LEMON DROP | Diddy Trial EXCLUSIVE with Extra's Mona Kosar
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What makes this Diddy trial more sensational than past celebrity cases?
Mona, thank you for joining us. Mona, you have been in the courtroom every single day. Have you seen anything like this ever inside the Diddy courtroom or the trial every single day?
I haven't. I think we actually all underestimated just how sensationalized it would be. I mean, this man has a larger than life personality. He's been on our TV screens for 30 years. But when we hear the details of his very public relationship with Cassie, we just feel like we're eavesdropping, like we're going into their bedroom with them. And some of the things that we've heard so far are so disturbing that I think it's what shocks all of us that this man that we knew to be Like I said, larger than life, very boisterous that he was doing all of this allegedly behind closed doors.
You have your own independent subsec and an organization that you work for is what?
Extra TV. So I'm a senior correspondent for Extra TV.
Yeah. Okay. So listen, so then why do you think it is so different? As I hear all of these explicit details coming out, I'm like, oh my gosh, Diddy, why didn't you take that agreement? Why didn't you settle in some way to, you know, take that? Because he would not, I don't believe he would have spent 15 years. I think he would have spent a much shorter time. It would have been tough. I think it's tougher on his reputation now, all of these illicit details coming out and then them playing that video over and over and over again.
Yeah.
I think he should have taken the plea. That's my, in my opinion. I disagree.
I mean, they're so his defense attorney even said that his career is ruined. Right. Because part of the government's claim is that he had control over Cassie's career. And that's part of the coercion that they're trying to show and that he suppressed her career. But they're saying and that he would also threaten to release these sex tapes to damage her reputation. But then his defense attorney was like, well, you know. It was her lawsuit that showed the world what was going on behind closed doors and in their bedroom. And it was also her who destroyed essentially his reputation and his career. So they're admitting that there's no coming back from this. But I will say what they're saying is, yes, this man was violent.
yes, this man had mood swings. Yes. He had some sexual preferences that are not, you know, conventional, but that's not what is at stake here. There's a racketeering charge. There are, there's one count of racketeering, two counts of sex trafficking and another count of transportation for the intent of prostitution. And so what they're saying is these are not federal charges. This may be a domestic violence charge. It may be, um, even a sexual abuse charge. But these are state charges that I'm sure have passed the statute of limitations. So they're not saying that their client is an angel, but they're saying that the government is trying to go inside his bedroom and basically incriminate him for having sex that's not conventional.
Non-traditional... Yeah. Sex or whatever. And look, I... People said you shouldn't be kink shaming anybody for. But this is different because of the charges that are involved. Right. The trafficking and all of that. How do you think that the prosecution is doing in making their case?
I think they're building it slowly, very slowly. And they're actually now focusing a lot more on the racketeering charge. So at the beginning, because Cassie was eight and a half months pregnant, they had a deadline, right? They knew that she was going to give birth any day now. And so their star witness went third, which I thought was, I mean, I feel like it is what it is, right? They couldn't do much about it, but they also, this is an eight week trial. So her testimony was very powerful and the jury was intently listening and The jury has to remember it eight weeks from now, right, when they're reaching a verdict. And so what I think they're doing this week was to build the racketeering charts to show that Diddy was a music mogul, a businessman, but he was also using his business and his network of employees to
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