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Things Get Juicy.. Literally ( Cassie Takes the Stand at the Diddy Trial) · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: I'm the homegrowl that knows a little bit about everything
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Speaker 1: Lauren came, Hey, guys, it's Laura La Rosa. This is
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Speaker 1: knows a bit about everything and everybody. And today I'm
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Speaker 1: taking y'all back the court because you girl love taking
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Speaker 1: y'all a court. Lot it take y'all a court now.
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Speaker 1: Today we are talking Cassie and Diddy because this was
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Speaker 1: Cassie's first day on the stand as one of the
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Speaker 1: key witnesses in Diddy's rico trial and Diddy's sex trafficking trial. Right,
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Speaker 1: so there was a lot to unpack here. Let's just
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Speaker 1: talk about her demeanor first before I get into one
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Speaker 1: of the main points I want to talk about today.
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Speaker 1: Cassie breaking down and having conversation and watching in an
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Speaker 1: open courtroom the video where she was beaten and dragged
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Speaker 1: by Ditty back in twenty sixteen. Her demeanor. She handled
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Speaker 1: it so well, y'all. The first half of court, she
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Speaker 1: was definitely invisibly. You know, she was a little upset,
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Speaker 1: she was tearing. She didn't completely break down, though, she
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Speaker 1: held her composure really really well. Second half, even when
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Speaker 1: she was watching this video, didn't even break right. So
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Speaker 1: we spent the whole day learning the background of Cassie
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Speaker 1: and Puff. Like they had been dating for over ten years.
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Speaker 1: She was super young when she met him. Her twenty
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Speaker 1: first birthday, she spent with him in Vegas. That was
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Speaker 1: the first time they kissed. She talked about how she
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Speaker 1: didn't want that, and you know, she set the scene
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Speaker 1: early for her being a super green, super young girl
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Speaker 1: who met this mogul who was going to change her
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Speaker 1: life through music. And eventually she just leaned all the
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Speaker 1: way in and now here we are with her sitting
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Speaker 1: on the stand in front of us, but the prosecutors.
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Speaker 1: You know, as she was talking about the free calls,
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Speaker 1: and she broke it down right. She talked about, you know,
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Speaker 1: the free calls had five steps. Step one was masturbation.
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Speaker 1: She would have to master bait to the escort and
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Speaker 1: explain every single detail out loud to Puff. Step two,
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Speaker 1: they were rubbing baby on each other like crazy, to
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Speaker 1: the point where like she said, every five minutes, if
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Speaker 1: puff thought you weren't oiled enough, you would have to
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Speaker 1: go put more oil. It was so much oil that
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Speaker 1: like they would have to pay damages in the hotel
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Speaker 1: rooms because the oil was everywhere. Step three was oral sex,
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Speaker 1: she said. Cassie told us that she would even skip
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Speaker 1: to the oral sex sometimes or like rush it because
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Speaker 1: she just would want to get to the ending. She
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Speaker 1: woul want to get it over with. She want to
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Speaker 1: get to having actual sex so it could be over.
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Speaker 1: Step four she talked about was the actual sex. Now,
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Speaker 1: when she talked about the actual sex, she made sure
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Speaker 1: that she mentioned that a lot of times. You know,
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Speaker 1: she alleged that Diddy wouldn't even be involved. He would
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Speaker 1: just sit and watching master bait, as we've heard, but
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Speaker 1: she said there were sometimes where he would get involved
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Speaker 1: and literally like she would allegedly be having sex with
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Speaker 1: an escort while giving heads a puff. And she said,
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Speaker 1: at some points it was so much going on she
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Speaker 1: just didn't even know, like it was just it was
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Speaker 1: just so much going on, right, And she said that,
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Speaker 1: you know, when the escorts would come, Diddy allegedly liked
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Speaker 1: it when they would come on her. And then she
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Speaker 1: was supposed to take that come and rub it on
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Speaker 1: his nipples and on his chest. That was the thing
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Speaker 1: that I guess he liked. Allegedly, that was all it was, y'all.
