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Deonte Nash, Celebrity Stylist Testifies Part 1: Diddy’s Shocking Threats & Abuse #diddytrial · The Demia Avery Show

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  Hey, hey everybody. This is Deia Avery
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  of the Demia Avery Show. Thank you for
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  uh checking in with me. Thank you for
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  listening. So, you know, I have your
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  Diddy update for today. Um it's going to
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  be in two parts. This is part one where
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  the prosecution
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  um they have Deontay Nash, a celebrity
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  stylist on the stand. So, I'm going to
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  go ahead and start. Um again, it's kind
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  of long, so here we go. Uh, Cassie
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  Ventur's friend called to the stand.
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  Prosecutors are calling Deonte Nash, a
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  friend of Cassy's, to the stand. All
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  right. Prosecutor Comey will question
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  Nash, on direct
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  examination. Nash is a celebrity
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  stylist. He said he's testifying under a
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  subpoena. And when asked if he wanted to
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  be here, Nash said absolutely not. So,
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  it goes on to say, "Deonte Nash said he
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  began working with Diddy and Cassie
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  around 2008. He said he was an intern in
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  the fashion department at Bad Boy
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  Entertainment." Uh, Nash said he stopped
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  working for Combmes around
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  2018. Um, it goes on to say, "Asistant
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  US Attorney Comey showed Deontay Nash
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  um a head shot of himself taking during
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  the time he was working with Diddy. He
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  laughed and said, "No." When Comey asked
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  if that was how he looked at the time,
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  he confirmed it was a glamorous shot and
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  said, "Yes, I look amazing." Prompting
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  laughs throughout the
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  courtroom. So, it goes on, uh, Deontay
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  Nash is describing sometimes he said,
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  "Diddy Combmes threatened Cassie." Nash
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  testified that on multiple occasions he
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  heard Commes tell Ventur that he would
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  beat her. A Ventur would be super
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  emotional after the incidents. He said
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  she would cry. Sometimes she would just
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  stay in the house for days and go in a
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  cocoon. Nas said. Nas said he heard
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  Combmes making other threats toward
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  Ventur, including telling her he would
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  not release her music and threatening to
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  get her parents fired from their jobs.
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  Combmes also threatened to send smeually
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  explicit videos of Venura. Nash said
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  Combmes would threaten not to release uh
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  Vento's music anytime she did something
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  he didn't
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  like. Um Nash goes on to say he attended
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  a party in 2014 with Cassie. She looked
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  bomb. Her hair was down. He testified
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  when they arrived. Nash said Diddy
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  grabbed him by the jacket and lifted him
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  up. Nash testified that Combmes told him
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  Victoria's hair needed to be worn up.
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  Nash then asked people for hair pins and
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  told Ventur to go to the bathroom with
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  other staff to fix her
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  hair. Nash said Combmes admitted to him
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  later that night that Ventur's hair
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  looked better
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  down. Goes on uh Nash a celebrity
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  stylist Cassie a friend of Cassie said
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  he had to send all photos of Cassie's
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  outfits to Diddy for approval. He would
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  pick which one he liked and that was
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  usually the one we went with.
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  Okay. Um, Deontay Nash testified that he
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  watched Diddy attack Ventur in a rage
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  sometime in 2013 or 2014 when he was
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  helping Vento pack for a trip. Nas said
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  he answered the door when Combmes
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  arrived because Ventur was asleep on the
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  couch. Combmes kept yelling at Ventura
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  about how she allegedly didn't answer
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  her phone. Nas said he watched Combmes
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  grab her by her hair and pull her off
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  the couch and start hitting her. Nas
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  said he ran into Ventur's bedroom with
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  Ventur and one of Combmes assistants.
