thought was for job opportunities, and she said no job came of it, but it was more of a warning.
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Ex-employee says Diddy threatened to 'go kill' Kid Cudi
So she felt that she was literally blacklisted from these institutions where she previously had relationships with.
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Ex-employee says Diddy threatened to 'go kill' Kid Cudi
I mean, prosecutors, again, established that Cassie had to get approval for her look, her song release, her career, what photo shoots she was doing, all through Combs. And if they were fighting, photo shoots would be taken away, music videos would be taken away, and ultimately given back when they were on better terms.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
Now, Daniel describes being absolutely shocked when all of a sudden a liquor bottle, Diddy throws it from across the room right toward Cassie, and then he comes running towards her, grabs her by her hair, drags her into her bedroom, and tells her, when I tell you to come, you don't wait, you just come when I tell you.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
broke in, and when they found they weren't there, went off again to look for Cassie. And they depict how when he finally found Cassie, that he brutally beat her, flung her around like a rag doll.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
And he says he then heard, after the doors closed, Diddy slapping her, beating her, yelling at her, and Cassie screaming out, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. And he says he was just kind of frozen in place. He didn't know what to do. And prosecutors asked him, why didn't you intervene? Why didn't you go inside? And he said, look, I know this is somebody with a lot of resources.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
Quite frankly, I was afraid for my life. Now, that drew a lot of objections from the defense, but the judge allowed that testimony. And he again reiterated that he was scared in that moment for Cassie, feeling like she was in a dangerous situation, but he didn't feel it was safe enough for him to intervene.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
Yeah, it's interesting because he kind of talks about throughout that he tried to kind of stay in text communications with Cassie just to make sure she's OK. But that particular instance, you know, he had already described how Cassie was tiny compared to Diddy. He already described how Diddy would lose his temper in those moments and it would shock him.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
So that imagery of Cassie running to him, jumping in his lap and just visibly shaking and him trying to console her. She basically told him, don't worry about me, I'll be fine. And he said he just couldn't convince her to leave him. But he very much thought that she was in danger if she stayed in that relationship.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
Yeah, it was very brief to start just in terms of having him reestablish certain things that he said in his original testimony. And then they tried to go after his credibility a little bit through that line of questioning. But look, it was very much just touching the surface. I think when court resumes tomorrow, there will be much more on a cross examination. And we'll see.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
We'll see whether they go even harder and pinpoint any place where they can have jurors find reasonable doubt.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
And they used that one night to paint the picture of what they say happened over 20 years, not just to Cassie, but to another woman named Jane, who they say the jury will hear from, and also an employee named Mia that they say the jury will hear from. And they say he was somebody who referred to himself as a king and expected to be treated like one, had impossible demands.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
So really setting the tone of the kind of character they want them to see. really graphic testimony just about how this was not a case about celebrity sexual preferences, that this was about coercion and control. They say that Cassie, that only one person had power in that relationship, and it was Diddy, not her.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
that he forced her into these freak-offs that she didn't enjoy at all, but she felt she had no choice. That in one instance, she almost felt like she was choking because he had a male prostitute urinate in her mouth. I mean, just to give you a sense of some of the graphic detail that we're going to be hearing over these next few weeks.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
And essentially, they say that this went on for years and years because he had financial control of her life, that she felt she couldn't escape, again, that she was physically abused throughout this relationship. So much really hinges on Cassie and the testimony and, of course, that video, that CCTV footage from that L.A. hotel in 2016.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
We're going to be hearing from the prosecution they introduced that.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
Yeah, what's really important with Jane is they say this all happened not even a year ago, this relationship with Jane. As you say, single mother, she wanted to have a relationship with him, but it wasn't so public in the way it was with Cassie. Now, prosecutors said that she will testify that shortly into their relationship, he asked her to take part in these freak-offs.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
And she initially agreed, but was surprised that he wanted to set one up They say that it was his employees that got the drugs and that Jane, at one point after taking the drugs and being forced to have sex with a male prostitute, that she actually threw up because she was so disturbed by it. She didn't like it at all, they said.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
And they said that Diddy told her, you're not going to mess up my night. Get back in here and finish.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
And also with Jane, they try to, again, depict that there was a pattern here, that he also was physically abusive with her, saying at one point during an altercation between the two that they both got upset that he grabbed her by her throat and picked her up in a choke fold and then threw her to the ground.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
So another case where they're trying to depict how, again, this was something that he did not just with Cassie, but with other women.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
Yeah, I mean, that's a real interesting piece of this, right? Because they say that these women felt like if they didn't do exactly what he said, that there would be consequences. And so... He allegedly forced them to source the male escorts to plan out certain details. They say there was a very kind of strict way he liked things. He wanted dark hotel rooms. He wanted the women in lingerie.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
He wanted them in high heels. They talked about the baby oil, the drugs, and how this would go on for days and they would have to recover with IVs to rehydrate. But again, this element of the women being forced to orchestrate this all to kind of do what he said to please him.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
Yeah, in 2009 there was an incident they also described in their opening statements where Diddy allegedly threw Cassie in a vehicle and stomped on her face repeatedly. So they described how brutal this was for Cassie and how it left a big bruise on her face.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
what did he do they say he was so concerned about maintaining his reputation he was seen in public really as this charismatic lovable figure right very at odds with the character they were depicting these opening statements and they say that what he did at that point was force her into a hotel room
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
And he had a staff member stand guard outside for days until her bruise got better so she wouldn't be seen in public at that time with that bruise when people knew they were together in a long relationship.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
i think mostly everyone who's aware of this case if not everyone has seen again the hotel cctv footage in 2016 of diddy beating cassie now they say take that instance diddy got his chief of staff got his bodyguard showed up at the hotel tried to get one security guard with a wad of cash to try to buy the video from him then went to a different security guard and they said showed up with a brown bag filled with a hundred thousand dollars
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
and successfully bought that footage. So just showing, again, how there were people around him that would do whatever he asked, that he had the wealth and power to protect himself. And when you think about that power dynamic, again, going back to this idea that Cassie didn't have the power in the relationship. He was the one who had it. But it is a...
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
Yeah, I'm not sure I've ever seen a case actually where in the opening the defense asks the defendant to stand up and look at the jury. And so you had Sean Combs in a gray sweater with a white top under it, his hair, you know, visibly grayer than we remember him in his, you know, bad boy days, stands up and looks to the jury and
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
Essentially, what the defense is trying to say is we're not going to shy away from anything that he has done. They admit to domestic violence. They admit to the fact that he was a jealous boyfriend, that he was with many women at once, that he committed infidelity. But what they say, essentially, is that none of that is sex trafficking.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
So there were terms and phrases they used often, painting the alleged victims as strong, capable women that had a choice, that this was the choice they made to stay with him. And then when they decided to leave him, that was their choice as well, saying that they're not going to shy away from the fact that there was jealousy in the relationships.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
But they say there was no coercion, that it was all consensual. So, again, trying to basically say to the jury he's a flawed man, and that's not a crime. If domestic abuse was what was charged here, that would be one thing. But what he's being charged with is sex trafficking and RICO charges, and they say the evidence just will not prove that.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
Yeah, they said, look, we know he's a fan of baby oil, even in a flippant way. And the reason they brought that up is because they said the press has painted this in a completely different light than the reality. So they wanted to kind of in a way, almost make light of what the jurors have heard in the press before.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
Yeah, it was interesting because they started off with this dramatic flare pointing right to Sean Diddy Combs and painting him really as, you know, this larger than life icon. But saying that behind that there was another side to him, one where he used his celebrity, his power, really his entire business to force victims into unconsensual sex.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
So, you know, they say, look, it's important to remember that, yeah, he's a fan of baby oil. There's no crime there. Yeah, the way he likes to have these sexual encounters might not be to your taste. It might even make you uncomfortable. But look, there's nothing illegal about that. And yes, these were toxic relationships.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
You're going to see and hear voice notes and text messages with him and these women. Again, you might think he's a jerk, they said. You might think he's a mean guy. So again, trying to paint him as a flawed individual, but not someone who should be held criminally accountable.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
Yeah, so they're saying essentially that the press hasn't put out the whole story, that this was a toxic, dysfunctional relationship, and almost putting the blame a little bit on Cassie. They're saying what you didn't get out of that video was that when he was running after her, what he was after was his phone.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
and that Cassie had stolen his phone from him, and that once he got it, he kind of sat down and put his head in his hands and kind of realized what he had done. And they're saying that, to them, is evidence that this isn't about sex trafficking, that he didn't grab her and try to bring her back to the hotel room because of sex trafficking, that it was about him wanting his phone.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
So, again, painting this as a domestic violence incident and saying that all of it was because of the jealousy in the relationships, saying, that him and Cassie that day had a fight about kind of seeing, you know, stuff in the press she didn't like, and it was all about jealousy. And again, that this was a situation where it was a personal dispute between two people.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
Prosecutors aren't wasting any time getting to some really impactful witnesses. And this was Daniel Phillip. He worked in the adult industry and said he met Cassie in 2012 when his boss told him that he got a request to have somebody go dance at a bachelorette party. And he couldn't find anybody else, so Daniel agreed.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
What Daniel didn't expect when he arrived was that the job would be quite different. He didn't realize he was meeting Cassie at the time. She answered the door at the Gramercy Hotel, where he was instructed to go, in red lingerie, a red wig, big glasses and heels. And she asked him if he would be up for having a little fun with someone she described as her husband.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
She said that he wanted to do something special for her, that he wanted to have Daniel rub his wife in baby oil and just see where the night went. He says when he went into the room, he saw the husband. Again, he didn't know at the time it was Sean Combs in a corner with a baseball cap and a bandana kind of covering the lower half of his face.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
And they started off by painting the picture of one night where they said he was essentially in a rage. He was on the hunt for his girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie. And they say he kind of got wind that she was going to be with another man. And he went to one of his employees, grabbed them out of bed, forced them to go with a security guard in their SUV to the man's home.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
And he said that within minutes of kind of rubbing baby oil on Cassie, they had sex. And he said that in the corner was this man ejaculating while watching them have sex. He said he left quickly after that. But then he said Cassie got in touch with him, asked him for certain explicit photos, and asked if he would be open to doing it again after handing him a lot of money.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
Now, he said after that, he went back. And this happened a few times over the course of several years. He said this went on until about late 2013, early 2014. I should just first note that he's asked when was the first time he knew it was Diddy. And he said, actually, the first time he opened his mouth. He says he was very aware of Diddy from all of his music, all of his kind of press interviews.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
And so he was aware. But the time where he could really for sure say it was Diddy was when Cassie told him that actually we're switching locations. Come meet us at this different hotel in half an hour. He says when he arrived, Diddy actually answered the door fully clothed in a suit and a peacoat, no mask. And so that's when he knew it was Diddy.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
And he said from that point on, Diddy didn't wear the bandana or try to hide his identity after that.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
You know, Diddy would sometimes say, you're not using enough baby oil, use more baby oil, go slower, or tell him... don't come yet, but there were times where he said the requests were slightly odder than even that. He said that one time Cassie was the one who asked him to urinate on her and that Diddy and her instructed him on how to do it. So that was kind of one of the more graphic details.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
But then as testimony went on, you also saw the prosecution trying to get into why he stopped engaging with them. And that was quite telling.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
Yeah, that's right. He said that once he saw Diddy beat Cassie, he could no longer you know, perform and be engaged. Because before, he said, even if they hadn't paid him, he was excited to be part of their world. He was enjoying that kind of activity with them.
