Diddy trial dwell: Sean Combs’ ex-assistant ‘Mia’ says he threatened to kill her in harrowing testimony alleging rape and violence | EUROtoday

Mia testified that she had been suspended with out pay quite a few instances whereas working for Combs, and was advised the rationale was that she was being “insubordinate.”

Asked if she felt she may go away her job, she replied: “That wasn’t a thought. I had tried to run away before and it didn’t work.”

She added that Combs would have “made sure” she couldn’t get a job elsewhere.

In her testimony, Mia stated that Combs had threatened to inform Ventura about her alleged sexual assaults however with an alternate spin.

He would have advised her “as though it was my fault or that I was, or that I had a part in it,” she advised the court docket.

Jurors have been additionally proven a collection of textual content messages between Mia and the mogul through which he threatened to “tell everything.”

“If you dont call me now f**k it all. And imma tell everything. And dont ever speak me again. You have 2 min… Let’s go to war,” Combs wrote in a single message.

Alleged threats from Diddy had made Mia really feel “terrified” and “desperate,” the court docket has heard.

Reading out textual content messages between herself and Kristina Khorram, Diddy’s former chief of employees, she claimed that the mogul had threatened to fireplace and in addition kill her.

Asked how the threats had made her really feel, Mia replied: “Desperate. Terrified. And really, really sad.”

Asked if she had answered Khorram’s calls, she added: “No. I texted back that I had been asleep. It sucks to wake up to this every morning [thinking] I’m being s*** on from all sides.”

Mia advised the court docket that Cassie Ventura had been “devastated” after catching Diddy dishonest on her.

She testified that Ventura had realized the information whereas capturing a film in South Africa.

“They were on the phone. He was in Miami. Then she stopped answering the calls,” she stated.

Direct examination of Mia, a pseudonym given to guard her id, has continued.

Mia, who labored for Combs for eight years, delivered bombshell testimony on Thursday, through which she advised the court docket she was pressured to carry out a intercourse act on Combs and, in one other incident, was allegedly raped within the spare room of his Los Angeles dwelling.

Judge Arun Subramanian is on the bench and is talking with attorneys about whether or not the protection can get extra time with Sean Combs, on account of a 7 p.m. jailhouse curfew, CNN reviews.

On Thursday, Combs’s attorneys stated they wish to maintain conferences on the courthouse till 10 p.m. A day earlier, protection legal professional Marc Agnifilo made the identical request to the court docket.

Incarcerated former rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight has urged Sean “Diddy” Combs to face up and defend himself in court docket.

Suge, 60, the founding father of Death Row Records and a long-time rival of Diddy, 55, stated the accused rapper ought to attempt to “humanize” himself by taking the stand and attempt to persuade the jury to “give him a shot” amid his ongoing intercourse trafficking trial.

Speaking to CNN in a current telephone interview, Knight stated: “I feel if he does tell his truth, he really would walk.

“If Puffy goes up there and says, ‘Hey … I did all the drugs, I wasn’t in control of my life at the time, or myself’ – he can humanize his old self and the jury might give him a shot.”

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Sean Combs’s protection staff once more petitioned the court docket to have extra entry to their shopper after a 7 p.m. cut-off in a Brooklyn jail the place the music mogul is being held.

The attorneys stated they wish to maintain conferences on the courthouse till 10 p.m.

A day earlier, Defense legal professional Marc Agnifilo made the identical request to the court docket.

He argued that the present curfew implies that the protection has to spend extra time debating technique with out Combs, slowing up trial preparations.

“We just need more access to Mr. Combs” Agnifilo stated Wednesday.

It’s a cool spring day right here in downtown Manhattan as we wrap up week three of testimony within the intercourse trafficking trial in opposition to Sean “Diddy” Combs.

We’re persevering with testimony from “Mia,” a former worker of Combs’ who witnessed his abuse towards Cassie Ventura and skilled it firsthand herself. Prosecutors are utilizing “Mia,” a pseudonym to guard her id, to corroborate Cassie Ventura’s testimony.

“Mia” stated Combs was a particularly demanding and controlling boss who subjected her to sleep deprivation and violence.

A former worker of Sean “Diddy” Combs testified that the disgraced music mogul repeatedly slammed a toilet 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 costume 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 cellular phone 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.

Kelly Rissmanwho was on the listening to, has the small print: