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A lady recognized solely because the pseudonym “Mia,” a former assistant of Sean “Diddy” Combs, testified Thursday at his intercourse trafficking and racketeering trial.
She claimed that Combs bodily, emotionally and sexually abused her whereas she labored for him.
“He’s thrown issues at me. He’s thrown me in opposition to the wall. He’s thrown me right into a pool. He’s thrown an ice bucket on my head,” she stated, earlier than including that Combs additionally sexually assaulted her on a couple of event.
She additionally spoke concerning the relationship between Combs and his former girlfriend, Cassie Ventura.
“It was a cycle of highs and lows. Unequal and equal. Poisonous. I’d say abusive. Like, it was abusive in the direction of her,” she instructed the courtroom.
Combs has pleaded not responsible to a number of counts of an indictment accusing him of a sample of abuse towards Ventura and others.
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Mia is a former assistant and director of improvement and acquisitions for Revolt Movies, a movie manufacturing firm launched below Combs’ Revolt community.
She stated her first job within the leisure trade was for Georgina Chapman at Marchesa. She later labored as a private assistant for Canadian actor and comic Mike Myers earlier than she was employed by Combs, working for him from 2009 till 2017.
Mia described the work atmosphere with Combs as “chaotic and poisonous.”
“The highs have been actually excessive and the lows have been actually, actually low,” she stated.
She stated that “Puff’s temper” decided what sort of day they’d have and that his temper shifted “on a regular basis.”
Mia stated that when she went to Combs’ residence to satisfy with him for her job interview, he answered the door in his underwear earlier than he went to place extra garments on.
She stated that she was initially instructed she would work 40 hours per week, however stated she all the time labored greater than that. She additionally testified that he stated her beginning wage could be US$55,000 but it surely was really $50,000.
Mia additionally stated that in the course of the first 24 hours on the job, she didn’t sleep and that there could be instances when she didn’t sleep for days whereas working for Combs.
The jury was given a listing of a few of Mia’s job tasks which included, “All of PD’s [P. Diddy] social media presence, Important Liasion b/w PD+ ‘Hollywood,’ PDs day by day routine-keeping him on schedule, PROTECT HIM AT ALL TIMES and Anticipating his wants, whims and moods.”
She additionally alleged that Combs requested her to do many issues directly together with “cracking his knuckles to writing his subsequent film to doing his taxes.”
Mia stated she wasn’t allowed to depart Combs’ house with out his permission and was not allowed to lock her door when she stayed at his house.
“That is my home, nobody locks my doorways,” Mia recalled Combs saying.
Throughout her time working for Combs, Mia stated he would punish her by threatening her job or insulting her intelligence, including that there was “a number of getting cursed out and humiliated and berated.”
She talked about that Combs would throw issues at her, together with a bowl of spaghetti, turkey meat, a cellphone and a pc. She recalled engaged on a music video set in Los Angeles when Combs threw a pc at her head as a result of the wifi didn’t work.
“He reduce me off and began screaming at me that like I shouldn’t come again right here till I discovered the wifi myself — one thing like, ‘I don’t care if it’s a must to name Invoice Gates,’ after which chucked the pc at my head,” she stated.
Combs’ former assistant stated she began the Revolt Movie Manufacturing Firm with him and that she’d been operating the movie manufacturing firm for years.
She stated working at Revolt Movies was “overwhelmingly superior” and her beginning wage was $70,000, which elevated to $100,000 just a few years later.
When requested about her relationship with Ventura, Mia stated, “We grew to become like sisters, finest associates.” She stated they’re nonetheless associates immediately.
Mia stated that Combs was “in cost” of Ventura’s look and he would go to units when she was capturing a film or a music video.
“Everybody could be actually nervous,” Mia stated. “He would ask a number of questions and kind of insert himself.”
Mia describes Combs ‘attacking’ Ventura
Mia stated that she spent a number of time with Ventura and that Combs requested her to maintain tabs on her. Once they would do one thing with out Combs’ permission, Mia stated “one thing dangerous, very scary” would occur afterwards.
“Punishment was usually unpredictable however usually fairly terrifying,” she stated.
Mia additionally testified that she witnessed Combs “assault” Ventura, throw her on the bottom, chase her and “crack her head open.” She stated that she by no means noticed Ventura struggle again and solely noticed her “together with her arms up, for him to cease.”
She additionally recalled the primary time she noticed indicators of violence between the previous couple at his house in Los Angeles; she stated she heard thuds in opposition to the wall coming from his second-floor bed room and noticed suitcases fly over the railing into the lobby on the ground beneath.
Mia stated she noticed Ventura hiding behind a bush exterior of the house, shaking and crying.
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“She had probably the most terrified look in her eyes,” Mia stated.
She additionally recalled an incident at Ventura’s residence when she was serving to her pack for an upcoming journey to a music pageant. (Celeb stylist Deonte Nash had testified about it on Could 28 whereas on the witness stand.)
