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The Eyewitness News team, and ABC News legal contributor Bernarda Villalona break down the defense's questioning of "Mia" about social media posts in their attempt to undercut her rape allegations.
Digging through years of social media posts, attorney Brian Steel attempted to suggest that the woman – testifying under the pseudonym “Mia” – misrepresented her feelings about working for Combs during hours of raw and emotional testimony Thursday.
Mia had told jurors the rap mogul threatened her for years, violently threw objects at her, and sexually assaulted her on three occasions including raping her while she was sleeping in his Los Angeles home.
Referring to a series of effusive social media posts by Mia, Steel tried to show jurors that Mia’s feelings toward Combs were different than those she had expressed on the witness stand.
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A former personal assistant to Sean “Diddy” Combs told the jury in this sex-trafficking trial that it was impossible to tell the rap mogul “no.”
Mia’s emotional testimony punctuated the twelfth day of testimony in the criminal case that has captured headlines and the public’s attention since prospective jurors first walked into the Manhattan courtroom on May 5. Breaking down in tears as she spoke from the witness stand in a hushed courtroom, Mia said the rapper sexually assaulted her on multiple occasions and was prone to fits of rage. Mia testified she did “absolutely not” want to be talking about the sexual assaults she said Combs committed but told the jury, “I have to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth and also I have a moral obligation because when you’re scared into silence these things continue to happen to others.”
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Mike Marza and ABC News' Legal Analyst Channa Lloyd recap testimony from Cassie Ventura's former stylist Deonte Nash.
Former Cassie Ventura stylist Deonte Nash testified that he saw “a lot” of blood during one instance in which he alleged Sean Combs attacked his then-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura.
Nash testified that he, along with Ventura and a Combs employee whom the prosecution identified with the pseudonym “Mia” were in Ventura’s apartment helping her pack for a music festival when, Nash alleged, Combs arrived, “pulled her by the hair off the couch and hit her," referring to Ventura.
Court has adjourned for the day, Nash's cross-examination will resume Thursday.
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Mike Marza and ABC News' legal contributor Bernarda Villalona recap the start of the third week of witness testimony in the Sean Combs sex trafficking trial. Trial resumed on Tuesday with emotional testimony from the rap mogul’s former personal assistant, who testified about the violence and threats she said she witnessed on the job. Crying at points on the witness stand, Capricorn Clark told jurors that she was told she would be “thrown into the East River” if she failed a lie detector test about the theft of Combs’ jewelry, that she was forced to accompany Combs to confront rival musician Kid Cudi, and how she witnessed Combs beat Ventura.
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The musician and actor Kid Cudi took the stand on Thursday in Sean “Diddy” Combs sex trafficking and racketeering trial to testify that the rap mogul, in a fit of rage and jealousy, broke into his home and he believed coordinated the firebombing of his high-end sports car.
The testimony in the star-studded trial could play a critical role as prosecutors attempt to build a case that Combs used violence and threats to run a criminal enterprise that he used to hurt his rivals and protect the entertainment and cultural kingdom he had built.
Court is now adjourned until Tuesday.
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Jurors in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking and racketeering trial on Wednesday heard from a former Combs employee who agreed to testify only after he was guaranteed that he would not be prosecuted for any crimes he might have detailed.
Prosecutors used the testimony of former Combs assistant George Kaplan to try to prove how Combs allegedly built a criminal enterprise that would feed his sexual desires while protecting his public persona.
Psychologist Dawn Hughes was called by prosecutors to explain to the jury that many people opt to stay in abusive relationships because they feel trapped or form an “intense psychological bond” that draws them to their abuser.
Jurors also saw the trove of drugs allegedly found in Combs’ residence, including a variety of pills, marijuana, powders, and other drugs that prosecutors have alleged were used to make women compliant during freak offs and would allow them to perform long past the point of exhaustion.
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Mike Marza and Bernarda Villalona recap Tuesday's testimony in the Sean Combs trial.
A run-in with a rival record executive at Mel’s Drive-in , assault weapons with illegally defaced serial numbers, and a sex performance at Trump Tower were some of the topics jurors in Sean Combs’ criminal trial heard about Tuesday, as prosecutors tried to build their racketeering and sex trafficking case against the rap mogul.
Across nearly six hours of testimony, federal prosecutors called to the stand Combs’ former personal assistant, the mother of Cassie Ventura, a sex worker nicknamed “The Punisher,” and a federal agent during the eleventh day of the trial.
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For the first time, the public can see the stark visual evidence of the violence Cassie Ventura testified that she suffered at the hands of Sean “Diddy” Combs. Federal prosecutors Monday released many of the photos they have shown the jury in their effort to convict Combs in their sex-trafficking and racketeering case.
Court adjourned just after 3 p.m. ET. Prosecutors said Tuesday’s witnesses will include an alleged escort known as “The Punisher,” as well as Cassie Ventura’s mother.
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After four days on the witness stand, Cassie Ventura concluded her testimony Friday at the trial of her ex-boyfriend, Sean "Diddy" Combs.
It came shortly after the defense concluded nearly two days of cross-examination.
Prosecutors allege Combs, 55, used his fame and fortune to orchestrate an empire of exploitation, coercing women into abusive sex parties.
If Combs is convicted on all charges, which include racketeering, kidnapping, arson, bribery and sex trafficking, he would face a mandatory 15 years in prison and could remain behind bars for life.
