Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs bombshell sex-trafficking and racketeering trial is underway in New York City for the 3rd week.
The disgraced tune rich person, 55, has put his infamous air of mystery on complete show, chatting to his legal professionals and making middle indicators to the target audience as he hears the prosecution describe him as the pinnacle of a legal undertaking all in favour of pleasurable his sexual fantasies.
Jurors have heard from over a dozen witnesses, together with Diddy’s ex-girlfriend and major accuser Cassie Ventura, in addition to his former band mate Dawn Richard, the rapper Kid Cudi and his ex-assistant Capricorn Clark.
Much of the case introduced by means of prosecutors up to now has revolved round accusations that Combs bodily and sexually abused Cassie for years, and coerced her into sexual encounters known as ‘freak-offs’ with males who had been paid 1000’s of bucks to have intercourse along with her.
Diddy denies all allegations in opposition to him. His legal professionals admit he is a lady beater – even though he does now not face home abuse fees – however that he’s now not to blame of intercourse trafficking or racketeering.
Diddy threatened to ship Cassie’s intercourse tapes to her folks’ places of work, jury hears
Deonte Nash informed the jury that he witnessed Diddy threatening to liberate movies of Cassie having intercourse with different males.
He mentioned he heard Diddy telling Cassie he would ship the tapes to her folks’ places of work if she didn’t do because the mobul informed her to.
Nash mentioned he informed Cassie that he will have to let Diddy liberate the movies since he was once additionally on them and could be affected.
But Cassie then it appears informed him ‘[Diddy] wasn’t at the movies, it was once [Diddy] taping her with different guys…. [She said] she was once having intercourse with the opposite guys.’
Cassie then reportedly informed Nash she didn’t wish to have intercourse with different males however was once doing it as a result of ‘Puff sought after her to.’
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Cassie’s stylist says he does not hate Diddy
In the final questions from the prosection, Nash admitted that whilehe stopped operating for Diddy in 2018, he does not ‘hate’ the rich person.
‘It’s simply now not in me,’ he mentioned after including that he remained in contact with Diddy, sending him texts with a ‘loving’ tone.
He explined: ‘This guy’s sanity was once my protection. It was once what I used to be used to.’
Deonte’ Nash attends the BET Awards in 2021
Cassie mentioned she was once going ‘to climb over resort balcony to flee Diddy’
Deonte Nash mentioned Diddy as soon as got here searching for Cassie at his house
‘Derick Roche and D-Roc [and] Puff got here in… he began having a look throughout my area, within the closet, within the oven – I don’t know why he seemed within the oven…
‘He then took my telephone and my automotive keys.’
After having access to Nash’s telephone, Diddy reportedly found out Cassie was once on the Le Montrose Hotel in LA and rushed there.
Nash mentioned she discovered a nervous Cassie in a room on the resort and mentioned she was once going to climb over the balcony after finding out Diddy was once within the foyer.
Cassie sooner or later sneaked out of the resort, evading Diddy’s ‘4 or 5 safety’ guards who had been there to lend a hand Diddy to find her, Nash informed the courtroom.
Nash is pictured arriving in courtroom.
‘Look what y’all made me do’
Stylist Deonte Nash shared extra main points in courtroom about an incident in 2013 when Diddy allegedly brutally assaulted Cassie.
Cassie talked in regards to the incident right through her time at the stand, announcing Diddy was enraged as she was once on the brink of move to Drake’s tune competition in Canada.
Cassie mentioned Combs scuffled along with her buddies and threw her right into a mattress body.
She mentioned she suffered a ‘lovely vital gash’ above her left eye. Combs’ safety team of workers introduced her to a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills to get the wound stitched up.
Dash showed the main points on Wednesday, announcing he attempted to leap at the rich person to prevent the attack however he was once not able to.
The stylist mentioned the assault didn’t prevent till a couple of seconds after Diddy spotted Cassie was once bleeding.
‘I attempted to name 911. I used to be straight away informed to hold up,’ Dash informed the courtroom.
Singer Dawn Richard informed the jury of demise threats
Dawn Richard were given her large smash within the tune industry as a solid member on Combs’ fact TV display, Making the Band. She carried out with two Combs-backed acts, Danity Kane and Diddy — Dirty Money.
