Diddy trial dwell: Cassie’s ex greatest buddy Kerry Morgan testifies that girlfriend Gina Huynh acquired PREGNANT by rapper

Cassie mentioned she dumped the hip hop mogul in 2015 after seeing a video of him and a lady known as Gina at an occasion whereas she was in South Africa filming ‘Honey 3: Dare to Dance’.

Her former greatest buddy advised the court docket on Monday that Gina ‘was a giant drawback’ for Cassie.

She was a giant drawback. She would not go away. He was having a full on relationship with this little woman. Cassie discovered about it. It went on for a very very long time.

I’m fairly positive she acquired pregnant… that Gina woman.

Huyhn beforehand claimed that after she acquired pregnant with Diddy’s youngster, he provided to pay her $50,000 to get an abortion, however refused the fee.

‘I turned [the money] down as a result of I simply liked him. I wished to … I used to be, like, attempting to show that,’ she claimed. ‘I wasn’t the woman that wished him for cash. I simply cared about him. I simply wished him to be good to me. That’s it,’ she added.

Huynh claimed to have additionally had a second abortion from her relationship with Diddy.

Cassie testifiedlast week that she broke up with Diddy for good in August 2018 after she noticed a photograph of him with one other lady he’d been relationship for the previous few years of their decade-long relationship.

‘I simply don’t belief anymore. That final shot put the nail within the coffin,’ Cassie texted Combs, referring to the photograph of Combs with a lady recognized in court docket as Gina.

‘I promised myself I wouldn’t be with you anymore in the event you did that to me once more,’ Cassie wrote, telling Combs ‘you lied to me’ and ‘she by no means went away.’

Gina Huynh, who says she dated the music government for 5 years, described in a resurfaced interview from 2019 a time at which he allegedly grew to become violent along with her.

The mannequin advised the controversial blogger Tasha Ok that he allegedly ‘stomped’ on her abdomen and repeatedly punched her within the head throughout one disturbing encounter.

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Cassie mentioned final week Diddy discovered that she had been relationship Child Cudi after going by means of her telephone following a Freak Off in Los Angeles in 2011.

‘It was a time after we weren’t within the best place,’ Cassie mentioned of her relationship with Diddy.

‘I keep in mind him pulling a wine bottle opener between his fingers and lunging at me. Eyes blacked out, tremendous indignant and I acquired out of there.’

He advised me about movies he had he was going to launch and he was going to harm Scott (Cudi) and I.

Cassie mentioned after the assault she used a burner telephone to name Cudi, who then picked her up.

The singer’s settled lawsuit with Diddy claimed he blew up Child Cudi’s automotive after studying of their romance.

‘He stomped on my abdomen actually laborious — like, took the wind out of my breath,’ Gina mentioned in her interview, through Web page Six.

‘I couldn’t breathe. He saved hitting me. I used to be pleading to him, “Are you able to simply cease? I can’t breathe,”‘ she added.

In keeping with her, Diddy then started to drag at her hair and punch her repeatedly behind her head.

She added that she started preventing again after she had ‘sufficient of his s***.’

Elsewhere, she claimed that Diddy had punched her within the head at different instances, as her hair would cowl indicators of her accidents.

‘He was mentally, emotionally and bodily abusing me,’ she additionally claimed. ‘He would at all times examine me to Cassie and inform me that I’m the dangerous one, she’s an excellent one.’

Huynh additionally claimed that ‘everybody’ in Diddy’s circle ‘allowed’ him to allegedly abuse her a number of instances.

Incendiary photographs proven in Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs’ trial reveal the disgraced rap mogul was making ready for a lodge ‘freak off’ regardless of realizing he was about to be arrested, prosecutors say.

‘Mr Combs didn’t like that we talked to Casie. Usually instances we’d pay for it,’ David James advised the jury.

‘When you do that or else one thing dangerous will occur to you,’ James mentioned was the message from Diddy.

‘It was at all times the risk. When you did not keep in line there was penalties.’

James claimed Diddy would publicly humiliate Cassie, telling her ‘he owned her.’

He mentioned he additionally witnessed Diddy beating Cassie and calling her names.

