June 27, 2025

“The Trial Of Sean Combs” Episode Thirty Two | Prosecution Closing Arguments

“The Trial Of Sean Combs” Episode Thirty Two | Prosecution Closing Arguments
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Season 1

U.S. government prosecutor Christy Slavik has delivered closing arguments to the jury. Slavik, who addressed jurors for nearly five hours, painted a scathing portrait of Diddy, casting the defendant as “the leader of a criminal enterprise” who did “not take no for an answer” and “used power, violence and fear to get what he wanted.”

Jim Chapman brings you Slavik in her own words as he covers the Prosecution's closing Arguments in the Diddy Trial.

#Prosecution #closingstatements #diddy #trial #exposed #podcast

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All right, we are back and finally here closing arguments.

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You didn't even hear music before I started this. When

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there's a reason for that, we just ain't got new

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freaking time for that. We got to get into it.

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And before we get into the prosecution's closing arguments, I

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want to tell you what happened just prior to that.

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It's very important. Just prior to this, the prosecution drops

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some of what's known as Rico predicate acts. They dropped

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attempt to kidnapping, attempted arson kid Cutty's car, remember aiding

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and a betting, sex trafficking which I was surprised to

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see them drop, and extortion via nbas or settlements. Now,

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the remaining Rico predicate acts or as follows, sex trafficking

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for Cassie and Jane, transportation for prostitution. That's what's known

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as Man Act violations. I think they more than prove

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that drug distribution, facilitation of controlled substances, more than prove that,

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in my opinion, obstruction of justice, witness tampering. Well, I

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have to wait and see bribery and coercion of employees. Now,

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this decision does not change the charges the office brought

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against comes, but it does simplify the predicate acts that

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the jury should focus on when deliberating for a verdict.

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And remember this is a complicated case. Not everybody can

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even grasp RICO at this point in the trial. So

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they're trying to make it easier for the prosecution by

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looking over what they feel like they didn't really prove

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in just saying we're dropping those charges. Now, keep in

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mind the Racketeer, Influence and Corrupt Organization Act, which is RICO,

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requires proof of at least two predicate acts or criminal offenses.

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The predicate acts must be related, and they must demonstrate

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a pattern of criminal activity connected to an enterprise. So

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today closing arguments for the prosecution, and I'm going to

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quote this word for word, and the reason that I'm

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gonna do this is really twofold number one. I will

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be doing you a vast disservice by leaving something out. Look,

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Christy Slavic, who did this what I'm gonna call masterful

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closing argument, went fucking hard. She went hard. She didn't

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hold nothing back. I've been waiting for this the whole trial,

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and she saved it for the end. Let me tell

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you how important closing arguments are. In my opinion, this

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is what won the defense the OJ Simpson trial. Look,

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I think O. J. Simpson was guilty, no doubt about it.

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But if you watch that closing argument that was given

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by Johnny Cochran, it is probably one of the best

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I've ever seen. It was just unbelievable. And I think

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until that point OJ was in a bind. And I

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think when he delivered that closing argument, he was so

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relatable to the jury, and I mean Cochrane, they just

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liked the guy. It was hard to go against him.

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That's just my opinion. That being said, I think OJ

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was guilty as shit. But there you have it. We're

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going to get into it. Let's go, let's do this,

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and Slavic starts. Over the last few weeks, you've learned

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that Sean Combs is the leader of a criminal organization.

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He doesn't take no for an answer. He's into kidnapping, arson,

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forced labor, bribery of a security officer, in the brutal

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crimes of sex trafficking. Consider two moments March twenty sixteen

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at the Inner Continental Hotel. The defendant got violent with Cassie.

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You saw what happened. He dragged her back to a

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freak off twenty twenty four at Jane's house. The defendant

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choked and hit her. She ran, couldn't get away. These

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are chapters in the same book. The defendant counted on silence.

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He thought that his fame and wealth and power put

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him above the law. Over the last seven weeks, you've

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heard how he used his staff to promote his power.

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No one could stop him. We'll talk about RICO, including

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the sex trafficking and transportation for prostitution, which are separately

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charged as standalone crimes. You may have heard of racketeers.

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When someone commits a crime as part of a group,

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they are more dangerous. A group of people whose purpose

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was to serve and protect the defendant. It's his kingdom.

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Everyone was there to serve him, fulfilling all of his desires,

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including his sexual desires. We need to show at least

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two racketeering crimes. The defendant was the head of the

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Comb's enterprise. This was an inner circle, his chief of

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staff and its bodyguards. The names change, but the roles

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they remain the same. You've heard about kk Combe's right brain.

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She lived in two Star. She communicated with the defendant's girlfriends,

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his security. You've heard their names, d Rock Bonds, Rube, Uncle,

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Polly Faen. They were armed and ready. Remember the incident

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at the diner with Suge Knight. David James told you

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Combs had guns. In the search, law enforcement found guns,

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including a rifle with the serial numbers defaced with their

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serial numbers cut out in the defendant's closet. You also

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have the rotating cast of assistance paid by the defendant's business.

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Brendan Paul said he made one hundred thousand dollars a year.

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KK made six times that. When your boss asked you

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to buy drugs, you're committing a crime. When you kidnap

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someone or like his girlfriend in a hotel room after

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your boss stomps out his face, it's a crime. The

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law does not require us to know that they liked

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committing these crimes. You saw KK the defendant to not

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be so reckless. But she got him cash, she got

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him drugs. She was a member of the enterprise and

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it impacted interstate commerce. Minimal is fine comes knowingly became

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a member. He was the boss, He was the through line.

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The racketeering acts, distribution of drugs, kidnapping, arson, bribery, facilitating sex,

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trafficking of Cassie and Jane, forced labor travel for commercial

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sex cover up. You only need to find that someone

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would commit two acts in any of these categories. It

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could be two acts of drug distribution, one kidnapping, or two.

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You have far more than two. Let's start with the drugs,

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an essential ingredient in freak offs. The most involved were

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d rock, KKM, FAHEM, but others help keep the drug

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supply high. We're not talking about marijuana, but what Brendan

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Paul called hard drugs. They are stipulations of the drugs

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found in the searches. Cocaine, meth oxy ketamine, which is

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a disassociative drug, GHB, mushroom, molly two s, a combination

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of dyed pink. The quantities are not relevant. It's not

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an element in this crime. Distribution does not require a sale.

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You know the names of the drug dealers by now.

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Guido one stop Baby Girl. Jane told you on two

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occasions she was told to bring drugs when she flew

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to meet him. She coordinated with KK. It's coroborated by

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text messages. KK told Jane to swing by to pick

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up Guido's package. He was called during hotel nights, so

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we know what the Guido package was more ecstasy. The

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security team knew what it was. Guido even texted for him, quote,

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Puff has a four hundred and fifty dollars balance with me.

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Brendan Paul asked for seven hundred and eighty dollars for

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person otd Gucci items. That's hard drugs. Drugs were distributed.

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It doesn't matter. He wasn't buying kilos or selling them.

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Personal use is just a distraction. They bought and distributed

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these drugs to people around them. Cassie used drugs at

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every freak off supplied by the defendant. He introduced Jane

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to drugs, gave them to her at all but one

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hotel night. He gave drugs to carry Morgan and Brianna.

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He may Brendan Paul try TUSSI just to see if

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it was good. We showed you the text from d

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Rock to one Stop saying I need to see someone

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for brother, which he was referring to the defendant. Wuido

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asked Fayim to cover the defendant's drug debt. Kk knew

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he was distributing drugs to the woman for Wild King Knights.

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Jane told KK she was having a bag come down.

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KK gives professional tips on how to deal with that.

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Plan and simple. This is drug distribution. How about kidnappings?

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They committed them under both California and New York law.

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Consider Cassie Bond made her stay put. Remember the defendant

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called Cassie a slut. He stomped on her face. She

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was disfigured. Roger Bonds caught her and brought her back.

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The defendant then was made to go to a London

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hotel on sunset so no one saw her. She wanted

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to go home to her mom, but no, you can't.

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It's clear Cassie did not consent to staying in the

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London hotel. David James testified. The defendant demanded to see

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his search history if he had posted that the defendant

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assaulted Cassie in the club, It's clear Cassie did not

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consent to staying in the London hotel. David James testified.

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The defendant demanded to see her search history. If he

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had posted that the defendant assaulted Cassie in the club,

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what do you think would have happened? Then there's Capricorn Clark.

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They made her take a lie detector. Test for days

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in an empty office building in Manhattan, and this was

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in two thousand and four. She was holding expensive jewelry

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that went missing. Uncle Polly took her to the future

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headquarters a Bad Boy and she was tested for five days.

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The man administering the test said if she failed, she'd

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end up in the East River in Central Park. The

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defendant told her if anything happened, he'd have to kill her.

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David James remembers this. He was tested too, and he

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was told it was to get a right out of

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the team. In December of twenty eleven, Capricorn Clark was kidnapped.

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The defendant banged on Capricorn's door with a gun. He

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was out for revenge. He barked an order at Capricorn,

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get dressed, We're going to kill Cuddy. They then drive

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to key Cutty's house. The defendant had a gun in

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his lap. There was kidnapping. He moved her a substantial distance.

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She didn't want to go. The defendant said he wouldn't

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let her go until she told him where Cassie was,

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who he kicked when he arrived and found her into

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a fetal position. Now Cassie was with kid Cutty that

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morning she testified to this and the officer who responded

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to the nine one one call he said he saw

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a black escalade registered too Bad Boy Entertainment. Then on

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January twelfth of twenty twelve, the defendant had Kid Cutty's

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car set on fire. Someone cut a hole in the

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roof of his car and dropped a Molotov cocktail in it.

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We're not suggesting the defendant cut the hole, but he

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didn't even buy his own soup. What makes you think

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he would do that? Even in his voice notes, he

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threatened he was going to blow up Kid Cutty his car.

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What have he odds that he says something like that

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and it happens, then there's bribery. Remember that twenty sixteen,

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the defendant was having a freak off with Cassie in

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one of the escorts jewels. Flores found the defendant sitting

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in a chair with what he called a devilish stare,

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and in the room he saw another man. The defendant

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tried to hand Floras a stack of money. This was

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his first attempt at bribe. That day, as Cassie leaves

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Combe starts damage control, he calls Cassie over a dozen times,

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then text call me. The cops are here. Now. He

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was just manipulating her. But the defendant knew he could

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be arrested. There was video of the assault. He knew

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that he went and banged on Cassie's door with a hammer.

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Neighbors they were going to call the police. As it

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went on, KK called and reached Eddie Garcia. Eddi said no.

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Then KK shows up in person and he won't show her,

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but says off the record, it's bad. Regarding the video.

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KK had the defendant call and on his personal cell phone,

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and once Eddie said his boss will do it for

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fifty thousand dollars, the defendant calls him Eddie, my angel.

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That's how he saved the guy in his cell phone, Eddie,

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my Angel. Eddie goes to deliver the USB and d

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Rock and KK are there. The defendant counted out dollar

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by dollar the bribe. Eddie's asked to sign a NBA

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and not speak to anyone. He was paying for silence. Now.

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The next racketeering predicate is sex trafficking. The defendant's inner

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circle assisted, whether they wanted to or not, threats, drugs, lies,

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and illegal violence to make them have sex with escorts.

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This is not an attempt to criminalize dysfunctional relationships or

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personal sexual behavior. They did not want to have sex

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with strangers while the defendant masturbated, They were covered in oil, sore,

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and had sex over and over again. We're not asking

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you to find that every hotel night or freak off

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with sex, trafficking, or even the majority. You only need

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to know the elements were met one time, one freak off.

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That's it. He's guilty, but we all know it was

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way more than once. Let's start with the love bombing stage. Jane,

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she was head over heels. Love bombing is a tactic.

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He was grooming her. Then he gives her ecstasy and

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she falls to the ground, convulsing. The defendant liked baby

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oil in red lights. And then in twenty twenty one,

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she gets introduced to the freak off. She wanted to

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please her partner. She was high. The defendant had a

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freak off set up. That very night. An escort came by,

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and Jane was excited by that first experience. She didn't

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realize she had opened a pandor's box. It became ninety

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percent of their relationship and for a while she went along.

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Then she told him she wanted to stop, and there

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were texts about this. Remember, Jane wrote, I wanted to

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do things outside these rooms, to travel with you in

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the defendant he ignored Jane's discomfort. Those hotel knights were

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not about what Jane wanted to do. They were about

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what the defendant wanted to see, and he decided how long.

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Jane said she was going to have sex with strange men,

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she should choose which ones. The defendant made her ask

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them for new photos. These were not for her. When

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she asked use condoms, Remember, the defendant was not happy.

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He was dismissive and condescending. She would try to have

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it go faster and he'd order her to slow down.

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It was always about what he wanted. He would dangle carrots,

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he'd give her gifts, some money. He lied to her repeatedly.

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She asked when are we gonna do a getaway and

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he'd say they go on a yacht, but they never did.

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Here's what Jane wrote in her notes apps quote, I

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don't want to have you use me to fulfill your freaky,

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wild desigre and hotel rooms. What does that tell you now?

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He used his payment of a rent as leverage. The

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carrot turned into a stick, and the threats and in

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undo were non stop. He paid for her veneers because

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he didn't like her teeth, then said, look at the

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roof over her head and your pretty mouth and teeth.