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Jurors in Diddy trial shown video of Cassie assault
And then things started changing when he saw one time he was on the couch, Cassie was at her computer, and Diddy, he said, was in Cassie's bedroom. Now, Diddy apparently called out to Cassie to come into the bedroom, and she allegedly told him, just hold on a second, my personal information's on the computer.
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Expert witness, seized items and hotel clean ups
Okay, so it's 3.45 and I'm here with Neda Talfik, the BBC's New York correspondent. Neda, it picked up where it left off yesterday with the Homeland Security agent. What else did he have to say?
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Expert witness, seized items and hotel clean ups
And then we had the inclusion of Dr. Dawn Hughes. And this is important because anyone who's listened to the pub for a while knows that there was such a back and forth about Sie ist blind. Was bedeutet das?
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Expert witness, seized items and hotel clean ups
Und dann, wie es immer der Fall ist mit Experten-Testimonyen, wird die Verteidigung aufhören und die Credibilität des Experten überprüfen. Und das ist genau das, was wir hier gesehen haben.
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Expert witness, seized items and hotel clean ups
Didn't they question her, saying you've never come and testified in support of a man who's been accused of sex crimes?
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Expert witness, seized items and hotel clean ups
BBC Sounds. Musik, Radio, Podcasts. Hallo und willkommen zurück zu Diddy on Trial von BBC Sounds mit mir, Anushka Matanda-Dowdy. Ein Warnung, bevor wir beginnen. Dieser Episode enthält Referenzen zu Domestic Abuse und Drogen. Hier im südlichen Distrikt von New York Court ist es die Mitte von Woche 2 im Trial von Rapper Sean Diddy Combs.
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Expert witness, seized items and hotel clean ups
Und dann hatten wir noch einen Anwesenden, George Kaplan, der war ein weiterer Exekutivassistent für Didi, ein persönlicher Assistent. Also hatten wir David James am anderen Tag und jetzt haben wir George. Und einige der Dinge, die George sagte, haben wir von David auch gehört.
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Expert witness, seized items and hotel clean ups
There were also questions to George about some of the other things that he did for Diddy. He spoke about being asked to buy drugs for him.
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Expert witness, seized items and hotel clean ups
Und einer davon ist jemand, den die Leute wahrscheinlich kennen. Sie sprechen über... Yeah, Kid Cudi.
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Expert witness, seized items and hotel clean ups
That was the BBC's New York correspondent, Neda Tawfiq, speaking to me, Anishka Matanda-Dowsey, for Diddy on Trial from BBC Sounds. And if you're listening in the UK and would like information or support on some of the issues raised in this episode, please go to bbc.co.uk forward slash action line. And please keep sending us your questions on WhatsApp. You can get us at 0330 123 5551.
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Expert witness, seized items and hotel clean ups
That's 0330 123 5551. We'll do our best to answer them on Thursday's weekly roundup with criminal defense attorney Sean Kent. So make sure you subscribe and turn on your push notifications so you never miss a thing.
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Expert witness, seized items and hotel clean ups
Now, it is getting trickier and trickier to find a place to record. Everywhere you turn, there's an influencer or a commentator with a phone on a tripod streaming or recording. Now, a reminder, Diddy is on trial for charges of sex trafficking, racketeering with conspiracy and transportation for prostitution. These are charges he's always denied.
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Expert witness, seized items and hotel clean ups
If you die on the mountain, you stay on the mountain.
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Expert witness, seized items and hotel clean ups
Yesterday we heard from an exotic dancer known as The Punisher. Ja, genau. Now, Agent Gerard Gannon is back on the stand today. We're also being told that another one of Didi's former assistants will be taking the stand. Later I'll be catching up with our New York correspondent, Neda Talfik. But now it's time to see what is going down in that courtroom today.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Ja, und wiederum, das ist richtig, die Verwaltung geht vor der Verteidigung. Sie sagt, ja, sie war mit ihm nochmals intim. Sie sagte, dass sie am Abendessen eines Freundes waren. Sie hatten einen schönen Abend. Alles war sauber, er war glücklich. Und sie endete, in sein Haus zu gehen. Und sie fragte sie, warum... konnte sie wieder intim mit ihm sein.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Sie sagte, wir waren seit mehr als zehn Jahren zusammen. Wir waren sehr verbunden. Man kann nicht nur diese Gefühle auslösen. Sie konnte ihn nicht nur plötzlich hassen.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Ja, du weißt, das ist der Punkt, an dem sie wirklich beginnt, auf dem Stand zu weinen. Und es wird einfach ein bisschen zu viel. Und so kurz wie letztes Jahr, 2023, sagt sie, dass sie ihr eigenes Leben nehmen wollte. Und sie hat das für die Jury detailliert, wie das gespielt hat.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Sie hat nur darüber gesprochen, dass sie ständig diese traumhaften Flashbacks zu ihrer Beziehung mit Diddy hatte und wie es zu viel wurde und Wie sie zu Hause war, ihre Kinder schliefen und sie sagte ihrem Mann Alex, du kannst das ohne mich tun, du brauchst mich nicht.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Sie, du weißt, hat an diesem Punkt etwas mehr Details, aber sagte, dass es ihr Mann war, der sie stoppte und sie bemerkten, dass sie richtige Hilfe brauchen musste. Sie brauchte Therapie.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Ja, Cassie war klar durch die Therapie gegangen. Sie wollte klar auf dieses Kapitel in ihrer Leben einsteigen. Sie sagte, sie habe Diddy das Buch gesendet, weil sie wollte, dass er versteht, wie sie sich fühlte. was sie durch diese Beziehung fühlte und was sie zu ihr gesagt hat. Sie hat es ihm geliefert, aber sie hat es sogar zu einem Assistenten geliefert, um zu sehen, ob er es gelesen hat.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Und sie haben es in ihrer Erzählung nicht sehr ernst genommen, indem sie gesagt haben, dass sie es nicht erkannt haben, dass es von ihnen war, dass sie es nur als Lüge gedacht haben. Und so details Cassie, wie sie dann entschieden hat, okay, ich werde einen Zivilsuit anrufen und ich werde es für viel Geld machen, 30 Millionen Dollar, und vielleicht wird das seine Aufmerksamkeit bekommen.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Und sie sagte, dass das letztendlich das war, was sie tat. Und in einem Tag, wie wir bereits wissen, hat Diddy beschlossen, diesen Zivilsuit zu bestrafen. Und er hat es für 20 Millionen Dollar gemacht, aber ohne irgendwelche Verletzungen zu verurteilen.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Oh, absolut. Die Verteidigung sagte, seht euch Cassies Kommunikation in der realen Zeit an. Sie hat eine Wahl gemacht, mit ihm zu bleiben, trotz des domestischen Verbrechens. Sie wollte mit ihm bleiben. Wir werden das durch ihre Kommunikation beweisen. Und ihr werdet sehen, dass sie an der Zeit beschlossen hat, diesen Zivilsitz zu verabschieden. Es war, weil sie finanziell beschäftigt war.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Sie hat mit ihrer Mutter zurückgekehrt. Und das war ihr Motiv. Und das ist alles wiederum die Verteidigung, um diese deutliche Angst in den Jury-Mind zu bauen und es in der Art und Weise zu beurteilen, warum sie so eine hohe Anzahl gefragt hat. Sie haben die Entscheidung gemacht, dass sie das da draußen haben wollten.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Ja, sie hat gesagt, dass sie die Scham, die Leidenschaft nicht mehr tragen konnte. Sie hat gesagt, dass die Art und Weise, in der sie gefolgt wurde, um Menschen zu behandeln, als ob sie sie zur Verfügung stellen würden. Sie hat immer noch diese Art von Leidenschaft. Für Cassie ist es klar, dass das die richtige Sache war. Es war die richtige Sache, um das zu tun.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
We got some more graphic detail in Cassie's testimony. She took us right back to that night with the hotel security footage capturing Diddy beating her in the hotel room. And the jury saw selfies that she took of herself. And in the selfies she's wearing a hood, she's wearing black sunglasses and you can see her swollen fat lip.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Sie beschreibt, wie die Sonnenblasen ihr schwarzes Auge schlossen, aber dass sie das Selfie, als sie in einem Uber war, zurück nach ihrem Wohnzimmer ging. Und ein Freund hat sie dort kennengelernt und hat tatsächlich die Polizei angerufen. Aber Cassie sagte, dass sie einfach nicht fühlte, dass sie ihnen erzählen konnte, wer das zu ihr getan hat.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Und sie geht weiter und fragt wirklich in mehr Details über die Freak-Offs. Es gab einen wirklich erstaunlichen Punkt am Morgen, wo... Sie hat einen Binder gegeben und sie muss eins nach dem anderen durch die Männer-Eskorte gehen. Und sie hat gesagt, sie fühlte, es war ihr Arbeit, die sie hatte. Sie war erwartet, diese Eskorte für diese Freak-Offs zu hirten.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Und eins nach dem anderen geht sie durch die Männer, einige der Namen, die sie erinnert. Sie geht durch, wo sie in den Freak-Offs teilgenommen haben, welche Städte, was wirklich das Herz der Angelegenheit von den Verurteilten geht, über die Sie berichtet wirklich, wie sie sich durch all das fühlte.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Sie sagt, es gab Zeiten, in denen sie auf Ketamin, dem Drogen, war, weil sie sich von diesen Freak-Offs entlasten wollte. Sie wollte sie nicht machen. Und sie war auf anderen Drogen und begann, Opioide zu nehmen, wurde an sie entlastet, weil sie es vergessen wollte. Die Freak-Offs. Sie hat Schmerzen im Mund, Gastrointestinal-Issuen, UTIs.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Und auch mit diesen Urinär-Track-Infektionen, hat sie gesagt, dass Didi sie fordern würde, die Freak-Offs zu fortsetzen. Also wirklich eine tiefere Verständnis von dem, was Cassie sagt, dass sie durch diese Jahre durchgegangen ist.