James mentioned that an affiliate of Diddy as soon as additionally spoke to him about speaking to Cassie.

‘[They] mentioned it will get darkish and lonely in the event you don’t hear – Mr Combs mentioned this too. You should take heed to him. This was said by him and Mr Combs,’ James mentioned.

‘I had seen and witnessed brutality in a means I needed to consider if the individual that was supposedly what he did to her, what he would do to an worker. I think about it will be worse than that.’

Cassie mentioned final week that when she went house for Christmas in 2011 with bruises from an altercation with the hip-hop mogul, she lied and advised her mom it was the primary time he’d hit her.

‘I couldn’t damage her like that,’ Cassie testified. ‘And it was terrifying. It’s not regular, always being bruised up by the particular person you’re keen on — who says they love you.’

Jurors noticed pictures exhibiting a big, darkish bruise on Cassie’s decrease again and different bruises on her shoulder and thigh that she mentioned she sustained within the altercation.

Diddy’s former assistant David James advised the court docket he utilized to work for the mogul as a result of he wished a profession in vogue.

James was emotional, crying, as he described his first days working for Diddy.

He mentioned one of many executives at Dangerous Boy Leisure advised him his job was to please the mogul.

‘I keep in mind sitting at her desk and there was an image of Mr Combs on the wall,’ James advised the court docket Monday.

‘She pointed on the wall and mentioned that is Mr Combs kingdom. We’re all right here to serve him.’

Cassie named David James as one of many assistants who facilitated the alleged Freak Offs.

James labored as a private assistant for Diddy from Could 2007 to Could 2009, the court docket heard on Monday.

‘She was not supportive of me after Sean assaulted me,’ Morgan advised the court docket in regards to the time Diddy allegedly threw a wood hanger at her head, inflicting a concussion.

Diddy paid Morgan $30,000 following the alleged assault at Cassie’s home in 2018.

Morgan mentioned Cassie advised her she was ‘milking’ the incident, and requested her to signal a nondisclosure settlement.

‘I draw my line at bodily abuse…so has additionally not reached out to me,’ Morgan mentioned of why they haven’t rekindled their friendship.

Particular Agent Yasin Binda started her testimony by saying she works for Homeland Safety Investigations’ human trafficking division.

Binda participated in searches associated to the Combs investigation and was concerned in coordinating logistics for his arrest final September at a Manhattan lodge.

She was one of many brokers who arrested Diddy in New York final 12 months.

She advised the court docket that police discovered ‘temper lighting,’ child oil and medicines together with ketamine and MDMA in his room.

‘That is one zip lock bag crammed with Johnson’s child oil and also you see one other zip lock bag crammed with Astroglide that was within the hallway closet,’ she mentioned of what she present in Diddy’s room on the Park Hyde lodge on September 16, 2024.

Diddy had been in New York for 11 days earlier than his arrest and prosecutors mentioned he was ‘ready doubtlessly for his arrest.’

The mogul regarded stress as agent Binda spoke and put his hand on the again of his head.

Cassie advised the court docket final week that she first had intercourse with Diddy throughout a visit to Miami shortly after he kissed her at her twenty first celebration in Las Vegas.

She mentioned the mogul gave her ecstasy – and it was the primary time she tried the drug.

Cassie mentioned finally taking medication grew to become a standard occurence as she engaged within the Freak Offs to please Diddy.

Cassie advised the court docket final week that, whereas she was packing to go to Drake’s music competition in Canada, Diddy scuffled along with her pals and threw her right into a mattress body.

Cassie mentioned she suffered a ‘fairly important gash’ above her left eye. Diddy’s safety personnel introduced her to a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills to get the wound stitched up.

Afterward, she texted Diddy a photograph of her injured face and wrote: ‘So you may keep in mind.’

Diddy replied: ‘You don’t know when to cease. You pushed it too far. And continued to push. Unhappy.’

Cassie then described a photograph of her the place she is with rapper French Montana on the competition in Canada.

Cassie advised the court docket she left the ‘freak off’ after it grew to become violent and she or he did not need to have bruises at her first large film premiere two days later.

‘It acquired violent and I selected to go away… I had my premiere, I didn’t need to mess it up, so I left,’ she mentioned.