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He wanted the all star party sex with three men,

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and she had to send him a photo of her

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period blood to dissuaye him. He then sent this voice note,

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I'm about to really disappear on you. I don't have

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no time for this baby girl. You got me on

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my job. You got to get on your job. Ladies

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and gentlemen of the jury. This message couldn't be clear.

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He was not going to take no for an answer,

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and Jane told you. After reading Cassie's lawsuit, she wrote

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the defendant quote, I feel like I'm reading my own

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sexual trauma. Two of my birthdays. You forced me into

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sex with strangers. You gas let me. It was sexual

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exploreation you framed as your love for your sick fetishes.

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The defendant called her and tried to trick her into

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saying it was all consented to. He fed her a

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false narrative. Remember the doctor that testified told you how

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a victim is trauma bonded to her abuser. Jane often

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felt the defendant didn't listen to the truth. She said

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Sean would just move on. He told her to charge him,

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the lawyers would be involved, and he did all of

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this to buy her silence. So she asked for one

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hundred thousand dollars a year for her to move on.

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She thought it was reasonable, far less than Cassie, and

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the defendant went ballistic. Jane wrote the defendant was going

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to show her sex tapes to the father of her child.

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Then he reached out and told her to come see

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him in Miami. She makes it clear she'll go to Miami,

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but she doesn't want a hotel night, and he agrees.

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Yet despite his promise, he still calls an escort. Now,

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all of this culminated with Jane in June twenty twenty four.

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If you'll remember, she testified that he assaulted her and

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forced her to perform oral sex on an escort. Men

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and women of the jury. This is sex trafficking. It

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was interstate in the astroglide, even cross state lines. The

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defendant knew or at least recklessly disregarded that. In twenty

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twenty three, he made Jane feels she'd have a proper

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New York City weekend, but he invited escorts. Jane sent

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him another message quote it's dark and sleazy and I'm

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in fear of losing my home. His response, girls stop.

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At the same time he was texting her as she

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was flying to him in New York City, he was

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texting Paul, another escort. You saw the messages. When she's

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in the air, he tells her he has a surprise

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for her. She didn't want that surprise. Before the plane

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even lands, the act of sex trafficking is completed. He

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tricked her. Then, under coercion, she calls an escort to

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come to New York and the next text she says,

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I'm in New York City. I need you pair me

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up with some random person. And remember that sobriety party

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without drugs. She is so disgusted she vomits. She wrote, Sean,

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I'm not a porn star, I'm not an animal. I

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need a break, and the defendant responds, let's spend the

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day no strangers, and she replied, you'll love by me,

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and that's when he switches from that carrot to that stick. Folks. Remember,

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he texts, are you going to let me into our house.

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He texted this eight times. Then he said he was

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sick and he needed her. She goes to him even then,

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and what does he do. Eventually she ends up having

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sex without drugs with three different men in twenty twenty

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four at her house, three months after the agents searched

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the defendants home, which incidentally is why they used Jane's house.

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He goes there and they were supposed to have a

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fun date night. They drank, then they argued. Then she

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pushed his head into the counter. He shouts at her.

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She tells him to leave. She runs and closes doors.

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He kicked down three doors. You saw the pictures of

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the doors. She ran without shoes. She hid. He was

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looking for her. She hid the defendant. He punches her

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in the face, and you saw those pictures. He drags

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her by the hair back into the house, and Jane

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took his phone and called the woman that she was

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convinced Sean Combs was with And at the same time,

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the defendant calls Jonathan Perez. He followed her into the shower,

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He hit her, knocked her down. Even after all of this,

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he calls Anton the escort. She has to put on

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makeup to hide her injuries, meets Anton at the gate

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and when she walks back in and he tells her, quote,

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take this fucking pill. And that's when Seawn Combs puts

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his face inches from her and asked her is this coercion?

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Jane performed oral sex on Anton until he ejaculated. The

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defendant told the security to bring cash to Anton. They

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didn't have it. The next day he gave Jane the

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money to pay Anton. She ubered the bag of money

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over to Anton. This is proof of coercion. I want

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to go back to talking about the larger relationship between

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the defendant and Jane, because, as I mentioned, the three incidents,

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they proved count four, but they didn't happen in isolation,

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and they involved many aspects of that relationship between the

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defendant and Jane, starting first with the defendant paying rent

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for Jane's house. Now we've already talked about this, but

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this is just an example of the defendant's financial coercion

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of Jane. As you remember from Jane's testimony, after the

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defendant started paying her rent, this was in April of

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twenty twenty three, she felt completely obligated to continue these

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hotel nights. This is as I said, an example of

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the defendant's financial coercion of Jane, his threats to withhold

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her rent are examples of threats of non physical harm.

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They compelled Jane to perform in these hotel nights. So

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I'm not going to go over the examples that we

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just looked at. But you've heard her testimony, you've read

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her text messages, some of which we read today. The

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defendant's threats to stop paying her rent made her feel

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obligated to do whatever he wanted her to do. Another

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important part of the pattern of the defendant's coercion was drugs.

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Before meeting with the defendant, Jane only used drugs a

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handful of time, but they became a necessary part of

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her life with the defendant because they made it easier

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for her to get through these hotel nights you sing

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in the tees estimony. She says that she feels like

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she had to take them. It made it easier, It

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made those hotel nights not feel real. The defendant gave

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her ecstasy and molly that made her feel aroused and

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willing to try new things, and to make her agree

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with these hotel nights because if she was high on drugs,

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that made her feel aroused. She wouldn't refuse the drugs

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were just another wave. The defendant made sure that he

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got Jane to say yes, to ensure that she wouldn't

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say no. Now you've heard about the effects of these drugs.

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Jane told you about a hotel night that took place

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in July of twenty twenty four. That was after the

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violent hotel night in Jane of twenty twenty four. The

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defendant had gotten her back after an incident of violence

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with more love bombing and in Miami. In July of

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twenty twenty four, the defendant gave Jane a new sort

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of drug, liquid molly, she called it, and that drug

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gave her a super intense high, unlike anything she had

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ever experienced. The defense showed you clips of movies from

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that hotel night, and I expect and I expect that

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they'll argue that those videos you watched earlier in the week,

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those videos showed Jane was into it. But what are

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those videos really show you. What they really show is

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that she was super high, just like she told you.

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She was different in those videos, different than the other

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videos that you've seen, and that's because she was high

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on a different drug during those videos. The defendant's coercion

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of Jane also involved other serious threats, including threats to

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release tapes of her having sex with escorts in hotel

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rooms when she didn't behave the way the defendant wanted

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her to. Again, here's Jane's text to KK telling KK

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that the defendant had threatened to release her sex tapes

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where she's heavily drugged and just doing the things he

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was asking her to do, things that she's still trying

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to recover from. And then they showed those t Now

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at this point, you have seen multiple videos of hotel nights.

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They're some of the most private, intimate, embarrassing moments of

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Jane's life. The defendant knows how powerful they are is leverage.

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So the defendant, who had a library of videos and

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photos of Jane from those hotel knights, he threatened to

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expose her and send the sex tapes to her child's father.

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This threat is another effort to control Jane, another effort

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to coerce her. All of these factors in combination showed

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the defendant's course of conduct that's meant to control, manipulate,

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and coerce Jane into engaging in sex acts. These factors

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lurking in the background of the relationship meant that Jane

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couldn't say no to hotel nights without risking the rent payments,

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without risking violent outbursts, without risking the release of her

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sex tape. The defense has suggested several times that Jane

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ain't agreed to these hotel nights, both in their opening

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statement and in cross examination of Jane. But let's talk

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about what agreeing means in the context of coercion. At

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this point, you know what coercion is. It's threatening physical

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or non physical harm, which of course includes reputation and

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financial harm, to compel someone to perform a commercial sex

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act to avoid incurring that harm. In other words, coercion

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means getting someone to agree to a commercial sex act

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because they're afraid of the consequences if they disagree. So,

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when the defense is suggesting that Jane agree to hotel nights,

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it's really an incomplete picture. You have to look at

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the full relationship. You have to look at the defendant

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love bombing her, lashing out at her, providing her with drugs,

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paying her rent, and then threatening to stop paying her rent,

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making false promises to her, threatening to release her sex tape.

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This is not an adult woman making a free choice,

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as the defense has suggested. It's a woman who told

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the defendant that she didn't want to do the hotel nights,

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but is relented to avoid any number of bad things

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happening to her. So let's turn to Cassie, because before Jane,

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there was Cassie, and we already talked about some of

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the defendant's criminal acts involving Cassie. But now we're going

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to turn to the defendant's trafficking of Cassie that's charged

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in count two and also part of the racketeering conspiracy.

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You've heard the elements already, and just like with Jane,

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there's really no dispute as to the first offerred elements

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of sex trafficking. Just like with Jane, the defendant recruited

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and enticed Cassie into participating in freak goffs. He transported

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her across the country and internationally for the same reason.

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The defendant also maintained in Harvard Cassie at residences he

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paid for and in hotels where freak offs were And

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there's also no serious dispute the freak affs affected interstate commerce,

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just like he did with Jane. The defendant flew Cassie

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and mail escorts across the country to New York, LA, Miami,

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and other countries like Turks Spain for freak offs. You've

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seen the communications exchange between Cassie and others about setting

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up the freak offs. Those included interstate calls and messages,

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and there were other goods that were moved as far

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as interstate commerce regarding the freak offs, that's a labric

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baby oil, condoms, and alcohol. And finally, Cassie told you

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that she never did a freak off without drugs, and

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if they're drugs, there's an effect on interstate commerce. That

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means the issue in dispute is whether the defendant knew

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or disregarded that force, fraud, coercion, or any combination of

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those needs would be used to cause Cassie to engage

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in freak offs. Now, remember that you don't have to

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find that all all of these things were used. It

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can be any one of these illegal means by itself,

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or it could be any combination of those illegal means.

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Just like with Jane, we're going to talk through a

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few specific incidents here. It's crystal clear that all the

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elements of sex trafficking are met. First, we'll talk about

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the freak golf at the Intercontinental Hotel in twenty sixteen.

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Then we'll talk about the freakoff at Cassie's Manhattan apartment

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with an escort named Daniel Phillip around twenty thirteen, and

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finally we'll talk about a freak golf in twenty twelve

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after the Cannes Film Festival. We're going to talk about

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all of these examples in just a few minutes. But

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00:29:36.519 --> 00:29:40.039
you know from sitting through this trial that force in

467
00:29:40.119 --> 00:29:43.799
coercion that the defendant used against Cassie was not limited

468
00:29:43.839 --> 00:29:46.680
to a couple of days. We have to zoom out

469
00:29:46.759 --> 00:29:50.480
and look at her decade long relationship with the defendant,

470
00:29:50.759 --> 00:29:53.599
and I'm going to do this in four parts. The

471
00:29:53.640 --> 00:29:57.359
defendant and Cassie. Then we'll talk about the abuse, Then

472
00:29:57.440 --> 00:30:00.640
we'll move into the end of their relationship, and then

473
00:30:00.640 --> 00:30:02.640
we're going to talk about the freak afs. We'll talk

474
00:30:02.640 --> 00:30:05.119
about the freak alls last, but just keep in mind

475
00:30:05.400 --> 00:30:08.960
they were going on throughout the entire relationship, from beginning

476
00:30:09.039 --> 00:30:12.160
to end. Throughout all of the abuse that we're going

477
00:30:12.240 --> 00:30:15.880
to be talking about, freak offs were taking place, and

478
00:30:15.920 --> 00:30:19.319
as we talk about these aspects of their relationship, keep

479
00:30:19.319 --> 00:30:23.319
in mind the elements of sex trafficking. In particular, remember

480
00:30:23.359 --> 00:30:26.119
what I said about coercion. It can be proved if

481
00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:30.079
the defendant engaged in a scheme, plan, or pattern intended

482
00:30:30.119 --> 00:30:32.880
to cause the victim to believe that if she didn't

483
00:30:32.920 --> 00:30:37.440
engage in the commercial sex act, she would suffer serious harm.

484
00:30:37.839 --> 00:30:41.480
Cassie and Sean were in a relationship for about a decade.

485
00:30:41.559 --> 00:30:44.759
They had what you would call an intense bond, but

486
00:30:44.839 --> 00:30:48.960
as you heard many witnesses talk about, their relationship was

487
00:30:49.000 --> 00:30:52.119
not what you would consider normal. Throughout that decade that

488
00:30:52.200 --> 00:30:57.119
they were together, Sewan Comes regularly threatened and he beat Cassie.

489
00:30:57.640 --> 00:31:02.680
He plied her with drugs point she became relying on drugs,

490
00:31:03.400 --> 00:31:07.119
and while she was on drugs, the defendant forced, in course,

491
00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:10.119
her to perform sex with escorts in front of him.

492
00:31:10.720 --> 00:31:14.160
Like with Jane, it became her job, it became her shame.

493
00:31:14.759 --> 00:31:18.359
When Cassie met the defendant, she was an unknown, nineteen

494
00:31:18.440 --> 00:31:21.440
year old aspiring singer. He was a thirty seven year

495
00:31:21.480 --> 00:31:25.039
old established record executive at the top of his game.