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Speaker 1: It was a lot of It was a lot of
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Speaker 1: It was a lot. Okay. Her testimony was very but
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Speaker 1: but she was so calm, and she was so like
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Speaker 1: just trying to tell the full story in the best
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Speaker 1: way that she could. She didn't leave out a lot
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Speaker 1: of the good either. She got to the bad kind
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Speaker 1: of quick, but she didn't leave out the good. Like
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Speaker 1: she talked about having a good time with him, everything
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Speaker 1: she experienced, all the traveling, everything she learned, like just
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Speaker 1: being so amazed by his life. But baby, when she
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Speaker 1: got to the bad did she get to it. So
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Speaker 1: they're talking about the freak offs and the prosecutors are like, yo,
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Speaker 1: why didn't you ever just like leave? And she was like, well,
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Speaker 1: there was a time where I tried to leave, she said,
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Speaker 1: and her direct quote was it was she said, I
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Speaker 1: was trying to leave in this situation. And that's the
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Speaker 1: video that we saw that CNN broke of Cassie being
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Speaker 1: drug dragged down the hall and beaten in the Intercontinental
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Speaker 1: Hotel in LA in twenty sixteen. So prosecutors when she
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Speaker 1: brings this up, they bring up text messages first. They
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Speaker 1: don't play the video first. They bring up text messages first,
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Speaker 1: and they're like, okay, so that video was March twenty sixteen, right,
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Speaker 1: let's we're gonna bring up text from around that time
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Speaker 1: of that video. Actually, I believe that was the same day.
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Speaker 1: So Cassie mentioned on the stand that that video that
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Speaker 1: we saw where she's getting beaten in that hotel was
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Speaker 1: a weekend. She actually had a huge movie premiere coming
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Speaker 1: up that Monday. So the text that we're looking at
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Speaker 1: Cassie is named baby Girl in their text messages, and
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Speaker 1: Diddy is pop Up right, because it did again, she
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Speaker 1: had this whole weird thing about calling him pop up
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Speaker 1: because he wanted to be called with her. Granddad was
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Speaker 1: called I don't know. But she textedy and was like,
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Speaker 1: I want to foh so bad, And then the prosecutors
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Speaker 1: asked her to clarify, like what does that mean, and
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Speaker 1: she says that it meant that she wanted to have
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Speaker 1: a free cough so bad, And in text she's like,
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Speaker 1: I want to foh so bad, but I don't want
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Speaker 1: to mess myself up, because again she had given us
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Speaker 1: a whole half of day testimony about how when she
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Speaker 1: would do these free calls, they would be so high
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Speaker 1: and so drunk it would take her days to get
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Speaker 1: herself back together. And she was like, she didn't want
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Speaker 1: to be hungover and sick because again she got this
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Speaker 1: huge movie premier coming up, right, so she texted Puff that.
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Speaker 1: And of course the first question in my mind is like, well, wait,
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Speaker 1: cause you just said this whole time I didn't want
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Speaker 1: to like when I if I could have counted the
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Speaker 1: amount of times that Cassie told us she did not
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Speaker 1: want to be having sex with other men, but did
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Speaker 1: it because she loved Puff and she thought she had too,
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Speaker 1: and she didn't want to do it with nobody else
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Speaker 1: and she didn't want to be beating Yo. If I
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Speaker 1: had one hundred dollars for every time I heard that,
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Speaker 1: I would have had a hundred thousand dollars a day
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Speaker 1: leaving a courtroom. So to see the text with her
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Speaker 1: being like the initiator of it, I was like, hold up,
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Speaker 1: But the prosecutors know what they're doing, right, They bringing
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Speaker 1: that up first, because if they bring it up first,
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Speaker 1: they can kind of plant the narrative in our minds
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Speaker 1: first about why were why that even happen? Right, So
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Speaker 1: they asked her, why did you say you want to
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Speaker 1: have a free cough? And Cassie answered she was trying
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Speaker 1: to damage control. She felt like if she pleased him
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Speaker 1: that weekend, he would be in a happy, great mood
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Speaker 1: and she could go to her movie premiere on Monday.