She ready till Diddy was within the bathe, grabbed her belongings, and ran away barefoot as quick as she may – he caught as much as her.

‘Sean adopted me into the hallway by the elevators. He grabbed me up, threw me on the bottom, kicked me, tried to pull me again to the room, took my stuff,’ she mentioned, describing the assault within the notorious video.

Johnson requested Ventura what number of instances Diddy threw her to the bottom just like the jury noticed within the video.

‘Too many to rely. I don’t know,’ she mentioned.

Ventura mentioned she by no means tried to combat again when Diddy hit her.

‘That is me, a selfie of me with a fats lip,’ the singer replied when requested a few photograph entered as proof final week.

The picture, taken after Diddy assaulted Cassie within the hallway of an LA lodge, was launched to the general public on Monday.

Cassie mentioned she took it whereas on an Uber on her means house following the filmed 2016 assault.

She mentioned she texted Diddy saying: ‘I’ve a premiere for the most important factor I’ve ever performed in my life on Monday. You might be sick for considering it’s OK to do what you’ve performed. Please avoid me.’

The rapper reportedly then claimed he was getting arrested.

Cassie mentioned her then-best buddy, mannequin Kerry Morgan, grew to become upset when she noticed her face and known as police.

Cassie mentioned she selected to not report who had assaulted her when police confirmed up as a result of she wished to guard Diddy.

‘In in that second I didn’t need to damage him that means. Simply an excessive amount of happening. Quite a bit for me in that second. I wasn’t prepared.’

Cassie Ventura’s emotional testimony this week included sordid particulars of greater than a dozen porn stars and male escorts she was allegedly pressured to have unprotected intercourse with as her ex, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, watched.

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The imprisoned co-founder of Demise Row Information made the bombshell allegations on Wednesday, hours after Diddy’s ex Cassie Ventura addressed the duo’s feud throughout her testimony in his legal trial.

In contrast to different high-profile circumstances, the rapper’s trial won’t be televised as it’s in federal court docket.

Digital media, together with cameras, are banned within the Manhattan court docket room.

A sketch artist’s work would be the solely visuals popping out of the courtroom.

Kerry Morgan advised the court docket that she typically inspired Cassie to go away Diddy, however Cassie mentioned she ‘could not due to her job, her automotive, her condominium…

‘He managed the whole lot. She would have misplaced all of her livelihood.’

Morgan added that Diddy’s circle appeared to persuade Cassie to stick with him.

‘She didn’t need to go away him after she would see some individuals – you would inform they have been convincing

her it was okay,’ Morgan mentioned.

‘One was April, D Rock’s spouse.’

D-Rock was a member of Diddy’s internal cicrcle and was identified for being near The Infamous B.I.G.

Morgan is seen on Monday.

Morgan advised the court docket a few terrifying incident she allegedly skilled whereas in Jamaica with Diddy and Cassie in 2013.

‘I used to be initially within the bar and I heard Cassie screaming so I ran to the hallway,’ the previous mannequin mentioned on Monday.

‘Cassie had gone to the toilet. After a couple of minutes Sean mentioned, “she’s taking too lengthy,” so he left me [alone]. A couple of minutes later I heard her screaming like guttural, terrifying.

‘I went to the hallway… they have been popping out of the main bedroom and he was dragging her by her hair.’

Morgan mentioned finally Diddy ‘pushed Cassie on the bottom and she or he hit her head on a brick.’

‘She didn’t transfer. She fell on her aspect, her fingers have been out, a unfastened fetal place,’ Morgan defined.

‘I assumed she was knocked out… [she didn’t move for] 20, 30 seconds.’

The R&B singer advised the court docket that her ex-boyfriend threw a wood hanger at her then greatest buddy, giving her a concussion.

Throughout her testimony, Cassie talked about a number of of Diddy’s staff and allies, together with his ‘trusted assistants’ Kristina Khoram and Neil Dominic.

Khoram was beforehand named by others as a ‘fixer’, who allegedly helped Diddy arrange the notorious freak offs.

‘Every part from scheduling to what sort of temper he was in,’ Cassie mentioned when requested what she mentioned with Khoram. ‘I talked to [Khoram] about lots. She knew quite a lot of my private issues.’

