Diddy Trial's Most Disturbing Claims: Week Four Breakdown

The hip-hop mogul has been charged with sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy, and transportation to engage in prostitution. He's maintained his innocence. If convicted on all charges, which also include arson and bribery, Combs could face a mandatory 15-year prison sentence, with the possibility of life behind bars.

Ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura, who dated Combs from 2007 to 2018, dominated the first week of the trial, detailing graphic allegations of sexual experiences called "freak offs" orchestrated by Combs, as well as allegations of drug usage, violence, blackmail, and even rape. Get a full breakdown of her testimony here.

Others on the witness stand included an escort who was allegedly involved in "freak offs," as well as an agent who detailed what was seized when authorities arrested Combs at a New York City hotel in September 2024, and former Danity Kane member Dawn Richard.

Catch up on everything that happened Week 1 here.

Scott Mescudi, a.k.a. Kid Cudi, who briefly dated Ventura in 2011, took the stand to talk breaking up with her shortly after a car explosion he blames on Combs, as well as alleged threats and fear of violence. He also said he felt "played" by Ventura when she went back to Combs.

Also on the witness stand last week were Cassie's mother, ex-best friend, and her former makeup artist. A forensics agent for Homeland Security, the Special Agent in charge of the raid on Combs' Miami Beach home, a hotel manager, two of Combs' ex-assistants, and a former exotic dancer named "Punisher" also detailed their alleged experiences with Combs.

Catch up on everything that happened Week 2 here.

Capricorn Clark, a former Combs assistant and eventual creative director for Cassie detailed her years working with both of them, including allegations of witnessed assault, aggression, and blackmail threats.

Also on the stand were the officer who responded to Mescudi's house after the alleged break-in, the arson investigator who looked into his car fire, and Cassie's former stylist, who also alleged witnessing threats and violence. The defense also sought a mistrial, quickly denied.

The week was bookended by the start of "Mia's" testimony, another former assistant who alleges Combs got violent with and sexually assaulted her on more than one occasion. She also testified to witnessing multiple instances of violence against and control of Cassie by Combs.

Catch up on everything that happened Week 3 here.

"Jane," a former girlfriend of Combs who is testifying under a pseudonym, claimed Combs asked her to get her nipples pierced -- saying, "He said it would turn him on and that's what he wanted from his girl." When she did, she said they bled and got infected, so she took them out after a year.

That, she claimed, "agitated" Combs.

She also said she would get UTIs and yeast infections "almost every week" -- and sometimes couldn't recover before another "hotel night." Jane claimed she also had soreness in her pelvic area, while her shoulders and back would also hurt from certain sexual positions.

Jane also claimed that Combs said he didn't know how she really felt about their "hotel nights" toward the end of their relationship -- but then looked at her texts and realized she had been "telling him the same thing over and over again" for years.

She later said she wasn't sure how many men she had sex with over their many "hotel nights," adding that one of the men "repulsed" her, was sweaty and he "kind of smelled." Though she said she "tried to make it work," she told Combs she wasn't feeling it, before Combs started to have sex with her and sent the man away. Then, she said, another man entered the room.

Jane claimed Combs surprised her with another man on her birthday, followed by "Sly" and a third man the same night. She said she "did not expect" to have other men with them that evening, believing it would just be the two of them, but added, "I just accepted it."

"Jane" later testified that Combs would have drugs delivered to the hotel if they ran out and claimed she was asked to pick up drugs in Los Angeles and fly with them to Miami. She claimed the two later took ecstasy together, from the package she brought to Florida.

She added she would book "entertainers" for hotel nights because she felt "it was to be expected" from her and she "loved him very deeply" at the time. She claimed Combs would record the "hotel nights" with his cellphone, saying the footage was "just for him" -- before sharing 15 photos with the jury from one of the evenings.

Per Jane, their last encounter was August 2024, one month before his arrest -- see more about that here.

"Jane," a former girlfriend of Combs who is testifying under a pseudonym, returned to the stand Friday and spoke more about her alleged experience with "freak offs."

Detailing one alleged "hotel night," she said Diddy wanted her to be "wild and sexual" -- but was dismissive of her requests for other men involved to wear condoms. "He said he didn’t want to see a rubber while he was watching," she claimed, before crying while saying he would give her ecstasy to keep her awake during these hours-long escapades.

"He asked me to slow things down and do more foreplay," she said, claiming one incident went on for 18 hours. She said she broke down crying after and claimed Combs told her, "don't do that right now."

