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Some celebrities are reportedly disquieted astir being called to attest successful the Sean "Diddy" Combs enactment trafficking proceedings and person hired lawyers.
"I person heard that determination are immoderate celebrities disquieted astir being called to attest and person adjacent lawyered up trying to combat that," TMZ laminitis Harvey Levin tells Fox News Digital.
"I deliberation [rapper Kid] Cudi and Cassie were the prima witnesses, but I don't cognize who other the prosecution has up their sleeve," Levin said. "I don’t cognize what's going connected down the scenes there, but they've got 4 weeks near of grounds earlier they manus it implicit to the defense. We volition see. But what they intelligibly are doing is cobbling unneurotic what they assertion is impervious beyond a tenable uncertainty that helium has committed these assorted crimes."
Levin didn’t item which celebrities mightiness beryllium called to testify.
TMZ laminitis Harvey Levin told Fox News Digital this week that he’s heard immoderate celebrities are disquieted astir being called to attest successful the Sean "Diddy" Combs enactment trafficking proceedings and person adjacent lawyered up to effort to combat it. (Getty Images/Jane Rosenberg)
Diddy's ex, Cassie, rapper Kid Cudi and vocalist Dawn Richard person already taken the stand.
The rapper went connected proceedings this period aft being charged with racketeering conspiracy, enactment trafficking by force, fraud oregon coercion and proscription to prosecute successful prostitution.
On Wednesday, arson researcher Lance Jimenez, who investigated the car occurrence that damaged Kid Cudi’s Porsche beyond repair successful 2012, and Diddy’s erstwhile stylist some testified.
Sean "Diddy" Combs with then-girlfriend Cassie (Getty Images)
Jimenez testified helium believed the Porsche was targeted aft Kid Cudi’s grounds that helium thinks Diddy was progressive successful mounting the car connected fire. Kid Cudi had been dating Cassie astatine the time, portion she was connected a interruption from Diddy.
Jimenez told the assemblage helium believed idiosyncratic lit a Molotov cocktail and dropped it into the cut-open extortion of Kid Cudi’s car.
Arson researcher Lance Jimenez, who investigated the car occurrence that damaged Kid Cudi’s Porsche beyond repair successful 2012, testified connected Wednesday. (SDNY)
He said helium tried unsuccessfully to scope Diddy’s adjunct astatine the clip astir the vandalism. The adjunct testified she hung up connected him due to the fact that she "wanted this full happening to beryllium over." Jimenez besides tried to scope Cassie.
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A sketch portrays Cassie Ventura, a witnesser successful the Sean "Diddy" Combs trial, connected the basal successful Manhattan national tribunal successful New York connected May 16, 2025. (Jane Rosenberg)
According to Jimenez, nary charges were brought successful the car occurrence case, but helium ne'er closed the case. It is presently listed arsenic "inactive."
Following Jimenez, Diddy’s erstwhile stylist, Deonte Nash, testified that helium witnessed the rapper endanger Cassie often, calling her names similar "b----" and "s---" and allegedly informing that helium would "beat her a--."
"I person heard that determination are immoderate celebrities disquieted astir being called to attest and person adjacent lawyered up trying to combat that."
— Harvey LevinHe claimed helium besides saw Diddy deed her much than once, including a clip erstwhile helium came implicit to her location unannounced and allegedly bushed her until she was bloody, telling her, "Look what you each made maine do."
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Kid Cudi leaving tribunal connected May 22 (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)
Nash besides testified that Diddy erstwhile choked him, accusing him of going retired with Cassie without his permission.
The prosecution has been focused connected Cassie successful the Diddy proceedings truthful far, which experts antecedently told Fox News Digital is their "star witness."
Dawn Richard testified to witnessing the alleged maltreatment Cassie Ventura suffered astatine the hands of Diddy. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)
Levin told Fox News Digital if the assemblage believes Cassie’s earlier grounds that Diddy showed her a enactment video from a "freak off" helium filmed portion connected an airplane returning to New York from Cannes, threatening to merchandise it unless she did different freak disconnected with him successful New York, "I deliberation they could nail him surely arsenic it pertains to Cassie due to the fact that that intelligibly would amusement coercion."
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He added, "So, I deliberation Diddy has a large occupation determination if the assemblage believes it. Diddy besides has a occupation with the interstate proscription of enactment workers, I think."
Sean "Diddy" Combs sits astatine the defence array earlier the commencement of assemblage enactment successful Manhattan national tribunal connected May 5, 2025, successful New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)
But Levin said helium wasn’t intelligibly seeing impervious of racketeering.
"When you look astatine each of the things helium did, he's burglarizing Kid Cudi's location and going not for wealth oregon drugs oregon jewelry oregon thing similar that. He is going for the Christmas contiguous that helium was going to springiness Cassie, and past helium torches Cudi’s car, and past makes threats against her mother. This feels similar a crazed, criminal, jealous boyfriend," Levin said. "And I don't deliberation it needfully shows him to beryllium a racketeer."
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Levin said Diddy did allegedly usage his employees to bash "various things, but usually erstwhile you speech astir racketeering and organized crime, you're talking astir having an undercover amerciable business, selling drugs, moving guns, doing hits connected people. He's not selling drugs. He's utilizing radical to assistance him bargain drugs. That, to me, is not racketeer. So I person a feeling. At slightest astatine this point, the assemblage isn’t sold connected that."
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