The previous individual aide to Sean “Diddy” Combs, someday after very first indicating concerning the misuse she claimed she endured through the rap magnate currently on test, went back to the dock on Friday to be faced by defense attorney looking for to damage her cases of misuse and rape.
Digging with years of social media sites blog posts, lawyer Brian Steel tried to recommend that the female– indicating under the pseudonym “Mia”– misstated her sensations concerning helping Combs throughout hours of raw and psychological statement Thursday.
Mia had actually informed jurors the rap magnate intimidated her for many years, strongly tossed things at her, and sexually attacked her on 3 events consisting of raping her while she was oversleeping his Los Angeles home.
Describing a collection of gushing social media sites blog posts by Mia, Steel attempted to reveal jurors that Mia’s sensations towards Combs were various than those she had actually revealed on the dock.
Sean “Diddy” Combs pays attention as his defense attorney Brian Steel concerns witness “Mia” as she indicates in Combs’ sex trafficking test in New york city City, Might 30, 2025 in this court illustration.
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” Thanks for being the great sort of insane,” she created in one message on Combs’ birthday celebration. “Thanks for being a pal and bringing buddies right into my life.”
While recognizing that the earlier blog posts were legit, Mia pressed back versus Combs’ legal representatives’ initiative to make her oppose her statement.
” It’s called emotional misuse,” Mia informed jurors why she created favorable aspects of Combs in the past.
Topping the 3rd week of statement in Combs’ sex-trafficking and racketeering test, Mia is a vital witness for district attorneys as they try to show that Combs utilized his riches and impact to run a criminal venture, consisting of with required labor and sex-related physical violence. Combs has actually begged blameless and rejects sexually attacking any individual.
Trying to respond to days of statement from numerous witnesses concerning his claimed physical violence, sex-related adventures and immoral substance abuse, Combs’ legal representatives have actually suggested that Combs could have dedicated various other criminal offenses, yet they urged he is blameless of the felony costs he is dealing with inside a Manhattan court. He might most likely to jail for the remainder of his life if founded guilty on all matters.
Combs’ legal representative attempts to face Mia with previous social media sites blog posts
Combs’ lawyer Brian Steel invested the lion’s share of Friday mid-day unearthing Mia’s radiant social media sites blog posts concerning Combs and made it clear he was attempting to call into question her insurance claim that the rap magnate distressed her. The blog posts, filled with emphatic appreciation and numerous exclamation factors, revealed Mia presenting with Combs, calling him a tale, and thanking him for being her close friend.
Revealing her message after message, Steel attempted to highlight just how Mia still supplied Combs gushing appreciation. Mia reacted– especially a lot more computer animated and louder than her statement on Thursday– by recognizing that words were legit yet firmly insisting that the belief was not.
Sean “Diddy” Combs pays attention as district attorney Madison Smyser concerns witness “Mia” as she indicates in Combs’ sex trafficking test in New york city City, Might 30, 2025 in this court illustration.
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” That’s the individual that has distressed you?” Steel asked, highlighting his motif.
” Yes,” Mia addressed.
” Literally?” Steel asked.
” Yes,” she claimed.
” Sexually?” Steel proceeded.
” Yes,” Mia responded.
” That’s the tale?” Steel claimed, pricing estimate among Mia’s blog posts back to her.
” Yes,” Mia reacted.
In one message on Nov. 4, 2014, 5 years after Mia claimed Sean Combs initially sexually attacked her, Mia uploaded a birthday celebration dream to Combs on Instagram.
” Thanks for being the great sort of insane,” the message claimed. “Thanks for being a pal and bringing buddies right into my life.”
” At this moment, you have absorbed a lot injury from him, that’s what you informed the court, right?” Steel asked, highlighting his very own initiative to challenge the female.
” Yes, I have, yet once more it was, when the highs were high, the great was great,” Mia described, including that her blog posts on social media sites– consisting of marketing and funded blog posts– did not always mirror her sensations at the time.
” Why would certainly you advertise the individual that has swiped your joy in life?” Steel asked.
” Those were the only individuals I was about, to ensure that was my life. You needed to advertise it,” Mia claimed. “It was a really complicated cycle of ups and downs.”
Combs’ legal representative collects a previous scrapbook to wonder about Mia
Steel utilized a comparable strategy, raising a scrapbook and birthday celebration card that Mia planned for Combs, recommending to the court that her connection with Combs was a lot more favorable than she defined on Thursday.
” Pleased 45th birthday celebration, Smoke Father” the top of the web page claimed in strong red letters. The message proceeded in black pen. “Smoke! Occasionally life passes at disastrous rates where you never ever reach stay in and take pleasure in ‘currently,'” the note read. “I really hope on today you reach kick back and take it all in.”
” The male that you claim has spoiled your life, this is what you contact him?” Steel asked.
” It’s called emotional misuse,” Mia fired back.
