Order was briefly absent from the courtroom.

As Sean “Diddy” Combs sat alongside his defense team during his sex trafficking trial in New York June 3, a supporter was removed by law enforcement after a shocking disruption in the main courtroom, according to NBC News reporters in the room. 

"Everyone is laughing at Diddy," the woman—who has previously viewed the proceedings from the overflow room, according to the outlet—shouted. “It's not right what they’re doing to him!"

She appeared to yell at the Combs, “People are trying to do you wrong.” 

After the woman exited the courtroom,the former security supervisor at the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles Eddy Garcia took the standin connection with Combs’ assault on ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura at the hotel in 2016.

Garcia—who testified under an immunity order, per NBC News—accused the Bad Boy Records founder of paying the hotel security with a brown paper bag of $100,000 in exchange for the footage of the attack, which was subsequently released by CNN last May.

He said that after the incident—which Combs apologized for after the video was shared by the outlet—the rap mogul allegedly called him requesting the footage.

“He kept repeating that I sounded like a good guy and he said I could help with the video footage,” he testified. “He said it would ruin his career. I apologized and told him I was only a security officer and didn't have access. I did not have the credentials to get to the server room where the original footage was.”

Garcia alleged that after telling his then-boss that Combs had offered to pay for the footage, his employer went into the server room and handed him a USB drive. After Garcia allegedly dropped off the memory card to the Diddy – Dirty Money alum, he said he signed an NDA with a $1 million penalty.

Afterward, Garcia said that Combs—who has pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion, as well as transportation to engage in prostitution—had given him $100,000 to split between himself and two other hotel employees.

“We walked to my vehicle and he asked me how I was going to spend the money,” he testified. “I said I didn't know and he said, ‘Don't make big purchases.’ I thought it meant he didn't want to draw attention.”

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A supporter of Sean “Diddy” Combs, who has been at the courthouse almost every day of his trial, was removed from the courtroom after yelling out in the main courtroom, per NBC News.

“Everyone is laughing at Diddy,” the supporter, who was usually seated in the overflow rooms, screamed during the proceedings June 3. “It’s not right what they’re doing to him.”

After asserting Combs’ innocence, she yelled at him, “People are trying to do you wrong.”

Eddy Garcia—a former security supervisor at the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles—testified that Combs had allegedly presented hotel security with a brown paper bag of $100,000 in exchange for the surveillance footage of the Bad Boy Records founder attacking his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura.

Garcia, who was provided immunity protection by the prosecution for his testimony, said that he split the sum with two other employees after agreeing to sign an NDA with a $1 million penalty. 

He testified that Combs allegedly called him an “angel” on Easter during a phone call following the exchange and “then proceeded to ask if anyone had asked about the incident or the video. I said I hadn't heard anything and he said, ‘OK.’”

Sylvia Oken, the area director of sales and marketing at the Beverly Hills Hotel, testified that Combs used aliases Phillip Pines and Frank Black for reservations.

Oken shared the charges that Combs, who frequented for his “freak offs,” accrued during his visit, including “deep cleaning” and “oil damage.” (Previous evidence and testimony alleged that the rap mogul used several bottles of baby oil during the highly orchestrated sex performances.)

Combs' former personal assistant, who went by the pseudonym “Mia” during her testimony, alleged that she tried to maintain a positive relationship with the rap mogul despite her previous accusations of sexual assault and abuse because she had been “brainwashed” by him.

“I was in an environment where the highs were always high and the lows were always low,” she explained during defense attorney Brian Steele’s cross-examination June 2. “I tried hard to get back to that good state and work harder. I was always constantly seeking his approval.”

The defense highlighted a text exchange between Combs and “Mia,” in which she said her former employer had saved her fromR. Kelly—who is currently serving a 30-year prison sentence for crimesrelated tothe sexual abuse of underage girls—during a nightmare she had.

“I had a nightmare,” she said in the 2019 message. “I was trapped in an elevator with R Kelly… you came and rescued me.”

After President Donald Trumphad pardoned celebrities including Todd Chrisley, Julie Chrisley, NBA YoungBoy and Lil Wayne, he isn’t ruling out the possibility of adding Combs' to the list.

“I know people are thinking about it,” Trump said of a potential pardon during a May 30 Oval Office press conference. “First of all, I’d look at what’s happening and I haven’t been watching it too closely, although it’s certainly getting a lot of coverage.”

The president, who had a former friendship with Combs, said that he would “look into the facts” regarding any pardon for the rap mogul.

He added, “If I think someone was mistreated, whether they like me or don’t like me, it wouldn’t have any impact on it.”

"Mia" alleged in an October 2015 WhatsApp message read during his trial that the rap mogul didn’t “sound in his right mind.”

