Diddy Trial
Protection Grills ‘Mia’ on Cross-Examination …
Ex-Worker Requested About Messages, Movies
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“Mia,” a former assistant to Sean “Diddy” Combs who went on to work in growth for considered one of his media corporations, is constant her testimony underneath a pseudonym for the third day. It is the fourth week of testimony within the case.
Mia is being cross-examined by protection legal professional Brian Metal. Mia was requested about her time as an assistant to Diddy, and overseeing the possession of workers passports, which she confirms. This seems to be associated to an episode Mia testified to last week, through which she says she left Diddy’s yacht throughout a visit to St. Barts within the Caribbean underneath duress, however then returned to the boat, the place her passport was held.
She confirmed she was completed working with Diddy by March 2017 … she’s then requested a few Christmas message she’d despatched to Diddy in 2018, which reads, “Merry Christmas, I like you!” She says she’d simply seen Diddy on the funeral for Kim Porter — the mom of Diddy’s youngsters.
Metal asks Mia a few 2019 message … she says she had a nightmare singer R. Kelly was chasing her, and she or he advised Diddy within the message that he had saved her within the dream … and she or he additional wrote “Sending you all of the love on the planet.” Metal questions how she may write this … after she’s testified that Diddy handled her so poorly — which prompted a sidebar with Decide Arun Subramanian.
Then Metal asks Mia about being required to hold round video cameras, which she confirms … and he asks her if there’s any video of Diddy berating her, or any textual content messages indicating the identical. She says that may have violated confidentiality. He asks if there’s something on her cellphone about being “brutalized by Mr. Combs,” and she or he says she would not assume so.