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Dawn Richard Testifies in Diddy Trial, Claims She Witnessed Abuse and Was Threatened · The Demia Avery Show

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  Hey, hey everybody. This is Deia Avery
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  of the Deia Avery Show. So, listen, if
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  you haven't checked out my first video,
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  make sure you go back and check that out
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  if you missed it. And we talked about um
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  Cassie finally leaving the witness
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  stand. Thank goodness. And in walks
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  special agent, Yasine Binda, and she
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  talks about what she found in Diddy's
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  hotel room after being arrested. That's
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  a trip. And now enter singer Dawn
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  Rashard, former member of Danny Kain and
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  third member of Dirty Money alongside
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  Diddy and Kina Harper. So, I'm going to
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  go ahead and read this out to y'all.
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  It's kind of long, so here we go. Uh,
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  Dawn Rashard says she worked for Diddy
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  uh from 2004 to 2011.
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  Uh Rashard, the former Danny Kane
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  singer, said she knew Combmes by the
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  nickname Puff and pointed to him to
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  identify him in the courtroom when
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  asked. Rashard says she saw Cassie
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  Ventur being attacked by Shawn Combmes
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  in 2009. He came downstairs screaming,
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  belligerent, asking where his food was,
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  proceeded to hit her over the head,
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  kicked her, and beat her to the ground
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  in front of us, she testified. Leading
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  up to alleged assault in 2009, Rashard
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  was in the kitchen when Ventur, who was
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  cooking eggs, she said Combmes came
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  downstairs and demanded to know where
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  his eggs were. Rashard testified. Um, I
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  kind of went over this on the first one,
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  but stay with me. He proceeded to come
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  over to her and took the skillet with
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  the eggs in it and tried to hit her over
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  the head with it, and she fell to the
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  ground. She said it didn't seem that it
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  hit her fully. Rashard added, saying it
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  seemed like Ventur dropped to the ground
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  because she anticipated the hit. She
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  went into a fetal position. So, we got
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  some clarity on that. Anyway, goes on to
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  say, uh, former Danny K member Dawn
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  Rashard testified that after she
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  witnessed the altercation in the
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  kitchen, Sha Diddy Combmes dragged
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  Cassie Ventur upstairs by her hair, his
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  arm around her neck. She says she heard
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  glass breaking and yelling from
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  upstairs. Uh, Rashard said she didn't
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  say anything to intervene or call the
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  police because she was afraid. She said
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  she was scared to do anything in fear or
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  what might mean for herself. Um the
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  judge dismissed the jury for the day,
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  telling them the parties would stay
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  behind to work after calling a sidebar
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  over a defense objection to former Danny
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  Decay and singer uh Dawn Rashard's
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  description of Diddy Comb's threats.
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  Listen y'all, you think it's over, but
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  it's not. Hold on. Hold on. Um
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  afterwards, prosecutors and the defense
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  attorneys, they had like a discussion.
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  They had a pow-wow because
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  um because of uh Dawn's testimony. They
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  said earlier the judge indicated that
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  they would sidebar over a defense
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  objection like they were saying to
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  Rashard's description of threats Combmes
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  made. Just before the judge dismissed
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  the jury for the day, Rashard, who
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  worked for Combmes in the mid 2000s,
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  testified that ha after she and another
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  woman saw Combmes attack Cassie Ventura,
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  he encouraged them not to say anything
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  about the assault. The next day, Combmes
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  asked Rashard and the other woman, which
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  is Kina Harper, to come to his home. He
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  brought them into a recording studio,
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  locked the door, and told them that what
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  they witnessed was passion, and that's
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  what lovers do. Um, Richard testified.
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  Combmes then told him it was in their
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  best interest that they didn't say
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  anything and that where he comes from,
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  people go missing if they talk. Richard
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  testified. He then gave them flowers.
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  That's some old uh old Scarface stuff.
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  So, they are adjourned for the day and
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  we're going to hear, I'm sure, more
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  about this um coming Monday. So, that's
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  all we have for today, you guys. Talk to
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  you later. Bye bye.