Diddy trial reside: Amber Heard trial professional gives heartrending testimony on what Cassie Ventura ‘endured’

Dr. Daybreak Hughes has taken the stand as the subsequent witness for the prosecution.

She shared that she was paid $6,000 for her companies for the prosecution.

She beforehand made headlines when she testified for Amber Heard in her case in opposition to Johnny Depp.

Heard’s first witness was Dr. Hughes, a New York-based medical and forensic psychologist who’s an professional in home violence.

Dr. Hughes, pictured under on Tuesday, mentioned throughout that 2022 trial that ladies in abusive relationships get into them for the proper causes however slowly their associate turns.

To listen to all of the explosive testimony from singer Cassie Ventura and the opposite witnesses in Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs’ trial, tune in to Each day Mail’s hit podcast The Trial.

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

Diddy’s former assistant is being questioned about an incident Cassie Ventura talked about throughout her time on the stand involving Suge Knight.

Cassie claimed Diddy one left her throughout a freak off at his Los Angeles residence to confront rival file government Suge Knight at Mel’s Drive-In, a landmark diner close by.

‘R-Rock got here in and mentioned Suge was down at a diner. Sean drove over there…. I cried, mentioned do not do one thing silly,’ Cassie mentioned.

‘It was like I wasn’t even there. They placed on a bunch of black garments, went within the protected, grabbed weapons.

‘Subsequent factor I knew they had been within the SUV simply whipping down there. I noticed them dress and depart the home.’

Knight, 59, was the CEO of Dying Row Data whereas Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, 54, was the CEO of rival firm Dangerous Boy Leisure.

Their beef started within the mid 90s as East Coast and West Coast rappers grew to become entangled in a heated battle that shook up the hip-hop scene.

A key witness to Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs’ ongoing trial testified that Usher was in attendance at a star-studded dinner when the disgraced rap mogul assaulted Cassie Ventura in a restaurant.

The alleged altercation occurred in 2010 at a dinner the place the singer joined Diddy and Cassie, alongside rapper Ne-Yo and Interscope Data co-founder Jimmy Iovine.

In testimony from Daybreak Richards, a former member of woman group Danity Kane that was signed to Diddy’s Dangerous Boy Data label, the courtroom heard that Usher was on the dinner the place a sickening assault on Cassie unfolded throughout an argument.

George Kaplan, one in every of Diddy’s former workers, took the stand on Wednesday and informed prosecutors he supposed to invoke his ‘constitutional proper to not testify and to not reply any questions on the bottom of potential self incrimination.’

Prosecutors then requested the choose to signal an order of immunity for the witness, which he did.

Kaplan is anticipated to return to the stand after a lunch break.

He’s pictured arriving to courtroom on Wednesday.

Narrowing of the eye, not all recollections are getting in in regards to the occasion that occurred to you. That’s why it’s not full,’ Dr Daybreak Hughes informed the courtroom Wednesday.

‘The fragmented recollections may be simply as dependable however they’re simply not as full, they’re lacking particulars.’

Hugues added that victims usually use ‘coping mechanisms’ that have an effect on their reminiscence.

‘They’re attempting to push it down, not speak about it, not give it some thought,’ Hughes defined.

‘Push it additional into the recesses of their mind. It’s recognised as a part of the PTSD prognosis… Can intervene with the recall of the data.

In a dramatic second in courtroom on Wednesday, Homeland Safety Investigations Particular Agent Gerard Gannon reveals a firearm, recovered throughout a search in Miami, to jury members.

Homeland Safety Investigations despatched 80 to 90 brokers to the residence on Star Island, used an armored car to smash via the mogul’s safety gate, handcuffed and searched a half-dozen workers, and deployed boats to patrol close by waters, Agent Gerard Gannon testified.

Combs’ lawyer Teny Geragos portrayed the search as overkill throughout cross-examination.

‘So, HSI decided it might are available in by land and by sea to safe the property?’ Geragos requested.

