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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
- 0:07Speaker 2: A Diddy shock demand hide victim Cassie Venturra's pregnant tummy
- 0:13Speaker 2: from the jury.
- 0:15Speaker 1: Really, I'm Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories.
- 0:17Speaker 3: Thank you for being with us.
- 0:31Speaker 2: Cassie Ventira on the stand in the court of law
- 0:35Speaker 2: in the criminal trial of Shawn Comes aka Diddy.
- 0:38Speaker 1: And what is that I'm hearing?
- 0:43Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's a death knell. Joining me from the
- 0:48Speaker 2: courthouse is Lauren Conlin.
- 0:52Speaker 1: In the courtroom throughout the day.
- 0:54Speaker 2: Lauren, First of all, let's just start chronologically to Cassie
- 0:59Speaker 2: Venturra to making the stand. They did a long laid
- 1:01Speaker 2: up to her to put her on the stand. Tell
- 1:05Speaker 2: me how was the jury responding to her testimony.
- 1:08Speaker 4: Cassie did get to the point where she discussed the
- 1:11Speaker 4: psychological abuse as well as the physical abuse that she
- 1:15Speaker 4: received from Diddy, and the jury was listening intently. And
- 1:19Speaker 4: it's also interesting because Sean Colmes seems to be pretty
- 1:23Speaker 4: stoic throughout this. Now one thing that also seems to
- 1:26Speaker 4: be present throughout her testimony is how much Cassie actually loved.
- 1:31Speaker 5: Him at one point.
- 1:33Speaker 4: So I believe that they are going to move on
- 1:37Speaker 4: and start really focusing on the abuse.
- 1:39Speaker 5: But so far it's been tough.
- 1:42Speaker 4: It's been hard for everybody, and Cassie herself had needed
- 1:45Speaker 4: some moments to wipe her nose, take some breaths. She
- 1:49Speaker 4: does appear very very sad and very very somber and
- 1:52Speaker 4: as you know, very pregnant.
- 1:54Speaker 2: You know, it's really interesting, Lauren Collin. One of the
- 1:57Speaker 2: first things that Sean comes is to million dollar defense
- 2:01Speaker 2: team did was demand that she be seated in the
- 2:06Speaker 2: witnessed seat before the jury came in so they could
- 2:10Speaker 2: not see her baby Billy.
- 2:12Speaker 1: What happened, Well.
- 2:14Speaker 4: They had been discussing this previously, about how pregnant she
- 2:18Speaker 4: looked and the fact that maybe the jury could feel
- 2:20Speaker 4: sympathy for her.
- 2:22Speaker 5: So yeah, she was brought in first, and then the
- 2:24Speaker 5: jury was brought.
- 2:25Speaker 2: In, you know, earlier this morning, just before they broke
- 2:29Speaker 2: for lunch, Cassie Ventura described how free costs actually became
- 2:33Speaker 2: a job lasting thirty six to forty eight hours, the
- 2:39Speaker 2: longest one lasting.
- 2:41Speaker 1: Up to four days.
- 2:43Speaker 2: No wonder the participants needed IV fluids after a free call.
- 2:48Speaker 2: I'm just curious to Lauren Collin joining us at the courthouse,
- 2:51Speaker 2: how was the jury responding?
- 2:54Speaker 4: What I will say is Cassie made a point to
- 2:56Speaker 4: say that when she wasn't making music, she was actually
- 3:00Speaker 4: having to quote recover.
- 3:02Speaker 5: From these freakoffs.
- 3:03Speaker 4: And again she did say these freak offs lasted between
- 3:07Speaker 4: one and four days, and it would take her an
- 3:09Speaker 4: equal amount of time to get her body recovered, to rehydrate,
- 3:13Speaker 4: to rest, to detox from these drugs.
- 3:15Speaker 5: It was really really sad to listen.
- 3:18Speaker 2: To joining us an all star panel to make sense
- 3:20Speaker 2: of what we are learning, also, Lauren Conlin, we are
- 3:24Speaker 2: learning that the defense made an argument to the jury
- 3:29Speaker 2: through their cross examination and in their opening statements that
- 3:34Speaker 2: the victims in this case were quote strong women that
- 3:38Speaker 2: had millions of reasons to stay in the relationship with
- 3:43Speaker 2: Sean Combs.
- 3:44Speaker 1: In other words, that is a peak and to what their.
- 3:46Speaker 2: Cross examination is going to be of Cassie Ventira trying
- 3:50Speaker 2: to state that she wanted to be in the relationship,
- 3:53Speaker 2: she was a willing participant in the relationship, and she
- 3:56Speaker 2: got a lot of money from Sean Combs. Do you
- 4:01Speaker 2: see that going anywhere? Do you recall that was part
- 4:05Speaker 2: of their opening statements.
- 4:06Speaker 4: Yes, it was part of their opening statements. They made
- 4:09Speaker 4: a point to say that these women are all in
- 4:11Speaker 4: control of their lives. The other Jane, she is a
- 4:15Speaker 4: single mom. They said, she makes decisions, you know, for
- 4:17Speaker 4: her children and for her family, so she could easily
- 4:20Speaker 4: get out of this relationship. But what I do think
- 4:23Speaker 4: was interesting, Nancy, is during Cassie's testimony, she said that
- 4:27Speaker 4: Seawann Holmes did pay for a number of her homes,
- 4:30Speaker 4: but she paid for a home, a home that she
- 4:32Speaker 4: had in Studio City, and she was killed that she
- 4:35Speaker 4: could finally pay for a home and she wasn't tethered
- 4:39Speaker 4: to Shawn Holmes. She had something of her own. So
- 4:42Speaker 4: I thought this was really interesting.
- 4:44Speaker 5: You know, it made us.
- 4:45Speaker 4: Realize that she wasn't heavily reliant on him. She did
- 4:49Speaker 4: want to separate from him. He was just making it
- 4:51Speaker 4: incredibly difficult to do.
- 4:53Speaker 2: So, guys, the argument is going to be made to
- 4:56Speaker 2: the jury not to believe Cassie Ventura now on the
- 5:00Speaker 2: stand throughout the afternoon, the jury listening intently.
- 5:05Speaker 1: To everything she has to say, and to you.
- 5:07Speaker 2: Sidney Sumner joining us also covering the case from the
- 5:10Speaker 2: very beginning Crime Stories investigative reporter.
- 5:13Speaker 1: She made quite the impression.
- 5:14Speaker 2: When she walked into that courtroom, even though Sean Comes
- 5:17Speaker 2: had at one point demanded the jury not be exposed
- 5:21Speaker 2: to her pregnant stomach. Describe what she looked like, Sidney Fancy.