She stated that Combs arrived at Ventura’s residence and commenced banging on the door and screaming at Ventura, asking her if she’d been consuming. Mia stated Combs was “loopy aggressive” and commenced attacking Ventura.
“Me and Deonte instantly jumped in and tried to cease it,” Mia stated. “We have been each simply making an attempt to get him off of her.”
“In some unspecified time in the future, he had Deonte in like a place the place I used to be like scared he was going to kill him and I jumped on his again,” she stated. “He threw me in opposition to the wall so fast and so simply, and I noticed we have been in actual, actual hazard,” she stated.
Mia stated that Combs adopted Ventura into the bed room and he or she noticed him choose her up. “I believed, ‘Is he going to kill her?’” she stated.
“He slammed her head into the nook of the mattress,” Mia stated, including that Ventura’s head “began gushing blood.”
After the altercation, Combs instructed Mia to get in contact with an assistant to schedule an appointment with a plastic surgeon to repair the gash on Ventura’s head and instructed her to say that Ventura fell when she was drunk.
When requested about how Combs seemed in the course of the incident, Mia stated, “His eyes turned, like, black and there was like no getting by way of. Like, I used to be making an attempt to get him to cease, and it was like he was trying by way of me.’”
Mia additionally recounted an incident at a 2010 get together hosted by musician Prince, by which his safety needed to separate Combs from Ventura. She stated the night time was after an awards present and Combs instructed her to stick with Ventura at a lodge to maintain her firm.
A buddy referred to as and instructed Mia and Ventura concerning the get together at Prince’s home.
“Cass and I debated like little youngsters if we must always sneak out of the home for in all probability what felt like endlessly,” Mia instructed the courtroom. They ended up going to the get together and having enjoyable whereas dancing and watching Prince carry out, she stated.
Combs arrived on the get together and Mia stated that she and Ventura took off operating out of the home however “Puff caught Cass.”
“He caught as much as her and had her on the bottom,” Mia stated. “He began attacking her, however Prince’s safety swiftly intervened.”
Mia stated she left and spent the night time at a special lodge. The subsequent day, the top of human sources instructed her Combs was suspending her with out pay for being “insubordinate.”
Nonetheless on the stand, Mia went on to debate a 2012 journey she took with Combs and Ventura to Turks and Caicos the place she witnessed violence greater than as soon as.
“I used to be woken as much as Cass operating and screaming into the room. She was screaming for assist and saying, ‘You gotta assist me, he’s gonna kill me,’” Mia recalled.
“Cass is generally very chill, calm, and it was like probably the most terrified somebody screaming for his or her life,” she added.
Mia stated that Ventura pushed furnishings towards the door however Combs caught up and commenced “banging and screaming” on the door.
She stated that she and Ventura ran out of the again of the room, by way of the patio, and hid on the seashore.
Mia described the accidents she noticed on Ventura’s physique.
“I’d see bruises on her physique and fats lips and busted eyebrow, like a gash on her brow, black eyes, issues like that,” she stated.
Mia stated on one other event, she noticed Ventura had seen accidents in the course of the 2012 Cannes Movie Competition. She stated Ventura had a busted lip and different accidents.
She stated Ventura performed a recording for her by which she may hear Combs yelling at her whereas he “attacked” her. She stated she heard “the sound of somebody getting hit and being attacked, primarily.”
Cassie, Sean Combs and Rita Ora attend the Chopard Mystere Get together in the course of the sixty fifth Annual Cannes Movie Competition on Could 21, 2012, in Cannes, France.
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Throughout a film premiere at Cannes, Mia stated she noticed Combs aggressively speaking to Ventura by way of gritted enamel and “digging his nails into her arm.”
Mia stated that she didn’t report the abuse she witnessed to the police for quite a few causes.
“I believed that Puff’s authority was above the police,” Mia stated. “This was a interval the place — years and years earlier than social media or ‘Me Too’ or any kind of instance the place somebody had stood up efficiently to somebody in energy akin to him.”
Former assistant says she needed to clear up ‘nightmare’ scenes in lodge rooms
Mia stated that she was usually tasked with cleansing up lodge rooms that Combs and Ventura stayed in, doing a “sweep” for something probably damaging to their status.
She stated it was “commonplace process” to scrub the rooms to verify there wasn’t something “a housekeeper may take to TMZ.”
Mia stated the rooms could be a “nightmare,” with issues like child oil, candle wax and generally even blood, which she stated Combs instructed her was “interval blood.”
She additionally recalled sooner or later when she was in Ventura’s automotive and the singer had acquired a message from Combs.
“She bought a message and was like upset,” she stated, including that Ventura stated, “Puff desires to have a lodge night time.”
Mia stated that Ventura appeared “actually nervous” and “began getting abdomen points due to it.”
Mia says that Combs sexually assaulted her a number of instances
Mia additionally testified that Combs sexually assaulted her on a number of events whereas she labored for him. She stated that Ventura was not current when the assaults occurred and he or she didn’t inform her about them.
