Rap competitions, sex efficiencies and attack tools enter into emphasis at test of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs

An encounter with a competing document exec at Mel’s Drive-in, attack tools with unlawfully ruined identification numbers and a sex efficiency at Trump International Resort & & Tower on Central Park West were several of the subjects that jurors in Sean Combs’ criminal test became aware of Tuesday, as district attorneys attempted to develop their racketeering and sex trafficking instance versus the rap magnate.

Throughout almost 6 hours of testament on the test’s 11th day, government district attorneys phoned call to the stand Combs’ previous individual aide, a government representative, the mom of the federal government’s celebrity witness and a sex employee nicknamed “The Punisher.”

They suggested that the far-flung testament assists confirm the sizes to which Combs wanted to visit gain from and safeguard what they declared is a criminal venture.

Combs has actually begged innocent, and his legal representatives suggested that his personal conduct in the room does not amount of sex trafficking. His legal representatives have actually suggested any kind of physical violence declared by witnesses was driven by love, envy and substance abuse– not a need to persuade any individual right into sex.

District attorneys prepare to proceed their instance Wednesday by calling Dawn Hughes, a psycho therapist that focuses on sex injury, George Kaplan, a previous aide to Combs and Scott Mescudi, the rap artist referred to as Child Cudi and that quickly dated Combs’ previous sweetheart, Cassie Ventura.

Combs’ previous aide affirms concerning Suge Knight experience

Combs’ single individual aide David James informed jurors concerning the variety of jobs he finished for the rap magnate: from equipping resort areas and presumably getting medicines to being the vehicle driver when Combs– presumably equipped with several weapons– intended to challenge competing document exec Marion “Suge” Knight.

Jurors initially became aware of the claimed communication in between Combs and Knight throughout the testament of Combs’ ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura. It presumably happened in roughly 2008 or 2009 and was a minute that intimidated to unearth the terrible background in between the titans of 1990s rap songs and the enduring competitions in between the East and West Coasts.

Ventura indicated that, after a supposed “freak off,” a guard called D-Roc educated him that Knight, the previous chief executive officer of Fatality Row Records and a long time opponent of Combs, was detected at Mel’s. Regardless of her appeals to quit, Ventura claimed Combs left his tools and headed to the dining establishment to challenge Knight.

” I was sobbing. I was shouting, like, please do not do anything foolish,” Ventura indicated recently.

James informed jurors the opposite of the tale, defining D-Roc facing Knight when they went to Mel’s to get cheeseburgers for Combs.

” We drew right into the parking area and D-Roc looks into and claims, ‘That’s motherf ——- Suge Knight,'” James claimed, defining exactly how he drove back to Combs’ residence to discover Combs and Ventura suggesting. “Cassie looked extremely troubled. She was informing him not to go,” James indicated.

James indicated that Combs, presumably with 3 weapons on his lap, got him to drive back to the restaurant. It was that minute, he claimed, that at some point motivated him to quit working for Combs.

” I was actually struck by it. I recognized for the very first time being Mr. Combs’ aide that my life remained in risk,” James indicated.

District attorneys have actually billed that Combs and his claimed partners utilized “physical violence, use weapons, dangers of physical violence, threat” to safeguard and advertise the “power of the Combs’ venture.”

James additionally indicated concerning acquiring and providing medicines for Combs and equipping the magnates’ resort areas with child oil, Astroglide lube, prophylactics and prophylactics. He informed the court he when mistakenly strolled know a freak-off, including Ventura and a male sex employee.

When examined by defense attorney, James indicated that he when made love with a woman of the street which he decreased to spend for her solutions, which he entered into a physical run-in with an additional among Combs’ staff members. James claimed he consulted with district attorneys under a proffer contract, implying he had resistance from being prosecuted for anything he claimed on the stand.

” Have they offered you some sort of resistance?” defense lawyer Marc Agnifilo asked.