- 5:26Speaker 6: Today, Cassie's wearing a body con a tight turtleneck brown
- 5:31Speaker 6: dress to really show off that baby buck. So the
- 5:35Speaker 6: jury is very interested in her. Homes actually turned around
- 5:40Speaker 6: in his seat to watch her as she crossed the
- 5:42Speaker 6: room to the witness stand. Taffy is very obviously about
- 5:46Speaker 6: to pop. She's eight and a half months pregnant, so
- 5:49Speaker 6: that's very clear, especially in her outfit today.
- 5:52Speaker 2: Speaking of the attack on Cassie Venturo, who, as you
- 5:55Speaker 2: all know, this case wide open. A much of her
- 5:58Speaker 2: civil complaint at Sean Combs as a result of the
- 6:02Speaker 2: Cassie beat down video obtain from the Intercontinental Hotel, is
- 6:06Speaker 2: going to be mirrored in the criminal case. The defense
- 6:10Speaker 2: is going to turn that around, turn it on its ear,
- 6:12Speaker 2: and claim that Cassie Ventura is only in this because
- 6:15Speaker 2: she wants money. But remember, her civil case has already settled.
- 6:21Speaker 2: There's no money in this for her at this juncture.
- 6:24Speaker 2: That civil case is over and the defense is arguing
- 6:28Speaker 2: something very insidious.
- 6:30Speaker 1: Listen.
- 6:30Speaker 7: Garrigos also insists the women in the government claims Combs
- 6:34Speaker 7: exploited were absolutely they're willingly. Garigos says the women who
- 6:38Speaker 7: will take the stand against Combs were strong, capable and
- 6:41Speaker 7: in love with the men they now.
- 6:43Speaker 1: Call their abuser.
- 6:44Speaker 7: Garrigos points out that Cassie stayed for ten years. Garrigo says,
- 6:48Speaker 7: while everyone may agree that Combs was a bad boyfriend,
- 6:51Speaker 7: he did not force women to be with him. Garrigos
- 6:54Speaker 7: suggests that Comb's abusers have several million reasons to come
- 6:57Speaker 7: forward now, all of them money boyfriend.
- 7:04Speaker 2: I'm so glad they said that in opening statements. I'm
- 7:07Speaker 2: so glad that they reduced the state's case down and
- 7:10Speaker 2: everything these victims have to say to Shawncam's being.
- 7:13Speaker 1: A bad Oh, there it is again.
- 7:16Speaker 2: The defense actually said this is all about Shawn Come's
- 7:20Speaker 2: being a bad boyfriend. Well, a multi count federal indictment
- 7:24Speaker 2: says something very different. Doctor Bethany Marshall joining US psychoalyst
- 7:28Speaker 2: out of LA, author of deal Breakers. She's on Peacock
- 7:31Speaker 2: now and you can find her at doctor Bethany Marshall
- 7:34Speaker 2: dot com. Doctor Bethany a bad boyfriend. That's certainly putting
- 7:38Speaker 2: perfume on the pig.
- 7:40Speaker 8: You know, Nancy, didn't they say an opening that there
- 7:43Speaker 8: was domestic violence, but that's not what he was on
- 7:45Speaker 8: trial for, and now they reduced it down to him
- 7:48Speaker 8: being a bad boyfriend. Of course, she was there for
- 7:52Speaker 8: ten years. On average, it takes a woman nine attempts
- 7:55Speaker 8: at leaving an abuser before she's finally able to get away.
- 7:59Speaker 8: And Nancy, in that riveting testimony today, she said Seawan
- 8:03Speaker 8: Colmes controlled every part of her life, not only making
- 8:07Speaker 8: her plan the part of the freak offs. He controlled
- 8:10Speaker 8: her look, her social life, who she could see, her
- 8:14Speaker 8: psychological well being. She was well trained to always worry
- 8:19Speaker 8: about what he thought about her. And she also said
- 8:21Speaker 8: he was highly critical. Imagine that she did everything for
- 8:24Speaker 8: him and he could do nothing but beat her and
- 8:27Speaker 8: criticize her. Hmm, that's not a bad boyfriend, that's worse.
- 8:31Speaker 2: Now joining us at the courthouse, Angelica Martinez Servina, Crime
- 8:36Speaker 2: online dot Com investigative reporter. You know, when Cassie Ventira
- 8:41Speaker 2: came into the courtroom, Angelica, all eyes on Cassie, including
- 8:48Speaker 2: Sean comes Now, when earlier witnesses were on the stand,
- 8:53Speaker 2: specifically the stripper, the sex worker, that he paid to
- 8:58Speaker 2: urinate and to cass his mouth, and she described how
- 9:01Speaker 2: she choked on it, actually choked, thought she was choking,
- 9:07Speaker 2: but was willing to do anything to keep Sean Combs
- 9:10Speaker 2: happy and to placate him and avoid a violent outburst,
- 9:15Speaker 2: opposed to the way he acted when a sex worker
- 9:17Speaker 2: came on the stand. This is rare for Combs. He
- 9:20Speaker 2: turned all the way in his chair. Grandpa turned around.
- 9:25Speaker 2: I'm surprised he doesn't have a motorized scooter because he's
- 9:27Speaker 2: let his hair go white. He's dressed up in a
- 9:30Speaker 2: turtlenet I mean a pullover sweater again and looking like
- 9:34Speaker 2: everybody's favorite grandpa.
- 9:37Speaker 1: But he turned around to watch her walk in the room.
- 9:42Speaker 2: Now he's given a lot of steely gazes at witnesses.
- 9:47Speaker 1: On the stand.
- 9:48Speaker 2: I'm very interested in the fact that he broke protocol
- 9:52Speaker 2: and watched her turned around and watched her walk in.
- 9:54Speaker 1: Along with the.
- 9:56Speaker 2: Jury Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
- 10:08Speaker 1: Joining me is a special guest. It's Brett Brown joining
- 10:11Speaker 1: us out.
- 10:11Speaker 2: Of Lexington, Kentucky executive director SASS Surviving Assault Standing Strong.
- 10:17Speaker 1: Brett.
- 10:18Speaker 2: You heard doctor Bethany speaking earlier about the fact that
- 10:22Speaker 2: some of These women stayed in the relationship when they
- 10:25Speaker 2: could have, you know, from an outside looking in, have left.
- 10:30Speaker 2: That's what the defense is. This is not a sex
- 10:33Speaker 2: trafficking case. There was no sex trafficking. These women were
- 10:36Speaker 2: here willingly. You know, all the years nine years I
- 10:40Speaker 2: worked as a volunteer at the Batter Women's Center on
- 10:42Speaker 2: the hot lines, I understood the theory behind why women stay,
- 10:50Speaker 2: but I could never really grasp it here. Cassie Ventira
- 10:55Speaker 2: feared her whole career would go down the drains, down
- 11:00Speaker 2: the dragon, that Combs would destroy her or kill her
- 11:03Speaker 2: if she tried to leave.
