Sean “Diddy” Combs’ longtime stylist spilled the disgraced rap mogul’s vile and violent secrets at Diddy’s sex-trafficking trial in Manhattan.
Celebrity stylist Deonte Nash, who worked with the Bad Boy Records founder for a decade, revealed new insider details Wednesday and Thursday about Diddy’s threatening nature and abuse — and then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura’s attempts to escape him.
Another alleged victim of Diddy’s sexual assault, testifying anonymously under the name “Mia,” then began testifying Thursday.
Combs, 55, is accused of using his fame, fortune and many businesses to run a sex-trafficking and racketeering scheme in which he controlled and manipulated Ventura, 38, for over a decade, using violence and threats, and forcing her and others into drug-fueled “freak-off” sex marathons that went on for days.
The trial is not televised because cameras are prohibited inside the federal courthouse, but we’re there following all the action — so watch this space for the latest updates.
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Sean "Diddy" Combs' former assistant Mia, wrapped up testimony for the day. Mia ended by telling jurors she didn't want to testify at Combs' sex-trafficking trial "because it's the most traumatizing thing. The worst thing, [the most] shameful thing that happened to me." She is expected to continue her testimony Friday morning. Sean "Diddy" Combs' former assistant, Mia, testified about the slew of reasons that stopped her from ever going to the police about the numerous times the hip hop mogul sexually assaulted her. Mia detailed how she felt controlled by a powerful Combs who was prone to violent rages. She said she was also worried she'd get black-listed from the entertainment business and felt the cops were too enamored with the Bad Boy Records founder to take her claims seriously. Mia described once getting pulled over driving when she was rushing to meet Combs for work but her license had lapsed. "I was panicking because I didn't want to get in trouble," Mia said. "It was the only time I named dropped." But the female cop wanted proof of Mia's association with the famed rapper -- who Mia put her on the phone with. “The second I handed the phone she started laughing, saying, 'Oh my god, Puff Daddy! I love you.' Just this whole excited conversation and she let me go.” Mia wasn't given a speeding ticket.Diddy's ex-assistant to continuing testifying Friday morning
By Ben Kochman , Kyle Schnitzer and Priscilla DeGregory Diddy's ex-assistant testifies about why she never reported alleged sex assaults
By Kyle Schnitzer , Ben Kochman and Priscilla DeGregory
Sean "Diddy" Combs' former assistant testified that she never said no to the hip hop mogul when he sexually assaulted her because of his "power" and "control."
Mia -- who is testifying under a false name -- said she didn't ever want to have sex with the Bad Boy Records founder but she was afraid to tell him now.
“I knew his power and I knew his control over me. I didn’t want to lose everything that I worked so hard for in this world that was the only thing I had anymore," Mia told jurors.
Sean "Diddy" Combs' former assistant testified she felt like trash after the hip hop mogul allegedly forced himself on her once again.
Mia -- who is testifying anonymously as a sexual assault accuser -- described another sexual assault among a series by Combs during her time working from him from 2009 through 2017.
Mia sat on the floor of Combs' closet to help him pack for a trip and when he abruptly forced her to give him oral sex.
Mia said she felt “like trash. Scared and ashamed like an idiot," after the incident.
This was just one of the alleged times he sexually assaulted and raped her, she claims.
Sean "Diddy" Comb's live-in assistant, Mia, testified about a time when she woke up in her room in his Los Angeles house with the hip hop mogul "on top of" her.
Mia -- who is testifying anonymously as an alleged sexual assault victim -- told jurors Combs prohibited her from locking her bedroom door.
One night she woke up to "the weight of a person on top of me."
Her voice breaking, Mia described how the Bad Boy Records founder quickly undid his pants and raped her.
"I remember it was sort of like him telling me shhh," Mia recounted. "It happened so fast, using one hand to get his, I guess his pants or whatever off.”
She said she "froze and felt, "terrified and confused and ashamed and… scared.”
When prosecutor Madison Smyser asked Mia if she wanted to have sex with Combs, she sobbed and responded, "No."
Sean "Diddy" Combs allegedly first sexually assaulted his former assistant, Mia, just a few months after she began working for him in 2009, she told the jury.
Mia -- who is testifying anonymously -- said the first of numerous "sporadic" assaults during her tenure working for him between 2009 and 2017 took place during the Bad Boy Records founder's 40th birthday party at the penthouse at the Plaza Hotel.
He called Mia into the kitchen, clearing everyone else out, and started telling her what a great job she was doing working for him, before pouring them both two shots to toast his birthday.
Mia testified the shots affected her much more than normal and the next thing she knew Combs was kissing her and putting his hands up her dress.