Cassie additionally claimed Diddy’s safety guard, R. Rock ‘used to remove her issues as punishment’ on the mogul’s path. She additionally mentioned the guard would come discover her when she tried to cover from Diddy.

‘[I’d] get my automotive taken away, get kicked out of an condominium, I’d have jewerly taken away… It was very random relying on how [Diddy] felt.’

She additionally talked about different safety guards for Diddy, together with Roger Bonds, Uncle Paulie, Faheem and Malik.

Kristina Khorram – as soon as known as ‘the Ghislaine Maxwell to [Diddy’s] Jeffrey Epstein‘ – has not been accused of any wrongdoing or charged with any crimes. Nonetheless, a number of ‘excessive rating supervisors’ are talked about, however not named, in a legal indictment in opposition to the rapper.

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Morgan, 39, has taken the stand for the prosecution.

When requested, she mentioned she was testifying as a result of she was subpoenaed, as she has ‘moved on along with her life.’

Cassie testified final week that she as soon as thought of Morgan her greatest buddy however their friendship took a flip after an alleged violent incident involving the music mogul in 2018.

Cassie mentioned in her lawsuit they have been ‘inseperable’ till Diddy hit Morgan with a hanger, inflicting a concussion.

Diddy and Kerry finally settled out of court docket, with Cassie claiming the rapper additionally paid Kerry more money to ‘easy issues over.’

Beneath, the previous greatest pals are pictured in 2007.

Regardless of his lawyer Nicole Westmoreland cornering Daybreak Richard, Diddy appeared unhappy along with her cross examination.

In a dialog together with his lawyer Marc Agnifilo which was caught on a scorching mic, Diddy gave the impression to be suggesting that it ought to have gone in a different way

Angifilo could possibly be heard saying that Westmoreland had ready for the cross examination extensively and that ‘I heard her (Richard) say her story modified’.

Diddy listened, saying ‘uh uh’ repeatedly however then requested: ‘Why didn’t they play the interview?’

It was unclear which interview he was referring to, nonetheless, Richard has spoken out quite a few instances about her experiences with Diddy.

Kerry Morgan got here up throughout Cassie’s testimony as she described their former friendship.

Morgan, a mannequin, was Cassie’s greatest buddy when she began relationship Diddy, in 2007.

Cassie has claimed her friendship with Morgan grew to become irreparably strained after Diddy assaulted her in 2018.

Cassie’s lawsuit mentioned: ‘The incident resulted in a settlement between Mr. Combs and Ms. Morgan, and Ms. Ventura ended up paying Ms. Morgan extra funds in an try to resolve the dispute between her shut buddy and her abusive and controlling boyfriend. The connection between Ms. Ventura and Ms. Morgan has been strained since this time.’

In a movement for withdraw of counsel filed in New York in February, Ricco mentioned ‘not at all can I proceed to successfully function counsel for Sean Combs’.

The discover added that discussions had been had with lead counsel Marc Agnifilo and Ricco earlier than the movement was filed.

Ricco mentioned that he can be offering no particulars to assist the appliance, including that authorities prosecutors had been notified and did not take a stance.

Richard mentioned on the stand Monday that Diddy punched Cassie within the abdomen throughout a non-public argument at a West Hollywood restaurant in 2010.

She claimed a number of celebrities have been on the dinner, together with Usher, Ne-Yo and celebrity music government Jimmy Iodine.

‘Mr Combs punched Cassie within the abdomen,’ Richard advised the jury.

‘They have been having a non-public dialog, we have been all sitting consuming on the tables collectively. A few of Dangerous Boy label mates, some celebrities have been within the room.

‘They have been secretly arguing [and] he punched her within the abdomen.

Richard added: ‘[Cassie] instantly bent over nad he advised her to go away, I may see him level out and she or he went out.’

Diddy employed Nicole Westmoreland because the eigth lawyer on his protection staff simply days earlier than his trial began earlier this month.

Westmoreland revealed she was raped in 2001 when she was simply 19 years outdated.

She mentioned a person named Alfred Cleveland raped her at Patchwerk Recording Studio in Atlanta, as reported by TMZ.

