Diddy’s ex-assistant testifies about her arm getting slammed in a door and the way she hoped every assault could be the final | EUROtoday

A former worker of Sean “Diddy” Combs testified that the disgraced music mogul repeatedly slammed a rest room door on her arm and sexually assaulted her on a number of events, as she tearfully revealed the abusive relationship.

Combs’ former private assistant, who goes by the pseudonym “Mia” and later went on to co-found Revolt Films studio with him, took the stand Thursday at his intercourse trafficking trial. She detailed a number of incidents with the rap mogul together with a time he allegedly put his hand up her gown and climbed into her mattress to rape her.

The former worker additionally advised jurors that in 2013, whereas on the Revolt media productions workplace, Diddy borrowed her cellphone and ran off with it. Mia testified that she was terrified he would learn textual content messages she despatched to a stylist, bad-mouthing him, and chased after him.

As she tried to observe him, Diddy then slammed her arm in a rest room door a number of occasions, she testified. He ultimately ran outdoors, leaving her with an arm so badly bruised she thought it could have been damaged.

The testimony was certainly one of a number of key moments throughout Thursday’s trial for Diddy. Combs is going through 5 federal courts of racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking, and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. Other jaw-dropping moments throughout her testimony included:

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Mia, seemingly nervous and stuttering whereas she spoke, briefly talked about her claims that the hip-hop mogul sexually assaulted her at first of her testimony. The former worker’s voice dropped low to a near-whisper whereas talking of the alleged assaults, which she says occurred when Combs’ then-girlfriend, Cassie, was not round.

Mia testified that one of many assaults occurred at Combs’ fortieth birthday celebration, whereas others occurred at her dwelling in Los Angeles. She stated she by no means initiated sexual contact with Combs or advised him she needed to have intercourse with him.

The job would additionally preserve her up all hours of the day, she testified, saying that she as soon as went 5 days in a row with out sleeping. Only when she “felt like I was underwater” and began “seeing lights that weren’t there” and was “hysterically crying” did Diddy say she may relaxation, Mia testified.

“It was chaotic. It was toxic,” she stated of the work atmosphere, telling jurors, “It could be exciting. The highs were really high and the lows were really low.”

Mia stated Combs saved his workers on their toes on account of his ever-changing temper, which might trigger every thing to go from “happy to chaotic.”

Her testimony echoed that of prior prosecution witnesses, together with Combs’ former longtime girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, who detailed the perverted “freak offs” she participated at Diddy’s whims through the trial’s first week.

Mia famous throughout her testimony that a part of her job was to “keep tabs on” Cassie, telling jurors she witnessed violent episodes between the singer and Diddy “all the time.”

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She stated that she noticed Combs beat Ventura on a number of events, and detailed one brutal assault on the R&B singer’s Los Angeles dwelling in 2013 that was additionally recounted to the jury by Cassie’s longtime stylist, Deonte Nash, who testified Wednesday. Mia advised the jurors about leaping on the music mogul’s again in an try to get him to cease hurting each Ventura and Nash. After he shook her off and threw her right into a wall, he slammed Cassie’s head into the nook of a mattress, inflicting a deep gash on her eyebrow.

When she noticed Ventura’s head hit the nook of the mattress body, Mia testified that she thought Combs was “actually going to kill her.”

Despite the abuse, Mia testified that she by no means noticed Cassie preventing again, solely elevating her arms up and begging Diddy to cease.

The incident involving Cassie and Nash, nevertheless, made Mia notice she was in “real danger,” she testified.

While testifying Mia emphasised the facility and management Combs had over each her and Ventura. Mia repeatedly stated: “I had to do everything that he told me to do.” If not, there could be penalties that had been “something bad, very scary.”

The punishment was “unpredictable but typically pretty terrifying,” she added.