Sean 'Diddy' Combs trial updates: Combs' ex-assistant 'Mia' to continue testimony next week

“Mia,” a former employee of Sean Combs' who is testifying under a pseudonym, took the witness stand.

Clad in a white blouse, long white blazer and khaki pants, "Mia" testified that she worked for Sean Combs first as a personal assistant and then as a director of development and acquisitions for his film business.

“It was chaotic. It was toxic. It could be exciting. The highs were really high and the lows were really, really low,” "Mia" testified.

“What determined what the environment was like on a particular day?” prosecutor Madison Smyser asked.

“Puff’s mood,” "Mia" told the court in response.

"Mia" spoke in a soft, low voice when she told the jury how Combs was allegedly violent with her.

“He’s thrown things at me. He’s thrown me against the wall. He’s thrown me into a pool. He’s thrown a book at my head,” "Mia" told the court. “He has also sexually assaulted me.”

"Mia" began her testimony after stylist Deonte Nash concluded his. The defense showed Nash several text messages in which Combs expressed concern for Cassie Ventura and his desire for Nash to “make sure she is all right.”

In one exchange from 2018, Nash texted Combs that Ventura was “knocked out.” Combs replied, “Damn. Wake her up. I’m concerned.”

In a second exchange, from 2019, Combs texted Nash, “How is she? Make sure she’s all right. If she ever needs me make sure you call me.”

Nash also was shown a text exchange with Ventura while she was on vacation with Combs in Mexico following what Nash in his testimony had described as a "freak-off" on New Year’s Eve in Las Vegas. Nash texted Ventura, advising her to enjoy herself.

On re-direct examination, prosecutor Maurene Comey asked Nash, “Why did you always have concerns for Cassie’s safety if she also told you she was happy with Mr. Combs?”

Nash told the court, “Because it could go from happy to chaotic in a split second.”

Addressing the defense's questioning of Nash’s testimony that Ventura told him she did not want to go to hotels for sexual "freak-offs," Comey asked what Nash remembered Combs saying on the night of Ventura’s 29th birthday.

Nash told the court in response Combs allegedly said Ventura was “going to get some d---” and that “she didn’t want to go, she wanted to hang with us.”

Defense attorney Xavier Donaldson questioned stylist Deonte Nash about his account of Cassie Ventura’s 29th birthday, when he previously testified that she confided that “I don't want to go to the hotel and 'freak-off' with him,” referring to Combs.

Nash testified that Combs asked him whether he should surprise Ventura by showing up at the party. Nash told the court he told Combs that he should.

Donaldson said that the invitation came two years after Nash said during his testimony that he witnessed Combs get violent with Ventura.

“Two years later, he asks you if you can come, you tell him to come?” Donaldson asked.

“Correct,” Nash testified.

Donaldson questioned Nash's claim about Ventura telling him that she didn't want to go to the hotel with Combs only after Nash spoke with Ventura, allegedly including about her trial testimony.

“You were helping Cassie out with her styling for her testimony? Donaldson asked. “You wanted to get the right clothing for her pregnancy?”

“Correct,” Nash told the court.

“You talked to her during the trial, correct?” Donaldson asked.

“Correct,” Nash testified.

“You would call her and ask her how she was doing, but not about the case, correct?” asked Donaldson.

“Yes," Nash testified.

Donaldson pointed out that Ventura’s testimony ended on May 16. On May 17, according to Donaldson, Nash met with federal prosecutors.

“May 17 was the first day you told them about 'making me go to a hotel,' correct?” Donaldson asked, referring to Nash's previous testimony about Combs allegedly taking Nash to a hotel where Ventura was.

“I don’t know,” Nash testified.

“The first time you told them about Cassie telling you about him making her go to a hotel was May 17, correct?” Donaldson followed up.

“It may have been something that they asked,” Nash told the court.

The continued cross-examination of celebrity stylist Deonte Nash established that he introduced Cassie Ventura to actor Michael B. Jordan.

“You observed Mr. Combs with someone else in Miami?” defense attorney Xavier Donaldson started to ask when Nash interrupted.

“No, no. You’re not putting that on me. That was another stylist,” Nash told the court, adding that a different stylist allegedly observed Combs with another woman and called Ventura to tell her.

“She was mad?” Donaldson asked, referring to Ventura.

“She was pretty angry but not really,” Nash testified.

Donaldson asked whether Nash consoled Ventura by telling her “I can hook you up with Michael B. Jordan.”

“Uh, uh, uh. That’s not how that happened," Nash told the court in response.

Donaldson asked, “You introduced her to Michael B. Jordan?”

Nash testified that he did, adding, “And 'Mia' drove it home by making sure she had the number.”

“'Mia,' being in an employee of Mr. Combs, was participating in breaking up Mr. Combs from Cassie?” Donaldson asked.

“Well, they were broken up,” Nash testified in response.

The defense attorney next asked whether Nash knew Ventura was once in a relationship with Andre Branch, to which Nash responded, “Oh, the cute football player?”

Nash testified that Ventura kept part of her life “secret” from him despite their close relationship, which he told the court endures to this day.

Nash testified Wednesday on direct examination that he heard Combs threaten to release sex tapes of Ventura but testified on cross-examination today that he didn't know if those tapes depicted her with men other than Combs.

“She told you that in 2013?” Donaldson asked.

“Yes,” Nash told the court.

“Between 2008 and 2013 you and Cassie, talking every day about best-friend stuff, she never talked to you about having threesomes with other men?” Donaldson asked.

“No,” Nash testified in response.

“That part of her life she kept secret from you?” Donaldson asked.

“Yes," Nash replied.

The case against Sean Combs is based primarily on the accounts of four alleged victims. On Thursday, the jury will hear from one of them, a former Combs employee testifying under the pseudonym “Mia.”

Federal prosecutors allege that Combs subjected “Mia” to physical violence, psychological torture and threats of financial and reputational harm that caused her to engage in sex acts with him.

“Mia” also allegedly kept a scrapbook that contained articles about Combs, which the defense wants the jury to see. “She loved Mr. Combs and wanted to promote his legacy,” defense attorney Alexandra Shapiro has said.

For prosecutors, “Mia’s” testimony is meant, at least in part, to convince the jury that Combs used forced labor as part of the criminal enterprise they allege he was operating.

Combs has denied running a criminal enterprise but a stylist who used to work for Combs and who was compelled to testify under a subpoena told the court on Wednesday that he committed crimes for Combs during his employment.

“Did you participate in any criminal conduct for Mr. Combs?” defense attorney Xavier Donaldson asked the stylist, Deonte Nash.

“Yes,” Nash responded. Donaldson did not ask Nash additional questions about which crimes he allegedly committed.

Nash, who remains a friend of Cassie Ventura, also testified Wednesday that he once time witnessed Combs beating Ventura “until her head hit the edge of the bed frame,” which he told the court drew blood and caused a gash by her eyebrow. Another time, according to Nash's testimony, Ventura wanted to escape Combs by climbing over a hotel balcony. Ventura ultimately left the hotel via a side exit, Nash testified.

Nash further testified that, while explaining an argument she was having with Combs, Ventura told him that Combs forced her into participating in unwanted sex with male prostitutes as part of so-called "freak-off" sexual encounters, allegedly telling Nash, “I don't want to go to the hotel and freak-off with him.”

Court resumes this morning with the defense continuing their cross-examination of Nash.