But Richard mentioned from the stand right through the trial that Combs threatened her lifestyles after she noticed him beat Cassie and take a look at to hit her with a skillet in 2009.
She mentioned Combs informed her and every other lady that they ‘may just move lacking’ in the event that they didn’t keep quiet.
She mentioned she noticed Combs beat Cassie continuously. ‘He would punch her, choke her, drag her, slap her within the mouth,’ she mentioned.
Cassie in brief dated Kid Cudi right through a time frame when it appeared like she would possibly cut up with Combs.
Cassie’s mom, Regina Ventura, testified that she felt ‘bodily ill’ after her daughter despatched her an e mail announcing Combs had discovered in regards to the courting with Cudi and deliberate to retaliate by means of freeing tapes of Cassie having intercourse.
Then, Ventura mentioned, Combs contacted her and angrily demanded $20,000, announcing he was once owed it as a result of he’d spent cash on Cassie’s profession.
Ventura tapped house fairness to twine the cash to Combs’ industry. Several days later, the cash was once returned.
Prosecutors search to end up racketeering
Much of the case introduced by means of prosecutors up to now has revolved round accusations that Combs bodily and sexually abused Cassie for years, and coerced her into sexual encounters known as ‘freak-offs’ with males who had been paid 1000’s of bucks to have intercourse along with her.
Yet Combs isn’t merely charged with intercourse crimes. He’s charged with racketeering. Prosecutors say they are going to end up that Combs used his companies and staff ‘to hold out, facilitate, and canopy up his acts of violence, abuse, and industrial intercourse.’
Some of the ones staff testified in Week 2.
George Kaplan, a private assistant for Combs from 2013 to 2015, informed jurors he’d toss out liquor bottles and medicine and blank up child oil from Combs’ resort rooms after the tune manufacturer completed freak-offs.
He mentioned he by no means reported abuse to government, even after Combs beat up Cassie on a personal jet.
Another non-public assistant, David James, testified that Combs had him inventory resort rooms with Viagra, condoms, child oil and lubricant, amongst different provides.
He additionally recounted how Combs had 3 handguns on his lap as they drove to a Los Angeles diner searching for his file trade rival, Death Row Records co-founder Suge Knight.
Watch: Diddy’s trial recap
Court is going on smash for lunch
Stylist Deonte Nash will proceed his testimony after a lunch smash.
Diddy freaked out over Cassie’s coiffure, courtroom hears
Cassie’s former stylist Deonte Nash informed the courtroom about an incident in 2014 when Diddy allegedly misplaced his mood as a result of he was once displeased with Cassie’s coiffure.
Dash mentioned it was once on the Vanity Fair Oscar birthday party the place Diddy began yelling at him over Cassie dressed in her hair down.
The stylist mentioned Diddy grabbed him by means of his jacket and lifted him up.
‘I began asking folks within the birthday party for hair pins,’ Dash informed the courtroom, including that he prompt someone else to redo Cassie’s hair in the toilet.
‘When they got here out, [Diddy] mentioned, “oh ya’ll was right, it does look better down.”‘
Stylist Deonte Nash takes the stand
Nash took the stand Wednesday and admitted he ‘completely’ didn’t wish to testify in Diddy’s trial.
He mentioned he labored with the tune rich person and Cassie Ventura from 2008 till 2018.
When requested what threats Diddy made in opposition to Cassie, Nash responded: ‘That he would beat her a**. He wouldn’t put her tune out.
‘That he would get her folks fired from their jobs and ship her intercourse tapes to their jobs, he would get started there.’
Diddy’s stomach-churning cheeseburger topping published right through intercourse trafficking trial
Diddy’s mom Janice arrives in courtroom
She has been pictured going within the Manhattan federal courthouse maximum days of the trial.
She is observed on Wednesday.
Who is Diddy’s assistant Capricorn Clark?
The rich person’s ex-employee has been discussed a couple of dozen instances by means of more than a few witnesses who’ve taken the stand within the trial, and prosecutors declare she was once abducted two times by means of Diddy or his bodyguards.
