A former employee of Sean “Diddy” Combs faced net questions about the counter-bassage on Friday while the federal racketeering and sexual traffic trial of the hip-hop magnate magnate ended his third week of testimony.
The employee – testifying under the pseudonym “MIA” – testified in a stronger tone under counter -examination, unlike her way kept during the interrogation by the prosecutors when she spoke with her head bowed and her fringe covering her face, sometimes responding to almost a murmur.
It should resume the counter-perspective on Monday.
His testimony arises as the accusation sought to show Combs and his inner circle formed a criminal enterprise that used threats, violence, forced work, drugs, corruption, criminal fire, kidnapping and lies in order to compel the cassie of the girlfriend of the ex-girlfriend.
Combs a Pleaded not guilty Racket -to -sex, sexual traffic and transportation accusations to engage in prostitution. If he is found guilty, he could incur a life sentence. His defense admitted that Combs was violent but has has questioned the reasons for those who testifyAnd said the accusations are not able to racketeer.
Here’s what we learned on Friday.
Mia said Thursday that The combs attacked her physically and sexuallyhumiliated her and forced her to work exhausting hours during his job.
Friday, the defense prosecutor Brian Steel challenged her to explain why she was still working there from 2009 to 2017.
“In an abusive relationship, there is a cycle of violence,” she said. “I was young and manipulated and eager to survive. I disilar a lot of that now in therapy. No one was there to say that these things that happened were bad. There was no one around us who never started with his behavior. ”
“Why did you need someone else said that it was Mr. Combs badly so that you feel like he would kill you?” Access requested.
Mia said there was a difference between her “logical brain” and her “trauma brain”, and the latter has often won.
“Finally, it becomes normalized and you just try to resume good. You make people. I am a pleasure, I am an empath, I am a rules follower,” said Mia. “I just wanted to do my best and make everyone happy all the time.”
Steel suggested three times that Mia has made her allegations of sexual assault against Combs, but she was firm. “What I said in this courtroom is true. I did not lie to anyone at all,” she said.
In addition, Steel asked Mia why she had sent distraught messages threatening suicide in December 2016 after learning her main work project, Revolt Films, would closure. Mia said that she had finally reached the point that she worked in cinema and television and loved what she had done, despite alleged abuse of her boss.
“I didn’t want to leave the business that I built where I was starting to see my dreams materialize,” she said.
Steel asked why it wouldn’t be a good thing, because she would be far from her abuser.
“At the time, I didn’t realize it,” said Mia. “With hindsight, fantastic, but at the time the worst thing in the world.”
The defense confronted MIA with about three dozen publications of warm and friendly social media that Mia has made on the combs in the years following the alleged sexual assaults that she described in the jury on Thursday.
Defense lawyer Steel highlighted some of the messages, including birthday wishes and photos of them together at Burning Man and during star events. In some legends, she called Combs her “mentor”, an “inspiration” and a “legend”, signing several messages with “Love You”.
For example, in June 2014, Combs posted an Instagram photo of them together for his birthday and wrote: “Besides each big man is a big woman” and “PS sorry, I was going crazy last night.” She republished her and added: “I love you, you showed me the world.” However, Mia testified that Combs had threatened her life the previous night.
She also posted a collage of photos of him on Instagram for his 45th birthday, adding: “Thank you for being the right kind of crazy and inspire me every day.”
Steel challenged how Mia could write these words about someone who “ruined” her life.
On the stand, Mia said that social media was aimed at showing how great your life is – even if it is not true – and said that promoting her life around Combs was part of the work.
“The summits were high and the goods were good. You just fought so hard to stay there,” said Mia.
“I was afraid every time Puff was not happy because I wanted to make sure it was, because then I was safe,” she also said.
At the end of her direct testimony earlier on Friday, Mia testified to the end of her working relationship with Combs, her difficulties with the Severe SSPT and her inability to keep a job.
Mia said that while she was in South Africa with Ventura in 2015, Combres threatened her, cursed and threatened her work if she did not return home early. Later, Mia sent him an email about the price of flights and theft changes, asking her to tell him what to do and say that she loved her.
“I’m on the tips of my feet, that’s how I would survive so I didn’t make him crazy or made him think that I was thinking that what he was doing was bad,” said Mia.
She testified that she had tried to “run away” several times, but estimated that she could never be hired again.
“He would have destroyed my reputation,” she said. “I was afraid of him.”
Their employment relationship fell for good in the fall of 2016, when Mia said that she had been informed by another leader that Combs wanted to end the revolt films, her main project. She said that she was in “shock” and felt betrayed by the fact that Combs did not tell her himself.
Mia said she had hired lawyers in 2017 to negotiate her compensation and bonuses that she had still not been paid – a decision she learned that the combs considered betrayal. After a month-long negotiation, they were satisfied with around $ 400,000, of which she received about $ 200,000, she said.
From two weeks after Cassie Ventura filed her pursuit against Combs in November 2023, Mia said that she had received several Combres messages and her security agent asking her to call Combres, but she refused, sometimes making an excuse that she had no cellular service.
“I just didn’t want to have anything to do with him,” she said. “It was the person who traumatizes me.”
She testified that she understood that the awareness meant: “Puff wanted D-Roc (the above-mentioned security guard) to reach me and assure me that I was not a threat.”
Mia testified that she had a severe SSPT and has not been able to work since her time to work for the combs. When she tried to work, “I would be triggered by really normal situations with an overwhelming feeling for fear of being in trouble,” she said. For example, someone at work asked her where she was – hoping to have a coffee with her – but she was flooded with fear, she said.
When asked who made him have these feelings, Mia said, “Puff”.
