Speaker 1: Hey, they're folks, and welcome to Amy and TJ presents
Speaker 1: the Diddy Trial. This is Wednesday, May fourteenth, which represents
Speaker 1: day three of testimony in the Diddy trial. In day
Speaker 1: two was absolutely captivating roads. There's a lot of people
Speaker 1: know there are no cameras being allowed in the courtroom,
Speaker 1: so there is a whole bunch of places you can
Speaker 1: go and try to pluck and figure out exactly what
Speaker 1: happened in court. So we decide we're actually doing this
Speaker 1: right here to kind of all put it in one
Speaker 1: place and kind of give you the latest, the updates
Speaker 1: and maybe what's most important that's come out of the
Speaker 1: trial so far.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting because you do have to go to
Speaker 2: several different sources to piece together what was said in
Speaker 2: court because there was so much to go through. Yesterday's
Speaker 2: testimony with Ditty's ex girlfriend Cassie Ventura, was you said, captivating.
Speaker 2: It was so difficult to hear. It's mind boggling to
Speaker 2: hear what she claims happened to her over a ten
Speaker 2: year period. But man, does she get into the details
Speaker 2: and they are.
Speaker 1: Gic, gripping and graphic graphic. Is certainly want to give
Speaker 1: your heads up here, folks, A lot of what you're
Speaker 1: going to hear hear us describe over the next several
Speaker 1: minutes is absolutely gripping. But yes, it is absolutely graphic
Speaker 1: detail and descriptions of those infamous free coughs I think robes.
Speaker 1: When he was first arrested, in the story first start
Speaker 1: coming out, rightly or wrongly, a lot of headlines were
Speaker 1: about the salaciousness, if you will, of these freak coughs,
Speaker 1: these sex parties and baby oil and all these things.
Speaker 1: But she gave us a different type of accounting and
Speaker 1: more detailed than we've heard so far.
Speaker 2: Probably baby oil, I feel like those were the two
Speaker 2: words that everyone was talking about, and how much baby
Speaker 2: oil was found in his homes when they were rated
Speaker 2: by police. But she certainly talks about how it was
Speaker 2: used and how drugs were used, how she didn't sleep
Speaker 2: for days, she claims, because she was hopped up on drugs.
Speaker 2: And she talks about what the hotel rooms look like
Speaker 2: after these freak offs. She said that linen's were stained
Speaker 2: with blood and urine and baby oil and just the
Speaker 2: destruction that took place in some of these rooms, she claimed.
Speaker 1: So let's get to what was day two? So this
Speaker 1: is when, Yes, Cassie Ventura took the stance. She has
Speaker 1: absolutely star witnessed in this case. She's the one who
Speaker 1: was in a relationship with Ditty for about ten years.
Speaker 1: They were on and off, but this is his former girlfriend. Now.
Speaker 1: She entered the courtroom yesterday and by all accounts, she
Speaker 1: didn't look at him at all. She is thirty eight
Speaker 1: year old woman now who is married, who is about
Speaker 1: to have another child, she's eight months pregnant, in the
Speaker 1: courtroom testifying well some pretty awful stuff, and they say
Speaker 1: she gestured at time and holding her stomach is what
Speaker 1: several places were describing.
Speaker 2: Yes, And in fact, Ditty's lawyers were so concerned about
Speaker 2: how that would play for the jury because she had
Speaker 2: I think she's eight and a half months pregnant. She
Speaker 2: is literally about to give birth, and they were concerned.
Speaker 2: Diddy's attorneys were concerned that that might make some of
Speaker 2: the jurors more sympathetic and cause problems for Ditty in
Speaker 2: terms of just his believability, because people obviously have sympathy
Speaker 2: for what she's saying she went through in addition to
Speaker 2: her current her current condition. So they asked that she
Speaker 2: be seated. The whole time. They didn't want jurors to
Speaker 2: see her standing up, They didn't want to have durors
Speaker 2: see her walking in. But yeah, she walked in eight
Speaker 2: and a half months pregnant, as you pointed out, didn't
Speaker 2: look at him, but by the folks who saw him
Speaker 2: in the court and said he turned his head and
Speaker 2: watched her walk all the way up to the witness stands.