Diddy’s legal professionals ask for mistrial after LA respectable says anyone destroyed Kid Cudi proof
Diddy’s legal professionals have requested the pass judgement on for a mistrial after arguing the prosecution made an unacceptable recommendation in entrance of the jury.
The protection mentioned it was once ‘outrageous’ when prosecutors perceived to recommend the rich person had destroyed fingerprints taken from Kid Cudi’s area after the January, 2012 bombing of his automotive.
Prosecutors had requested LAFD respectable Lance Jimenez in regards to the fingerprints, and he mentioned the proof was once destroyed in August 2012.
Jimenez mentioned ‘any individual inside LAPD’ licensed the destruction of the proof.
This is when Diddy’s crew objected.
‘They know what they had been doing,’ the protection mentioned of prosecutors.
‘They had been suggesting that anyone on this court docket has one thing to do with flawed and suspicious destruction of those fingerprint playing cards and that’s outrageous.’
The legal professionals added: ‘The most effective correct treatment to remedy the outrageous prejudice is a mistrial.’
However, the protection’s movement for a mistrial was once denied.
Claims in opposition to Diddy defined as explosive trial continues
Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs is these days within the battle of his lifestyles in federal courtroom as he stares down the possibility of many years in the back of bars.
The disgraced rap rich person, 55, has been charged with two counts of intercourse trafficking, two counts of transportation to have interaction in prostitution and one rely of racketeering.
According to prosecutors, the rapper used his ‘multi-faceted industry empire’ to hold out a ‘legal undertaking’ for years, allegedly coercing sufferers into sexual ‘freak off’ marathons and dangerous them into silence.
The racketeering and intercourse trafficking fees raise a minimal sentence of 15 years every, whilst transportation to have interaction in prostitution carries a most of 10 years in the back of bars.
Diddy’s secret courtroom notes decoded… and the reality in the back of his covert indicators
The hip-hop rich person is the usage of his boulevard smarts to lend a hand legal professionals combat the intercourse trafficking and racketeering allegations he faces, a supply with regards to the trial claimed.
Diddy has been passing dozens of notes in courtroom on a daily basis, grilling his legal professionals right through breaks and suggesting they convey in several proof.
He has additionally been the usage of his non-public recollections to strengthen the techniques of the 9 extremely paid legal professionals he has at the case.
‘He was once there, he recalls precisely what took place: no one is aware of extra about Diddy’s lifestyles than he does,’ the supply informed the Daily Mail.
Read the overall tale beneath:
Fire respectable says Molotov cocktail left in Kid Cudi’s automotive may have burned down his area
LAFD officer Lance Jimenez mentioned he discovered a Molotov cocktail within Kid Cudi’s automotive.
‘There was once a bottle at the entrance seat and material handkerchief at the heart console that was once burned,’ he mentioned, including the bottle was once a 40z malt liquor bottle, outdated English, and it smelled of gas.
Jimenez mentioned the explosive didn’t blow up because it was once designed to, and led to minimum injury in comparison to that in most cases led to by means of a Molotov cocktail.
‘It’s serious injury however now not just about what I’d generally see with a molotov,’ Jimenez informed the jury ‘I’ve observed some automobiles, you wouldn’t even acknowledge the automobile.’
‘I feel the foliage would had been extra uncovered to the warmth, that will have stuck hearth,’ Jimenez mentioned when requested what would have took place if the bottle had shattered.
He added that ‘if the fireplace will get sufficiently big it will have affected the house, inflicting the house to burn and the automobile in the back of it.’
From graphic testimony to intimate texts: The proof in opposition to Diddy
Diddy is charged with racketeering conspiracy, two fees of intercourse trafficking and two fees of transportation to have interaction in prostitution.
Prosecutors declare Diddy coerced sufferers into drug-fueled intercourse events the usage of intercourse and violence. The rapper has denied all accusations, announcing all intercourse acts had been consensual.
As the 55-year-old tune rich person faces no less than every other six weeks of grilling, the Daily Mail unpacks the drama which has opened up within the Manhattan federal court docket up to now.
See Kid Cudi’s melted Porsche after it was once ‘firebombed by means of Diddy as revenge for Cassie affair’
The surprising footage had been introduced to the jury on the disgraced tune rich person’s federal intercourse trafficking and racketeering trial in New York City.
