HOT TOPICS | DIDDY TRIAL DAY 3: With TMZ's Charles Latibeaudiere - May 14th, 2025
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Good morning, everyone. Welcome to Hot Topics, 10 a.m. Eastern Time here on the Don Lemon Show, the Don Lemon Channel. Same bat channel, same bat time. I always screw that up. Anyways, I'm so glad that you're here. We have a lot of news to tell you about, but specifically we're going to talk about Diddy. And we're also going to talk about this crazy thing with the airplane that is really now blowing up in Donald Trump's face. But we'll see if he's as nakedly grifty as he has always been, I guess, or even more so, because now people are figuring out like, oh, my gosh, Donald Trump's a grifter. Like Ben Shapiro and Candace Owens and Laura Loomer just figuring that out. We'll talk about that. But I want to show you this is what we're covering.
We're starting with this is downtown Manhattan. I want to show you lower Manhattan. This is a federal court live pictures now of the federal court where that trial is going on. The time that they have up there is that is West Coast time. So 645 a.m. Cassie set to continue testifying on Wednesday, a day in the witness stand to detail what she says was years of grotesque sexual and physical abuse. So that is anyway, that's 10. But she took the stand seven minutes ago. So she is a little bit early. And so she's taking this in. Her testimony has been quite, quite graphic, quite emotional. She's been really candid. And the stuff that she is saying, my goodness. Cassie testified that Diddy abused her, coerced her into freak-offs, fearing violence and blackmail if she refused.
She described freak-offs as weekly events.
What happened at the Diddy trial as Cassie Ventura returned to testify?
Weekly. weekly event lasting days central to the prosecutor's sex trafficking case against Combs. So that is where we're going to start this morning. And I also want to show you something else that we're working on. We're going to take you live to Los Angeles. We're taking you live to Los Angeles now, and that is the TMZ newsroom. And Charles Laboutier is there getting ready for us. Lata Boutier getting ready for us. He has some breaking news right now. And so he's going to join us in moments. Perhaps that breaking news has something to do. with the Diddy trial. And if it is, then we have an exclusive, well, along with TMZ. And if not, well, we're going to find out what it is. It could be, it could have to do with the Diddy trial, or it could be something else, which we will welcome as well.
So live pictures. Now there, you see them getting ready. The TMZ news. Oh, there's Charles getting into place. So, um, We can keep him up. Just let me know when he's ready. You guys can see him backstage, right? Is that correct? Let's put this up because it's day two. Day two of the trial. They were opening statements the other day or opening arguments and then The testimony actually started yesterday in full or fulsome like that was the real day that stuff started. OK, so Combs faces five criminal counts, one count of racketeering conspiracy, two counts of sex trafficking by force, broader coercion and two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. Combs has vociferously denied those allegations.
There we see Charles Lataboutier there in the TMZ newsroom. Charles, can you hear me? Are you there, sir? I guess Charles can't hear us. So, Charles, are you there? Let's see if we can get Charles on the line. Text him and tell him. Text him and tell him we can't hear him. Okay, so the thing is, let's put up the Washington Post. Cassie is taking the day, the... taking to the stand a second day. As we said, she just started, I guess, about 10, 15 minutes ago. Let's scroll up. Cassie Ventura to continue testifying in Sean Combs' sex trafficking case there. Star witness Cassandra Cassie Ventura will return to the stand Wednesday in a federal criminal trial of her former boyfriend, the massively influential music producer Sean Diddy Combs, facing 15 years in prison if convicted.
Should he take a plea deal? Because if it's 15 years, then he's not going to spend 15 years if he takes a deal, but I guess he doesn't want to. Prosecutors allege Combs used drugs, violence, and his power in the industry.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:14–2:01
2
What happened at the Diddy trial as Cassie Ventura returned to testify?
2:01–22:20
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What graphic details did Cassie describe about the 'freak-offs' and baby oil?
22:20–1:05:34
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What did the newly released hotel security video and photos reveal about the 2016 hallway incident?
1:05:34–1:20:39