Speaker 1: And a reminder her of folks. We call her a
Speaker 1: star witness, but I think it's fair, is it not
Speaker 1: right Robes that we can say she is the one
Speaker 1: who maybe started this snowball going downhill for Diddy when
Speaker 1: she was suing him for I think I don't know
Speaker 1: if the amount was out at the time, but she
Speaker 1: was suing him for millions and millions of dollars for
Speaker 1: how she was treated. He said he wasn't going to settle.
Speaker 1: I think did the video come out, and I think
Speaker 1: twenty four hours.
Speaker 2: Later everything changed, correct, So yeah, she filed a lawsuit
Speaker 2: I believe it was back in twenty twenty three, claiming
Speaker 2: much of what we're hearing in court today about what
Speaker 2: happened to her. And yes, he settled that lawsuit immediately
Speaker 2: when that video came out, but that, of course, then
Speaker 2: got the attention of federal officials who then started to
Speaker 2: investigate did he And that's when all of this actually
Speaker 2: became a legal issue for him.
Speaker 1: So thirty million dollars is what she got from him.
Speaker 1: But then here come lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuits. So
Speaker 1: there have been dozens of lawsuits, as you know, people
Speaker 1: coming after him in civil suits having to do with
Speaker 1: how they alleged he treated him. But this is now
Speaker 1: a criminal case. The federal authorities launched a federal case,
Speaker 1: so that is what he's dealing with. Now. Five federal
Speaker 1: counts could get life in prison. But their star witness
Speaker 1: took the stand. And we have to remember Robes and
Speaker 1: this is something we look at her now. She's adult,
Speaker 1: she's composed, she's thirty eight now, but she was nineteen
Speaker 1: years old when they met, he signed her. Can you
Speaker 1: go back that long, some twenty years and remember just
Speaker 1: how on top of the world he was. And for
Speaker 1: the idea of a nineteen year old starting out for
Speaker 1: Sean Diddy Combs to sign you and to show you attention.
Speaker 1: Your daughter just turned nineteen. And when I put it
Speaker 1: in that kind of context, to think of how young,
Speaker 1: how immature you are at that point. That struck me.
Speaker 2: You know, I get chills a lot, But as soon
Speaker 2: as I heard nineteen, you hit it. I have a
Speaker 2: daughter who literally just turned nineteen. She doesn't know anything
Speaker 2: about anything.
Speaker 1: And yes, easily to be offensive, that's just what it is.
Speaker 2: I didn't know anything when I was nineteen, so easily influenced.
Speaker 2: You have big stars in your eyes. You actually think
Speaker 2: the best of people, not the worst. You don't know
Speaker 2: to think that, You don't think anything like that could
Speaker 2: happen to you. And so, yes, she's nineteen, she's starstruck,
Speaker 2: and now he's paying her attention. After he signs her
Speaker 2: to his label, he literally has control over her career.
Speaker 2: I believe he signed her to a ten year album deal.
Speaker 2: She revealed in court that she made ten albums but
Speaker 2: only one got released because he had control over everything
Speaker 2: in her life.
Speaker 1: And again, I can't imagine how star struck you would
Speaker 1: be at that point. This is the guy that can
Speaker 1: make all of your dreams come true, and he's telling
Speaker 1: you how wonderful you are. So they met or she
Speaker 1: signed at nineteen, but they didn't start dating immediately, she
Speaker 1: says in her testimony, she didn't want to date him
Speaker 1: and wasn't interested in him in that way, but twenty
Speaker 1: first birthday party, he kisses her unexpectedly and unwanted, and
Speaker 1: she said it took her a little while to get
Speaker 1: comfortable with the idea of dating him, because that's not
Speaker 1: just something that was on her mind at the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and she says that within that first year of
Speaker 2: dating him, they weren't public, but he had just mentioned
Speaker 2: voyeurism to her, that it was a fantasy of his
Speaker 2: to watch other men have sex with her. So it
Speaker 2: didn't happen right away. Obviously, they had an intimate relationship
Speaker 2: where it was just the two of them, at least
Speaker 2: that's what she thought until he brings up this idea.