“He is slurring his words,” Mia wrote to Combs’ then-chief of staff Kristina Khorram. “He threatened my job and he threatened to kill me. He said he was on the phone with HR…in other calls, he threatened to fire me.”

In response, Khorram wrote, “If you don't call him in the next two minutes, you don't have a job.”

Mia, who was always expected to be available for Combs, testified that the threats made her “desperate to make it right, terrified and sad.”

While "Mia" testified May 29, she told prosecutors that she had witnessed her former employer “attack” Ventura multiple occasions. 

“I've seen him throw her on the ground,” Mia said. “I've seen him like crack her head open. I've seen him chase her. Things like that.” 

She alleged that while she saw Combs attack Ventura, she only saw the singer “put her arms up and beg for him to stop.” 

In one instance, she said that she and Ventura barricaded themselves in a hotel room while in Turks and Caicos, where the latter allegedly said, “Puff is going to kill me.”

“Mia” alleged that the rap mogul had sexually assaulted her multiple times while working for him.

She told the jury that the first alleged assault was by her employer at his 40th birthday at the Plaza Hotel in New York after she had poured her three shots of vodka.

“He put his arm next to my head up against the wall and leaned in to like kiss me and put his other hand up the side of my dress,” Mia said, alleging that she did not consent to the experience. “I was shocked, and I froze. I didn't even process what was happening.”

The former employee also testified that she was once forced to perform oral sex on Combs in an attack, which she said made her feel “like trash.” In an emotional reflection, Mia said she felt “desperate and terrified” and “that it was my fault."

As Deonte Nash took the stand, he shared insight into the brief romance between Michael B. Jordan and Ventura.

"Dating, talking," Nash explained of their budding romance during cross-examination, "getting to know each other."

The celebrity stylist also testified that he “did hook up” Ventura with the Black Panther star in 2015 after the “Me & U” singer split from Combs.

Nash said of his decision, “He fine. She fine. I mean, why not?”

Judge Arun Subramanian swiftly denied the defense's May 28 request for a mistrial.

Combs' team objected to testimony from arson investigator Lance Jimenez, a prosecution witness called to speak about Kid Cudi's car being set on fire in January 2012, after the official said that fingerprints lifted during the investigation had been destroyed.

Defense attorney Marc Agnifilo argued that the testimony about the lost fingerprints should be stricken from the record because it suggested that "someone in the court” was responsible for the destruction. 

The judge sustained Anifilo's objection, but denied co-counsel Alexandra Shapiro's move for a mistrial.

After Combs learned that his on-and-off girlfriend Ventura was in a relationship with Kid Cudi (real name Scott Mescudi), the rapper’s former employee Capricorn Clark accused Combs of threatening to kill them.

The former assistant—who also testified that she helped Ventura buy a burner phone for her relationship with Mescudi out of fear for her safety—said that the incident took place after the rap mogul allegedly broke into Mescudi’s home.

“He was very angry,” she told jurors of Combs. “He was very upset. He said, ‘I should kill you b--ches and I should cut her face.’”

Clark alleged that after Combs found out that Ventura and Mescudi had been dating, he went to the “Pursuit of Happiness” rapper’s home with a gun on Dec. 22, 2011.

“There were people at my door, including Combs,” she told jurors. “I could tell he was furious. He was pacing, and his body language looked like he had something in his hand. I couldn’t really see.”

“He just said, ‘Get dressed, we’re going to go kill Mescudi,’” she continued. “I said, ‘I don't want to go,’ and he said, ‘I don’t give a f--k what you want to do.’ He was livid, furious, mad at me. I had never seen anything like this before. I never saw him come to my house, I never saw him with a weapon.”

Clark said that she allegedly called Ventura to let her know that Combs brought her “with a gun to Cudi’s house to kill him.”

Clark testified that after three pieces of high-end jewelry went missing, including a bracelet and a diamond watch, she was allegedly a suspect and was subjected to a lie detector test.

She alleged that a “heavy set man” told her that if she failed the test, “he would throw me into the East River.”

“I was afraid of what would happen if I did not pass,” she testified. “He said it was inconclusive, he said, ‘You need to calm down so I can get a read, otherwise you’re going to end up in the East River.’”

She said the test took five days to prove her innocence.

Former Bad Boy employee Clark alleged that, after Combs found out Ventura was dating Mescudi, he showed up at Clark’s apartment early on the morning of Dec. 22, 2011, carrying a gun and told her, “’Get dressed, we’re going to kill Mescudi.’”

“I’d never seen anything like this before,” Clark said. “The way he was acting, I just felt like anything could happen.”