Gannon mentioned Homeland Safety Investigations waited to look the property till Combs was on a flight out of city along with his household.

Trauma professional Dr. Daybreak Hughes is being questioned by prosecutors about why victims of home abuse stick with their abusive companions.

Hughes defined there’s moments of positivity – ‘As a result of these relationships begin with love…the sufferer desires that, they need that again. When that’s proven to the sufferer it turns into reinforcing.’

The professional added: ‘They expertise an amazing quantity of disgrace, humiliation, [it’s] degrading.

‘They don’t need to give it some thought in their very own mind or come out of their mouth

‘If it’s one thing you possibly can’t even speak about, these unspeakable acts, it prevents them from getting assist.

Regina Ventura testified on Tuesday that Diddy demanded that Cassie pay him $20,000 after he discovered she was courting rapper Child Cudi.

She mentioned she and her husband tok out a house fairness mortgage as a result of ‘that’s the one means we may get the cash’ and so they had been scared for Cassie’s security.

‘[Diddy] was offended he’d spent cash on her and she or he’d been with one other individual.

‘His bookkeeper emailed me the wire data. I went to the (financial institution) and wired the cash to the account.’

Regina mentioned the cash got here again about ‘4 to 5 days later.’

Decide Arun Subramanian provisionally denied a joint software by information shops for the movies to be performed in open courtroom and be described by the media.

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

The choose additionally denied an alternate proposal to permit three pool reporters to remain in courtroom once they had been performed, and share stories with different shops.

“I’m not seeing any case that might counsel in any means, form, or kind that pictures or movies of these kind of acts which can be alleged to be sexual abuse could be required to be proven in open courtroom once they pose the apparent 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 essential ‘individuals, although the press, have the ability to see justice is being achieved’.

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

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

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

She conceded the hip-hop impresario has a ‘unhealthy mood’ and is vulnerable to violent outbursts which can be usually 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 costs he faces.

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

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

The Philadelphia-born rapper, well-known for courting Nicki Minaj, seemingly responded to hypothesis that he was one of many redacted names in a bombshell lawsuit in opposition to Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs by music producer Rodney ‘Lil Rod’ Jones.

Jones claimed Diddy engaged in sexual relations with ‘a Philadelphia rapper who dated Nicki Minaj.’

Although the identify of the rapper in query has been redacted from the lawsuit, social media personalities equivalent to DJ Akademiks and Andrew Tate have publicly said that they consider Meek is the individual in reference.

Three massive plastic containers containing a minimum of 26 bottles of Johnson’s Child Oil and 16 bottles of Astroglide lubricant had been discovered within the mogul’s mansion in Miami by federal brokers in a hallway closet.

Bizarrely, the containers additionally contained a minimum of two rubber geese of the type often favored by youngsters throughout tub time.

Diddy famously liked to make use of the liquids throughout ‘freak off’ intercourse events.

Agent Gannon walked the jury via pictures of the objects present in Diddy’s Miami mansion after the March, 2024, raid.

One of many objects was a field with ‘DIDDY’ on it containing marijuana.

A field of nitrous oxide that will have been used as a celebration drug was additionally seen within the prosecution’s reveals..

Diddy’s sons Christian ‘King’ Combs, 27, and Justin, 31, had been seen coming into the courthouse on Wednesday for the mogul’s trial.

Christian within the son of the late Kim Porter and Justin’s mother is Misa Hylton, who has additionally been seen in courtroom.

The siblings had been in courtroom all through final week’s disturbing testimony by Cassie Ventura however had been absent Monday and Tuesday.

The brothers had been photographed in LA over the weekend with their twin sisters as they attended their highschool promenade.

The veil Diddy wore to disguise himself throughout a ‘freak off’ with an escort generally known as ‘The Punisher’ appeared like an Islamic niqab, typically generally known as a burqa, his trial was informed Tuesday.

A niqab covers all the face, solely leaving the eyes displaying. It’s sometimes called a burqa, though that’s technically a overlaying that additionally has a material grill over the eyes.