496
00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:29.359
The defendant signed Cassie to a ten album deal with

497
00:31:29.480 --> 00:31:33.039
his record label, Bad Boy, and Cassie put out her

498
00:31:33.039 --> 00:31:36.400
first album in August of two thousand and six. Not

499
00:31:36.559 --> 00:31:40.119
long after he signed Cassie, the defendant made it clear

500
00:31:40.240 --> 00:31:43.200
that he wanted more. They started spending time together and

501
00:31:43.279 --> 00:31:48.039
the relationship became sex. On a weekend getaway to Miami,

502
00:31:48.160 --> 00:31:51.240
the defendant took Cassie on a yacht, gives her ecstasy

503
00:31:51.319 --> 00:31:54.279
for the first time, and the drug made Cassie feel

504
00:31:54.599 --> 00:31:57.799
u fork and sexual. During that trip, Cassie and the

505
00:31:57.839 --> 00:32:02.200
defendant had sex for the first time, and after that trip,

506
00:32:02.359 --> 00:32:05.920
Cassie and the defendant they were in a relationship. Cassie

507
00:32:05.920 --> 00:32:09.000
told you about this. She said she couldn't say naive

508
00:32:09.279 --> 00:32:12.319
enough to describe herself. At that time, she had just

509
00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:15.160
turned twenty one. The defendant was a boss. He was

510
00:32:15.200 --> 00:32:18.119
a person who called the shots. He chose what was

511
00:32:18.240 --> 00:32:21.680
next for Cassie's career. A man of was twenty years

512
00:32:21.720 --> 00:32:24.960
older than her. She described him as larger than life.

513
00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:28.279
He was worldly. He introduced her to drugs, and he

514
00:32:28.359 --> 00:32:31.960
taught her different ways to have sex. The age difference,

515
00:32:32.200 --> 00:32:39.200
the power, inequality, Cassie's naivete Those dynamics drove the defendant's

516
00:32:39.240 --> 00:32:44.319
relationship with Cassie, and that was intentional. Remember David James,

517
00:32:44.359 --> 00:32:48.839
the defendant's former assistant, he ever heard the defendant describe

518
00:32:48.920 --> 00:32:53.240
his relationship with Cassie to a colleague. The defendant said

519
00:32:53.400 --> 00:32:56.599
that he had Cassie right where he wanted her. She

520
00:32:56.759 --> 00:33:01.480
was young and impressionable. He remembered the defendant saying she

521
00:33:01.559 --> 00:33:05.759
was very muldible, and that's exactly what the defendant did.

522
00:33:05.920 --> 00:33:11.599
He molded her. Capricorn told a story that really illustrates this.

523
00:33:12.200 --> 00:33:15.440
The defendant told Capricorn, let me show you something, and

524
00:33:15.480 --> 00:33:19.279
he called Cassie into the room. When Cassie got there,

525
00:33:19.480 --> 00:33:23.480
the defendant told her to sit down, stand up, turn around,

526
00:33:24.039 --> 00:33:27.359
turn the other way, walk over there, grab that hand

527
00:33:27.359 --> 00:33:29.720
me that walk back, turn around, go back to the

528
00:33:29.759 --> 00:33:33.839
other room. And Cassie did exactly what he told her

529
00:33:33.880 --> 00:33:36.559
to do. And that's exactly what he wanted her to do.

530
00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:41.160
Total compliance. You've heard it many times by now. The

531
00:33:41.160 --> 00:33:44.359
defendant didn't take no for an answer, and with Cassie,

532
00:33:44.400 --> 00:33:47.759
he thought he'd found someone who wouldn't even try. The

533
00:33:47.799 --> 00:33:54.319
defendant's efforts to control Cassie define their relationship. He was abusive, physical, emotional,

534
00:33:54.480 --> 00:33:58.599
psychological and sex abuse. The defendant doesn't try to deny

535
00:33:58.759 --> 00:34:01.640
the abuse. They just wants you to call it domestic

536
00:34:01.720 --> 00:34:04.519
violence and to believe it has nothing to do with

537
00:34:04.559 --> 00:34:08.760
the crimes charge here. But that misses the point. Just

538
00:34:08.840 --> 00:34:12.280
like the abuse lasted for the whole relationship, the defendant

539
00:34:12.360 --> 00:34:16.039
was having freak offfs with Cassie during the whole relationship.

540
00:34:16.199 --> 00:34:21.039
The freak offfs happened before, after, and during the relationship,

541
00:34:21.440 --> 00:34:27.079
sometimes during the defendant's violent episodes. They were intertwined. The

542
00:34:27.119 --> 00:34:31.239
cloud of the defendant's abuse was hanging over Cassie's head,

543
00:34:31.559 --> 00:34:35.320
always hovering. Cassie described the defendant's control over her life

544
00:34:35.440 --> 00:34:39.079
as an all around thing, from where she lived to

545
00:34:39.119 --> 00:34:41.559
what she looked like, to what she worked on to

546
00:34:41.599 --> 00:34:45.079
who she spoke to. Here in the testimony, she said,

547
00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:48.159
control was everything from the way I looked to what

548
00:34:48.440 --> 00:34:51.159
I was working on that day, to who I was

549
00:34:51.159 --> 00:34:54.840
speaking to. It was an all around thing. The defendant

550
00:34:54.920 --> 00:34:58.760
controlled how Cassie looked. He demanded that her nails be

551
00:34:58.800 --> 00:35:01.199
done a certain way and that her hair was done

552
00:35:01.239 --> 00:35:05.199
a certain way. Multiple witnesses told you how the defendant

553
00:35:05.239 --> 00:35:08.920
had the final say on Cassie's close and even her

554
00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:13.159
look for music videos, red carpets, and modeling shoes. The

555
00:35:13.239 --> 00:35:17.360
Vanity Fair party in twenty fourteen that Deontae Nash told

556
00:35:17.400 --> 00:35:21.159
you about, that's just one example. In that story, the

557
00:35:21.199 --> 00:35:25.159
defendant grabbed Deontey by his jacket, lifted him up, and shouted,

558
00:35:25.360 --> 00:35:28.119
I thought I told y'all that she needed to wear

559
00:35:28.239 --> 00:35:32.119
her hair up. Cassie's career was no different. The defendant

560
00:35:32.159 --> 00:35:35.440
was in control. He kept her occupied with busy words,

561
00:35:35.440 --> 00:35:38.800
spending hours and hours in the studio recording songs that

562
00:35:38.920 --> 00:35:41.480
no one would listen to. The defendant would check in

563
00:35:41.599 --> 00:35:45.719
constantly calling or texting until he reached Cassie, and sending

564
00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:49.360
staff to find her if he could not. But even

565
00:35:49.480 --> 00:35:53.960
though she recorded hundreds of songs, the defendant never let

566
00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:57.000
her release another album. She was allowed to put out

567
00:35:57.000 --> 00:36:01.880
a mixtape in twenty thirteen, but the defendant's insistence it

568
00:36:02.039 --> 00:36:05.880
was free. Despite her ten album deal, the defendant wasn't

569
00:36:05.880 --> 00:36:09.239
allowed to make money from her music. She tried to

570
00:36:09.239 --> 00:36:12.400
make money in other ways, through club postings or modeling,

571
00:36:12.639 --> 00:36:15.960
but the defendant often wouldn't let her take those opportunities either.

572
00:36:16.119 --> 00:36:19.800
In one conversation, she offered the opportunity to do a video.

573
00:36:20.239 --> 00:36:23.599
She can't do it because Puffy said no to the video.

574
00:36:24.239 --> 00:36:27.599
The defendant made it so that it didn't matter if

575
00:36:27.639 --> 00:36:30.719
Cassie was earning money through her music or not. He

576
00:36:30.760 --> 00:36:34.760
paid for her cars, clothing, phone, vacations. He made her

577
00:36:34.840 --> 00:36:37.559
dependent on him, and when he wanted to, he took

578
00:36:37.719 --> 00:36:40.840
those things away or he had security take it away

579
00:36:41.079 --> 00:36:44.800
do it for him. Cassie said that happened all the time,

580
00:36:45.199 --> 00:36:50.159
and here is one message recounting one such incident. After

581
00:36:50.239 --> 00:36:53.559
the defendant accused her of dancing with someone else, he

582
00:36:53.599 --> 00:36:57.000
takes her phone, Then he took her laptops, then he

583
00:36:57.039 --> 00:36:59.519
took her car and everything, and he did it to

584
00:36:59.599 --> 00:37:03.079
her face family too. After the defendant found out Cassie

585
00:37:03.119 --> 00:37:06.159
was seeing kid cutting in December of twenty eleven, he

586
00:37:06.280 --> 00:37:09.920
demanded Cassie's parents pay him twenty thousand dollars that he

587
00:37:09.960 --> 00:37:13.039
had given Cassie earlier in the month, or else he'd

588
00:37:13.119 --> 00:37:17.719
release sex tapes. You heard the testimony of Regina Ventura,

589
00:37:17.800 --> 00:37:21.000
Cassie's mother. You heard her testify about that, and you

590
00:37:21.119 --> 00:37:24.000
saw in the bank records Cassie's parents had to take

591
00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:26.920
out a home equity line to pay the defendant that's

592
00:37:27.039 --> 00:37:31.480
the twenty thousand dollars transaction that you saw. Meanwhile, in

593
00:37:31.559 --> 00:37:35.199
the defendant's bank account that month, three point four million

594
00:37:35.239 --> 00:37:39.920
dollars was deposited and three point two million dollars went

595
00:37:40.079 --> 00:37:42.400
out of it. That's the line at the top, the

596
00:37:42.400 --> 00:37:44.880
credits and debits. And this was just one of the

597
00:37:44.920 --> 00:37:48.559
defendant's bank accounts. He had several. As you heard, this

598
00:37:48.840 --> 00:37:53.440
wasn't about twenty thousand dollars. This was about control. The

599
00:37:53.480 --> 00:37:56.559
defendant also paid for Cassie's homes and shut up unannounced.

600
00:37:56.639 --> 00:37:59.519
She never knew when it would happen, and it left

601
00:37:59.559 --> 00:38:03.679
her stomach in knots. And it's no wonder why. Look

602
00:38:03.719 --> 00:38:06.960
at the text message between d Rock and Cassie. She

603
00:38:07.079 --> 00:38:09.679
told d Rock the defendant had kicked down three of

604
00:38:09.679 --> 00:38:12.679
her doors. She told d Rock he has my key,

605
00:38:12.920 --> 00:38:15.559
so I'm leaving. I don't feel safe. Three of my

606
00:38:15.639 --> 00:38:18.599
doors are broken. Cassie asked d Rock to take her

607
00:38:18.639 --> 00:38:22.360
house key from the defendant. In d Rock's response, you

608
00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:25.719
know I can't take your keys from him. Cassie never

609
00:38:25.800 --> 00:38:28.480
knew what to expect or who the defendant would be

610
00:38:28.599 --> 00:38:31.400
when he woke up that day. Some days he was

611
00:38:31.440 --> 00:38:35.920
explosive and violent. This kept Cassie on uncertain footing and

612
00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:39.679
let her feel trapped. Now, remember what doctor Hughes said

613
00:38:39.679 --> 00:38:43.559
about this. When a victim is on unstable footing, they

614
00:38:43.599 --> 00:38:46.239
don't know how and when the abuser is going to

615
00:38:46.320 --> 00:38:49.639
abuse them, they feel more trapped and they can't get

616
00:38:49.679 --> 00:38:53.119
out of the dynamic. But that's what the defendant wanted

617
00:38:53.519 --> 00:38:56.199
and it gave him control. Within the first year of

618
00:38:56.239 --> 00:39:00.960
their relationship, the defendant started physically abusing Cassie. He punched her,

619
00:39:01.079 --> 00:39:04.119
kicked her, dragged her. He left her with black eyes, bruises,

620
00:39:04.239 --> 00:39:07.280
busted lips. When it was bad, the defendant hit her

621
00:39:07.280 --> 00:39:10.599
away in hotels until she healed up enough that the

622
00:39:10.679 --> 00:39:14.599
injuries weren't noticeable, like the incident that we talked about earlier,

623
00:39:14.679 --> 00:39:17.639
when the defendant stomped on her face. And you didn't

624
00:39:17.840 --> 00:39:21.119
just hear about the abuse from Cassie. Remember you saw

625
00:39:21.239 --> 00:39:25.960
text messages, photos, videos, and multiple witnesses in this trial

626
00:39:26.079 --> 00:39:28.840
saw it firsthand and spoke about it. It wasn't a

627
00:39:28.920 --> 00:39:31.920
secret to anyone who was around the defendant in Cassie.

628
00:39:32.159 --> 00:39:37.000
Regular people like d Rock fam Holly, they all saw that.

