Diddy's ex-assistant details 'terrifying' abuse

MANHATTAN (CN) ­— Sean “Diddy” Combs sexually assaulted his former assistant “on more than one occasion,” the second victim-witness in Combs’ federal trial testified on Thursday morning.

Testifying under the pseudonym “Mia” to protect her privacy, she recalled Combs putting his hand up her dress and trying to kiss her after pouring her liquor shots in the penthouse of the Plaza Hotel during the music mogul’s 40th birthday celebration in November 2009.

“I remember feeling like, ‘Whoa, did I not eat or something?’ Because they affected me — I felt like they hit me kind of hard,” she testified.

On another occasion around 2009 or 2010, “Mia” said she woke up at Combs’ Beverly Hills house to find him on top of her, taking off his pants with one hand while gesturing to her to stay quiet.

“He put himself inside me,” she testified, holding back tears. “I just froze — I didn’t react. It was very quick but it felt like forever.”

Asked by prosecutors how she felt during the rape, Mia replied she was “terrified and confused and ashamed and scared.”

Later on Thursday, “Mia” recalled a separate incident where Combs forced her to perform oral sex on him against her will.

She testified the sexual assaults occurred “sporadically” when Combs’ girlfriend Cassie was not around.

“There was so much going on, I never processed it,” she said. “I never thought it would happen again.”

She said she feared losing her job and career if she rejected his sexual advances or told anybody else about the assaults.

“I couldn’t say ’no’ to a sandwich,” she testified. “I didn’t want to die or get hurt.”

“This was way before #MeToo or social media or mental health or sexual awareness,” she testified. “I just thought I would have been punished.”

“Mia” said Combs’ abusive control over her and the R&B singer Cassie was “typically pretty terrifying” if they did not capitulate to the Bad Boy CEO’s whims and demands.

“I’ve seen him attack her, throw her on the ground," she said. “I’ve seen him crack her head open, I’ve seen him chase her — things like that.”

“Mia” described the work environment under Combs from 2009 to 2017 as “chaotic” and “toxic,” but also “very exciting.”

“The highs could be very high and the lows would be very low,” she said.

She testified sometimes Combs would act like her “protecter” and give her life advice, while other on occasions he turned cruel and abusive.

“Sometimes he treated me like his best friend, his working partner. Sometimes he treated me like I was a worthless piece of crap,” she said. “He would humiliate me, he would curse at me, he would go on really long extended rants about incompetent and stupid I was; threaten my job.”

She recalled an incident when Combs humiliated her and hurled a full bowl of spaghetti at her in rage after she told him she needed to a short break from assistant duties to change her tampon at the end of a long workday and had menstrual blood streaming down her leg.

The music producer and label boss, formerly known as Puff Daddy, is accused in a five-count criminal indictment of conspiring to coerce women into drug-fueled sex marathons and secretly keeping explicit videos, often with commercial sex workers, that he could potentially use to blackmail victims to remain under his control and silent about abuse.

Prosecutors say Combs and his staff conspired to conceal the violent abuse, sex trafficking and drug distribution carried out by their criminal enterprise.

Referred to in the indictment as Victim-4, “Mia” cited the risk of harms — including psychological, emotional and professional consequences — in her request to not be named at trial.

“Mia” was initially hired as personal assistant for Combs in 2009 and then later promoted to director of development and acquisition for Revolt Films.

She recalled an incident where she and stylist Deonte Nash both jumped on Combs’ back to try to stop him from violently assaulting Cassie, echoing previous testimony about the same attack from Ventura and Nash.

She testified she was under the impression that her salary as an assistant was supposed to be $65,000 but turned out to be $50,000.

“Mia” said she expected from the start to work “more than an average job,” and testified she ultimately worked more than 40 hours every week that she was Combs’ personal assistant.

She testified she didn’t sleep during her first 24 hours on the job, and said the longest she went without sleep while working for Combs was a five-day stretch in Las Vegas, aided by prescription Adderall.

“Mia” added that Combs forbid her from locking her bedroom door and said she’d get “in big trouble” if she left Combs’ home without his permission.

She recalled a time when both she and Cassie ran away from Combs after he showed up to a private party at the Hollywood home of music legend Prince. Combs caught up with Cassie and began attacking her, “but Prince’s security swiftly intervened.”

Originally from Virginia Beach, Virginia, Mia testified she previously worked for Harvey Weinstein’s ex-wife Georgina Chapman and comedian Mike Myers before getting a job with Combs in 2009.

Combs’ defense team has slated attorney Brian Steel, who represented rapper Young Thug in the lengthy YSL RICO trial in Atlanta, to cross-examine “Mia” on Friday.

Combs, 55, is standing trial on a five-count indictment charging him with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty, and faces a minimum sentence of 15 years in prison and a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted on all charges.

The 12-person jury is composed of eight men and four women, while the six alternates are made up of four women and two men.

The trial, now in its third week, was expected to run up to eight weeks into early July, but prosecutors said Wednesday they appear to be running ahead of schedule.

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