Cassie Ventura’s mom, male unique dancer, former assistant testify

In a quick redirect, Hayes was requested extra about Ventura’s time throughout their intercourse scenes with Combs.

Prosecutor Meredith Foster requested in regards to the “one time” Ventura appeared to take pleasure in herself however requested Hayes in regards to the different occasions the place she would apparently “wince” and “sigh.” Foster requested whether or not her focus was on Combs.

Hayes stated that there was a “constant consciousness” to Combs and “his notion and his wishes of the second.”

Hayes then left the witness stand.

In a dozen or so sexual performances, Hayes by no means had the sense Ventura was uncomfortable with all of it, he testified.

The intercourse employee agreed with protection legal professional Xavier Donaldson’s main questions that Ventura wasn’t in any “discomfort” whereas performing in entrance of Combs.

“It appeared prefer it was consensual so far as I used to be involved,” Hayes stated, agreeing with Donaldson’s description of Combs as a “director” of the scenes.

David James, Combs’ former private assistant, testified earlier at this time that the mogul as soon as requested him to file a police report alleging Combs’ private chef assaulted him.

James instructed the courtroom he did not do it as a result of he did not need to make a “false report.” The incident occurred in Alpine, New Jersey, in accordance with James, however a date was not given.

Information of 911 calls to Combs’ former Alpine residence obtained by NBC Information present that police have been known as March 22, 2008, over a problem with Combs’ private chef. It is unclear if this was the identical incident James was referring to when he did not file a report.

A person named David James instructed police the chef was fired and left upset however “said that there have been no threats” made by her, in accordance with the report. Police suggested Combs and James that it was a civil matter.

“Mr. Combs was happy and simply needed to make this a matter of report because of his superstar standing,” the report stated.

The primary encounter with Ventura and Combs led to a wholesome tip and extra gigs, Hayes stated.

“She stated, ‘Thanks, that is what we needed,’ and I used to be handed further cash. I counted it on the elevator and it was $1,200,” Hayes stated of that first encounter at Trump Tower. “I now know he’s Mr. Sean Combs. I used to be contacted a second time to go to the Essex Home.”

In complete, Hayes estimated he carried out for the couple from eight to a dozen occasions.

He stated he was known as to the primary rendezvous by a lady who known as herself “Janet,” however it did not take lengthy for him to comprehend who his shoppers have been — one of many greatest names within the music trade and his well-known girlfriend.

“Additional alongside the road, I noticed his face. He would put on a baseball cap and I seen his face. Mockingly, I’m a fan and comply with him on Instagram,” Hayes stated of Combs.

Hayes stated he received the nickname “The Punisher” as a youngster due to his prowess on the basketball courtroom.

Regina Ventura and Rodrick Ventura, left, mother and father of Cassie Ventura, at this time in New York Metropolis.

Choose Arun Subramanian adjourned the courtroom for its day by day lunch break.

The male stripper nicknamed “The Punisher” stated he was paid $800 to create a “horny scene” for Combs and Ventura, all whereas conserving eyes off the music mogul.

Hayes stated he was known as to a Trump Tower resort suite within the fall of 2012, and was greeted on the door by Cassie “carrying a bathrobe and nothing on beneath and he or she had a wig.”

He was handed a “sack of cash” with $800 inside as Ventura instructed him to “create a horny scene of me and her making use of child oil on one another and create a horny surroundings that her husband would come up on,” the witness stated.

“She stated don’t acknowledge her husband, strive not to have a look at him and no communication,” Hayes added.

The federal government’s subsequent witness is a person named Sharay Hayes.

Hayes, 51, works as an unique dancer who goes by the identify “The Punisher.”

Protection attorneys selected to not cross-examine Cassie Ventura’s mom, Regina Ventura, permitting her damaging testimony to face uncontested.

Protection lawyer Marc Agnifilo stated, “I do not need any questions for you.”

Regina Ventura’s testimony about Combs threatening her daughter over a intercourse tape and abuse was left uncontested.

Regina Ventura as soon as known as the police on Combs after her daughter, Cassie, instructed her that Combs had taken her cellphone.

Ventura testified that she had a “bitter argument” exterior her daughter’s condominium constructing as she tried to get the cellphone again. Ventura was inside her condominium on the time, she stated.

“I used to be attempting to hit him however I wasn’t profitable,” the mother instructed the courtroom.

Ultimately, Regina Ventura stated that Combs gave the cellphone again and took her daughter’s automotive as he left.

Regina Ventura stated she took photographs of her bruised daughter in late 2011 to make a report of the alleged beatings by the hands of Combs, Cassie Ventura’s boyfriend on the time.