Speaker 1: And she mentioned as well, I mean this was the start,
Speaker 1: the first time they had again. She describes all this
Speaker 1: on the stand. The first time they had sex was
Speaker 1: on a boat, I believe in Miami. She says she
Speaker 1: was hopped up on ecstasy at the time that he
Speaker 1: had given her. So from the very beginning of an
Speaker 1: intimate relationship, he's feeding her and she's still she's an
Speaker 1: adult at this point, but feeding her drugs. This is
Speaker 1: kind of I guess set the stage for what their
Speaker 1: relationship was going to be. And you think, well, why
Speaker 1: would she do this, why would she participate? Why would
Speaker 1: she stick around? She didn't think she had a choice.
Speaker 1: This is the guy, like you just said, had control
Speaker 1: of what.
Speaker 2: Her career and her life and her money and her
Speaker 2: and her opportunity. And I think that's a huge thing.
Speaker 2: When you're that young, you're thinking about what you're wanting,
Speaker 2: and then once you realize you're in bed literally with
Speaker 2: a man who has total control over your career and
Speaker 2: has power like no one else truly in that community,
Speaker 2: in that music community. He was the guy. So you're
Speaker 2: going to go against him, You're going to tell him
Speaker 2: no when he can literally make or break your career.
Speaker 2: This is what she describes. And so when he asked
Speaker 2: her to have sex with other men while he watched,
Speaker 2: she said she felt like she couldn't turn him down
Speaker 2: because she wanted to make him happy. She says she
Speaker 2: was in love with him, and then she went on
Speaker 2: to give incredibly graphic details about what happened during those
Speaker 2: sex parties.
Speaker 1: And those sex parties, she's again, it was a year
Speaker 1: into them dating until he first mentioned that, and she said,
Speaker 1: she yes, she went along with this first one, the
Speaker 1: first couple, but then they became weekly occurrences. This was
Speaker 1: happening every single week, she said, in every single one
Speaker 1: of them robes, she was high as she could be.
Speaker 1: She was on whatever drug that he gave her, or
Speaker 1: she could be on, and she wanted to be because,
Speaker 1: in her words, she needed a buffer to dissociate from
Speaker 1: the experience.
Speaker 2: Awful makes sense, I mean, I get that. She says
Speaker 2: she was on mushrooms, ecstasy, cocaine, marijuana, any drug that
Speaker 2: was available, and she said there were always drugs available.
Speaker 2: She talked about having to look up the male escorts
Speaker 2: and then show did He the pictures of them to
Speaker 2: make sure he approved. They had to be black males,
Speaker 2: and she said she didn't know many of them by
Speaker 2: their names, but she talked about one that was referred
Speaker 2: to as and this is disturbing the punisher. And that's
Speaker 2: when she says did he would watch and pleasure himself
Speaker 2: while she had sex with other men. Sometimes he was
Speaker 2: in the corner in the room. The rooms were dark.
Speaker 2: He had the lighting the way he wanted it, she claimed.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it was candle light, sometimes it was lighting like
Speaker 2: you'd see in a music video, but he'd if he
Speaker 2: wasn't in the room. She says, he would watch on
Speaker 2: FaceTime and he would direct, as if he was directing
Speaker 2: a porno or a movie, what he wanted them to
Speaker 2: do and how long he wanted.
Speaker 1: Them to do it. So what she's describing now on
Speaker 1: the stand, and she was on the stand for six
Speaker 1: hours yesterday, but what she was describing became her job, right.
Speaker 1: This is a young woman who nineteen twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: twenty two years old. She thinks her career was about
Speaker 1: to take off, and instead her main job and focus
Speaker 1: of her life became pleasuring this guy with this fantasy
Speaker 1: that she said that he had. And yeah, she got
Speaker 1: into a lot. You said he directed robes. One of
Speaker 1: the big things she said he directed was how much
Speaker 1: and even the temperature of the baby oil?
Speaker 2: Yeah with U. And she said that she would have
Speaker 2: to reapply the baby oil as often as every five minutes,
Speaker 2: because she said that he wanted their bodies to be glistening.