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Yeah, that was a really interesting point because they actually displayed in court the text message between both of them. And in it he is begging her, call me, call me, I have six kids. He tells her, he says, you know, they're going to arrest me, call me, call me. Und sie antwortet nicht zu mehreren dieser Botschaften, aber er hat sich immer auf die Botschaften geäußert.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Und an einem Punkt sagt sie ihm im Grunde genommen, bitte lasst mich allein bleiben. Ich weiß nicht, wie Sie denken, was Sie getan haben, ist okay. Lasst mich allein bleiben. Und er sagt, wenn Sie nicht aufhören, hören Sie meine Stimme nie wieder. Bitte telefonieren. Ich würde Ihre Telefonnummer nie vergessen.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Es gibt einen Beispiel, wo sie einen Kampf am Cannes Film Festival hatten. Und während des Kampfes hat er sie tatsächlich aus dem Boot, auf dem sie stehen, ausgeschlagen. Sie hatte nicht ihr Passwort, sie hatte keine Schuhe.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Und auf dem Flugzeug nach Hause, natürlich war sie immer noch mit ihm überrascht, sagt sie, aber er hat eine Art und Weise gefunden, neben ihr zu sitzen und hat ihr gesagt, dass sie sich beheben musste. Und um das zu tun, hat er sich essentiell auf... Ja, genau. He threatened to release the freak-off videos. And prosecutors asked her about why that would have been such a horrific thing for her.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
And she says, you know, I didn't want my mother to see it. The videos, you know, she talked about how it would have portrayed her. She says it made her look like a slut. So for a woman, obviously with a career, she said it would have been damaging to her career, her reputation. dass sie die Freak-Offs nicht machen wollte und niemanden darüber wissen wollte.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Ja, es gibt einen Textmessage-Exchange vom 26. Januar 2016, wo Diddy tatsächlich sagt, wir müssen eine richtige Freak-Off haben. Er sagt, ohne K in der Textmessage und sagt ihr, bitte nicht verrückt. She explains through questioning by prosecutors to the jury that K is for ketamine and that she took it because she kind of wanted a time out from the freak-offs.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
She said it was her preferred drug because it helped her disassociate. It gave her this, what she called a K-hole, where she was so high that she couldn't do anything. She couldn't have those sex acts. And she said, you know, that's essentially why Diddy didn't like her taking it.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Ja, es gab einen Satz, in dem sie über ihren 29. Geburtstag spricht. Einen Geburtstag, an dem sie gesagt hat, dass sie ein Überraschungsessen in einem Restaurant in Los Angeles mit ihren Freunden hatte. Sie dachte nicht, dass Diddy gehen würde. Sie dachte, dass es nur Zeit wäre für sie und ihre Freunde. Sie wollte nachher in einen Club gehen und Karaoke spielen.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Sie sagte, als sie in den Club gegangen sind, wollte er einen Freak-Off machen. Aber sie sagte ihm, dass sie es nicht machen wollen. Sie wollte mit ihren Freunden Karaoke spielen. Aber sie sagte, auch wenn sie da waren, als sie mit ihren Freunden da war, dass er sie immer wieder rausgezogen hat und versuchte, einen Freak-Off zu machen. Und sie sagte, sie wollte nicht den Bedürfnis dafür haben.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Sie wollte nur ihren Geburtstag feiern. Aber sie sagte, sie gab es, weil er sie so viele Male rausgezogen hat. Und er war da mit seiner Sicherheit. Und sie hat einfach gemerkt, dass er nicht stoppen wird.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Ja, du weißt, es ist interessant, als sie zuerst kam, gab es ein paar Momente, bevor die Frage begann und ich konnte wirklich ein bisschen nervöse Energie spüren. Du weißt, sie war in der Schuhe, natürlich ist sie sehr visuell krank, klar bis zum Ende ihres dritten Termins, aber sie war in ihrer Schuhe, sie hat ihr Jackett entfernt, sie hat mit ihren Haaren gespielt.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Sie nahm das Wasser, öffnete es und trinkte es. Ein bisschen nervöse Energie. Aber als sie die Fragen beantwortete, war sie sehr ruhig und komponiert. Sie hat sie klar beantwortet. Sie hat ein paar Tränen am Ende des morgens ausgeworfen. Man konnte also sehen, wie viel es auf ihr ging. Denn das sind sehr, sehr grafische und intimistische Details, die sie in einem vollen Stadthaus teilen muss.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Und wie war Didis Reaktion auf Cassie im Stadthaus? Well, when Cassie walked in to take her seat on the witness stand, he didn't look at her. He looked straight forward. He is quite animated with his family again today, with his sons and his mother there behind him. He blew them kisses and, you know, a mouth to them. But when it came to Cassie, he didn't look in her direction.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Yeah, I think one of the more striking examples came when she was describing what happened after Diddy found out she had been seeing the rapper Kid Cudi. Und er hat das nicht sehr gut genommen. Und sie beschreibt das Nachhinein davon. Sie sagt, dass sie ein E-Mail zu ihrer Mutter am 23. Dezember 2011 mit den E-Mail-Subjekten Threats sendet.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Und sie sagte, dass Diddy eigentlich sagte, dass er Kid Cudi und sie verletzen würde, dass er die expliziten Sex-Tapes der Freak-Offs verlesen würde. Und er sagte, dass er zwei Sex-Tapes verlesen würde, einen an Weihnachtsabend, einen bald danach.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Sie hat all das in der E-Mail zu ihrer Mutter veröffentlicht, dass er sagte, dass er sie und Scott verletzen würde, nicht mit seinen eigenen Händen, sondern dass er aus dem Land gehen würde. Wenn es passiert ist, haben die Jury das E-Mail gesehen und von Cassie gehört. Und nur um wieder zu verstehen, wie diese Blackmail-Gewähltheit, die sie gemacht hat, in der realen Zeit passiert ist.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Cassie sagte, dass sie Diddy physisch mit mehreren anderen gesehen hat, insbesondere ihrer Freundin Bona. Und sie hat dieses Bild von Diddy gedreht, um Bona unter ihren Armen zu holen und sie über den Balkon zu bringen und sie dann wieder auf den Balkon zurückzuwerfen, auf das Patio-Furniture. Es war also eine ziemlich beeindruckende Szene, die sie gedreht hat, aber es war eine sehr kurze.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Ja, das ist richtig. Sie hat gesagt, dass sie über ihr 10 Jahre langes Verhältnis stark auf Opioiden verlangt hat. Sie hat im Jahr 2022 aufgehört. Aber Sean Diddy Combs hat ihr die Drogen gegeben. Sie hat sie auch selbst benutzt. Sie sagte, dass er Doktoren geben würde, um ihnen Skripte zu schreiben.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Und sie würden die Namen, die auf diesen Skripten benutzt wurden, um keine roten Flaggen zu erheben. Also, wiederum, diese Idee, dass Diddy, egal ob durch seine Macht, seine Notarität oder seine Verbindungen, mehrere Doktoren geben konnte, um Skripte für Opioiden zu schreiben.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Ja, das ist richtig. Sie wissen, dass die Verwaltungen meistens alles herausfinden wollen, bevor die Verteidigung eine Konsequenz startet, richtig? Irgendwas, das potenziell unverzweifelnd oder schmerzhaft zu ihrem Fall ist. Und sie wollen, dass ihre Beobachter extrem kreditabel aussehen. Sie hatten Cassie darüber gesprochen, dass sie in den Vergangenen physisch gewaltig war.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Und sie sprach über einen bestimmten Faktor an ihrer Bruders Geburtstagsparty. Sie sagte, dass sie trank war und ihre Mutter hatte herausgefunden, dass eine Frau sie in diesem Zustand filmte. Sie sagte, dass sie die Frau aus ihrem Auto entfernt und sie getötet hat.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Ja, sie hat gesagt, dass das ein Foto von 2018 war. Und sie hat gesagt, dass sie viele unerlässliche Besuche von Diddy hatte. Und ihre Art und Weise war, sie würde zwei Pferde mit einem Stein töten. Sie hat gesagt, dass der Knife ein Weg war, einen zusätzlichen Lock auf der Tür zu haben, aber auch ein Waffen, wenn er vorbeikommt.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Ja, und nur um unseren Zuhörern zu warnen, das ist ziemlich grafisch, also nur um Aufmerksamkeit zu nehmen, wenn sie diese Details nicht hören wollen, aber Cassie beschreibt, dass sie nach einigen Jahren mit einer anderen Frau Ditty gesehen hat, sie endlich mit ihr getroffen hat und die Dinge beendet hat. Und an dem Abend, den du erwähnt hast, war es in einem Restaurant in Malibu im August.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Sie dachte, sie würden zusammenkommen für eine Verkaufsgespräch, so hat sie es gesagt. Sie sagte, er hätte versucht, sie zu überzeugen, mit ihm in Burning Man zu gehen, aber sonst war er nett, spielerisch, gab romantische Vibes, sagte sie. Aber sie sah ihren now Husband an der Zeit und sie dachte, es ging ziemlich gut.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Aber dann hat sie einen Pause auf dem Stand gemacht, eigentlich für einen Moment. vor der Beschreibung, was danach passiert ist. Sie sagte, sie ging ins Wohnzimmer, er kam rein und dann hat er sie auf dem Flur ihres Wohnzimmers verabschiedet. Und sie erinnert sich nur daran, weinend und zu sagen Nein. Sie sagt, es ist sehr schnell passiert, dass seine Augen schwarz wurden. Er war nicht selbst.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Sie sagt, es war, als ob jemand etwas von ihr genommen hätte. Und die Verwaltungen fragten sie, was er gemacht hat, als sie weinte. Und sie sagte, er hat weitergegeben. Und sie fragten, was er gemacht hat, als du gesagt hast, nein. Und sie sagte, er hat weitergegeben. Und danach hat er einfach aufgehört und ist weg, als er fertig war.
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Cassie claims Diddy abused and blackmailed her
Also, es war ein sehr dramatischer Punkt, offensichtlich, der Testimonie von Cassie, die für das erste Mal beurteilt wurde, wirklich. Wir wussten ihre Angelegenheiten gegen ihn, aber, du weißt, hearing her talk about this for the first time.
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That's right. Prosecutors were wrapping up and we heard more... Wir sahen für das erste Mal, dass die Berichterstatter diese Idee von Diddy-Witness-Tampern vorgesehen haben. What we saw, of course, before this trial even started was arguments that he was doing that to try to prevent him from getting bail. Prosecutors introduced that alongside the idea of him being a flight risk.
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Diddy’s ex-assistant tells court she ‘hasn't lied to anyone at all’
And so what we heard from Mia today was that after Cassie Ventura sued Diddy, that she started to get calls and text messages from him and his former security guard, D-Rock. And she said she took that as them trying to gauge whether she was a threat. Sie hat gesagt, dass es erst im November 2024 begonnen hat, als DRock sie aus der Blüte angerufen hat.
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Diddy’s ex-assistant tells court she ‘hasn't lied to anyone at all’
Sie hatten in etwa zwei Jahren nicht gesprochen. Er war damals nicht mal ein Mitarbeiter von Diddy's. Er hat angerufen und gesagt, dass alles, was da los ist, so verrückt ist. Er hat ihr gesagt, dass Puff sie verpasst hat und mit ihr sprechen wollte und dass sie vielleicht etwas öffentlich sagen könnte.