“She was bruised and I needed to verify we memorialize it,” the mom instructed jurors in regards to the photographs taken that December.

Prosecutors revisited an electronic mail Ventura despatched to her mom in December 2011 that stated Combs threatened to launch specific movies of herself after he discovered she was relationship Child Cudi.

“I used to be bodily sick,” Regina Ventura stated. “I didn’t perceive it, the intercourse tape threw me. He was attempting to harm my daughter.”

She testified that Combs needed $20,000 for the video. She stated Combs was “indignant” that he had spent cash on Cassie Ventura and that she was with one other particular person.

“We took a house fairness mortgage and that was the one manner we may get the cash,” Regina Ventura stated.

Combs’ former private assistant is completed testifying, and the federal government has known as its subsequent witness, Regina Ventura.

Ventura’s mother has been sworn in and prosecutor Emily Johnson will start the questioning.

Combs did not all the time get alongside together with his former private chef Jourdan Atkinson, James stated.

After one bodily confrontation between Combs and Atkinson in Alpine, New Jersey, Combs requested James to report Atkinson to police, James stated.

“He instructed me to make a police report that Chef Jourdan hit him first,” James testified. “I didn’t file it as a result of I didn’t need to make a false report. I went out and got here again and instructed him I made the report.”

David James testified to an argument that turned bodily between himself and Combs’ chef, after which Combs’ instructed James that “you may’t put your palms on a lady.”

James instructed the courtroom he was in Miami in Combs’ kitchen when the chef instructed him tips on how to do his job. The previous assistant admitted to grabbing her wrists and telling her “to remain in her lane.”

“Mr. Combs heard about it and known as me to his room,” James stated. “I instructed him what occurred and he stated, ‘You may’t put your palms on a lady.'”

It was one among two events when Combs warned James that he could possibly be fired, James testified. The opposite time was when James smoked marijuana, he stated.

James disclosed he was testifying underneath an settlement with prosecutors, although there’s been no proof to this point that he would wish authorized safety.

The protection has been pushing James to reveal any offers he may need made with prosecutors to testify, significantly in regards to the “Mel’s Diner incident” when Combs and his crew allegedly armed themselves to search for rapper Suge Knight.

James stated he had signed a proffer, a authorized settlement that usually protects witnesses from prosecution for what they are saying on the witness stand.

However to this point, there’s been no proof any crime was dedicated in opposition to Knight by Combs’ crew on the early morning journey to Mel’s Diner in Los Angeles that will point out James wants safety from prosecutors.

Combs’ safety element usually included a second automotive when the rap mogul was touring, David James stated, as his crew was “suspicious” of anybody “pulling up on him to shoot him.”

James testified that folks usually would attempt to contact Combs or ask for his autograph, which his former boss would not signal. He stated workers would signal objects and ship them out on Combs’ behalf.

“I do not assume gracious is a phrase I might use to explain him,” James stated.

The safety element would additionally inform James, “you recognize what rhymes with drained? Fired.” Although James stated he admitted to Combs he was drained as soon as after working a purple gentle, however James didn’t get fired for it.

In a trial full of lurid and disturbing particulars of sexual abuse, the promise of “mundane” questions was welcomed within the courtroom.

In his cross-examination of James, protection lawyer Marc Agnifilo instructed the witness that he had “a number of extra mundane questions.”

“I like mundane questions,” James answered, drawing laughter from the gallery.

James recalled how a lot he admired Combs and his need to work for him.

“I wore (Combs clothes line) Sean John early on,” James recalled. “I used to be learning overseas in London in 2004, individuals would come as much as me and say the place did you get Sean John from and I understood his international attain, his model. I needed to work for him, he was profitable, self-made, a superb marketer.”

Diddy’s protection legal professional, Marc Agnifilo, took over David James’ cross-examination. He began by asking James why he did not present extra particulars on the Suge Knight incident.

James responded that the story stopped as a result of he was instructed “to not say something that will incriminate himself.” Agnifilo requested a couple of prior assertion by which James stated he was contained in the diner, however James stated he did not keep in mind it.

James stated he was “shook” after seeing the will by Combs’ crew to seize weapons and confront Suge Knight at a Los Angeles diner in 2008.

The witness recalled an incident when the crew was out getting a late snack at Mel’s Drive-In when Combs’ confidante D-Roc noticed the Loss of life Row Information chief there and stated, “That is mom f—— Suge Knight.”

James stated that Combs’ crew met up with the music mogul again at his home and he armed himself with three handguns to go and presumably confront Knight. The incident, James testified, is what prompted him to stop.

