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Diddy Trial Gets Dirty: When Cassie Said the Safe Word is "Pineapple" | Crime Alert 6AM 06.18.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime, alert, imancy, grace breaking, crime us now ex girlfriends,
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  Speaker 1: former employees, mail sex workers, and hotel managers are among
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  Speaker 1: the multitude prosecutional witnesses against Shawn Comb's aka Ditty, each
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  Speaker 1: one recounting their recollections of interactions with Combs, detailing alleged violence,
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  Speaker 1: sex abuse, drug distribution, car bombs, and blackmail threats. How
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  Speaker 1: will the defense battle the damning testimony? Our Drew Nelson
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  Speaker 1: joins US with the latest from the Shawn Combs court room.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy, a former aid Deshaun Combs, is preparing to testify
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  Speaker 2: today as we enter the final stretch of the federal
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  Speaker 2: sex trafficking trial. An online article caught the judge's interest.
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday morning, Judge Arun Subramanian scolded both legal teams over
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  Speaker 2: the leaked news report that contained details from a sealed
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  Speaker 2: court hearing. The judge said, from the bench quote, someone
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  Speaker 2: is lying. The transcript was sealed, warning that continued leaks
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  Speaker 2: could lead to contempt charge. He didn't specify the content
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  Speaker 2: of the league, but it appeared to involve private discussions
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  Speaker 2: about the juror who was dismissed Monday for giving inconsistent
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  Speaker 2: information about where he lived. The judge said, quote one
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  Speaker 2: or more people who were here Friday in this court
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  Speaker 2: room flagrantly violated this Court's orders, a violation of the
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  Speaker 2: court's sealing order. Back on the stand, US attorney Special
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  Speaker 2: Agent Delesa Penlan, presenting evidence of so called free coughs,
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  Speaker 2: jurors watched more than fifteen minutes of explicit video clips
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  Speaker 2: from twenty twelve and twenty fourteen, which were sealed from
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  Speaker 2: public view. Some jurors appeared visibly tense. Penland also reviewed
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  Speaker 2: hotel and travel records showing large sums charged to Comb's
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  Speaker 2: American Express cards. In one case, he was billed forty six,
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  Speaker 2: seven hundred and eighty six dollars for damage to a
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  Speaker 2: penthouse at the Intercontinental New York. Another document showed a
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  Speaker 2: four thousand dollars per night suite and travel expense for escorts.
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  Speaker 2: Cross examination focused on Cassie Ventura's text. Comb's lawyer, Tenny Garrigos,
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  Speaker 2: read messages in which Ventura described what she called sexy
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  Speaker 2: flashbacks in many ways, expressing her affection and even thanking
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  Speaker 2: Comb's for quote, showing me love and happiness the way
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  Speaker 2: It's supposed to be. Gary Goes argued these texts showed
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  Speaker 2: Ventura was a willing partner. In one message, Ventura wrote, quote, baby,
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  Speaker 2: I want to fo so bad freak ofugh. On Father's
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  Speaker 2: Day twenty twenty three, Ventura texted she could not wait
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  Speaker 2: until quote we have a baby of our own. Another
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  Speaker 2: she proposed a role play quote I am not Cassie
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  Speaker 2: and quote you're not Sean. She added if they needed
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  Speaker 2: to break character, the safe word was pineapple. But then
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  Speaker 2: there's this. She described bruises after the twenty sixteen assault
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  Speaker 2: and told Combs, quote, when you get phipped up the
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  Speaker 2: wrong way, you always want me to show that you
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  Speaker 2: have the power, and you knock me around. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: a rag doll. I'm someone's child. After that attack, Combs
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  Speaker 2: sent repeated texts quote I'm about to be arrested and
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  Speaker 2: quote if you don't pick up, you'll never hear my
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  Speaker 2: voice again, calling her five times in the course of
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  Speaker 2: twenty two minutes. The jury was dismissed Tuesday afternoon as
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  Speaker 2: lawyers stayed behind to discuss a possible issue with another
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  Speaker 2: juror Number seven. Number six has already been excused. Brend
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  Speaker 2: And Paul, a former assistant to Combs, is expected to
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  Speaker 2: take the stand today. Paul was previously arrested on drug
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  Speaker 2: charges and is named in multiple lawsuits connected to Combs.
