Speaker 1: I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
Speaker 1: and everybody. I don't know if you don't lie about that. Right. Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: it's Lauren le Rose that we are here at the courthouse.
Speaker 1: We just wrapped another day of testimony in the trial
Speaker 1: of Shawn Combs, the Diddy trial of mea assistant Mia,
Speaker 1: former personal assistant of Shawn Combs. Mia her testimony. Now,
Speaker 1: I will say to you guys that in the beginning
Speaker 1: of this cross testimony, I was I was a bit confused.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, okay. Brian Steele obviously is like the
Speaker 1: star of Diddy's defense team. I told you guys from
Speaker 1: the very beginning that Diddy's defense team had a very
Speaker 1: different approach depending on who was up. So you have
Speaker 1: Brian Steele, who is like very sharp to the point
Speaker 1: he's gonna get them punches in regardless. You have Mark Agnifilio,
Speaker 1: who is I would say Mark Agnofilio's is a little
Speaker 1: bit more. He's not as aggressive, he's not as straight
Speaker 1: to the point it he fumbles around a bit. It
Speaker 1: takes him a while to get to his point, and
Speaker 1: sometimes he arrives there and when he does, it's like Oh, okay,
Speaker 1: I understand, I get it. Other times it's like, okay, Mark,
Speaker 1: it takes you a minute. It might take you a
Speaker 1: witness or two after the witness that he first spoke
Speaker 1: to that kind of confused you a bit for you
Speaker 1: to fully understand the scope of his angling and what
Speaker 1: he's doing. Then garre Goes, who just recently we just
Speaker 1: found out that she's actually expecting a baby, thinks to
Speaker 1: Mark Gargo's her father, who revealed that on the two
Speaker 1: Ingraman podcasts on TMZ's podcast network. She is a beast
Speaker 1: when it comes to evidence, like she can dissect evidence,
Speaker 1: the way evidence was submitted, the way it was clocked
Speaker 1: and logged, like she is the evidence girl. But back
Speaker 1: to Brian Still and the reason why I broke that
Speaker 1: down for you guys is it's important to understand that
Speaker 1: to understand what I'm about to say and what I'll
Speaker 1: be breaking down, you know, on the podcast The Latest
Speaker 1: with Lauren Rosa, in breakfast Club, social media, all the
Speaker 1: places where I do the things. Brian Still today did
Speaker 1: something in court that he had Mia on the stand again.
Speaker 1: Mia is the personal assistance who alleges that she was
Speaker 1: raped by Diddy three times. And she also talks about,
Speaker 1: you know, just working in a very, very harsh, toxic environment.
Speaker 1: Her testimony has been quoted by several media outlets as
Speaker 1: like very important when it comes to having the conversation
Speaker 1: about proving the forced labor. Now, in the beginning of
Speaker 1: the Cross Today, Bryan still took a lot of time
Speaker 1: with reminding me of all of her post job conversations.
Speaker 1: So I mean when I say, text message you after
Speaker 1: text message after text message, he just kept them coming,
Speaker 1: reminding me like, hey, at this point, you weren't even
Speaker 1: working for Shawn Colmes. You had no tie to the
Speaker 1: company professionally. Even as a friend, you would reach out
Speaker 1: to him and he may or may not even respond
Speaker 1: to you, right, And he was showing every single time
Speaker 1: she's reaching out, Merry Christmas, love you. She reached out
Speaker 1: when kim Porter, you know, after Kimporter passed away. She
Speaker 1: reached out on Camporter's birthday. The following year, there was
Speaker 1: a lot of continuous follow ups. Diddy was doing a
Speaker 1: something in the water Festival that Pharrell brought to Virginia,
Speaker 1: and this was like the first year of it. I
Speaker 1: believe it was twenty nineteen. Mea the former assistant is
Speaker 1: from Virginia. So when that was announced and Diddy was,
Speaker 1: you know, allegedly a part of the lineup, she had
Speaker 1: texted Diddy and say, Yo, look, I'm so happy that
Speaker 1: you're a part of this. You know, you just being
Speaker 1: involved has already brought a positive light to the festival
Speaker 1: and to the area of Virginia Beach. And Brian Sales like, well,
Speaker 1: why would you text a man who you alleged right
Speaker 1: after all this time, right between the timeline of when
Speaker 1: you alleged that he's sexually assaulted you. There's been so
Speaker 1: much time that passed to now, why would you text
Speaker 1: a man who you were alleging sexually assaulted you and
Speaker 1: say to him your presence is going to make this positive.