‘I couldn’t see his face,’ male performer Sharay Hayes mentioned of the primary time he met Diddy and Cassie, in 2012.

‘He had what the Muslim ladies put on, the place their face is totally coated and you can solely see his eyes,’ he adde, in response to The New York Publish.

‘The Punisher’ mentioned he had between eight and 12 whole encounters with the couple.

He mentioned he’d additionally met with them at Essex Home, an opulent resort on Central Park South, only a stone’s throw from the Trump Worldwide Resort.

Hayes added that as Combs grew to become extra snug in his presence, he switched from sporting a veil to a baseball cap.

Prosecutors revealed that the rapper Child Cudi is not going to be testifying on Wednesday due to scheduling points.

Cudi was anticipated to take the stand to speak about being threatened by Diddy when he began seeing Cassie Ventura.

Cassie mentioned in her settled lawsuit that Diddy threatened to explode Cudi’s automotive earlier than the automotive burned down.

It is unclear when Cudi will now take the stand within the trial.

Cassie Ventura’s mother Regina glared at Diddy as she left the stand on Tuesday after describing incidents of violence and intimidation by the music mogul.

Diddy didn’t seem to acknowledge her stare from the protection desk.

In the meantime Diddy’s private assistant David James nodded at Diddy on the way in which out of the courtoom, and Diddy nodded again at him.

James informed the courtroom about feeling in peril throughout his time working for the mogul.

He testified that the job appeared to have growing perils. He mentioned he give up when he realized Combs had put his life in peril by forcing him to drive a automotive because the offended rapper sat within the again with three handguns on his lap.

James mentioned his job typically required him to make sure that resort rooms the place Combs stayed beneath the identify ‘Frank Black’ had been stocked with the musician’s comforts, together with contemporary underwear, an iPod, apple sauce, vodka, child oil, Viagra and condoms.

Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs hosted a intercourse occasion at Donald Trump‘s resort in New York, the courtroom was informed this week.

An unique dancer generally known as ‘The Punisher’ informed the hip-hop mogul’s trial he was paid $2,000 to participate in a ‘Freak-Off’ with Combs and his then-girlfriend Casandra ‘Cassie’ Ventura.

Sharay Hayes, 51, mentioned he poured child oil throughout himself and Ms Ventura throughout the ‘attractive scene’ on the Trump Worldwide Resort in New York in 2012.

Combs, 55, watched the entire time and pleasured himself whereas sporting a veil to disguise his id, Mr Hayes informed jurors.

He mentioned Ms Ventura informed him it was her birthday and her associate had mentioned she may rent a dancer for her and a few pals.

Diddy had already been indicted on the time and was holed up in a resort room on the Park Hyatt Resort in Midtown Manhattan for over per week, ready for his imminent arrest.

However in response to prosecutors, the disgraced rap mogul was intent on having one final hurrah ‘freak off’ earlier than being taken into custody, and when officers breached his room they discovered a trove of child oil and medicines awaiting the sexual marathons.

Different bombshell pictures from the trial included accidents Cassie says she sustained of their turbulent relationship, and intimate photos from the primary time the couple had intercourse on ecstasy after her twenty first birthday.

Prosecutors confirmed the jury photographs of the higher and decrease elements of AR-15 assault rifles that could possibly be put collectively to kind a working rifle. One had a purple dot viewer to make it simpler to hit a goal.

Homeland Secuirty agent Gannon mentioned that the weapons had their serial numbers eliminated which might make it troublesome or ‘not possible’ to hint them.

In a dramatic second, he was requested to open an proof bag in a cart subsequent to him with scissors and stand earlier than the jury holding up the higher a part of the AR-15 rifle.

Gannon assured the jury the gun had been rendered protected and held it up with each arms: jurors craned their necks to see.

Gannon additionally held up proof luggage with the platform sneakers and one other bag containing the decrease a part of the AR-15 weapons.

Homeland Safety particular agent Gerard Gannon informed the courtroom they used an armoured car to smash open the gate to achieve entry as rapidly as attainable.