She also shared an alleged text in which she told Combs, "It's dark, sleazy and makes me feel disgusted with myself. It's the only reason you have me around and why you pay for my house. I don't want to feel obligated to perform and fear losing you. I don't want to feel like that anymore, I just want to talk like adults and figure where we go from here."

She claimed she tried doing a "freak off" sober twice, one time giving in and asking for a pill. For the other time, she said she "was just disgusted, I was just repulsed, I was just so mad at myself for doing that. I just deeply regretted that."

Per Jane, she said she first picked out who they would have a "freak off" with in late 2021 or early 2022, saying it was a man named "Sly" who they saw in a porno. She said she reached out to him over Instagram, before FaceTiming him and later booking a trip for him to join them in Los Angeles. "Sly" became a more regular staple for the two, with "Jane" saying he was typically paid between $2-$4,000 each night.

Jane also claimed Combs would want the men they planned to have "hotel nights" with to send her photos of their genitals, adding she would be flirtatious with the men if Diddy was around, but would be more "bland" when he wasn't. "When I’m in my sober mind receiving these messages it’s kind of not something that I like to see," she said.

On Thursday, prosecutors and defense continued to question Bryana Bongolan about her alleged experience with Combs, under cross-examination and re-direct. She insisted the balcony attack described previously happened and said she hasn't lied about anything under oath to the jury.

See more about her final day on the stand here.

Later in the day, the judge warned the defense that Combs could be kicked out of the courtroom if he continues making faces or eye contact with the jury. The judge claimed he was "nodding vigorously" while looking at the jury during Bongolan's testimony.

"It is absolutely unacceptable," said the judge.

After Combs purportedly introduced "freak offs" into their relationship, Jane said she tried to tell him she didn't want to have sex with other men. At this time, she said that Combs was paying the rent for her house, and when she would say this, he'd say it was fine if she wanted to break up, but he wouldn't pay rent for a woman he wasn't seeing.

She said she wasn't even trying to break up in this conversations, but rather convince him to not invite other men into their sexual relationship. "I felt frustrated," she said, but at the same time she said she felt obligated to "perform" in "freak offs" for him.

When it came to these encounters, Jane said she would often get one day or even less notice that Combs wanted one, so she would have to keep herself ready and available, arranging childcare and keeping her hair and nails always done. She said he called the nights with other men "debauchery" or "hotel nights."

From May 2021 to October 2023 -- before they were on a relationship break until February 2024 -- Jane testified that there was a "hotel night" every time she saw him in multiple different cities. Her travel arrangements were usually coordinated by Combs' former chief of staff Kristina Khorram, his travel agent, or an assistant, with Combs footing the bill.

She described the hotel rooms as being set up with red lights, music, beds sheets and blankets everywhere "for the obsessive use of baby oil." According to Jane, they'd go through more than two dozen bottles of baby oil in a single "hotel night."

She said she felt "really consumed by him," impacting her ability to work and make her own money, with her social media presence declining after they started seeing one another.

Combs sent her money, between $5k and $10k in cash or wires for larger amounts, she said on the stand. She tossed around the idea of starting an OnlyFans page (for just bikini, lingerie, or nudes, with no sexual content), but said Combs told her to wait.

After a big fight and breakup, Jane said Combs suggested a "verbal" contract, giving her a $10k/month allowance, which he agreed to put directly to her rent. "I just wanted to experience something that was nice, just so I could feel some sort of balance in our relationship," Jane explained in court.

On the stand, the woman testifying anonymously under the name "Jane" detailed what she learned about Combs' sexual preferences from February to May 2021, which she said often included drugs like ecstasy, molly, cocaine, and ketamine.

She said she learned "he liked to have pornography playing," and that he preferred her to wear "provocative lingerie and really high stripper shoes." She said he also liked to put baby oil on both of their bodies.

When they were intimate in his Miami home, where he would fly her once a week to see him, she said it was in his room with red lights on and that the sessions would last for up to 12 to 24 hours. She said she loved these sessions, as she "really loved my partner."

One night in May 2021, amid one of these marathon sessions, Jane said Combs first brought up the idea of her fantasizing about being with other men and asked if she'd want to do that. She thought she was just "playing into his fantasy" when she said okay, but he was immediately on the phone to "make that happen tonight."

While she was taken aback, she again said okay, "because my partner was excited and it was already happening." Within hours, she said they were in a hotel suite with Combs' assistants setting things up with red lights.

Jane said she was "super nervous" and still high from drugs taken earlier when the guy -- who Combs told her he knew -- arrived. She said she and the man from the Cowboys for Angels service ultimately had sex while Combs watched, and then he left. Then, she and Bombs had sex and she said they were both happy.

