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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 multiple event.
She additionally spoke in regards to 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 court docket.
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 underneath Combs’ Revolt community.
She stated her first job within the leisure business 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 might 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 every 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 nevertheless it 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 occasions when she didn’t sleep for days whereas working for Combs.
The jury was given a listing of a few of Mia’s job obligations which included, “All of PD’s [P. Diddy] social media presence, Essential 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 without delay together with “cracking his knuckles to writing his subsequent film to doing his taxes.”
Mia stated she wasn’t allowed to go away 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 “loads 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 telephone 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 minimize me off and began screaming at me that like I shouldn’t come again right here till I found out the wifi myself — one thing like, ‘I don’t care if it’s important 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 working 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 a couple of years later.
When requested about her relationship with Ventura, Mia stated, “We turned like sisters, greatest pals.” She stated they’re nonetheless pals at the moment.
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 loads of questions and form of insert himself.”
Mia describes Combs ‘attacking’ Ventura
Mia stated that she spent loads 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 unhealthy, 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 combat 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 under.
Mia stated she noticed Ventura hiding behind a bush exterior of the house, shaking and crying.
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“She had essentially 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. (Superstar stylist Deonte Nash had testified about it on Might 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 ingesting. 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 regarded in the course of the incident, Mia stated, “His eyes turned, like, black and there was like no getting via. Like, I used to be making an attempt to get him to cease, and it was like he was wanting via me.’”
Mia additionally recounted an incident at a 2010 occasion hosted by musician Prince, through which his safety needed to separate Combs from Ventura. She stated the evening was after an awards present and Combs instructed her to stick with Ventura at a resort to maintain her firm.
A good friend known as and instructed Mia and Ventura in regards to the occasion at Prince’s home.
“Cass and I debated like little youngsters if we must always sneak out of the home for most likely what felt like endlessly,” Mia instructed the court docket. They ended up going to the occasion and having enjoyable whereas dancing and watching Prince carry out, she stated.
Combs arrived on the occasion and Mia stated that she and Ventura took off working 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 evening at a special resort. The subsequent day, the top of human assets 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 working 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 often very chill, calm, and it was like essentially 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, via the patio, and hid on the seaside.
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 through which she might hear Combs yelling at her whereas he “attacked” her. She stated she heard “the sound of somebody getting hit and being attacked, basically.”
Cassie, Sean Combs and Rita Ora attend the Chopard Mystere Occasion in the course of the sixty fifth Annual Cannes Movie Competition on Might 21, 2012, in Cannes, France.
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Throughout a film premiere at Cannes, Mia stated she noticed Combs aggressively speaking to Ventura via gritted tooth 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 form 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 resort rooms
Mia stated that she was usually tasked with cleansing up resort rooms that Combs and Ventura stayed in, doing a “sweep” for something probably damaging to their repute.
She stated it was “commonplace process” to wash the rooms to verify there wasn’t something “a housekeeper might 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 in the future when she was in Ventura’s automobile and the singer had acquired a message from Combs.
“She acquired a message and was like upset,” she stated, including that Ventura stated, “Puff desires to have a resort evening.”
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 occasions
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 a couple of months after she began working for him. Mia stated he instructed her she was doing a “good job” and he or she didn’t must be nervous and provided her two pictures of alcohol.
She stated that the pictures “hit me form of onerous” 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 occurring,” she instructed the court docket.
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 will by no means occur once more and believed that Combs had simply been drunk and that it was all “most likely an enormous accident.”
She stated the subsequent time Combs made her really feel uncomfortable was at his fortieth celebration 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 acquired 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 acquired very shut and that’s when her inner “alarm bells” went off.
“I felt actually uncomfortable, however I didn’t know learn how to behave,” she stated.
She requested to go to the lavatory and as soon as she got here out, she left the residence shortly.
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 high of her and he or she wakened attributable to “the burden of an individual on high of me.” Mia stated Combs instructed her to be quiet and used one hand to get his pants off.
“He put himself within 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, nevertheless it 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
Superstar stylist Deonte Nash was again on the witness stand earlier on Might 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 together with his,” Nash instructed the court docket. “He nice, she nice. I imply, ‘Why not?’”
Michael B. Jordan attends the World Premiere of ‘Mission: Unattainable The Remaining Reckoning’ in Leicester Sq. Gardens in London, United Kingdom on Might 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 discovered 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 “working round with different girls” and the way it might 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 12 months, Combs texted Nash, writing, “Please name me. No drama, it’s vital. 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? Be certain that 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 girls with assist from a community of associates who helped silence victims via blackmail and violence.
Combs faces an indictment that features descriptions of freak-offs, that are outlined within the court docket 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 folks 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 girls.
Combs is charged with intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to have interaction 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 court docket, he might face life in jail.
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