The iron grip Sean “Diddy” Combs allegedly had on his assistant for practically a decade was detailed because the longtime staffer testified at his federal trial for a second day about working for him, strolling on eggshells and attempting to please him amid his a number of alleged cases of sexual assault and being suspended from the job she stated grew to become her complete world as she labored across the clock with out sleeping for days.
The assistant is utilizing the pseudonym “Mia,” as she has testified from the stand that she was repeatedly assaulted and compelled into intercourse acts by Combs through the years she labored as his devoted right-hand lady, from 2009 to 2017. On Thursday, she revealed particulars in regards to the assaults; on Friday’s cross-examination, protection lawyer Brian Metal grilled Mia, questioning why she would nonetheless work for Combs and sometimes transcend the duties of her job, creating selfmade information archive scrapbooks and video shout-out compilations of his interior circle as birthday items.
“I’m a really loving particular person,” Mia instructed Metal from the witness stand, to which he rapidly replied, “To your rapist? To the person who sexually assaulted you?”
In accordance with Mia, the primary time Combs sexually assaulted her was a couple of months into her employment after they have been on the Plaza Resort in New York. It was round this time that Combs met 19-year-old singer and soon-to-be-girlfriend Cassie Ventura and signed her to a 10-album take care of his Dangerous Boy Information.
Remedy has been part of Mia’s restoration from post-traumatic stress of her time working for the defendant, which was outlined by cold and warm therapy, dangling her job safety as a way of management, and verbal abuse. She was lastly fired in 2016, jettisoned from Combs’ world after eight years by his aspect. On the time she was axed, Mia was working for the mogul’s movie imprint, Revolt Movies, on a documentary wanting on the historical past of Dangerous Boy Information. Combs, she instructed the courtroom, didn’t even inform her straight that she was being let go. Revolt Movies was shutting down, she stated she was instructed by one other government.
“Out of the blue, he simply stated ‘I hate to let you know this however I talked to Mr. Combs and he not desires to be concerned with movie, so he mainly desires to finish Revolt Movies,’” Mia instructed the courtroom.
She described the devastation she felt because the rug was pulled and the one world she knew was out of the blue pulled away. The jury noticed texts she exchanged with Combs’ chief of employees Kristina “KK” Khorram, the place she texted about considering suicide after “the worst factor on the planet” had occurred. She instructed Metal that her job with Combs was the one life she knew again then.
“I didn’t need to go away the corporate that I’d constructed after I really began to see my goals come to fruition,” she stated.
The protection’s technique in cross-examining “Mia” was to discredit her allegations of sexual assault and cut back the affect of the alleged abuse she described over the previous two days by exhibiting moments the place she was sort and pleasant with Combs, notably round his birthdays. Metal requested Mia how she might publish to social media about somebody who’d assaulted her’s birthday; she replied that as his assistant, she was anticipated to publish for Combs’ birthday whereas she was working for him.
At one level within the cross-examination, Metal requested Mia, level clean, “Mr. Combs by no means had undesirable nonconsensual forcible sexual contact with you, Isn’t that true?”
Mia replied, “What I stated on this courtroom is true. I’ve not lied to anybody in any respect.”
After she was fired, Mia employed an lawyer and sought out severance. 9 months of back-and-forth led to her receiving $400,000; she took residence $200,000 after attorneys’ charges, she testified.
The cross-examination will proceed when the trial resumes on Monday.
On Friday, President Trump weighed in on Combs’ destiny and a possible pardon, saying that he’ll “have a look at the information” if the fallen mogul is discovered responsible. Trump added that he hasn’t seen or spoken to Combs within the years since he launched his political profession.