Kerry Morgan
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88 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Kerry Morgan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Thank you, Hermania. Another really busy week in court. Every day there's something new happening in this trial. Earlier today, Cassie Ventura's mom, Regina, had given her testimony. She's told the jury that she felt, quote, physically sick when Cassie told her Diddy was planning on releasing sex tapes of her because he was angry she had started dating someone else.
She said she and her husband took out a loan and wired him $20,000 because he was demanding they pay back cash he'd spent on their daughter. She said they paid him because they knew he had beaten Cassie and she was scared for her daughter's safety. But she said the money eventually came back into her account a few days later.
Today, we're also going to hear how Diddy turned up to a diner with three handguns when he found out his rival was there.
We'll also hear how Diddy was allegedly preparing for a final freak-off when police arrested him at the Park Hyatt Hotel last year.
As we're recording today, David James has completed his testimony. He was Diddy's personal assistant for two years, from May 2007 to May 2009. You might remember that Cassie told the jury he was one of Diddy's staff who facilitated the freak-offs. He was very emotional and crying during his testimony. He told the jury he got the job after seeing an ad in the New York Times.
He said during his interview for the role, one of Diddy's employees pointed to a picture of the wrapper on the wall and said, quote, This is Mr. Combs' kingdom. We're all here to serve in it. He said his job involved arriving at Diddy's home before he woke up and organizing his business schedule for the day.
He said he would turn on his TV to his preferred channel and also compile a folder of all the press cuttings which mentioned him from the previous 24 hours. He said he would spend the day accompanying Diddy to meetings and go with him to dinner and later to the studio where he would sometimes work on his album until four in the morning.
James said he was paid $70,000 but was expected to work up to 20 hours a day, six or seven days a week. He also claimed there was a common saying among his bodyguards that went, quote, you know what rhymes with tired? Fired.
He also said he never witnessed any physical violence between Diddy and Cassie, but he heard them arguing about her career more than once. He said twice he was forced to take a lie detector test when Diddy had cash and jewelry stolen from him. He said it was extremely intimidating, but he didn't feel like he could refuse and he was found to be telling the truth.
James also recounted an incident when he got into an argument with a female chef who worked for Diddy. He said he grabbed the chef by the wrists and she complained to bosses at the record label. James said Diddy told him you can't be putting your hands on women and warned him he would be fired if it happened again.
Right, and the jury was shown photographs of this hotel suite and the haul of items recovered by officers. Binda told them that in a closet in the hallway were several Ziploc bags filled with Johnson's baby oil, Astroglide lubricant, and a computer hard drive. Mood lighting was also found in the living room. Another five bottles of baby oil were found in the bathtub.
A pill bottle with anti-anxiety and epilepsy drugs in the name of Frank Black. which we know is one of Diddy's aliases, was found in a brown Louis Vuitton bag on the nightstand in the bedroom alongside two more bottles of lubricant. Ketamine and MDMA were also found in pill bottles in the room, and $9,000 in cash was also found in a black fanny pack hanging off the bed.
And just to recap, Cassie told the jury last week that Diddy was meticulous about how he liked a freak-off to be set up. She said he choreographed the lighting, decided what lingerie and heels she wore, and made her heat up the baby oil in hot water before the sex session began.
Richard said that from 2004, Danity Kane was signed to Diddy's Bad Boy Records. Later, between 2009 and 2011, she was also a member of another group called Diddy Dirty Money. which consisted of herself, another girl called Kalena Harper, and Diddy himself. She said she worked for Diddy, who she said she knew as Puff, for a total of seven years until 2011.
She admitted she didn't intervene or call the police, but said she was shocked because, quote, she had never seen anything like that before and was worried about what it might mean for herself.
She said the following day Diddy called her and Kalena back into the studio again to record. When they arrived, he locked the studio door and told them to keep quiet about what they'd seen.
She also said there was another time in 2009 before they performed at a music festival in Central Park in New York that she saw Diddy punch Cassie in the face. Here's Ms. Steiner again.
Richard also recounted a time a year later when she said she saw Diddy punch Cassie hard in the stomach. She said it happened when a group of them had been out having dinner at a restaurant in West Hollywood. She said other stars such as Usher, Ne-Yo, and the record producer Jimmy Iovine were also at the restaurant.
She said nobody challenged him or intervened when he was violent towards Cassie and he became angry when she interfered and told her to leave.
She said she saw Diddy buy and take lots of different drugs and also saw him and his bodyguards carrying handguns both in the studio and at nightclubs. She said it made her frightened, but she admitted she had never seen him draw his gun or wave it around or load it. She said when she stopped working for him in 2011, he and Pierre warned her not to tell anyone about the abuse she had seen.
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