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NEW YORK -- Some of Sean “Diddy” Combs ’ ex-employees took a cardinal relation successful the 3rd week of his sex trafficking trial, including idiosyncratic assistants who testified that the hip-hop mogul was capricious, controlling and violent.
The week began with Capricorn Clark, a idiosyncratic adjunct who was aboriginal a planetary marque manager for Combs’ company. She recalled witnessing Combs beating his longtime girlfriend, the R&B vocalist Cassie, and said helium raged astir wanting to termination rapper and romanticist rival Kid Cudi.
It ended with different ex-assistant, testifying nether the pseudonym “Mia," who alleges Combs raped her during a torturous eight-year tenure moving for the rap star. She is the 2nd of 3 women expected to attest that helium sexually assaulted them. Combs has pleaded not guilty.
The proceedings resumes Monday successful national tribunal successful Manhattan.
Here are cardinal moments from Week 3:
Former employees of Combs’ Bad Boy Entertainment described repeatedly witnessing him bushed Cassie, whose existent sanction is Casandra Ventura, but said they didn't study the maltreatment to instrumentality enforcement due to the fact that they feared Combs would harm them.
Clark testified that the time she started arsenic Combs’ idiosyncratic adjunct successful 2004, helium threatened helium would termination her if her erstwhile enactment for rival rappers interfered with her enactment for him.
Then, she testified, she watched successful daze arsenic Combs viciously assaulted Cassie, his on-again, off-again woman for much than a decade, successful 2011 aft learning she was dating Cudi. Clark said her “heart was breaking from seeing her get deed similar that," and neither she nor Combs’ bodyguard intervened.
She said she called Cassie's parent and told her: “Please assistance her. I can’t telephone the police, but you can.”
Weeks later, Clark said, she reported what happened to Cassie to the president of Bad Boy Records.
She besides testified astir her ain run-ins with Combs, telling jurors that helium kidnapped her astatine gunpoint and took her to Cudi’s location arsenic helium fumed that helium was going to termination the rapper. Cudi testified that helium believed Cassie and Combs had breached up. He said his narration with Cassie lone lasted a fewer weeks.
Clark said she stayed successful Combs’ SUV portion helium broke into the home. She said she was fired weeks aboriginal for what she contends was a trumped-up reason.
One of the week’s biggest developments came extracurricular the courtroom. Cassie, 38, delivered her 3rd kid little than 2 weeks aft testifying for 4 days arsenic the prosecution’s prize witness.
The quality of her son’s commencement Tuesday reached the assemblage the adjacent time erstwhile Cassie’s longtime stylist, Deonte Nash, testified that helium was inactive adjacent to Cassie and had sent her good wishes aft the birth.
Cassie, known for the platinum-selling 2006 deed azygous “Me & U,” joined idiosyncratic trainer Alex Fine successful September 2019 — astir a twelvemonth aft breaking up with Combs for good. Their archetypal daughter, Frankie Stone Fine, was calved successful 2019. They welcomed a 2nd daughter, Sunny Cinco Fine, successful 2021.
Jurors heard from a Los Angeles constabulary serviceman who responded to the December 2011 break-in astatine Cudi’s location and an arson researcher who spoke astir his efforts to lick the firebombing of Cudi's Porsche 911 weeks later.
Officer Chris Ignacio said helium recovered Christmas gifts, immoderate opened, with luxury watches and purses. Cudi has testified that his canine was traumatized aft being locked successful a bath by intruders.
Ignacio said helium saw a car with tinted windows registered to Bad Boy extracurricular the location but didn't attack it due to the fact that helium had nary impervious a transgression had occurred.
Prosecutors are trying to beryllium that Combs was down the break-in and the consequent firebombing, which progressive a Molotov cocktail dropped done a spread sliced successful the convertible’s cloth roof.
Lance Jimenez, a Los Angeles Fire Department arson investigator, said the explosive was made from a 40-ounce Olde English 800 malt liquor vessel and a silky decorator handkerchief.
“I personally felt it was targeted,” helium said of the Jan. 9, 2012, attack.
Celebrity stylist Deonte Nash was a witnesser similar nary other, adding flair and wit wrong seconds of taking the basal connected Wednesday. Asked if helium wanted to testify, helium declared: “Absolutely not!”
Nash said helium knew Combs arsenic “Puff” and Cassie arsenic “Cass.” He said helium responded to a Craigslist advertisement and started moving astatine Bad Boy Entertainment arsenic an intern and past a stylist from 2008 to 2018.
Prosecutor Maurene Comey enactment a representation of Nash successful beforehand of him and asked, "Is it a glamour changeable of you?”
“Yes. I look amazing,” Nash responded, drafting laughs.
Asked what helium had heard Combs telephone Cassie implicit the years, Nash answered “Um, Baby Girl, CC, Cass” and past listed a fig of slurs against women. Asked however often Combs utilized 1 peculiar slur, Nash said: “Um, rather a bit. That was his fave.”
Nash aboriginal testified that Cassie had confided successful him that she didn't ever privation to spell on with Combs’ demands that she person enactment with different men during his drug-fueled “freak-off” marathons.
Mia testified that Combs sexually assaulted her connected aggregate occasions: forcibly kissing her and putting his manus up her formal astatine his 40th day party, forcing her to execute oral enactment arsenic they packed for a trip, and raping her aft helium climbed into her furniture astatine his Los Angeles home.
Mia said she thought her intersexual maltreatment was sporadic capable that each clip it occurred, she thought it would ne'er hap again. She said she enactment connected a brave look and continued to enactment for Combs, successful portion due to the fact that she felt shame, blamed herself and feared what would hap if she reported him to authorities.
Cassie testified antecedently that Combs raped her aft she broke up with him successful 2018.
Mia said she witnessed Combs physically attacking Cassie “all the time” astatine his houses, her apartments, hotels, events and portion traveling. She said Combs besides turned his wrath connected her, throwing her into a swimming pool, dumping a bucket of crystal connected her and hurling a vessel of spaghetti successful her direction.
Prosecutors insisted each week that they are up of docket successful presenting their lawsuit and said they could beryllium done calling witnesses by mid-June.
But Combs lawyer Marc Agnifilo said the defense’s presumption mightiness instrumentality longer than expected — peculiarly aft prosecutors revealed they were making “fairly important changes” to their plan.
“It whitethorn beryllium that due to the fact that of witnesses the authorities is not calling, we mightiness person much connected the defence case,” helium said.
As a result, helium added, the proceedings mightiness tally to the commencement of July.
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