Westmoreland has taken a confrontational tone as she pokes holes in Dan Richard’s claims on Monday.

She is seen arriving to court docket.

Sx of seven of Diddy’s youngsters confirmed as much as court docket final week, however none have been current on Monday as Dwn Richard continued her testimony.

The mogul’s sons three sons endured the entire harrowing testimony by Cassie final week, however his twins ladies and eldest daughter Probability stopped attending mid-week.

Twins Jessie and D’Lila put their father’s authorized woes apart for the night as they danced the evening away in matching clothes for his or her highschool promenade evening.

It is not clear why Diddy’s sons didn’t present as much as court docket on Monday as they did all through final week.

Diddy’s legal professional Nicole Westmoreland is talking in a loud, clear voice as she cross-examines Daybreak Richard, who’s talking in a smooth voice – virtually a whisper at instances.

Westmoreland is arguing that Richard has modified particulars about her claims in several interviews.

At one level the legal professional requested her to ‘Please communicate louder.’

Whereas the protection used a smooth and firnedly tone whereas questioning a pregnant Cassie, they apper to be taking a unique strategy with Richard.

Diddy has saved his gaze on Westmoreland as she questions his former protege.

Daybreak Richards testifies on Monday because the jury views an exhibit picture exhibiting her with Cassie after she was allegedly assaulted by Diddy.

On Monday, Richard testified that the next day Diddy known as her and Kalenna Harper into the studio – Harper had been current on the time – locked the door and threatened their lives in the event that they spoke out.

Richard mentioned Diddy advised her: ‘The incident was a ardour and Cassie was OK and that if we mentioned something we may go lacking’.

Requested what Diddy meant by that, Richard mentioned: ‘That we may die’.

With a pause, Richard added: ‘I didn’t react in any respect. I used to be shocked but in addition scared as a result of it was our first time beginning to report and my first time being in a gaggle with everyone’.

Prosecutor Mitzi Steiner requested about different incident the place Diddy was violent.

Richard mentioned that she would ‘ceaselessly’ see incidents of violence.

Misa Hylton, who shares a son with Diddy, has revealed why she is attending the mogul’s trial in New York.

She mentioned on instagram that she determined to be within the federal courtroom to assist her son Justin, 31, who has remained supportive of Diddy.

‘Sure, I am good everybody. I am on my therapeutic journey,’ Hylton wrote.

‘After I suffered my damage I had chosen to heal privately,” the celeb stylist continued, ‘however when my son mentioned, ‘Mommy, I would like you,’ I used to be proper there for him walker and all.’

She added: ‘Whoever does not perceive that simply merely is not in alignment with me or something that I am about in life. I am cool with that,’ she added, partially.

‘I’ve a purpose-filled life that I dwell each day. I make influence. I am not involved with insecure individuals trying to undertaking their insecurities on to me. EVER.’

Hylton was Diddy’s first public relationship, within the Nineties.

‘He would punch her, choke her,drag her, slap her within the mouth,’ Richard testified on Monday. ‘I noticed him kick her… Punch her within the abdomen.’

When requested by the prosecution what prompted Diddy’s alleged outbursts, Richard replied: ‘It various.

It could possibly be Cassie talking up for herself, it could possibly be random, we would not even know the place it got here from, if she wished to carry out or had an opinion about one thing.

Cassie’s quiet, she had a quiet manner, she was smooth. When she’d have these second of tyring to be stick up for herself, and he wasn’t having (it), he would damage her for it.

Among the many accidents that Richard noticed on Ventura’s physique have been blows to her face, lips, eyes arms and knees which she tried to cowl up with make-up, clothes and sun shades.

Protection legal professionals, throughout their cross-examination of Cassie, sought to solid the musician as an enthusiastic participant within the intercourse marathons.

‘I’m at all times able to freak off,’ she wrote in a single 2009 message learn in court docket.

Later that 12 months, nonetheless, Cassie expressed frustration with the state of their relationship and advised Combs she wanted one thing extra from him than intercourse.

In a 2017 textual content message, Cassie advised Combs: ‘I really like our FOs after we each need it,’ utilizing the initials of freak-off. On the stand, Cassie defined: ‘I might say loving FOs have been simply phrases at that time.’