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Speaker 1: No issues, no bruises, allegedly, no nothing, right, So she
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Speaker 1: was trying to get ahead of it. Now they're like, okay,
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Speaker 1: and the freak cough happened. Allegedly, that freak off is
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Speaker 1: what we were seeing. That's where that video came from,
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Speaker 1: where she's getting beaten in the hotel. So Cassie then
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Speaker 1: goes into detail the free cough. Right, So, she allegends
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Speaker 1: that there was a lot of drinking. There was a
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Speaker 1: lot of party in that day. She says she thought
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Speaker 1: it was like a Friday or Saturday. She thinks it
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Speaker 1: was a Friday. She says at some point within them partying, drinking,
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Speaker 1: having a good time with an escort. There was an
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Speaker 1: escort there that she had named a couple times in
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Speaker 1: her testimony today, So obviously this was the escort that
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Speaker 1: they were kind of familiar with. She says, at some
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Speaker 1: point she ended up getting hit in the face by Puff.
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Speaker 1: She alleged that didd he hit her in her face
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Speaker 1: right at some point, and she couldn't remember why he
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Speaker 1: did it, but she just remember being hit, and she
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Speaker 1: said it instantly gave her a black and purple eye, right,
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Speaker 1: and y'all will remember, and that's what she's alleging, y'all
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Speaker 1: will remember the security guard that I told y'all they
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Speaker 1: kind of blew his spot up. Diddy's team did. He
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Speaker 1: said that when he came off the elevator, Cassie had
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Speaker 1: a blue up like a purple eye, right, but it
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Speaker 1: wasn't in his incident report. That's what Diddy's team pointed out.
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Speaker 1: But she says she had got basically like a blue
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Speaker 1: and purple eye, like a black eye. So she was like, Nah,
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Speaker 1: I gotta get out of here. I can't allow him
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Speaker 1: he lit right now. I can't allow him to like,
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Speaker 1: you know me too bad. I got to be somewhere Monday,
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Speaker 1: and I don't want to miss it. That was the
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Speaker 1: energy that she says she was given, right, So she
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Speaker 1: says she got all her stuff as much as she
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Speaker 1: could the prosecutors acts. Did the male escorts allegedly see
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Speaker 1: her get hit by Puff? And she said, no, he
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Speaker 1: was in another room, like they were all. It sounds
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Speaker 1: like they were in the suite, like they were all
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Speaker 1: in the same room, but he was in another room, right,
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Speaker 1: So she's like, no, we were in another room, so
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Speaker 1: he didn't see it. He was still there though, so
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Speaker 1: potentially he could have heard some things. And to me,
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Speaker 1: that stuck out because I'm like, okay, that's a witness.
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Speaker 1: Then he's a witness. He can come and speak to
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Speaker 1: some things if he needs to or not right, and
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Speaker 1: then it works out in somebody's favor or it doesn't.
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Speaker 1: So she's like, you know, at that point, she just
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Speaker 1: wanted to grab her stuff and get out of there.