Dealing with Steel’s hard examining, Mia was made up and computer animated, describing to the court that she was “young and adjusted and excited to endure” at the time. She urged she waited her statement concerning Combs’ misuse.
” After that why, if you’re being sexually attacked and your sibling is being brutalized literally, are you making a scrapbook for Mr. Combs?” Steel asked. By “sibling,” Steel claimed he was describing Combs’ ex-girlfriend, the vocalist Cassie Ventura, with whom Mia claimed she had a sister-like connection.
” It’s a great deal a lot more difficult than the means you mounted that,” Mia fired back. “Ask any type of misuse sufferer’s supporter, and they might describe it to you better than I could.”
Mia claims Combs’ claimed misuse was ‘the only globe I understood’
To stress his at-times recurring interrogation, Steel faced Mia with a collection of messages in which she intimidated to eliminate herself after she found out Combs would certainly be liquifying the movie business she had actually been helping.
” I’m mosting likely to eliminate myself. My life mores than,” she texted Combs’ principal of team, Kristina “KK” Khorram.
” You can not make a declaration and afterwards not address your phone,” Khorram responded in a collection of agitated messages.
” I can not rest and I’m not ok. I do not recognize just how to make this discomfort disappear. It harms so f —— negative,” she created.
Steel claimed he was making use of the psychological messages to call into question Mia’s insurance claim that she intended to leave physical violence and injury through Combs.
” Isn’t this fantastic? You’re far from your abuser?” Steel asked.
” In knowledge, superb, yet at the time the most awful point ever before,” she claimed. Benefiting Combs stood for “the only globe I understood for 1 day a day for 8 years. It resembles canine years. That’s all I understood. So, it was extremely extremely terrible,” she claimed.
She claimed she felt it “being torn away without description.”
Mia indicates that Combs attempted to connect to her after Ventura’s legal action
Years after she quit working for Combs, Mia indicated that Combs’ bodyguard connected to her in the days after Ventura submitted her eruptive civil legal action versus the rap magnate; a claim that ultimately brought about the government prosecution of Combs that started Might 5.
Mia claimed Combs’ bodyguard– called “D Roc”– attempted to capture her up on his life prior to mentioning just how “insane” the legal action was.
” Due to the fact that, you recognize, Smoke and Cass would certainly simply deal with like a typical pair,” Mia remembered D Roc stating to her. Mia informed jurors that his tone made her questionable, including that D Roc had “saw the physical violence” firsthand.
According to Mia, D Roc claimed Combs was intending to call Mia straight. She indicated that Combs later on did simply that.
” I tossed my phone regarding it would certainly go, and I ran outside,” Mia remembered. “It was so activating.”
Mia claimed she got one more message from Combs asking to speak on Feb. 4, 2024. She claimed she disregarded that message, and Combs texted 3 days later on.
” Hey. I do not wish to be exploding your phone. Simply required to speak to you for 10 mins. Simply require my memory ran on some points. You were my right-hand man for many years so I simply require to speak with you to bear in mind that was also around me. And it would certainly be great to hear your voice.”
” I understood it was a front,” Mia informed the court to describe why she disregarded the message.
District attorneys claimed they prepare to present proof that Combs did, actually, usage comparable strategies in attempting to affect the statement of one more female– passing the pseudonym “Jane.” Authorities affirm that Combs connected to Jane after Ventura’s legal action was submitted to “adjust Jane right into stating she intended to have freak-offs.”
” You will certainly listen to the accused’s very finely veiled recommendations to remaining to spend for Jane’s home in exchange for her silence, and you will certainly see the text the accused sent out to his principal of team right after speaking with Jane to see to it that Jane’s rental fee would certainly still be paid in a timely manner,” district attorney Emily Johnson informed jurors Friday.
Trump does not eliminate absolving Combs
As the 3rd week of statement in Combs’ test ended, Head of state Donald Trump informed press reporters in Washington that he hasn’t eliminated absolving the rap magnate if he is founded guilty.
” I do not recognize. I would absolutely consider the truths,” claimed Trump at the end of a week that saw a flooding of governmental excuses for, to name a few, political leaders, police policemans and 2 fact television celebrities offering time in government jail. “No one’s asked. Yet I recognize individuals are considering it. I recognize they’re considering it. I believe some individuals have actually been extremely near to asking.”
Head Of State Donald Trump, signed up with by Tesla chief executive officer Elon Musk, speaks with press reporters in the Oval Workplace of the White Residence, May 30, 2025 in Washington.
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Trump claimed he would certainly take into consideration if he assumed Combs was dealt with unjustly at test.
Both Combs and Trump are from New york city, ran service realms, and starred in reality-television programs in the 2000s. According to Trump, Combs made use of to like him “a great deal” prior to he got involved in national politics.
” He made use of to actually like me a great deal, yet I believe when I competed national politics, he kind of– that connection broke up from what I check out, I do not recognize,” Trump claimed.