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  The assistant had been identified in the
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  trial as quote unquote Mia. Combmes
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  pushed the door open as they tried to
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  lock him
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  out. Combmes continued to attack
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  Ventura, hitting a kick at her until she
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  hit her head on the bed frame. Nash and
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  Mia both jumped on Combmes back, but he
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  threw them off, Nash said. Combmes
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  finally stopped when he noticed the
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  blood. When he noticed the blood, he
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  just panicked. Nas said Combmes said to
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  them, "Look what y'all made me do." Nas
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  said he dialed 911, but someone told him
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  to hang up before the call connected. He
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  testified he can't remember who told him
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  to hang up the phone. Combmes told them
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  Ventur would go to plastic surgery with
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  his security guard. When Nash saw Ventur
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  on a video call that next day, she had a
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  gash on her forehead near her eyebrow
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  and
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  stitches. All right, it skips down. It
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  says uh Deontay Nash recounted a time in
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  2013 or 14 when he was at Ventur's
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  apartment and Diddy came over saying he
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  wanted to talk to Ventur. He said
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  Combmes and Ventur went into the
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  bathroom and when they came out, Combmes
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  grabbed her by her hair and the back of
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  her shirt and started pushing her her
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  out while telling her to get out of the
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  house. Nash testified that he understood
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  Combmes was referring to Ventur's
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  apartment. Nash testified that Combmes
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  pushed Ventur halfway out of the door
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  and then began doing the same to him. He
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  was more so popping me in the back of my
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  head because I don't have her hair. I
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  don't have hair and grabbing my shirt. N
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  said he went downstairs to get in his
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  car and and Ventur and Combmes came down
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  later. Puff began to berate us both and
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  finally let us
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  go. Uh Nash said he and Ventur began
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  driving away when they received a call
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  from Combmes telling them to pull over.
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  Combmes then came up to the window and
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  started talking to Ventur. Nash
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  testified that Combmes told her he would
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  put smeually explicit photos of her on
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  the internet. Combmes said he was going
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  to release them on schedule and start by
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  sending them to her parents' job by her
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  parents' job. He said Combmes also told
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  Ventur he was the only one that
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  protected her. Ventur was in tears as
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  they drove away. Nash said, "That's just
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  sign of abuse. I'm the only one that's
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  protecting you from this while." Um,
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  Nash testified that he told Ventur that
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  if Combmes wanted to release the tapes,
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  she should let him since he'd be on the
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  tapes, too. She said that he wasn't on
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  the videos, that it was him taping her
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  with other guys. Nash testified that
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  Ventur said she didn't want to have
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  smacks with the other men, but she did
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  it because Puff wanted her to. Okay. It
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  goes on to say, uh, Deontay Nash's boss,
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  stylist Derek Ro, I'm sure. I think it's
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  pronounced Ro, called him to say he had
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  given Nash's address to Diddy, who was
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  on his way there. Nash then dropped K
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  Cassie off on Sunset Boulevard so she
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  could catch a cab. When Ro, Diddy, and
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  his security guard arrived at Nash's
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  house, Diddy searched the house, asking
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  where Ventur was. He looked in the oven.
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  I don't know why he looked in the oven.
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  Combmes then took Nash's phone which
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  show Ventur was calling him from a hotel
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  nearby. Combmes then demanded that Nash
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  drive to the hotel while he followed so
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  Nash could get Ventur to come out of the
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  hotel. Nash knew the staff at the hotel
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  so Combmes told him to sweet talk his
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  way up to Ventur's room. Comb's security
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  guard and chief of staff Tony Fletcher
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  went with Nash up to her room. Ventur
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  was frightened when they got there. When
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  they told her to go downstairs to
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  Combmes waiting outside, Ventur said she
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  was going to go over the balcony as she
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  walked towards it. Nash testified that
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  when he left the hotel, he noticed the
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  car was following him and thought it was
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  calm security. He said he turned off the
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  lights and sped away until he lost them.
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  And then he went into a different hotel
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  to spend the night. I didn't think my
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  home was safe to go to that night, he
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  said. Nas said when he returned to the
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  to his home the next morning, his
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  backpack contained his ID, $1,000 in
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  cash, and his iPad had been
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  stolen. It goes on to say, uh, Nash also
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  testified that Diddy was violent with
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  him a few times. Nash recall rec
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  recalled an occasion around
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  2013 during a music video shoot for
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  Ventur when Combmes attacked him while
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  he was outside smoking a cigarette.