Speaker 2: That's the word she used. And she said that they
Speaker 2: would use up to ten bottles per sex session. That's
Speaker 2: hard to get your head around. She said. One time
Speaker 2: they even filled up a blow up pool in a
Speaker 2: hotel room that was just full of heated baby oil,
Speaker 2: and she was told to get in with her shoes
Speaker 2: and her outfit on so again that she would glisten.
Speaker 2: I think one of the most disgusting parts, I mean,
Speaker 2: this is all hard to digest, but is when she
Speaker 2: described what she was forced to do. She claims with
Speaker 2: the male escort, which involved urination.
Speaker 1: And it looks it's awful. She and we say this,
Speaker 1: we are talking about an adult, a grown woman who's
Speaker 1: about to have another child. Her husband is sitting in
Speaker 1: the courtroom having to hear this crap. And you give
Speaker 1: her credit for she has to face this guy in court. Yes,
Speaker 1: innocent until proven guilty, and this is what we have
Speaker 1: a trial for. But this is what she described that
Speaker 1: there were times that the male escort and Combs would
Speaker 1: actually urinate on her. She said she did, she felt
Speaker 1: disgusted and humiliated, but she continued to go along with
Speaker 1: these parties and the humiliation, all for the sake of
Speaker 1: trying to make this man happy.
Speaker 2: What struck me too is when she was describing one
Speaker 2: of those moments, she said she actually would start choking
Speaker 2: where she actually thought she couldn't breathe, and she'd have
Speaker 2: to lift up her hands to get ditty. She says,
Speaker 2: to allow it to stop. I mean that I cannot.
Speaker 2: It makes I mean, it just makes any woman or
Speaker 2: anyone want to cry even thinking about being in that position,
Speaker 2: or being put in that position, or feeling like you
Speaker 2: couldn't get out of that position. And so you think
Speaker 2: about what's happening. What she says is happening, And she
Speaker 2: says they went on for days, sometimes as little as
Speaker 2: thirty six hours, sometimes as long as four days, she says,
Speaker 2: with no sleep.
Speaker 1: Now that sounds wild, but the idea there. She said
Speaker 1: she was on drugs to the point that it kept
Speaker 1: her awake for all this time. Now you're going through
Speaker 1: this physical exertion. You're going through this obviously a mental
Speaker 1: I can't imagine how someone might feel at the end
Speaker 1: of two days, three days.
Speaker 2: Four days, she'd say she was dehydrated. She was you know,
Speaker 2: she hadn't slept, she hadn't had proper nutrition, proper hydration,
Speaker 2: I mean, all of those things. And so you've got
Speaker 2: all of this going on. But also, she claims under
Speaker 2: the threat of constant physical violence from Diddy. She claims
Speaker 2: that if she made the wrong face, she would get
Speaker 2: hit in the face. If she acted like she didn't
Speaker 2: want to do something, she would be she would be dragged,
Speaker 2: she would be hit, she would have things thrown at.
Speaker 1: Her, and look one of the like you said, I
Speaker 1: think MoMA was one of the most searing images of
Speaker 1: this whole trial obviously has to be that video that
Speaker 1: we all saw. It was the one that CNN obtained
Speaker 1: up Hire in the hallway, dragging, kicking, beating her in
Speaker 1: that hotel. Well, it turns out, she testified yesterday, that
Speaker 1: was her trying to escape a freak off in that hotel.
Speaker 1: What you saw there, she explains now, her trying to
Speaker 1: get away from one of these awful sex parties. She said,
Speaker 1: in particular, there was something going on th wh was
Speaker 1: she had to be in public or something she actually
Speaker 1: didn't want.
Speaker 2: She had a big movie premiere within a few days,
Speaker 2: and then she ended up getting a black eye because
Speaker 2: of it. She says from that video that unfortunately we
Speaker 2: have all seen. But she actually this was a quote
Speaker 2: from her while she was testifying about little small arguments
Speaker 2: that they might have had. She said they would suddenly
Speaker 2: turn violent. She said that Diddy would smash me in
Speaker 2: my head, knock me over, drag me, kick me, stop
Speaker 2: me in the head if I had fallen down and
Speaker 2: you pointed this out. All of this is heartbreaking. All
Speaker 2: of this is disgusting, but something she responded to. She
Speaker 2: was asked if there was anything she enjoyed about the experience.
