WEBVTT
1
00:00:10.880 --> 00:00:13.759
Get ready to dive deep into one of the most
2
00:00:13.880 --> 00:00:18.839
gripping legal battles of our time. I'm your host, Jim Chapman,
3
00:00:19.160 --> 00:00:23.559
and today we're unraveling the high stakes drama surrounding one
4
00:00:23.559 --> 00:00:37.000
of the music industry's most enematic figures, Sean Diddy Combs,
5
00:00:38.479 --> 00:00:42.600
in a case that has captivated millions. The courtroom has
6
00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:47.439
become a battleground for fame, fortune, in the dark secrets
7
00:00:47.479 --> 00:00:51.799
that lurk beneath the glittering surface of celebrity life. As
8
00:00:51.880 --> 00:00:56.759
the gavel comes down, we'll explore the allegations, the testimonies,
9
00:00:56.960 --> 00:01:00.240
and the shocking twists that could change the course of
10
00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:09.439
Diddy's legacy forever. Was this case merely a clash of
11
00:01:09.560 --> 00:01:15.280
lifestyles or something much more sinister? With each episode, I
12
00:01:15.319 --> 00:01:20.599
will bring you exclusive insights, analysis, and witness testimony accounts
13
00:01:20.680 --> 00:01:23.319
that will leave you on the edge of your seat.
14
00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:27.200
So buckle up as we embark on this thrilling ride
15
00:01:27.280 --> 00:01:31.319
through the trial of the century, where the stakes are high,
16
00:01:31.480 --> 00:01:36.200
the drama is real, and the truth is anything but certain.
17
00:01:37.359 --> 00:01:41.840
This is the Trial of Sean Combs. Let's get started
18
00:01:53.879 --> 00:01:57.000
and welcome back to what is going to be one
19
00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:00.560
of the final episodes of the trial of Sean Combs.
20
00:02:00.599 --> 00:02:04.079
I'll tell you why I say that in just a second,
21
00:02:04.159 --> 00:02:05.879
but I need to give you a quick catch up
22
00:02:06.079 --> 00:02:09.879
on what happened in what was a abbreviated week in
23
00:02:10.039 --> 00:02:13.879
the Shawn Combs trial. Brend Then Paul testified about the
24
00:02:13.919 --> 00:02:17.759
demands of his job as one of Ditty's former assistants.
25
00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:21.520
He told jurors he once went without sleep for three days.
26
00:02:21.960 --> 00:02:26.080
He recalled being asked by thousands of dollars worth of drugs.
27
00:02:26.520 --> 00:02:29.319
He said that Ditty didn't take no for an answer
28
00:02:29.360 --> 00:02:34.560
and compared his staff assistance to the US military's Sealed
29
00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:39.120
Team six. Paul faced some cross examination from Brian Steele,
30
00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:43.080
and during that cross he agreed that Ditty's ex girlfriend
31
00:02:43.240 --> 00:02:48.319
Jane did not seem hesitant or apprehensive before freak ofsts.
32
00:02:48.319 --> 00:02:52.000
Paul said Jane appeared to be a willing participant in
33
00:02:52.199 --> 00:02:57.840
those sexual encounters, which contradicted her testimony to the prosecution.
34
00:02:58.280 --> 00:03:03.240
US government prosecutors walked jurors through text messages from Cassie
35
00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:06.560
to Diddy. In one text, Ventura said she didn't deserve
36
00:03:06.639 --> 00:03:09.560
to be beaten by him. She was quoted as saying
37
00:03:09.560 --> 00:03:13.479
in that text that's not love, that's possession, and the
38
00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:19.199
defense again attempted to portray these freakoffs as consensual encounters,
39
00:03:19.319 --> 00:03:23.080
and they entered into evidence a March twenty seventeen text
40
00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:27.080
message in which Cassie wrote, quote, I love our freak
41
00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:29.680
offs when we both want it. And I don't know
42
00:03:29.719 --> 00:03:33.280
if that helped them too much. That insinuates he was
43
00:03:33.400 --> 00:03:36.639
forcing her some of the times to do these freakofs.
44
00:03:37.080 --> 00:03:39.000
So I don't know how much that actually helped the
45
00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:42.280
defense entering that into evidence. But we are back with
46
00:03:42.439 --> 00:03:46.919
the testimony for Monday, June twenty third, and big news
47
00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:51.360
before the jury was let in as attorneys anticipated, closing
48
00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:56.599
arguments would actually take place Thursday into Friday. So it
49
00:03:56.680 --> 00:03:59.360
looks like this is going to go to the jury
50
00:03:59.439 --> 00:04:02.800
this week. Why is that and why am I so surprised? Well,
51
00:04:02.840 --> 00:04:05.520
I'll tell you one reason I'm shocked is because of
52
00:04:05.560 --> 00:04:10.360
the defense also said they are not calling any witnesses. Now.