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Diddy’s ex-assistant tells court she ‘hasn't lied to anyone at all’
Sie hat gesagt, dass sie nur dumm gespielt hat, weil sie sich über ihr Leben für gefährlich machte. Aber sie sagt, dass sie in ein paar Stunden einen Anruf von Diddy selbst bekommen hat. Aber sie antwortete nicht. Sie sagte in Reaktion, dass sie den Telefon so weit wie sie konnte und außerhalb ihres Hauses rannte, weil es so triggert. Aber die Botschaften stoppten nicht.
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Diddy’s ex-assistant tells court she ‘hasn't lied to anyone at all’
Sie verstand, dass sie nicht stoppen würden. Sie suggerierte, dass D-Rock ihr Geld senden wollte. So these were some serious allegations from Mia. And then in the end she said she did get two text messages directly from Diddy. He told her that he just wanted to talk to her for 10 minutes to hear her voice, to jog his memory. But if she didn't want to talk, it was okay.
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Diddy’s ex-assistant tells court she ‘hasn't lied to anyone at all’
And she said she wanted nothing to do with him at that point. She just didn't answer. Und dann haben die Berichterstatter eine letzte Frage gestellt, wie das ihr beeinflusst hat, mit ihm zu arbeiten. Und sie hat darüber gesprochen, dass sie nicht einen Job halten kann, weil sie langfristig PTSD hat.
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Diddy’s ex-assistant tells court she ‘hasn't lied to anyone at all’
Genau. Sie sagte, sie wird von normalen Situationen getriggert, zu denen sie einfach überreakt, weil sie einen überwältigenden Angst hat, dass sie in Gefahr ist. Also, zum Beispiel, wenn jemand sie fragt, wo sie war, weil sie einfach einen Kaffee holen oder zusammenkommen wollte, sagt sie, Sie hat das gemacht, weil sie Probleme hatte. Sie musste justizieren, wo sie war und was sie machte.
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Diddy’s ex-assistant tells court she ‘hasn't lied to anyone at all’
Sie sagte, es kam immer wieder die Angst zurück. Deshalb konnte sie keinen Job halten.
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Diddy’s ex-assistant tells court she ‘hasn't lied to anyone at all’
Yeah, they did. And again, I think this is getting ahead of any defense argument, right? So they asked her about her break with Diddy's company, Revolt Films. Basically, she describes how Diddy wollte die Firma verlassen und weitergehen. Und nachdem sie weg war, wurde sie von Geschäftsführern erzählt, dass sie einen Arbeitgeber holen soll.
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Diddy’s ex-assistant tells court she ‘hasn't lied to anyone at all’
Aber Diddy und andere haben das als Verletzung genommen, um zu fragen, warum sie das gemacht hat. Aber dann kam sie dazu, zu beschreiben, wie, als die Gespräche über ihre Beschlagnahmung gedrängt wurden,
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Diddy’s ex-assistant tells court she ‘hasn't lied to anyone at all’
Sie hat sie schlussendlich ihren Gehörlosen über die Gewalt und die anderen Angelegenheiten, die sie gemacht hat, und dass ihre Gehörlosen eine Verschuldung von 10 Millionen Dollar vorgesehen haben. Die Verwaltungen haben sie gefragt, wie viel sie am Ende bekommen hat. Sie hat gesagt, dass sie 200.000 und ihre Gehörlosen 200.000 bekommen haben und dass sie nie mehr Geld erhalten hat.
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Diddy’s ex-assistant tells court she ‘hasn't lied to anyone at all’
Und im Moment hat sie zumindest keine bezahlbaren Gehörlosen. Did she tell her lawyers about the sexual assault and the alleged abuse? She said she didn't say anything about the sexual assault. She said she was going to die with that. So she didn't have any plans to share that at the time. But again, prosecutors wanted to get that out on direct, right?
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Diddy’s ex-assistant tells court she ‘hasn't lied to anyone at all’
Because no doubt, just like we've seen with other witnesses, the defense are going to ask, why did you not speak about this earlier?
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Diddy’s ex-assistant tells court she ‘hasn't lied to anyone at all’
Es war, es war Brian Steele. Und er kam sofort aus dem Anfang, er hat verschiedene verschiedene Instagram-Posts gemacht, die sehr schrecklich gegen Diddy waren, er beschreibt ihn als... Etwas von einem Mentor, von einem besten Freund. Er postete über all die Verabschiedungen, die sie aufgenommen haben. Und er hat sie immer wieder gefragt.
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Diddy’s ex-assistant tells court she ‘hasn't lied to anyone at all’
Du beschreibst das als jemanden, der dich traumatisiert hat, als jemanden, der dich verabschiedet hat. Und noch nicht auf der ersten ... Je nachdem wie lange du ihn an seinem Geburtstag sexuell verabschiedet hast, schreibst du diese Geburtstags-Messages. Du bist immer komplementär zu ihm. Und Mia hat immer gesagt, mein Job war es, seine Social-Media-Profile zu gestalten.
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Diddy’s ex-assistant tells court she ‘hasn't lied to anyone at all’
Das war im Grunde Instagram versus Realität. Sie sagte, die Leute auf Instagram hatten damals nur das Gute zu teilen über ihre Leben. Sie wollte nicht, dass ihre Familie über sie kümmert. And she wasn't going to post the negative things.
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Diddy’s ex-assistant tells court she ‘hasn't lied to anyone at all’
But what the defense was trying to do by posting Instagram post after Instagram post after Instagram post was just to try to hammer in the jury's minds, if somebody was so traumatized, how could they be able to write such loving and glowing descriptions of their boss and someone they described as a best friend and a family member.
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Diddy’s ex-assistant tells court she ‘hasn't lied to anyone at all’
Yeah, she said, look, you know, I'm not a professional. You'll have to ask someone why victims react that way. But she said, I just wanted to keep him happy, that I would be safer if he was happy and that there were very high highs and very low lows. She said, I'm not going to shy away from the fact that we did have great times together.
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Diddy’s ex-assistant tells court she ‘hasn't lied to anyone at all’
Und sie sagte, man vergesse nicht den Verbrechen, aber sie fühlte, als würde sie verurteilt werden für ihre Reaktion und war furchtbar davon. Und so wollte sie es nicht wieder passieren. Also wiederholt sie diese Idee, ihn glücklich zu machen für ihre Sicherheit.
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Diddy’s ex-assistant tells court she ‘hasn't lied to anyone at all’
Wie geht die Verteidigung damit um? Ja, also bevor wir zum Schreibbuch kamen, gab es eine wirklich interessante Diskussion zwischen der Verteidigung und der Verteidigung vor dem Gericht, aus der Präsenz des Gerichts. And the defense wanted to introduce a video of Mia. It was a birthday message, about a 20 to 30 second message.
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Diddy’s ex-assistant tells court she ‘hasn't lied to anyone at all’
Now, the court never saw this video because the judge said the defense didn't get it in on time. But what they were saying to the judge was they wanted to portray Mia. Mia als ein Akt darzustellen. Sie sagten, das Video würde ihre echte Persönlichkeit zeigen.
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Diddy’s ex-assistant tells court she ‘hasn't lied to anyone at all’
Und es würde mit dieser Frau auf dem Stand sein, die, wie Sie wissen, nach unten geschaut ist, nicht in Ordnung ist, mit ihrem Kopf gebauert. Aber sie konnten das nicht vorstellen. Aber was sie vorstellen konnten, war das Schreibbuch, richtig? Und es war, weil sie von Mia kamen, die suggerierte, dass die Instagram-Posts für öffentliche Verwendung waren. Es war alle Teil ihres Jobs.
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Diddy’s ex-assistant tells court she ‘hasn't lied to anyone at all’
Sie wurden als Mitarbeiter erwartet, um über Diddy und all seine Events zu posten. Aber dieses Schreibbuch war ein Geschenk für seinen Geburtstag. Das war also eine persönliche Sache. Es gab keine Druck darauf, es zu machen. Und sie sagte im Grunde, dass sie etwas Gutes für ihn machen wollte.
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Diddy’s ex-assistant tells court she ‘hasn't lied to anyone at all’
Sie hat also verschiedene Artikel aus den 1990ern zusammengefasst, um zu zeigen, wie weit seine Karriere gestiegen ist und wie gut er über die Jahre gearbeitet hat. Die Verwaltungsbehörden haben sie während dieser Übertragung wirklich erschreckt, indem sie gesagt haben, dass es nicht Sinn macht, jemanden zu sein, der Sie gesagt hat, Sie getäuscht hat, Sie unvergültige Dinge gemacht hat.
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Diddy’s ex-assistant tells court she ‘hasn't lied to anyone at all’
Wie können Sie den Schreibbuch erschaffen, wenn er Sie verabschiedet hat? Und sie hat einfach gesagt, es ist komplizierter, als Sie es beschreiben. Verabschiedung ist komplizierter. Und sie hat gesagt, das ist so, wie Verwaltungsbehörden sich verhalten. Und er hat gesagt, na, was, wenn du keine Verwaltungsbehörde bist? And then he kept asking her, aren't you lying, aren't you lying?
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Diddy’s ex-assistant tells court she ‘hasn't lied to anyone at all’
And she was adamant that everything she had said was the truth.
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Diddy’s ex-assistant tells court she ‘hasn't lied to anyone at all’
Ja, also einige Fotos von ihr und Cassie in verschiedenen Ländern. Sie hat gefragt, war Diddy da mit dir? Ist Mr. Combs da mit dir? Du hattest Freunde draußen, du hattest eine Familie, die du anrufen konntest. In Bezug darauf hat sie tatsächlich gesagt, nein, ich hatte wirklich keine Zeit, einen außerhalb des Kreises zu haben.
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Diddy’s ex-assistant tells court she ‘hasn't lied to anyone at all’
In Wahrheit musste ich die Verabschiedung von meiner Großmutter anrufen. Aber sie hat diese Idee geäußert, wie bist du eine schwache Person? Sie wusste nicht, wie man das beantworten kann. Diese Idee, dass sie die Möglichkeit hatte, zu verlassen, und sie hatte Entscheidungen. Und die Kreuzung hat ein paar Möglichkeiten geöffnet, um sich mehr zu expressen.
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Diddy’s ex-assistant tells court she ‘hasn't lied to anyone at all’
Sie hat darüber gesprochen, wie niemand im Büro jemals an seinem Verhalten geflinscht war. Sie war immer in Schwierigkeiten, und sie stand nie für sie. Sie war immer auf der Suche nach Weisen, um sich nicht zu verletzen. Und das hat auch eine starke Auswirkung erzeugt. Sie hat gesagt, ich bin ein Menschenbegeister, ich versuche, alle glücklich zu machen.