629
00:39:37.199 --> 00:39:39.599
They all saw the injuries. We don't have time to

630
00:39:39.679 --> 00:39:42.639
talk about all those violent incidents now. They are way

631
00:39:42.679 --> 00:39:45.840
too many. Now, remember the whole time the defendant was

632
00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:50.159
physically abusing Cassie, they were also having freak offs. That's

633
00:39:50.199 --> 00:39:53.320
why this is important in two thousand and seven. In

634
00:39:53.360 --> 00:39:56.000
two thousand and eight, the defendant hit Cassie after a

635
00:39:56.079 --> 00:39:58.239
dinner in New York City. He hit her in the

636
00:39:58.280 --> 00:40:00.360
side of the head, causing her to fall to the

637
00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:03.360
floor of a car. She was shocked. She didn't understand

638
00:40:03.360 --> 00:40:06.599
what made him so angry. In twenty ten, the defendant

639
00:40:06.719 --> 00:40:10.360
attacked Cassie twice after she went to a party at

640
00:40:10.480 --> 00:40:14.119
Princess House without checking in with him, and chased her

641
00:40:14.199 --> 00:40:17.639
out of the party and attacked her until Prince's personal

642
00:40:17.679 --> 00:40:21.639
security intervened. Then, at the hotel where Cassie was staying,

643
00:40:21.719 --> 00:40:24.760
she was attacked again and ended up with a swollen eye,

644
00:40:24.840 --> 00:40:27.880
busted lip, and knots on her head. Mia told you

645
00:40:27.960 --> 00:40:31.960
about this incident. In twenty eleven, the defendant attacked Cassie

646
00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:34.239
after finding out that she was seeing Kid Cutty. We

647
00:40:34.320 --> 00:40:37.920
talked about this. Cassie also told you about this when

648
00:40:37.960 --> 00:40:40.440
she got to the house and went to talk to

649
00:40:40.480 --> 00:40:44.320
the defendant. He was irate. He threatened to release sex tapes,

650
00:40:45.039 --> 00:40:47.360
the tapes of her doing freak offs. He said he

651
00:40:47.440 --> 00:40:49.599
was going to hurt her and kid Cutty. We saw

652
00:40:49.639 --> 00:40:52.599
the messages and then when she tried to leave, he

653
00:40:52.719 --> 00:40:55.599
kicked her knocked her to the ground. Capricorn told you

654
00:40:55.639 --> 00:40:58.000
about that too, and her mom took a photo of

655
00:40:58.039 --> 00:41:01.920
the bruises. After that incident, in twenty thirteen, the defendant

656
00:41:01.960 --> 00:41:04.920
attack Cassie in her apartment when she was with Mia

657
00:41:05.039 --> 00:41:09.639
and Deonte. Cassie, Mia, and Deontay all told you about this.

658
00:41:10.320 --> 00:41:13.639
Cassie was sleeping, the defendant burst in. He was yelling.

659
00:41:13.960 --> 00:41:16.480
He threw her down. Her head smashed against the bed

660
00:41:16.519 --> 00:41:20.559
frame in her bedroom. That resulted in an eyebrow cut.

661
00:41:20.760 --> 00:41:23.280
Nia and Deontay tried to stop him, but he threw

662
00:41:23.360 --> 00:41:26.559
them off and he hurt them too. Afterward, the defendant

663
00:41:26.559 --> 00:41:29.360
had d Rock take Cassie to a plastic surgeon in

664
00:41:29.400 --> 00:41:32.519
Beverly Hills to sew her up. Around that same time,

665
00:41:32.599 --> 00:41:36.119
the defendant assaulted Cassie in Jamaica on vacation, giving her

666
00:41:36.199 --> 00:41:39.079
yet another black eye. You can see it in the

667
00:41:39.119 --> 00:41:42.880
photo on the right. The reason Cassie was taking too

668
00:41:42.880 --> 00:41:45.880
long in the bathroom. Carrie Morgan describe what happened. She

669
00:41:45.960 --> 00:41:49.119
saw the defendant drag Cassie down the hallway by her

670
00:41:49.159 --> 00:41:52.400
hair while Cassie was screaming. Carrie described the sound of

671
00:41:52.440 --> 00:41:56.519
cassie screams as terrifying. They got outside and Carrie saw

672
00:41:56.599 --> 00:41:59.320
the defendant push Cassie to the ground, causing her to

673
00:41:59.400 --> 00:42:02.840
hit her head on a brick and knocking herself out cold.

674
00:42:02.960 --> 00:42:05.800
In twenty fifteen, in Las Vegas, the defendant beat up

675
00:42:05.840 --> 00:42:08.719
Cassie during a party he was throwing at his hotel.

676
00:42:09.239 --> 00:42:11.880
The defendant punch and kick Cassie, who was curled up

677
00:42:11.960 --> 00:42:15.800
underneath the bathroom toilet. Remember she told you that when

678
00:42:15.880 --> 00:42:18.840
d Rock saw her, he started to cry. She told

679
00:42:18.880 --> 00:42:21.480
you about the injuries, the black eyes, the golf ball

680
00:42:21.559 --> 00:42:24.800
sized not the busted leapt. Finally, there was the defendant

681
00:42:24.800 --> 00:42:27.440
shocking assault on Cassie during a freak off at that

682
00:42:27.559 --> 00:42:30.440
hotel that was caught on tape. We're going to talk

683
00:42:30.480 --> 00:42:33.000
more about that later. Any one of these attacks would

684
00:42:33.000 --> 00:42:36.239
have been terrifying, life changing, but for Cassie it became

685
00:42:36.360 --> 00:42:40.079
her normal. And because of the defendant's violence was so unpredictable,

686
00:42:40.159 --> 00:42:44.960
so random, it was even more destabilizing, as Cassie told,

687
00:42:45.039 --> 00:42:47.440
you make the wrong face. The next thing you know,

688
00:42:48.119 --> 00:42:50.639
you were getting hit in the face. And in case

689
00:42:50.719 --> 00:42:54.480
all of this violence wasn't enough, Cassie also saw and

690
00:42:54.760 --> 00:42:58.360
was told about the defendant attacking her friends. She was

691
00:42:58.440 --> 00:43:02.199
there when he attacked Mia, when he attacked Deonte. She

692
00:43:02.320 --> 00:43:05.280
was at her apartment when the defendant attacked Brianna on

693
00:43:05.320 --> 00:43:08.880
her balcony. Brianna may have gotten that day wrong, but

694
00:43:09.079 --> 00:43:13.199
she knew the attack happened. Cassie texted about it. She

695
00:43:13.320 --> 00:43:16.079
texted KK about it in twenty sixteen. You saw the

696
00:43:16.119 --> 00:43:19.199
screenshot where Cassie described the incident, and you saw the

697
00:43:19.239 --> 00:43:22.280
metadata showing you that KK took the screen shot in

698
00:43:22.360 --> 00:43:25.400
September of twenty sixteen, and Cassie was there when the

699
00:43:25.440 --> 00:43:29.360
defendant attacked Carrie Morgan by throwing a wooden hangar. Both

700
00:43:29.400 --> 00:43:33.679
Carrie and Brianna were seriously hurt. Carrie had a concussion

701
00:43:33.719 --> 00:43:36.639
and was vomiting, and Brianna had injuries to her neck

702
00:43:36.679 --> 00:43:40.599
and legs. Cassie also knew that the defendant had access

703
00:43:40.639 --> 00:43:43.159
to guns. She had seen them in his own one time.

704
00:43:43.239 --> 00:43:45.360
He had made her carry a gun in her purse

705
00:43:45.400 --> 00:43:48.960
into a club. She described the defendant using guns as

706
00:43:49.000 --> 00:43:52.559
a scare tactic. And remember that incident and Mail's Diner

707
00:43:52.639 --> 00:43:55.159
that we talked about this morning. Cassie was at the

708
00:43:55.199 --> 00:43:58.559
house that night. She saw the defendant in d rot,

709
00:43:58.599 --> 00:44:01.639
put on black clothes, covered their heads, grab guns from

710
00:44:01.719 --> 00:44:05.519
the safe, and go confront sug night. The defense has

711
00:44:05.679 --> 00:44:09.199
asked during this trial why, if the violence was so bad,

712
00:44:09.360 --> 00:44:12.159
if Cassie was so unhappy, why didn't she leave? But

713
00:44:12.280 --> 00:44:16.039
you know why. Doctor Hughes explained that that when you're

714
00:44:16.079 --> 00:44:20.280
beat up or hit, the normal human emotion that arises

715
00:44:20.400 --> 00:44:22.840
is fear, and it's very hard to take that away.

716
00:44:22.920 --> 00:44:26.639
Once you've been hit, the victim starts walking on eggshells,

717
00:44:26.679 --> 00:44:30.079
trying not to do something to get hit. The resources

718
00:44:30.079 --> 00:44:32.440
are devoted on how to stay safe, not how to

719
00:44:32.440 --> 00:44:35.159
figure out how to get things in order and leave.

720
00:44:35.320 --> 00:44:38.000
And of course there were times Cassie tried to leave.

721
00:44:38.079 --> 00:44:40.960
But what happened when Cassie tried to run or leave

722
00:44:41.079 --> 00:44:44.199
the defendant was violent with her. The defendant or members

723
00:44:44.199 --> 00:44:46.880
of his inner circle went after her and brought her back.

724
00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:49.920
You heard many examples of this too, the examples that

725
00:44:49.960 --> 00:44:52.639
we talked about earlier this morning, when Cassie tried to

726
00:44:52.719 --> 00:44:55.760
run away from the car after the defendant stomped her

727
00:44:56.159 --> 00:44:59.280
her face. Remember it was Roger Bonds who went after

728
00:44:59.320 --> 00:45:01.960
her and brought her back. Garry Morgan and Cassie ran

729
00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:05.559
away from the defendant multiple times. One time after the

730
00:45:05.599 --> 00:45:10.840
defendant push hit in kick Cassie, Carrie begged security to

731
00:45:10.920 --> 00:45:15.360
intervene in. Security refused. Instead, Cassie and Carrie ran away,

732
00:45:15.800 --> 00:45:18.639
and security helped the defendant look for them. Even when

733
00:45:18.679 --> 00:45:21.519
Cassie was a whirl away from the defendant in South

734
00:45:21.559 --> 00:45:24.639
Africa and had blocked the defendant from calling her, she

735
00:45:24.760 --> 00:45:28.400
couldn't get away. Kk, the defendant's right hand, a member

736
00:45:28.440 --> 00:45:32.000
of his enterprise, did the defendant's bidding and pulled her

737
00:45:32.079 --> 00:45:35.239
back into the defendant's orbit. Same thing that happened to

738
00:45:35.320 --> 00:45:38.079
d Roc. Cassie thought that he was her friend, but

739
00:45:38.159 --> 00:45:41.639
he wasn't. D Rock was only loyal to the defendant,

740
00:45:41.960 --> 00:45:45.800
So after the Intercontinental incident in March of twenty sixteen,

741
00:45:45.920 --> 00:45:48.960
d Rock helped the defendant keep tabs on Cassie. But

742
00:45:49.079 --> 00:45:52.199
months before that, in a text exchange, d Rock was

743
00:45:52.199 --> 00:45:56.039
doing the same thing. D Rock said caz was calling

744
00:45:56.079 --> 00:45:59.000
up the studio looking for you. The defendant said, it's

745
00:45:59.119 --> 00:46:02.159
time for the ice. What's Cassie doing? You know what's

746
00:46:02.159 --> 00:46:05.480
he saying here. D Rock's responsible for making sure that

747
00:46:05.519 --> 00:46:09.079
Cassie is icing those injuries from the defendant from a

748
00:46:09.199 --> 00:46:12.199
most recent attack. De Rock said, I don't know what's

749
00:46:12.280 --> 00:46:15.079
going on. I was just checking on her. This is

750
00:46:15.159 --> 00:46:18.039
d Rock playing both sides. He's telling Cassie one thing.

751
00:46:18.119 --> 00:46:21.280
He's acting like he's her friend, but he's reporting back

752
00:46:21.360 --> 00:46:24.119
to the defendant every single step. Now. At the end

753
00:46:24.119 --> 00:46:26.639
of the summer, Cassie and the defendant they meet up

754
00:46:26.639 --> 00:46:29.559
for dinner in Malibu and they had a nice dinner.

755
00:46:29.920 --> 00:46:33.760
Things seemed good them. When the defendant brought Cassie back

756
00:46:33.800 --> 00:46:37.599
to her house, he comes inside and rapes her on

757
00:46:37.639 --> 00:46:41.599
the living room floor. Cassie told you, his eyes went black.

758
00:46:41.760 --> 00:46:44.800
She said no, she cried, but he didn't take no

759
00:46:44.920 --> 00:46:48.159
for an answer. He didn't stop. Like Jane, Cassie went

760
00:46:48.280 --> 00:46:51.679
back after the violence because of that trauma bond. Even

761
00:46:51.719 --> 00:46:56.000
after he raped her, she didn't hate him. She said

762
00:46:56.039 --> 00:46:58.360
she saw him at a friend's birthday party and went

763
00:46:58.360 --> 00:47:01.400
to his house and after that they had sex consensually.

764
00:47:02.000 --> 00:47:05.119
Like she told you, they were still very connected. So

765
00:47:05.239 --> 00:47:09.239
let's talk now about the freak offs, the commercial acts

766
00:47:09.400 --> 00:47:13.360
underlying count number two. Remember these did not occur in isolation.

767
00:47:13.840 --> 00:47:16.559
The defendant wanted them all the time. These were as

768
00:47:16.599 --> 00:47:20.800
regular as his abuse of Cassie. And just like the abuse,

769
00:47:20.920 --> 00:47:24.840
the freak alls started early in the relationship. Freak alls

770
00:47:24.840 --> 00:47:28.320
weren't something the defendant and Cassie came up with together.

771
00:47:29.039 --> 00:47:32.519
The defendant had set a playbook. He booked a hotel

772
00:47:32.599 --> 00:47:35.920
room high and escort, set up the lights, drinks, towel, sheets,

773
00:47:36.039 --> 00:47:40.280
and direct Cassie through an orchestrated event that sounds just

774
00:47:40.360 --> 00:47:44.119
like the hotel nights that Jane endured. Like Jane, Cassie

775
00:47:44.119 --> 00:47:47.280
agreed to the first freak off, but pretty quickly realized

776
00:47:47.360 --> 00:47:50.159
this wasn't something she wanted to be doing. Now. This

777
00:47:50.199 --> 00:47:53.519
shouldn't be a surprise. Think about how she described them.