Clark testified that Combs ordered her to call Ventura and let her know that he wasn’t going to let Clark leave unless Ventura showed up. Ventura agreed, Clark said, so she went to pick up the singer and they both went back to Combs’ house.

Combs started beating and kicking Ventura, Clark testified. She said that no one on Combs’ security staff intervened, and neither did she because Combs threatened that she’d be next.

Clark testified that she called Ventura’ mother, Regina Ventura, and told her, “He’s beating the s--t out of your daughter. I’m in over my head. Please help her. I can’t call the police, but you can."

Combs fired her for in 2012 for not telling him about Ventura and Kid Cudi, Clark testified, telling her that “I would never work again and all these people weren’t my friends and he would make me kill myself."

Clark said she returned to the fold as creative director for Ventura from 2016 until 2018.

Clark testified May 27 that she advised Ventura to get a different phone—one that Combs wasn’t paying for—to communicate with Kid Cudi when they briefly dated in 2011.

So, Clark testified, she took Ventura to Best Buy to get a burner phone for fear the singer was “going to get us all killed.”

Mescudi recalled a conversation with Combs in 2012 not long after his car caught on fire. The “Day ‘n’ Night” rapper alleged Combs and his associates had also broken into his house in December 2011 after learning about his brief romance with Ventura.

After Mescudi’s car was set on fire in January 2012, which he blamed Combs for, he said they met in a Los Angeles hotel meeting room, where Combs “was staring out the window with his hands behind his back like a Marvel super villain.” 

“It was just him and I in the room,” the 41-year-old told jurors. “We discussed the whole story of how Cassie and I started to date and how it ended. His whole point was ‘You were with my girl’ and I said ‘She told me you were broke up and I took her word for it.’”

“He was calm and he offered me water twice,” he continued. “It was off-putting. It was weird he was so calm. Cassie eventually came. I was upset to find out that she went back to him. She pretty much explained that we fell in love, things just happened.”

During Ventura’s four days of testimony earlier this month, in which she described alleged abuse she suffered from Combs, she said that she broke up with Mescudiafter Combs told her “he was going to hurt the both of us."

After Mescudi and Combs met at the Los Angeles hotel meeting room to talk before things got “out of hand,” he said they “stood up and shook hands.”

 “I said, ‘What are we going to do about my car?’” Mescudi recalled. “I made sure to do it while we were clasped. “He said, ‘I don't know what you're talking about,’ and he said, ‘Wait, are we cool?’ I said, ‘Well, you burned my car.’”

Mescudi shared insight into two incidents, which he blames Combs for, during his testimony. 

The “Pursuit of Happiness” musician said that he had a phone call with Combs as he and his associates allegedly broke into his home in December 2011 after learning about his relationship with Ventura, who dated Combs on and off from 2007 to 2018.

“‘He said, 'What's up?'" Mescudi told jurors. “I said, 'Motherf--ker, are you in my house?' He said, 'I am here waiting for you.’”

While he said he wanted to “fight” Combs, he decided not to since he wasn’t sure who was with him. 

Then, in February, Mescudi’s car caught on fire due to a Molotov cocktail—which he said was found in the driver’s seat—while he was about 45 minutes away from his home. 

Ventura previously alleged in her now-settled 2023 civil lawsuit against Combs that he threatened to blow up Mescudi’s car after learning about their relationship. Her suit alleged, “Around that time, Kid Cudi’s car exploded in his driveway.”

As day seven of Combs' trial came to an end May 20, the rapper had a message for everyone inside the courtroom.

“I love you all,” he said aloud as court was adjourned for the day, per People, before adding under his breath, “Yeah. Love.” 

Following his declaration, Combs spoke to a woman in the gallery, telling her in what appeared to be a reference to his son Justin Combs, 31, “Please let Justin know I’m thinking of him.”

Regina Ventura testified May 20 that in 2011, Combs had threatened to release explicit videos of her daughter Cassie Ventura after she began dating Mescudi.

“I was physically sick,” Regina told the court. “I did not understand it, the sex tape threw me. He was trying to hurt my daughter. He wanted $20,000 because she was having a relationship with Scott Mescudi.”

She alleged that she and her husband Rodrick Ventura had “taken a home equity loan” to obtain the cash. She added, “That's the only way we could get the money.”

As for why Combs demanded the lump sum?

“He was angry,” she told the prosecution. “He had spent money on her and she had been with another person.”

David James shared insight into Combs’ travel bag during his testimony, including “25 to 30” pill bottles. He said that among the pills were some with former PresidentBarack Obama’s face.

“There were various pills, but one was in the form of a former president’s face,” the former assistant testified, according to court transcripts obtained by NBC News, clarifying that it was “President Obama.”

