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Speaker 1: and everybody, you know, if.
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Speaker 1: Hey, y'all, it's Laura l Rosa and this is the
Speaker 1: Latest with Laura le Rosa, your daily dig on all
Speaker 1: things pop culture and the conversations that shake the room.
Speaker 2: Baby. Now today we are back with another episode.
Speaker 1: And y'all know, I kick off the episodes with the
Speaker 1: behind the scenes of the Grind checking and if I'm
Speaker 1: being honest and if I'm getting behind the scenes at
Speaker 1: the Grind Right now, y'all know, I've been in court
Speaker 1: every day after the breakfast Club, so my days look
Speaker 1: like I've come into breakfast club later purposely because I'll
Speaker 1: be tired. So I get here start today around six am,
Speaker 1: go to court. Court normally ends around like five pm,
Speaker 1: but it's been ending at three o'clock as of this week,
Speaker 1: which gives me a little bit of time to get
Speaker 1: home and think about the next day and prepare.
Speaker 2: But I am people exhausted.
Speaker 1: I've never ever, ever in my life understood when people
Speaker 1: be like I need to reach charge my social battery.
Speaker 1: I thought that that was just like, you know, how
Speaker 1: people use buzzwords from TikTok, like gas lighting and toxic masculinity.
Speaker 1: I thought that hit my social battery and recharging was
Speaker 1: one of those things until I started going into this
Speaker 1: courthouse every day where You're hearing all of this information
Speaker 1: that you have to download and remember and take notes on,
Speaker 1: and in real time, I'm figuring out how to organize it,
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna talk about on which show, and oh
Speaker 1: my god, my brain cannot handle it. Like there's not
Speaker 1: enough to kill it in the world that can prepare
Speaker 1: you to sit through all.
Speaker 2: These testimonies and things of that nature.
Speaker 1: So yesterday I told myself that I was going to
Speaker 1: start doing an hour of just something that has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with the Nothing That means I sit and
Speaker 1: I watch a show that is not being talked about,
Speaker 1: I'm not reporting on. I call a friend who don't
Speaker 1: care nothing about Diddy and none of the escorts or
Speaker 1: anything like that. And I started that yesterday and it
Speaker 1: worked out really well for me. So it's been kind
Speaker 1: of like a me learning the balance of all of
Speaker 1: the things that have been happening late. Lee grateful for it, nonetheless,
Speaker 1: but it is definitely definitely I'm in a space of
Speaker 1: like learning how to stay mentally balanced and physically healthy
Speaker 1: while on the grind. So that's where I'm at right now.
Speaker 1: I hope y'all are doing well. But y'all know I
Speaker 1: got to do it because the case is still going on.
Speaker 1: We have a few weeks left. Got to take y'all
Speaker 1: a court because you know I love to take you
Speaker 1: out of court.
Speaker 2: Lot to take y'all a court.
Speaker 1: Coming up this week in court and what I'm preparing
Speaker 1: to go and do everything I just told y'all about,
Speaker 1: take notes, download, mentally, all of those things. It's Cassie's
Speaker 1: mom taking the stand and we're going to furnish testimony
Speaker 1: by a man named David who was a previous.
Speaker 2: Personal assistant of Diddies.
Speaker 1: He was a personal assistant for two years and he
Speaker 1: took the stand following Don Richard. But he didn't really
Speaker 1: get to talk for too long because we were nearing
Speaker 1: the end of the day. But already he is super emotional.
Speaker 1: I mean he is you could tell this kind of nervous,
Speaker 1: but he is very emotional. It feels like and he
Speaker 1: hasn't even said this out of his mouth yet, but
Speaker 1: it does feel like this man almost has been carrying
Speaker 1: a weight of some sort. And the reason why I
Speaker 1: say that is because number one of the minute, he
Speaker 1: got understand I told y'all he got emotional.
Speaker 2: He's been in tears since.
Speaker 1: But you could just tell by the way that they're
Speaker 1: setting up his testimony. So in the opening of his testimony,
Speaker 1: they established that he was a personal assistant, that he actually,
Speaker 1: you know, he graduated from college. He did all the things,
Speaker 1: and this is a white guy. He did all the things,
Speaker 1: and he.
Speaker 2: It was a career personal assistant.
Speaker 1: He had worked in corporate as a personal assistant for
Speaker 1: some time and then decided that he wanted to, you know,
Speaker 1: change lanes and go into the fashion genre of things.
Speaker 2: He says that there was an article in the.