” I would certainly need to ask my attorney that inquiry,” he claimed. “My attorney claimed I have no lawful presence.”

Cassie Ventura’s mom affirms concerning Combs blackmailing her child

Regina Ventura, the mom of celebrity witness Cassie Ventura, took the stand on Tuesday to indicate concerning taking a home equity car loan to pay Combs in order to stop him from following up on a supposed hazard to launch a sex tape of her child.

” The dangers that have actually been made in the direction of me by Sean ‘Puffy’ Combs are that … he is mosting likely to launch 2 specific sex tapes of me,” Ventura created in an e-mail to her mom and Combs’ aide Capricorn Clark on Dec. 23, 2011. Jurors saw the e-mail when Cassie Ventura indicated recently.

” I was literally unwell. I did not comprehend a great deal of it. The sex tapes tossed me,” Regina Ventura indicated concerning the hazard.

Regina Ventura indicated that she and her partner made a decision to obtain a car loan so they can send out Combs the $20,000 he required, though he inevitably returned the cash.

” We made a decision that’s the only means we can obtain the cash,” she claimed. “I was frightened for my child’s safety and security.”

Regina Ventura additionally informed jurors she made a decision to photo the injuries her child presumably dealt with Combs to make sure that they would certainly have a document of the claimed misuse.

Roughly 15 years after she recorded the injuries, district attorneys recently revealed the images to the court to emphasize Cassie Ventura’s testament concerning the physical violence she experienced at Combs’ hands.

‘ The Punisher’ affirms concerning a loads declared freak-offs

Understood skillfully as The Punisher, male companion Sharay Hayes informed the court that he initially satisfied Combs and Cassie Ventura in 2012, when he was employed to assist develop a “attractive sensual scene” wherefore, Ventura claimed, was Combs’ birthday celebration. He indicated that he obtained his label when he was a teen based upon the means he played basketball.

He indicated that Ventura, that utilized the name Janet when scheduling sex employees, advised him to find to Trump International Resort & & Tower on Central Park West in Manhattan to do a strip act. When he showed up, Ventura asked him to cover her child oil while Combs viewed, Hayes claimed.

” I was especially informed to not recognize her partner. Attempt not to check out him. No interaction in between me and him,” Hayes indicated. “The space was poorly lit, possibly digital candle lights. Every one of the furnishings was covered in sheets and there was a location virtually for me to rest and for her to rest throughout from me. There were bowls of water and containers of child oil.”

Hayes informed jurors that Combs was naked for the experience and used a shroud, sometimes masturbating throughout the communication and offering “refined instructions” to Ventura.

After their initial communication, Hayes claimed he benefited the pair an additional 8 to 12 times, obtaining $1,200 to $2,000 on each celebration.

Throughout their last experience, Hayes indicated Combs advised him to make love with Ventura yet decreased since he can not sexually do under “a great deal of stress.”

Cross-examined by Combs’ legal representatives, Hayes indicated that he thought Ventura fit throughout the exchanges, possibly damaging the debate she was persuaded to take part.

” I really did not obtain any kind of signs there was any kind of pain there,” Hayes claimed when asked if Ventura appeared unpleasant with the experiences.

The inquiry of whether Ventura was required or gotten involved willingly is just one of one of the most vital problems in the prosecution of the one-time social symbol Combs.

Jurors see proof of tools with ruined identification numbers

For the last witness of the day, jurors learnt through a government representative that indicated concerning recouping several assault-style tools from Combs’ Miami Coastline home when it was plundered in March 2024. The representative, Gerard Gannon, claimed the identification numbers of the tools had actually been ruined– an offense of government weapons legislations.

Holding components of the tools in court for the court to see, Gannon indicated that private investigators recouped a 30-round publication including 19 rounds and a complete 10-round publication in Combs’ home, with the ammo on the exact same rack as 7-inch system heels and underwear.

District attorneys have actually declared Combs and his partners depended on “physical violence, use weapons, [and] dangers of physical violence” to run their criminal venture.