How to be Diddy’s personal assistant was disorderly, exhausting, dangerous

Sean “Diddy” Combs was not an easy, scary or burning a small army of personal assistants over the decades.

During his trial on sex trafficking and racketeering in Manhattan, these ex-assistants return to haunt him from the stand of the witness.

So far, two former personal assistants have been called upon to testify by prosecutors. (A third, Capricorn Clark, is scheduled for Tuesday)

They told the jury that working as PA de Combs meant to close their eyes to painful violence while meticulously managing all the details of his life, including by ensuring that his toiletries were faced in the same way and keeping his hotel filled with apple compote, Jello and Fiji water.

Even the good days, the salary was low, the days were long and the work week could extend 100 hours, the two former steps told jurors. To complain was frowned upon – “What rhymes with tired?” I made a joke among the staff. The answer? “Licensed.”

But the worst days, they said, they were trained in a world of chaos and illegality. Both described the purchase of drugs for combs or friends.

Good days and rap wars

Former PA David James told driver’s combs with a closely avoided shooting with the director of the Rival Rival Suge Knight.

James said he had realized that he could die that evening, driving his boss’s car in the parking lot of a Los Angeles restaurant all night.

Combs was sitting behind him in black climbing with three cannons on his lap, remembered James on the stand. “Mother fucking driving,” he said Combs commanded when leaving.

The two steps also described heartbreaking scenes of violence.

Former George Kaplan remembered the time in 2015 when he heard the longtime girlfriend of Combs, Cassie Ventura, shouting in the Coat’s private jet chamber.

“No one sees that?” She cried, accompanied by the noise of overwhelming glassware.

Kaplan told the jurors that he had turned in his seat and saw the rap magnate standing above a curled Ventura while holding the glass of whiskey.

No one on the jet – the Gulfstream was crowded with security guards and combat assistants – interceded or verified later, he said.

Everyone turned away, Kaplan said, when the noise of more cries, more broken glass, filled the cabin.

Lots of empty bottles

The two personal assistants have also described the many Peccadillos de Combs – and the many physical messages he left.

Kaplan told jurors on Wednesday that he was responsible for cleaning everything that leaves the comb at Luxury Hotel Suites in Miami, New York and Los Angeles.

The jury heard two weeks of testimonies alleging that these hotel suites were crime scenes.

Ventura, the witness of the continuation of the stars, told jurors during the first week of testimony that throughout their Decadelong relationship, Combs used violence and threats to force it to perform sexual acts with male escorts, most generally in hotels.

Combs pleaded not guilty to all accusations and denied all accusations of sexual abuse. He insisted since his arrest that he was only engaged in consensual sexual relations with his accusers, who, according to him

“Lots of empty bottles, empty Gatorade bottles, empty bottles of alcohol and often baby oil,” said Kaplan, describing the items he said that he had “stored” in hotels such as the International Trump in Manhattan and the Bel-Air hotel in Los Angeles.

Combs was a tedious boss who loved things and threatened to fire him monthly during the year he worked for him, which was between 2014 and 2015, Kaplan said.

“Available, facing the front and ready to use,” he told the jurors, describing how the combs expect to find toothpaste, toiletries and medicines on his bathroom counter every morning.

Asked about the frequency to which Combs would threaten to dismiss him from the work of $ 125,000 per year, Kaplan replied: “Maybe monthly”.

The Kingdom of Mr. Combs

The second ex-P-PA, David James, described his own heartbreaking mandate as a right man in Combs between May 2007 and May 2008.

“It is the kingdom of Mr. Combross,” said James, the HR chief, told him during his interview, making a gesture towards a portrait of the rapper on the wall of his headquarters of Manhattan.

“We are all here to serve him,” said James, “she said.

He said that his starting salary was $ 70,000.

“There were times when I worked three weeks in a row,” he said.

“Advanceping a hotel room” was a frequent mission, said James. This meant ensuring that it was filled with favorite items from Combs, changes in “apple compote, jello and Fiji water compote”.

The Combs cosmetic bag went everywhere it went and held around forty different products, said James.

“Everything, from ointments to a razor,” he said.

“He had just for men in there,” he added, referring to the hair color brand for men. Since his arrest nine months ago, combat hair has become mainly gray.

A separate “bag of medicine” has also gone around the world.

“There were probably 25 to 30 pills or bottles of different pills,” said James. “Some were like Advil, Tylenol. He had water pills to help him lose weight. He had viagra in there. He had pills that helped increase his number of sperm, for example.”

When asked if there were other types of pills, James said: “He also had ecstasy and percocets in there.”

Combs took Percocets, an opioid prescription pain reliever, “throughout the day,” said James.

The rapper would spend the night in ecstasy, the PA told the jurors, referring to the psychedelic stimulant also known as MDMA. One of CombS’s favorite ecstasy pills has been stamped with the image of Barack Obama’s face, James said.

“Diddy Bopping” at the party

Once, during a New Year’s party organized by Combres, James, who had already struck the hard Ciroc vodka, went to the Combs Med bag and had an ecstasy pill skipped, after which he “felt good,” he told the jury.

“Normally, I am very caught, I normally do not have too much emotion, but that night, I was, like dance – they said that I shared all around the party.”

“Diddy Bopping” was left to the imagination of the jurors.

A few days later, Combs called him in his office. He “examined party images,” said James.

“Yo, Playboy,” said James, “said Combs. “That is to say that you dance around the party?”

“Yes, sir,” replied James. “And in a way he hosted his head and he said,” Ok, I want to keep these images in case I need it. “”

“It was so out of character for me that he thought it would be embarrassing if he released the images from me to the public,” James told Jury.

Prosecutors say that Combs controlled Ventura by threatening to publicly publish explicit sex videos.

First of all on Tuesday, Capricorn Clark is expected to be the third former Personal assistant in Combres to testify against him, starting the third week in the case of the government.

The federal prosecutors will ask him questions about a break -in at Hollywood Hills of Hollywood Hills of rapper Kid Cudi in 2011 – the one where her Christmas gifts were unpacked and shot and his dog was closed in the bathroom.

Clark was there and called to warn Kid Cudi, whose real name is Scott Mescudi, that a comb enriched with jealousy was inside the house, according to the rapper, who testified on Thursday.

Clark can also describe the combs forcing her to pass a lie detector test after being stolen while wearing what another ex-assistant described to the jury as the “suitcase or jewelry case of the rap magnate, if you want”.

Hidden jewelry was replaced by zirconium cubic replicas, this assistant made the stand last week.

She couldn’t go out

Perhaps James’ most important testimony has come, he described something that Ventura said one day when they stood together to smoke cigarettes overnight on a quay in front of the Miami de Combs domain.

Ventura was then 21 or 22 years old, and in the first months of her 11 -year relationship, walking with the combs. James was also in their twenties.

While they behaved on what they agreed was their crazy lifestyle of long hours and from the city to the city, James asked Ventura why she did not just leave.

“I can’t go out,” he told him that Ventura had told him.

“Mr. Combs supervises so much of my life,” she said, according to James’ testimony last week. “He controls my musical career, he pays my apartment, he gives me an allowance.”

James told the jury that he had believed it. “I just didn’t think that she could easily leave,” he said.