- 11:05Speaker 9: Absolutely, fear was a huge motivating factor in Casey's case.
- 11:09Speaker 10: That Cassie, excuse me.
- 11:10Speaker 1: And it is amazing.
- 11:12Speaker 9: To me that in the same sentence the defense will
- 11:14Speaker 9: describe Sean Combs as a violent drug user and then
- 11:19Speaker 9: say women were willing participants and wanted to stay in
- 11:22Speaker 9: the relationship, because drugs and violence do not a willing
- 11:26Speaker 9: participant make. If fear is in the room, consent is not.
- 11:30Speaker 9: And Cassie during that time was out of choices because
- 11:34Speaker 9: this was a man with seemingly unlimited power and willing
- 11:38Speaker 9: to use it to do whatever it takes to get
- 11:41Speaker 9: what he wants. I think if I really boiled this down.
- 11:44Speaker 9: The defense called Shawn Combs a complicated man.
- 11:46Speaker 1: He's not.
- 11:47Speaker 9: He is a vile, greedy abuser who is incredibly insecure,
- 11:52Speaker 9: and he should be because leaders have followers who want
- 11:56Speaker 9: to be there. He could not manage it. He uses force.
- 12:00Speaker 9: When he used force with Cassie, she saw him for
- 12:02Speaker 9: what he really is and he hated her for it.
- 12:05Speaker 9: And now we can see it too.
- 12:07Speaker 2: Also, there is corroboration, which every defense attorney hates. Corroboration
- 12:12Speaker 2: to what Cassie Ventura is telling the jury about the
- 12:16Speaker 2: beatings and the abuse she endured at the hands of
- 12:19Speaker 2: Shawn Comb's aka Diddy. There is a witness, and typically
- 12:24Speaker 2: this type of abuse happens behind closed doors, but Shawn
- 12:28Speaker 2: Combs had become so arrogant he allowed others to witness
- 12:32Speaker 2: the beating. Straight back out to Lauren Colin at the courthouse,
- 12:35Speaker 2: explain what we learned from Daniel Phillip.
- 12:38Speaker 4: He witnessed Seawan Colmes allegedly hit Cassie at one point,
- 12:43Speaker 4: drag her by the hair while she's kicking and screaming
- 12:47Speaker 4: and screaming, sorry, sorry, I'm sorry. And because of that,
- 12:51Speaker 4: because of what he witnessed, he actually shared, but he
- 12:54Speaker 4: was unable to perform sexually after that for the couple.
- 12:59Speaker 2: Also, we or learning from the evidence pouring from the witness.
- 13:03Speaker 1: Stand for those of you just joining US State's.
- 13:05Speaker 2: Witness, the star witness not chronologically states witness number one,
- 13:11Speaker 2: but definitely the premiere witness. Cassie Ventura on the stand
- 13:15Speaker 2: the entire day, heavily pregnant, although an original request that
- 13:21Speaker 2: the jury not see her walk in so they couldn't
- 13:24Speaker 2: see her pregnant stomach, that she be seated already when
- 13:29Speaker 2: the jury was brought in. We know where the defense
- 13:33Speaker 2: is coming from with that request, but we're learning a
- 13:37Speaker 2: lot from the testimony about what she endured, not just
- 13:41Speaker 2: the Cassie Ventira beat down video from the Intercontinental Hotel,
- 13:45Speaker 2: but more from a witness listen.
- 13:48Speaker 11: Even though Ventura did not want to participate in the
- 13:50Speaker 11: freak offs, she knew what refusal meant a brutal beating.
- 13:55Speaker 11: Ventura eventually learned to stop resisting and was even asked
- 13:58Speaker 11: to arrange some of the freak offs her. On top
- 14:01Speaker 11: of the threat of physical violence, Colms took it a
- 14:03Speaker 11: step further with a promise to release videos of the
- 14:05Speaker 11: encounters and publicly humiliate his girlfriend if she didn't keep
- 14:09Speaker 11: up with the performances. Ventura felt that if she wanted
- 14:12Speaker 11: to continue performing on stage, she also had to perform
- 14:15Speaker 11: in her boyfriend's hotel room.
- 14:17Speaker 2: Graphic testimony about a paid six worker being asked to
- 14:23Speaker 2: urinate into Cassy Ventura's mouth to doctor Bethany Marshall, what
- 14:33Speaker 2: is that?
- 14:34Speaker 1: Isn't there an.
- 14:35Speaker 2: Actual psychological reasoning, psychological motivation behind that type of request?
- 14:43Speaker 8: Yes, I think what p did he was allegedly trying
- 14:46Speaker 8: to do, was to humiliate her and force her into
- 14:49Speaker 8: submission by having another man have sex with her. One
- 14:52Speaker 8: of the terms we use as cuckholding, which means just
- 14:56Speaker 8: viewing your partner have sex with another individual. But he
- 15:01Speaker 8: orchestrated every aspect of their sexual encounter and would masturbate
- 15:06Speaker 8: during it, allegedly so he would tell the sex worker
- 15:09Speaker 8: whether he should come inside her, who should ejaculate on her,
- 15:13Speaker 8: whether to urinate. Is like he was a film director, Nancy,
- 15:19Speaker 8: and if he didn't please Shawn Didny Combs, if the
- 15:23Speaker 8: sex worker didn't, then he would become abusive towards Cassie
- 15:29Speaker 8: there's one report that Cassie said on the stand, actually
- 15:31Speaker 8: the sex worker did that. Sean Combs was upset at
- 15:35Speaker 8: her for her for her performance, so he took her
- 15:39Speaker 8: into another room and the sex worker could hear him
- 15:43Speaker 8: slapping Cassie. And it's at that point I believe that
- 15:47Speaker 8: the sex worker lost his ability to perform breaking.
- 15:50Speaker 2: Now the entire day Star witness Cassie Ventiro on the
- 15:55Speaker 2: stand and the States case against Seawn comes a multi
- 15:58Speaker 2: count federal AI indictment. You know, in the very beginning,
- 16:03Speaker 2: we heard the prosecutor state that there were two ditties
- 16:06Speaker 2: that he was very complicated. I don't find it complicated
- 16:09Speaker 2: at all, but there was a ditty persona that he
- 16:13Speaker 2: projected to the world and then the other ditty that
- 16:17Speaker 2: took part in heinous beatings and bizarre sex acts, forcing
- 16:23Speaker 2: women to take part in very demeaning and humiliating behavior.
