Ex-assistant who alleges Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs raped her returns to face in trial

A former assistant to Sean “Diddy” Combs, who testified on Thursday that the tune rich person bodily and sexually assaulted her when she labored for him, returned to the stand on Friday morning.

Testifying below the pseudonym Mia to offer protection to her identification, the lady shared that she labored for Combs from 2009 to 2017 as his private assistant and director of building and acquisition for his tune trade, beginning on the age of 25.

During her testimony on Thursday, Mia alleged that the rapper and manufacturer assaulted her, each bodily and sexually, on a couple of events.

“He’s thrown things at me, he’s thrown me against the wall, he’s thrown me into a pool, he’s thrown an ice bucket on my head, he’s slammed my arm into a door, and he’s sexually assaulted me,” Mia informed the courtroom.

She additionally recalled how Combs would on occasion deal with her like a absolute best buddy or running spouse, however how at different instances, he handled her “like a worthless piece of crap”.

Mia testified that she felt “trapped” within the scenario, describing Combs’s habits in opposition to her as “the most shameful thing of my life”, attesting tearfully in slightly a whisper about how he raped her.

Mia informed the courtroom that she was once terrified of bodily hurt from Combs. “I didn’t want to die or get hurt,” she stated.

“I couldn’t tell him ‘no’, like, about a sandwich,” she stated. “I couldn’t tell him ‘no’ about anything. There’s no way I could tell him ‘no’ because then he would know that I thought what he was doing was wrong and then I would be a target.”

Mia testified that she feared that if she had left or been fired that Combs would “ruin my future”.

Combs has denied all allegations of sexual attack.

On Friday, Mia testified that she was once “scared” of Combs and that he would ship her threatening messages.

She stated she left his employment in 2017 and employed a attorney to barter severance. After a number of months, she stated she gained a $400,000 agreement as reimbursement for unpaid extra time, severance and bonuses, of which round part went to her attorneys.

Mia informed the courtroom that she suffers from post-traumatic tension because of her employment with Combs, and stated that it has impacted her talent to paintings.

During cross-examination on Friday, Combs’s attorneys wondered Mia about her social media posts all through the time she labored for Combs and after she says he first sexually assaulted her, together with footage she posted the place she is noticed posing subsequent to the tune rich person and captions calling him a “mentor”. Combs’s attorneys additionally requested about her communications along with her then boss, through which she praised him, calling him an “inspiration”.

“Why would you promote the person who has stolen your happiness in life?” Combs’s attorney requested Mia in connection with her posts on social media.

Mia testified that all through her time running for Combs, “the highs were high and the lows were low”. She informed the courtroom that Instagram was once a “place to show how great your life was, even if it was not true” and stated that she didn’t need her circle of relatives to grasp what she was once going thru.

Combs, 55, faces federal fees of intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. Arrested in September 2024, Combs has pleaded now not responsible to all 5 counts.

While Combs’s protection workforce has said his historical past of home violence, they have got argued that he’s now not responsible of intercourse trafficking or racketeering, and denied any prison undertaking. They even have denied that Combs sexually assaulted somebody, and feature asserted that all sexual encounters had been consensual.

On Thursday, Mia additionally testified that on multiple instance, she additionally witnessed Combs bodily assaulting Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, his on-again, off-again female friend of 11 years, who’s a key witness on this case.

Earlier within the trial, Ventura spent 4 days at the witness stand detailing the bodily and emotional abuse she says she continued from Combs all through their dating and testified that she was once coerced and blackmailed into taking part in “freak-offs” – drug-fueled intercourse performances with male intercourse staff that Ventura stated Combs directed.

During move exam, Combs’s attorneys sought to painting Ventura as a consenting player within the “freak-offs.”

Since the trial started on 12 May, greater than 16 witnesses have testified, together with Ventura, rapper Kid Cudi, singer Dawn Richard, two of Combs’s former assistants, a star stylist, Ventura’s former absolute best buddy and her mom, an unique dancer, a male revue supervisor, a lodge safety officer, a particular agent from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a forensic psychologist, a make-up artist, the normal supervisor of a Beverly Hills lodge and a laptop forensics agent from HSI.

The trial is predicted to ultimate a number of extra weeks. If convicted on all counts, Combs may just resist lifestyles in jail.