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An Ex-Employee, Mia, Testifies That Sean Combs Sexually Assaulted Her Ex-Combs Assistant Says She Feared His Wrath: Latest Takeaways From the Trial
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A former personal assistant to Sean Combs testified on Thursday about a grueling work environment in which she was subjected to sleep deprivation, violence and multiple instances of sexual assault by her boss. On the 12th day of Sean Combs’s trial on sex-trafficking and racketeering charges, the second woman to testify about allegations of sexual abuse took the stand. The former assistant to Mr. Combs testified under the pseudonym Mia, and prosecutors also used her testimony to try to corroborate the account of Casandra Ventura, known as the singer Cassie, his on-and-off girlfriend of around a decade. Mr. Combs pleaded not guilty and has denied all the charges.
The woman is taking the stand at Mr. Combs’s racketeering and sex-trafficking trial under the pseudonym “Mia,” but jurors were shown her real name. In the witness box, she described a fast-paced, often exciting job that could quickly descend into chaos based on the fluctuation of Mr. Combs’s moods. Here are some takeaways from the day in court.
“The highs were really high and the lows were really, really low,” she testified. Mia, the former personal assistant to Mr. Combs, testified about a grueling work environment in which she was subjected to sleep deprivation and violence for delays in fulfilling his demands.
Listing instances in which she said Mr. Combs was violent with her during her eight years working for him, Mia testified, “He’s thrown things at me. He’s thrown me against the wall. He’s thrown me into a pool. He’s thrown an ice bucket on my head. He slammed my arm into a door.” The woman, whose real name was revealed to jurors, described a fast-paced, often exciting job that could quickly descend into chaos based on Mr. Combs’s moods.
Looking down, her voice quieting to a whisper, she said that Mr. Combs had also sexually assaulted her multiple times. Prosecutors said they would return to the subject in detail later, but they had previewed her account for jurors by saying that Mia would testify that Mr. Combs forced her to perform oral sex and sneaked “into her bed to penetrate her against her will.” “The highs were really high and the lows were really, really low,” she testified. She described instances in which he threw a bowl of spaghetti at her and, in another, a computer. Both missed, she said.
Mia said she was in her mid-20s, living in New York and working to ascend in the entertainment industry — she had already been a personal assistant for Mike Myers — when she began working for Mr. Combs in 2009. After several interviews for a personal assistant job, she recalled, she was brought to Mr. Combs’s apartment to meet him, and he opened the door in his underwear. The human resources employee who accompanied her then left, she said, and Mr. Combs got dressed. “He’s thrown me against the wall,” Mia testified. “He’s thrown me into a pool. He’s thrown an ice bucket on my head. He slammed my arm into a door.”
Mia said she had little privacy as the music producer’s assistant. When she stayed at Mr. Combs’s houses, she testified, he directed her to never lock her bedroom door. A document shown to jurors listed Mia’s marching orders, which including staying on her Blackberry at all times. Mr. Combs, the document read, could “ask you to do 17,000 things at one time that range from cracking his knuckles to writing his next movie to doing his taxes.”