Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs raped and attacked ex-assistant, she tells court docket
A former assistant of rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has informed a New York court docket that he repeatedly sexually assaulted her whereas she was employed by him for eight years.
The witness – who testified anonymously underneath the pseudonym “Mia” – additionally tearfully stated she lived in concern of violent rages from Mr Combs as she labored by his aspect.
The hip-hop mogul watched from the defence desk with arms folded in his lap as she testified about her fears of retribution for reporting his alleged abuse.
Mr Combs, 55, has pleaded not responsible to federal expenses of racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking, and transportation to interact in prostitution.
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“I could not inform him no a few sandwich,” she stated. “I could not inform him no about something.”
Mr Combs’ authorized staff has not but had the prospect to query Mia, or reply to her claims.
She is the second witness within the New York trial to allege that Mr Combs sexually abused her, together with Mr Combs’ ex-girlfriend, Casandra Ventura.
Mia testified that she began working for Mr Combs as a private assistant in 2009 when she was in her mid-20s, becoming a member of what she described as a “chaotic” and “poisonous” work surroundings.
“The highs have been actually excessive and the lows have been actually, actually low,” she informed the court docket on Thursday.
The job required her being “all the time inside eyesight” of Mr Combs, she testified, and “anticipating his wants, whims and moods”.
She stated she was typically required to remain at his properties, the place she couldn’t lock the door or depart with out the rapper’s permission.
Throughout her time working for Mr Combs, he was continuously violent in the direction of her, Mia testified.
On one event, she stated he threw a spaghetti bowl at her, which narrowly missed her head, Mia informed the court docket.
One other time, she stated Mr Combs forcefully threw his laptop at Mia’s head when she informed him the wifi close by was nonetheless being fastened, she testified.
She additionally testified about one other scenario when she witnessed Mr Combs being violent together with his ex-girlfriend, Ms Ventura, who had turned shut buddies with Mia throughout her time working for the rapper.
Mia as soon as went on vacation with the couple within the Turks and Caicos, she informed the court docket. One late night time on the journey, she stated Ms Ventura bumped into her room screaming that Mr Combs was “going to kill me”, she testified. They ran away and hid on the seashore, she stated.
Additionally on that vacation, Mia testified that she and Ms Ventura had used a paddle board to enter the water to flee Mr Combs, who was pacing backwards and forwards on the seashore. Earlier than they knew it, the sky turned darkish, portending a storm.
“I used to be attempting to weigh if it was scarier to face mom nature, or return to Puff [Mr Combs],” Mia testified.
Mia was additionally there one night time in 2013 when she stated that Mr Combs was banging on Ms Ventura’s door in Los Angeles.
She testified that he attacked her and reduce open her eyebrow when throwing her on to the mattress body. Mia informed the court docket that she tried to leap on Mr Combs’ again, however he threw her in opposition to the wall.
“He is truly going to kill her,” Mia stated she remembered pondering to herself.
Mia informed the court docket that regardless of witnessing Mr Combs’s abuse towards Ms Ventura, she didn’t report him as a result of she “believed that Puff’s authority was above the police”.
She testified about a number of cases the place she alleged Mr Combs sexually assaulted her, together with one time when she stated she woke as much as him attempting to rape her.
Mia informed the court docket that the assaults started early in her profession working for Mr Combs, together with one night time on his fortieth birthday on the Plaza Lodge in New York Metropolis.
She stated he gave her two vodka photographs that hit her “very onerous” and kissed her and put his hand up her gown.
One other night time, between the years of 2009-10, whereas Mia was sleeping in a bunk mattress at Mr Combs’ Los Angeles residence, she stated she woke as much as the “weight” of Mr Combs on high of her. She was confused, she stated, and Mr Combs started to rape her.
“I simply froze,” she stated. “It was very fast but it surely felt like perpetually.”
Mia informed the court docket that Mr Combs sexually assaulted her “sporadically” all through her time working for the rapper.
However she informed the court docket she did not all the time bear in mind the small print, solely a “darkish feeling in my abdomen”.
Pressed by a prosecutor on why she didn’t say “no” when Mr Combs assaulted her or go to the police, Mia informed the court docket she feared what he would do.
“I knew his energy,” she stated. “I knew his management over me and I did not need to lose the whole lot I labored so onerous for.”
She informed the court docket that one other assistant had been fired for reporting Mr Combs’ violence towards Ms Ventura.
Mr Combs additionally threatened to inform Ms Ventura, Mia’s shut good friend, in regards to the sexual encounters between them, she testified.
After the alleged assaults, Mia informed the court docket that she tried her greatest to faux the “most shameful factor” of her life by no means occurred.
Requested by prosecutors why she was telling her story in court docket, she replied: “I needed to inform the reality, the entire fact and nothing however the fact.”
Mia will proceed to testify on Friday and Mr Combs’ defence staff will be capable to query her on the stand.