"He put his arm next against my head against the wall and leaned in to kiss me and put his other hand up the side of my dress," she testified, noting she didn't want him to kiss or grope her.
The next thing she remembers she woke up sitting in the chair in a meeting room of the penthouse with no recollection of how she ended up there.
“He was my boss. He was a very powerful person. He was, to me, he’s younger than my dad but I looked at him like an older adult. He was the boss or the king, a very powerful person," Mia told the jury.
Mia -- who became close friends with Combs' on-and-off girlfriend Cassie Ventura -- never told Ventura about the alleged assaults, she testified.
Sean "Diddy" Combs once threw a bowl of spaghetti at his live-in assistant for trying to go to her room to change her tampon.
Mia — who is testifying anonymously as an alleged sexual assault victim of Combs — said the incident unfolded at 3 a.m. at Combs’ Los Angeles house where she lived.
Mia said the Bad Boy Records founder told her to "go get everybody" but she started heading to her bedroom so she could change her tampon.
"He was upset," Mia recounted for the jury. "He said we needed to go now."
"He went on a really humiliating rant in front of everybody," she testified. "There was blood dripping down my leg and I said, 'I'm on my period. I just need to change my tampon.'"
"He immediately had a bowl of spaghetti in his hand and he threw it at me and started aggressively cursing me out, like I had to get the hell out of his house," Mia said.
Then Combs chucked a bowl of spaghetti at her, which missed her by a couple of arms lengths, before he chased Mia up the stairs, she testified.
She was later told by the head of Human Resources, not for the first time, that she was suspended without pay, Mia testified.
Other things that Combs threw at her in separate incidents, included a computer and turkey meat, she said.
Sean "Diddy" Combs sometimes got high at "inappropriate" times like during a board meeting and once during Chelsea Handler's tv show, his ex-assistant testified.
"There were a few times at the studio and there were a handful of times that stuck out to me where I thought this was an inappropriate time," Combs' former assistant Mia testified.
"Like one time was a board meeting, one time was going to the Chelsea Handler show," Mia told the jury. "There were just a few times where I was like 'Oh, gosh when am I going to have to pull him to the side and say you look a little crazy at the moment.'”
Sean "Diddy" Combs orchestrated a drug "guessing game" using white powders of cocaine, ketamine and molly during Burning Man, according to testimony.
The Bad Boy Records founder laid out three white powders and "one was molly, one was cocaint and one was ketamine," Combs former assistant Mia testified.
"People were taking turns and playing some guessing game.” said Mia, who is testifying anonymously as an alleged victim of sexual assault by Combs.
When it was Mia's turn she got "nervous" and tried to opt out but Combs "wouldn't let it go."
Mia tried taking a fake snort of the drugs but Combs "got close to my face and was upset that I just tried to fake it."
He eventually separated a dose for Mia to snort which she did "but when i got away from him for a minute, I blew a lot of it out because I was so scared of watching what ketamine did to others," she testified.
Sean "Diddy" Combs was so volatile and violent on a trip in Turks and Caicos with his girlfriend Cassie Ventura and his assistant Mia that the two women found themselves running away from him twice.
The trio were on a trip in Parrot Cay in 2012 when Mia was awoken by Ventura one night "running and screaming."
"You gotta help me, he’s going to kill me," Mia recalled Ventura saying about Combs -- aka "Puff Daddy."
The two women barricaded themselves into a room, blocking the door with furniture as an irate Combs banged and screamed on the door to get inside.
The duo snuck out of a back door in the room and ran down the beach away from him, Mia recalled.
The pair had to flee from him a second time on that trip, when they laid flat on paddle boards off the shore while the Bad Boy Records founder ran along the beach "screaming," and "irate."
But the weather started to change while they were floating, Mia recalled.
"I was trying to weigh whether it was scarier to face mother nature or go back to Puff," Mia said, noting they did eventually return to him.
Mia said she never reported any of the assaults to the cops because "I believed that Puff ... was above the police."
Trial is on pause for lunch until 1:15 p.m.
Mia, Sean "Diddy" Combs' assistant, testified that Prince's security guards had to get the Bad Boy Records founder off of his girlfriend Cassie Ventura.
Ventura and Mia snuck out to an exclusive party Prince -- aka "The Artist" -- was hosting without the knowledge of Ventura's controlling boyfriend Combs.
But Combs eventually showed up "caught up to [Ventura] and had her on the ground," Mia told the jury.
"It's like he started to attack her but Prince's security swiftly intervened," Mia recalled.
After the two women went to the party, Mia was told by the head of Human Resources that she was suspended without pay and was in "big trouble" for "being insubordinate."
