Diddy Trial’s Most Disturbing Claims: A Day-by-Day Breakdown

If convicted on all costs, which additionally embody arson and bribery, Combs might face a compulsory 15 12 months jail sentence, with the potential of life behind bars.

Because the prosecution argues coercion, the protection is countering with consent. However either side agreed that with the intention to resolve the case, there could be a whole lot of witnesses and a whole lot of surprising particulars about Combs’ sexual proclivities.

A male intercourse employee took the stand, alleging he was paid hundreds of {dollars} to interact in sexual acts with singer Cassie Ventura — Diddy’s girlfriend on the time, all whereas the music mogul allegedly watched and pleasured himself.

Daniel Phillip testified in court docket, recounting how he was initially employed to carry out as a stripper at a bachelorette occasion held at Manhattan’s Gramercy Park Lodge. Nevertheless, Phillip claimed his companies quickly prolonged past dancing, stating he was in the end compensated for sexual encounters with Ventura.

Phillip detailed his preliminary encounter on the lodge, alleging that Ventura requested a therapeutic massage utilizing child oil upon his arrival. He testified that Combs was current within the room throughout this time, describing the mogul as being “clad in a white gown, a baseball cap and a bandana over his face.”

Regardless of the disguise, Phillip claimed he acknowledged Combs by his voice, though the rapper launched himself as being within the “importing and exporting” enterprise. Phillip then made the declare that “whereas he had intercourse with Ventura, the music mogul sat within the nook and pleasured himself.”

In line with Phillip’s testimony, the alleged association continued for a while, with him being paid “many occasions to have intercourse with Cassie,” receiving sums “as much as $6,000 per encounter.” He additional alleged that Combs would typically give “directions” to the pair or “movie” the encounter.

Phillip then recounted one other express alleged incident, telling jurors that “Ventura even requested him to urinate on her.”

“Cassie was truly the one which requested me urinate on her,” Phillip recalled from the stand. “She requested me if I had ever achieved that earlier than, she advised me to do it. Apparently I used to be doing it unsuitable, as a result of they each advised me.”

The alleged association purportedly got here to an finish after Phillip claimed to have witnessed Combs turning into violent with Ventura — an incident he stated triggered a private bodily response.

“My ideas have been that this was somebody with limitless energy,” he testified, expressing his concern on the time. “And likelihood is that, even when I did go to the police, I’d nonetheless lose my life.”

Phillip additional testified in regards to the rapid aftermath of the alleged violent act, claiming he “heard Combs slapping Ventura and her screaming out ‘I am sorry,'” earlier than she allegedly “ran out of the room, nude to Phillip and jumped in his lap.” Phillip acknowledged he then questioned Ventura about her resolution to stay with Combs regardless of the “actual hazard” he perceived.

After opening statements on Monday, the prosecution wasted no time in laying the groundwork for his or her bigger case towards Combs. It begins with the viral video of ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura’s assault captured on lodge safety footage in 2016.

So as to add context to the video, the prosecution referred to as Los Angeles Police Division Workplace Israel Florez, who was working as assistant safety director on the InterContinental Lodge in Century Metropolis. In line with Florez on the stand, he was the the one who responded to a “lady in misery” name that day.

Florez described the scene on the sixth ground when he stepped off the elevator, as detailed by CNN and ABC7, he stated he noticed each Combs and Ventura and shortly acknowledged Combs, who he stated was “in a towel and a few socks.”

Combs hit Florez with “a devilish stare,” per his testimony. “He was simply taking a look at me,” he claimed. As for Ventura, he stated that she regarded scared and had her hoodie pulled up. “She was just about simply coated up. I could not see her face. She was just about within the nook,” he stated.

He additionally seen the flower vase that decorates the hallway was destroyed. Within the video performed for the jury, Combs will be seen grabbing Ventura as she dug by a bag by the elevators and starting to pull her again to their room.

Quickly after, Ventura seems once more on digital camera utilizing a cellphone on the wall, which Florez stated is what contacted him to reply. Within the reflection of a mirrored wall within the footage, Combs will be seen pacing within the towel after which throws the vase that Florez described, shattering it.

Florez stated that Ventura advised him she simply wished to get her cellphone and bag so she might depart. He testified that Combs advised her, “You are not going to go away.” Florez stated he advised Combs that she might depart if she wished.

He stated he escorted the couple again to their room and stood with the door open whereas Florez grabbed her issues. He testified that there was one other man within the room “sitting on the nook of the mattress,” however that he didn’t interact within the scenario in any respect.

After Ventura left the room, Florez testified that Combs “was just about holding a sack of cash and he stated, ‘right here maintain this for me, do not inform anybody.'” He acknowledged that he declined the cash, including that the injury to the lodge could be mirrored on their invoice.

