[Jurors leave]
Combs' Agnifilo: The Government sent us a letter at 11 pm last night about changes to their direct case, with fewer witnesses. It might make our case longer.
Judge: That's vague...
Agnifilo: I still see 4th of July
Mia: I didn't want to lose everything I'd worked so hard for. This was the only world I had any more.
AUSA: What would happen to your job?
Mia: I would never work in that industry again.
AUSA: And physically?
Mia: That'd I'd be attacked... I don't want to die
More context and details:
Assistant US Attorney Madison Smyser asked why Mia, one of Diddy's former assistants, didn’t tell people Combs had sexually assaulted her.
“I didn’t know that you had to tell the bad things that happened to you if nobody else saw,” she said, adding that it’s “the most shameful thing of my life.”
She said part of the reason she’s talking about it now is because “when you’re scared into silence, these things continue to happen to others.”
Mia said she “absolutely” did not want to be talking about the sexual assaults, but said she felt she had a moral obligation to share these experiences.
She said, “It’s the most traumatizing, the worst thing that’s ever happened to me.”
AUSA: Did you have to testify?
Mia: No.
AUSA: Why didn't you go to the police about Mr. Combs sexually harassing you?
Mia: I didn't even consider it.
AUSA: Did you have experience with police?
Mia: Yes I was speeding, I hadn't had time to get my license renewed
More context and details:
Mia testified that she didn’t think reporting the times she said Diddy sexually assaulted her to the police was an option.
Mia said she based that partly on some previous interactions she had with police officers.
She described one time when a cop in Los Angeles let her go even though she was speeding without a license because she got Diddy on the phone to talk to the officer.
Mia testified about a separate time she and Diddy were in a car that was pulled over by police in Los Angeles.
“The cops approached pretty aggressively, and once they saw Puff they were like ‘oh my god,’” she said, indicating the cops were excited to see Diddy.
[Jurors leave]
Combs' Agnifilo: The Government sent us a letter at 11 pm last night about changes to their direct case, with fewer witnesses. It might make our case longer.
Judge: That's vague...
Agnifilo: I still see 4th of July
Judge: Adjourned
Don't know how anybody can still be saying "Free Puff" or call Cudi/anyone who testified a snitch. That nigga deserves death
Don't know how anybody can still be saying "Free Puff" or call Cudi/anyone who testified a snitch. That nigga deserves death
Saying s*** like this too accepted on the Internet
[Before jury brought it]
Judge: What's the issue with the charts?
Combs' Alexandra Shapiro: We object to the column entitled "Escort."
Judge: Meaning the title?
Shapiro: They are connecting up the stay with the hotel with the escort's travel to the city
Combs' Shapiro: We don't know if the escort traveled to NY that they actually went to the Londoner Hotel
AUSA: We discussed--
Shapiro: The Government can make an argument, that an inference can be made.
Judge: Fair. Ms. Comey?
AUSA Maurene Comey: OK, title's out
AUSA Comey: We have records like, Go to Room so-and-so in the hotel. We can remove the header. We will show that the escort was going to the hotel, where there was a reservation under the name of Frank Black.
Judge: And this one?
AUSA: It's escort Jules Theodore
Combs' Shapiro: We'll take what the court gives us.
Judge: Anything else on summary exhibits? We're running into the jury's time. Let's get started. Can we have Mia back?
[Witness enters]
All rise!
Judge: Ms. Smyser, you may proceed.
AUSA Smyser: Did you call the other employees family?
Mia: Yes. I was surrounded by them. And everyone referred to each other that way.
AUSA: You dated an employee?
Mia: Yes, Matt the sound engineer
AUSA: Were you and Matt able to hang out together, normally?
Mia: No. We had an apartment together in New York but we were rarely there at the same time.
AUSA: Why did you go to South Africa?
Mia: Puff told me to accompany Cassie, she was shooting movie
AUSA: What happened there?
Mia: Cass had caught Puff cheating on her with Gina. She was devasted.
AUSA: What were her interactions with Mr. Combs?
Mia: They were on the phone. He as in Miami. Then she stopped answering the calls.
AUSA: I'll read the blue messages, KK - Ms. Khorram - and you read the gray, that's you. She wrote, "PD wants to talk to you." Who's that?
Mia: Puff
AUSA: Audio Call Not Completed?
Mia: I wasn't answering the calls. But I spoke with Puff, he threatened to kill me
AUSA: What else did he threaten you with?
Mia: He said he was firing me, he said I had to leave and fly back. And he threatened to kill me.
AUSA: Ms. Krorram wrote, I need to talk to her, not sure what to do. He needs you to call him now, or you don't have a job
AUSA: How did it make you feel?
Mia: Desperate. Terrified. And really really sad.
AUSA: Did you answer KK's calls?
Mia: No. I texted back that I had been asleep. It sucks to wake up to this every morning. I'm being sh*t on from all sides. I'm in a f*cked up spot
AUSA: And what was KK answer?
Mia: She wrote, Can you call me what you get a chance? I wrote, I'm having anxiety attacks and night fears.
AUSA: About who?
Mia: Puff.
AUSA: Who are these WhatsApps with?
Mia: Puff. I screenshot them. I've had other phones since
AUSA: What did Mr. Combs write?
Mia: If you don't call me in two minutes I'm gonna tell everything, you're fire. F*ck ABC and their lawyers, let's go to war.
AUSA: What do you think he meant by tell everything?
Mia: He'd tell Cassie about the sexual assault
AUSA: What do you think he meant by "f*ck ABC"?
Mia: I had written a show based on my life as, uh, an assist. It hit the press, the most I ever got. He was threatening to take that away.
AUSA: Did the show ever air?
Mia: No.
AUSA: What did he write now?
Mia: Call me now. Call me now. Now. Now. Then, Don't ever call me again. I wrote back that I'd been asleep.
AUSA: Is that the end of the screenshots?
Mia: Yes.
AUSA: What's this?
Mia: My email to Puff, then to KK.