53
00:04:10.479 --> 00:04:14.319
The prosecution has called over sixty four during this trial.
54
00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:18.319
The defense calling no one to the stand. That's shocking
55
00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:21.279
to me. You're telling me you don't have anybody that
56
00:04:21.959 --> 00:04:24.920
is willing to testify on behalf of ditty or that
57
00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:28.920
you could compel to testify on behalf of ditty that
58
00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:34.839
could substantiate his claims corroborate his story. No one, they're
59
00:04:34.839 --> 00:04:38.240
putting no one on the stand. Think about that, blew
60
00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:41.560
my mind. They don't even have experts that they're calling
61
00:04:41.639 --> 00:04:45.720
to refute what the prosecution has said are they're either
62
00:04:45.920 --> 00:04:48.600
very confident they don't need that, or they just don't
63
00:04:48.680 --> 00:04:51.879
have anybody that can refute it. But regardless, going to
64
00:04:51.959 --> 00:04:55.560
the jury this week. So I'll get into today's testimony,
65
00:04:55.639 --> 00:04:59.360
which was shorter than usual, and then after I cover
66
00:04:59.439 --> 00:05:02.240
the testimony, I'm going to bring you on a look back,
67
00:05:02.319 --> 00:05:04.959
So make sure you stay for the end of this one. Now,
68
00:05:04.959 --> 00:05:08.360
the last time that I left you, Joseph Sircilio, a
69
00:05:08.519 --> 00:05:12.959
special agent for Homeland Security Investigations, was on the stand,
70
00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:16.040
and if you'll remember, this guy was going through charts.
71
00:05:16.040 --> 00:05:20.759
Then he confirmed that several sexually explicit videos showing Jane
72
00:05:20.839 --> 00:05:24.720
with other men were cited in that summary chart. He
73
00:05:24.800 --> 00:05:28.439
said the videos are collectively several hours long, and he
74
00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:32.279
said Seawan Combs can be seen in the videos. The
75
00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:35.639
jury then viewed clips of the videos and they were
76
00:05:35.720 --> 00:05:38.959
listening through headphones of course, the public and the price
77
00:05:39.120 --> 00:05:42.560
cannot see those videos. They are all under seal. And
78
00:05:42.639 --> 00:05:47.480
the jury watched at least thirteen clips of sexually explicit
79
00:05:47.639 --> 00:05:51.759
videos recorded in November of twenty twenty one, December of
80
00:05:51.759 --> 00:05:55.879
twenty one, February of twenty two, August of twenty two,
81
00:05:55.959 --> 00:05:59.319
in October of twenty two, and in that run of
82
00:05:59.399 --> 00:06:03.160
footage you will it was more than twelve minutes of
83
00:06:03.240 --> 00:06:07.600
total footage. The chart also cited several other explicit videos
84
00:06:07.600 --> 00:06:11.120
that the jury did not view. Sir Cilio said he
85
00:06:11.240 --> 00:06:16.120
confirmed that about fifty explicit videos were recorded between December
86
00:06:16.199 --> 00:06:19.959
seventeenth and December twenty first of twenty twenty one, fifty
87
00:06:20.079 --> 00:06:23.319
different videos. He walked the jury through another chart that
88
00:06:23.399 --> 00:06:28.199
he said mapped out the records surrounding a September seventeenth
89
00:06:28.240 --> 00:06:32.000
through nineteenth, twenty twenty three trip that Jane took with
90
00:06:32.160 --> 00:06:35.120
Diddy to New York City, and that chart showed flight
91
00:06:35.319 --> 00:06:39.360
in hotel records for Jane and the entertainer known as Sly.
92
00:06:39.839 --> 00:06:44.759
Records showed hotel stays at the Trump International Hotel in Manhattan.
93
00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:48.319
The jury also saw records related to a September twenty
94
00:06:48.319 --> 00:06:51.600
fourth through twenty six, twenty twenty three, stay in Miami
95
00:06:52.160 --> 00:06:54.759
records showed the hotel was booked with a credit card
96
00:06:54.800 --> 00:06:58.839
held by combs travel manager. In round trip flights for
97
00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:02.199
Jane and Sly were booked with that same card. Sir
98
00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:06.240
Cilier reviewed entries in another summary chart from September of
99
00:07:06.279 --> 00:07:09.680
twenty twenty three, when Jane met Diddy in New York.
