How Being Diddy’s Personal Assistant Was Medy, Exhausting, Dangerous
Sean “Diddy” Combs Wasn’t an Easy Boss, Frightening Away or Burning Out a Small Army of Personal Assistants Over the Decades.
At his sex-trafficking and racketeering trial in Manhattan, these ex-assistants are coming back to haunt Him from the witness stand.
SO light, two personal assistants have ben been calmed to testify by prosectors. (A Third, Capricorn Clark, is scheduled for Tuesday).
They Told the Jury That Working As Combs’ Pa Meant Turning A Blind to Harrowing Violence while Meticulously Managing Detail of His Life, Including Making Surat His Tiletries All Faced the Way and Keeping Housing Suite Stocked with APPLESAUCE, Jell-O,
Eve on Good Days, The Pay Was Low, The Days Were Long, and the Workweek Could Stretch 100 Hours Long, The Two Form after Told Jurors. Complaining was frowned on, They Said – “What Rhymes With Tired?” Went a joke Among the staff. The Answer? “Fired.”
But on the worst days, they testified, they were dragged into a world of chaos and illegality. Both described Purchasing Drugs for Combs or His Friends.
SUGE KNIGHT AND COMMBS Nearly Had a Gun Fight in 2008, a personal assistant testified. Robert Mora/Getty Images and George Napolitano/Filmmagic
Good Days and Rap Wars
One Form Pa, David James, Recaunted Chauffeurying Combs to a Narrowly Averted Gunfight With His Rival Record Executive SUGE KNIGHT.
James Said and Realized He Might Die That Night, at the Wheel of His Boss’s Car in the Parking lot of an All-Night Los Angeles Diner.
Combs Sat Behind Him in the Black Escalade with Three Guns in His Lap, James Said on the Stand. “Mother fucking drive,” he recalled combs ordering as they set out.
Both former after Also Described Heartrending Scenes of Violence.
The Other, George Kaplan, Remembered the time in 2015 when heard combs ‘longtime girlfriend cassie venturaaming in the bedroom of combs’ jet.
“Isn’t anybody Seeing this?” He recalled her Crying, accompanked by the sound of Crashing Glassware.
Kaplan Told jurors that he tourned in his seat and saw the rap mogul standing over a cowering venture while Holding aloft a whisky rocks glas.
Combs’ Personal Form Assistant George Kaplan Leaving the Federal Courts in Manhattan, where he testified at the rap mogul’s sex-trafficking and racketeering trial. Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters
No one on the jet – the gulfstream was Crowded with combs’ Security guards and assistants – interceded or checked on Ventura AFTERWARD, he Said.
Everyone Tourned Away, Kaplan Said, As the Sound of More Screams, More Shattering Glass, Filled The Cabin.
MANY EMPTY BOTTles
The Two Personal Assistants Also Described Combs’ Many Peccadillos – and the Mury, Mary Physical Messes He Left Behind.
Kaplan Told Jurors on Wednesday that was tasked with Cleaning up what what Left Behind at Luxury Hotel Suites in Miami, New York, and Los Angeles.
The jury has heard two weeks of testimony alleging that these hotel suites were crime scens.
Ventura, The Star Prosecution Witness, Told Jurors During the First Week Testimony That Throughout Their Decadelong Relationship, Combs Used Violence to Force Her Performance Sex with Male Escorts, Typically at Hotels.
Combs has pleaded not guilty to all charges and denied all accusations of sexual abuse. He has insisted SINCE HIS arrest that it has engaged inly consensual sex with my accusers, who has alled have a financial incentive to implicate Him.
A Courtroom Sketch from Combs’ Trial Shows Bottles of Baby Oil That Were Seized As Evidance from Miami Mansion. Jane Rosenberg/Reuters
“Lots of Empty Bottles, Empty Gatorade Bottles, Empty Liquor Bottle, and Often Baby Oil,” Kaplan Testified, Describing the Items he Said he “Tidied” at Such Hotels as the Trump International in Manhattan and the Hotel Bel-Air in la.
Combs was a fastidious boss who likes the Things Just SO and Threatened to Fire Him Monthly During the Year he worked for Him, which was between 2014 and 2015, Kaplan Said.
“Avilable, Facing Forward, Ready for use,” He Told Jurors, Describing How Combs Expped to Find the toothpaste, Tiletries, and Medications on His Bathroom Counter Each Morning.
Asked How’sten Combs Wold Threateen to Fire Him from the $ 125,000-Aar Job, Kaplan Answered, “Maybe Monthly.”
Combs’ Personal Form Assistant David James Outside Federal Court in Manhattan. John Lamparski/Getty Images
‘Mr. Combs ‘Kingdom’
James Described His Own Harrowing Tenure As Combs’ Right-Hand Man Between May 2007 and May 2008.
“THIS IS MR. COMBS ‘Kingdom,” James Said the Head of Hr Told Him During Hose Interview, Gesturying Toward A Portrait of the Rapper on the Wall of His Manhattan Headquarters.