- 16:29Speaker 2: Straight back to Lauren Colin standing by at the courthouse,
- 16:33Speaker 2: Lauren way In, we were subjected to the infamous Cassie video,
- 16:38Speaker 2: as was the jury, about three times.
- 16:41Speaker 4: At one point we had to watch it frame by frame.
- 16:45Speaker 4: It's more and more painful each time you watch it.
- 16:48Speaker 4: And Sean Colmes, he didn't flinch. He was stoic sitting
- 16:52Speaker 4: throughout all of that. Now, towards the end of the day,
- 16:57Speaker 4: when we heard the testimony of the male's ripper or
- 17:00Speaker 4: the male escort, it was incredibly graphic.
- 17:04Speaker 2: Now interesting, thanks Lauren. Interesting we heard the prosecutor laying
- 17:10Speaker 2: the foundation for this and her opening statement, Listen.
- 17:14Speaker 12: Johnson insists this trial is not about a celebrity's private
- 17:18Speaker 12: sexual preferences, but Combe's use of company resources to sexually
- 17:23Speaker 12: exploit women. Johnson says Cassie Ventura didn't know what she
- 17:27Speaker 12: was signing up for when Combe's first approached her about
- 17:29Speaker 12: his freak offs, but as she choked while an escort
- 17:33Speaker 12: urinated into her mouth at Combe's direction, she quickly determined
- 17:37Speaker 12: it was not something she wanted to participate in.
- 17:40Speaker 2: Again, every member of that jury is going to think
- 17:42Speaker 2: about Cassie Ventira choking on a sex worker's urine, and
- 17:48Speaker 2: they're looking at this beautiful lady on the stand, a
- 17:52Speaker 2: mother of three, now heavily pregnant about to give birth.
- 17:56Speaker 1: You know, it was so graphic.
- 17:58Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, to Colin, is it true
- 18:02Speaker 2: that Shawn Combs's daughters got up and left the courtroom
- 18:05Speaker 2: during the testimony.
- 18:06Speaker 4: At one point, Dinny's daughters actually had to get up
- 18:10Speaker 4: and leave the courtroom.
- 18:11Speaker 5: And I don't blame them, and.
- 18:13Speaker 2: Don't blame them either, Lauren Colin straight out to special
- 18:16Speaker 2: guests joining us, Rob Shooter, host of Naughty but Nice podcast,
- 18:21Speaker 2: former publicists of Sean Combs, y'all to write a book
- 18:25Speaker 2: about that, But you're already the author of the four
- 18:28Speaker 2: word answer.
- 18:29Speaker 1: Rob Shooter, thank you for being with us.
- 18:31Speaker 2: We're talking about what the prosecutor said in the beginning
- 18:34Speaker 2: of the case. Now, of course, Cassie Vtture has been
- 18:37Speaker 2: on the stand all day, but Rob Shooter, she the prosecutor,
- 18:41Speaker 2: Emily Johnson stated that there were two Shawn Combs. The
- 18:45Speaker 2: one that beats people, leaving knots on their heads, dragging
- 18:49Speaker 2: them up and down halls, just performing all sorts of dominiate, demeaning.
- 18:55Speaker 1: And humiliating acts on the women. But then there's the other.
- 19:00Speaker 2: Sean comes the start, the celebrity who's charming and gregarious.
- 19:06Speaker 2: Did you see both sides of Coms? We need work
- 19:10Speaker 2: for him as a public relations person.
- 19:12Speaker 13: Yeah, didd he is a very very complicated person. He's
- 19:14Speaker 13: very much in control. He controls his own narrative. He
- 19:18Speaker 13: determines how he wants to be presented, he determines what
- 19:22Speaker 13: photographs he wants released of him. And so this is
- 19:24Speaker 13: a celebrity who's very aware of manipulating his public image.
- 19:29Speaker 13: He's do really really good job of convincing us that
- 19:33Speaker 13: he is somebody that now we know isn't the truth.
- 19:37Speaker 13: And so I think with didd he we all see
- 19:40Speaker 13: one side of him for over what two decades? Now
- 19:43Speaker 13: we think we know did he? He's that fun guy?
- 19:45Speaker 13: Look at him. Partying is out, he throws great events,
- 19:49Speaker 13: he's funny. We've seen him on talk shows where he's
- 19:52Speaker 13: been witty and charming.
- 19:53Speaker 5: Now we know that that isn't.
- 19:55Speaker 13: The truth that did he? Did he? Behind the scenes?
- 19:59Speaker 13: The truth about is much much more dog.
- 20:03Speaker 2: You know, I'm going to circle back to you, but
- 20:05Speaker 2: you sparked a thought in my mind. Back out to
- 20:07Speaker 2: the courthouse with Lauren Collins standing by, is it true
- 20:09Speaker 2: that Shawon Corimbs actually took out a Bible in front
- 20:12Speaker 2: of the jury.
- 20:12Speaker 4: Yeah, he appeared to be flipping through a Bible. At
- 20:15Speaker 4: one point. He gave a thumbs up to his kids,
- 20:18Speaker 4: waved and blue kisses at.
- 20:19Speaker 5: His mother and he yeah.
- 20:21Speaker 4: He sid seemed to calm down after that, and when
- 20:24Speaker 4: the jury walked in, I noticed that Diddy did not
- 20:29Speaker 4: take his eyes off of them.
- 20:31Speaker 2: It doesn't end there to Sydney Sumner also covering everything
- 20:34Speaker 2: happening in the court in Sidney Sumner. From what I understand,
- 20:38Speaker 2: the Shawnchbs family was in front of the courthouse praying
- 20:42Speaker 2: and reading the Bible before court.
- 20:43Speaker 6: Yes, Nancy, they were spotted in a circle holding hands
- 20:47Speaker 6: with their head ballot in prayer just before Cathy took
- 20:51Speaker 6: the stand. You know.
- 20:52Speaker 2: Eric Fattus, veteran trial lawyer joining me out of Colorado.
- 20:57Speaker 2: Founding partner Varner Fattus Legal, former felony prosecutor.
- 21:03Speaker 1: I'm all for.
- 21:03Speaker 2: Reading the Bible, and I am all for being close
- 21:07Speaker 2: to the Lord, but when it is used as a stunt,
- 21:13Speaker 2: I mean, it's one thing to ask forgiveness. Of course,
- 21:16Speaker 2: I'm certainly no biblical scholar, right, It's one thing to
- 21:20Speaker 2: ask for forgiveness, but it's another thing to ask for
- 21:25Speaker 2: our Holy Father to get our ass out of a
- 21:28Speaker 2: slang technical legal term, I mean it's a ploy, Fattest,
- 21:33Speaker 2: a ploy, and I find that very off putting, very
- 21:39Speaker 2: off putting. Not necessarily the family, because I can only
- 21:42Speaker 2: imagine what comes as mother is going through. But I mean,
- 21:47Speaker 2: in my mind, his family is innocent.
