Diddy trial: Ex-employee ‘Mia’ alleges she was sexually assaulted by rapper – Nationwide

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A lady recognized solely because the pseudonym “Mia,” a former assistant of Sean “Diddy” Combs, continued her testimony Friday at his intercourse trafficking and racketeering trial.

Mia stated that she threw her telephone throughout the room in terror and ran outdoors when she noticed the hip-hop mogul calling her days after his longtime ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, sued him two years in the past.

“It was simply so triggering to see that,” the previous assistant stated. She was the second of three ladies anticipated to testify on the federal trial in Manhattan that they had been sexually abused by Combs.

Ventura’s lawsuit, which alleged years of sexual abuse, was settled inside a day for $20 million.

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Mia stated, at first, she was elated to listen to from D-Roc, considered one of Combs’ former bodyguards, when he reached out to her days after Ventura’s lawsuit — till she realized he was on the Dangerous Boy Data founder’s house and attempting to reconnect her along with her former boss.

“Puff needed D-Roc to get to me and ensure I wasn’t a menace,” Mia advised jurors.

Then, she stated, she felt “terrified, threatened, scared, nervous.” Mia stated she “needed to play dumb” and wanted a sport plan to guard herself.

“I didn’t need my life to be at risk,” Mia stated.

Combs has pleaded not responsible to a number of counts of an indictment accusing him of a sample of abuse towards Ventura and others.

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Mia testified that Combs advised her to go to South Africa with Ventura in October 2015 whereas she was capturing a film.

Whereas Mia and Ventura had been in South Africa, Combs’ then-girlfriend came upon he was dishonest on her when she noticed a video of him with one other lady, Mia stated.

“She was devastated. They had been on the telephone, after which at one level, she didn’t wish to converse with him so she stopped answering his calls,” she advised the courtroom.

The jury was proven a sequence of textual content messages between Mia and Combs’ chief of employees Kristina Khorram about Combs demanding to talk to Mia so he may get to Ventura.

Khorram texted and referred to as Mia whereas she was asleep and he or she ultimately answered the chief of employees after she spoke to Combs on the telephone.

“He doesn’t sound in the fitting thoughts in the intervening time. Any reasoning must be within the a.m. your time,” Mia wrote in a message to Khorram.

Mia stated that when she spoke to Combs previous to sending the message, Combs was “irate, forgetting what he was speaking about, slurring fairly a bit, saying irrational issues.”

She stated that Combs was “threatening my job, threatened to kill me, a lot of threats, telling me he was on the telephone with HR regardless that I knew that wasn’t true.”

The jury was additionally proven a message between Combs and Mia from a couple of days later.

“In case you dont name me now f— all of it. And imma inform every thing. And dont ever converse me once more. You will have 2 min. F— her. Name my [house] now or by no means converse to me once more. F— abc and all attorneys. Let’s go to conflict,” Combs wrote within the message.

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Mia stated that Combs was threatening to inform Ventura concerning the sexual assaults she testified about on Could 29 however would body it “as if it was my fault or that I used to be, or that I had a component in it.”

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She stated that Combs talked about ABC as a result of they’d not too long ago bought the rights to a comedy present she had written, calling it “essentially the most thrilling factor that’s ever occurred in my life, and he’s threatening to take that away.”

Mia responded to Combs and advised him that Ventura was busy however he despatched her a sequence of greater than 10 textual content messages, telling her to name him earlier than writing, “I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s greatest that we now not have any dealings.”

“It didn’t it matter what I needed or what anybody else needed, it issues what he needs and he was in cost,” Mia stated.

Mia advised the courtroom that she tried to “run away” from her job working for Combs earlier than she ultimately left in 2017. She stated that she felt that Combs would make certain she was unable to get completely different employment elsewhere.

“He would’ve made certain of it,” Mia added. “He would destroy my fame. I used to be frightened of him.”

She stated that later in 2016, she had a gathering with Brian Offutt, the chief working officer of Combs Enterprises.

“Out of the blue, he simply stated ‘I hate to let you know this, however I talked to Mr. Combs and he now not needs to be concerned with movie, so he principally needs to finish Revolt Movies,’” Mia testified.

She stated she was shocked by the choice and felt “betrayed” that Combs didn’t inform her himself.