While she felt "exhilarated" by that first night, she testified that she thought of it more as a one-time thing. Instead, she said it felt as if "that night just opened like a Pandora’s box in the relationship" that she was "unable to shut for the remainder of our relationship."

When asked why she wanted to shut that door, Jane testified that "there was so much of it after, and it was too much of it." She only wanted to have sex with Combs, having already chosen monogamy with him for her part.

After digital forensics analyst Enrique Santos took the stand to offer some logistical information about text threads extracted from three iPhones belong to Ventura -- in particular noting that some names were lost or corrupted, and visible timestamps may not correspond accurately with when a text message was sent or received -- "Jane" took the stand.

Like "Mia" earlier in the week, "Jane" is testifying under a pseudonym to keep her true identity secret. In the trial's opening statements, "Jane" was described as a single mother who began dating Combs in 2021. She was also said to have been encouraged to participate in "freak offs," and purportedly alleged instances of violence.

On the stand, Jane testified that she was in a relationship with Combs from 2021 to 2024 after they'd first met in November 2020 while she was on a girls trip in Miami. At the time, she said he was romantically involved with one of her friends and they met at a party hosted at his home. She also said that Combs had paid for the trip.

According to Jane, the overall trip lasted five days, three of which she saw Combs. "He was really charming, really nice, and I was already drawn to him pretty instantly," she said. Before the trip was over, she said Combs had asked for her number, and they'd mutually agreed to use the names "Bert" and "Ernie" as their phone contact names.

She recalled getting a "pink powder" with Combs after a friend asked for drugs, and that by the end of the trip, he'd texted her that he wanted to ask her out. "I remember he was flirtatious, he was inviting me to Miami," Jane testified.

In January 2021, she returned for an event and the two met up in her hotel room, Combs was "larger than life" and very charming, and they "made lots of love." Overall, she testified that their first night together was "amazing."

A month later they went on a 15-day trip to celebrate her birthday, according to Jane. During it, she said she received a "love" bracelet, and ecstasy, which she estimated they took about 10 times. Each time, Jane said, Combs provided the drugs and managed her dosage.

After the trip, She said Combs offered and then wired her $10k for the loss of time from her work as an influencer. She thinks they may have started using the word "love" to describe their feelings, but that Combs was also honest that he was seeing multiple other women.

"I liked him, and so I was OK with it," she said of him seeing other women. But for her, "In my heart, I just wanted to see Sean, so I was monogamous."

She said their relationship stayed private and lasted until his arrest. In June 2021, Jane said she moved to California from the East Coast and that Combs gave her money, including $6k for a moving truck, and would periodically transfer her money "just because."

Under cross-examination, Bryana Bongolan -- a longtime friend of Cassie's -- said the two "partied" and did drugs together a lot, including marijuana, ecstasy, ketamine and cocaine. She admitted to selling drugs to Ventura as well, adding, "We had a problem."

She also said she spoke with Ventura both before and after Cassie filed her lawsuit against Diddy in 2023. Per the witness, Ventura asked if she could name Bongolan regarding the balcony incident in her lawsuit, but Bongolan said no.

See how the defense attempted to poke holes in her earlier testimony here.

A longtime friend of Cassie's, Bryana Bongolan, was next up on the stand.

Bongolan claimed that in 2016, Diddy held her over a 17th-story balcony after throwing her over the balcony's furniture, which she says led to a bruise and pain. In later testimony, she said it happened after Diddy showed up to Cassie's apartment and began banging on the door. When she went outside on the balcony to smoke some pot, she claimed he then "came up behind me" and lifted her over the railing shouting, "Do you know what the f--k you did?"

She said it lasted about 15 seconds, before Ventura asked her, "Did you just hang her over the balcony?" in "disbelief" after. Bongolan said she was afraid to report the incident to police, claimed Combs and his security FaceTimed her in the days after and didn't seek further treatment for her alleged injuries other than seeing a chiropractor.

She also testified she still suffers from "night terrors and paranoia," and sometimes screams in her sleep. Per Bongolan, she sued Combs for $10 million over the balcony incident -- but would give away the money for the incident in question to have never happened.

She also claimed Ventura showed her her black eye before The Perfect Match premiere in 2016, which would have happened following the InterContinental Hotel incident. She also described Diddy asking Cassie for a "list" of places she and Bongolan had gone after a shopping spree together.