Speaker 1: New York Times that listed that the CEO of bad
Speaker 1: Boy in Colmb's Enterprises, Sean Colmbs, was looking for a
Speaker 1: personal assistant and he thought, you know, this will be perfect,
Speaker 1: this will be a perfect pivot.
Speaker 2: So he applied, and he applied, and he applied. He
Speaker 2: applied multiple times.
Speaker 1: He really really wanted this job, and the prosecution is
Speaker 1: making sure they do a good job of letting us
Speaker 1: know he really really wanted this job and It wasn't
Speaker 1: about oh my god, I want to work for Diddy
Speaker 1: or you know, I'm a huge fan. It was about
Speaker 1: he is a career personal assistant who honestly thought that
Speaker 1: taking this job would elevate his career, his capabilities in
Speaker 1: his resume. And then he got the job and it
Speaker 1: only lasted for two years, and I'm sure we were
Speaker 1: going to find out why. But so they go into
Speaker 1: the fact that he had been applying for a while
Speaker 1: he got the interview. He says that the interview process
Speaker 1: was very, very professional, but he remembers and this is
Speaker 1: where he really got a little bit emotional.
Speaker 2: He hesitated when he talks about this.
Speaker 1: He says that although the interview process was really professional,
Speaker 1: there was one point in an interview process where he
Speaker 1: was in the office there was a photo of Diddy
Speaker 1: on the wall and the woman that he was speaking
Speaker 1: with looked up at the photo had him look up
Speaker 1: at the photo and say, Okay, welcome to Colmes Enterprises,
Speaker 1: and welcome to you know this this corporate arena that
Speaker 1: is surrounded by or that is built around seawan Colmbs
Speaker 1: look up at this photo everything we do and I'm
Speaker 1: and I'm I'm putting my own words on this, but
Speaker 1: this is to the effect of what was said. Everything
Speaker 1: we do is to please him. He is our king.
Speaker 1: So that already alone tells you and it sets the tone.
Speaker 1: They then go into you know and mind you this
Speaker 1: guy is like super white collar, like very much like
Speaker 1: you know, he gives you know, he could have also
Speaker 1: ended up on like a Wall Street or something of
Speaker 1: that nature. So imagine him in this setting where you know,
Speaker 1: you have a personality as large as Seawan Combs. And
Speaker 1: he said that it got to a point where Seawan
Speaker 1: Combs is security d Rock, who's the man that they
Speaker 1: They've been bringing up the Rock since day one. He
Speaker 1: alleges that d Rock at one point from the beginning
Speaker 1: told him, yo, listen, stay a lane, do your job,
Speaker 1: min your business, and he said eventually he learns how
Speaker 1: to do that. And he also talked about, you know,
Speaker 1: there were two times where he had a conversation with
Speaker 1: Cassie and three times where he interacted with her. So
Speaker 1: Cassie detailed a trip to Miami which was like her
Speaker 1: and Puff's first time actually getting together on like a
Speaker 1: romantic tip and like hanging out even though she was
Speaker 1: a bad boy artist.
Speaker 2: And this assistant.
Speaker 1: This man named David is actually the person who booked
Speaker 1: all of that travel because that was his job booking
Speaker 1: the travel, advancing locations for Puff, so going to like
Speaker 1: hotels and the Sherry Shepherd shows or back then it
Speaker 1: would have been Wendy Williams or Ellen or wherever he
Speaker 1: was going and making sure everything was set the way
Speaker 1: that it needed to be set, hotel rooms, everything right.
Speaker 1: So he says, you know, Diddy came to him and
Speaker 1: was like, you know, I really want to impress her.
Speaker 1: I'm bringing her to Miami. So he rented this yard,
Speaker 1: he did all the things, and Cassie talks about that
Speaker 1: experience and being on the yacht and that being their
Speaker 1: first time that like, you know, they were engaging in
Speaker 1: certain things together as far as certain drugs, and you know,
Speaker 1: that was the first time that they actually had sex
Speaker 1: and all of that stuff. So he's gone going into
Speaker 1: detail about this and he's like, you know, after that,
Speaker 1: I've only ever had two conversations with her in my
Speaker 1: two years of working.
Speaker 2: For Shawn Combs.