- 21:49Speaker 1: You know, he's got those young girls and other children.
- 21:51Speaker 2: But him the gall trying to use the Bible, the
- 21:56Speaker 2: Holy Bible, as a problem.
- 21:58Speaker 10: This one seems hard for or even meets the financy.
- 22:01Speaker 10: I mean, look in the courtroom, it appears so transparent
- 22:05Speaker 10: what he's trying to do in terms of garnering sympathy.
- 22:08Speaker 10: The thing is, he should be paying attention to the trial.
- 22:11Speaker 10: He should be taking notes, he should be giving input
- 22:14Speaker 10: to his counsel. He should be listening to the testimony
- 22:17Speaker 10: and raising points with his attorneys that they can use
- 22:21Speaker 10: to try to help it. Instead, he's sitting there kind
- 22:23Speaker 10: of putting on this act with the Bible that everybody
- 22:26Speaker 10: and their brother can see right through.
- 22:28Speaker 1: I think, you know, I'm curious about this.
- 22:30Speaker 2: Brian Vus Gibbons is joining US Direct Operations USP, a
- 22:34Speaker 2: nationwide security leading a team of forensic investigators.
- 22:39Speaker 1: Brian, what the heart in my mind.
- 22:42Speaker 2: Of this case is for the jury is proving not
- 22:46Speaker 2: just that Sean Comb's beat and humiliated women and rape
- 22:50Speaker 2: them but that he had a group of people around him.
- 22:55Speaker 2: That's why there's a RICO count, right, Not just one
- 22:58Speaker 2: person is involved in RICO. An enterprise, a criminal organization
- 23:02Speaker 2: or enterprise. We think of it as being used to
- 23:05Speaker 2: get the mob, right, but it can be used for
- 23:09Speaker 2: gang activity or any time that you have a network
- 23:14Speaker 2: facilitating criminal acts.
- 23:17Speaker 1: Right.
- 23:18Speaker 2: This is not just about Seawn Combs being a bad boyfriend.
- 23:22Speaker 2: This is about an enterprise, a group of people flying
- 23:26Speaker 2: in sex workers, drugging women, facilitating videos of them being
- 23:33Speaker 2: raped and soidomized while they're passed out. And where you
- 23:37Speaker 2: come into this, Fitzgibbons, is the use of digital forensics
- 23:42Speaker 2: like that intercontinental video, like phone evidence, so much more.
- 23:51Speaker 2: How is a state going to prove that this is
- 23:55Speaker 2: more than just Seawn Combs being a tyrant a bad boyfriend,
- 24:00Speaker 2: to put it euphemistically, how do we.
- 24:02Speaker 1: Prove that forensically, Forsgibbons.
- 24:04Speaker 14: You're going to see as the days unfold here, Nancy,
- 24:08Speaker 14: that you know, and when we think back to that
- 24:10Speaker 14: raid just a few months ago, the amount of devices
- 24:16Speaker 14: that we're seized will produce a tremendous amount of digital evidence.
- 24:21Speaker 14: Not to mention what's going to be coming in from
- 24:24Speaker 14: the witnesses the prosecution are going to bring out here
- 24:27Speaker 14: that will provide a harrowing tale of Giddy's enterprise and
- 24:33Speaker 14: all of those who have been involved in the cover.
- 24:36Speaker 1: Up and its gibbons. I know that it's not as.
- 24:40Speaker 2: Gosh, what's the right word sexy as some people would
- 24:44Speaker 2: call it, as exciting and dramatic as putting a beautiful
- 24:47Speaker 2: young mom like casiv Interiro on the stand. But all
- 24:52Speaker 2: the victims in this case are going to be subjected
- 24:54Speaker 2: to a searing cross examination such as how much did
- 24:58Speaker 2: you make off that civil lawsuit against him?
- 25:00Speaker 1: Did he pay for one, two, three, and four? For you?
- 25:02Speaker 1: You stayed willingly.
- 25:03Speaker 2: You could have left, couldn't you, But you didn't because
- 25:06Speaker 2: you wanted to be there, and now you want to
- 25:08Speaker 2: put him in jail.
- 25:09Speaker 1: That's how that cross exam is going to go. So
- 25:12Speaker 1: these victims are going to need.
- 25:14Speaker 2: Corroboration, They're going to need digital in forensic corroboration. I'm
- 25:18Speaker 2: hearing in my ear doctor Bethany Marshall. Won't see it,
- 25:21Speaker 2: Doctor Bethany, before you jump in. You're a philia. You're
- 25:25Speaker 2: a philia. What is it?
- 25:28Speaker 1: Well, it's a perversion.
- 25:29Speaker 8: It's in the DSM, and it is becoming aroused by
- 25:34Speaker 8: the site, sound, or smell of urination.
- 25:38Speaker 2: Okay, well, well wait, the sight, the sound, or the
- 25:43Speaker 2: smell of urination.
- 25:45Speaker 1: You can't just drop a bomb on me like.
- 25:47Speaker 8: That, and perhaps sometimes even consuming it. Repeat, becoming aroused
- 25:52Speaker 8: by the sight, sound, or smell of urination, and sometimes
- 25:57Speaker 8: by consuming another person's urine.
- 25:59Speaker 2: Okay, Fattest, you're the veteran defense attorney, so you're going
- 26:05Speaker 2: to expect a jury to believe that cassi Ventura was
- 26:09Speaker 2: sexually aroused by the sight, the sound, the smell, or
- 26:14Speaker 2: even ingesting.
- 26:18Speaker 1: Piss.
- 26:19Speaker 10: You know, certainly some graphic and concerning testimony that's come forward.
- 26:24Speaker 10: You know, I think the defense team is going to
- 26:26Speaker 10: style this as people have different proclivities, they have different preferences,
- 26:30Speaker 10: and even when you know, sometimes you have a partner
- 26:33Speaker 10: and they might have a preference that you don't necessarily share,
- 26:35Speaker 10: but you're willing to participate in it due to your
- 26:38Speaker 10: love for them or for some other reason. And so
- 26:41Speaker 10: I think the defense is going to say, hey, there's
- 26:43Speaker 10: going to be some inflammatory evidence like this, and it's
- 26:46Speaker 10: not for the faint of heart, but a bad boy
- 26:49Speaker 10: lifestyle isn't the same thing as a criminal lifestyle. I
- 26:51Speaker 10: think that's what defense could are.
- 26:57Speaker 1: You hear that, faddest, you know what that is?
- 27:00Speaker 2: Right?
- 27:02Speaker 1: Good luck trying to argue that with a straight face.