Ventura is seen in safety footage not earlier than launched strolling out of the room and down the corridor. Florez adopted shortly behind. He stated he later seen Ventura had a “purple eye.” Florez stated when he tried to speak with Ventura, she didn’t reply to his questions, simply saying, “I wish to depart, I simply wish to depart.”

He stated he returned to the room with one other safety guard to remind Combs of the lodge guidelines, alleging that the rapper opened his door and grabbed the opposite guard’s cellphone, asking if he was recording. Florez claimed he pinned Combs to the wall and demanded he return the cellphone

Florez stated that he didn’t file a police report on the time as a result of nobody wished to press costs. He additionally stated that he didn’t see the total surveillance footage of the altercation within the hallway till in any case events had left the lodge.

The protection cross-examined Florez, calling out his description of a “devilish stare” from Combs as not a element he put in his official report of the incident. He additionally did not point out a further man within the lodge room or something about Ventura having a discolored eye.

Florez stated of the look, “It was my opinion however not a part of the incident so not within the report.” He stated that Combs was calm and cooperative all through his encounter with him as why he didn’t name for help on the matter.

The protection famous that within the incident report, Florez wrote of Combs that he “grabbed his hand and advised him to again off,” however didn’t say he “pinned” him to a wall.

Combs’ protection group acknowledged that he might have sure unorthodox sexual pursuits, calling him “difficult.” They argue that he could also be violent and have a mood — particularly when consuming or doing medicine — and even come throughout as a “imply” individual, however he isn’t on trial for this stuff.

Within the opening statements, protection lawyer Teny Geragos stated the federal government has no enterprise scrutinizing Combs’ bed room habits, in accordance with TMZ’s ongoing protection. She stated this case is about “love, jealousy and grownup decisions.”

He’s “not charged with being imply, he isn’t charged with being a jerk,” she insisted.

On the identical time, the protection acknowledged that Combs is “very flawed” and that there was home violence within the case of Cassie Ventura, and that he’ll take accountability for a few of his actions, as warranted, all through the trial.

Geragos stated in court docket, per ABC7, “What he understood was that [Ventura] was a keen participant of their intercourse life.” She claims that Ventura is motivated by cash in bringing this case ahead.

“Home violence isn’t intercourse trafficking,” she argued, whereas additionally calling the viral video from 2016 of Combs assault Ventura “indefensible.”

Geragos went on to explain the connection between Combs and “Jane” as “poisonous” and “dysfunctional,” however asserted that she, too, was a consensual participant in all sexual exercise: “Being a keen participant in your personal intercourse life isn’t intercourse trafficking.”

“You aren’t right here to guage him for his sexual preferences,” Geragos advised the jury of 12, describing Combs as dwelling a “swingers’ way of life.” She argues the ladies have been all concerned with Diddy consensually as adults, and have been getting a whole lot of advantages by these relationships.

In the meantime, the prosecution laid out a narrative of “freak offs” that concerned pressured intercourse with male escorts, with Diddy watching, and different behaviors. They threw out phrases like kidnapping, arson, drug distribution, intercourse crimes, bribery, and obstruction.

They argued that Combs was aided and abetted by an interior circle that helped him perpetuate “crime after crime” over a span of years, with Combs on the middle. He “referred to as himself the king and anticipated to be handled like one,” stated prosecutor Emily Johnson.

Prosecutors stated that their case will primarily deal with two ladies, the aforementioned Cassie Ventura and one other lady who has chosen to stay nameless — she shall be known as Jane all through the trial.

Throughout his two-year relationship with Ventura, Johnson alleged that Combs pressured Ventura to have intercourse with male escorts, recorded it, after which used the recordings as blackmail towards her. She claimed that in a single incident, Combs had a intercourse employee urinate in Ventura’s mouth.

In an incident separate from the violent viral hallway beating seen on video, the prosecution detailed one other alleged encounter, claiming that Combs went “on the hunt” after he realized Ventura was seeing one other lady. He allegedly took a gun, discovered her, and beat her severely, in accordance with Johnson in court docket.

As for the “freak offs,” the prosecution argued that Combs would drug ladies, together with Ventura, and pressure them into undesirable intercourse acts. The prosecution is alleging that Combs usually assaulted Ventura beforehand to “present who was in cost.”

There shall be many items of fabric proof offered in relation to those “freak offs,” together with precise video and associated textual content messages, invoice, and reported injury to lodge rooms.

The prosecution argued that the racketeering conspiracy cost comes from Combs working together with his high-level workers and bodyguards to “commit totally different crimes, kidnapping, arson, distributing medicine to different folks, exploiting workers for labor.”

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