They seem to turn proof of the molotov cocktail which the rapper, whose actual identify is Scott Mescudi, informed a courtroom was once thrown in the course of the roof of his convertible.
The pictures display the auto’s comfortable most sensible with a gaping hollow within the heart.
The automobile’s inner is charred and burnt and the pink leather-based at the driving force’s seat has been melted away.
Another {photograph} presentations the blackened within one of the crucial automotive’s doorways and window.
‘Looks like the highest of my Porsche was once minimize open, that’s the place they inserted the molotov cocktail,’ Mescudi mentioned of one of the crucial pictures proven to the jury.
LA hearth respectable takes the stand to testify about Kid Cudi’s automotive bombing
LAFD arson specialist Lance Jimenez has taken the stand Wednesday after LAPD officer Ignacio.
Jimenez has labored at the power for 22 years and was once one of the crucial officers who replied to Kid Cudi’s house in January, 2012, after a molotov cocktail was once positioned in his automotive.
Cudi mentioned at the stand final week that he believes Diddy was once chargeable for the arson.
LA cop says there was once no automotive chase after Kid Cudi break-in
Contradicting the testimony of Diddy’s ex-assistant Capricorn Clark, LA police officer Ignacio mentioned he didn’t see Kid Cudi’s Porsche round Diddy’s Escalade after the break-in on the rapper’s mansion in 2011.
Clark claimed she noticed Cudi arrive after Diddy compelled her to take him to his area.
She mentioned Cudi took off as he spotted the Escalade within the driveway, and that Diddy adopted him.
Diddy’s protection perceived to use the instant to undermind Clark’s claims.
Who are Diddy’s legal professionals?
Once one of the tough tune moguls on this planet, Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs is now depending on a $10 million crew of felony heavyweights to rescue his ruined recognition as his intercourse trafficking trial rolls on for every other six weeks.
The defiant Grammy Award successful rapper is used to commanding a crowd – however he has been sitting silently at the protection benches whilst 8 key protection legal professionals take heart level right through the blockbuster case in Manhattan federal courtroom.
His main legal professionals are Marc Agnifilo, 60, a former Manhattan District Attorney who has attempted greater than 200 instances right through his 30-year profession, and millennial ‘nepo child‘ defender Teny Geragos, 34, who has been the usage of TikTookay to argue Diddy’s case.
LA cop takes the stand, says he noticed Diddy’s automotive depart Kid Cudi’s mansion after break-in
Officer Ignacio took the stand on Wednesday for the prosecution.
He was once the officer to reply to Kid Cudi’s area in 2011 after Diddy allegedly broke into the house after finding out of the rapper’s romance with Cassie Ventura.
Igancio mentioned when he arrived he discovered a black Escalade within the driveway, with tinted home windows.
‘It was once parked immediately in entrance of the place of abode and once we arrived it took off up the hill,’ Ignacio informed the jury.
Diddy’s former assistant Capricorn Clark testified on Tuesday that the rich person was once within the automobile on the time.
On Wednesday, Ignacio showed the automobile was once registered to Bad Boy Productions Inc.
Alleged Diddy sufferer would possibly percentage secrets and techniques she ‘would have taken to her grave’
One of the witnesses anticipated to take the stand these days, who’s going by means of the identify Mia, was once mentioned to be extraordinarily apprehensive sooner than her testimony.
Her legal professional, Michael Ferrara, mentioned his consumer will inform in regards to the worst issues ever to occur to her.
Those issues, he mentioned, she in a different way would have taken ‘to her grave.’ He mentioned she is going to need emotional reinforce right through her testimony.
‘Candidly, her nerves are in the course of the roof,’ he mentioned.
‘I don’t know the way to reinforce her if we will’t talk about the ache she’s going to revel in from having to inform the sector about her worst reviews.’
Will Diddy take the stand? All the witnesses at rapper’s blockbuster trial
So some distance, the blockbuster trial has consisted of a variety of bombshell testimonies from his ex-girlfriend and major accuser Cassie Ventura, rapper Kid Cudi, Dawn Richard, a former member of Combs’ pop workforce Danity Kane, and his former government assistant George Kaplan, amongst others.