In another alleged incident, Bongolan claimed Diddy showed up to Cassie's apartment in the middle of the night and was "banging on the door." He came in and, per Bongolan, she then recalled "seeing a knife get thrown in [Ventura's] direction." She said Cassie threw the knife back, not striking him, before Diddy left.

She said he threatened her during a 2016 photoshoot on the beach, claiming he "said something around the lines of, 'I'm the devil and I could kill you.'" She didn't know what prompted that reaction, but assumed he was on cocaine.

Bongolan later claimed Combs used marijuana, ketamine and cocaine and would supply her with drugs. She admitted to doing drugs with Cassie and selling them to her as well, but said they tried getting sober.

She claimed she last hung out with the pair in 2018 in Miami, where they did ketamine for eight hours. Bongolan later got sober and began seeing Ventura more sporadically.

A forensic video expert named Frank Piazza first took the stand on Wednesday, walking the court through the security footage of Diddy's attack on Cassie at the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles in 2016.

Get a full breakdown of his testimony here.

While former Combs Enterprises head of finance Derek Ferguson was on the stand, prosecutors brought out bank records that align with Ventura's mother Regina's testimony that her husband was told to wire $20,000 to Combs or he would release sexually explicit video of their daughter after Combs found out about Ventura's relationship with Scott Mescudi a.k.a. Kid Cudi.

Financial records for his Alpine, New Jersey home shown to the jury included a $20,000 wire transfer from Ventura's father on December 23, 2011. Regina had testified that the family took out a home equity loan to be able to afford the payment.

She also said the money was returned days later with no explanation. Financial records also supported this claim, showing a $20,000 transfer to Broderick Ventura on December 27.

The jury was also shown a third transaction, that predated both transactions involving Cassie's father. On December 14, records show a $20,000 transfer to Cassie herself. There is no clear explanation for this transfer.

When asked if he witnessed any violence toward Ventura or anyone else, or if he had ever witnessed Combs or anyone help Combs commit crimes, Ferguson testified, "No."

"Did you see anyone make the company stronger through threats of violence?" defense attorney Marc Agnifilo asked, to which Ferguson also said no.

On re-direct, Ferguson was asked if he ever saw Combs outside of the office -- like in his home or in hotel rooms where other witnesses have testified to allegedly problematic behavior. The former executive stated that he worked in the New York office for Combs' company, and it was only there that he encountered and interacted with the defendant.

Derek Ferguson, the former head of finance for Combs Enterprises from 1998 until 2012 stated on the stand that he is testifying in compliance with a subpoena. He would continue working for Combs until 2017, first as Chief Growth Officer and then COO of Revolt Media and TV.

Ferguson said that while he often reported to the president of the company, but that he sometimes reported to Combs directly when there was no president. He also said that both he and Combs were signatories on business bank accounts for Combs Enterprises.

He explained that early on, he would interact with Combs "pretty regularly, a couple times a week" -- and was even at times in charge of his personal finances -- but their interactions became much less frequent as more professional management was brought in to run the companies.

Ferguson said that Combs became more of a "chairman" over time than an active manager, but he always drove the creative, marketing, and product management. Ferguson also testified that most of Combs' businesses were profitable, with the mogul drawing a salary from several of them at once.

He explained to the court that most senior executives at Bad Boy had American Express corporate cards, including Combs.

"From time to time," Ferguson said that Combs would charge both business and personal expenses to his card. He said that his team would then go through those charges and determine which business or entity they belonged to and have that business pay the charge.

He also added that there were times when a third party would be brought in to manage Combs' personal finances, but at other times it was managed internally.

Cash was also a factor, with Ferguson testifying that it was more of an industry norm two decades ago for performers to be paid in cash, with that performer's manager then bringing that cash to the finance department to be processed appropriately.

When it came to Combs' security personnel reportedly carrying large sums of cash for him, as has been testified by previous witnesses, Ferguson said that was "not something I paid any attention to."

On cross-examination, Agnifilo asked him, "For your entire time, 19 years, did anyone not pay the taxes they were supposed to pay, or do something that they were not supposed to?" Ferguson replied he would have never intentionally allowed fraud at the company.

After leaving Combs' employ in 2017, Ferguson said they spoke sporadically on holidays. He stated that Combs reached out to him on September 16, 2024 via text saying he was in New York and wanted to talk for advice, but Ferguson was on a flight to Charlotte. He said he never responded to the message.

Ferguson had strong feelings about his time working for Combs, though, saying during cross-examination that everyone worked hard and worked long ours because they "felt that there was a mission to be great, to represent ourselves in a certain way."