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Diddy’s ex-assistant tells court she ‘hasn't lied to anyone at all’
Sie hat gesagt, ich weiß nicht, ob ich dafür entschuldigen sollte. Und sie sind noch nicht ganz fertig mit Mia, sie ist wieder am Montag. Ja, also Mia hat schon lange auf dem Stand gewesen. Wir hatten fast zwei volle Tage und sie wird nächste Woche wieder da sein. Ich meine, Cassie hatte vier Tage auf dem Stand, aber Ich bin jemand, der eine sehr lange Zeit ein Mitarbeiter war.
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Diddy’s ex-assistant tells court she ‘hasn't lied to anyone at all’
In der Tat hat er in einem der Botschaften, die sie veröffentlicht hat, seine rechte Hand genannt. Und sie war nahe Cassie, also hat sie viel Testimonien darüber, was sie da beobachtet hat. Und dann hat sie ihre eigenen Verbrechen von Verbrechen. Also es gab viel zu überprüfen.
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Diddy’s ex-assistant tells court she ‘hasn't lied to anyone at all’
Und deshalb würde ich die Verteidigung erwarten, dass sie auch ein bisschen mehr Zeit braucht, um das Testimonial zu untercuten. Neda, danke dir so viel, dass du uns heute eingeladen hast. Absolut.
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Diddy’s former employee ‘Mia’ testifies that he raped her
And prosecutors actually asked, did Cassie ever fight back? And she kind of laughed weakly on the stand, saying no. You know, the most she ever did was kind of hold her hands up to shield herself. But the individual incidents she went through, and one was when she was there with Deontay Nash, Cassie's stylist, with Cassie in an apartment.
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Diddy’s former employee ‘Mia’ testifies that he raped her
And all of a sudden, Diddy came running in angry, looking for Cassie, and grabbed her and dragged her into the bedroom. Now, Mia says that her and Deontay both jumped on Diddy's back to try to stop him, but he wouldn't stop beating Cassie. And She talks about the kind of wood frame of the bed and how hard it was and how it ultimately left a huge gash in Cassie's eyebrow and her head.
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Diddy’s former employee ‘Mia’ testifies that he raped her
And she actually needed stitches. But Diddy basically said not to call emergency services, according to Mia, and told them to get in touch with an assistant who was aware of doctors who could help in those situations. Eventually, she had to go to a plastic surgeon, but Diddy was adamant that they be told that she was drunk and hit her head.
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Diddy’s former employee ‘Mia’ testifies that he raped her
Mia details being in the car with Cassie in Los Angeles. And she says that her boss, Sean Combs, called Cassie. And Cassie just said, oh, Puff wants to do a hotel night. And that's how they referred to them, the staff, a hotel night. And she said she could immediately see Cassie's whole demeanor change. She got upset. She got nervous. She started getting stomach issues. She said she got sick.
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Diddy’s former employee ‘Mia’ testifies that he raped her
And that's something that we heard from Cassie on her testimony, just how she You know, had these physical reactions to having to do these freak offs. And Mia also said they had a term called man down and that after these hotel nights that both Cassie and Diddy would be so wrecked that they would need time to recover so much that they actually had a term for it.
Diddy On Trial
Diddy’s former employee ‘Mia’ testifies that he raped her
We've heard this before from other people, but never with that name. Yeah, that's right. I mean, we've heard from other personal assistants that part of the job was about protecting Diddy's reputation and all of them actually directly spoke about being afraid that hotel staff might sell pictures of the hotel rooms and embarrass Diddy.
Diddy On Trial
Diddy’s former employee ‘Mia’ testifies that he raped her
And we even heard from one hotel manager and looked at Diddy's account, right? We know that the hotels said there was excessive amounts of candle wax melted all over the room. that there was oil everywhere. This was kind of the norm. And we heard the same from Mia. She said she would go in, she would have to wipe up blood that she was told was from Cassie's period.
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Diddy’s former employee ‘Mia’ testifies that he raped her
She would have to wipe up the baby oil as best she could. She said she couldn't do anything about the candle wax, that there would be wet towels everywhere. She said the room literally looked like a nightmare. That's how she described it.
Diddy On Trial
Diddy’s former employee ‘Mia’ testifies that he raped her
But she said that was part of her job to clean all of that up afterward and also to take Cassie and Diddy to and from those hotels and just be on call for anything Diddy needed at the time.
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Diddy’s former employee ‘Mia’ testifies that he raped her
Mia describes how it was 3 a.m. and Diddy told her to get some food for everyone from a breakfast restaurant here in the U.S. called IHOP. And she said she was going to go, but first she started heading to her room because she had been working all day since 8 a.m. and she needed to change her tampon. And she said Diddy went into an absolute rage, telling her, I didn't tell you to go to your room.
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Diddy’s former employee ‘Mia’ testifies that he raped her
When I tell you to go, you go now. And she said she just couldn't get through to him. She kept trying to explain. And at one point, pointed to blood dripping down her leg, saying essentially it's an emergency, like I need to go do this. And at that, instead of understanding the situation, according to Mia, he took a bowl of spaghetti and threw it at her.
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Diddy’s former employee ‘Mia’ testifies that he raped her
It didn't hit her, but then he started chasing her out the house and she was barefoot. She describes having to hide in a bush and then eventually finding her way to a hotel. And then afterwards, HR actually called her in and put her on suspension without pay and was told that Didi had told them to do that.
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Diddy’s former employee ‘Mia’ testifies that he raped her
Yeah, so prosecutors would kind of always ask her, you know, did you report this to police? Did you ask anybody to help? Did you report this to HR? And she kind of laughed and she said, HR wasn't there to help us. HR was only there to punish us and to do what Diddy wanted.
Diddy On Trial
Diddy’s former employee ‘Mia’ testifies that he raped her
So she was very much creating this picture of a company, an organization that first and foremost worried about Sean Combs and his reputation and his priorities.
Diddy On Trial
Diddy’s former employee ‘Mia’ testifies that he raped her
and not the employee's well-being that was certainly the picture she painted be interesting to see how the defense tries to come back on that point on cross-examination she does clarify that this the bowl of spaghetti doesn't hit her but they do ask her you know were there times where you sustained injuries from acts of aggression from mr combs and she spoke about something that happened at revolt tv one of the instances of physical violence that she details was when
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Diddy’s former employee ‘Mia’ testifies that he raped her
Sean Combs took her phone. They were, as you mentioned, at Revolt TV, and she kind of hovered behind him because she was concerned about him seeing any emails that some of the staff had exchanged about him because they always keep each other in the loop, and she didn't want him to get the wrong impression.
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Diddy’s former employee ‘Mia’ testifies that he raped her
He noticed, got a little annoyed by that, kind of ran off into the bathroom to kind of go through her phone, and she said that he just started, when she reached her arm in to get her phone, started banging the door on her arm many times to the point where she thought it was broken, but it was just badly bruised.
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Diddy’s former employee ‘Mia’ testifies that he raped her
And she spoke about the first time prosecutors got her to open up about that. Mia says she was pretty new working for Diddy at the time of his 40th birthday party at the Plaza Hotel. And she said that he rented out the whole hotel, but her job was to go up and down from the penthouse to take care of anything he needed.
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Diddy’s former employee ‘Mia’ testifies that he raped her
And at one point, she alleges that he called her into the kitchen and made everyone else go away. and gave her shots of vodka and said, let's cheers to my 40th birthday. And she said she was in her 20s, that usually alcohol wouldn't have an impact on her, but she remembered feeling off. And then she says that Diddy got close to her, put his arm kind of on the wall by her head.
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Diddy’s former employee ‘Mia’ testifies that he raped her
and put his other arm up her dress and then kissed her. And she describes just freezing, not knowing what to do, kind of in a panic. And she says she didn't really have any memory after that. The next thing she remembers is waking up the next day in a chair, fully clothed, but with no memory of what had happened.
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Diddy’s former employee ‘Mia’ testifies that he raped her
But she said she just continued to work for him because in her mind she thought he was probably drunk.
Diddy On Trial
Diddy’s former employee ‘Mia’ testifies that he raped her
Yeah. The whole time Mia was on the stand, she had her head bowed. She was looking down throughout all the questioning. It was like she was really making an effort not to even catch a glimpse of Diddy at all sitting there in court. But specifically when she speaks about all of these alleged incidents of sexual assaults,
Diddy On Trial
Diddy’s former employee ‘Mia’ testifies that he raped her
She gets very emotional, sobbing at points, speaking so softly it's hard to hear. And prosecutors had to jump in to help her a few times. So she details kind of sleeping in the bottom bunk of a bunk bed in the house. And she had testified earlier that she wasn't allowed to lock the doors in the room because Diddy said, this is my house, you're not allowed to lock the doors.
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Diddy’s former employee ‘Mia’ testifies that he raped her
And she says that she was sleeping and all of a sudden she woke up feeling the weight of a body on top of her. And she said Diddy essentially told her something like kind of keep quiet and took his hand and undid his pants. And it took a lot of effort for her to kind of describe what she alleges happened next. But prosecutors helped her along to detail how he. forced himself inside of her.
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Diddy’s former employee ‘Mia’ testifies that he raped her
That's what she alleges. And she's basically, again, talks about how frozen in the moment, not knowing what to do. Later on, she's asked by prosecutors, you know, did you ever say no? And she says, you know, no, I didn't say no because I was just absolutely shocked and frozen. You And she said, I couldn't even tell him no about a sandwich. How was I going to tell him no about something like this?
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Diddy’s former employee ‘Mia’ testifies that he raped her
And then it would set off alarm bells in his head that I knew what he was doing was wrong. And she said that would affect her career, even potentially put her in physical harm. It would obviously, for her, kind of make her, in her mind, viewed as somebody who was trying to hurt him and isolate her from the entire group.
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Diddy’s former employee ‘Mia’ testifies that he raped her
She said she... thought her boss was so powerful that going to the police wouldn't help at all. And she was asked to clarify, you know, how did you come to that conclusion? And she describes two incidents where she was speeding. And both times, it was the only time she said she name dropped and said that the cops, when they found out it was Diddy, were kind of so happy and awed by his celebrity.
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Diddy’s former employee ‘Mia’ testifies that he raped her
One time she told the cop, look, I have to get to my boss. She picked up the phone, had Diddy speak to her and she said, is that Puffy? Oh, my God, I love you. Another instance, the cops apparently saw, you know, Diddy in the car and were like, oh, my God, I'm so sorry. Didn't realize it was you. So she talks about, again, this off celebrity around him.
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Diddy’s former employee ‘Mia’ testifies that he raped her
And I think it's just obviously important to note that this is all her testimony, what she said in court. Diddy has denied all of these charges. We're going to get a chance to hear on cross-examination what they have to say. So, yeah, Mia's still on the stand and it's going to take us to the end of the week.
Diddy On Trial
Diddy’s former employee ‘Mia’ testifies that he raped her
Yeah, so he was the stylist for Cassie and also worked with Diddy, styling him for a while and saying he witnessed a lot of violence against Cassie by Diddy. The one incident, you know, we spoke about with Mia kind of jumping on Diddy's back when he came into the apartment, the gash on her eyebrow. He was there for that.
