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Ex-Security Guard Testifies Combs Paid $100,000 for Ventura Assault Video

The defense denies all charges as the New York trial has featured testimony about alleged surveillance, physical abuse, a Vienna rape accusation, a class-action lawsuit.

Der inzwischen inhaftierte Sean „Diddy“ Combs 2022 in Las Vegas

Overview

  • Eddy Garcia, a former hotel security employee, testified that Combs paid $100,000 in cash to obtain a video showing him assault Cassie Ventura in 2016.
  • The witness known as ‘Mia’ described years of surveillance and abuse, saying Combs stole phones, installed trackers and subjected her to ‘brainwashing.’
  • Kathi Steininger, an Austrian former TV host, alleges Combs drugged and raped her after a 2000 Vienna concert, though applicable local authorities dropped the case citing the statute of limitations.
  • Six of Combs’s seven children, joined by his 85-year-old mother, have attended trial sessions in New York, with the youngest child too young to take part.
  • Combs has pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking, organized crime and other charges; over 120 people have filed a class-action lawsuit accusing him of various abuses.