A woman who worked as Combs's personal assistant testified -- under the pseudonym "Mia" -- that he once had her work five days straight with no sleep, threw things at her, including a laptop and an ice bucket, and that he sexually assaulted her. On the stand she said an "irate" Combs once chased her and Cassie Ventura onto a Caribbean beach and that they paddled out into the ocean to get away from him, but the weather turned. "I was trying to weigh if it was scarier to face mother nature or to go back to Puff," she said. "Mia" testified that she never told anyone Combs was allegedly sexually assaulting her. "I was going to die with this," she said. "I didn't want anyone to know ever."If you want to read NBC's coverage of the trial, check out our newsletter, “Diddy On Trial”: NBCNews.com/Diddy
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This is On Trial, a special series from Dateline True Crime Weekly, bringing you daily coverage from the Sean Combs racketeering trial. He has pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him. I'm Andrea Canning, and it's Thursday, May 29th. Just a heads up, in this episode, we're going to be talking about some graphic details and harrowing subject matter.
Today, the prosecution called a woman to the stand they allege is another victim of Combs. We do not know her name. She is testifying under a pseudonym, which is Mia. And at times, she seemed so overwhelmed by what she was telling the jury that she started to hyperventilate. Like Cassie Ventura, Mia alleges that Combs sexually assaulted her.
She also described what it was like working for him, accusing Combs of keeping her awake for literally days at a time and living in fear. Those allegations could put him directly in the crosshairs of the RICO statute. NBC News correspondent Chloe Malas is back outside of the federal courthouse to tell us more. Hey, Chloe. Hey. Hey, Andrea. Okay, so big day in court today.
Before Mia started her testimony, the judge gave a clear instruction to the jury not to put any weight on the fact that she was testifying using a pseudonym. Do we know why exactly she has chosen not to use her name?
We know based on a letter that prosecutors sent the judge in April, Andrea, that she is just so fearful as to her identity getting out there that it could hurt her with her job professionally. It would just cause irreparable damage. We were mandated by the judge not to even describe her appearance. So I can't even tell you what she was wearing.
I can't tell you the color of her hair, what she looked like. I mean, we have to be really, really careful in abiding by these rules.
Chloe, give us a background on Mia. Who is she and how did she get into Sean Combs' world?
So she had briefly worked as a personal assistant for the actor Mike Myers. You might remember him from movies like Austin Powers. And she said that job was like a 10 to 6 job. And that if she ever worked on the weekends for Mike Myers, that she would only be like watching his dog. So then she got this job interview to work for Sean Diddy Combs.
And she thought that this was the opportunity of a lifetime. And she was told that she would only be working about 40 hours a week. And she said that very quickly, even on her first day, she realized that this was not the case. She actually said, Andrea, that on her first day, she didn't get to go home until 1 p.m. the next day.
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