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Diddy’s former employee ‘Mia’ testifies that he raped her
But also just the fact that Cassie didn't want to be part of these freak-offs and was blackmailed. He talked about Cassie opening up to him about that, how... When they were rushing off from Diddy one time, he threatened to release tapes. And that's when Cassie opened up to him and said she'd been forced to have sex with male escorts and she didn't like it.
Diddy On Trial
Diddy’s former employee ‘Mia’ testifies that he raped her
And also the blackmail that he would release the tapes to Cassie's parents. So he was a key witness in that respect. He was also a very colorful character. He had... little remarks on the stand when, you know, one of the photos of him was put up. He said, you know, I look good. So with all these very heavy topics, he brought a little bit of levity in testifying.
Diddy On Trial
Diddy’s former employee ‘Mia’ testifies that he raped her
Yeah, I mean, this is somebody who says Diddy came in holding a gun to her, upset that he had found out that Cassie was seeing Kid Cudi. And telling her to get in his car because they were going to go kill Cuddy. That's her testimony. And she says she didn't want to go, but he had a gun and he forced her. And once there, she called Cassie kind of in a panic about all of this.
Diddy On Trial
Diddy’s former employee ‘Mia’ testifies that he raped her
So she is somebody who is providing that extra circumstantial evidence, right, about this kind of break-in incident. into Kid Cudi's house by Diddy and his security guard. And just more broadly, she talks about just the threats she constantly faced from Diddy.
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Diddy’s former employee ‘Mia’ testifies that he raped her
So Capricorn Clark, again, a really large chunk of time was spent on her testimony as someone who worked close with Diddy and could give her perspective.
Diddy On Trial
Diddy’s former employee ‘Mia’ testifies that he raped her
Yeah, that's right. You know, Mia was testifying under a pseudonym, but she worked for Diddy for eight years. So she was there for a big span. She was somebody who was supposed to keep tabs on Cassie, she said, under her testimony. So she details seeing Diddy crack Cassie's head open, chase after her, throw her to the ground, among other things.
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Kid Cudi: ‘Porsche destroyed by Molotov cocktail’
When the defense asked him if he had fun with him, he's like, I wouldn't call it that. But he said, just like other relationships, theirs was complicated and that ultimately he decided to leave his dream job because he just couldn't tolerate and put up with how he described his two girlfriends, Cassie and Gina.
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Kid Cudi: ‘Porsche destroyed by Molotov cocktail’
He said those kind of tense and angry moments where he said that he didn't see the women injured, but he could hear and tell there was kind of violence in that relationship. So really interesting to hear him say he has respect for Diddy, he stayed in touch with Diddy, but that he just couldn't tolerate some of his behavior.
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Kid Cudi: ‘Porsche destroyed by Molotov cocktail’
Yeah, actually, the person interviewing him pointed to a picture of Diddy on the wall and said, this is Diddy's kingdom and we're just all here to serve. And we also heard from the prosecution in opening statements, right, that Diddy referred to himself as a king. So they're building up this picture consistently throughout testimony.
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Kid Cudi: ‘Porsche destroyed by Molotov cocktail’
And this is really to show the jury, look, this is numerous people now saying the same thing, that they witnessed the violence, that Diddy was volatile, that he wanted everyone to essentially serve him without question.
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Kid Cudi: ‘Porsche destroyed by Molotov cocktail’
Yeah, the thing that really struck me about Kid Cudi, who was referred to obviously by his real name, Scott Mascutti, was he really was himself on the stand. He didn't come in soft-spoken or, you know, timid or somber at all. He was there kind of stretching in between questions when needed and breaks and answering questions in a very unfiltered way.
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Kid Cudi: ‘Porsche destroyed by Molotov cocktail’
So when he describes two instances that were kind of the most graphic, obviously, one where he alleges Diddy broke into his home and then another where he alleges that Diddy or one of his associates threw a Molotov cocktail into his Porsche. He said he called Diddy when he heard he was in his house saying, are you in my house? Like, that's what he recalled saying to Diddy.
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Kid Cudi: ‘Porsche destroyed by Molotov cocktail’
And apparently Diddy told him, I'm over here waiting for you. When he got there, Diddy wasn't there. But then also later, because the court was shown these pictures of his car with a hole in the soft rooftop, the doors open, all of it kind of soot everywhere, car burnt out. He was asked, what was your reaction when you saw the car? And he said, I said, what the F?
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Kid Cudi: ‘Porsche destroyed by Molotov cocktail’
So, you know, just a regular person's reaction to finding yourself in the situation where you thought, you know, the girl you're seeing is no longer with someone that you work with in the music industry. And the defense played on that, saying, you know, Cassie played you the way she played him. You thought they were apart. And he acknowledged that, yeah, I thought they were broken up.
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Kid Cudi: ‘Porsche destroyed by Molotov cocktail’
And so he talked about how the relationship ended because it just got out of control. He said the drama got out of control. He thought also he needed to give Cassie space because things were just getting so heated and they both needed space for their safety.
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Kid Cudi: ‘Porsche destroyed by Molotov cocktail’
Yeah, so just to set the scene, Kid Cudi says, you know, after my car was blown up, I thought I should probably talk to Diddy. He says they agreed to meet at Soho House in Hollywood. When he gets there, Diddy's security guard escorts him to a room that on one side is filled with windows. And he describes Diddy looking like a Marvel supervillain. He used that exact phrase.
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Kid Cudi: ‘Porsche destroyed by Molotov cocktail’
Diddy was looking out the window. His hands were kind of clasped behind his back. And so Kid Cudi just approaches him. And he said... Diddy was eerily calm to the point where it was almost unsettling for Cuddy. He said it was weird. He kept offering me water. He was very calm. But he said they talked through the scenario. Eventually, Cassie joined, which he didn't expect.
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Kid Cudi: ‘Porsche destroyed by Molotov cocktail’
And it made him a little sad. And then at the end of the meeting, he says they left it where they just got up and shook hands. And he said, I took that opportunity, looking him in the eye, shaking his hand to say, what about my car? And he said, Diddy responded, I don't know what you're talking about. Eventually he sees Diddy a few years later.
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Kid Cudi: ‘Porsche destroyed by Molotov cocktail’
Diddy was there with his daughter and he said Diddy came to him and just apologized and he said at that point I just made peace with it. I wasn't expecting anything more from him.
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Kid Cudi: ‘Porsche destroyed by Molotov cocktail’
Yeah, look, I mean, this goes back to their opening statement, the defense. They keep trying to paint Cassie as somebody who cheated on Diddy and Diddy as somebody who was just insanely jealous as well. And that jealousy made him volatile.
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Kid Cudi: ‘Porsche destroyed by Molotov cocktail’
It's this effort to show that actually there wasn't a power dynamic, that Diddy didn't hold the power the way the prosecution say he did, that this was just a toxic relationship, both parties at fault. And that was today.
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Kid Cudi: ‘Porsche destroyed by Molotov cocktail’
Memorial Day weekend. Yeah. So here in the U.S., Monday is a federal holiday. People are off. But also here in court, they get Friday off. And so the judge actually told everyone, good job. You know, you've been making great progress.
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Kid Cudi: ‘Porsche destroyed by Molotov cocktail’
progress this week it's a well-deserved break he told the lawyers I'm sure you're going to go sleep now and reminded the jury that you know it's a long break so just to make sure not to talk to anybody about this case not to look up anything and just thanking them for their service.
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Kid Cudi: ‘Porsche destroyed by Molotov cocktail’
Yeah. And look, she actually hasn't been in touch with Cassie for years. They've had a falling out. So unlike the defense's attempt to paint other characters as like overly sympathetic to Cassie, Carrie Morgan is seen as somebody who is neutral, right? She was her best friend for 17 years. They met in high school. But her testimony went into two different instances where she said,
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Kid Cudi: ‘Porsche destroyed by Molotov cocktail’
Diddy was overly aggressive with Cassie the picture she paints is of Cassie someone who she said had completely lost her spark after years with Diddy kind of cowering and being very afraid of Diddy and actually hiding out at times for hours as was in the case in Jamaica when she kind of ran after a
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Kid Cudi: ‘Porsche destroyed by Molotov cocktail’
Diddy apparently grabbed her by her hair because she was taking too long in the bathroom and dragged her out the house and threw her down, her head hitting a brick. But she also talked about on cross-examination how they all had fun together, that this was very much a loving dynamic. These weren't just Diddy's employees. They considered them friends. And when she stopped talking to Cassie...
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Kid Cudi: ‘Porsche destroyed by Molotov cocktail’
It was a big loss in her life to lose the rest of those people. So, again, it was the defense trying to show this isn't racketeering. These aren't employees that are helping Diddy be a criminal mastermind.
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Kid Cudi: ‘Porsche destroyed by Molotov cocktail’
But Kerry Morgan, under the direct examination, made it very clear that oftentimes, you know, she would look to the security guards or others to see if they were going to do anything about Diddy hitting Cassie and nobody would step up.
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Kid Cudi: ‘Porsche destroyed by Molotov cocktail’
She said that she hired a lawyer after that, that Cassie asked her to meet at a pizza joint and told her she was milking it and she was over-exaggerating what had happened to her. And then she handed her a nondisclosure agreement and $30,000. And Carrie, at that point, took it. But she said she was really hurt that Cassie wasn't taking her side. And she didn't speak to her since.
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Kid Cudi: ‘Porsche destroyed by Molotov cocktail’
And she noted, even though Cassie's moved on with her life, Cassie hasn't reached out to her either. So Cassie, prosecutors set that up a bit early on, talking to Cassie about why she's testifying in this case. And Cassie spoke about how she knows she hurt a lot of people and didn't treat them the way they should have been treated at the time. And she's carried that guilt.
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Kid Cudi: ‘Porsche destroyed by Molotov cocktail’
And so part of this for her is part of that healing enclosure.
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Kid Cudi: ‘Porsche destroyed by Molotov cocktail’
You would figure Cassie's mom, they'd want to go into many details. But, you know, Cassie testified how she really kept a lot from her mother. But we know that there was that email she wrote, again, going back to Kid Cudi, when Diddy found out about the relationship.
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Kid Cudi: ‘Porsche destroyed by Molotov cocktail’
You know, Cassie on the stand talked about the threats he made and threatening to release one of the Freak Off videos on Christmas Day and another after and threats to her life and Cudi's. And so her mother... saying when she got the email, you know, she was just essentially devastated to receive that. And then she detailed an instance where Diddy demanded $20,000 from the family.
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Kid Cudi: ‘Porsche destroyed by Molotov cocktail’
And Cassie's mom said they paid that. But that a few days later, I think four days later, Diddy gave the money back. So her testimony was quite brief. But again, trying, I think, for prosecutors to show that this was blackmail, coercion, all part of their case.