100
00:07:09.800 --> 00:07:14.240
Sir Cilio and Comey read text messages exchanged around that time,
101
00:07:14.360 --> 00:07:17.879
many of which were previously read into the record during
102
00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:21.759
the witness testimony by the prosecution. Now, some of the
103
00:07:21.839 --> 00:07:25.040
texts between Jane and Combs, in which she first said
104
00:07:25.120 --> 00:07:28.639
she wouldn't get to Manhattan because she knew he wanted
105
00:07:28.680 --> 00:07:31.519
a hotel night. We've already covered all that. I'm not
106
00:07:31.560 --> 00:07:34.160
going to cover that again now. In one thread on
107
00:07:34.240 --> 00:07:38.800
that summary chart, there was recounted a text between Combs
108
00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:43.480
and someone from Cowboys for Angels about hiring an escort.
109
00:07:43.639 --> 00:07:46.759
The jury then saw messages that did he sent to
110
00:07:46.800 --> 00:07:51.600
an entertainer from the Cowboys for Angels escort service, telling
111
00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:55.519
him when to arrive at the hotel. Hours later, an
112
00:07:55.600 --> 00:08:00.279
employee for Cowboys for Angels texted Combs saying he's utill
113
00:08:00.360 --> 00:08:04.079
needed to pay six hundred dollars. Comb's texted back quote
114
00:08:04.360 --> 00:08:08.639
laugh out loud, he couldn't even perform. The employee explained
115
00:08:08.680 --> 00:08:10.959
to Combs that he was paying for the man's time,
116
00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:14.879
not his performance, and Combs told the employees she should
117
00:08:14.879 --> 00:08:18.720
be nice to him, adding that he was a longtime customer.
118
00:08:18.879 --> 00:08:22.079
The jury then saw other texts between Jane and one
119
00:08:22.079 --> 00:08:26.319
of the Combes accusers and an entertainer called Sly coordinating
120
00:08:26.399 --> 00:08:30.560
his arrival at the hotel. They also saw messages involving
121
00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:35.360
Brendan Paul, a former assistant for Combs, coordinating an IV
122
00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:39.120
drop for three people. The jury then saw more text
123
00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:42.840
between Shawn Comb's and Christina Korm days later. This is
124
00:08:42.879 --> 00:08:46.559
in September of twenty twenty three, and Combs told Korm
125
00:08:46.679 --> 00:08:50.639
to keep someone named Chelsea at a Miami hotel and
126
00:08:50.679 --> 00:08:54.039
get a hotel suite at a different hotel for him
127
00:08:54.279 --> 00:08:57.399
in Jane, he told Korm that Chelsea would move from
128
00:08:57.399 --> 00:09:01.799
the hotel to his Miami residence. Jane left, and the
129
00:09:01.879 --> 00:09:05.480
chart also included a flight wrecord book by Combs travel
130
00:09:05.559 --> 00:09:10.639
manager for Jane from Miami to Los Angeles. In more texts,
131
00:09:10.679 --> 00:09:14.120
Comes texted Jane asking if she wanted to see him,
132
00:09:14.519 --> 00:09:19.080
and an entertainer called Paul. Comes later messaged Paul telling
133
00:09:19.200 --> 00:09:22.200
him to let him know when he was close. Now.
134
00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:26.159
In that time frame, Jane was also texting an entertainer
135
00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:31.240
called Sly about traveling to Los Angeles from Atlanta. Comes
136
00:09:31.320 --> 00:09:34.759
was messaging his travel manager about booking a flight and
137
00:09:34.799 --> 00:09:38.600
hotel for Sly, and Jane was then relaying that trivel
138
00:09:38.679 --> 00:09:43.519
information to Sly. So right there, they're showing that Jane
139
00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:46.639
and Combs they were in cahoots on this thing. The
140
00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:50.840
jury then saw several messages between Combs and Christina Korum
141
00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:54.039
in that same time frame, including messages in which he
142
00:09:54.159 --> 00:09:57.840
requested five thousand cash and she netified him that some
143
00:09:57.919 --> 00:10:01.279
baby a little had been dropped off. Cilia said several
144
00:10:01.399 --> 00:10:05.720
explicit videos were taken during those days. Around that time,
145
00:10:05.879 --> 00:10:09.000
Jane sent Sly a cash app payment and a large
146
00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:12.759
amount of cash was deposited into one of his accounts.