778
00:47:53.719 --> 00:47:58.360
Hours and hours long, covered in baby oil, wearing uncomfortable outfits,

779
00:47:58.440 --> 00:48:02.920
sometimes when Cassie had period, sometimes when she had UTI's,

780
00:48:03.719 --> 00:48:08.039
sometimes when the defendant told the escorts to urinate on her.

781
00:48:09.000 --> 00:48:12.719
And sometimes he did it too, Why because it turned

782
00:48:12.760 --> 00:48:16.599
him on and was humiliating for her? But she kept

783
00:48:16.639 --> 00:48:20.800
doing them for ten years, and drugs were a big

784
00:48:20.840 --> 00:48:23.679
part of that reason. The defendant gave Cassie drugs at

785
00:48:23.719 --> 00:48:26.800
every freak off, she took them, and she performed not

786
00:48:27.039 --> 00:48:30.239
just at freak offfs. Eventually she became addicted and started

787
00:48:30.320 --> 00:48:34.400
using drugs on her own after never taking drugs before

788
00:48:34.480 --> 00:48:37.679
she got hooked up with Sean Combs. She ended up

789
00:48:37.719 --> 00:48:40.760
with a severe addiction. Drugs weren't all of it. To

790
00:48:40.800 --> 00:48:43.960
be sure, Cassie also told you she did freak offfs

791
00:48:43.960 --> 00:48:46.480
because she was in love with the defendant and wanted

792
00:48:46.519 --> 00:48:49.280
to make him happy. You've seen plenty of exhibits showing

793
00:48:49.320 --> 00:48:52.400
Cassie told you that herself. She also told you over

794
00:48:52.440 --> 00:48:54.719
the course of the relationship with the defendant, there were

795
00:48:54.840 --> 00:48:57.760
hundreds of freak offs, and even if Cassie didn't want

796
00:48:57.800 --> 00:48:59.920
to do a freak off, there were times she went

797
00:49:00.079 --> 00:49:03.719
along with it anyway. You see messages where she writes,

798
00:49:03.800 --> 00:49:06.119
I love our freak offs when we both want it,

799
00:49:06.519 --> 00:49:08.519
and I want to be clear here, we're not asking

800
00:49:08.559 --> 00:49:11.199
you to find that every freak off was an instance

801
00:49:11.280 --> 00:49:15.880
of sex trafficking. That is not an all or nothing situation.

802
00:49:16.199 --> 00:49:19.440
But there were many freak offs that Cassie participated in

803
00:49:19.599 --> 00:49:23.119
because of the defendant's force, threat of force, or coercion,

804
00:49:23.480 --> 00:49:26.840
and where the defendant knew that Cassie was only participating

805
00:49:26.880 --> 00:49:30.519
in those freak offs because of his force, threats or coercion.

806
00:49:31.559 --> 00:49:35.960
That conduct is illegal, That conduct is sex trafficking. And

807
00:49:36.039 --> 00:49:39.199
of course the defendant knew exactly what he was doing

808
00:49:39.280 --> 00:49:42.559
because Cassie obviously didn't want to be having sex with

809
00:49:42.599 --> 00:49:46.039
strangers for days. She obviously didn't want to have a

810
00:49:46.159 --> 00:49:50.840
painful uterus, She obviously didn't want an escort to urinate

811
00:49:50.960 --> 00:49:53.360
in her mouth while she laid on the floor. And

812
00:49:53.440 --> 00:49:56.199
the defendant was so sure that Cassie didn't want to

813
00:49:56.239 --> 00:49:58.920
do the freak offfs that he held sex tapes over

814
00:49:58.960 --> 00:50:02.079
her head. As Colle later, he used them as a

815
00:50:02.119 --> 00:50:05.480
way to cobborse her into doing the freak afs. You

816
00:50:05.639 --> 00:50:08.880
saw that in emails that we showed you. Now, before

817
00:50:08.880 --> 00:50:11.440
we get into some of the specific examples of sex

818
00:50:11.519 --> 00:50:15.239
trafficking with Cassie, let's stop for a moment and talk

819
00:50:15.239 --> 00:50:18.559
about the videos themselves. You've seen clips of them, and

820
00:50:18.639 --> 00:50:21.960
some of them you've seen they were entered into evidence,

821
00:50:22.039 --> 00:50:25.400
and you don't see weapons, you don't see the defendant

822
00:50:25.559 --> 00:50:28.639
hitting Cassie. Of course, if he videoed something like that,

823
00:50:28.800 --> 00:50:31.719
he probably wouldn't hold on to it. You know about

824
00:50:31.760 --> 00:50:33.960
how much work he did to get rid of the

825
00:50:34.119 --> 00:50:39.199
Intercontinental Hotel video. She's following the defendant's directions just like

826
00:50:39.480 --> 00:50:43.519
Jane did in Jane's videos. She's performing just like Jane.

827
00:50:43.960 --> 00:50:47.000
Don't be fooled into thinking that it's anything more than

828
00:50:47.719 --> 00:50:51.400
just a performance. If you look closely, you'll see everything

829
00:50:51.480 --> 00:50:55.280
Cassie told you about freak offs is true. They're orchestrated,

830
00:50:55.599 --> 00:50:59.559
they're directed. The defendant is moving the camera around himself

831
00:50:59.599 --> 00:51:03.159
at time, focused on the escort and not Cassie at all.

832
00:51:03.360 --> 00:51:06.079
And that's very similar to the videos we showed you

833
00:51:06.119 --> 00:51:10.320
of Jane. It's clear this was his fantasy, not Cassie's.

834
00:51:10.760 --> 00:51:14.159
Like with Jane, there are a few specific examples where

835
00:51:14.159 --> 00:51:17.320
the evidence is clear that the defendant caused Cassie to

836
00:51:17.360 --> 00:51:20.920
have sex with an escort by force, threats and force coercion,

837
00:51:21.079 --> 00:51:24.239
or combination of those things. Based on any of those

838
00:51:24.320 --> 00:51:27.400
incidents alone, the defendant is guilty of count two. So

839
00:51:27.519 --> 00:51:30.639
let's walk through those examples, and we'll start with that

840
00:51:30.800 --> 00:51:34.320
Intercontinental Hotel video. You've seen a lot of evidence about

841
00:51:34.320 --> 00:51:40.000
this incident. Multiple witnesses testified about it. You saw text, messages, reports, photos,

842
00:51:40.000 --> 00:51:42.960
and of course the video. Because there's a lot to

843
00:51:43.000 --> 00:51:45.440
cover on this topic, I'm going to break it down

844
00:51:45.480 --> 00:51:48.760
into three parts. Before the freak golf, during the freak off,

845
00:51:49.079 --> 00:51:51.239
and when Cassie tries to leave in the middle of

846
00:51:51.239 --> 00:51:54.400
a free offf So, before this freak off, Cassie was

847
00:51:54.440 --> 00:51:59.199
preparing for her first movie premiere. This was incredibly important

848
00:51:59.400 --> 00:52:02.480
in her life. So when the defendant texted Cassie two

849
00:52:02.559 --> 00:52:05.840
days before the premiere, what you gonna do so I

850
00:52:05.840 --> 00:52:08.760
can play in the rest of my night? Cassie understood

851
00:52:08.840 --> 00:52:11.559
the defendant was lunking to have a freak off, and

852
00:52:11.719 --> 00:52:14.840
she decided to play ball. She was worried that the

853
00:52:14.840 --> 00:52:17.800
defendant would ruin her big night, and she thought if

854
00:52:17.800 --> 00:52:21.000
she gave him what he wanted freak off, then maybe

855
00:52:21.000 --> 00:52:24.039
he wouldn't ruin it for her. She said, she was

856
00:52:24.119 --> 00:52:27.800
doing damage control. You saw the text. Cassie said, baby,

857
00:52:28.280 --> 00:52:31.320
I want to freak off so bad, and he wants

858
00:52:31.360 --> 00:52:34.280
her to call garyn who was the owner of Cowboys

859
00:52:34.480 --> 00:52:38.480
for Angels, that escort service. He tells her this four

860
00:52:38.559 --> 00:52:42.440
times he's determined. They end up bringing Jewels to the

861
00:52:42.480 --> 00:52:47.320
hotel one of the defendant's regular escorts, and that brings

862
00:52:47.400 --> 00:52:51.079
us to the during aspect of the freak off. Now

863
00:52:51.119 --> 00:52:53.800
there is a gap in the text and the phone records,

864
00:52:53.800 --> 00:52:57.519
and that's when you know, Jerry that the freak off

865
00:52:57.760 --> 00:53:01.760
is happening. Jewels, the defendant and Cassie are at the hotel,

866
00:53:01.840 --> 00:53:05.039
and you know what happens. An argument starts. The defendant

867
00:53:05.119 --> 00:53:08.199
hits Cassie in the face. All she can think about

868
00:53:08.360 --> 00:53:11.199
is her premiere, so she decides to get out of

869
00:53:11.280 --> 00:53:14.440
there before the defendant can mess up her face even more.

870
00:53:14.559 --> 00:53:17.840
Cassie takes off so fast she doesn't even have time

871
00:53:17.920 --> 00:53:22.599
to put her shoes on. The defendant chases after Cassie.

872
00:53:22.679 --> 00:53:25.119
As you can see, he didn't have time to get dressed.

873
00:53:25.239 --> 00:53:29.599
He's naked in a towel except for socks. He attacks her.

874
00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:32.719
He throws her to the ground. He kicks her repeatedly.

875
00:53:33.159 --> 00:53:36.519
She doesn't fight back, and then the defendant tries to

876
00:53:36.599 --> 00:53:40.119
drag her back to the room where Jules is waiting. Now,

877
00:53:40.320 --> 00:53:43.000
why is it relevant that the defendant is trying to

878
00:53:43.119 --> 00:53:46.079
drag her back into the room because jewels is there.

879
00:53:46.280 --> 00:53:51.440
Remember there's a freak off taking place. Freakoffs have multiple sessions,

880
00:53:51.480 --> 00:53:55.480
and remember Cassie said, at this particular freak off, they

881
00:53:55.480 --> 00:53:58.760
were between sessions, and the defendant's not going to let

882
00:53:58.840 --> 00:54:02.159
her go. The freak off is not over. As she

883
00:54:02.360 --> 00:54:06.000
wiggles away from his grip, the defendant makes a decision.

884
00:54:06.519 --> 00:54:09.440
He leaves her, but he takes her bags. He knows

885
00:54:09.480 --> 00:54:11.880
that she can't leave without her things, but as he

886
00:54:12.039 --> 00:54:15.480
walks down the hallway, he looks back. He was expecting

887
00:54:15.519 --> 00:54:19.239
her to follow him. He's surprised that she's not. The

888
00:54:19.280 --> 00:54:23.559
defendant is making a conscious decision at this time. He

889
00:54:23.599 --> 00:54:26.400
goes back to Cassie. He tries to get her back

890
00:54:26.400 --> 00:54:29.719
into the room, but Cassie won't do it. Instead, she's

891
00:54:29.880 --> 00:54:33.400
using the phone in the elevator lobby. The defendant's making

892
00:54:33.480 --> 00:54:37.559
another conscious decision here. He decides to bring the bags

893
00:54:37.639 --> 00:54:40.400
back to the room and come back for Cassie with

894
00:54:40.480 --> 00:54:43.480
his hands free. So when he comes back for her

895
00:54:43.760 --> 00:54:47.400
a third time, he makes yet another decision. He grabs

896
00:54:47.440 --> 00:54:50.239
Cassie's phone out of her hands. He knows she can't

897
00:54:50.320 --> 00:54:52.840
leave without her phone, but now that Cassie has called

898
00:54:52.880 --> 00:54:57.320
for security, the defendant has another decision. Does he drag

899
00:54:57.360 --> 00:55:00.679
her back to the room. If he does that, security

900
00:55:00.880 --> 00:55:03.239
could see him dragging her down the hallway and they

901
00:55:03.280 --> 00:55:05.239
could call the cops, or they could come up to

902
00:55:05.320 --> 00:55:08.320
the room and they could see Jewels. But if he

903
00:55:08.400 --> 00:55:11.880
leaves Cassie in the lobby, then there's no chance that

904
00:55:12.000 --> 00:55:14.440
Cassie will go back to the room and finish the

905
00:55:14.480 --> 00:55:17.000
freak off. And if he leaves Cassie alone, he can't

906
00:55:17.039 --> 00:55:20.159
control what she is gonna say to security. He knows

907
00:55:20.159 --> 00:55:22.800
she won't do anything if he's there, so he makes

908
00:55:22.880 --> 00:55:26.440
a decision to stay. Even though he's in a towel

909
00:55:26.639 --> 00:55:30.920
and looks ridiculous, he makes the decision to stay there

910
00:55:30.960 --> 00:55:34.519
with Cassie. He's mad that she fucked up the freak off,

911
00:55:34.880 --> 00:55:38.079
so he throws the vase at her. But as soon

912
00:55:38.119 --> 00:55:42.079
as is real Flores shows up. The defendant switches into

913
00:55:42.199 --> 00:55:46.840
damage control mode. He stays calm, he speaks to Officer Flores,

914
00:55:47.000 --> 00:55:51.000
looks like he's even making Officer Flora's laugh. He tells

915
00:55:51.039 --> 00:55:54.320
Cassie that she can't leave, and he stalls in the hallway.