"I did learn a lot from him. He had a great business mind and I think he put his mind to something and set a really high aggressive goal and was not afraid of that goal and I think that’s something you can learn from that," Ferguson said on the stand.

After his shift at the hotel on they day of the viral video of Combs assaulting Ventura, former hotel security guard Eddy Garcia said Combs's personal assistant Kristina Khorram contacted him again -- this time on his personal cell phone -- after his shift was over. He said he had not given her his number. Again, Garcia said Combs was put on the line.

"He stated that I sounded like a good guy, that I sounded like I wanted to help, that something like this could ruin him," Garcia said. "He was concerned that this video would get out and that it would ruin his career." When Garcia said he didn't have access to even get the video, Combs allegedly told him "he believed I could make it happen" and that if Garcia did, "he would take care of me." Garcia said he took this to mean financially.

Garcia testified that he called his boss, Bill Madrano, after this phone call, and his boss told him he "would do it for 50 (thousand)." He said he then called Khorram back and told Combs directly the offer. According to Garcia, Combs responded, "Eddy, my angel, I knew you could help. I knew you could do it."

The following day, Madrano downloaded the video to a thumb drive for Combs, according to testimony, and he contacted Khorram and Combs that he had it. He said Combs sent him to an address, with his boss covering for him that he was running an errand for him, and he went there and met Combs in person.

"He was smiling, excited, just looked happy," Garcia testifying, noting that Combs repeatedly referred to him as "Eddy, my angel." Garcia said that he gave Combs the thumb drive and the rapper left the room briefly before returning and asking if this was the only copy.

"He said it had to be the only copy and that he didn’t want it getting out and if I was sure nothing was on the cloud," Garcia testified. He then contacted Madrano, he said, who confirmed it was removed from the server.

Garcia said he told Combs that if Ventura filed a police report over the incident, there would be trouble, but Combs told him she wanted it to go away, too. He then got a woman on a video call that Garcia believes was Ventura to confirm that.

"Let him know that you want this to go away, too," Combs said to her, per Garcia, to which she responded "that she had a movie coming out, and it wasn’t a good time for this to come out and she wanted this to go away."

"This only works if we're on the same page," Garcia said Combs told him, at which point Garcia said he was concerned about Isreal Florez, the security officer who responded to the incident (and previously testified).

"Knowing Mr. Florez, he’s a very by-the-book guy. That’s just not something he would do," Garcia said on the stand. He testified that when he contacted Madrano about it, saying Combs wanted copies of their IDs, his boss told him another officer who was on duty would do it and so Garcia texted the IDs to Combs.

He then said Combs had him sign an NDA and documents asserting this was the only copy of the video -- which were shown to the jury and dated March 7. CNN notes the documents were on Combs' companies' letterhead, referencing the company and its NY address.

Garcia testified that he was "nervous" and "in a rush to get out of there," so he did not read the documents carefully before signing them. He also said he did not receive a copy.

A portion of the document read in court stated that there was a million dollar clause for "breach of this Agreement." Garcia testified that his salary at the time was about $10.50/hour.

After signing, Garcia testified that Combs put $100,000 through a money counter in stacks of $10k each. He said that Combs' security guard was in the room at the time and Khorram was in and out throughout the exchange. As Madrano had asked for $50k, Garcia said he assumed the other $50k was for him and the man Combs thought was Florez (as Madrano had allegedly swapped their IDs).

Garcia stated on the stand that Combs walked him down to the lobby of the building they'd met in, requesting both of their cars, and asked how he planned to spend the money -- suggesting he not make any big purchases.

After returning to work, Garcia said he split the money with Madrano and the man they were pretending was Florez, a coworker named Henry Elias. He said Madrano got $50k, Elias $20k and he kept $30k for himself, buying a used car in cash with it. He said he never deposited any of the money in the bank or report it on his taxes.

A week after all of this went down, Garcia testified that he noticed the incident report and attached security footage were gone from the security computer, but he did not report this for concern it might "draw more attention to the situation."

After a few more weeks, according to Garcia, Combs called him. "He said Happy Easter, Eddy my angel, God is good, God put you in my way for a reason, and then proceeded to ask if anyone has asked about the incident or the video." Garcia said he'd heard nothing, with Combs purportedly responding if he ever needed anything to reach out.

Garcia said he did reach out around 2016 or 2017 about possible employment opportunities with Combs, but said he never got a response.

Last year, after the video came out, Garcia said he texted with both Elias and Florez about it. He said he was dishonest with law enforcement in June 2024 when they asked him about the incident, and then deleted his messages with Elias and Florez about it.