147
00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:16.799
The jury was shown messages around November fourteenth of twenty
148
00:10:16.840 --> 00:10:20.200
twenty one, when Christina Korn booked a hotel in Los
149
00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:23.679
Angeles for Combs, and Jane Korn texted him when an
150
00:10:23.720 --> 00:10:27.519
assistant was there setting up the room. Later that day,
151
00:10:27.679 --> 00:10:32.279
Korn texted Comb's quote, hotel called Paul coming up now.
152
00:10:32.360 --> 00:10:35.039
Paul is someone who Combs and Jane would pay to
153
00:10:35.080 --> 00:10:38.559
have sex with on multiple occasions. They paid this guide
154
00:10:38.639 --> 00:10:41.960
during hotel nights, but he also worked with Combs as
155
00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:46.039
a trainer. Sir Cilia then reviewed records from January of
156
00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:49.440
twenty twenty three, when the government asserts Diddy and Jane
157
00:10:49.480 --> 00:10:53.639
hosted three entertainers during a hotel night in La Comb
158
00:10:53.720 --> 00:10:56.759
sent Jane an audio message that said, quote, Hey, let
159
00:10:56.840 --> 00:11:00.080
me know right now if I should book debauchery for
160
00:11:00.279 --> 00:11:05.159
nine o'clock. Yes or no answer? Jane responded, yeah, it's
161
00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:07.559
a thumb up. She then asked him for money to
162
00:11:07.559 --> 00:11:11.000
buy new clothes. The record showed and Comb sent another
163
00:11:11.159 --> 00:11:15.559
audio message that said, I sent you fifteen thousand dollars,
164
00:11:15.679 --> 00:11:19.120
baby girl. The jury then saw flight records for all
165
00:11:19.320 --> 00:11:23.759
three entertainers come scheduled one of the entertainers through Cowboys
166
00:11:23.759 --> 00:11:27.679
for Angels. Jane paid them eleven hundred dollars through the
167
00:11:27.720 --> 00:11:32.200
cash app and texting Combs send this as proof of payment.
168
00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:35.440
The jury then saw records from the days around October
169
00:11:35.480 --> 00:11:39.919
eighteenth of twenty twenty three. Now remember. Jane previously testified
170
00:11:40.039 --> 00:11:43.519
she and Diddy had a sobriety party in Beverly Hills
171
00:11:43.559 --> 00:11:48.360
around that time, and Joseph Cirillo confirmed this is the
172
00:11:48.480 --> 00:11:53.320
summary chart's last entry before Cassie Ventur's November of twenty
173
00:11:53.360 --> 00:11:56.679
twenty three, civil lawsuait so Cilia them walked through some
174
00:11:56.799 --> 00:11:59.600
of the text messages between Jane and Combs from the
175
00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:04.000
days before the sobriety party, which the jury had previously seen.
176
00:12:04.159 --> 00:12:06.799
In the messages, Jane said, in part she didn't want
177
00:12:06.840 --> 00:12:10.279
to be mistreated and quote, I don't feel like performing
178
00:12:10.399 --> 00:12:13.120
loveless cold sex and I told you all about that.
179
00:12:13.799 --> 00:12:17.480
The jury saw messages indicating Jane went to Combe's la
180
00:12:17.600 --> 00:12:22.120
home the next day. In a later conversation, Christina Korum
181
00:12:22.519 --> 00:12:27.360
message comes assistant Brendan Paul and other assistants about prepping
182
00:12:27.440 --> 00:12:31.240
a hotel room. The jury also saw messages between Combs
183
00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:34.480
and an escort for cowboys and angels coordinating a time
184
00:12:34.519 --> 00:12:37.519
to go to the hotel. Hours later, Comb sent an
185
00:12:37.679 --> 00:12:42.759
entertainer named Paul the hotel. Information records show three thousand
186
00:12:42.840 --> 00:12:47.200
dollars was deposited into an account of the entertainer just
187
00:12:47.240 --> 00:12:51.399
shortly after In the days following the hotel reservation, Jane
188
00:12:51.480 --> 00:12:55.080
message Combs asking if he could put something in her account,
189
00:12:55.159 --> 00:12:59.159
saying she felt quote violated and manipulated, and at that
190
00:12:59.360 --> 00:13:03.679
point the rosecution rusted and tiny. Gergos picked up with
191
00:13:04.159 --> 00:13:08.000
the cross. Gegos goes through a September twenty twenty three
192
00:13:08.080 --> 00:13:12.720
invoice from Shawn Combe's Triveal Management company, and it listed expenses.
