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Speaker 1: Neither folks did. Is Friday, May thirtieth, the third week

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Speaker 1: of testimony in the Ditty trial is wrapping up today.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ MTJ Holmes

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Speaker 1: alongside my partner Amy Roboch and we continue to be

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Speaker 1: your one stop shop to get you caught up on

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Speaker 1: everything going on in the Ditty trial day in and

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Speaker 1: day out and robes. I don't know how to keep

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Speaker 1: being surprised, shocked, horrified by what we hear. We've heard

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Speaker 1: so much already, but then another day now is in

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Speaker 1: the books. Were very important witness and here we go again.

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Speaker 1: We can't believe what we heard.

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Speaker 2: I know this witness in particular actually testified anonymously. She

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Speaker 2: went under the name or the pseudonym of Mia, but

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Speaker 2: she was one of Ditty's personal assistants who claims and

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Speaker 2: testified that she was raped and sexually assaulted by Ditty.

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Speaker 2: And she was up there weeping on the stand. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: to your point, you think you've heard it all. And

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Speaker 2: these witnesses are consistent the picture that they are painting,

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Speaker 2: the stories that are telling are all consistent with this

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Speaker 2: theme of Diddy being a horrifically violent and angry man

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Speaker 2: who did whatever he wanted to whommeever he wanted, when

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Speaker 2: he wanted, and it's just appalling if you're believing what

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Speaker 2: each of these witnesses are testifying to. They are painting

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Speaker 2: the picture of an evil, maniacal tyrant.

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Speaker 1: And we do have to give your heads up. Some

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Speaker 1: of the stuff you're going to hear in this episode

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Speaker 1: here quite disturbing and probably farther than we have gone

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Speaker 1: before in some of the stuff. But it's important for

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Speaker 1: to get the story across for what they were saying

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Speaker 1: on the stand. But rose to your point about we

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Speaker 1: have heard so much about freak coughs. You think you've

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Speaker 1: heard it all. This witness offered some more extra detail

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Speaker 1: that we were still like, Eh, we've heard so much.

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Speaker 1: And they're telling almost the same but they're coming from

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Speaker 1: different perspectives, they have different details, and each time they're

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Speaker 1: adding something to the story. But to your point, it's consistent.

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Speaker 1: The stories line up.

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Speaker 2: They really do, and they're all like each witness that

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Speaker 2: them said and before them said, and then making it

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Speaker 2: we originally thought so.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yesterday, the day started with Deontae Nash on the

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Speaker 1: stand celebrity stylists who had been up on the stand

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Speaker 1: the day before, testifying to all kind of horrific things

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Speaker 1: he saw. But we were looking I say looking forward

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Speaker 1: to not in a pleasant way, but a lot of

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Speaker 1: people were highly anticipating the next witness that was going

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Speaker 1: to come up. We just mentioned her name, Mia, that's

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Speaker 1: all we know. But she's the former assistant to Ditty,

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Speaker 1: also a close friend to Cassie Ventura. Fine, this is

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Speaker 1: some of the most compelling stuff I have heard. It's

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Speaker 1: not just compelling robes in what she said, but how

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Speaker 1: a lot of court room observers described her demeanor and

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Speaker 1: how she talked up there. Yes, the crying and so

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Speaker 1: but they said she barely was able at times to

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Speaker 2: I saw that too, that that just spoke to It

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Speaker 2: was almost like it was hard to say it out loud,

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Speaker 1: That's exactly when she did, is when she had to

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Speaker 1: describe yes, being allegedly raped by Sean Combs or get

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Speaker 2: At a time, there were to be no descriptions of

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Speaker 2: what Mia actually looked like. In fact, the courtroom sketch

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Speaker 2: to know her name, so I think that's important to know.

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Speaker 2: She did put her name out there in the courtroom

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Speaker 1: And she is critical. She is one of the ones

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Speaker 1: She is an alleged victim of Sean Ditty Combs. She

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Speaker 2: That's right. She says that Diddy, of course, yes forbade

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Speaker 2: This quote that she said, or this testimony that she gave,

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Speaker 2: was jarring to me. Even though she's describing the rape,

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Speaker 2: There was no way I could tell him no, because

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Speaker 1: I mean, some books will try to I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: tough to get your hand around. It's tough to understand.

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Speaker 1: We've done stories and many people, most people in this country,

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Speaker 2: In some way.

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Speaker 1: It's always complex and to understand, well, why didn't she

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Speaker 2: I don't think it's hard to understand it all because

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Speaker 2: I totally absolutely relate to that. And she described it

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Speaker 2: During one of his birthday parties, his fortieth birthday party

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Speaker 2: She said, he grabbed her head and forced her to

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Speaker 1: She described, And again, I don't know if you up

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Speaker 1: I think it was a matter of several years, if

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Speaker 1: I have this right. But she said every time there

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Speaker 2: She would let her guard down. And by the way

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Speaker 2: But not only did she testify to sexual assaults, she

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Speaker 2: She said, he could ask you to do seventeen thousand

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Speaker 2: and he was all on a whim. You never knew

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Speaker 1: I think it was a prosecut that said, talk about

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Speaker 1: And I think you and I have both worked with

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Speaker 1: about the experience of what she had. She actually she's testifying, Yes, sure,

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Speaker 1: she's compelled to testify. She says she wanted to die

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Speaker 1: She was so ashamed and humiliated by what she had

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Speaker 2: You know, the shame and guilt, And anyone who has

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Speaker 1: That's I'm very much scared of the ocean right if

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Speaker 1: We've been talking Robes about the prosecution said they're right

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Speaker 1: We don't have that list. But they're changing something around.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, she said she once worked for five days without sleep.

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Speaker 1: it even started, no with her, so you know, the

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Speaker 1: defense is really going to probably take some go after her.

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Speaker 1: So again, folks said, this one's a little more details.

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Speaker 1: Why sometimes we've left some things out, but some of

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Speaker 1: these details were horrific. But it was important to share

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Speaker 1: her story and that's why we did it.

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Speaker 2: And we will continue to share all of the stories

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Speaker 2: that we hear on the stand each and every day.

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Speaker 2: So we appreciate you listening here while we try to

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Speaker 2: sum up what is happening in that courtroom just a

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Speaker 2: few blocks from where we're recording this right now. But

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Speaker 2: we hope you have a wonderful day and a great weekend. Everyone,

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening.

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Speaker 1: They do think