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Speaker 1: So that's what she did. When she felt like Puff
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Speaker 1: wasn't beying attention or whatever the case it'd be. She
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Speaker 1: grabbed the stuff. She got out of there. She's chucking
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Speaker 1: it like she's get She's to the elevator, she's trying
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Speaker 1: to get out of there, and then boom. That's where
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Speaker 1: the video picks up. It was interesting to hear kind
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Speaker 1: of like what her backstory was because Puffs team is
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Speaker 1: painting this as this alleged like toxic relationship that was
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Speaker 1: just so bad on both ends that it boiled over
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Speaker 1: into things like what we saw like him dragging her
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Speaker 1: down the hallway, right, But they basically are saying, but
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Speaker 1: she's not without fault either, right now in the video
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Speaker 1: did he does have a phone that he goes and
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Speaker 1: grabs back from Cassie in that video? Right? But Puffs
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Speaker 1: Team also alleged that because Cassie said, I was just
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Speaker 1: trying to go home. I was just trying to get
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Speaker 1: out of there. Puffs Team said, no, Diddy was trying
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Speaker 1: to get her out of there. The prosecutors today did
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Speaker 1: something very interesting, And I'm gonna ended with this because
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Speaker 1: we have so much more that we're going to be
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Speaker 1: talking about this week, and I want you to follow
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Speaker 1: me on socials. I'm Lauren la Rose that I do
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Speaker 1: additional breakdowns there as well too, especially on the Breakfast
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Speaker 1: Club as well. But I'm gonna leave it with this
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Speaker 1: because this is going to lead into where I believe
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Speaker 1: we are going to pick up tomorrow, because the prosecution
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Speaker 1: has to come back in tomorrow and I think that
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Speaker 1: this is where Diddy's team will probably they're gonna try
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Speaker 1: to pick it apart. They rewind this video back right,
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Speaker 1: and they're planning for Cassie a couple times and again, Yo,
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Speaker 1: she never breaks down the whole time. She getting through it. Okay.
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Speaker 1: Her brother and her husband are sitting in front of
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Speaker 1: me as they're replanning and rewatching this video the part
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Speaker 1: where she actually gets dragged. I'm paying attention to them.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't know if I could sit through that.
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Speaker 1: I'm assuming this isn't their first time seeing the video there, right,
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Speaker 1: but still, it's like all these people in court. It's
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Speaker 1: the image of her sitting on the stin and she's pregnant,
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Speaker 1: and she's tearing up, and she's having to rewatch this
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Speaker 1: multiple times in front of all these people. And I'd
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Speaker 1: already been told she didn't even want to be there.
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Speaker 1: It would have hit me. It's hardy to hit me
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Speaker 1: a little bit. I'm like, Yo, my damn, I like
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Speaker 1: choking up, like cause I in that moment, it wasn't
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Speaker 1: about Cassie or Diddy. I felt for a woman who
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Speaker 1: was beat the way that Cassie was beating that video.
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Speaker 1: Having to relive that moment and be embarrassed in front
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Speaker 1: of all of these people and having to be judged
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Speaker 1: about that moment, in the fact that she stayed with
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Speaker 1: him after that moment in front of all of these people.
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Speaker 1: But her husband, he didn't really like he was a
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Speaker 1: little antsy at first, like he was moving around a lot,
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Speaker 1: moving around a lot her brother. It's not like he
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Speaker 1: broke down her crowd or anything, but I wouldn't say
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Speaker 1: he was like, Okay, Alex shot a couple looks at
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Speaker 1: Diddy during this video. Alex Fine is a Cassie's husband.
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Speaker 1: But basically getting to my last point, the prosecutors rewinded
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Speaker 1: the video back and they played this one point where
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Speaker 1: in one frame they showed Ditty and he has Cassie's
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Speaker 1: bags in her hand, and they asked her what is
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Speaker 1: that in his hand, and she says, those are my bags.
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Speaker 1: He had ken he grabbed my bags out my hand
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Speaker 1: and went back to the room. So then they grab
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Speaker 1: another frame of Puff walking back out of the room,
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Speaker 1: back out to the elevator lobby area where Cassie was right,
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Speaker 1: and they're like, what's in his hand now, And she's
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Speaker 1: looking and she's like, I don't know. Then she looks
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Speaker 1: again and she's like, I don't think there's anything in
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Speaker 1: his hand. And they're like, okay, we'll rest today, you're honor.