Speaker 1: Her response was what the time spent with him.
Speaker 2: She loved him.
Speaker 1: That sucks. She was just a young girl. That just sucks.
Speaker 1: Look and a lot of this, yes, is salacious, and
Speaker 1: a lot of the details, and what the defense is
Speaker 1: arguing here is that don't get caught up in the
Speaker 1: salacious details. This is not a case about domestic violence,
Speaker 1: right you all are charging him with sex trafficking. This
Speaker 1: would be a different situation if this case were about
Speaker 1: his domestic violence. It's not. So they're saying, just because
Speaker 1: you're seeing these awful things, and just because you saw
Speaker 1: that video, it doesn't mean that the government has a
Speaker 1: legitimate case against this man. It is all you're going
Speaker 1: to see. And they say they're going to show these
Speaker 1: freak offs in court, and we should mention as well
Speaker 1: that journalists have been asking to see them as well,
Speaker 1: and a judge at this point at least is said no.
Speaker 2: But he did seem like perhaps he was willing to
Speaker 2: hear the arguments for First Amendment rights. Obviously, the concern
Speaker 2: is there are victims or alleged victims here who are naked,
Speaker 2: and so obviously there are privacy issues that are like
Speaker 2: massive here.
Speaker 1: What was that? And forgive me, he said, what's the date?
Speaker 1: He's given them a timeline to respond, I believe, to
Speaker 1: put in an argument for whether or not he's going
Speaker 1: to let journalists. But he's expecting to your point, they
Speaker 1: are expecting some types of arguments to be made by
Speaker 1: several sides about it, and they want look pool reporters.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't be just showing an opening court to everybody,
Speaker 1: but they would have a couple of pool reporters look
Speaker 1: at it and then be able to report back.
Speaker 2: What they saw what they saw, you know. And we're
Speaker 2: also expecting Cassie is back up on the stand today
Speaker 2: and she will be cross examined, but we are expecting
Speaker 2: her to detail what she claims was an actual rape
Speaker 2: by Diddy. And you mentioned her husband is in the courtroom.
Speaker 2: The defense did not want him in the courtroom. They
Speaker 2: said that they may actually call him to testify on
Speaker 2: their side to corroborate what they're claiming, and so they
Speaker 2: didn't want him to hear her testimony. A compromise was made,
Speaker 2: and so when she does go into those details about
Speaker 2: what she says was rape, he will have to leave
Speaker 2: the courtroom, and that happens. But otherwise he is listening
Speaker 2: to all of this. I'm sure he's heard it before.
Speaker 2: I'm sure they've obviously talked about this, but that still
Speaker 2: has to be such a sickening, unthinkable experience for a
Speaker 2: husband to hear his wife describe.
Speaker 1: And I to listen to her now, and there were
Speaker 1: so many pictures of her, and I think a lot
Speaker 1: of the coverage we have seen her on the red
Speaker 1: carpet at the met We have seen so many different
Speaker 1: images of her standing next to him, and I don't
Speaker 1: know their stars and they're supposed to be sexy sometimes
Speaker 1: and all this. But then I looked earlier at some
Speaker 1: pictures of her, when she first was coming out of
Speaker 1: first becoming a star. There was a youth and energy,
Speaker 1: a life to her eyes. This is me editorializing now,
Speaker 1: but there was a different look and a youth and
Speaker 1: an excitement, and there was something in her early on
Speaker 1: that it made me look and made me think about Adelise, like, wow, nineteen, Yeah,
Speaker 1: she's a kid.
Speaker 2: She's a kid.
Speaker 1: She's a kid.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And he was thirty six, eventeen years older than her.
Speaker 2: And we talk about age differences sometimes, but you know,
Speaker 2: it's one of those points when you're a certain age,
Speaker 2: it isn't I hate to say a fair fight, but
Speaker 2: you just don't have the ability to handle yourself in
Speaker 2: a reciprocal way when you're that age, when you're under
Speaker 2: twenty one even or in your early twenties, versus someone
Speaker 2: who has lived a lot more life and has a
Speaker 2: lot more power than you.