He mentioned that this was ‘quickest and most secure choice’ and was ‘customary observe’ to ‘not enable unhealthy actors to arrange (taking pictures) positions to hurt regulation enforcement’.

Usually raids occur at 6am however they did this one at 3.40pm as a result of Homeland Safety – which oversees investigations into human trafficking – knew Combs and his household could be out.

The jury was proven photographs of things seized in Diddy’s closet: seven inch platform sneakers, intercourse toys, condoms, child oil, astroglide and elements of AR-15 assault rifles.

First up on Wednesday, we are going to proceed listening to from Gerard Gannon, a Homeland Safety particular agent who was a part of the group which raided Diddy’s $40 million mansion on Star Island in Miami final yr.

On Tuesday, Gannon held rifle elements present in Diddy’s residence to the jury – he opened them from an proof bag in a cart subsequent to him.

The jury was additionally proven luggage of platform sneakers that had been discovered within the residence.

After Gannon concludes his testimony, Diddy’s former chef is anticipated to testify about incidents of violence, adopted by the prosecution’s sexual assault professional Daybreak Hughes – who was the identical professional employed by Amber Heard in her case in opposition to Johnny Depp.

After that, Child Cudi, the rapper who briefly dated Diddy’s ex Cassandra Ventura, is anticipated on the stand.

• Racketeering Conspiracy: This cost alleges that Diddy ran a prison enterprise via his varied companies (together with Dangerous Boy Leisure, Combs Enterprises, and Combs World) to facilitate and conceal his alleged prison actions.
• Intercourse Trafficking by Drive, Fraud, or Coercion: Diddy is accused of utilizing pressure, threats, and coercion to compel people into industrial intercourse acts.
• Transportation to Have interaction in Prostitution: This cost entails the transportation of people, together with industrial intercourse staff, throughout state traces for the aim of partaking in prostitution

The rapper Child Cudi is on the witness listing for the prosecution for Wednesday.

Cassie beforehand testified that Diddy threatened to harm her and Cudi after he discovered they had been courting.

Cassie mentioned she started a quick relationship with Child Cudi ‘throughout a tough patch’ with Diddy.

She claimed Diddy went via her telephone and located emails between her and the American rapper and have become enraged.

Diddy allegedly positioned a handbook corkscrew in between his fingers and lunged at her, in response to the lawsuit and she or he ran away to stick with Child Cudi, in response to the swimsuit.

Cassie later returned and the music government allegedly hit her a number of instances, after which kicked her within the again as she tried to expire the door, the submitting claims.

Throughout Paris Trend Week, she claims Diddy informed her he was going to explode Child Cudi’s automotive and that he wished to verify he was residence along with his pals when it occurred.

‘Round that point, Child Cudi’s automotive exploded in his driveway,’ the lawsuit said.

Former President Barack Obama was bizarrely named in Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs’ ongoing federal trial in stunning testimony about drug-taking on the rapper’s notorious ‘freak off’ events.

He didn’t say Obama was ever in attendance on the events – however mentioned celebrities would have a good time with ‘varied capsules within the form of the previous president’s face’, the courtroom heard.

Eight males and 4 ladies are on the ultimate panel of 12 with an extra 4 males and two ladies listed as alternates. On the primary juror panel, 4 are white, two are Hispanic, 5 are black and one is Asian. Of the six alternates, 4 are white and two are black.

Diddy has continued to placed on the charisma for the viewers within the courtroom throughout his federal sex-trafficking and racketeering trial in New York.

Earlier than leaving the courthouse on Tuesday, he informed the gang within the gallery, ‘I really like you all,’ after which mentioned beneath his breath, ‘yeah. Love.’

The disgraced music mogul, 55, then addressed a lady, as reported by Folks, telling her to ship a message to his eldest son: ‘Please let Justin know I’m considering of him.’

Six of seven of Diddy’s youngsters had been in courtroom final week bit haven’t been current this week.

He’s seen blowing kisses to the viewers on Might 19.