Recap Of Five Major Moments From Week Four

The fourth week of Sean “Diddy” Combs‘ trial revealed money transactions and a former worker’s rape allegation. A lady underneath the pseudonym “Jane” testified to being the producer’s ex-girlfriend from 2021 to 2024. She particulars “resort nights” that mirrored “freak off” patterns Cassie described on the stand. Jane will resume testifying on June 9 — the beginning of week 5, day 19 within the trial. It will likely be her third day on the witness stand. Jane is the third sexual assault sufferer on the prosecution’s listing, however has not but described the incident (s).

As beforehand reported, the founding father of Dangerous Boy Information has pleaded not responsible to racketeering, intercourse trafficking, and transportation to interact in prostitution prices. Earlier than we dive into the fifth week of one among hip hop’s greatest trials, right here’s a recap of 5 important moments from week 4.

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1. Lodge Employee Says Combs Paid For Video Of 2016 Cassie Beating

Eddy Garcia, 33, is a former InterContinental Lodge safety guard. Throughout Diddy’s trial, he stated that Sean Combs feared profession wreck from footage of his 2016 assault on Cassie. So, in response, Combs orchestrated a deal that ended with a six-figure money cost. First, Diddy’s former chief of employees, Kristina Khorram, tried to get the tape on the telephone and in particular person. Then Garcia testified {that a} “very nervous” Combs reached out in a telephone name, speaking quick and stuttering whereas attempting to get the video of him kicking and dragging Cassie from the resort’s elevator financial institution right into a hallway. Combs allegedly informed Garcia: “If this received out, it may wreck” him. 

Days later, Garcia stated he was nervous when Diddy greeted him in an workplace constructing. The previous guard stated Combs known as him “Eddy, my angel,” earlier than Garcia turned over a USB drive containing the safety footage. Combs then made him signal a nondisclosure settlement promising it was the one copy of the video and that Garcia would by no means communicate of it.

Then, with a bodyguard at his aspect, Diddy fed stacks of money from a brown bag into an oblong cash counter machine till it reached $100,000. Garcia stated he pocketed $30,000 and gave $50,000 to his boss and $20,000 to a different resort safety guard. Garcia testified underneath immunity.

A recording of the resort assault on Cassie aired on CNN final yr. The jury has seen the beating repeatedly in the course of the trial. The prosecution has proven the safety footage and clips that one other safety guard named Israel Florez recorded on his telephone to indicate his spouse. Florez didn’t obtain any of the alleged bribery money and beforehand testified to rejecting a separate supply from Combs.

2. Decide Threatens Diddy With Trial Expulsion

On Thursday (June 5), Decide Arun Subramanian popped off on Diddy over his conduct in courtroom. The choose caught Combs within the act minutes after a prosecutor complained that he was “nodding furiously” throughout his protection’s cross-examination. Subramanian stated he additionally noticed Combs “nodding vigorously and looking out on the jury,” and doing it once more throughout a sidebar between himself and the legal professionals.

Assistant U.S. Legal professional Maurene Comey stated prosecutors had been involved. They consider the gestures amounted to “testifying by nodding affirmatively” whereas his lawyer requested questions.Throughout a lunch break, protection lawyer Marc Agnifilo promised to talk with Combs. Agnifilo ensured it wouldn’t occur once more after the choose informed him it was “completely unacceptable.” The choose sternly responded:

“If it occurs once more, if it occurs even as soon as, I’ll hear an software from the federal government to offer a healing instruction to the jury, which you don’t want. Or I’ll take into account taking additional measures, which may end result within the exclusion of your consumer from the courtroom.”

3. Mia Says She Was “Brainwashed” To Ship Diddy Loving Texts After Rape

A former private assistant who testified underneath the pseudonym “Mia” informed jurors that Diddy had sexually assaulted her a number of occasions over her eight-year profession. She talked about that the assaults had been “random, sporadic, so oddly spaced out,” so she thought every was the final. She stated he first molested her and forcibly kissed her at his fortieth birthday celebration. Months later, Mia testified that Diddy raped her in a visitor room at his Los Angeles house.

On cross-examination, protection lawyer Brian Metal recommended that Mia fabricated her claims to revenue from “the #MeToo cash seize towards Sean Combs.” Metal confronted her with loving texts she despatched Combs lengthy after her employment ended. Metal requested a couple of 2019 textual content, by which Mia stated she had dreamed of Combs rescuing her. Mia’s textual content stated the nightmare confirmed her trapped in an elevator with R. Kelly, the singer who has since been convicted of intercourse trafficking. “I used to be nonetheless brainwashed,” Mia defined.