- 27:06Speaker 2: We are live at the courthouse bringing you the latest
- 27:09Speaker 2: in State versus. Sean Comes aka Didty aka Puff aka
- 27:13Speaker 2: Puffy aka Puff Daddy aka Love and it goes on
- 27:18Speaker 2: straight out to Angelica Martinez Servina joining us at the courthouse,
- 27:22Speaker 2: Crime Stories investigative reporter and Jelica.
- 27:24Speaker 1: Tell me what's happening outside the courthouse, Nancy.
- 27:27Speaker 6: It's a very colorful scene outside of the courtroom. We've
- 27:30Speaker 6: got a lot of people. We had reports that there
- 27:32Speaker 6: were a lot of people lining up as early as yesterday,
- 27:35Speaker 6: as soon as sports a smith so that they could
- 27:37Speaker 6: get a spot in today.
- 27:39Speaker 4: For today's court.
- 27:41Speaker 6: There's a lot of different fansy face of borders of Diddy.
- 27:45Speaker 6: We actually had a guy just right over there playing
- 27:48Speaker 6: some of Biddy's best hits. We've got a guy right
- 27:51Speaker 6: behind us proclaiming that Diddy is the devil. There's, you know,
- 27:54Speaker 6: a lot of varying opinions in the courtroom, and again,
- 27:57Speaker 6: a lot of big people excited to watch this. It's
- 28:00Speaker 6: a huge trial. It's such a big moment in popular culture,
- 28:05Speaker 6: you know, for this generation and whatnot. So there's a
- 28:08Speaker 6: lot of people paying attention. There's a lot of eyes
- 28:09Speaker 6: on the trial.
- 28:10Speaker 2: You know what, Angelica, I'm very worried that you're actually correct,
- 28:15Speaker 2: Doctor Bethany Marshall. Well, hear Angelica Martinez Servina at the
- 28:20Speaker 2: courthouse saying that this is a big moment in pop culture.
- 28:24Speaker 1: That's very disturbing. Yeah, remember what happened when Michael Jackson died.
- 28:27Speaker 1: I any some kind of icon.
- 28:29Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean these people with Michael Jackson, they rushed
- 28:33Speaker 8: the hospital.
- 28:34Speaker 1: In this case, they're going to rush the court. There
- 28:36Speaker 1: are a lot of people who.
- 28:37Speaker 8: Are going to be very, very disappointed and upset if
- 28:40Speaker 8: and when P Diddy goes to jail. But they have
- 28:42Speaker 8: really identified their own success with him. These pop culture followers,
- 28:48Speaker 8: these fanboys and fangirls, their happiness hinges on P Diddy.
- 28:54Speaker 8: When he goes to jail, they they're going to be
- 28:57Speaker 8: very dysporked, very sad. It's going to be a huge
- 29:00Speaker 8: ripple effect through society.
- 29:02Speaker 1: I'm curious.
- 29:02Speaker 2: Back to Rob Shooter joining us on PR guru four
- 29:07Speaker 2: Sean Combs.
- 29:08Speaker 1: We were talking earlier about the two sides of Sean Combs.
- 29:12Speaker 2: I think there are many more size and most of
- 29:13Speaker 2: them are criminal, but that's just me. We see him
- 29:18Speaker 2: manipulating the jury in the way he is dressing.
- 29:20Speaker 1: I mean just curious.
- 29:22Speaker 2: Did you ever see Sean Combs wearing reading glasses?
- 29:27Speaker 11: Never?
- 29:27Speaker 13: Not once. I never saw him without his hair being
- 29:31Speaker 13: perfectly styled. I never saw him without a Maani, a
- 29:35Speaker 13: Guccia Prada suits on. Let me tell you a little story.
- 29:39Speaker 13: One so I was with Puffy flying on a private
- 29:41Speaker 13: plane and I had all the press there to see
- 29:44Speaker 13: his arrival, and Puff was really mad with me because
- 29:47Speaker 13: he didn't want the press filming him arriving in his car.
- 29:51Speaker 13: He wanted the airplane behind him. He thought that image
- 29:55Speaker 13: would be better. The reason I tell you that story
- 29:57Speaker 13: is those are the type of details that really mattered
- 30:01Speaker 13: to him. So when you see him reading a Bible,
- 30:04Speaker 13: when you see him with gray hair, when you see
- 30:06Speaker 13: him staring at the jury, turning around to look at Cassie,
- 30:12Speaker 13: none of that is by accident. All of that is planned.
- 30:16Speaker 13: Puffy plans his life like a movie, and he's the
- 30:19Speaker 13: director and the star.
- 30:20Speaker 2: Wow, Shooter, it's trying to take in everything you're saying
- 30:26Speaker 2: because this is critical.
- 30:28Speaker 1: This is critical to what's.
- 30:29Speaker 2: Happening with the jury right now for those of you
- 30:33Speaker 2: just joining us. Cassie Ventura, star witness for the state,
- 30:37Speaker 2: who really crack this case wide open, has been on
- 30:40Speaker 2: the stand all day heavily, heavily pregnant to you, Rob Shooter.
- 30:47Speaker 2: I'm just curious about so many things that only you
- 30:50Speaker 2: could explain for me.
- 30:51Speaker 1: I want to hear that again.
- 30:52Speaker 2: So you arrange for the press to be at a
- 30:55Speaker 2: particular moment when Seawan Colmbs was arriving by private jet.
- 30:59Speaker 1: Now what happened.
- 31:00Speaker 13: Yeah, the cameras were facing the terminal, so they were
- 31:04Speaker 13: looking at the terminal, and as his car came down
- 31:07Speaker 13: the runway practically the tarmac, we shot him. He went
- 31:12Speaker 13: mad at me, telling me that a terminal is not sexy,
- 31:15Speaker 13: a private plane is sexy. So we restaged his entrance,
- 31:20Speaker 13: We flipped the press around, and they only shot him
- 31:23Speaker 13: when his car pulled up to the steps of the plane.
- 31:26Speaker 13: It sounds like a silly little detail, but these are
- 31:29Speaker 13: the silly little details. Did He has spent twenty years
- 31:34Speaker 13: obsessing about He's aware that that jury, that those twelve
- 31:38Speaker 13: people are watching him, and he has a narrative, a
- 31:41Speaker 13: story that he's going to tell them.
- 31:43Speaker 2: You know, yesterday I was told, no way would Sean
- 31:46Speaker 2: Colmbs have a stylist.
- 31:49Speaker 5: B s.
- 31:50Speaker 1: He's got a stylist, he's got a jury consultant.
- 31:53Speaker 2: He's got a fleet of highly paid lawyers to the
- 31:55Speaker 2: tune of tin million dollars. So is there any chance
- 32:03Speaker 2: in h e double l that Sean comes His outfits
- 32:08Speaker 2: are not carefully orchestrated.