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  Speaker 2: He was granted immunity Tuesday and ordered to testify truthfully.
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  Speaker 2: Prosecutors said they might rest their case Friday, a delay
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  Speaker 2: from their previously announced plan to rest today. No proceedings
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  Speaker 2: on Thursday, as they observed the June teenth federal holiday.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Drew more crime and justice news after this.
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  Speaker 2: Doctor Salvador Placentia pleads guilty to supplying ketymine to Matthew
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  Speaker 2: Perry before the Friends actors fatal overdose in October of
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty three four counts of distributing ketymine. He faces
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  Speaker 2: up to forty years in prison and a two million
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  Speaker 2: dollar fine. Authority said Placentia left doses with Perry's assistant,
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  Speaker 2: who had no medical training. Prosecutors said Placentia injected Perry
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  Speaker 2: in his home and once in a parking lot while
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  Speaker 2: the actor sat in the backseat of a car. Placentia
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  Speaker 2: sold the rug to Perry for thousands of dollars at
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  Speaker 2: a time. According to court records, Placentia enlisted another doctor,
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  Speaker 2: Mark Chavez, to help fill Perry's requests. Chavez had experience
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  Speaker 2: operating a ketamine clinic. In a text message, Placentia asked Chavez, quote,
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  Speaker 2: I wonder how much this moron will pay. The two
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  Speaker 2: doctors then met and exchanged several vials of the drug.
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  Speaker 2: In the weeks before his death, Perry was receiving multiple
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  Speaker 2: doses each day from different suppliers. The investigation has led
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  Speaker 2: to federal charges against five people. Two others have already
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  Speaker 2: pleaded guilty. Perry's live in assistant, Kenneth Ewamasa, and an
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  Speaker 2: acquaintance by the name of Eric Fleming. Fleming admitted to
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  Speaker 2: delivering fifty vials of ketamine, including the dose that killed Perry.
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  Speaker 2: Iwamasa admitted to injecting Perry multiple times and said Perry
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  Speaker 2: asked him to quote, shoot me up with a big
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  Speaker 2: one before getting in the hot tub. Today he died.
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  Speaker 2: The fifth defendant, the notorious ketamine queen Jasvine Sangha, is
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  Speaker 2: accused of selling the ketamine that caused the overdose. She
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  Speaker 2: is awaiting trial. The manhunt continues in Washington State for
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  Speaker 2: a father accused of killing his three during a court
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  Speaker 2: ordered visitation. Court record show Travis Decker had lost overnight
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  Speaker 2: custody of his girls in twenty twenty four, due to
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  Speaker 2: unpaid support and mental health concerns, A judge had limited
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  Speaker 2: him to short daytime visits. In court audio released this week,
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  Speaker 2: Decker had insisted quote, We've never done anything that was
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  Speaker 2: unsafe or anything that I wouldn't want to put myself in.
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  Speaker 2: He also said quote, I understand that my current position
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  Speaker 2: when I'm by myself isn't ideal, but my daughters aren't
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  Speaker 2: a part of that. He'd been living in his truck
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  Speaker 2: and occasionally staying in motels. Official sate Decker has survivalist training.
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  Speaker 2: He is a former Army ranger. A federal affidavit says
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  Speaker 2: Decker may have been planning to flee the country. He
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  Speaker 2: reportedly searched online for ways to move to Canada just
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  Speaker 2: days before taking the girls chilling. New details are emerging
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  Speaker 2: in the Minnesota lawmakers shooting spree as federal charges are filed.
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  Speaker 2: Vance Bolter, aged fifty seven, is charged with murdering state
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  Speaker 2: Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband and shooting Senator John
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  Speaker 2: Hoffman and his wife Yvette. He allegedly posed as a
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  Speaker 2: police officer wearing a silicone mask, shouting quote, this is
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  Speaker 2: the police, before forcing his way into the homes. Two
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  Speaker 2: other lawmakers were spared, including Senator and rest Police say
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  Speaker 2: they reached her home just in time. After the shootings,
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  Speaker 2: Bolter allegedly texted his family quote dad went to war
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  Speaker 2: last night and warned his wife to leave before quote
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  Speaker 2: armed and trigger happy people arrived. Federal officials say the
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  Speaker 2: killings were part of a larger planned attack.
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  Speaker 1: With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace.