Chloe Melas

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Dateline: True Crime Weekly · Sean Combs: Opening statements and the first witnesses. · 13 May 2025 podcast

So much of their case centers around their star witness, which is Combs' former girlfriend, Cassie Ventura. They say that he ran this criminal enterprise that he used employees to carry out.

illegal activity, they helped him organize these drug-fueled sex parties, that he forced women in his life, these alleged victims, to partake in these parties, have sex with male escorts, force them to take drugs.

Some of them. So it turns out that Combs did film some of these encounters. But what's really interesting is that during the defense openings that were done by Tenny Garagos, she said, you're going to learn that these videos were not found at his home.

during the raids, these were actually videos provided by Cassie to the prosecutors, that you think he had the power, but she actually had the power.

Well, this is not your average trial because he has so many attorneys. I think I counted six or maybe seven at this point. We know that he's recently added Brian Steele. He recently represented Young Thug in his Rico case. You have Mark Agnifilo that also represents Luigi Mangione. As for Combs, he had on what looked like khaki pants, a sweater. He's hot.

He had, again, his gray hair, a gray goatee, but he was smiling. He blew a kiss to his family behind him. His children were there, his mother. He hugged all of his attorneys.

His team recently put in a motion to actually get sweaters. So you're not going to see him in suits. He's going to be in sweaters and khaki pants, shoes without laces. And I was told that this is something that dates as far back as Menendez. The Menendez brothers, when they wore sweaters, is to make them look more approachable to the jury.

So the first person was a security guard. This was someone that was actually working at the hotel when Cassie was brutally beaten in that hallway in 2016. He testified that on that night, he got a call about a woman in distress on the sixth floor of the hotel. So he went up to go see what was going on. And when he got there, that's when he recognized, oh, Cassie.

This is Sean Diddy Combs, and he was there in a towel and socks, and he actually said that Combs had a, quote, devilish stare. He then said that he asked Combs what was going on, and Combs said, look, we were arguing, we were just having a dispute. But then he testified that he heard Combs tell Cassie, you are not going to leave. OK, so how did the defense cross-examine the security guard?

So Brian Steele handled the cross-examination. You have Brian Steele saying what you wrote in your incident report to your employer is not what you're describing to me now on the stand. So he pointed out that in his report, he did not write that Combs told Cassie, you're not leaving. He never said that Combs had a devilish stare on his face. And he also asked, why did you not call 911?

Why did you not get authorities involved?

This individual calls himself a stripper, but prosecutors had called him an escort. He does say that he had been paid by Ventura, actually, to take part in sex acts where he would have sex with Cassie while Combs watched. And he also testified that on two occasions, he actually remembers Combs physically assaulting Cassie.

He said in one instance he saw Combs grab Cassie by the hair while she was sitting in front of her computer, pulled her off of a chair and dragged her into the bedroom and that he could hear slapping sounds coming from the other room. And he was asked by prosecutors, why did you not call the police? Why did you not intervene? And he said more than once that he was scared for his own life.

Yes. So Cassie is the main witness for the government. She's victim one. She's heavily pregnant. She's in her third trimester. She's pregnant with her third child. But she's going to take the stand, and it's going to take multiple days for her testimony. According to opening statements, this will actually be the first time that Cassie has been in the same room as Combs since they broke up. Wow.

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