Speaker 1: Okay, there it is. There is an age difference and
Speaker 1: experienced difference, but there's a power imbalance the likes of
Speaker 1: which you can't even get bigger than this one. No
Speaker 1: starving artists trying to struggle in the business with a
Speaker 1: guy who can make you a star in an instant.
Speaker 2: And has a staff around him. This is a big
Speaker 2: part of the prosecution's case. A staff almost an empire
Speaker 2: around him, doing his bidding, whatever he wants, whatever he needs,
Speaker 2: whenever he wants it.
Speaker 1: So I did. I looked some other pictures of her,
Speaker 1: some younger pictures. In my goodness, Ugh, what are twenty
Speaker 1: years it has been for this young lady. And this
Speaker 1: was again day three. She's back on the stand cross
Speaker 1: examine nation from the defense. You know, that's probably going
Speaker 1: to be pretty intense in that courtroom. But the first
Speaker 1: couple of witnesses on the stand that were there for
Speaker 1: testimony yesterday and the day before, where two folks, one
Speaker 1: was a LA police officer who was the one who
Speaker 1: responded to that hotel incident, and the other ropes was
Speaker 1: a male escort by the name of Daniel Phillip, and
Speaker 1: everything they reported pretty much backed up, excuse me, everything
Speaker 1: they testified to backed up the testimony of.
Speaker 2: Correct absolutely Daniel Phillip, who is who is a manager
Speaker 2: of male strippers but also became a male escort and
Speaker 2: was the one initially who both Daniel and ventur acclaim
Speaker 2: did he had them perform sexual acts together while he watched.
Speaker 2: He said he saw violence, he said he saw anger.
Speaker 2: He said he saw a lot of that physical violence
Speaker 2: that ventur was talking about. He witnessed it personersonally. So
Speaker 2: he certainly corroborated what we've now been hearing from Ventura.
Speaker 1: Well, she will be back on the stands again, you
Speaker 1: see and no cameras in there, but some of you
Speaker 1: have seen an unknown robes. You've pointed them out every
Speaker 1: chance you can to me, and look, we've covered a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of trials. And when there's not a camera
Speaker 1: in the courtroom, you have very important. The courtroom artist
Speaker 1: becomes very very important. And I saw one of the drawings, like,
Speaker 1: what in the world is that? It showed an image
Speaker 1: of did he you know those crude courtroom drawings, but
Speaker 1: he was making the heart sign at his chest. I'm like,
Speaker 1: what in the world is that about. Well, it turns
Speaker 1: out he made that gesture to his family, I think
Speaker 1: specifically to his mother. When I first saw the image,
Speaker 1: I think he didn't do that to Cassie, did he? No,
Speaker 1: he did not. Did he did it to his family?
Speaker 1: I think he blew a kiss to his mom, who
Speaker 1: was in the courtroom, is how it was described. But
Speaker 1: his family's been showing up front row every day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, his mom is there, his children are there the
Speaker 2: first day, and I believe when the testimony gets graphic,
Speaker 2: at least the first day, his three daughters did leave
Speaker 2: the court room while that was happening. I cannot imagine
Speaker 2: having family members' children present when all of this is
Speaker 2: being alleged against you, but certainly a show of support
Speaker 2: for Diddy from his family who have stood by his
Speaker 2: side throughout all of.
Speaker 1: This, and it's incredible ropes. I'm sitting here, I'm facing
Speaker 1: out of our window here in downtown Manhattan, and there's
Speaker 1: just a couple of buildings that are blocking our view
Speaker 1: right now of the courthouse where this is happening. Two days.
Speaker 1: So it has been interesting down here downtown. I can't
Speaker 1: believe this trial is already here. Seemed like what long ago.
Speaker 1: He was just being arrested uptown last September, and here
Speaker 1: we are with the trial already. So we will try
Speaker 1: to Now we will continue to update you as it warrants,
Speaker 1: but it's so much out there and it is hard
Speaker 1: to try to put it all together, piece it all together.
Speaker 1: So we were hoping to do that for you all here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we will keep you updated on the Diddy trial
Speaker 2: over the next couple of weeks. It's expected to go
Speaker 2: as long as eight weeks for a total of two months,
Speaker 2: so we will keep you updated. But in the meantime,
Speaker 2: thank you for listening to Amy and tej