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Kid Cudi: ‘Porsche destroyed by Molotov cocktail’
So he carried it from his youth, apparently playing basketball with his friends. That's what they used to call him, the Punisher. So maybe not the backstory people were expecting for an escort with that name, but he carried it on. And look, I think we have to remind people that
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Kid Cudi: ‘Porsche destroyed by Molotov cocktail’
You know, there are salacious details that come out in these types of cases, but there is a very practical reason why they're having these escorts testify. One of the charges is transport to engage in prostitution. And so the government just really does need to show that somebody was transported across state lines and paid for sex. So you get that in this testimony.
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Kid Cudi: ‘Porsche destroyed by Molotov cocktail’
And yeah, just like the other escort, he kind of detailed what was expected in those freak offs and how it all went down.
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Kid Cudi: ‘Porsche destroyed by Molotov cocktail’
This is the Miami home. I'm sure we're going to get to the L.A. home. But the agent spoke about how, you know, they get a list of items to look for when they conduct these searches. And there were photos shown of everything from the baby oil that we've heard plenty about to lingerie and high heels and drugs and Gucci bags and other places. But we also saw, for example, the different gun parts.
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Kid Cudi: ‘Porsche destroyed by Molotov cocktail’
and guns that were found in the home. Some were wrapped in towels, some were in suitcases with enclosed and the government made the point to address that serial numbers were scratched off some of these guns and that essentially just makes it harder to trace where the gun came from. But the defense then came back you know asking about whether DNA was collected saying that that's another way of
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Kid Cudi: ‘Porsche destroyed by Molotov cocktail’
to pull hair samples, fingerprints from these guns to find out who they belonged to. But the agent wasn't the one to conduct any of that forensic
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Kid Cudi: ‘Porsche destroyed by Molotov cocktail’
examination after the fact so he couldn't say whether that was done or not so again we just kind of see the defense trying to poke holes take the sting out of some of the testimony Diddy is presumed innocent until the government proves their case and the jury finds that they have and so they never know what's going to resonate with the jury.
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Kid Cudi: ‘Porsche destroyed by Molotov cocktail’
Well, before Kid Cudi took the stand, we actually heard more from George Kaplan, who was an executive assistant of Diddy's for a while. And I think George Kaplan really gave us, again, this picture of of Diddy as a larger than life figure, right? He even used the word icon. He said the size of his business was the size of the earth, essentially.
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Cassie: ‘I'd give back $20m settlement to undo freak-offs’
Oh, absolut. Ich meine, es war einiges von, wiederum, durch ihre persönlichen Kommunikationen, weil das ist der Weg, wie sie versuchen, Didis Narrative inzunehmen, besonders wenn sie später entscheiden, dass er nicht den Stand nehmen wird. Also haben wir viele dieser Textmessungen gesehen, wiederum versuchen, es zu nutzen, um zu suggerieren, dass Cassie enthusiastisch über die Freak-Offs war.
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Cassie: ‘I'd give back $20m settlement to undo freak-offs’
Sie versuchten es auch nicht als Exploitation oder Sextraffik zu bezeichnen, sondern als eine sehr toxische Beziehung. Sie versuchten es zu zeigen, dass Diddy, dass sein gewaltiges Verhalten wegen seiner Drogenverwendung, wegen seiner Leidenschaft, Es gab einige Fälle, in denen er Cassie von Verletzungen befürchtete.
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Cassie: ‘I'd give back $20m settlement to undo freak-offs’
Er befürchtete, dass sie mit Chris Brown einmal tanzen würde, und wie das ihn in Rache gebracht hat. Und sie sagte, dass sie mit Chris Brown nicht tanzen würde. Und sie versuchten, sie so volatil zu vertreten, wie er sie war.
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Cassie: ‘I'd give back $20m settlement to undo freak-offs’
Yeah, it was really interesting because we got to hear a recording of Cassie from that time. This is back in March of 2014. And essentially, just to set the scene, it's in Atlantic City. She had just hosted a set of parties at different clubs. And she's meeting with somebody named Shugit, who apparently says that he has... ein Video von ihr, wenn sie Sex mit jemand anderem macht.
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Cassie: ‘I'd give back $20m settlement to undo freak-offs’
Und so konfrontiert sie ihn in diesem Rekord, indem sie sagt, wenn du ein Video von etwas hast, zeig es mir, wo ist es? Sei klar mit mir, hast du es? Das ist mein Leben. Und dann beginnt sie, mit ihm wütend zu werden, weil er ihr das Video nicht zeigen wird und nicht direkt mit ihr spricht. Und sie sagt, ich werde dich töten. Ich werde dich in den Dreck legen. Und ich spiele keine Spiele mit dir.
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Cassie: ‘I'd give back $20m settlement to undo freak-offs’
Ich werde dich töten. Es wird nicht von meinen Händen sein, aber jemand anderes wird es tun. Er wird es tun. Also, ich denke, der Punkt für die Defense, das zu spielen, war einerseits... Sie glauben, sie sei eine starke, fähige Frau, die ihre eigenen Entscheidungen gemacht hätte. Sie wollten sie also in einer Position von Stärke und Macht zeigen.
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Cassie: ‘I'd give back $20m settlement to undo freak-offs’
Und zweitens, ich glaube, sie wollten die Jury denken, wann Diddy die Begriffe von ihr oder Kid Cudi gemacht hat, zum Beispiel. Und zeigen, dass vielleicht diese nur Individuen waren, die, wiederum, volatil waren und, wenn sie verärgert waren, solche Dinge gesagt haben.
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Cassie: ‘I'd give back $20m settlement to undo freak-offs’
Yeah, look, the defense puts out these series of text messages a year after they broke up, 2019. And they're trying to paint Combs as someone who had a lot of love for her. So that saying, you know, he would text her every month, wishing her well, congratulating her on her first pregnancy, telling her, I miss my best friend. And she would reply, hope you're taking care of yourself, miss you too.
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Cassie: ‘I'd give back $20m settlement to undo freak-offs’
And in one message, for example, you know, he expresses that he Er hofft, dass sie ihn nicht hasst und dass sie einen Tag sprechen können. Und sie sagt, ich hasse dich nicht, ich habe es nie gemacht. Und sie sagt, sie würde gerne sitzen und sprechen und dass sie nicht an diesem wunderschönen Punkt in ihrer Leben wäre, ohne mit ihm zu sein.
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Cassie: ‘I'd give back $20m settlement to undo freak-offs’
Nun, sie haben sich nie wieder getroffen, um wieder zu sprechen. Und, du weißt, Kassi hat sehr klar durch ihr Testimonial gesagt, dass das nur Worte waren, dass sie immer nur wollte, um ihn glücklich zu machen, dass sie ja, sie hatte Liebe für ihn. Aber ja, sie wurde von ihm verabschiedet. Es kommt also wirklich darauf an, wie die Jury diese Botschaften lesen. Ist es eine vernünftige Angst?
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Cassie: ‘I'd give back $20m settlement to undo freak-offs’
Glauben sie in seine Narrative, dass er sie wirklich liebte und diese Textbotschaften zeigen, dass er seine Dämonen hatte? Oder vertreten sie Cassie wirklich nur, um ihn auf Arm's Länge zu halten und glücklich zu sein?
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Cassie: ‘I'd give back $20m settlement to undo freak-offs’
That's right. So prosecutors, for instance, asked her, okay, you talked about the $20 million civil settlement with Diddy. Would you give that money back if you could take away ever having to have gone through those freak-offs? And she said, absolutely. You know, it would be... Great to have my agency, my autonomy back. And they asked her how she felt, you know, going through those freak-offs.
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Cassie: ‘I'd give back $20m settlement to undo freak-offs’
And they listed, again, the abuse, being forced to do the freak-offs while she had urinary tract infections, just everything she had testified about. And she said she felt worthless. And, you know, in those moments she started sobbing and she sucked in air and was tearing up and sobbing, but then kind of collected herself and went on. And it was just one of those human moments in court
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Cassie: ‘I'd give back $20m settlement to undo freak-offs’
Ja, das ist richtig. Ich habe ihn tatsächlich gefangen, als er rausgekommen ist und gesprochen hat, bevor ich zurück in den Gerichtssitz ging. Und ich habe ihn tatsächlich gefragt, du hast sie gesehen, nachdem sie jeden Tag aus dem Stand gekommen ist. Was war es für sie, mit Diddy dort zu testifizieren? Und er hat gesagt... Er dachte, sie zeigte extreme Resilienz.
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Cassie: ‘I'd give back $20m settlement to undo freak-offs’
Er sagte, er hat mit vielen Leuten gearbeitet, die in ähnlichen Situationen waren, aber er war wirklich beeindruckt, dass sie über sehr grafische Details und das durchgehen konnte. Und dann hat er zwei Statementen gelesen, eine von Cassie und eine von ihrem Mann. Und ihr Statement sprach im Grunde darum, wie die Woche für sie extrem anstrengend war, aber es war ermutigend und hat ihr geholfen.
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Cassie: ‘I'd give back $20m settlement to undo freak-offs’
Sie hat gesagt, dass je mehr sie sich von Verletzungen und Angst heilt, desto mehr beginnt sie sich zu erinnern und dass sie glücklich ist, dass sie dieses Kapitel veröffentlicht. her life to rest. And then she asked for privacy, which I thought was really interesting. She's kind of, you know, appealing to the public to just kind of leave her be at this point.
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Cassie: ‘I'd give back $20m settlement to undo freak-offs’
And her husband said that he spent the past five days watching his wife bravely testify. And he said there's been speculation online about how I must have felt hearing everything. And he said, well, I had tremendous pride for Cass. Und er hat gesagt, dass sie von der Person, die sie verabschiedet hatte, verurteilt worden war.
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Cassie: ‘I'd give back $20m settlement to undo freak-offs’
Er ist so stolz auf sie und sagt, dass sie die eine ist, die sich selbst gerettet hat. Und dass sie ein sehr schönes Leben zusammen haben.
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Cassie: ‘I'd give back $20m settlement to undo freak-offs’
Yeah, we wondered if they were going to get to her today. But, you know, the judge is all about efficiency. He wants to keep this trial moving. So they did. They got Dawn Richard on the stand and just really... scratch the surface with her testimony. They went right into an incident where Don Richard observed Diddy allegedly beating Cassie in 2009 at his L.A. home.
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Cassie: ‘I'd give back $20m settlement to undo freak-offs’
And Don said that he was often abusive with Cassie, that she witnessed that numerous times. And Don talks about how she was at his L.A. home with Kalina Harper, who was part of Diddy Dirty Money, the electro soul trio. Das dauerte bis 2011. Und sie sagte, sie waren auf dem Rekord, aber Cassie war in der Küche. Es war Nachtzeit, aber sie war ein paar Eier zu kochen.
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Cassie: ‘I'd give back $20m settlement to undo freak-offs’
Und sie sagte, sie waren mit Cassie in der Küche und plötzlich kam Diddy angstig runter und sagte, wo sind die F-er, seine Eier, dass sie nie etwas richtig bekommt. Und er hat den schwarzen, flachen Backofen-Skillet genommen. dass sie die Eier kocht und versucht hat, sie über den Kopf zu schießen.