916
00:55:54.519 --> 00:55:58.159
He knows Jewels still in the room, probably naked, so

917
00:55:58.280 --> 00:56:01.840
he continues to stall in that hallway. He's in total

918
00:56:01.840 --> 00:56:05.920
control of himself. In their opening statement, the defense told

919
00:56:05.960 --> 00:56:09.000
you that the defendant had taken bad drugs that day,

920
00:56:09.559 --> 00:56:11.719
but you can see it with your own eyes. The

921
00:56:11.760 --> 00:56:15.599
defendant isn't out of his mind on drugs. He's completely

922
00:56:15.599 --> 00:56:19.079
in control, and he's still trying to get what he wants.

923
00:56:19.599 --> 00:56:22.719
He wants Cassie back at that freak off. He doesn't

924
00:56:22.800 --> 00:56:26.639
want Officer Flores to see jewels, so when they get

925
00:56:26.679 --> 00:56:29.519
back to the room, the defendant tries to close the

926
00:56:29.639 --> 00:56:33.599
door such that Cassie would be shut inside that room

927
00:56:34.039 --> 00:56:37.599
and Officer Flores doesn't see jewels. This is a man

928
00:56:37.760 --> 00:56:42.079
in control of himself, but it didn't work. Officer Flores

929
00:56:42.079 --> 00:56:44.760
stuck his foot in that door and it wouldn't close.

930
00:56:45.000 --> 00:56:47.480
Cassie just wanted to get her bag and fun and leave,

931
00:56:47.800 --> 00:56:51.480
so Officer Flores helps her do that. Officer Flores saw

932
00:56:51.559 --> 00:56:55.719
jewels just as Cassie left, and the defendant offered Floras

933
00:56:55.960 --> 00:57:01.320
that stack of cash as a attempted bribeout that Cassie

934
00:57:01.360 --> 00:57:03.639
managed to get out of that hotel and back to

935
00:57:03.719 --> 00:57:07.119
her apartment. And look at the photo. This is her

936
00:57:07.400 --> 00:57:09.480
in the back of the car. On her way back

937
00:57:09.519 --> 00:57:13.159
to her apartment, and she's covering her black eye with sunglasses,

938
00:57:13.199 --> 00:57:15.960
but you can see that swollen lip. And from there

939
00:57:16.079 --> 00:57:19.119
the defendant enlist KK and d Rock to help with

940
00:57:19.239 --> 00:57:22.400
damage control. We talked about that too, but of course

941
00:57:22.559 --> 00:57:25.960
the defendant stayed focused on Cassie. He needed to keep

942
00:57:26.000 --> 00:57:29.039
her under control, and he was livid that she had

943
00:57:29.079 --> 00:57:32.599
disobeyed him and dared to call for help. He showed

944
00:57:32.679 --> 00:57:35.719
up at her apartment banging on that door with a hammer,

945
00:57:35.760 --> 00:57:39.079
and even when she left, she couldn't get away. This

946
00:57:39.239 --> 00:57:42.320
incident should leave no doubt in your mind. The defendant

947
00:57:42.400 --> 00:57:46.239
committed trafficking when he chased Cassie, beat her, tried to

948
00:57:46.320 --> 00:57:48.880
drag her back to the hotel room where an escort

949
00:57:48.920 --> 00:57:51.960
was waiting. He was using force to cause Cassie to

950
00:57:52.039 --> 00:57:55.920
continue engaging in the freak Off, a commercial sex act,

951
00:57:56.239 --> 00:57:59.400
and at every step he was in complete control of himself.

952
00:57:59.440 --> 00:58:03.800
Angry but in control. He knew exactly what he is doing.

953
00:58:04.199 --> 00:58:08.480
That is sex trafficking. It doesn't matter that Officer Flores

954
00:58:08.599 --> 00:58:12.519
kept the Freakoff from continuing. It doesn't matter that Cassie

955
00:58:12.519 --> 00:58:15.559
managed to get away and avoid having sex with Jewel.

956
00:58:16.039 --> 00:58:19.760
The law does not require that a commercial sex act

957
00:58:20.000 --> 00:58:23.960
actually take place. What matters is that the defendant was

958
00:58:24.079 --> 00:58:28.159
knowingly using force and coercion to get Cassie back in

959
00:58:28.159 --> 00:58:32.159
that room where the escort was waiting. That is sex trafficking.

960
00:58:32.280 --> 00:58:34.920
Like they said in the opening statements. The defense may

961
00:58:34.960 --> 00:58:37.760
tell you the violence was not connected to the sex,

962
00:58:37.840 --> 00:58:42.360
but guess what that's wrong too. The defendant was dragging

963
00:58:42.400 --> 00:58:45.239
her back to the hotel room where an escort was

964
00:58:45.320 --> 00:58:47.800
waiting so that they could finish a freak off the

965
00:58:47.880 --> 00:58:53.039
defendant wanted. Besides, sex trafficking statute doesn't require that force

966
00:58:53.159 --> 00:58:56.639
be used during the commercial sex act. And this is

967
00:58:56.679 --> 00:58:59.159
what happened. When Cassie said no, you saw it in

968
00:58:59.159 --> 00:59:02.360
the video. Hitting the face, thrown to the ground, kicked

969
00:59:02.440 --> 00:59:07.159
and dragged back by the defendant. Cassie couldn't forget this,

970
00:59:08.000 --> 00:59:12.119
and she didn't. Days later, she reminded the defendant this

971
00:59:12.320 --> 00:59:15.960
was on March tenth, five days after the incident, that

972
00:59:16.480 --> 00:59:19.519
when you get fucked up the wrong way, you always

973
00:59:19.599 --> 00:59:21.760
want to show me you have the power and you

974
00:59:21.840 --> 00:59:25.079
knock me around. I'm not a ragged all. I am

975
00:59:25.239 --> 00:59:29.679
someone's child. The inner continental wasn't the only time the

976
00:59:29.760 --> 00:59:32.840
defendant was violent with Cassie during a freakoff. You heard

977
00:59:32.840 --> 00:59:36.960
about two more in Manhattan, involving the escort Daniel Phillip,

978
00:59:37.119 --> 00:59:40.280
who testified during this trial. I'm going to focus on

979
00:59:40.280 --> 00:59:44.280
one of the two freakoffs again. The sex trafficking statue

980
00:59:44.440 --> 00:59:47.920
doesn't require force be used during your commercial sex act,

981
00:59:48.000 --> 00:59:50.719
but that's what you have in both of these situations.

982
00:59:51.280 --> 00:59:54.639
Between approximately twenty twelve and twenty fourteen, the defendant paid

983
00:59:54.719 --> 00:59:57.840
Daniel Phillip to have sex with Cassie during freakoffs in

984
00:59:57.920 --> 01:00:01.960
New York City, usually in hotels, but sometimes a Cassie's apartment.

985
01:00:02.920 --> 01:00:05.360
He testified each time that he had a freak off

986
01:00:05.400 --> 01:00:07.760
with the defendant in Cassie he was paid between seven

987
01:00:07.840 --> 01:00:11.480
hundred dollars and six thousand. He was not paid for

988
01:00:11.519 --> 01:00:15.199
his time. I'm gonna spend no more than ten seconds

989
01:00:15.599 --> 01:00:19.639
on this ridiculous argument, because you know why Daniel and

990
01:00:19.800 --> 01:00:23.000
all the other escorts were paid. They were paid for sex.

991
01:00:23.719 --> 01:00:26.800
So every time they had sex with Cassie in front

992
01:00:26.840 --> 01:00:30.960
of the defendant, that is a commercial sex act. At

993
01:00:31.000 --> 01:00:34.199
one of these freakoffs in Cassie's apartment, Daniel and Cassie

994
01:00:34.239 --> 01:00:37.280
were in the living room. Between sessions, the defendant told

995
01:00:37.360 --> 01:00:39.880
Cassie to come to him in the bedroom. Cassie was

996
01:00:39.920 --> 01:00:42.519
on her computer and she told the defendant that she

997
01:00:42.679 --> 01:00:45.719
needed just a minute. The next thing that Daniel saw

998
01:00:45.880 --> 01:00:48.960
was a lequor bottle fly past Cassie's head and hit

999
01:00:49.000 --> 01:00:51.679
the wall. Then the defendant stormed out of the bedroom,

1000
01:00:51.800 --> 01:00:54.960
gragg Cassie by the hair, starts dragging her back by

1001
01:00:55.000 --> 01:00:57.760
her hair into the bedroom and Daniel herb What he

1002
01:00:57.840 --> 01:01:02.440
said sounded like slapping, and Cassie screaming quote, I'm sorry,

1003
01:01:02.559 --> 01:01:06.320
I'm sorry, And the defendant at this point told her, bitch,

1004
01:01:06.679 --> 01:01:10.280
when I tell you to come here, you come now,

1005
01:01:10.880 --> 01:01:15.320
not later. The defendant said this to Cassie four years

1006
01:01:15.480 --> 01:01:20.159
before the Intercontinental incident. He was training her to obey him.

1007
01:01:20.400 --> 01:01:23.440
And when Cassie and the defendant came out of the bedroom,

1008
01:01:23.559 --> 01:01:28.079
Daniel said that Cassie looked afraid, upset. He testified she

1009
01:01:28.320 --> 01:01:31.000
didn't look like she wanted to continue the freak off,

1010
01:01:31.199 --> 01:01:35.079
but the defendant didn't care. He was ready for another session.

1011
01:01:35.440 --> 01:01:38.840
The defendant told Daniel and Cassie all ready to continue now.

1012
01:01:39.239 --> 01:01:43.199
He meant that Daniel should start having sex with Cassie. Again,

1013
01:01:43.639 --> 01:01:47.199
Members of the jury, there is no question about this.

1014
01:01:48.000 --> 01:01:51.320
This is coercion. The force and the coercion worked in

1015
01:01:51.400 --> 01:01:56.000
this instance. Cassie started to initiate the defendant's usual routine

1016
01:01:56.159 --> 01:02:00.000
for every freak off. She started touching Daniel, which usually

1017
01:02:00.280 --> 01:02:03.239
led to rubbing with baby oil, and that usually led

1018
01:02:03.280 --> 01:02:07.280
to sex. What the defendant couldn't control, though, was Daniel

1019
01:02:07.880 --> 01:02:11.400
he couldn't perform. The defendant cut the freak off short.

1020
01:02:12.280 --> 01:02:15.800
And again it doesn't matter that the freakoff was cut short.

1021
01:02:16.280 --> 01:02:18.480
The defendant knew what he was doing when he told

1022
01:02:18.519 --> 01:02:21.960
Cassie and Daniel to continue. He was demanding that Cassie

1023
01:02:22.039 --> 01:02:25.920
have sex with a paid escort. And that's sex trafficking.

1024
01:02:27.079 --> 01:02:29.760
And there's one more example that I want to talk about.

1025
01:02:29.800 --> 01:02:32.519
This one started when the defendant kicked Cassie off the

1026
01:02:32.559 --> 01:02:35.920
boat in Cannes, France, and then threatened her on the

1027
01:02:35.960 --> 01:02:38.440
flight back to New York. Now it ended in a

1028
01:02:38.519 --> 01:02:41.679
freakoff in New York. Cassie in the defendant. They were

1029
01:02:41.719 --> 01:02:45.159
at cans and you can see Cassie on the red carpet.

1030
01:02:45.239 --> 01:02:49.400
She looked happy, radiant. The picture doesn't tell the full story, though.

1031
01:02:49.840 --> 01:02:52.800
The night before Cassie and the defendant got in a fight.

1032
01:02:53.000 --> 01:02:56.039
After the defendant accused her of stealing his drugs, he

1033
01:02:56.159 --> 01:02:58.360
kicked her off the boat that they were staying on,

1034
01:02:58.880 --> 01:03:03.000
without anything, without even her shoes, without her passport, and

1035
01:03:03.039 --> 01:03:06.679
Mia remembered that Cassie had injuries from that flight, and

1036
01:03:06.760 --> 01:03:10.199
she also remembered Cassie had made an audio recording. Mia

1037
01:03:10.320 --> 01:03:15.280
listened to that. She recognized both voices, Cassie's and shaw Comb's,

1038
01:03:15.639 --> 01:03:19.719
Cassie sounding panicked, and she remembered the defendant sounded very angry.

1039
01:03:20.079 --> 01:03:23.039
She heard the sound of someone being hit in this recording.

1040
01:03:23.320 --> 01:03:26.480
Cassie and the defendant still went to the movie premiere together,

1041
01:03:26.760 --> 01:03:31.239
but in the theater, the defendant grabbed Cassie's leg and

1042
01:03:31.320 --> 01:03:35.360
he squeezed her beaded dress into her thigh as tightly

1043
01:03:35.800 --> 01:03:38.599
as he could, and Mia remembered that too. She saw

1044
01:03:38.679 --> 01:03:43.119
the defendant digging his nails into Cassie's arm at the premiere,

1045
01:03:43.280 --> 01:03:47.000
clenching his teeth as he spoke to her. After the premiere,

1046
01:03:47.079 --> 01:03:49.920
Cassie and the defendant flew back to New York City.

1047
01:03:50.199 --> 01:03:52.679
Cassie didn't want to sit with the defendant, so she

1048
01:03:52.800 --> 01:03:55.599
traded seats with someone else on a plane, he traded

1049
01:03:55.679 --> 01:03:57.920
his own seat so he could sit next to her,

1050
01:03:58.280 --> 01:04:01.079
and in case it wasn't totally clear to Cassie yet

1051
01:04:01.239 --> 01:04:04.159
that the defendant had the power, he spent the entire

1052
01:04:04.239 --> 01:04:08.639
flight holding her captive and making her watch videos he

1053
01:04:08.800 --> 01:04:11.519
had recorded to the freakoffs, and the whole time he

1054
01:04:11.599 --> 01:04:16.480
was threatening to release them. Cassie told you how she felt.