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Speaker 1: We'll pick this back up tomorrow. I said, Oh, the
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Speaker 1: prosecutors are way more subtle at how they do it
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Speaker 1: Diddy's team. I mean, they're on a defense, so they
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Speaker 1: you know, they got to be a little bit more,
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Speaker 1: you know, but subtly. They made such a loud statement
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Speaker 1: with those two frames, because the whole premise of Diddy's
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Speaker 1: team's argument is that Diddy maybe a man who has
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Speaker 1: committed domestic violence, who has committed assault, who has been
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Speaker 1: a jerk to his girlfriends, who has said things he
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Speaker 1: shouldn't have said, treated people at work the way he
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Speaker 1: shouldn't have treated them. This overall been an asshole, and
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Speaker 1: he'll own up to that, right, but that's not what
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Speaker 1: he's on trial for in this situation. The way Diddy's
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Speaker 1: legal team is setting it up is he was in
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Speaker 1: a toxic relationship that was very tumultuous, that was you know, jealousy, inflaming,
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Speaker 1: and golf. They used a witness to get this out
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Speaker 1: into the jury. When you saw that video, at that point,
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Speaker 1: Puff was just trying to get her home, get her away,
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Speaker 1: because this toxic thing had builed over and boom, they
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Speaker 1: just wanted to end. After that, prosecutors already showed the
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Speaker 1: video of him dragging her back to the hotel, right
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Speaker 1: back to the hotel room. Right now. They show that
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Speaker 1: he doesn't have the bags in his hands. You don't
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Speaker 1: want her to go home. You're not allowing her to
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Speaker 1: go home, in my opinion, if you're taking her bags
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Speaker 1: out of her hand and then you're dragging her by
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Speaker 1: her hair. And a lot of people are like, well,
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Speaker 1: where does the sex trafficking come into all of this?
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Speaker 1: Where does all of that come into all of this?
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Speaker 1: But when you're talking about you know, any of that
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Speaker 1: right being able to bring people across state lines for
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Speaker 1: sex and these things, and you know, threatening them with
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Speaker 1: you know, allegedly threatening them with videos and with your
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Speaker 1: power and all of that. The best thing that the
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Speaker 1: prosecution did today was they made Cassie human because a
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Speaker 1: lot of us had heard about this so much, had
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Speaker 1: seen you know, her civil suit, and then had heard
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Speaker 1: that she was a part of this criminal suit. But
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Speaker 1: I don't think we humanized even after that video. I
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Speaker 1: think a lot of people did, but I think still
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Speaker 1: people were like I don't really know. I don't really know.
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Speaker 1: I after Diddy's defense team came in, I was like,
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Speaker 1: I don't really know, y'all. And I'm still kind of
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Speaker 1: like I don't know. I need to see some more.
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Speaker 1: But after today, the way I empathized with Cassie being
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Speaker 1: this girl who just found herself in all of this
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Speaker 1: mess and and the optics of that video were like,
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Speaker 1: it's like she narrated that video today and it's like,
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Speaker 1: now we saw it, we saw. We didn't see Cassie
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Speaker 1: who was like this woman who kept going back to
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Speaker 1: this man who was abusing her, and who was using
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Speaker 1: drugs with this man allegedly, and who you know, may
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Speaker 1: or may not been involved all these things. We didn't
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Speaker 1: see that. What we saw was twenty one year old
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Speaker 1: Cassie who felt like this situation because she said it
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Speaker 1: when she started off her testimony with this, and ironically
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Speaker 1: it ended up back here if you really called what
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Speaker 1: they were doing, it ended up back here. She found
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Speaker 1: herself in a situation that was so much bigger than her,
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Speaker 1: where the control was so much bigger than her. All
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Speaker 1: she could do was just be there and be in it.
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Speaker 1: And that's what she did in the video and they
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Speaker 1: said to her, why did you just lay their lifeless?
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Speaker 1: She said it felt like the safest place, and I
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Speaker 1: was like, baby, this is about to get good. This
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Speaker 1: is about to get good. Okay, So we're gonna get
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Speaker 1: into some more. This is the latest with Lauren and Rosa. Again.
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