Sean 'Diddy' Combs trial updates: Court is adjourned until Tuesday

As Sean Combs then-personal assistant, David James, testified that he was required to ensure Sean Combs' hotel rooms were stocked with 40 different skin care products, a Luis Vuitton bag that routinely contained $10,000 cash, and “probably 25 or 30 different pill bottles.”

James testified that he procured drugs for Combs, sometimes prescription Percocet, which he told the court he sometimes filled under his own name.

“Did you give him or anyone else permission to fill prescriptions in your name?” prosecutor Christy Slavik asked, referring to Combs.

“I don’t recall that,” James answered.

James also testified that Combs allegedly took ecstasy pills marked with the face of former President Obama. Asked how often he saw Combs take drugs, James responded, “I would say every day.”

Obtaining and distributing narcotics is among the alleged racketeering acts in the indictment against Combs.

In his testimony, James recalled taking ecstasy and dancing around one of Combs’ parties. Later, James testified, Combs reviewed footage of the party, noticed James in the footage and allegedly told him, “I’m going to keep this footage in case I ever need it.”

James also testified he stocked Combs' hotel rooms with baby oil, Astroglide lubricant, condoms and prophylactics that he paid for in cash provided by one of Combs' security guards.

James further testified that in 2008, Combs asked him to bring an iPod into a hotel room in Miami. Since James had set up the room he had a key and opened the door to let himself in, he told the court.

“I saw the Cassie on the bed. She had a white comforter up to her neck, her head to the side and she did not move when I entered,” James testified. He also told the jury that he remembered a “gentleman” in the room he did not recognize.

“He was completely naked, about 5 feet, 8 inches" with a “very large endowment,” James testified.

The man “scurried out as if he didn’t want to be seen,” James told the court.

Sean Combs’ one-time personal assistant, David James, returns Tuesday to the witness stand, where he became emotional Monday when testifying about his job interview with the vice president of human resources at Bad Boy Records.

“We were sitting at her desk and there was a picture of Mr. Combs on the wall,” James began his Monday testimony before choking up at the memory. “She pointed at the wall and she said, ‘This is Mr. Combs' kingdom. We're all here to serve in it,’” James alleged.

James worked for Combs from 2007 to 2009, he told the court, during which time he testified that he witnessed Combs allegedly attack his personal chef, a woman named Jourdan Atkinson, who is expected to testify later this week.

James also testified on Monday that Ventura once told him she could not leave Combs because he controlled too much of her life.

“She was, like, ‘I can't, I can't get out,’ you know. ‘Mr. Combs oversees so much of my life,’” James testified.

James is expected to testify on Tuesday about a time when Combs and others allegedly went to confront record executive Suge Knight at a restaurant named Mel’s Diner. Ventura had previously testified about the alleged incident.

“Sean and I were having a 'freak-off' at one of his homes in LA. And, um, I just remember we were kind of, like, just chilling at this point. And D-Roc came in and he said that Suge was down at Mel's Diner, which was just right down the hill. And they quickly packed up and drove down there,” Ventura testified last week. “I was crying. I was screaming, like, please don't do anything stupid.”

Combs' attorneys are trying to convince the jury that jealousy and drug use caused him to be violent. Federal prosecutors contend that Combs' violence was meant to coerce Ventura into so called "freak off" sex performances with male escorts. One of those escorts, whom Ventura previously testified that she knew as “The Punisher,” is expected to testify Tuesday.

Cassie Ventura’s mother is also expected to testify Tuesday regarding video recordings of "freak offs" that her daughter described in previous testimony as “blackmail materials,” as well as about about injuries on her daughter’s body that the jury has already seen in photographs.

Tuesday's witnesses are expected to include an alleged escort known as "The Punisher," as well as Cassie Ventura's mother, prosecutors said on Monday.

The trial entered its second week on Monday.

Former Sean Combs assistant David James took the stand for the prosecution. He testified that he remembered interviewing to be Sean Combs’ personal assistant at the headquarters of Bad Boy Entertainment on Broadway, during which time someone remarked on a photo of Combs hanging on the wall.

“This is Mr. Combs’ kingdom. We’re all here to serve it,” James testified the woman told him.

James told the jury about what he said were demanding hours, the weapons Combs’ security staff allegedly carried and the time James said he, Kerry Morgan and Cassie Ventura were smoking cigarettes on Combs’ dock in Miami Beach.

“She said to me, ‘Man this lifestyle is crazy,’” James testified of Ventura. “She said, 'I can’t get out.' You know, 'Mr. Combs oversees so much of my life. He controls my music career, he gives me an allowance.'”

James also told the jury that part of his job was ensuring that hotel rooms in which Combs would stay were stocked with items Combs wanted.

Court adjourned just after 3 p.m. ET. Prosecutors said Tuesday’s witnesses will include an alleged escort known as “The Punisher,” as well as Cassie Ventura’s mother.