Diddy on Trial: Cassie’s Mum, ‘The Punisher’ and Gun Photos
episodePreviously titled “Diddy on Trial: Diddy on Trial - Cassie’s mum, ‘The Punisher’ and gun photos” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 28, 2026
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What is the context of Sean Diddy's trial?
BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts Hello and welcome back to Diddy on Trial from BBC Sounds with me, Anushka Matandadauti. Just a warning, this episode contains descriptions of violence and graphic descriptions of sex. Here at the Southern District of New York Court, it's week two in the trial of Sean Diddy Combs. He's on trial for charges of sex trafficking, racketeering with conspiracy and transportation for prostitution. These are charges he's always denied. Yesterday, we heard more from singer Dawn Rashad. She was questioned by Diddy's defence, as well as Cassie's former best friend and Diddy's ex-personal assistant, who will be back this morning. It all got a bit raucous in court, with members of the public shouting and calling out throughout the testimony. We went in for 15 minutes this morning, and that is not going anywhere. And if anything, it actually got worse. Later, I'll be catching up with the BBC's New York digital reporter, Sakshi Venkatraman. But now it's time to see what else is going on inside the court today.
Okay, it's 4.30pm. We heard some stuff about who's going to be appearing in court in the next couple of days, and it's quite a big name. But I'm here right now with Sakshi Venkatraman, who is the BBC's New York Digital Reporter. There is a lot to get through today. They are really rapidly going through those witnesses, but we're going to start with David James picking up. He's the personal assistant who we heard from last episode. And they picked up directly with David from his direct testimony and then went into the cross-examination.
Yeah, so the narrative that they're trying to paint of David James as being this unreliable witness actually started before we got to the courtroom today. It started in previous months when David James gave interviews to the government. And it seems like he painted different pictures of an incident that happened between Diddy and Suge Knight. The gist of it is that there was an evening where Suge Knight was spotted at Melrose Diner, which is a popular diner in L.A. Diddy's staff saw him and came and told him that Suge Knight was there. And Diddy got some guns and some staff and went to the diner to do whatever they were planning to do. That's still kind of unclear. So David James is supposedly one of the people that was there on the night of that incident. And the characterization that he gave is that he was there with D-Rock, one of Diddy's main security guards. And then the two got in the car together, drove back to Diddy's place. Diddy immediately said, get in to his black Escalade. And the three of them drove off back to the diner where Suge Knight was.
Now, there's an issue with this story because it's a different narrative than the one Cassie Ventura just told us about on the stand. So I never really hammered on James's version of this story and was kind of painting about to be unreliable.
Then there was some commentary about what it was like to work with Didina that kind of picked up off where David left yesterday talking about, you know, seven day weeks and three weeks back to back with no breaks he spoke about a time where he ran a red light so he drove when he shouldn't have driven and what security told him a rhyme that could maybe define how it is to work as his personal assistant yeah so the rhyme was what rhymes with tired and the implication there is
fired like if you're if you're tired on the job if you complain about working these long hours then then you're fired and yeah he said he he did run that red light with Diddy in the backseat of the car and Diddy screamed at him and asked him why he's running red lights said he can't be running red lights and he turned around and you know using an expletive said I'm tired you know and he didn't get fired so that was interesting.
And with David James, they also spoke about a couple of different instances that presented the narrative that maybe Diddy wasn't even aware of the many things that were going on in his orbit. I mean, it's a big business, lots of people, big houses, etc.
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