After he was appointed his own counsel later that year, Garcia said he came clean about Combs allegedly paying him for the video, and was completely truthful in all subsequent meetings with prosecutors.

One order of business that wrapped court on Monday was this morning's first witness, Eddy Garcia, who briefly took the stand without the jury present to invoke his Fifth Amendment right not to self-incriminate. This was expected and prompted Judge Arun Subramanian to compel his testimony under an immunity order. Combs' former assistant George Kaplan testified under the same circumstances.

Once on the stand Tuesday morning, Garcia testified that he had been working as a security officer for a few months in March 2016, when the viral video of Combs' attacking Ventura at the InterContinental Hotel was captured. He was 24 at the time.

He said that when he was alerted about the domestic dispute at 2 p.m. on March 5, 2016, he didn't recognize the two individuals on the video, only learning later their famous identities. He testified that law enforcement was not involved because, as he understood it, "Miss Ventura did not request the presence of police or medical attention."

Garcia testified that after the incident, Kristina Khorram called the security desk at the hotel and, identifying herself as Combs' personal assistant, asked him if he was "familiar about an incident that occurred earlier that day" and "if there was any possible way to get a copy of the video or see the video."

According to testimony, Khorram was requesting the video because "Mr. Combs had been intoxicated and didn't remember." Garcia said he told her she would have to talk to hotel management or get a supboena to see the video.

An hour later, Garcia said that Khorram showed up in the hotel lobby looking for him and again asking to see the video because she "wanted to know what they were dealing with." He reiterated her options, but said he also told her, "Off the record, it's bad."

Garcia said that it didn't end there, though, testifying that he got a call at the security desk later that night from Khorram, who then put Combs on the phone.

"Mr. Combs sounded very nervous, just was talking really fast, was just saying that he had a little too much to drink and that I knew how things was," Garcia said in court. He said the mogul asked for the video, saying that "if this got out, it could ruin him."

Combs purportedly requested a meeting with the hotel manager. After the call, Garcia said he sent an email to the general manager and head of security detailing the communications with Khorram and Combs, expressing Combs' concerns about the video.

The final witness of the day on Monday was Sylvia Oken, who is employed as the director of sales and marketing at the Beverly Hills Hotel. She was called as a custodial witness to explain hotel records that are being admitted as evidence to the jury.

On the stand, Oken reiterated previous witness testimonials that Combs would reserve rooms under the alias "Frank Black," while also claiming "Phillip Pines" is his most recent alias. She also testified that Ventura was listed as an accompanying guest for at least one of those reservations she saw, and that she had full access to charge things to the room.

Two receipts presented to the jury showed damages charged to the account, including a $500 charge for "oil damage" from May 2015 and another with a $300 charge for cleaing the drapes, as well as an additional charge for hotel staff going out to get five candles for Combs.

Following the cross-examination of the anonymous former assistant going by the name "Mia" for this trial, prosecutor Madison Smyser conducted a re-direct examination.

She revisited some of the many positive social media posts presented by the defense during cross-examination, with Mia confirming that it was part of her job to promote events and projects, many of which were mentioned in those posts.

Mia testified that she was responsible for all of Combs' social media presences. This included posting for Combs' birthday, with it being added that if she failed to make these posts, and that if she ever posted anything negative, she would have been "in trouble."

When asked what Combs would do if he thought she wasn't doing her job, Mia said, "I would be screamed at, humiliated, made fun of, and my job would be threatened. She said on the stand that she worked hard to ensure Combs was pleased because "when he was happy, I was safe."

She also re-emphasized prior testimony that she was afraid to lose her job, and not just for professional reasons. "I would’ve been stripped of any credibility, would’ve lost -- wouldn’t have been able to get a job in the same or any industry that I wanted and would’ve lost anything I knew," Mia said of what she felt at the time. She said she was also afraid of his physical reaction: "I just knew his power and his wrath."

This comes on the heels of Mia having said during cross-examination that after she finally did leave Combs' employ, she was able to find work with Madonna, where she worked for nearly a year. She said that Combs did not help her secure that position, nor did she feel "blacklisted" by him.

She did, however, allege to the defense that there was retribution, saying, "He took away the TV show that I created. He took away the credit I was promised in the documentary."

When asked why she did not report any alleged abuses to human resources, Mia said that her experience with Bad Boy HR was that they "only punished me unjustly." She also said that another employee was fired for "even discussing Cassie's abuse."

As such, she felt "they wouldn’t have believed me and I would’ve been fired immediately."

