Diddy trial live updates: Ex-employee set to share ‘secrets’ and detail alleged sexual abuse she faced

Deonte Nash, Sean Combs and Cassie Ventura’s former stylist, is expected to be back on the stand after testimony resumes at 9 a.m., to be cross-examined by defense attorney Xavier Donaldson.

Testimony from an alleged victim and former employee of Sean “Diddy” Combs is expected to last for most of Thursday and well into Friday afternoon, prosecutors said.

The former personal assistant is known by the alias “Mia” while prosecutors have referred to her as “Victim-4.”

After her will be a man named Enrique Santos, who may not testify until Monday.

The sex-trafficking trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs continues in Manhattan federal court, where jurors heard testimony that mentioned a few A-list stars.

At the start, jurors were given a list of 190 celebrities, spanning beloved Hollywood actors and elite musicians who may be referenced during the trial, including Michael B. Jordan and Kanye West, among others, according to Variety. Other big names, including Britney Spears and 50 Cent, have also popped up with the trial testimony in full swing.

Isabel Keane has outlined the celebrities featured in the list and others who have come up in the trial:

Cassie Ventura has reportedly given birth less than two weeks after the prosecution’s heavily pregnant star witness testified at Sean “Diddy” Combs’s trial.

Vetura, who dated Combs for over a decade, and her husband Alex Fine welcomed their third child, a source close to the family told ABC News. They share two daughters together, and confirmed they were expecting their third baby in a February Instagram post.

The Independent has reached out to a representative for Ventura for comment.

The defense requested a mistrial on Wednesday after a Los Angeles Fire Department arson investigator said the Los Angeles police Department threw out fingerprints that Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi had taken from his home after Combs’ alleged 2011 break-in.

Judge Arun Subramanian struck the testimony of the fingerprints and denied the defense’s request for a mistrial.

Los Angeles Police Department officer Christopher Ignacio was first up at the witness stand Wednesday.

Ignacio responded to Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi’s house in December 2011 over a possible trespassing. Mescudi alleged Combs broke into his home after finding out he was dating Cassie Ventura, Combs’ decade-long girlfriend.

Ignacio said a black Escalade pulled away from the home and, when he ran the plates, the officer discovered the car belonged to Combs’s production company.

Next up was Los Angeles Fire Department Arson Investigator Lance Jimenez. He investigated the January 2012 bombing of Mescudi’s Porsche. Mescudi testified last week that he believed Combs was involved in the bombing, an allegation Combs denies. Jimenez revealed that the car was set ablaze with a Molotov cocktail that didn’t successfully break on impact.

The firefighter also said that Mescudi sent him fingerprints taken from his house during the alleged 2011 break-in. A LAPD officer went on to destroy those prints in August 2012, Jimenez testified.

Celebrity stylist Deonte Nash is set to continue testimony on Thursday.

After taking the stand Wednesday, he testified that Sean “Diddy” Combs’ girlfriend Cassie Ventura said she wanted to jump off a hotel balcony after the rapper threatened to release sex tapes from their “freak offs.”

Deonte Nash, a stylist for Ventura and Combs from 2009 through 2018, took the stand Wednesday afternoon in Combs’ sex trafficking trial to tell jurors about how the music mogul threatened, abused and controlled Ventura’s life and career.

Three violent incidents stood out in his mind, he said, including one in 2013 that began in Ventura’s Los Angeles apartment and ended with Ventura threatening to throw herself off a balcony.

Kelly Rissman has the details:

The former employee of Sean “Diddy” Combs, known by the alias “Mia,” is set to be called by prosecutors to testify Wednesday.

During opening statements on May 12, prosecutors alleged that Combs coerced Mia – who prosecutors also referred to as “Victim 4” – into sex and forced himself onto her.

“She is just beginning to grapple with the times he forced himself on her sexually,” prosecutor Emily Johnson told the jury. “She wanted to keep the secret to her grave.”

Two days later, Mia’s attorney Michael Ferrara told Judge Arun Subramanian the witness would share details that she would have taken “to her grave” before Combs’ arrest.

“Candidly, her nerves are through the roof,” Ferrara said on May 14 “She would’ve taken these things to her grave. These are the worst things that ever happened to her.”

The Independent’s live coverage of the 12th day of testimony at Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy trial is underway.

Another ex-assistant and alleged victim of Sean “Diddy” Combs, identified by the assumed name “Mia,” could testify Thursday, prosecutors say. Prosecutors had previously referred to Mia as “Victim-4.”

First up at the witness stand is Deonte Nash, a former stylist at Combs’ record label Bad Boy who worked with both its owner and Cassie Ventura, Combs’ on-again-off-again girlfriend for a decade. Nash began testimony during Wednesday’s hearing.