Mia recounts being kicked off a yacht for counting cash too slowly

Mia spoke about an expertise she had on a yacht with Combs, Kim Porter and his household in St. Barts for New Yr’s Eve in 2010 going into 2011.

She stated that Combs advised her to get off the boat as a result of she was counting the cash in his protected too slowly.

“He advised me, ‘You higher be taught to stroll on water like Jesus, b—h. Get the f— out of right here,” Mia stated.

After that, she hid on the boat away from Combs earlier than a crew member took her to shore.

As soon as she reached the shore, a yacht crew member radioed the individual she was with to say Combs needed her again on the boat. Mia stated she didn’t wish to however wanted to obey “Puff’s orders.”

She stated that Combs then compelled her to go along with him on a jet to Las Vegas and though she didn’t wish to go, she stated she went with him in any other case she’d be fired.

Combs’ ex-assistant says she hasn’t been capable of work since quitting

After she left Dangerous Boy Leisure, Mia stated, she obtained $250,000 of a $400,000 settlement to reimburse her for promised bonuses that had been by no means paid and for unpaid additional time. However she stated she by no means advised her attorneys concerning the sexual abuse.

She stated she hasn’t been capable of work since leaving the job as a result of she suffers “from extreme advanced PTSD” after her employment with Combs.

“I must go away as a result of I might be triggered by actually regular conditions with like an awesome sense of concern of being in hassle,” Mia stated.

She acknowledged throughout her testimony that she referenced her co-workers as “household” and used the phrase “love” in her correspondence with Combs even after he sexually assaulted her.

“That’s how all of us talked to one another,” Mia stated. Whereas working for Combs, she stated, she dated his sound engineer, though it wasn’t a typical relationship as a result of they hardly ever noticed each other outdoors work.

She stated that she was scared for her personal security every time Combs was sad.

“I used to be in concern any time Puff was not glad, as a result of I needed to ensure that he was, as a result of then I used to be protected,” she stated.

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“Why did you want another person saying that it was unsuitable of Mr. Combs to make you are feeling like he would kill you?” defence lawyer Brian Metal requested her.

Mia stated that she has a “logic mind” and a “trauma mind,” noting that the “trauma mind” typically wins.

“I simply needed to do my greatest and make everyone glad on a regular basis. So I are likely to take much more than regular folks. I don’t know learn how to clarify that. I don’t know if I ought to apologize for that. I forgive folks on a regular basis for issues,” she stated.

“I’m a sexual assault sufferer, simply survive,” Mia added. “I’m unravelling quite a lot of this now in remedy. No one advised me, no person was there to say the issues that had been taking place had been unsuitable.”

Metal went on to counsel that Mia made up the sexual assault allegations towards Combs.

“Mr. Combs by no means had undesirable nonconsensual forcible sexual contact with you, isn’t that true?” he requested.

“What I stated on this courtroom is true. I’ve not lied to anybody in any respect,” she responded.

Trump says he’ll ‘have a look at the information’ when requested about pardoning Combs

In the meantime, in Washington, U.S. President Donald Trump was requested by Fox Information’ Peter Doocy whether or not he would contemplate pardoning Combs.

Trump advised Doocy that he would “definitely have a look at the information,” including that “no person’s requested” however “individuals are desirous about it.”

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Trump stated that he hasn’t seen or spoken to Combs in years and hasn’t been following his trial intently.

What Combs is on trial for

U.S. prosecutors allege that for 20 years, behind the scenes, Combs was coercing and abusing ladies with assist from a community of associates who helped silence victims via blackmail and violence.

Combs faces an indictment that features descriptions of freak-offs, that are outlined within the courtroom doc as “elaborate and produced intercourse performances that Combs organized, directed, masturbated throughout, and sometimes electronically recorded.”

Quite a few witnesses have come ahead to accuse Combs of terrorizing folks into silence by choking, hitting, kicking and dragging them, in keeping with prosecutors. One indictment alleges that Combs dangled somebody from a balcony.

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Though dozens of women and men have alleged in lawsuits that Combs abused them, this trial will spotlight the claims of 4 ladies.

Combs is charged with intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. He has denied all the fees towards him and has rejected a plea deal, selecting to go to trial as a substitute.

If discovered responsible within the New York courtroom, he may face life in jail.

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