Speaker 1: Already you're thanking him for coming into your community and
Speaker 1: doing these things, but you have no reason to text him.
Speaker 1: You're no longer tied to him, you no longer work
Speaker 1: for him. Not only that, but you weren't even required
Speaker 1: to be there. You're letting him know that, Okay, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna be there because your grandmother, you know, it's
Speaker 1: currently a hospice and you gotta go say your goodbyes,
Speaker 1: and she's like, you know, I just assumed that because
Speaker 1: he was in you know, my hometown, that I may
Speaker 1: be required to be there. And he's like, okay, whatever,
Speaker 1: you let that go. And he was doing things like
Speaker 1: that for a while where he would like open up
Speaker 1: the thought of, like she just wouldn't let go of
Speaker 1: you know, the relationship that she had with Diddy workwise
Speaker 1: and the friendship and you know, the life that she
Speaker 1: was living during the time when she was working with Diddy.
Speaker 1: But he would ever like close it. He would never
Speaker 1: just like directly say, which is what all these attorneys do,
Speaker 1: Like that is a strategy, that is a game, that
Speaker 1: is what they do, right, So he's doing a lot
Speaker 1: of that. So he talks about the you know, the
Speaker 1: festival in Virginia. He gets her to say on the stand,
Speaker 1: why you know, I thought that I may be required
Speaker 1: to be there, And then they talk about there was
Speaker 1: another text message that they brought up when she me
Speaker 1: a former personal assistant texts Diddy and said, you know,
Speaker 1: she's remembering old times. And a lot of the text
Speaker 1: messages were that were her remembering the old times. And
Speaker 1: sometimes did he would engage and sometimes he wouldn't, and
Speaker 1: mind you not only is this post her alleging you know,
Speaker 1: the time period of her sexual assault, but this is all.
Speaker 1: I also post her receiving a settlement because when she
Speaker 1: was when she decided to separate from the company, she
Speaker 1: got an attorney and they settled out. She took home
Speaker 1: four hundred thousand dollars, but she personally took home two
Speaker 1: hundred k after paying out her people. Right, So this
Speaker 1: is post all of that she is free. She is not,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like, there is no there's
Speaker 1: no legal obligation for her to be in conversation with Diddy,
Speaker 1: nor is she working for him at this point. So
Speaker 1: Brian still was making a point. He's like, okay, so
Speaker 1: not only were we texting about Virginia and something in
Speaker 1: the water festival when you were not required to be there, right,
Speaker 1: but you text him about r Kelly. So then they
Speaker 1: read a text. The text, you know, to summarize it,
Speaker 1: Na Verbatim said that she had had a dream about
Speaker 1: R Kelly, that she was in an elevator with R Kelly,
Speaker 1: and that Diddy actually was the one that came and
Speaker 1: saved her. He's like, wait, hold on, So after this
Speaker 1: man sexually assaulted you allegedly, right, you then text him
Speaker 1: about R Kelly and you make him your savior in
Speaker 1: this dream that you had, and you were okay with
Speaker 1: doing that. And he's asking her like, well, why would
Speaker 1: you do that? And she's like, she's like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: you know, like I don't know. She just kept saying
Speaker 1: she didn't know. She couldn't explain it, you know, she
Speaker 1: was saying that like she would. She did a lot
Speaker 1: of when they were bringing up all these text messages
Speaker 1: and her reaching back out, like she also reached out
Speaker 1: when Andre Herrel passed away. Do you know, just just
Speaker 1: various times, in various moments she reached out. She had
Speaker 1: found like some no Chadwick Boseman. She reached out when
Speaker 1: Chadwick Boseman passed away as well, because we found out
Speaker 1: today in court that Diddy had actually auditioned to play
Speaker 1: James Brown. Chadwick Boseman ended up getting the role, but
Speaker 1: did he auditioned alongside Chadwick Boseman. So when Chadwick Bosman
Speaker 1: passed away, assistant Mia reached out and was like, man, like,
Speaker 1: you know, him passing away just brought back memories. Remember
Speaker 1: you were, you know, auditioning to be James Brown, and
Speaker 1: she talked about the suit, and she talked about they
Speaker 1: had a bunch of you know, videotapes of the auditions
Speaker 1: and all these things, and she had been taking around
Speaker 1: like a camera before, you know, allegedly before did he
Speaker 1: had like these content creators following him. So she had
Speaker 1: a lot of these like videotapes of just old moments
Speaker 1: and all memories. And she even put together like a
Speaker 1: scrap book for his birthday of all these media moments
Speaker 1: from like, you know, when they first started to like,
Speaker 1: you know, the forty fourth birthday, and it was just
Speaker 1: a lot of things that she held on to that,
Speaker 1: you know, she would bring back up in conversation when
Speaker 1: the moments made sense or when birthday celebrations and things
Speaker 1: of that nature. So so when that was happening, and
Speaker 1: she's like, Okay, look, I don't know, I can't answer
Speaker 1: the question. It's a mental health thing. At the time,
Speaker 1: she you know, she's like, I didn't have all the resources.