Here is a complete checklist of everybody who has taken the stand up to now:
Ex-assistant says Diddy’s body of workers threatened to throw her within the East River
Assistant U.S. Attorney Mitzi Steiner puzzled Capricorn Clark about her off-and-on employment with Combs from 2004 to 2018, starting along with her first day when she mentioned Combs and a bodyguard took her to Central Park after 9pm and mentioned he hadn’t been conscious about her previous paintings for different rappers.
Clark testified that Combs informed her that if that paintings was a subject, he’d need to kill her.
Clark mentioned she was once most effective weeks into the task when Combs tasked her with sporting diamond jewellery and it went lacking. As a consequence, she mentioned, she was once time and again given lie detector exams over five-day stretch by means of a person who appeared 5 instances greater than her personal measurement.
‘He mentioned: “If you fail this test they’re going to throw you in the East River,”‘ she recalled, including that they sooner or later let her go back to paintings.
Even the alleged kidnapping didn’t scare Clark away, Agnifilo famous.
‘Freak off’ movies will NOT be proven in courtroom
Judge Arun Subramanian provisionally denied a joint software by means of information retailers for the movies to be performed in open courtroom and be described by means of the media.
He agreed with a prosecution argument that taking part in them would ‘revictimize’ Ventura and one of the crucial unnamed feminine sufferers who will testify later iun the trial.
The pass judgement on additionally denied an alternate proposal to permit 3 pool journalists to stick in courtroom after they had been performed, and percentage reviews with different retailers.
“I’m now not seeing any case that will recommend whatsoever, form, or shape that pictures or movies of these kind of acts which might be imagined to be sexual abuse could be required to be proven in open courtroom after they pose the most obvious possibility of revictimization,’ he mentioned.
Robert Balin, the legal professional who argued on behalf of the clicking, previous mentioned the First Amendment was once ‘at its zenith’ within the case.
He argued it was once vital ‘folks, despite the fact that the clicking, have the ability to see justice is being accomplished’.
Balin mentioned the most efficient proof of whether or not the intercourse acts within the ‘freak offs’ had been coerced – which underpinned the prosecution’s case – had been the movies themselves.
The software was once most effective ever to view the movies and describe them, now not for the pictures to ever turn out to be public.
Kim Kardashian’s ex Ray J breaks silence on Diddy in surprise interview
Ray J spoke about his former mentor Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ ongoing sex-trafficking trial whilst showing on Piers Morgan Uncensored.
‘I feel it is sort of changing into a circus, and with the entire allegations and now with everyone explaining what is going down within the bed room, I imply, on a daily basis. It simply sounds crazier and crazier and freakier and more strange, proper?’ he mentioned.
He persisted: ‘I’m seeking to perceive, with all this being mentioned, like with Kid Cudi happening and announcing the whole lot that took place, however then ended up announcing, “Cassie played both of us”… Where are we seeking to move? Are we simply seeking to inform all of those loopy tales, after which that equals out to sex-trafficking?’
Ray J went on to mention that he felt the claims in opposition to Diddy had been ‘beginning to turn out to be outrageous.’
Diddy’s former assistant breaks down in tears as she remembers terrifying threats by means of his body of workers
Taking the stand on Tuesday, Capricorn Clark mentioned she was once left ‘petrified’ after being delivered to an deserted construction in New York and locked in whilst being puzzled in regards to the hip hop rich person’s lacking jewellery.
Another time, she claimed Diddy abducted her at gunpoint and drove her to a love rival’s area the place he supposed to shoot the person useless, the courtroom heard.
The bizarre claims emerged right through the testimony of Clark, 46, who time and again broke down in tears whilst describing her nightmarish employment with Diddy.
Diddy arrives in courtroom
Diddy is in courtroom forward of the 11th day of his sex-trafficking and racketeering trial in Manhattan federal courtroom.
He’s dressed in a Navy sweater these days – as he did on Tuesday.
The rich person arrived previous than standard and started talking to his legal professional on the desk.
He is permitted to put on his personal garments to the trial however with some stipulations.
He can most effective have as much as 5 pairs of pants, shirts and socks and most effective two pairs of brogues – with out a laces.
