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Diddy's $100,000 Bribe to Make Cassie Beating Video Go Away | Crime Alert 6AM 06.04.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Meansy Grays breaking crime news now. Crowd
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  Speaker 1: still packing the courtroom to hear testimony in the case
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  Speaker 1: heats Sean Combs aka Diddy. Shout out to Drew Nelson
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  Speaker 1: for the latest in the courtroom, Drew, What's happening Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: A hotel guard testifies that the music mogul paid him
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  Speaker 2: one hundred thousand dollars to bury the video of the
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  Speaker 2: brutal twenty sixteen beating of Cassie Ventura. On Day fifteen,
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  Speaker 2: prosecutors led with testimony from Eddie Garcia. He worked security
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  Speaker 2: at the Intercontinental Hotel in Los Angeles when Sean Diddy
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  Speaker 2: Combs was caught on video punching, kicking, and dragging then
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  Speaker 2: girlfriend Cassie Ventura. Garcia told the jury he was approached
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  Speaker 2: days later by Comb's team. He said they wanted the
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  Speaker 2: footage erased. Combs chief of staff called the front desk,
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  Speaker 2: then showed up in person. Garcia said she asked if
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  Speaker 2: there was any way to get a copy. Garcia told
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  Speaker 2: the court he refused and warmed her quote off the record,
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  Speaker 2: it's bad, Garcia said, Combs called himself. Later, he said
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  Speaker 2: combs quote sounded very nervous and told him quote something
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  Speaker 2: like this could ruin him. Garcia testified that Combs promised
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  Speaker 2: to quote take care of me, Garcia agreeing to help.
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  Speaker 2: In exchange, his boss arranged to sell the video. Garcia
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  Speaker 2: testifying that he delivered the only copy to Comb's Garcia
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  Speaker 2: testified that he signed a non disclosure agreement and a
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  Speaker 2: second paper confirming he gave Combs the only copy. He said.
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  Speaker 2: Combs then returned with a brown paper bag and a
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  Speaker 2: money counter. Garcia testified that he gave fifty thousand dollars
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  Speaker 2: to his boss, twenty thousand dollars to another guard, and
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  Speaker 2: kept thirty thousand dollars for himself. Derek Ferguson, Combe's former
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  Speaker 2: bad boy CFO, walked jurors through Comb's records. Prosecutors showed
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  Speaker 2: bank statements from December of twenty eleven. On December fourteenth,
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  Speaker 2: twenty thousand dollars was wired to Ventura. On December twenty third,
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  Speaker 2: Ventura's father wired twenty thousand dollars into the same account.
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  Speaker 2: Four days later, the same amount was sent back. Ventura's
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  Speaker 2: mother had already testified the Combs demanded than in exchange
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  Speaker 2: for not releasing explicit videos of Ventura after learning she
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  Speaker 2: had started dating rapper Kid Cuddy. Another woman who will
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  Speaker 2: remain anonymous, going by the name Jane, is expected to
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  Speaker 2: testify next Thanks Drew.
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  Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this.
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  Speaker 2: Three young sisters are found dead in Washington after a
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  Speaker 2: visit with their father, and now police are searching for
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  Speaker 2: him on murder charges. The bodies of nine year old Peyton,
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  Speaker 2: eight year old Evelyn, and five year old Olivia Decker
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  Speaker 2: were found Monday evening near Rock Island Campground, close to
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  Speaker 2: their father's abandoned white twenty seven gmc Sierra truck. The
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  Speaker 2: girls had been missing since Friday, when their father, Travis Decker,
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  Speaker 2: picked them up for a court approved visit. By that night,
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  Speaker 2: their mother, Whitney Decker, reported them missing after Travis failed
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  Speaker 2: to bring them back on time. A man hunt began.