Speaker 1: I didn't feel like I had the resources to really
Speaker 1: understand what was happening to me. They asked her, you know,
Speaker 1: you met with the government twenty seven times. You waited
Speaker 1: until the last couple of times that you met with
Speaker 1: the government to even mention the fact that you were
Speaker 1: sexually assaulted allegedly and you waited until you did that
Speaker 1: because you had an attorney, correct, And she's like no,
Speaker 1: Like they made it a point to mention that her
Speaker 1: attorneys were and pro Brono and she's like, no, it
Speaker 1: wasn't that. I just didn't have the resources. I didn't
Speaker 1: know how to go about things. They brought up the
Speaker 1: fact that she had been speaking to Cassie during you know,
Speaker 1: the time the Cassie settlement had come out allegedly, and
Speaker 1: you know, she and Emia admitted like they did have
Speaker 1: some conversations, but she said that they never talked about
Speaker 1: the case and then preparing for the case. But this
Speaker 1: whole time, I'm like, Okay, Brian, still I think you're
Speaker 1: good at what you do. But at the same time, like,
Speaker 1: what are we getting to here, because how do we
Speaker 1: prove that, you know, her reaching back out and staying
Speaker 1: connected wasn't something that has to do with her mental health, Like,
Speaker 1: there's no way that you can properly prove that. We
Speaker 1: put the expert on the stand and talk about that,
Speaker 1: to talk about trauma and how it affects different people
Speaker 1: and PTSD, which Mia said prior to that she had experienced,
Speaker 1: you know, in going back to work for celebrities after
Speaker 1: working for the Diddy allegedly like and defense was like, no,
Speaker 1: we don't want this expert on the stand. We don't
Speaker 1: want to talk about that. So this woman is leaning
Speaker 1: into all of these things. How do you prove that
Speaker 1: or disprove it? For the defense? Why are we having
Speaker 1: this conversation? And then Brian still just start going in.
Speaker 1: He gets to the point where he because because now
Speaker 1: he's starting to say things more direct because you were
Speaker 1: lying because this didn't happen, things like that, right, And
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, okay, the judge and it gets to
Speaker 1: a point where the government is objecting everything everything. They're like,
Speaker 1: you know, objection, objection, objection. They didn't have a sidebar.
Speaker 1: They didn't have so many sidebars in today's cross examination.
Speaker 1: It ain't funny. They didn't have a sidebar. And when
Speaker 1: they come back from the sidebar, the judge is like, look,
Speaker 1: he's talking to Brian still. He's like, listen, you keep
Speaker 1: asking questions that are that we are like, it's objected.
Speaker 1: And then once it's objected, you still continue to ask
Speaker 1: the question. So I'm starting to think that you're doing
Speaker 1: that just to get your question in, which is not
Speaker 1: fair because the jury shouldn't hear the question if it's objected,
Speaker 1: and if you are doing that just to get your
Speaker 1: question in, like, that's not you can't do that. So
Speaker 1: I already I'm like, okay, wait because now at first
Speaker 1: I'm I'm like, yo, Brian, what are you doing? You
Speaker 1: messing this up? And then as that's happening, and then
Speaker 1: when a judge comes and says that, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: because a lot of this testimony, I've been feeling like okay,
Speaker 1: and when I made the video saying that, I feel
Speaker 1: like the government has like presented everything that they can
Speaker 1: at this point, everything else is just redundant and or
Speaker 1: just like you know, adding and piling on which I
Speaker 1: get it. It's without a shadow of a doubt. The
Speaker 1: proof is without a shodow of a doubt. So I
Speaker 1: get it right. But at this point a lot of
Speaker 1: what we're having conversation about is about how people felt
Speaker 1: and what they experienced. And you may have text messages
Speaker 1: and emails and you know, photos, but it's different because
Speaker 1: like when a Cassie was on the stand, right, and
Speaker 1: she talked about, you know, she was scared and she
Speaker 1: was being forced to do these things allegedly because she
Speaker 1: thought she'd be physically abused. You then had the photos
Speaker 1: and these different things to point to. And I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that Miya was not you know, Nia Kinte leisure
Speaker 1: she was sexually assaulted, because we don't have physical proof
Speaker 1: that had happened. But my point is is even when
Speaker 1: you remove her sexual assault allegations, right, when you just
Speaker 1: talk about the forced labor part of this, the you know,
Speaker 1: the the whole uh, the conspiracy of you know, she's
Speaker 1: working within this whole group and unit of people allegedly
Speaker 1: who she can't tell, she's physically afraid to, she can't
Speaker 1: push back about certain things to allegedly. Right, these are
Speaker 1: all things that they're setting up to prove their case.