The primary week of Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs’ intercourse trafficking trial noticed a litany of bombshell claims and proof unveiled earlier than the Manhattan courtroom in New York.

R&B singer Cassandra ‘Cassie’ Ventura delivered horrifyingly graphic testimonies alleging that the music mogul bodily and psychologically abused her over greater than a decade from 2007-2018.

The 38-year-old detailed the common beatings she allegedly skilled, the rapper’s use of blackmail and scare techniques to coerce and manipulate, wicked intercourse acts she claims she was pressured to take part in – and the medical toll she suffered in consequence.

A male escort allegedly employed by Combs to have interaction in quite a lot of sexual acts with Ventura throughout his infamous ‘freak off’ events additionally took the stand to elucidate how ‘Diddy’ purportedly pushed Ventura into unprotected intercourse with strangers and orchestrated varied sexual encounters for his personal pleasure.

In response, legal professionals for Combs sought to painting Ventura as a prepared and keen participant within the music mogul’s sexual way of life. His defence says that, whereas he’s responsible of home violence, nothing he did amounted to a legal enterprise.

Richard detailed the alleged assault she witnessed at Diddy’s house in 2009, when she was there for a recording session together with Colena Harper.

Cassie Ventura was within the kitchen cooking eggs for breakfast when Diddy stormed downstairs into the room.

‘He got here downstairs indignant and was saying the place the f**ok was his eggs… He was telling Cassie she by no means does something proper,’ she advised the court docket.

‘She took the skillet and tried to hit her over the pinnacle with it and she or he fell to the bottom.’

Richard defined that Diddy did not make full contact with Ventura’s head when he swung the skillet as she anticipated the blow and fell to the ground as she was struck.

‘She went into the fetal place. She was attempting to cover her face or her head,’ she mentioned.

‘It appeared like she was doing it as if there was one thing she did typically.’

Richard mentioned Diddy then began to punch and kick Ventura in her head and physique as she lay on the ground, not preventing again.

‘He proceeded to take his arm round her neck and his arm in her hair and dragged her upstairs to the primary ground,’ she mentioned.

Richard mentioned she did not name the police as a result of she was terrified.

‘I’d by no means seen something like that earlier than and didn’t know what that may imply. I used to be frightened of what which may imply for myself,’ she mentioned.

‘He was punching his girlfriend… I used to be scared I would worsen.’

Casie’s lawyer Doug Wigdor shared a press release from her after her testimony concluded on Friday.

This week has been extraordinarily difficult, but in addition remarkably empowering and therapeutic for me. I hope that my testimony has given energy and a voice to different survivors, and may also help others who’ve suffered to talk up and likewise heal from the abuse and concern.

For me, the extra I heal, the extra I can keep in mind. And the extra I can keep in mind, the extra I’ll always remember. I need to thank my household and my advocates for his or her unwavering assist, and I’m grateful for all of the kindness and encouragement that I’ve acquired.

I’m glad to place this chapter of my life to relaxation. As I flip to give attention to the conclusion of my being pregnant, I ask for privateness for me and for my rising household.

Richard claims the disgraced Dangerous Boy mogul sexually assaulted her, disadvantaged her of meals and sleep and refused to pay her adequately. Her case is amongst dozens of claims filed in opposition to Combs in varied states.

Nonetheless her claims are usually not a part of the federal in opposition to him, and she’s going to solely be testifying as a witness of Diddy’s alleged abuse againt Cassie.

Protection legal professional Marc Agnifilo objected to the subsequent witness in Diddy’s trial, former Danity Kane member Daybreak Richard.

Prosecutors say her testimony is related as a result of she witnessed Diddy being violent in the direction of Cassie.

Protection lawyer Teny Geragos took a novel strategy to defending Combs in her opening assertion.

She conceded the hip-hop impresario has a ‘dangerous mood’ and is liable to violent outbursts which might be typically fueled by alcohol, jealousy and medicines.

However she maintained that whereas his actions may need warranted home violence costs, they aren’t proof he engaged in intercourse trafficking and racketeering — the fees he faces.