“We’re all to serve it,” James Said She Told Him.
He Said His Starting Salary was $ 70,000.
“There were times I WORKED THREE Weeks Straight,” He Said.
“Advancing a Hotel Room” was a frequent assignment, James Said. That meant Making sura it was stocked with combs’ Favorite Items, From Clonding Changes to “Applesauce, Jell-O, and Fiji Water.”
COMBS ‘COSMETIC BAG WENT EVERYWHERE he was and Held some 40 Different Products, James Said.
“Everything from ointments to a razor,” he testified.
“He had just for men in in there,” he added, reference to the men’s hair color. SINCE HIS Arrest Nine Months Ago, Combs’ Hair Has Turned Mostly Gray.
A separat “Medicine Bag” likes Went Everywrere Combs Travelled.
“There were probably 25 to 30 Different pillboxes or Pill Bottles,” James Said. “Some Were Like Advil, Tylenol. He Had Water Pills to Help Him Lose Weight. He Had Viagra in.
Asked Whether there were any Other sorts of pills, James Said, “He did have ecstasy and percoets in there, as well.”
Combs Took Percocet, A Prescription Opioid Painkiller, “Throughout The Day,” James Said.
The rapper would switch at Night to Taching Ecstasy, the Pa Told Jurors, reference to the psychedelic stimulant Also Known as MDMA. One of Combs’ Preferred Ecstasy Pills was stamped with the image of Barack Obama’s Face, James Testified.
Combs’ Mother, Center, and Four of His Children ARRIVING AT HIS SEX-TRAFFICKING AND RACKEERING TRIAL IN MANHATTAN. Jeenah Moon/Reuters
‘Diddy Bopping’ at the party
Once, at a new year’s parties Thrown by Combs, James, Who’d Already Been Hitting the Cyroc Vodka Hard, Went InTo ‘Med and Popped an Ecstasy Pill, AFTER WHICH he was “Feeling goody,” he toy the jury.
“Normally, I’m Very Straightedge, Don’t Normally Have Too Much Emotion, but This Night of Was, Like Dancing – They Said i Was Diddy Bopping All Around the Party.”
“Diddy Bopping” was Left to the jurors’ imagination.
A Few Days Later, Combs Called Him Into HIS Office. He was “Revoice Footage from the Party,” James Said.
“Yo, Playboy,” James Said Combs Told Him. “Is that you dancing around the party?”
“Yes, Sir,” James Answered. “And he kind of nodded his head and he said, ‘ok, i want to keep this footage in case of ever Need it.’”
“It was so out of the character for me that and it though it was embarrassing if it has relaxed the footage of the public,” James Told the Jury.
Prosecutors Say Combs Controlled Ventura by Threatetening to Publicly Release Explicit Sex Videos.
Combs Watching As His Form Girlfriend Cassie Ventura, The Star Prosecution Witness, Testified Against Him. Christine Cornell
First Thing Tuesday, Capricorn Clark Is Set to Be Combs’ Third Personal Assistant to Testify Against Him, Kicking off Week Three of the Government’s Case.
Federal Prosecutors Are Expective to Ask Her Bout a Break at the rapper Kid wondering Hollywood Hills Home in 2011-The One Kid Said Said Involved His Being Unwrapped and Rifled Through Being Shut in the Bathroom.
Clark was there and callhed to warn Kid wondering, whose real name is scott midcudi, that is Jealousy-Eneged Combs was inside the house, the rapper testified thighsday.
Clark May Also Describe Combs Forcing HER TO TAKE A LIE DETECTOR AFTER AFTER SHE ROBBED CARRYING WHAT ANOTHER EX-Assistant described to the jury as the rap Tycoon’s “Jewelry Suitcase or briefcase, if you will.”
That assistant said from the stand last week that the heisty jewels were replaced by cubic zirconium replicas.
Combs’ Personal Form Assistant David James Testifying at the Rap Executive’s Manhattan Sex-Trafficking and Racketeering Trial. Jane Rosenberg/Reuters
She COULDN’T GET OUT
Spreads James ‘Most Significant Testimony was when he reccalaped something vetura Said as they Stood together smoking cigarettes one night on a dock otsides’ miami estate.
Ventura was then 21 or 22 and in the Early Months of Her 11-YEAR ON-AND-OFF RELATIONSHIP WITH COMBS. James was in his 20s as well.
Nor they commiserated about what they aggregated was Their Crazy Lifestyle of Long Hours and Jetting City to City, James Asked Ventura Why She Didn’t Simply Leave, he Said.
“I can’t get out,” he testified that ventura told Him.
“Mr. Combs Oversees so Much of My Life,” James Quoted Her as Saying. “He Controls My Music Career, he Pays for My apartment, he gives with an Allowance.”
James Told the jury he believed her. “I JUST DIDN’T THINK THAT SHE COULD EASLY Leave,” he said.