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  Speaker 2: Decker's truck was found Monday at Rock Island Campground. Just
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  Speaker 2: over an hour later, police found the bodies. The cause
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  Speaker 2: of death has not yet been released. By Tuesday morning,
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  Speaker 2: prosecutors had filed three counts of first green murder and
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  Speaker 2: three counts of kidnapping against Travis Decker. The Winatchee Police
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  Speaker 2: Department warned that he may be armed and dangerous. Authorities
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  Speaker 2: say he may be staying in campgrounds or motels. He
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  Speaker 2: has a military background and extensive training. Officials advised the
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  Speaker 2: public not to approach him. Two inmates in Louisiana remain
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  Speaker 2: on the run nearly three weeks after breaking out of
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  Speaker 2: a New Orleans jail with eight others, with one of
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  Speaker 2: the men posting on social media as he's on the run.
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  Speaker 2: Only Derrick Groves and Antoine Massey are still at large. Groves,
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  Speaker 2: aged twenty seven, had been convicted of killing two men
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  Speaker 2: and injuring two others during a Marti Gras gathering in
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  Speaker 2: twenty eighteen. He used in AK forty seven. He was
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  Speaker 2: awaiting multiple life sentences when he fled. His escape has
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  Speaker 2: raised concerns for witnesses and prosecutors, officials believing Groves may
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  Speaker 2: seek revenge. Massey, aged thirty two, was being held on
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  Speaker 2: domestic abuse and car theft charges. He was also wanted
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  Speaker 2: in Saint Tammany Parish for rape and kidnapping. In a
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  Speaker 2: now deleted video posted to Instagram, a man who appears
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  Speaker 2: to be Massy claimed quote, I didn't break out, I
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  Speaker 2: was let out, he said. Jail officials were out to
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  Speaker 2: frame him. In the video, he also asked for help
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  Speaker 2: from President Trump and Trump pardon rapper low Wayne. Each
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  Speaker 2: fugitive now carries a fifty thousand dollars reward. Tips can
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  Speaker 2: be sent to the FBI. A Texas actor preparing to
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  Speaker 2: reprise his voice role in TV's King of the Hill
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  Speaker 2: is shot dead outside his burned down home after a
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  Speaker 2: neighbor yells homophobic slurs and allegedly opened fire, ending a
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  Speaker 2: long running feud. Police in San Antonio found fifty nine
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  Speaker 2: year old Jonathan Joss to cease. Sunday night, officers arrested
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  Speaker 2: fifty six year old Sigfredo Seja Alvarez, who lived nearby,
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  Speaker 2: and charged him with murder. Joss had returned to check
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  Speaker 2: his mail with his husband, Tristan kerned A Gonzalez. They
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  Speaker 2: found what looked like their dog's skull in the ashes,
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  Speaker 2: one of the animals they lost in the fire earlier
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  Speaker 2: this year. As the couple became hysterical, de Gonzalez says,
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  Speaker 2: Alvarez began yelling violent slurs before firing. Jonathan and I
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  Speaker 2: had no weapons, We were not threatening anyone. Dey Gonzales
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  Speaker 2: believes the killing a hate crime. Police say they found
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  Speaker 2: no evidence it was tied to Joss's sexual orientation. Jos
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  Speaker 2: voiced John Redcorn and King of the Hill and had
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  Speaker 2: recent roles in TV's Tulsa King and Parks and Recreation
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  Speaker 2: is Perfect. Ten Olympian Mary Lou Retton missing. She was
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  Speaker 2: arrested in her hometown of Fairmont, West Virginia, May seventeenth
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  Speaker 2: for DUI. Days later, Rehtton's home appears abandoned. Neighbors said
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  Speaker 2: she has not been home in weeks. A report in
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  Speaker 2: The Daily Mail claimed her family had not heard from
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  Speaker 2: her since her arrest and describes her home as quote
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  Speaker 2: a deserted mess that has sparked rumors that she vanished.
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  Speaker 2: Some had speculated she cut off contact after her DUI.
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  Speaker 2: Her relatives in West Virginia said they hadn't spoken to
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  Speaker 2: her in nearly a month. Retton's lawyer, though pushing back,
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  Speaker 2: attorney Edmund j Rollo, tells TMZ the report quote did
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  Speaker 2: not originate from Mary Lu's family, calling it quote grossly inaccurate.
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