Will Diddy be next to take the stand? Rapper urged to testify to ‘humanize’ himself: Live trial updates

Death Row records founder Suge Knight has urged Diddy to take the stand in his trial so he can ‘humanize’ himself.

‘I feel if he do tell his truth, he really would walk,’ Knight told CNN from prison as he serves a 28-year sentence for voluntary manslaughter.

‘If Puffy goes up there and says, “Hey … I did all the drugs, I wasn’t in control of my life at the time, or myself’ – he can humanize his old self and the jury might give him a shot.”‘

Knight added: ‘But if they keep him sitting down, it’s like he’s scared to face the music… He should just have his faith in God, put up his pants and go up there and tell his truth.’

It’s not clear whether Diddy will take the stand in his trial – he will be able to decide if he wants to up until the last minute, but his lawyers will most likely advise him not to do so.

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Through her horrific tenure as Combs’ employee, Mia said how she would tell Diddy she loved him even after the sexual assaults started happening.

‘Oh yeah, that’s how we talked to each other,’ she said.

‘When the dynamic would switch to the best fiend dynamic you’re desperate to keep it they’re because you’re safe.’

Mia returned to court on Friday in all white to take the stand against her former boss Diddy.

She testified that there were highs and lows when working for the rapper, but Combs’ sexual assault against her were the ‘lowest.’

Diddy employees referred to themselves as family, explaining ‘that’s what I was surrounded with all the time and we went through some horrible times and great times together. That’s how we all referred to each other as.’

On Friday morning in court, Diddy lawyers argued to extend their time to confer with the mogul in person as the case continues.

‘[The] access you have received is much, much greater than defendants in other cases,’ Judge Subramanian told the defense.

‘Instead of ordering something that may be infeasible, I need to speak to the parties and (find a solution that) makes sense.’

Diddy’s former assistant and alleged victim Mia will continue testifying for the prosecution on Friday.

After she is cross-examined, the state is expected to call radio personality Enrique Santos.

Santos is the President and Chief Creative Officer of iHeart Latino and host of several radio shows.

His daily program, ‘The Enrique Santos Morning Show,’ airs live from iHeart’s Miami station, and his weekend show ‘On The Move with Enrique Santos’ airs throughout the country.

Santos also serves as a Reserve Police Officer for the City of Miami Police Department, according to his LinkedIn profile.

In court on Thursday, Mia shared grim details of an instance when Diddy made her wake everybody up in his Los Angeles home around 3am, but he got ‘aggressive’ with her when she tried to go to her room to change her tampon.

‘I started to walk down to my room because we’d been out since right in the morning and barely got a break and I was on my period and needed to change my tampon immediately,’ she said.

‘He was pissed. (He said) when I told you to go, go now, don’t go to your f****** room yet. I tried to say something and it made him more aggressive and louder and going on a really humiliating rant in front of everybody.

‘After it went on for so long there was literally blood dripping down my leg and said I just have to change my tampon.’

‘He had a bowl of spaghetti in his hand and threw it at me aggressively and started cursing me, get the f*** out of this house and he chased me outside.’

She described how the bowl narrowly missed her and she ran out of the house barefoot and hid in a bush.

The disgraced music mogul showed no reaction in court on Thursday as his ex-assisant Mia emotionally told the court thart he sexually assaulted her several times.

Diddy continued passing notes to his lawyers as Mia spoke from the stand, often in tears.

After Diddy’s ‘freak off’ hotel nights with Cassie, Mia testified that assistants would have to ‘sweep’ hotel rooms to clean up the mess he left behind ‘wherever he was.’

This was so ‘a housekeper couldn’t take and run to TMZ and expose any of his private business.’

Mia alleged the hotel rooms were a ‘nightmare’ to clean.

‘They were destroyed, really messy,’ she described.

‘I saw a lot of candlewax that was impossible to get out, lots of wet towels, I’ve seen broken glass, water all over the floor, sometimes blood, oil all over furniture and walls and things.’

Diddy’s ex-assistant Capricorn Clark told the court on Tuesday she once heard the mogul discussing weapons as he spoke of his rivalry against rapper 50 Cent.

She said she and Diddy were leaving a press event at MTV when the mogul told an executive he was having issues with 50 Cent.

Diddy reportedly said, ‘I don’t lie the back and forth, I don’t like that. I like guns.’

Diddy has frequently dispelled any rumors of a feud between the legends, but Curtis Jackson, also known as 50 Cent, has been slamming his nemesis publicly for years.

While he appeared to enter the courthouse, Gene stopped in his tracks as a man off-camera shouted at him: ‘Hey G, I talked to Randy Pittman last night, a white guy, who said in 2004, you was at a party with P. Diddy, and you held him down with two minor kids.

‘I did an interview with him on my YouTube last night. What do you have to say about that Gene?,’ he added in the video posted on TikTok.

Gene seemingly looked toward the man as he shouted accusations at him while a woman got close to him and shoved a phone in his face, and a man snapped pictures of him with a camera.