193
00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:17.159
It included flights for Jane and the entertainer's slide before
194
00:13:17.279 --> 00:13:21.080
the trip to New York. The invoice said various expenses
195
00:13:21.159 --> 00:13:26.480
for shawing Combs. Gegos highlighted that the invoice lists Combs personally,
196
00:13:26.840 --> 00:13:31.320
not one of his business entities. Circilio confirmed that many
197
00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:34.840
of the incidents listed in the summary chart occurred before
198
00:13:34.960 --> 00:13:38.240
April of twenty twenty three, when Diddy began paying rent
199
00:13:38.320 --> 00:13:42.039
for Jane's new home. Circilio also confirmed there could have
200
00:13:42.120 --> 00:13:44.480
been times that Jane and Comb saw each other that
201
00:13:44.559 --> 00:13:49.200
were not included in the summary report. Gegos then addressed
202
00:13:49.240 --> 00:13:53.000
a certain timeframe November eighth through the tenth of twenty
203
00:13:53.039 --> 00:13:57.840
twenty one, that Sircilio had touched on in testimony under
204
00:13:57.879 --> 00:14:01.960
direct and Geargo's pointed to some messages that Jane sent
205
00:14:02.120 --> 00:14:06.000
during this timeframe that were not included in that summary chart.
206
00:14:06.759 --> 00:14:10.320
After Comes texted Jane, for example, asking if she wanted
207
00:14:10.320 --> 00:14:14.759
to see him and an entertainer called Paul, Jane wrote
208
00:14:14.799 --> 00:14:18.519
the following quote. She was horny, according to one of
209
00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:22.240
the messages that were highlighted by Gergos. Comes then asked
210
00:14:22.240 --> 00:14:25.720
her what she wanted to do, telling her to be explicit.
211
00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:30.039
Jane then texted him descriptions of sexual interactions she wanted
212
00:14:30.080 --> 00:14:33.840
to have with Paul and Combs. According to the exchange
213
00:14:33.840 --> 00:14:38.120
that Gargoes highlighted in other texts, Jane sent explicit messages
214
00:14:38.159 --> 00:14:41.320
to the entertainer known as Sly and told him she
215
00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:44.559
wanted to see him. Garrghos then have the jury watch
216
00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:48.960
a sexually explicit video clip from November tenth of twenty
217
00:14:49.000 --> 00:14:52.000
twenty one. The jury then watched several other clips of
218
00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:56.200
sexually explicit videos from November two December of twenty twenty one,
219
00:14:56.279 --> 00:14:59.440
and they totalled more than five minutes. The jury was
220
00:14:59.480 --> 00:15:04.080
then shown messages between Jane and Sly regarding two separate
221
00:15:04.200 --> 00:15:07.879
encounters in December of twenty twenty one, when Jane asked
222
00:15:07.879 --> 00:15:11.960
Sly to join her and Sean Combs. After one encounter,
223
00:15:12.240 --> 00:15:15.919
Jane wrote to sly, quote so happy you are such
224
00:15:15.960 --> 00:15:19.279
a sweetheart, and thank you for making me feel beautiful.
225
00:15:19.440 --> 00:15:23.039
In another message, she wrote, quote getting flashbacks, and she
226
00:15:23.200 --> 00:15:26.879
followed that up with a drooling emulgi And with that,
227
00:15:27.399 --> 00:15:30.519
the jury was dismissed for the day. Now, it seems
228
00:15:30.600 --> 00:15:33.240
like a short day, but it really was not. Over
229
00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:37.480
an hour of today's testimony was spent viewing videos of
230
00:15:37.519 --> 00:15:41.440
freak alls, which were not shown outside of the jury.
231
00:15:41.559 --> 00:15:44.440
Gergo said she had about an hour more of cross
232
00:15:44.480 --> 00:15:48.919
examination for the current witness, Joseph Cicilio, and they did
233
00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:52.000
get into mentioning. As I told you at the beginning,
234
00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:54.720
they have about four hours of closing statements, So this
235
00:15:54.799 --> 00:15:58.639
is the last witness. Kind of disappointing to me. I
236
00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:01.440
wanted to see Christina on that stand. I think she
237
00:16:01.559 --> 00:16:04.919
knows more than anybody. I don't know why the prosecution
238
00:16:05.159 --> 00:16:07.840
did not make her take the stand, but they didn't.
239
00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:12.120
By Friday, as I said, this shit's gonna go to
240
00:16:12.320 --> 00:16:15.559
the jury, and sometime next week we're gonna find out
241
00:16:15.600 --> 00:16:20.840
if Combs is guilty or innocent of these federal charges
242
00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:23.360
and of course, I'm gonna keep you posted, but let
243
00:16:23.360 --> 00:16:26.279
me get you caught up real quick on this trial