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  Combmes grabbed Nash and threw him on a
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  parked car saying to Nash, "I thought I
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  told you about going out y'all wilding,"
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  Nash said. Nash testified that Combmes
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  was referring to the occasion he
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  testified about earlier when Combmes
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  told Nash he couldn't go out because
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  Ventur would want to go with
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  him. All right, guys. We almost done. Uh
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  Deontay Nash, a celebrity stylist,
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  testified he saw Diddy slap Ventur
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  across the face one time in 2015. Nash
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  said that they were with a few other
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  people in a parking lot outside of the
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  music studio when he heard a commotion.
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  Nash said he looked over and saw Comb
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  slap Ventur across the face and said,
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  "Get this bee out of here." Nas said he
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  took Ventur away and she was in tears.
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  The stylist also testified that the that
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  he facetimed with Ventur while she was
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  getting ready for quote unquote the
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  perfect match premiere in 2016. That was
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  a movie. Nas said he noticed she had a
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  black eye. Nas said he saw her in person
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  at a premiier event and could see the
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  black eye under the makeup. He said he
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  also noticed Combmes grabbing at her
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  side during the event. Nash also
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  testified he observed bruises on
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  Ventur's legs, arms, and neck quite
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  often.
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  Nash testimony so far has detailed the
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  ways Diddy Combmes control that uh
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  Ventur's life which the prosecution is
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  using to prove the underlying
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  racketeering conspiracy
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  charge. CNN
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  um Misty Maris said uh Nash testified to
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  quote elements of control. He witnessed
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  Maris said he testified that Cass's
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  entire persona, her wardrobe, her hair,
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  that was all controlled by Combmes, but
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  more so he actually heard Combmes say,
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  "I'm going to beat you." That he had
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  heard Combmes say, "I'm not going to
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  release your music." Then he heard
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  Combmes say that he was actually going
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  to get her parents fired, Maris said. So
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  all of these things are threats that
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  speak not only to the underlying RICO
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  charge, which by the way, looking back
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  to the indictment, part of the
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  prosecution's narrative is that he
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  coerces women into romantic
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  relationships under the guise of dating,
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  but it's really for the purposes
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  engagement of SMEX
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  trafficking.
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  So, oh, we got a little bit more.
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  Um, Nash goes on to say he would help
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  uh, Ventur hide from Combmes often in
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  hotels. Combmes would then blow
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  everyone's phone up, describing
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  how how uh, Combmes chief of staff
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  Christina Korm would also call them
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  saying had saying Combmes had calmed
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  down and they should be back to the they
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  should come back to the house. Nash
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  testified that he talked to Christina
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  Cororm about the violence against
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  Ventur. Quorm said she speak to Combmes
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  about it. Nash said, "But the violence
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  continued." Um he goes on to say he
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  testified that Ventur would go to a
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  hotel with Diddy about weekly. He said
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  he often saw her packing a black duffel
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  bag with Smeck's toys for those stays.
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  Nash testified that Ventur told she
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  didn't want to go, but she did because
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  he wanted her to. Nash recounted the
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  night that celebrated Ventur's 29th
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  birthday. Nash testified that Combmes
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  and Ventur argued and did at dinner, and
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  Combmes told her he did everything for
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  her, but she couldn't do this one thing.
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  Nash said Ventur told him that Combmes
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  was mad because I don't want to go to
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  the hotel and freak off with him. After
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  going to a karaoke bar and then
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  returning to Ventura's house, Combmes
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  fronted confronted Ventura and later
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  told the group she wouldn't she would be
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  leaving with him. Ventura packed a bag
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  with personal items and money, telling
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  Nash she didn't want to go, but she felt
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  she had no choice. Nash testified that
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  both Ventura and Combmes appeared to be
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  under the influence with Venturum
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  seeming more affected.
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  Um, Nas said he stopped working for
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  Diddy in 2018, but they kept in touch,
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  occasionally talking on the phone over
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  text. He said he'd act loving towards
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  Com when they spoke despite everything
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  he witnessed and personally he endured.
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  He noted that he noted that he has not
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  pursued legal action or made a money
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  demand against Comb. Nas said he is
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  still close to Ventur and they speak
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  pretty often. When asked how he feel
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  about Combmes now, he said, "I don't
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  hate him. I mean, I don't. It's just not
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  in me." Nash testified that he never
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  reported any of the violence he
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  witnessed out of fear that Combmes would
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  retaliate. All right, guys. So, that's
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  part one, and we have the
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  crossexamination on the next video.