She stated Combs had requested her to talk with him within the kitchen at his house just a few months after she began working for him. Mia stated he instructed her she was doing a “good job” and he or she didn’t should be nervous and supplied her two photographs of alcohol.
She stated that the photographs “hit me sort of arduous” and was shocked when Combs leaned in to kiss her in opposition to the wall.
“I used to be shocked and I froze. I couldn’t even course of what was taking place,” she instructed the courtroom.
She stated the subsequent factor she remembered clearly was sitting in a chair in the primary room of a penthouse because the solar got here up.
Mia stated she thought it might by no means occur once more and believed that Combs had simply been drunk and that it was all “in all probability an enormous accident.”
She stated the subsequent time Combs made her really feel uncomfortable was at his fortieth party in his New York residence. Mia stated she was bringing Combs’ luggage to his residence and his safety stated, “I’ve seen this earlier than.”
When she bought inside, Mia stated that Combs requested her to look one thing up for him on the pc and sat beside her. She stated that he leaned over her and bought very shut and that’s when her inside “alarm bells” went off.
“I felt actually uncomfortable, however I didn’t know the way to behave,” she stated.
She requested to go to the toilet and as soon as she got here out, she left the residence rapidly.
In one other occasion, Mia stated that Combs raped her in 2009 or 2010 when she was asleep in his Los Angeles house. She stated he climbed on prime of her and he or she awoke as a result of “the load of an individual on prime of me.” Mia stated Combs instructed her to be quiet and used one hand to get his pants off.
“He put himself inside me,” Mia stated. “I simply froze, I didn’t react.”
Mia stated she was “terrified and confused and ashamed and scared,” including that it was “very fast, but it surely felt like endlessly.”
She additionally spoke about one other time when she stated Combs sexually assaulted her at his house in Los Angeles whereas she was on the ground in his closet packing a bag.
“I felt like trash,” she stated, earlier than including that she felt “scared and ashamed and like an fool.”
Stylist says he launched Ventura to Michael B. Jordan
Celeb stylist Deonte Nash was again on the witness stand earlier on Could 29 and testified that individuals who labored for Combs instructed him that Ventura and the rapper had damaged up when she began relationship Child Cudi, whose actual identify is Scott Mescudi, in 2011.
Nash additionally stated that he had set Ventura up with actor Michael B. Jordan whereas she was on set of a film in South Africa in 2015.
“Sure, I did hook her up with Michael B. Jordan. I do know the place we’re going along with his,” Nash instructed the courtroom. “He fantastic, she fantastic. I imply, ‘Why not?’”
Michael B. Jordan attends the World Premiere of ‘Mission: Not possible The Last Reckoning’ in Leicester Sq. Gardens in London, United Kingdom on Could 15, 2025.
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Choose Arun Subramanian warned Nash to attend for a query and solely reply the questions requested.
Nash went on to say that Ventura and Combs broke up whereas she was in South Africa to movie the film. He claimed that Ventura came upon Combs was seen in public with “Gina” at an occasion. Gina has been described as an ex-girlfriend of Combs.
Combs’ lawyer Xavier Donaldson confirmed Nash a sequence of textual content messages he despatched to Ventura in 2015 across the time she discovered that Combs was with Gina in public. In a single textual content, Nash instructed Ventura to “ignore” it.
“I don’t keep in mind the context however I’m positive we have been being antagonized by your shopper,” Nash stated.
Nash stated that Combs was contacting him and Ventura as soon as he heard that she was speaking to Jordan. He stated that Ventura “wasn’t pressed” about Combs’ relationship with Gina however was extra upset that he was “operating round with different ladies” and the way it may have an effect on her profession.
The stylist stated that he stopped working with Combs in 2018, however they nonetheless stored in contact.
The identical yr, Combs texted Nash, writing, “Please name me. No drama, it’s essential. I’m involved. How is she?” Nash confirmed that Combs was speaking about Ventura within the textual content message.
In January 2019, Combs texted Nash once more, writing, “How is she? Ensure she’s alright. If she ever wants me, name me.”
What Combs is on trial for
U.S. prosecutors allege that for 20 years, behind the scenes, Combs was coercing and abusing ladies with assist from a community of associates who helped silence victims by way of blackmail and violence.
Combs faces an indictment that features descriptions of freak-offs, that are outlined within the courtroom doc as “elaborate and produced intercourse performances that Combs organized, directed, masturbated throughout, and infrequently electronically recorded.”
Quite a few witnesses have come ahead to accuse Combs of terrorizing individuals into silence by choking, hitting, kicking and dragging them, in keeping with prosecutors. One indictment alleges that Combs dangled somebody from a balcony.
Though dozens of women and men have alleged in lawsuits that Combs abused them, this trial will spotlight the claims of 4 ladies.
Combs is charged with intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to interact in prostitution. He has denied all the costs in opposition to him and has rejected a plea deal, selecting to go to trial as a substitute.
If discovered responsible within the New York courtroom, he may face life in jail.
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