- 32:10Speaker 5: No chance.
- 32:11Speaker 13: He will have looked over look books. He will have
- 32:13Speaker 13: had conversations whether or not he should be wearing his
- 32:16Speaker 13: own fashion line. He has a fashion line called Sean John.
- 32:19Speaker 13: They decided against this, And so I've never seen him
- 32:23Speaker 13: in a button down white shirt and a sweater at
- 32:27Speaker 13: a jumper. That just isn't how he dresses. But that's
- 32:30Speaker 13: how he's going to dress for the next couple of
- 32:33Speaker 13: weeks because he wants that jewelry to think of him
- 32:37Speaker 13: as mister Rogers, the neighbor next door, the guy they
- 32:40Speaker 13: can trust. That's what he wants them to think, and
- 32:43Speaker 13: that's what he's selling.
- 32:45Speaker 5: And I got to admit it.
- 32:46Speaker 13: Nancy I'm not happy about this, but I think he's
- 32:49Speaker 13: doing a pretty good job at selling this side of him.
- 32:53Speaker 2: Wash your filthy mouth out with soap you brought up,
- 32:58Speaker 2: mister Rogers. Let me ask you, in all the time
- 33:03Speaker 2: that you worked for Sean Comes, did you ever see
- 33:09Speaker 2: him read the Bible?
- 33:12Speaker 8: Never?
- 33:13Speaker 5: Not once.
- 33:13Speaker 13: I didn't see him quote the Bible talk about the Bible.
- 33:17Speaker 13: There was only one God in did his world, and
- 33:20Speaker 13: that was did he did. He was the king, he
- 33:23Speaker 13: was God, he was in charge. I think he has
- 33:25Speaker 13: a complex about feeling that he is God like. I
- 33:29Speaker 13: remember one sort of photo shoot where he demanded a
- 33:32Speaker 13: crown be brought out and put on his head so
- 33:34Speaker 13: he could play king for the day. He's been playing
- 33:38Speaker 13: these roles for the last twenty years, and it must
- 33:40Speaker 13: be very difficult for him now. But he's not giving up.
- 33:44Speaker 13: He's still playing Nancy. He's still playing the roles he
- 33:48Speaker 13: knows how to manipulate, and even from that share where
- 33:52Speaker 13: he's in a lot of trouble, he's still playing.
- 34:01Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
- 34:07Speaker 2: We are live at the courthouse in State versus Sean Comes,
- 34:11Speaker 2: a date many people thought would never come straight out
- 34:15Speaker 2: to Sidney Sumner Crime Story's investigative reporter who's been on
- 34:18Speaker 2: the case from the beginning and has been analyzing Cassie
- 34:21Speaker 2: Ventira's testimony throughout the day, Sidney the high points of
- 34:26Speaker 2: Cassie Ventira's testimony, explained.
- 34:29Speaker 6: Nancay, I think the high point of Cassie's testimony thus
- 34:32Speaker 6: far is that Dinny was in control of many aspects
- 34:37Speaker 6: of her life. So she meets comes at just nineteen
- 34:41Speaker 6: years old. Their relationship begins when she's just about twenty one,
- 34:45Speaker 6: and she talks about not even wanting to kiss Sean Combs.
- 34:50Speaker 6: So the first time that they shared a kiss, they
- 34:53Speaker 6: weren't a couple at this point. The first time he
- 34:55Speaker 6: showed romantic interest in her was at her twenty first
- 34:58Speaker 6: birthday party in Last Vegas, and Kathy admits that the
- 35:02Speaker 6: kids left her feeling extremely confused. She ran from her
- 35:06Speaker 6: party in tears, not sure what to do with that
- 35:09Speaker 6: as a new artist in the industry. So their relationship
- 35:13Speaker 6: starting on that point and going from there, cong just
- 35:17Speaker 6: continued to take more and more control of her life,
- 35:20Speaker 6: and he was always there. Like she didn't pick up
- 35:23Speaker 6: the phone, he would call her over and over until
- 35:26Speaker 6: she did, or he would send security guards to come
- 35:30Speaker 6: find her. So, on top of the freak offs, which
- 35:33Speaker 6: seems to be just a segment of their relationship, e
- 35:37Speaker 6: cou worced her into anything. In everything, she didn't feel
- 35:41Speaker 6: like she had an ability to say no to Comb's,
- 35:45Speaker 6: especially with the violence. In the threats of releasing these videos,
- 35:50Speaker 6: Ventura talks about keeping broken iPhones and broken laptops and
- 35:55Speaker 6: things of that nature because she was so worried about
- 35:58Speaker 6: what was on them if anyone was to get their
- 36:01Speaker 6: hands on them.
- 36:02Speaker 2: Speaking of a laptop incident earlier on we heard from
- 36:08Speaker 2: witness Philip Listen.
- 36:09Speaker 15: Philip describes one evening where Ventura was at the computer
- 36:13Speaker 15: during a break in sex. Colms yelled for his girlfriend
- 36:16Speaker 15: to come to him, and when she did not, Colmbs
- 36:19Speaker 15: threw a bottle of liquoric Cassie that shattered against the
- 36:22Speaker 15: wall after missing her head by inches, Philip says. Colmbs
- 36:26Speaker 15: then dragged Ventura to another room and he overheard what
- 36:29Speaker 15: sounded like a smack, then Combs saying when I tell
- 36:33Speaker 15: you to come here, you come here now.
- 36:35Speaker 1: Not later.
- 36:36Speaker 15: Moments later, the couple re emerged and Colmbs demanded they resume.
- 36:40Speaker 2: Joining us is Rob Shooter, publicist for Seawan Combs, Rob
- 36:45Speaker 2: thank you for being with us, also star of Naughty
- 36:47Speaker 2: but Nice podcast and.
- 36:49Speaker 1: Author of the foreword answer.
- 36:52Speaker 2: You have a particular insight into another relationship, if it
- 36:57Speaker 2: could be called that of Combs, which seated Cassie Venturit
- 37:02Speaker 2: is basically a blueprint second for her, same as the first,
- 37:05Speaker 2: and that would be.
- 37:06Speaker 1: Kim Porter, the mother of his children.
- 37:10Speaker 2: Now did Rob Shooter describe Comb's His relationship with miss Porter.
- 37:18Speaker 13: Puff's relationship with Kim was very much the same relationship
- 37:23Speaker 13: he had with Cassie. In fact, some people called Cassie
- 37:27Speaker 13: Kim two point over. They had seen this method, they
- 37:32Speaker 13: had seen this relationship, they had seen this grooming, and
- 37:36Speaker 13: so Kim was shy bef what she was told was
- 37:40Speaker 13: very much on his arm. He didn't like her to
- 37:42Speaker 13: talk very much. He picked the clothes that he would wear,
- 37:45Speaker 13: He would decide the events that she would go to.
