Sean “Diddy” Combs‘Ex-bodyguard offered “Mia” rape accuser A “gift” and tried to put it pressure to make a statement on behalf of the rap magnate after the “Freak OFF” trial of Cassie Ventura in 2023 was filed on Friday, the woman told a federal jury in Manhattan on Friday.
We have shown that jurors showed a reading SMS: “I have the right to send a gift to my sister” Ventura has submitted her explosive trial Accusing combs of having beaten him and having forced him to have sex with male escorts.
She told the jurors that she believed that he was trying to send him money and had changed subject when he had asked for his address.
Personal assistant and film director of Combs, who testified under a pseudonym, revealed the exchange of text during his second day testifying to his ex-bass Sex and racketeer trafficking.
Thursday, she said Combs jury that the millionaire hip-hop magnate sexually assaulted and physically beaten She throughout her eight years of work for him.
Friday, the prosecutors asked Mia to read aloud in text messages that Butler sent her on November 30, 2023. She had left her job with Combs for five years, and 14 days after the Ventura trial revealed “freak offs” to the world and led to A torrent of related civil and criminal allegations.
Butler also called her, testified Mia and tried to run her that Combs and Ventura are fighting “as a normal couple”.
“Yeah, it’s really crazy what’s going on,” said Mia Butler in the call, referring to the quickly established trial of Ventura. “Because you know, like Puff and Cass, they would fight like a normal couple.”
Half a dozen witnesses, including Mia and Ventura herself, testified that Combs brutally beats the R&B star during their Decadelong relationship.
In deposit hearings last fall, prosecutors Accused struggles of trying to falsify the witnesses Thanks to the intermediaries and using the phone at his Brooklyn prison, something that Combs denied.
Sean “Diddy” shakes the defense table as his lawyer, Brian Steel. A “MIA” counter-examination, which accuses combs of assaulting him sexually on several occasions when she has worked for him as a personal assistant and leader of cinema. Jane Rosenberg / Reuters
“He looked nervous and spoke in circles,” said Mia about the ex-bodyguard call. Butler said to him, “Your puff boy you miss” and “we just remember the old family,” she said.
Butler suggested during the call that these others had already signed in the same story of “normal couple”, and she should also, she said.
“Puff really wanted to talk to me,” she said Butler. Butler also suggested that “maybe you could say something” publicly, on behalf of Combs.
“I just kept my mouth closed,” she told the jury. When she hung up, “I threw my phone as far as possible.”
Mia said that she had remained pleasant when Butler stretched out several times by SMS in the coming months. She said that she had rejected her offer to give her money or “gifts” and had promised to speak to Combs, but never did it.
In February, she avoided the texts of combs himself. “I was terrified,” she said. “And I just wanted to play stupid.”
On February 4, 2024 – Seven months before his arrest – Combs sent him a text the last time, “I just need to jog some things.
“It was the person who traumatized me,” said Mia when she asked her why she hadn’t answered. “And I was just starting to come back.”
The testimony can be used by prosecutors to support an allegation of obstruction to justice which is part of the accusation of racketeering against Combs.
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On Friday, during the counter-examination, Mia was asked why she had never talked about the alleged abuse of Combs, and why she rather published dozens of brilliant messages about her on Instagram throughout her nine years of work for him.
“You are the dowters of the coolest and coolest and coolest pizza rockstar and we love you!” She posted on her Instagram in a Happy Birthday 2016 message, one of the dozens shown to the jurors.
MIA explained that Combs had good times and good days. Keeping him happy and celebrating him online was part of his work, and also in his own interest, she said.
“When things were good, you really felt safe and you’ve almost forgotten,” she said.
Defense lawyer, Brian Steel, asked how she could “forget” the rape she alleged that Combs had committed.
“It is too difficult to think about it, so you don’t do it, and you don’t have time anyway, and you just want it to disappear,” she said.
Steel continued to press the point – why did she remain silent?
“I was young and manipulated and just impatient to survive, and once again, I have fun of that now in therapy,” she said.
“But nobody was there to tell me that these things that happened were false,” she said about the Combs world, whom she had described as “chaotic”, “toxic”, but also, sometimes, “exciting”, filled with celebrities and foreign travel.
“Nobody around his behavior even had his behavior,” she told Combs lawyer.
At some point, the defense lawyer asked him flat-did she make the attacks?
“Everything I said in this courtroom is true,” said Mia.
Mia worked as a personal assistant by fashion designer Georgina Chapman and actor Mike Myers Before starting to work as a combination of Combs in 2009, at the age of about 25.
She said Thursday that she was unable to work in the years since 2017, when Combs has dissolved her film production company, Revolt Films, eliminating her position as director of development and acquisition.
“I would be triggered by really normal situations,” she said while trying to work on other jobs. “With, as an overwhelming feeling of the fear of being in difficulty – like, excessively reacting to normal things that have overwhelmed me.”
The COMPS criminal trial opened its doors three weeks ago, with VenturaThe star witness of the accusation, taking the position of the witness during the first week of the trial.
Prosecutors allege that Combres was directing a criminal business that involved Ventura’s sex trafficking – with whom he came out for more than a decade – and another woman that jurors have not yet heard and who can testify under the pseudonym “Jane”.
Combs argued through his defense team that his sexual meetings were consensual.
If he is found guilty of the Sexual traffic and racket accusations Against him, the time of almost the billionaire could face the life prison.