1055
01:04:16.679 --> 01:04:19.159
She said she couldn't have felt worse. She felt scared,

1056
01:04:19.199 --> 01:04:22.360
she felt trapped. It's no surprise that when that plane

1057
01:04:22.440 --> 01:04:26.920
landed in New York that demanded a freak off, and

1058
01:04:27.000 --> 01:04:29.840
Cassie complied. She didn't believe she had a choice. He

1059
01:04:29.880 --> 01:04:32.559
had just threatened her about blackmail tape some of the

1060
01:04:32.559 --> 01:04:35.559
most humiliating moments of her life, and he had proven

1061
01:04:35.599 --> 01:04:39.360
to her that he had them at his fingertips. They

1062
01:04:39.360 --> 01:04:41.559
were on the laptop that he held on the plane.

1063
01:04:41.880 --> 01:04:45.440
Those tapes would have done serious damage to Cassie's career,

1064
01:04:45.519 --> 01:04:48.320
and they would have cost her huge personal harm. This

1065
01:04:48.400 --> 01:04:53.159
is another example of clearcut coercion. Remember, serious harm includes

1066
01:04:53.400 --> 01:04:58.199
non physical harm, including reputational harm, and here the defendant

1067
01:04:58.199 --> 01:05:01.159
has spent days making it so. Cassie couldn't do anything

1068
01:05:01.199 --> 01:05:03.960
about it but go along with what he wanted. He

1069
01:05:04.039 --> 01:05:07.159
threw off a boat in a foreign country without a passport,

1070
01:05:07.199 --> 01:05:10.719
He threatened her physical safety inside a crowded movie theater,

1071
01:05:10.880 --> 01:05:14.159
and then he played blackmail tapes of her on an airplane,

1072
01:05:14.280 --> 01:05:17.519
threatening to release them. All of this was designed to

1073
01:05:17.559 --> 01:05:21.400
do one thing, to make Cassie afraid to say no

1074
01:05:21.599 --> 01:05:25.199
to him. These three examples are far from the only

1075
01:05:25.320 --> 01:05:28.800
times that you know that Cassie was forced or coerced

1076
01:05:28.840 --> 01:05:32.119
into a freak off. You've heard weeks worth of testimony

1077
01:05:32.440 --> 01:05:36.360
proving to you just how little control Cassie had. You

1078
01:05:36.440 --> 01:05:40.000
should consider the full picture of the defendant's coercive scheme

1079
01:05:40.440 --> 01:05:43.159
in looking at the freak offs that you heard about,

1080
01:05:43.199 --> 01:05:46.880
his violence, his threats. It was all intended to cause

1081
01:05:46.960 --> 01:05:51.000
Cassie to believe, at various points in their relationship that

1082
01:05:51.239 --> 01:05:55.719
failure to perform freakoffs or do whatever else that defendant

1083
01:05:55.760 --> 01:05:59.719
demanded would result in serious harm. The defendant created a

1084
01:05:59.719 --> 01:06:04.400
climate of fear that can't be isolated to one moment

1085
01:06:04.440 --> 01:06:08.039
in time. Doctor Hughes also told you about how this works.

1086
01:06:08.159 --> 01:06:11.159
The abuse doesn't have to happen all the time. For

1087
01:06:11.239 --> 01:06:14.599
that link to be forged. Once someone has shown us

1088
01:06:14.719 --> 01:06:18.079
not only the ability, but the willingness to use violence,

1089
01:06:18.440 --> 01:06:21.639
your brain doesn't forget that. That's what doctor Hugh said.

1090
01:06:21.840 --> 01:06:25.199
Cassie repeatedly told you that the defendant's violence was in

1091
01:06:25.239 --> 01:06:28.199
the back of her mind whenever he proposed a freak off.

1092
01:06:28.519 --> 01:06:31.000
The whole point was to control Cassie, to make her

1093
01:06:31.039 --> 01:06:34.679
afraid to say no to the defendant, and it worked.

1094
01:06:34.800 --> 01:06:37.840
Cassie told you she continued to engage in freak offs

1095
01:06:37.880 --> 01:06:40.159
with the defendant because she didn't feel like she had

1096
01:06:40.239 --> 01:06:43.199
much of a choice. In her words, she said, I

1097
01:06:43.320 --> 01:06:47.320
didn't really know what no would be or what no

1098
01:06:47.719 --> 01:06:51.880
could turn into. You knew what that meant. She was

1099
01:06:51.920 --> 01:06:55.719
afraid of his violence. She said this repeatedly. She said

1100
01:06:55.760 --> 01:06:58.800
she didn't want to make the defendant angry because when

1101
01:06:58.800 --> 01:07:01.599
he was angry, he would be violent. When he was upset,

1102
01:07:01.760 --> 01:07:04.679
the defendant would be a scary person and could be violent.

1103
01:07:04.840 --> 01:07:07.800
She said, if Sean wanted something to happen, that was

1104
01:07:07.920 --> 01:07:11.000
what was going to happen. There wasn't another way around it.

1105
01:07:11.280 --> 01:07:14.760
In their opening statement, the defense emphasized that Cassie made

1106
01:07:14.840 --> 01:07:17.679
a choice every single day for years to stay with

1107
01:07:17.719 --> 01:07:21.719
the defendant that it was voluntary adult choice. In other words,

1108
01:07:22.039 --> 01:07:25.519
she could have said no to that relationship, and she

1109
01:07:25.559 --> 01:07:28.159
could have said no to the freak alls. But let's

1110
01:07:28.159 --> 01:07:31.239
step back. Imagine what it would be like to have

1111
01:07:31.360 --> 01:07:34.400
the person closest to you hit you, three you to

1112
01:07:34.440 --> 01:07:37.480
the ground, kick you, drag you by your hair, all

1113
01:07:37.599 --> 01:07:41.440
at seemingly random times, for just saying the wrong thing,

1114
01:07:41.559 --> 01:07:44.440
for not answering the phone quickly enough, for taking too

1115
01:07:44.440 --> 01:07:47.559
long in the bathroom. Imagine this person is much bigger

1116
01:07:47.559 --> 01:07:50.519
than you, stronger than you are, twice your age and

1117
01:07:50.599 --> 01:07:54.599
your body size. Imagine the terror of not knowing what

1118
01:07:54.679 --> 01:07:58.679
the next hit might be, not knowing what might set

1119
01:07:58.719 --> 01:08:01.800
that person off. Now, now imagine trying to say none

1120
01:08:01.800 --> 01:08:05.159
of that person, knowing the possibility of getting hit was

1121
01:08:05.239 --> 01:08:08.000
constantly in the back of your mind. This was the force,

1122
01:08:08.840 --> 01:08:11.760
So were the threats. This was all part of the

1123
01:08:11.800 --> 01:08:15.679
coercion as well. During this trial, the defense has pointed

1124
01:08:15.719 --> 01:08:19.600
to Cassie's text messages to say the defendant couldn't possibly

1125
01:08:19.640 --> 01:08:22.880
have known that Cassie didn't want to participate in freak Alls,

1126
01:08:23.079 --> 01:08:26.239
in part because of the text where Cassie seems excited

1127
01:08:26.319 --> 01:08:30.399
for freak alls or engages in explicit messages with the defendant.

1128
01:08:30.520 --> 01:08:33.560
Your common sense tells you she didn't want to participate

1129
01:08:33.960 --> 01:08:37.000
in those freak offs. Cassie was clear in her testimony

1130
01:08:37.039 --> 01:08:39.399
that there was one part of the freak offs she liked,

1131
01:08:39.520 --> 01:08:42.600
and that was to get to spend time with the defendant.

1132
01:08:42.880 --> 01:08:45.239
There was one person she wanted to have sex with

1133
01:08:45.359 --> 01:08:48.800
at that time, her boyfriend, the defendant. You heard the

1134
01:08:48.880 --> 01:08:53.239
exact same thing from Jane so sending explicit messages to

1135
01:08:53.279 --> 01:08:56.359
her boyfriend. That doesn't mean that Cassie wanted to have

1136
01:08:56.399 --> 01:08:58.800
sex with escorts of freak all, and it doesn't mean

1137
01:08:58.840 --> 01:09:01.760
that her boyfriend didn't own understand that she didn't want to.

1138
01:09:02.239 --> 01:09:06.239
Cassie also engaged in explicit messages with the defendant because

1139
01:09:06.319 --> 01:09:08.800
that's what he wanted her to do all the way

1140
01:09:08.840 --> 01:09:12.319
back in two thousand and nine. He said, quote, you're

1141
01:09:12.359 --> 01:09:15.640
supposed to be seducing me all day. He told her this.

1142
01:09:15.840 --> 01:09:19.039
Throughout the relationship, there was a point where Cassie told

1143
01:09:19.039 --> 01:09:22.199
the defendant she didn't want to do freak offs. As

1144
01:09:22.239 --> 01:09:25.479
a matter of fact, there were various points during her relationship,

1145
01:09:25.640 --> 01:09:28.720
and she used her twenty ninth birthday as an example

1146
01:09:28.760 --> 01:09:32.920
of that Cassie Deontae Brionna. They all testified about that night.

1147
01:09:33.199 --> 01:09:35.399
After the defendant let her know that he wanted a

1148
01:09:35.439 --> 01:09:38.399
freak off on her twenty ninth birthday, Cassie told him

1149
01:09:38.439 --> 01:09:40.560
she didn't want to do that. It was her birthday.

1150
01:09:40.640 --> 01:09:42.800
She wanted to stay with her friends. She told her

1151
01:09:42.840 --> 01:09:46.000
friends the same thing. She said. The defendant had already

1152
01:09:46.079 --> 01:09:48.199
let me know that he wanted to have a freak off,

1153
01:09:48.239 --> 01:09:52.039
and I was like, okay, not right now, Like I

1154
01:09:52.079 --> 01:09:54.720
really wanted to celebrate my birthday. I told him that

1155
01:09:54.760 --> 01:09:57.479
I wanted to stay out and celebrate with my friends.

1156
01:09:57.600 --> 01:10:00.439
And remember Deontay told you how Cassie. He said, the

1157
01:10:00.479 --> 01:10:03.000
defendant was angry because she did not want to go

1158
01:10:03.039 --> 01:10:05.960
to the hotel and freak off with him. And what happened,

1159
01:10:06.319 --> 01:10:10.760
despite saying no, despite not wanting to do it, Cassie

1160
01:10:10.840 --> 01:10:15.000
left her own birthday party with the defendant for free golf.

1161
01:10:15.039 --> 01:10:19.000
That right there is another clear cut example of sex trafficking.

1162
01:10:19.079 --> 01:10:22.319
The point was if the defendant wanted a freak golf,

1163
01:10:22.439 --> 01:10:25.159
it was gonna happen. You know why by now, It's

1164
01:10:25.159 --> 01:10:27.640
because he didn't take no for an answer. You saw

1165
01:10:27.680 --> 01:10:30.760
the video where the defendant was dragging Cassie back to

1166
01:10:30.840 --> 01:10:34.479
the Intercontinental hotel room. Imagine living that. Going back to

1167
01:10:34.520 --> 01:10:38.439
count one briefly, that's a pattern of racketeering activity that

1168
01:10:38.560 --> 01:10:42.239
the defendant agreed to involve sex trafficking. Now only the

1169
01:10:42.279 --> 01:10:44.960
defendant was in the hotel rooms with Cassie and Jane

1170
01:10:45.039 --> 01:10:48.199
in the escorts. But just like with everything else, he

1171
01:10:48.239 --> 01:10:51.119
didn't do it alone. He needed help getting drugs for

1172
01:10:51.199 --> 01:10:54.039
free golf's, getting cash to pay the escorts, and he

1173
01:10:54.079 --> 01:10:58.119
needed help keeping Cassie in Jane in line. For those things,

1174
01:10:58.439 --> 01:11:01.840
he turned to his most low lieutenants, KK, d Rock

1175
01:11:01.880 --> 01:11:04.520
and Fiend. Maybe they didn't like it, maybe they weren't

1176
01:11:04.520 --> 01:11:07.640
happy about it, but they helped him carry it out anyway,

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01:11:07.920 --> 01:11:11.439
knowing full well what they were doing was wrong. Let's

1178
01:11:11.439 --> 01:11:13.960
look at some of the examples of how members of

1179
01:11:14.000 --> 01:11:18.640
the defendant's inner circle facilitated the defendant's sex trafficking. KK

1180
01:11:18.800 --> 01:11:22.359
got strange men access to rooms that the defendant and

1181
01:11:22.399 --> 01:11:25.039
his girlfriends were sharing at all hours of the night.

1182
01:11:25.199 --> 01:11:27.960
Exhibit fourteen to eleven showed that one of the defendant's

1183
01:11:28.079 --> 01:11:32.760
assistants seeking access for an entertainer named Clayton Howard. Remember

1184
01:11:32.840 --> 01:11:36.720
that's an escort the defendant and Cassie called Dave Clayton.

1185
01:11:36.720 --> 01:11:40.760
Howard needed access to that hotel room. And KK saw

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01:11:40.800 --> 01:11:44.279
what the defendant's girlfriends were doing in these hotel room.