Usher, Ne- Yo, dragged into Dawn Richard’s testimony
Former Danity Kane member Dawn Richard mentioned at the stand that Diddy punched Cassie within the belly right through a personal argument at a West Hollywood eating place in 2010.
She claimed a number of celebrities had been on the dinner, together with Usher, Ne-Yo and famous person tune government Jimmy Iodine.
‘Mr Combs punched Cassie within the belly,’ Richard informed the jury.
‘They had been having a personal dialog, we had been all sitting consuming on the tables in combination. Some of Bad Boy label buddies, some celebrities had been within the room.
‘They had been secretly arguing [and] he punched her within the belly.
Richard added: ‘[Cassie] straight away bent over and he informed her to depart, I may just see him indicate and she or he went out.’
Diddy’s ex Cassie Ventura has long gone into exertions after an afternoon of explosive testimony recapped on Daily Mail’s podcast The Trial
All the stars named up to now in Diddy’s trial
The trial of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is in its 3rd week in New York and several other A-list celebrities had been named-dropped right through the bombshell testimony.
His former female friend, Cassie Ventura, delivered graphic testimonies alleging that the tune rich person bodily and psychologically abused her over greater than a decade from 2007-2018.
Diddy’s ex-assistant Capricorn Clark uncovered the rich person’s checklist of celebrities enemies and plenty of different A-listers have arise in testimony.
The trial has even impressed deep pretend movies that use AI-generated pictures to falsely declare that positive celebrities, akin to Oprah and Jennifer Lawrence, had been discussed within the rich person’s sex-trafficking case.
Here is a listing of the entire celebrities named within the trial up to now:
Who will take the stand on Wednesday?
The govt plans to name a Los Angeles police officer and arson investigator to the stand on Wednesday.
Stylist Deonte Nash and an alleged sufferer who was once additionally certainly one of Combs’s former staff, who’s going by means of the identify Mia, also are anticipated.
Cassie sought after to this point Jay-Z, in line with Diddy’s ex-assistant Capricorn Clark
Diddy’s former assistant Capricorn Clark informed the jury on Tuesday that Cassie as soon as steered she sought after to this point Jay-Z.
In a gathering with Diddy’s legal professionals in April, 2024, Clark mentioned she as soon as informed Cassie to this point folks than Diddy – however Cassie it appears responded that Jay-Z was once taken.
Agnifilo requested Clark: ‘Do you bear in mind announcing on the assembly that … you informed Cassie, it’s a must to — you will have to transfer clear of [Diddy] and date folks, proper?’
The lawyer added: ‘And she mentioned to you that Jay-Z was once taken, who would she [date]?’
She added: ‘She did [say that.]’
Diddy, Beyonce and Jay-Z are pictured in combination in 2005.
Suge Knight says Diddy ‘no doubt will have to stroll’
Diddy’s longtime rival Suge Knight informed NewsNation‘s Chris Cuomo that he believes the tune rich person will have to be declared now not to blame in his sex-trafficking and racketeering trial.
‘I say this at all times, Puffy and I don’t seem to be buddies,’ the Death Row information founder mentioned on a telephone name from jail.
‘But, Puffy will have to no doubt stroll.’
‘I don’t assume it is a case the place Puffy will have to be going to jail,’ Knight, who’s serving a 28-year sentence for voluntary manslaughter, added.
Meanwhile Ray J informed Piers Morgan on Tuesday that his longtime buddy will quickly be free of prison.
‘I in my opinion assume it’s gonna occur quicker than a large number of folks assume, as a result of I feel we’re all beginning to see what that is, despite the fact that you’re at the different facet of it,’ Ray J mentioned on Piers Morgan Uncensored.
Breaking:Cassie Ventura offers start
Cassie Ventura has welcomed her 3rd kid with husband Alex Fine, simply days after attesting in her ex Diddy‘s intercourse trafficking trial.
TMZ reviews the Me and U singer welcomed child quantity 3 on Tuesday at a clinic in New York City, bringing up assets with direct wisdom.
The insiders say the infant arrived somewhat forward of time table, however Cassie and her kid are wholesome and smartly.
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