Geragos argued that Combs’ sexual habits have been a part of a swinger way of life involving consenting adults and reminded jurors that “kinky” sexual predilections don’t equate to intercourse trafficking.

‘Sean Combs is an advanced man. However this isn’t an advanced case,’ she mentioned. ‘This case is about love, jealousy, infidelity and cash.’

Choose Arun Subramanian provisionally denied a joint utility by information shops for the movies to be performed in open court docket and be described by the media.

He agreed with a prosecution argument that taking part in them would ‘revictimize’ Ventura and one of many unnamed feminine victims who will testify later iun the trial.

The decide additionally denied another proposal to permit three pool reporters to remain in court docket after they have been performed, and share experiences with different shops.

“I’m not seeing any case that may recommend in any means, form, or kind that photographs or movies of some of these acts which might be alleged to be sexual abuse can be required to be proven in open court docket after they pose the plain danger of revictimization,’ he mentioned.

Robert Balin, the lawyer who argued on behalf of the press, earlier mentioned the First Modification was ‘at its zenith’ within the case.

He argued it was necessary ‘individuals, although the press, be capable of see justice is being performed’.

Balin mentioned the most effective proof of whether or not the intercourse acts within the ‘freak offs’ have been coerced – which underpinned the prosecution’s case – have been the movies themselves.

The appliance was solely ever to view the movies and describe them, not for the footage to ever turn into public.

Former Danity Kane member Daybreak Richards testified about what Diddy did after allegedly beating then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura.

‘He introduced us into the recording studio and locked the door,’ she advised the court docket.

‘He mentioned that what we noticed was ardour and what lovers in relationships do. He mentioned she was OK and it will be in our greatest curiosity if we did not say something.

‘He mentioned he’s attempting to take us to the highest. [He said] the place he comes from individuals go lacking in the event that they speak, after which he gave us flowers.’

Richards mentioned she understood Diddy’s remark about individuals going lacking meant ‘that individuals may die’.

Sean Combs raises his fingers as he’s identified by Daybreak Richard on Friday.

Cassie mentioned she expects to obtain a $10 million settlement from the Intercontinental Lodge in Los Angeles, the place she was assaulted by Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs in 2016.

Safety digital camera footage aired final 12 months on CNN exhibits the hip-hop mogul hitting and kicking Cassie, knocking her to the ground as she tried to go away a ‘freak off’ sexual encounter on the lodge.

Cassie revealed the determine throughout questioning by Combs’ lawyer in a section of her testimony referred to as re-cross. She mentioned the determine was an estimate and that the settlement was reached not too long ago. She didn’t disclose the character of her declare in opposition to the lodge.

Justin Bieber broke his silence on explosive rumors connecting him to Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs simply days after the disgraced music mogul’s intercourse trafficking trial started.

‘Though Justin shouldn’t be amongst Sean Combs’ victims, there are people who have been genuinely harmed by him. Shifting focus away from this actuality detracts from the justice these victims rightfully deserve,’ his spokesperson mentioned in a press release to TMZ.

PR professional Chad Teixeira advised The U.S. Solar that Bieber selected to talk out as a publicity transfer.

‘The allegations in opposition to Diddy have reached important mass. Bieber is aware of that if he doesn’t communicate now, the narrative will likely be written with out him and possibly not in his favor,’ Teixera mentioned.

‘This can be a second of calculated authenticity.’

Bieber wished to ensure he isn’t seen as a bystander however slightly a ‘image of survival and allyship,’ per the professional.

O’Day, a former member of the Diddy-created group Danity Kane, mentioned on the Amy Robach & TJ Holmes podcast that the rapper was ‘egocentric’ for permitting his youngsters to attend his trial.

Six of Combs’ seven youngsters; Quincy, 33, Justin, 31, Christian, 27, Probability 19, and 18-year-old twins Jessie and D’Lila, have been stoically attempting to take heed to the graphic descriptions of their father’s alleged sexual fetishes.

His youngest youngster, Love, is two-and-a half.

‘The truth that the children are marching as much as that court docket,’ she mentioned on the podcast.

‘I do not know any father that may need their youngsters to take a seat by means of [that kind of] testimony.’