As for the alleged sexual assault, Mia said she felt if she reported it, she "wouldn’t be believed. I would be wiped out, I would be abused, fired, and somehow made out to look like I was, I was a crazy person making everything up."

As for why she ultimately did decide to testify, Mia said it was because she wouldn't want her younger, female loved ones to turn a blind eye to sexual assault, as she ultimately did when it allegedly happened to her.

"Because I can't look my niece or my goddaughters in the eyes ... in the future if they happen to be in this situation," she said.

Noting that she had looked down throughout her testimony when talking about allegations of sexual assault, Mia was asked if she was able to ever talk about it without looking down. She replied, "No, it's the worst thing I have ever had to talk about in my life."

While admitting that she felt she was close to Ventura, the anonymous witness going by the name Mia stated that she did not tell her everything she should have, including about her own alleged sexual assaults at the hands of Combs.

"I was still deeply and shamed and wanted to die with this," she said, reiterating phrasing she'd previously used as to why she had never intended to speak out at all about what she'd allegedly experienced.

When asked by the defense why she waited so long to tell federal prosecutors about the alleged sexual assaults, Mia said she did not speak out until she had legal representation and that the reasons why are "privileged."

Defense attorney Brian Steel suggested that she had not told prosecutors about her sexual assault allegations until June 2024, but Mia said she could not recall the dates, "but I do remember that horrible conversation."

The defense also talked to her about her 2017 mediation and eventual settlement with Combs after she left his employment, with Mia saying she started negotiations at $10 million before settling on $400,000, with half of that, approximately, going to her lawyers.

She testified that she never mentioned any sexual assault allegations against Combs during this mediation, stating she did not know sexual assault could be used in settlement negotiations. When asked if she was aware of the #MeToo movement happening at this time, Mia said she was not.

As testimony continued, Mia was asked if she intended to sue Combs or sought any financial gain from testifying against him with her allegations of sexual assault and abuse. To both of these questions, Mia said no. She also said she never considered reporting any abuse, even anonymously or through a third party.

Mia was asked why she did cry out or scream during a moment she'd previously testified about where she claimed Combs slammed a door on her arms multiple times. Her response was that she "was in shock." And as for why she did not seek medical treatment, she said, "I wouldn't have been allowed."

She stated that Combs had threatened her life and physically assaulted her when Steel recalled her previous testimony where she'd said she was afraid of being killed while working for him.

The defense continued to push back against Mia's narrative that she was afraid of Combs, showing an old 2014 photo of Combs and Mia together that she had sent again to Combs for his birthday in 2023, 12 days before Ventura's lawsuit against the mogul went public. When presented with this, Mia testified she did not remember sending the message.

The defense pushed Mia about time she was able to be away from the "grip" of Combs' influence. She said she was able to see friends and family while in his employ, but those times were "few and far between."

And even when she was away from Combs, Mia testified, "I was never outside of his grip," as she was expected to be available and in constant communication 24/7/365. When asked why she never told her friends and family about her allegations of abuse, she said, "It's way more complex than that."

Later, texts sent in December 2016 after she learned Combs' Revolt Films, where she was working at the time, was to be shut down were revisited. In them, she said her life was "over." Steel asked if she still wanted to continue working for Combs.

"My entire world was being ripped away from me immediately. And even if in hindsight that world was awful, I didn’t know it at the time," she said. "That’s why it felt like everything was ending."

It was also about continuing to follow her dreams, Mia testified, noting that at Revolt, she "had a separation from" Combs.

On the stand, Mia said she followed Combs' orders to keep his own whereabouts secret from Ventura, even as he reportedly was adamant about knowing where she was and what she was doing at all times.

"I remember covering for him and feeling terrible about it," Mia said on the stand, but said she feared if she didn't do as he wished, Combs might cut off her contact with Ventura.

"One of the worst parts was being put in the middle and having to cover up for Puff to Cass which he forced me to do constantly," she said. Instead, she testified, "Whatever story Puff told me, I had to uphold that."

When asked by the defense if she'd ever told Ventura she had to stay with Combs, Mia said she had not. But she said that she had to be careful what she did say because Combs would steal both of their phones and put tracking devices on Ventura's car.

"I’m not sure what he’s capable of. I was terrified," Mia said.

Elsewhere, Mia was asked about whether or not Ventura had any jealousy toward the other women Combs was involved with during their decade-long relationship. Mia said she couldn't recall any jealousy toward Porter, with him Combs shared three children.