James explained that Combs also carried at least $10,000 in cash, Advil, Tylenol, Viagra and “pills to increase his sperm count” in his Louis Vuitton bag. He also alleged that the rap mogul also had “Percocet and ecstasy” packed.

James told jurors while testifying that among Combs’ regularly stocked items in his overnight bag was at least $10,000 in cash, along with Advil, Tylenol, Viagra and "pills to increase sperm count.”

James also alleged that Combs had “Percocet and ecstasy” in his bag, which the former assistant said he witnessed Combs take.

Prosecution shared a glimpse intothe rapper’ssuite at New York’s Park Hyatt hotel at the time of his arrest on Sept. 16.

The photos, taken by Homeland Security’s Special Agent Yasin Binda, who testified to the findings, included baby oil and Astroglide lubricant in Ziploc bags, five bottles of baby oil in the bathtub, two more bottles of lubricant in a drawer, two bags of a powdery substance and $9,000 in cash. 

According to Binda, the two bags of drugs that were found inside a prescription bottle tested positive for ketamine and a mix of ketamine and MDMA.

A former pal of Ventura's testified May 19 that she personally witnessed Combs physically abusing Ventura while they were vacationing in Jamaica and again at a house he was renting in the Hollywood Hills.

Kerry Morgan also testified that her 17-year friendship with Ventura ended after Combs attacked her at Ventura’s apartment in 2018. She was there listening to music, Morgan said, per NBC News, when Combs “came up behind me and choked me and left finger marks on my neck and hit me in the head with a wooden hanger. Cassie was in the bathroom. It hit me behind my right ear.”

She hired a lawyer, Morgan continued, but never filed a lawsuit and agreed to sign an NDA in exchange for $30,000.

“We haven’t spoken since,” Morgan testified. "The last time I spoke to Sean was the night of the assault and the last time I saw Cassie was when I signed the NDA.”

Morgan also said on the stand that she had moved on with her life and was only there because the government subpoenaed her to testify.

She testified that she advised Ventura to leave Combs, "and she said she could not, because of her job, her car, her apartment."

Under cross-examination by defense attorney Marc Agnifilo, Morgan said she stopped speaking with Ventura because the singer “was not supportive” of her after the 2018 incident, adding, “I draw my line at physical abuse."

Danity Kane alum Dawn Richard testified May 16 that she witnessed go after then-girlfriend Ventura with a skillet full of eggs in 2009.

“He came downstairs angry and was saying, where the f--k was his eggs and he was telling Cassie she never gets anything right and where the f--k was his food,” Richard testified, per the court transcript obtained by NBC News.  “And he came over to the skillet with the eggs in it and tried to hit her over the head and she fell to the ground.”

Ventura "went into the fetal position," Richard continued, "literally trying to hide her head."

There were no drugs mixed into the baby oil that Combs liked to use during “freak offs,” Ventura testified May 15.

A lawsuit filed against Combs in October 2024 alleged he laced the oil with GHB, or Rohypnol, which is often referred to as a date rape drug.

Under defense cross-examination May 15, Ventura testified that Combs would get jealous and have an “explosive” reaction when she took drugs with other friends and not with him.

She said that Combs once overdosed on painkillers, and when asked by defense attorney Anna Estevao if her ex’s mood swings were connected to pills, Ventura said that “was a part.”

Asked earlier in the day if she thought Combs was a drug addict, she said, “I would say he was an addict.”

And her answer was “yes” when asked if Combs became angry or volatile when he was going through withdrawal.

“I’m not a doctor,” Ventura said, but “coming off of certain pills he would be pretty irritated.”

While Ventura was in the witness box May 15, Judge Arun Subramanian called a recess while Combs' defense began showing explicit emails and text messages during cross-examination.

When defense counsel Estevao presented Ventura with sexually explicit messages between the former couple from 2009 to argue that their relationship was consensual, the prosecution called an objection, which the judge sustained. 

Following the objection, Ventura was seen whispering to the judge, with the official abruptly calling for a 10-minute break.

A heated debate between prosecution and defense erupted before the jury entered the courtroom when lead defense attorneyMarc Agniflio argued that more texts should be shown in the court. The judge said some messages violated federal evidence rules.

However, a number of them were admitted into evidence, in which Combs and Ventura spoke in graphic detail about their sex lives.

Ventura testified May 15 that while “it’s impossible to know” how many “freak offs,” she took part in with Combs, she said it was “hundreds.”

She alleged that her ex had filmed the sexual performances to use as blackmail against her. She said she told her that he was “going to release them" and put her "career in jeopardy."

"He would mention them when he was upset about something. It was just a pretty common thing," Ventura said. "I feared for my career. I feared for my family. Just embarrassing, all of it. It's horrible and disgusting. No one should do that to anyone."

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