Speaker 1: One of the conversations, he recalled she was super excited
Speaker 1: about some music she had put together. There was a
Speaker 1: whole track list she planned to release this music and
Speaker 1: then it just never came out. And I think what
Speaker 1: the prosecutors are doing by bringing that up is speaking
Speaker 1: to the fact of what Cassie brought up, where it
Speaker 1: was like, you know, she suffered. He controlled everything, and
Speaker 1: he used that control over her music, how she lived,
Speaker 1: where she lived, what she drove, you know what opportunities
Speaker 1: she was able to say yes and no to to
Speaker 1: control her. So he's speaking to that. He's like, Yo,
Speaker 1: she was so excited. She had this track list, she
Speaker 1: was going down the music, she had it all put together.
Speaker 1: She was you know, it was already present to Shawn
Speaker 1: Combs and they were like, well what happened?
Speaker 2: And he said, it just never came out.
Speaker 1: And this would have been the second album on that
Speaker 1: ten album deal that Cassie let us know that she
Speaker 1: had had with bad Way when she first signed. And
Speaker 1: then the second time that he said that they had
Speaker 1: a conversation, he says that they were at He alleged
Speaker 1: they were at Sewan Colmes's house in Star Island, which
Speaker 1: is a very luxurious, exquisite part of Miami where a
Speaker 1: lot of the celebrities live, and they were out smoking cigarettes,
Speaker 1: bottled water, just you know, I guess kicking it in.
Speaker 1: She looked over at him almost like, Yo, this life
Speaker 1: is so crazy, and at this point she's in it.
Speaker 2: She's dealing with you know, Diddy and all of the things.
Speaker 1: And he said, they're simply like, if it's so crazy,
Speaker 1: just get out of it, Like, if this is not
Speaker 1: what you want to do, just don't do it, because
Speaker 1: it is crazy.
Speaker 2: I've been working in it and it is crazy.
Speaker 1: And he said that that was the first time that
Speaker 1: he ever heard her, you know, say that she she can't.
Speaker 1: Everything is tied to Shaan Colmbs at this point, she
Speaker 1: cannot like her career, where she lives, where she drives,
Speaker 1: her lifestyle, everything is tied to him, so she can't.
Speaker 2: And then they left off there.
Speaker 1: They also established because I think people forget about this
Speaker 1: in the freak Off, the freak Off, they forget about
Speaker 1: this in a Rico. Lord not, I don't got I
Speaker 1: got freak off on my soul. I need to go
Speaker 1: to church this weekend, they think about they forget about
Speaker 1: this in a Rico.
Speaker 2: That a part of it is just.
Speaker 1: You know the way that he dealt with employees as
Speaker 1: far as labor and the prosecution. So far, has already
Speaker 1: established that this man was overworking, underpaid. Okay, He said
Speaker 1: that he was working six to seven days a week,
Speaker 1: sometimes twenty plus hours a day, making seventy thousand dollars
Speaker 1: a year at Max, which is insane.
Speaker 2: He detailed his days.
Speaker 1: He said his day would start, you know, before eight
Speaker 1: am most of the time because he had to be
Speaker 1: on go, set up and ready before did he woke up,
Speaker 1: So he would get to the house before did he
Speaker 1: woke up. He would make sure that you know, Diddy's
Speaker 1: breakfast is being prepared, the TV or you know, the
Speaker 1: the whatever he wanted entertainment wise, was was ready for
Speaker 1: him to go so that when he came downstairs he
Speaker 1: could just go right into a great vibe to start
Speaker 1: his day so he could be the CEO he needed
Speaker 1: to be. He even detailed, like, you know, there would
Speaker 1: be certain folders, so like in the morning, there'd be like, okay,
Speaker 1: here's a folder of all the business deals that are
Speaker 1: happening that we need you to sign off on. Then
Speaker 1: there would be a folder of all the press clippings.
Speaker 1: Where did he would go through when he would look
Speaker 1: at okay, what are people saying about me right now?
Speaker 1: They able to have conversations about that. Then they would
Speaker 1: us get him together. He would you know, he's getting dressed,
Speaker 1: he's eating. Once all that has done, security is then told, okay,
Speaker 1: we're about to move around.
Speaker 2: He'd run around. He'd do his meetings by five, six o'clock.
Speaker 1: They were in dinners, whether it was a personal dinner,
Speaker 1: it was a business dinner.
Speaker 2: From then and there they would head to the studio.
Speaker 2: David says.
Speaker 1: They'd be in a studio to like four o'clock in
Speaker 1: the morning, and David was not allowed to leave puff
Speaker 1: for the day until he was given a call time
Speaker 1: for the morning. He would leave around four sometimes, he said,
Speaker 1: and his call time might be before eight am or
Speaker 1: eight am, and then he'd have to do it all again.