Speaker 1: But there's nothing fully there. Even in the text messages
Speaker 1: and the emails that she did say when she was
Speaker 1: trying to hurt people at certain things, it's like she's saying, yo,
Speaker 1: I couldn't do that because people were fired, people were this,
Speaker 1: people were that. So we're seeing bits and pieces of
Speaker 1: these solid concrete tangible evidence, but everything else is uped
Speaker 1: up to testimony, various testimonies, which change as you go
Speaker 1: to people to people. So I'm like, if I'm Brian Steele,
Speaker 1: and I know that right now this witness is here
Speaker 1: alleging things that neither side, neither one of us may
Speaker 1: actually be able to, like one hundred percent prove with
Speaker 1: a tangible piece of evidence. The only thing you can
Speaker 1: do is playing a thought in a jurora's mind. Boom.
Speaker 1: That's what Brian still did the whole rest of the time.
Speaker 1: The judge specifically told him, you are harassing the witness
Speaker 1: and that cannot happen. The way that you are talking
Speaker 1: to her and the way that you know she's being
Speaker 1: handled on the on the stand. You know, they wanted
Speaker 1: to have a conversation about if this will make other
Speaker 1: women not want to come out about these alleged things.
Speaker 1: But then I promise y'all he was so called her
Speaker 1: a liar, told her things did not happen. Even when
Speaker 1: they went into the conversation about Cassie and Cassie being
Speaker 1: her best friend. It's like, look, this is your best friend,
Speaker 1: but you had you had to tell her certain things
Speaker 1: when it came to Ditty that were not true, correct,
Speaker 1: And she's like, yes, Mia said yes, but only because
Speaker 1: that was her job. She worked for Ditty, she had
Speaker 1: to do and say certain things. And they're like, so
Speaker 1: you lie to your sister, Like there were certain buzzwords
Speaker 1: that he was planting. He even called her and I
Speaker 1: highlighted this one. He started talking about money, right, because
Speaker 1: he's like, is it true that you're here because you
Speaker 1: think you're gonna some money from this and she's like no, absolutely,
Speaker 1: Like what no, absolutely not type vibes, right, And then
Speaker 1: they bring up the settlement that she received when she
Speaker 1: left working for Diddy and the fact that she had
Speaker 1: actually asked for ten million but only received that four
Speaker 1: hundred k two hundred k take home. And then and
Speaker 1: then they brought back in the fact that her lawyers
Speaker 1: working pro bono, you know, trying to shape this whole
Speaker 1: like this is just a cash grab allegedly, right, he
Speaker 1: called her a me too money grabber. While she was
Speaker 1: on the stand in front of the jury. I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, because in granted she brought up me too.
Speaker 1: She mentioned in her previous testimony on direct with the
Speaker 1: government that she didn't say anything about certain things because
Speaker 1: at that time, you know, it wasn't it wasn't as
Speaker 1: normal for women to get on social media and claim things,
Speaker 1: and the Me too movement hadn't happened, and Diddy was
Speaker 1: such a big star and all these things. But Brian
Speaker 1: still made it a point, a big point today to
Speaker 1: hammer in, like, you know, at these points where you're
Speaker 1: still you know, reaching out to Diddy and saying Merry Christmas,
Speaker 1: I love you, wishing you guys, pieces like all these
Speaker 1: things right at this point now, the Me too movement
Speaker 1: is years in social media, has millions of users. You
Speaker 1: could have had a voice if you wanted one. Why
Speaker 1: didn't you? And then he called her a me too
Speaker 1: money grabber. It was a very aggressive way to go
Speaker 1: about across the examination, almost hostile in my opinion. It
Speaker 1: was given like he didn't care if he was even
Speaker 1: found in a contempt of court. The thought process in
Speaker 1: the imagery that he wanted the jewelry to have was
Speaker 1: this woman because also she's been very like mild tempered
Speaker 1: and like doesn't even look up during the whole testimony.