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Cassie: ‘I'd give back $20m settlement to undo freak-offs’
Und Dawn beschreibt Cassie einfach, dass sie auf dem Boden fällt, als ob sie den Schuss erwartet hätte, und sich in eine fetale Position schießt. Und sie sagt, dass... Für sie sah es so aus, als ob sie das schon vorher erlebt hätte. Als ob sie wusste, was in diesen Situationen zu tun ist. Danach sagt sie, dass sie am nächsten Tag nicht intervenieren konnte.
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Cassie: ‘I'd give back $20m settlement to undo freak-offs’
Sie sagte, dass sie nicht sicher war, was es für sie bedeuten würde. Sie war furchtbar. Sie war froh, dass es für Cassie auch schlimmer würde. Und dann beschreibt sie, was am nächsten Tag passiert ist. Und das ist, wo wir in Testimonien weggegangen sind. Und sie sagt, dass am nächsten Tag Diddy sie und Kalina zurückgekündigt hat, in den Rekordstudio, und dann die Tür geschlossen hat.
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Cassie: ‘I'd give back $20m settlement to undo freak-offs’
Er sagte, was sie sah, war Leidenschaft, was Liebhaber tun. Er sagte, es war in ihrem besten Interesse, nichts zu sagen, weil er ihre Gruppe nach oben bringen würde. Und er hat gesagt, dass die Leute, die Dinge sagen, missen. Also hat sie das als Threat genommen. Und es gab eine Abwechslung von der Verteidigung über diese Frage.
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Cassie: ‘I'd give back $20m settlement to undo freak-offs’
Und das ist, als der Gericht für den Tag beendet hat und diese Abwechslung diskutiert hat.
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Diddy in court says ‘not guilty’ to forced labour claims
for the family. One of them then, when he came outside of court, put on a shirt that had some wording on it saying that the media has it all wrong wording to really show what he feels about this case. And so it was certainly a packed courtroom. And when both the prosecution and the defense were ready to proceed, the court marshals did bring in Sean Diddy Combs, who
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Diddy in court says ‘not guilty’ to forced labour claims
And it was really striking to see how he looked at this hearing in particular.
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Diddy in court says ‘not guilty’ to forced labour claims
Well, when he came in wearing a greenish tan prison jumpsuit, what immediately stuck out was his how much his hair had grayed. He had overgrown, very gray hair. He had put on some weight since the last time I saw him in court. And so it wasn't just me who was struck by that. Others, other press members felt he looked quite different as if the time had you know, in detention had really aged him.
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Diddy in court says ‘not guilty’ to forced labour claims
Also, you know, he still came in smiling, waving to his family, hugging his lawyers, trying to put on kind of a brave face, if you will, in public. So very much smiling and blowing kisses to his family, putting his hand to his heart as he was led into court and also when he was let out.
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Diddy in court says ‘not guilty’ to forced labour claims
And when you look at how much he has physically kind of aged, it was really noticeable to look at his son just seated a few rows back behind him, Christian Combs, who looks very much like his father. You know, he was dressed very well, had a shiny chain on, and you could just see that.
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Diddy in court says ‘not guilty’ to forced labour claims
Well, since his arrest, I mean, we've had new allegations come out from prosecutors. Prosecutors had said all along they would continue to investigate and add to the indictment. And so the superseding indictment includes new allegations from prosecutors from January that accused him of coercing two additional women into commercial sex acts and of dangling a person over an apartment balcony.
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Diddy in court says ‘not guilty’ to forced labour claims
And then the second set of new allegations in the superseding indictment are essentially allegations of forced labor under the racketeering conspiracy count in the indictment. And they say that he forced employees to work long hours under threat of physical and reputational harm. and forced at least one employee to engage in sex acts with him. So today was his chance to plead to that indictment.
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Diddy in court says ‘not guilty’ to forced labour claims
The judge asked him if he had seen the indictment. He said, yes, sir, I have. He was asked if he read the indictment. He said, yes, I have, sir. And he was then asked if he wanted the indictment read in court or to waive the reading of it. He said that it was fine to waive the reading of the indictment. And then finally, when he was asked how he pleaded, he said not guilty.
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Diddy in court says ‘not guilty’ to forced labour claims
And at that point, he was seated. But it was also interesting that Diddy did choose to stand that entire time. The judge told him he could be seated while he asked him those questions, but he wanted to stand and give that to him. And then the hearing really did move on to, I guess, what you could call housekeeping issues ahead of any trial. They did iron out trial dates.
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Diddy in court says ‘not guilty’ to forced labour claims
They said that jury selection will begin on May 5th and that opening statements would take place later on May 12th. So those are some key upcoming dates. And then they just talked about some of the other issues. dates to trade discovery evidence, different papers, different videos, other pieces of evidence that they need to exchange. And that was really kind of the bulk of the hearing.
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Diddy in court says ‘not guilty’ to forced labour claims
It lasted about 45 minutes. Christian and the whole family was really looking forward and paying attention to court proceedings. There was one moment when there was a very detailed discussion about the CNN tape.
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Diddy in court says ‘not guilty’ to forced labour claims
You could tell that the family was uncomfortable and they just visibly looked a little bit annoyed with the thread of that conversation. The defense were saying that they were planning on submitting a motion potentially to try to block the CNN video from being entered. They said that they had put through a subpoena, that they had gotten the material they were after.
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Diddy in court says ‘not guilty’ to forced labour claims
And so they were going to move forward with previewing some issues they felt there were with the video. They claim that the video was taken out of order, that the actions were sped up. And that it also covered up timestamps. And what we heard from the prosecution was that they see the CNN video as a key piece of evidence.
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Diddy in court says ‘not guilty’ to forced labour claims
Well, look, it was a packed courtroom, as it often is with such a high profile case like this. You have in the You know, a courtroom, rich, dark wood paneled courtroom, blue carpet with several rows.
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Diddy in court says ‘not guilty’ to forced labour claims
They say the government will argue it is critical to their case and can be authenticated. They say the video that they have really is going to speak to what a lot of the women and witnesses will testify to. So that is an open issue.
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Diddy in court says ‘not guilty’ to forced labour claims
The judge, though, says he thinks that the two sides can come to some agreement to make sure that the video is reflective without having to compromise the prosecution putting it in. as a piece of evidence. Now, just to note that both Cassie and CNN have commented on Sean Diddy Combs' defense you know, claims.
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Diddy in court says ‘not guilty’ to forced labour claims
Cassie's lawyer says that it's not surprising that they would make a disingenuous argument to exclude the disturbing video from being shown to a jury. But they say they are confident that the video fairly and accurately represents what happened and will be admitted in court so that he can be held accountable for his depravity.
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Diddy in court says ‘not guilty’ to forced labour claims
And CNN also says that, you know, there was no video that they destroyed, that the original video is with the original source. So just, you know, a very kind of detailed discussion about what will be a key piece of evidence later in the trial.
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Diddy in court says ‘not guilty’ to forced labour claims
Yeah, you know, he very much was just looking between the two parties as they were discussing it and the judge. He didn't visibly show any emotion to it. I think it was more notable to see a little bit of emotion more coming through from his family. And, you know, it's really interesting to cover these court cases because it really is...
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Diddy in court says ‘not guilty’ to forced labour claims
Something that is very well known in the court and we're told before proceedings begin that there can't be any outbursts. You can't have any visible reaction to what's being said. You can only observe what's happening in court. And so clearly, you know, his family has been observing that throughout all of these hearings. But they did show a little bit of discomfort when that topic was raised.
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Diddy in court says ‘not guilty’ to forced labour claims
And you had about 60 people or so, four rows of press were there, three rows of members of the public, really people from law students who just wanted to kind of see the hearing to others who just found the case interesting. And obviously, the focus is always on who is going to come from the defense side.
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Diddy in court says ‘not guilty’ to forced labour claims
But as far as Sean Diddy Combs, he was just watching that debate unfold. But seeing, obviously, that his legal team was vigorously trying to do what they can to kind of cast doubt on that key piece of video.
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Diddy in court says ‘not guilty’ to forced labour claims
Yeah, and it was actually really noticeable, Anthony Rico's absence, because, you know, in past hearings, Anthony Rico was the one who would stand up and, you know, just say that he thought it was important to notify the court that Diddy's family had traveled a long way to be there. So he really kind of almost played that PR role in a way.
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Diddy in court says ‘not guilty’ to forced labour claims
But today it was very much just right down to business instead with the lawyers. His legal team wasn't too combative at all with the government as they were discussing issues back and forth. They were speaking with Diddy often throughout the hearing to make sure he understood what was happening and what the judge was saying.
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Diddy in court says ‘not guilty’ to forced labour claims
But there was one tense moment, and that was when the government was bringing up something that was still under seal, so something that hasn't been publicly made available yet. to members of the press or anyone else.
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Diddy in court says ‘not guilty’ to forced labour claims
And so his lawyer, Alexandra Shapiro, who represented FDX founder Sam Bankman Freed, she's a very well-known attorney, she actually stood up and said, look, I hate to interrupt, but judge, we shouldn't be discussing something that's still under seal. Why are we discussing this?
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Diddy in court says ‘not guilty’ to forced labour claims
But the judge felt she was getting concerned without any real merit because, quite frankly, us in the press, I mean, we couldn't understand what they were talking about. They didn't go into any detail. But that was one, I think, notable tense moment in the courthouse from his lawyers.
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Diddy in court says ‘not guilty’ to forced labour claims
That's correct. So both sides have decided that jury selection will begin on May 5th. There was some debate about starting that earlier. The government had wanted that, but they have decided that they will go through about 300 jurors a day and that they hope that they can select a jury within three days.
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Diddy in court says ‘not guilty’ to forced labour claims
Well, yeah, the judge put forward kind of future dates. Ultimately, they have to turn over the rest of material and evidence by late March. The judge was suggesting that they have one final pretrial conference scheduled. on April 25th.
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Diddy in court says ‘not guilty’ to forced labour claims
You had several members of Sean Diddy Combs' family, Christian Combs, his son, who looks very much like him, his daughter Chance. His mother was also there wearing large sunglasses.
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Diddy in court says ‘not guilty’ to forced labour claims
And then at that point, they can discuss what kind of questions, for example, should be in the jury questionnaire so that both sides can discuss what they want to ask jurors as they try to weed through and take out people that might not make up the most unbiased jury in their view. But otherwise, it very much seems like this case is on schedule moving forward. It didn't seem like there were any
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Diddy in court says ‘not guilty’ to forced labour claims
obvious delays that either side were bringing up that could push this trial further than May as planned.
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Diddy in court says ‘not guilty’ to forced labour claims
And then there was an interesting woman alongside them, actually, Mervet Brito, who is a close friend of his, one of his previous PR executives, but someone who clearly wanted to come and show her support as well because she is known to still be close to him. And then alongside the family were two men who, when we asked who they were, they just described themselves as the support system.