She did say, though, "I'm sure she wasn't thrilled" about Combs dating other woman beyond Porter behind her back as, according to Mia, Combs "presented to [Ventura] that they were exclusive."

When Steel said that the relationship was clearly not exclusive, Mia replied, "It was not clear to her."

In a scathing rebuke after a break, federal prosecutor Maurene Comey objected to defense attorney Brian Steel's method of questioning the woman going by the pseudonym Mia on the stand, accusing him of "suggesting to this jury that he believes that [Mia] is lying."

Steel has pointedly asked Mia on multiple occasions if she had lied when she said that Combs assaulted her, leading her to respond, "What I said in this courtroom is true. I have not lied to anyone at all."

At one point, when Mia said she wouldn't be "allowed to record" Combs berating her, Steel responded, "Because it’s not true, is it 'Mia?' Your statements that you were the victim at the hands of Mr. Combs of brutality isn’t true?"

She again reiterated on the stand, "Everything I’ve said in this courtroom is true."

"We are crossing the threshold into prejudice and into harassing this witness," Comey argued after the short break, asking that the cross-examination be brought to a quick close. Judge Arun Subramanian did not fully agree, though.

He did agree that Steel's repeating of certain points was unnecessary. "I didn’t take that to be an effort in any way to intimidate or harass the witness," he said.

"Here’s the issue: There are lines of questioning. If you had asked one question and moved on that would be one thing, but you are often repeating the same thing multiple times," Subramanian told Steel. "I agree with Ms. Comey where the tone is improper."

Looking at a resume the woman pseudonymously known as Mia used before she started working for Combs, the defense kicked off the fourth week of testimony by noting she wrote she provided "round-the-clock support" to Mike Meyers from 2008 to 2009, and that she claimed to have a "thick skin." To this, Mia replied, "I thought I did."

As her cross-examination continued, the defense looked at some texts and videos between Mia and Combs, which all would have happened after her claims of abuse. When asked about one in 2018 where she wrote, "Merry Christmas love you so so much," she said this was shortly after she'd seen him at Kim Porter's funeral.

The defense also showed a video of Mia wishing him a happy birthday in 2013, calling him "one of the biggest inspirations in my life." and blowing him a kiss. CNN notes this is part of the defense's argument that Mia is presenting "a false persona" to the jury.

The defense continued, citing a text from January 2019 where she told Combs about a dream where he rescued her from R. Kelly in an elevator, and another sending "all the love in the world." Asked if she was still "under the grip of Mr. Combs" when these texts were sent, as she no longer worked for him, Mia said she was "psychologically."

"These were based around tragic events that happened in his life," said Mia, noting the timing of the texts near Porter's death, including another where she sent love to him and his family on Porter's birthday. She also said she'd not yet processed what had happened to her, and that she believed there was a version of Combs that cared for her.

On the stand, Mia said that prior to him hiring professional videographers, she was often tasked with recording Combs. But, she stated, she would "absolutely not" have any video of him berating her or "in a moment of rage."

"No, I would not have been allowed to film that. I was filming whatever he wanted me to film," she explained, saying that to capture anything like that would be a "huge break of trust, loyalty and confidentiality."

When asked on the stand if she was scared of him the entire time she knew him, which would include after the alleged assaults, Mia stated, "I was scared of him when he was scary, yes."

Mia explained that "nobody around batted an eye" when Combs would allegedly act out, with everyone always praising him publicly and privately. She even admitted she was "always constantly seeking his approval. He was my authority figure, my only authority figure."

She reiterated that she never told anyone about alleged abuses and assaults she endured, save telling a few people in the office -- and then, only about things they might have witnessed. "No, I would never," she explained.

When asked by the defense why she didn't want Combs to tell Ventura that he'd sexually assaulted her, Mia said that's not how that went down. "He threatened to tell Cassie quote unquote ‘everything,’ which made me feel like I had done something wrong," she explained. "I don’t know how to explain what that does to a person."

She said that she was "terrified and brainwashed" as explanation for not coming forward with allegations against Combs when asked if she had a moral obligation to do so.

"Brainwashed meant I was in an environment where the highs were really high and the lows were really low and it created a huge confusion in trusting my instincts," Mia testified, after asserting that everything she has said is true when the defense asked point-blank if she'd lied about the sexual assault.

"I was punished whenever Puff would be violent and I would react, confusing me and making me think I did something wrong. Nobody acted like what was happening to me was wrong, and his threats about that he was going to tell Cassie about what happened made me internalize blame and shame," Mia said on the stand.

"It's been a long process," she explained. "I'm still untangling these things. I'm in therapy."