1187
01:11:44.520 --> 01:11:47.800
Remember KK saw that video of Jane having sex with

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01:11:47.880 --> 01:11:52.560
an escort that somehow wound up on an iPad of

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01:11:52.600 --> 01:11:56.399
one of the staff. You heard Jonathan Perez, one of

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01:11:56.399 --> 01:12:00.319
the assistants, testify about that. So she knew about the

1191
01:12:00.319 --> 01:12:03.880
freak Afs and the wild king Knights as she called them.

1192
01:12:03.960 --> 01:12:08.000
She knew they involved the defendant's girlfriends having sex with escorts.

1193
01:12:08.159 --> 01:12:11.640
KK knew that what was happening in these videos was wrong,

1194
01:12:11.760 --> 01:12:14.399
but she did damage control. As a matter of fact,

1195
01:12:14.399 --> 01:12:17.159
she interrogated Jonathan Puririze about it. And you know who

1196
01:12:17.159 --> 01:12:21.600
else knew about that video. Jonathan Press saw Fahim. He

1197
01:12:21.720 --> 01:12:25.239
mentioned it that Jonathan Perez. Later, of course Fahim knew.

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01:12:25.600 --> 01:12:27.920
He was the inner circle. He was part of the

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01:12:28.079 --> 01:12:31.920
need to know. And for the rest of this prosecutor's

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01:12:32.000 --> 01:12:36.399
closing statement, I'm just going to summarize it because if

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01:12:36.439 --> 01:12:39.079
I read this word for word, we'd be going another

1202
01:12:39.159 --> 01:12:42.039
two hours. But I will summarize it where you're gonna

1203
01:12:42.079 --> 01:12:45.800
get the gist of this thing. So Slavic then addresses

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01:12:45.920 --> 01:12:51.399
the forced labor as an element of the racketeering conspiracy charge,

1205
01:12:51.479 --> 01:12:54.399
and the prosecutor said the jury heard evidence of forced

1206
01:12:54.479 --> 01:12:58.960
labor as to Cassi Ventura, Jane Mia, n Capricorn Clark,

1207
01:12:59.600 --> 01:13:03.039
and she said Diddy force Ventur and Jane into growing

1208
01:13:03.159 --> 01:13:07.920
days of long sexual encounters without sleep, and that qualifies

1209
01:13:07.960 --> 01:13:10.960
as forced labor. She said, Combs force them to both

1210
01:13:11.000 --> 01:13:15.720
have sex multiple men, multiple times over multiple days. They

1211
01:13:15.720 --> 01:13:19.720
got sores, they got sick, they got infections. Both women

1212
01:13:19.840 --> 01:13:24.439
testified they regularly got UTI infections from the freak offs,

1213
01:13:24.520 --> 01:13:28.039
and it got to a point where antibiotics were ineffective.

1214
01:13:28.159 --> 01:13:31.319
She said. Jane and Cassie both testified they would endurey

1215
01:13:31.399 --> 01:13:34.119
freak off while they still had a UTI from a

1216
01:13:34.199 --> 01:13:38.039
previous sexual encounter. And she said that when they told

1217
01:13:38.119 --> 01:13:40.560
Combs they were tired or sick, he told them to

1218
01:13:40.640 --> 01:13:45.119
keep going and quote finish strong. Slavic said, Mia is

1219
01:13:45.199 --> 01:13:48.600
also a victim of forced labor. Quote the defendant treated

1220
01:13:48.600 --> 01:13:51.960
Mia differently than many of the other personal assistants, and

1221
01:13:52.039 --> 01:13:55.800
he demanded more and abused her more. Mia was also

1222
01:13:55.960 --> 01:14:00.279
required to provide sexual services to the defendant quote, actually

1223
01:14:00.279 --> 01:14:03.520
assault to Mia when Cassie and his other girlfriends were

1224
01:14:03.560 --> 01:14:08.560
not around. She listed several sexual assaults that Mia testified about,

1225
01:14:08.960 --> 01:14:11.920
including a time he forced her to perform oral sex

1226
01:14:12.000 --> 01:14:15.000
on him. As me as boss, Combs had all the

1227
01:14:15.039 --> 01:14:18.640
power and control over her, so even though she never

1228
01:14:18.720 --> 01:14:21.319
wanted to have sex with him, he knew that she

1229
01:14:21.359 --> 01:14:24.399
couldn't say no and that she wouldn't say nothing. Quote.

1230
01:14:24.399 --> 01:14:27.680
These sexual assaults were the most traumatic things that ever

1231
01:14:27.720 --> 01:14:30.520
happened to her, so much so she planned to die

1232
01:14:30.760 --> 01:14:34.319
with that secret. Combs was also violent with Mia when

1233
01:14:34.319 --> 01:14:37.720
she didn't do exactly what she wanted, including by throwing

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01:14:37.800 --> 01:14:40.840
things at her and slaming her arm into a door.

1235
01:14:40.880 --> 01:14:45.479
Slavic said she also witnessed Combs being violent with Cassie. Quote.

1236
01:14:45.479 --> 01:14:49.279
Mia saw and experienced extreme violence at her boss's hands.

1237
01:14:49.319 --> 01:14:52.199
It's no wonder she was always worried about her physical

1238
01:14:52.239 --> 01:14:55.920
safety if she was to tell him no. After Combs

1239
01:14:56.000 --> 01:14:59.359
was violent, he would enlist hr and other employees to

1240
01:14:59.439 --> 01:15:02.760
punish me. He would often threaten her job, which was

1241
01:15:02.760 --> 01:15:06.479
her entire world at that time. She said, Mia felt

1242
01:15:06.520 --> 01:15:09.000
she couldn't get a law enforcement because she had seen

1243
01:15:09.079 --> 01:15:13.039
Combs was above the police, and Slavic addressed some of

1244
01:15:13.079 --> 01:15:16.399
the loving messages and posts that Mia wrote to and

1245
01:15:16.520 --> 01:15:19.920
about Combs, and she said that Me had testified sometimes

1246
01:15:20.279 --> 01:15:23.359
the defendant treated her like his best friend, and other

1247
01:15:23.439 --> 01:15:27.039
times he treated her like she was worthless. Quote. The

1248
01:15:27.119 --> 01:15:30.520
highs and lows that Me had described were a cycle

1249
01:15:30.560 --> 01:15:34.319
of abuse that created a trauma bond and the moment

1250
01:15:34.439 --> 01:15:37.479
Mia couldn't see it for what it was. Slavic said,

1251
01:15:37.479 --> 01:15:41.039
Comb's former employee, Capricorn Clark was also a victim of

1252
01:15:41.079 --> 01:15:44.279
forced labor. She worked for Combs on and off from

1253
01:15:44.359 --> 01:15:47.319
two thousand and four to twenty twelve in different jobs

1254
01:15:47.359 --> 01:15:50.359
and during frequent threats to herself and her job, and

1255
01:15:50.399 --> 01:15:54.960
he used forced against her. Slavic said human Resources was

1256
01:15:55.000 --> 01:15:58.239
a puppet for Combs and didn't advocate for Clark or

1257
01:15:58.279 --> 01:16:01.800
other employees. When Clark told Allied eighty thousand dollars in

1258
01:16:01.920 --> 01:16:05.319
overtime pay that she was owned, Combs ripped up the

1259
01:16:05.359 --> 01:16:09.199
paper and never paid her. Slavic said human resources didn't

1260
01:16:09.239 --> 01:16:13.079
do anything about it. The defense may argue that Clark

1261
01:16:13.199 --> 01:16:16.119
was not forced to work because she continued to come

1262
01:16:16.199 --> 01:16:19.520
back to Combe for years after twenty twelve, but that

1263
01:16:19.680 --> 01:16:23.119
doesn't erase the forced labor. Clark went back to him

1264
01:16:23.159 --> 01:16:26.159
for jobs because he made sure she couldn't get a

1265
01:16:26.239 --> 01:16:29.399
job unless it was with him in the industry. Comes

1266
01:16:29.439 --> 01:16:32.199
told her she would never work again and made sure

1267
01:16:32.359 --> 01:16:35.760
that that was true. Slavic said, Shawn Comb's engaged in

1268
01:16:35.880 --> 01:16:40.720
witness tampering and obstruction after casting Ventura's lawsuit was filed

1269
01:16:40.760 --> 01:16:43.640
in twenty twenty three. For years, the defendant took great

1270
01:16:43.720 --> 01:16:47.199
pains to keep his criminal conduct from being exposed. But

1271
01:16:47.319 --> 01:16:49.680
many of the crimes that we've been speaking about were

1272
01:16:49.720 --> 01:16:53.640
made public when Cassi filed her lawsuit. Comes new the

1273
01:16:53.720 --> 01:16:57.920
allegations in the civil lawsuits could lead to a criminal investigation,

1274
01:16:58.399 --> 01:17:00.640
so he turned to his inner circle to help him

1275
01:17:00.720 --> 01:17:05.119
quote neutralize the people who could damage him the most.

1276
01:17:05.319 --> 01:17:07.600
Slavic went on to say paying people off with one

1277
01:17:07.640 --> 01:17:10.720
hundred thousand dollars in a paper bag wasn't an option.

1278
01:17:10.880 --> 01:17:13.600
He needed to stay under the radar. She reminded the

1279
01:17:13.680 --> 01:17:16.720
jury about two calls between Combs and Jane that were

1280
01:17:16.760 --> 01:17:20.800
recovered from Kk's phone. She said the calls occurred shortly

1281
01:17:20.920 --> 01:17:23.840
after the lawsuit was settled, and she said The only

1282
01:17:23.920 --> 01:17:27.039
reason the defendant is doing that reaching out to Jane

1283
01:17:27.119 --> 01:17:31.119
is fear of a criminal investigation. The defendant tries to

1284
01:17:31.159 --> 01:17:34.119
feed Jane the false narrative of the events of the

1285
01:17:34.159 --> 01:17:37.479
past three years. Slavic said. What he says to her

1286
01:17:37.640 --> 01:17:40.239
he knows isn't true. It's what he wants her to

1287
01:17:40.319 --> 01:17:45.920
say to protect him. That's witness tampering, that's obstruction. Slavic said.

1288
01:17:46.000 --> 01:17:48.920
Combs tried repeatedly to get Jane to say she was

1289
01:17:48.960 --> 01:17:52.960
a willing participant in those hotel nights, but Jane wouldn't

1290
01:17:53.000 --> 01:17:56.880
and when she pushed back, Combs cut her off. Slavic

1291
01:17:56.880 --> 01:17:59.600
pointed out that you can hear the scratching of a

1292
01:17:59.680 --> 01:18:03.159
shark be writing on paper in the background of one recording.

1293
01:18:03.279 --> 01:18:06.520
She said Korm was present but couldn't speak because that

1294
01:18:06.600 --> 01:18:09.840
would reveal the presence to Jane. So they were writing

1295
01:18:09.880 --> 01:18:13.000
notes to each other and they were working together as

1296
01:18:13.039 --> 01:18:16.000
a team. Later in that call, comes Dangle to carrot

1297
01:18:16.079 --> 01:18:18.760
by telling Jane she wouldn't have to worry about anything

1298
01:18:18.800 --> 01:18:21.880
as long as she was on his side. Two days later,

1299
01:18:21.920 --> 01:18:24.399
he instructed Koran to make sure the rent was still

1300
01:18:24.439 --> 01:18:27.960
being paid on time. Slavic said Korm made sure it

1301
01:18:28.039 --> 01:18:31.000
was done because she knew what a threat Jane could

1302
01:18:31.039 --> 01:18:34.199
be to the defendant. She helped comes cover up the

1303
01:18:34.199 --> 01:18:38.319
crime and then record these calls with Jane to fabricate evidence.

1304
01:18:39.000 --> 01:18:43.159
Slavic said Diddy's attempts to convince me to lie or

1305
01:18:43.199 --> 01:18:46.760
give false information to law enforcement in twenty three and

1306
01:18:46.800 --> 01:18:51.399
twenty twenty four also examples of witness tampering and obstruction.

1307
01:18:51.720 --> 01:18:54.640
She listed some of the key witnesses who testified at

1308
01:18:54.680 --> 01:18:58.960
the trial. She recounted all their messages, recordings, and images

1309
01:18:59.079 --> 01:19:02.520
that the jury saw, saying quote, all of this evidence

1310
01:19:02.600 --> 01:19:06.479
paints a clear picture of how the defendant committed crime

1311
01:19:06.560 --> 01:19:09.760
after crime for two decades, how he didn't take no

1312
01:19:09.840 --> 01:19:12.960
for an answer. The evidence shows you how he and

1313
01:19:13.039 --> 01:19:15.680
his inner circle committed the crimes and how far they

1314
01:19:15.720 --> 01:19:19.720
would go to cover him up. And she ended it

1315
01:19:19.760 --> 01:19:23.720
with up until today, Combs was able to get away

1316
01:19:23.720 --> 01:19:27.000
with these crimes due to his money, his power, and

1317
01:19:27.039 --> 01:19:32.760
his influence. That stops today. It's time to hold him accountable.

1318
01:19:32.760 --> 01:19:37.319
And with that, the prosecution rested and all we got

1319
01:19:37.439 --> 01:19:41.319
left is the defense. Thank you so much for listening.

1320
01:19:41.359 --> 01:19:44.640
I know this was a long one. Today my voice

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is about out, have a great weekend, and until next time,

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01:19:48.800 --> 01:19:53.079
I'm Jim Chapman with exposed scandalous files of the elite.

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Much love,