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After two days of testimony about how her relationship with Sean Combs grew violent and coercive, Cassie Ventura faced six hours of grueling cross-examination on Thursday, as defense attorneys attempted to cast doubt on her credibility and portray her as a willing participant in his sexual activities.
Ventura’s testimony as the star witness for the prosecution is expected to conclude tomorrow, given concerns that the singer, now eight months pregnant, could go into labor as early as this weekend.
Defense attorneys turned to a decade of archived text messages to question Ventura about the consistency of her earlier testimony, highlighting her apparent eagerness to engage in Combs’ lifestyle of swinging at drug-fueled orgies. They insist that she was not a victim of sex trafficking or racketeering and that Combs is innocent of the federal charges he’s facing.
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The R&B singer Cassie Ventura returned to the witness stand Wednesday for a second day spent recounting tumultuous details of life with her ex-boyfriend, Sean "Diddy" Combs.
She testified in a Manhattan courtroom that Combs kept her in a cycle of abuse and exploitation by threatening to release recordings of her with male sex workers in encounters Combs orchestrated and called "freak-offs."
After prosecutors completed their questioning, Judge Arun Subramanian opted to adjourn court for the day and begin the defense's cross-examination of Cassie on Thursday.
The defense said it expected cross-examination to take all of Thursday and that it will likely continue into Friday, followed by redirect examination by the prosecution.
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For six hours on Tuesday in a packed Manhattan courtroom, Cassie Ventura testified how her decade-long relationship turned violent as her then-boyfriend, Sean “Diddy” Combs, seized control of her personal and professional lives and demanded she orchestrate his drug-fueled sex parties known as “freak offs.”
Ventura is the star witness in the federal racketeering and sex-trafficking case against Combs, who faces the possibility of life in prison if he is convicted.
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Eyewitness News reporters Mike Marza and Darla Miles give you an in-depth look the first day of the Sean 'Diddy' Combs sex-trafficking and racketeering trial in Lower Manhattan.
Cassie Ventura is expected to be the next witness called later Tuesday morning.
Prosecutors allege that Combs, 55, used his fame and power at the top of the hip-hop world to sexually abuse women from 2004 to 2024. He pleaded not guilty after his September arrest and has remained held without bail at a federal lockup in Brooklyn.
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Accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann has been charged in the death of a seventh woman.
Heuermann is charged with one count of second-degree murder in connection with the murder of Valerie Mack, according to a superseding indictment unsealed Tuesday.
Mack, whose remains were first found on Long Island in 2000. Mack, 24, had been working as an escort in Philadelphia and was last seen by her family that year in New Jersey.
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Even though there has been an arrest in the Gilgo Beach serial killings, investigators are still trying to solve cold-case murders and authorities are asking for the public's help.
On Monday, Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney released three new updated sketches of a Gilgo Beach victim.
The Asian male victim's remains were recovered along Ocean Parkway in April 2011. However, authorities say he was killed during or prior to 2006.
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Suffolk County prosecutors have received some 7,000 tips following the arrest of alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann, district attorney Ray Tierney said after his latest court appearance.
Prosecutors turned over "voluminous" evidence to Heuermann's defense, including results from DNA lab work, data from Heuermann's electronic devices, and notes from searches of his home.
Heuermann has pleaded not guilty to killing multiple women.
No trial date has been set.
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Rex Heuermann, the accused Gilgo Beach serial killer charged in six killings is now being eyed by investigators for even more, nearly one year to the day that the Manhattan architect, husband, and father of two was arrested.
Heuermann's adult children - and his now-estranged wife, Asa Ellerup, showed support at court.
Robert Macedonio, Asa's attorney, talked with Eyewitness News reporter, Chantee Lans, about what the past year has been like for the family.
"Complete shock. The world was turned upside-down in the last year."
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Disturbing new details have emerged in the Gilgo Beach serial killings as Rex Heuermann, 60, was charged in two additional women.
The new charges also significantly expand the timeline in the Gilgo Beach case, with the first murder Heuermann is accused of committing now taking place in 1993.
Prosecutors also revealed disturbing "planning" documents that they allege the suspect used in his killings and disposal of the victims.
The architect and father allegedly "meticulously planned and executed six separate murders," Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney said at a news conference Thursday.
Heuermann appeared before a judge on Long Island to face charges in the killings of Jessica Taylor and Sandra Costilla, two young women who were long suspected of being the victims of men preying on sex workers.
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Suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann is expected to be charged this week with an additional murder, according to Newsday.
Heuermann has pleaded not guilty to killing four women -- Megan Waterman, Melissa Barthelemy, Amber Costello, and Maureen Brainard-Barnes - whose remains were found near Gilgo Beach along Ocean Parkway.
Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney declined to comment.
Word of the new indictment follows searches by the Gilgo Beach Task Force at Heuermann's Massapequa Park home and a wooded area of Manorville where the remains of two women were previously found.
Heuermann had been scheduled to appear in court on June 18 but is now expected to be arraigned on the new charge on Thursday, June 6, 2024.
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The former executive assistant of accused Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann is speaking for the first time exclusively with Eyewitness News.
Donna Sturman told investigative reporter Kristin Thorne she still has not gotten over the shock of the claims made against her former boss.
"It's traumatizing," she said. "It's so unbelievable."
Sturman worked for Heuermann from 2017 to 2018 at his architectural office in Midtown.
She said the irony is not lost on her that it was DNA from a discarded piece of pizza crust that prosecutors have used to tie Heuermann to the Gilgo Beach murders. He has plead not guilty to all the charges.
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