Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs raped and attacked ex-assistant, she tells courtroom

[ad_1] A former assistant of rap mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs has advised a New York courtroom that he repeatedly sexually assaulted her whereas she was employed by him for eight years.

The witness - who testified anonymously underneath the pseudonym "Mia" - additionally tearfully stated she lived in worry of violent rages from Mr Combs as she labored by his aspect.

The hip-hop mogul watched from the defence desk with arms folded in his lap as she testified about her fears of retribution for reporting his alleged abuse.

Mr Combs, 55, has pleaded not responsible to federal expenses of racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking, and transportation to interact in prostitution.

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"I could not inform him no a couple of sandwich," she stated. "I could not inform him no about something."

Mr Combs' authorized crew has not but had the prospect to query Mia, or reply to her claims.

She is the second witness within the New York trial to allege that Mr Combs sexually abused her, together with Mr Combs' ex-girlfriend, Casandra Ventura.

Mia testified that she began working for Mr Combs as a private assistant in 2009 when she was in her mid-20s, becoming a member of what she described as a "chaotic" and "poisonous" work setting.

"The highs have been actually excessive and the lows have been actually, actually low," she advised the courtroom on Thursday.

The job required her being "all the time inside eyesight" of Mr Combs, she testified, and "anticipating his wants, whims and moods".

She stated she was typically required to remain at his properties, the place she couldn't lock the door or depart with out the rapper's permission.

Throughout her time working for Mr Combs, he was continuously violent in the direction of her, Mia testified.

On one event, she stated he threw a spaghetti bowl at her, which narrowly missed her head, Mia advised the courtroom.

One other time, she stated Mr Combs forcefully threw his laptop at Mia's head when she advised him the wifi close by was nonetheless being mounted, she testified.

She additionally testified about one other state of affairs when she witnessed Mr Combs being violent together with his ex-girlfriend, Ms Ventura, who had turned shut mates with Mia throughout her time working for the rapper.

Mia as soon as went on vacation with the couple within the Turks and Caicos, she advised the courtroom. One late evening on the journey, she stated Ms Ventura bumped into her room screaming that Mr Combs was "going to kill me", she testified. They ran away and hid on the seaside, she stated.

Additionally on that vacation, Mia testified that she and Ms Ventura had used a paddle board to enter the water to flee Mr Combs, who was pacing forwards and backwards on the seaside. Earlier than they knew it, the sky turned darkish, portending a storm.

"I used to be attempting to weigh if it was scarier to face mom nature, or return to Puff [Mr Combs]," Mia testified.

Mia was additionally there one evening in 2013 when she stated that Mr Combs was banging on Ms Ventura's door in Los Angeles.

She testified that he attacked her and lower open her eyebrow when throwing her on to the mattress body. Mia advised the courtroom that she tried to leap on Mr Combs' again, however he threw her in opposition to the wall.

"He is really going to kill her," Mia stated she remembered considering to herself.

Mia advised the courtroom that regardless of witnessing Mr Combs's abuse towards Ms Ventura, she didn't report him as a result of she "believed that Puff's authority was above the police".

She testified about a number of cases the place she alleged Mr Combs sexually assaulted her, together with one time when she stated she woke as much as him attempting to rape her.

Mia advised the courtroom that the assaults started early in her profession working for Mr Combs, together with one evening on his fortieth birthday on the Plaza Lodge in New York Metropolis.

She stated he gave her two vodka pictures that hit her "very laborious" and kissed her and put his hand up her costume.

One other evening, between the years of 2009-10, whereas Mia was sleeping in a bunk mattress at Mr Combs' Los Angeles dwelling, she stated she woke as much as the "weight" of Mr Combs on high of her. She was confused, she stated, and Mr Combs started to rape her.

"I simply froze," she stated. "It was very fast however it felt like ceaselessly."

Mia advised the courtroom that Mr Combs sexually assaulted her "sporadically" all through her time working for the rapper.

However she advised the courtroom she did not all the time bear in mind the small print, solely a "darkish feeling in my abdomen".

Pressed by a prosecutor on why she didn't say "no" when Mr Combs assaulted her or go to the police, Mia advised the courtroom she feared what he would do.

"I knew his energy," she stated. "I knew his management over me and I did not need to lose every part I labored so laborious for."

She advised the courtroom that one other assistant had been fired for reporting Mr Combs' violence towards Ms Ventura.

Mr Combs additionally threatened to inform Ms Ventura, Mia's shut good friend, in regards to the sexual encounters between them, she testified.

After the alleged assaults, Mia advised the courtroom that she tried her greatest to faux the "most shameful factor" of her life by no means occurred.

Requested by prosecutors why she was telling her story in courtroom, she replied: "I needed to inform the reality, the entire reality and nothing however the reality."