Speaker 1: And he did that for two years.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: What I thought was really interesting too, they set up
Speaker 1: so much as such a short period of time with him.
Speaker 1: I thought it was interesting that they talked about just
Speaker 1: Diddy and the women that he was dating, and what
Speaker 1: David got to see as far as that and did
Speaker 1: he named the list of women.
Speaker 2: He named two. He named two women that I'd never
Speaker 2: heard of before.
Speaker 1: He also named, of course Ken Porter, and he named Cassie,
Speaker 1: and he said that he'd overheard a conversation in a
Speaker 1: car as they were headed somewhere. Diddy was talking to
Speaker 1: one of his friends in the car and I guess
Speaker 1: the friend was asking him. Not I guess I know
Speaker 1: because he said it. The friend was asking Diddy, you know,
Speaker 1: how's Kim doing, And allegedly Diddy says, yo, Kim is great.
Speaker 1: She's in La. Everything's good. She with the babies, that's
Speaker 1: my queen. She didn't care home and the kids. And
Speaker 1: then he went into Cassie and he was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, she's just she's young and she
Speaker 1: moldible and you know what I mean, Like I got
Speaker 1: to write where I want her. And I'm like, oh man, oh,
Speaker 1: here we go. So David and not seeing some things. Baby,
Speaker 1: he up there, understand trembling and crying. I already knew
Speaker 1: he didn't see some things. But so it's going to
Speaker 1: be interesting to hear the rest of his testimony and
Speaker 1: to also hear Cassie's mom, who's going to be able
Speaker 1: to talk about, you know, just some of the things
Speaker 1: she wouldness from her side of it, because Cassie talked
Speaker 1: about a lot of the times where her mom was
Speaker 1: trying to get her to leave Diddy.
Speaker 2: Where did he would pull.
Speaker 1: Up to sit down and have conversations and apology conversations
Speaker 1: with her family, because as are some of the things
Speaker 1: that they had witnessed, and you know, the way saw
Speaker 1: her physically abused, not saw him in the act, but
Speaker 1: you know she would come home and have scars on
Speaker 1: her and just just different things. So today is going
Speaker 1: to be interesting day for sure, as as every day
Speaker 1: has been.
Speaker 2: And there's a lot more to come. Dang. I don't
Speaker 2: know if I should say to come with Okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, y'all know what I mean, there's a lot more
Speaker 1: that's going to happen that it's going to go down.
Speaker 1: I'll be right there and we will be right there,
Speaker 1: So make sure you guys stay locked. And I don't
Speaker 1: know predictions I'm assuming would be nice right now. I
Speaker 1: predict that by the end of this week we will.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't think because people are really questioning
Speaker 1: the prosecution right now and still asking but I don't
Speaker 1: see the evidence. Do they have a case? And I'm like,
Speaker 1: y'all don't see it. They are slowly but surely railroading
Speaker 1: Diddy like he is not coming home. I don't know
Speaker 1: what the sentencing is going to look like. I don't
Speaker 1: think that it's going to be as harsh and egregious
Speaker 1: as people think. But he's not coming home for sure.
Speaker 1: But if he comes home, it'll be like a technical miracle.
Speaker 1: But they're setting up the case, and I think by
Speaker 1: the end of this week people will feel like, oh, Okay,
Speaker 1: I see it now. I get what they're trying to do.
Speaker 1: I see the pieces to the puzzle.
Speaker 2: It's gonna go. We got some more weeks left, but
Speaker 2: I see it.
Speaker 1: Y'all have been on me because I did the Wendy
Speaker 1: Williams Mother's Day update here. Y'all have been on me
Speaker 1: to check in on Wendy and see how she's been doing,
Speaker 1: because it seems like that came and then it just went,
Speaker 1: which is not what happened. She's gag ordered, so she
Speaker 1: can't talk to media the way that she was before.
Speaker 1: But I did reach out to check in on her.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of you guys are like Lauren.
Speaker 1: You was giving us so much Wendy and then it
Speaker 1: just stopped. So I reached out trying to figure out
Speaker 1: what's going on with our girls. So I had that
Speaker 1: and some other exclusives right back here on the Latest
Speaker 1: with Lauren La Rose at the podcast. But you guys
Speaker 1: have been enjoying the Diddy conversations and you know me
Speaker 1: bringing y'all into court with me, So I'm gonna keep
Speaker 1: on doing that as well too.
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