Germania Rodriguez-Poleo
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271 appearances
10 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 31 Mar
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So first up today was another of the Intercontinental Hotel security guards who was on duty during the infamous March 2016 assault on Cassie Ventura. You'll remember that we've already heard from one of the guards, Israel Flores, who was one of the first witnesses to be called at the trial. Well, earlier today, another one of his colleagues, a guy called Eddie Garcia, took the stand.
He told the jury that he took a $100,000 bribe from the rapper to make the video disappeared from all the hotel computer servers.
When Garcia said he could not delete the video, he told the jury both Diddy and Coram contacted him repeatedly at his home and on his personal phone. Eventually, he said he agreed to a $50,000 payout in return for the video. He said Diddy made him sign an NDA, which included a clause saying he would pay the rapper $1 million in damages if he breached the confidentiality deal and spoke out.
Garcia then told the jury that when the tape resurfaced last year on CNN, he was interviewed by police and initially did not tell them about this alleged bribe. But later, he got himself a lawyer and admitted to the government investigators that he had indeed taken the money.
That's right, Kayla. When she was asked, why didn't you tell him no, she said very pointedly, quote, I couldn't tell him no about a sandwich. I couldn't tell him no about anything. She said she couldn't tell him he was wrong about anything because it would make her a target. Here's prosecutor Madison Smeiser asking these questions. Their words have been voiced by actors.
Yeah, so apparently Kayla told Diddy's chief of staff that he had hit Cassie, but the chief of staff told HR and Kayla was fired.
Mia did, however, tell the jury in detail about the numerous sexual assaults Diddy allegedly subjected her to. Now, it's important to say here that, as we know, Diddy has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges, so he denies any of these sex attacks took place at all. But Mia said the first time it happened was at Diddy's 40th birthday party at the Plaza Hotel in New York in November 2009.
She said he had the penthouse suite, but the party was downstairs in the main part of the hotel. There were a lot of celebrities at this event. Mia said that they were both in the penthouse when he asked to speak to her in the kitchen alone.
She said he told her that he had noticed what a good job she was doing and that he did not want her to be too nervous or scared to come to him if she had any questions. She said that before that, she had been going to others in the company to ask questions and not directly to Diddy himself.
Yeah, she said she assumed what happened was a huge accident. She said she thought it would never happen again, so she would never have to tell anyone about it. But she said it did happen again. The next time, she said, she was sleeping in bunk beds at Diddy's Los Angeles home when she woke up to feel someone lying on top of her.
So before the break, we heard from Mia's powerful direct testimony about the sexual assaults and abusive behavior that she claims Diddy carried out on her. But Brian Steele, Diddy's lawyer, who is famous for defending rapper Young Thug in his Rico trial, was also able to cross-examine her. And it's fair to say he did not hold back on his interrogation of her claims.
That's despite the fact that, before the cross-examination got underway, Mia told the jury that she suffers from complex PTSD and does not currently work, and in fact has struggled to hold down any posts since leaving her job with Diddy.
Steele asked Mia about the first alleged sexual assault at Diddy's 40th birthday party four years earlier. She accepted that she felt that possibly she had been drugged when she took the vodka shots from him.
Steele also drew attention to another birthday post from June 2014. This time it was a post from Diddy to Mia which said, quote, besides every great man is a great woman. Happy birthday. Love you. P.S. Sorry I was acting crazy last night. Mia had reposted his message and written alongside it, quote, thanks Puff. Love you. You've shown me the world.
Steele asked her why she had decided to repost Diddy's message. Mia claimed he had threatened her life on the phone the night before and that this had been his way of apologizing.
The defense then brought up another incident when Mia claimed she was sexually assaulted by Diddy in the bathroom of his private jet. And we should say that she sounded quite impressive and spoke very eloquently when she was talking to the jury about this.
So before the break, we heard the start of Mia's cross-examination by Diddy's lawyer, Brian Steele, which pretty much wrapped up her testimony on Friday.
It's also worth mentioning that the defense also pointed out on Friday that although Mia is supposed to be an anonymous witness, she has actually been identified and exposed by online sleuths who have been sending videos and old social media posts to them. But on Monday, she was back on the stand for the continuation of her cross-examination.
After an objection, Mia did not answer that question, but she did defend herself. She admitted she told Diddy she loved him and sent him heart emojis and messages, but that was because she saw him as her protector.
And in another message she sent in March 2020, she actually gave the jury a bit of insight into Diddy's crazy lifestyle and all the A-list stars, such as Mick Jagger and Leonardo DiCaprio that he mixed with. This is what she wrote.
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