Speaker 1: Brian still is very direct, he's sharp, he's saying what
Speaker 1: he needs to say, and he is not holding back
Speaker 1: objection after objection after objection, He's just going. She didn't
Speaker 1: break down and crash it in any of that. And
Speaker 1: I thought she would, to be honest with you, because
Speaker 1: of some of the things that he was saying and
Speaker 1: just how he was just going and going and going.
Speaker 1: But I'm like, man, I mean, if you're trying to
Speaker 1: make a thought turn, this is how you do it.
Speaker 1: You give the jury the thought to have instead of
Speaker 1: just inferning it, because every youtorney up until this point
Speaker 1: has just laid things out there and invert it. Now
Speaker 1: the prosecution came back on they did try to clear
Speaker 1: things up. They're like, you know, because they brought up
Speaker 1: like birthday posts that she had posted for Diddy and
Speaker 1: you know, some rock posts and things of that nature.
Speaker 1: And you know, the prosecution tried to clear it up
Speaker 1: by saying that was your job, correct, Like everybody that
Speaker 1: worked for Diddy posted for his birthday and things of that,
Speaker 1: and she's like yeah. And then they brought up the
Speaker 1: fact that she didn't like a public speaking and the
Speaker 1: fact that like she looks down so much because she's
Speaker 1: terrified of public speaking, and you know that like, for her,
Speaker 1: it's not about money. She kept saying that she was
Speaker 1: there because she felt like it was something that she
Speaker 1: morally had to do. And she ended on you know
Speaker 1: her her readdirect with the government, saying she can't look
Speaker 1: her niece and her God good in their eyes and
Speaker 1: guide them throughout life without standing up there and doing
Speaker 1: the right thing. So that's why she was here. Brian
Speaker 1: still wasn't trying to hear none of that, none of it,
Speaker 1: none of it like I've never seen anything like it,
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to say it confused me at first,
Speaker 1: and then I was like, oh, and I wasn't in
Speaker 1: the actual courtroom where you could see the drawers. I
Speaker 1: was in an overflow room today. But I just talked
Speaker 1: to a friend who was in the courtroom where you
Speaker 1: could see the actual drawers, and I asked him. That
Speaker 1: was my first question. I'm like, what were the George
Speaker 1: reactions today? Because Brian said was straight at her, like
Speaker 1: straight at her, no, miss it straight at her, and
Speaker 1: he said like, no, they were reacting a lot to
Speaker 1: you know her, because she couldn't remember, she didn't remember
Speaker 1: majority of everything today and literally her response was, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't remember, I don't know, I don't remember,
Speaker 1: or she would say, can you repeat the question? I
Speaker 1: don't I don't really understand the question. Because Brian still
Speaker 1: was getting in trouble a lot for the way he
Speaker 1: was framing the questions, because the way he was framing
Speaker 1: the questions again, it wasn't even about getting answer from her.
Speaker 1: He knew she wasn't going to be able to answer
Speaker 1: the question. He was just trying to. He wanted certain
Speaker 1: words in certain scenarios and certain things to be put
Speaker 1: out there, like me too, money grab her liar, you
Speaker 1: lied to your best friend, Cassie, but that's supposed to
Speaker 1: be your best friend. He brought up the fact of,
Speaker 1: like you keep talking about, you decided to take lead
Speaker 1: from you and your job separated, right like basically we
Speaker 1: decided to go our separate ways. He said, no, weren't
Speaker 1: you fired allegedly because you were drinking on the job,
Speaker 1: And then they objected to that. He just went right
Speaker 1: around it. He just acted like it didn't happen. There
Speaker 1: were certain ideas and things he was trying to plant
Speaker 1: in the juror's minds even if he got in trouble today,
Speaker 1: and he was successful at it. He was very successful
Speaker 1: at that all right, guys, so we'll be back another
Speaker 1: day this week and just you know, following what's going on,
Speaker 1: and it's going to rose at. This is the latest
Speaker 1: with Lauren Rosa. As always, I tell y'all, y'all could
Speaker 1: be anywhere with anybody else listening to all these things,
Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, there is always
Speaker 1: a lot going on, but y'all are right here with me.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys so much. I'll see you in
Speaker 1: my next upload.