- 37:48Speaker 13: Cassie seems to be doing that too, or have done
- 37:52Speaker 13: that too. The difference, though, is that Kim didn't want
- 37:55Speaker 13: to be a recording artist. Cassie really did to bake
- 38:01Speaker 13: it brig in show business. She wanted to record songs,
- 38:05Speaker 13: and so my heart breaks for her because she was
- 38:08Speaker 13: not only in debt to Diddy in her personal life,
- 38:12Speaker 13: but also her professional life, which must be made impossible,
- 38:18Speaker 13: almost impossible for her to get away from it.
- 38:20Speaker 1: Special guests joining me.
- 38:21Speaker 2: Brett Brown, executive director, s ASS Surviving Assault, Standing Strong.
- 38:27Speaker 1: You know, it's the same old thing.
- 38:32Speaker 2: Lawyers coercing women to have sex with them in their
- 38:37Speaker 2: office so the lawyer would work on a domestic abuse
- 38:42Speaker 2: case or finish a divorce case. Bosses forcing coercing their assistant,
- 38:50Speaker 2: their secretary, underlings to engage in sex. We've seen it all, Weinstein,
- 38:56Speaker 2: for Pete's sake, perfect example.
- 38:59Speaker 1: It's not a new story.
- 39:01Speaker 2: And to try to explain why women stay, I mean,
- 39:04Speaker 2: when a woman's faced with losing her home, losing her career,
- 39:10Speaker 2: maybe losing her children, being blackballed in the industry, what
- 39:16Speaker 2: would you do?
- 39:17Speaker 1: What would you not do to ensure those things don't happen?
- 39:22Speaker 1: What about it? Brett?
- 39:23Speaker 9: Well, I think it's everything that you just said. The
- 39:26Speaker 9: part that we're kind of missing is the.
- 39:27Speaker 5: Beginning and the end.
- 39:28Speaker 9: You know, these women they want to be seen and
- 39:31Speaker 9: they want to be respected, and they want to achieve,
- 39:34Speaker 9: and those desires get used against them in this power imbalance.
- 39:38Speaker 9: And so whether we're talking about Harvey Weinstein or we're
- 39:41Speaker 9: talking about Sean Comb's, the recipe is still the same.
- 39:44Speaker 9: And once they're on the hook with these powerful men,
- 39:47Speaker 9: then become you enters. The threats and the violence and
- 39:51Speaker 9: the force and so fear and financial insecurity and so
- 39:56Speaker 9: many other things start to play in. And so it's
- 39:58Speaker 9: not a matter of if I keep going so I
- 40:00Speaker 9: and get something. These women have to stay in this
- 40:02Speaker 9: situation in order to stay alive. And it's interesting to
- 40:06Speaker 9: me because Sean comes, like any abuser, has spent an
- 40:10Speaker 9: enormous amount of time on his reputation and on his
- 40:12Speaker 9: look to make sure that he seems like the fun
- 40:15Speaker 9: guy next door. And here is this predator sitting in
- 40:18Speaker 9: a courtroom with a Bible. And I just wanted to
- 40:20Speaker 9: say that even Satan quoted scripture in the Bible and
- 40:24Speaker 9: at the end of the day he was still the devil.
- 40:26Speaker 2: Ooh, I'm totally stealing that. Wow, that was powerful. And
- 40:31Speaker 2: you're right, guys, why would Cassie.
- 40:35Speaker 1: Stay in the relationship.
- 40:36Speaker 2: You're going to hear a lot about that on cross
- 40:38Speaker 2: examination of Cassie Ventura now eight and a half months
- 40:42Speaker 2: pregnant on the stand, what will happen on Cross? At
- 40:48Speaker 2: the end of her cross there will probably be a rebuttal,
- 40:52Speaker 2: a re direct examination.
- 40:55Speaker 1: But we know this.
- 40:58Speaker 2: We know State's witness Annuel Philip begged her to leave
- 41:03Speaker 2: Shawn Combs, but she was afraid. It's not just her
- 41:07Speaker 2: saying it him too.
- 41:09Speaker 1: Listen.
- 41:09Speaker 11: Philip says he didn't call the police after witnessing the
- 41:12Speaker 11: violence from Combs because he felt Combs had unlimited power
- 41:15Speaker 11: and that his life would be in danger if he
- 41:17Speaker 11: did so. Philip explains that he continued working for the
- 41:20Speaker 11: couple so that he could at least check on Ventura.
- 41:22Speaker 11: Philip says after witnessing several more violent incidents, he tried
- 41:26Speaker 11: to get Cassie to explain why she was still with
- 41:28Speaker 11: Combs and convinced her to leave, but Ventura refused to discuss.
- 41:32Speaker 1: It with him throughout the day.
- 41:34Speaker 2: Cassie Venturro State star witness, has been on the stand
- 41:38Speaker 2: to Rob Cheter, longtime publicists for Shawn Combs.
- 41:43Speaker 1: What's so scary? Rob Sheeter?
- 41:46Speaker 2: Based on everything you've told me, it worked, Shawn Combs mechinations.
- 41:52Speaker 2: His improv puts out a particular image and the public
- 41:58Speaker 2: bought it hook line and sinker, and why shouldn't they
- 42:02Speaker 2: They didn't know any different.
- 42:04Speaker 1: Can it work in a court of law?
- 42:06Speaker 13: I am frightened to say, not only can it work,
- 42:12Speaker 13: but safe to stake. I think it is going to work.
- 42:16Speaker 13: I predict here that Diddy is going to get off
- 42:20Speaker 13: a day that he's going to whip at least one
- 42:24Speaker 13: or two people in that jury into a frenzy believing
- 42:28Speaker 13: that he's a good guy, that he might he might
- 42:31Speaker 13: be into kinky sex, he might be into relationships that
- 42:35Speaker 13: we find perverse. But this was all legal, So I
- 42:39Speaker 13: don't want to say this not but I predicted not
- 42:43Speaker 13: only could work, I think it's going.
- 42:46Speaker 2: To We remember an American hero Deputy Sheriff Dan Thomas Glaize,
- 42:52Speaker 2: junior russ County Sheriff's Wisconsin, shot and killed in the
- 42:56Speaker 2: line of duty, survived by grieving why and high school
- 43:01Speaker 2: sweetheart Sarah Children Kendall Levi Eleiana, who was just five
- 43:07Speaker 2: months old when she lost her dad. American hero Deputy
- 43:13Speaker 2: Sheriff Dan Thomas Glaze Junior Nancy Gray signing off goodbye
- 43:19Speaker 2: friend