“I used to be actually shook up by it,” James stated. “This was the primary time as his assistant that I noticed my life was at risk. I instructed them I need to go away however give six months discover so I may prepare the subsequent assistant.”

James recalled how he as soon as received excessive on ecstasy at a New Yr’s Eve get together, and Combs allegedly stored a video of James dancing on the get together.

“‘OK, I’ll maintain it if I want it,'” James stated, quoting his then-boss. “He thought it will be embarrassing for me.”

This minor element may assist prosecutors construct their higher narrative that Combs allegedly used his enterprise to manage individuals in his sphere.

Combs introduced in a lie detector take a look at and carried out it on James no less than twice whereas James labored as his assistant.

James instructed the courtroom that in his first 12 months working for Combs, some cash went lacking and Combs had a former FBI agent who specialised in polygraphs to interview him.

“It was very intimidating,” James stated. “I had by no means taken a lie detector take a look at earlier than.”

He added that the second time he took a lie detector take a look at was after a watch went lacking. James additionally testified that Combs’ safety searched his garments and drawers when a Cartier bracelet went lacking.

David James testified that he walked right into a resort room to ship objects for Combs when he noticed Cassie in a resort mattress with a person he didn’t know within the room.

The previous assistant stated he was in Miami in 2008 when Combs requested James carry his iPad to the couple’s resort room. When nobody answered, James testified that he used his key to let himself in.

James stated he noticed Ventura apparently sleeping with a comforter pulled as much as her neck whereas Combs was within the bathe. He testified he noticed a person with lengthy hair stroll throughout the room.

“I by no means spoke to them about it, I simply thought they have been doing private issues,” James stated. “I by no means had conversations with Cassie or Mr. Combs about their private affairs.”

James instructed jurors that Combs did not journey gentle and had a protracted laundry record of things to be packed in his in a single day baggage.

The music mogul’s Louis Vuitton recurrently carried $10,000 in money “and typically far more,” James stated.

Combs’ drugs bag included 25 to 30 undisclosed capsule bottles together with Advil, Tylenol, Viagra, “tablets to extend sperm rely,” and water tablets, James stated. He later added that Percocet and ecstasy have been within the drugs bag and that he witnessed Combs taking them.

The witness additionally stated he was instructed to purchase child oil, Astroglide and condoms for journeys in money in order that Combs may reimburse him, personally, off the corporate books.

David James stated he did not witness any bodily violence between Combs and his former girlfriend, however testified that he did see a weblog put up alleging that Combs hit Ventura at a membership.

Combs allegedly searched James’ laptop historical past and have become upset, telling James that somebody was mendacity. The previous assistant known as it “jarring” as a result of Combs had by no means searched his laptop historical past earlier than.

James seemed for the put up, he stated, as a result of Ventura had been staying on the London resort for per week and he was tasked with bringing her meals. However Combs’ private workers was the one answering the door.

“I used to be stunned, I used to be anticipating to see Cassie,” James stated. “She often answered the door.”

Ventura testified final week that Combs put her up within the London resort after allegedly attacking her at the back of a automotive whereas leaving an occasion. She instructed the courtroom that she did not really feel as if she may go away and that Combs’ safety was current.

David James returned to the witness stand for his second day of testimony. He seemed to be carrying the identical blue swimsuit and white shirt as yesterday. 

Courtroom is formally in session, kicking off day seven of Combs’ trial.

David James, Combs’ former private assistant who will testify at this time, was seen arriving at courtroom shortly after 8 a.m. 

Different arrivals this morning embrace attorneys for Combs: Anna Estevao, Xavier Donaldson, Alexandra Shapiro, Teny Geragos, and Brian Metal.

Combs arrived in courtroom this morning carrying a sweater over a white shirt.

Three witnesses testified yesterday on how Combs appeared to manage Cassie. 

The witnesses have been: Daybreak Richard, a singer in Combs’ former lady group Danity Kane, Ventura’s former finest pal Kerry Morgan, and David James, a private assistant who labored for Combs from 2007 to 2009. 

Richard recalled how Combs would allegedly punch and choke Cassie. Morgan testified that she witnessed Combs assault Cassie twice, as soon as in Jamaica and as soon as in Los Angeles. Morgan additionally testified that Combs assaulted her in Cassie’s dwelling, resulting in a falling out between Morgan and Cassie. James testified that Ventura instructed him Combs managed her profession and cash. 

The seventh day of testimony in Sean Combs’ trial ought to begin with continued questioning for his former private assistant, David James.

James gave compelling testimony yesterday, vividly recalling particulars of his two-year stint at Combs’ facet.

The witness was emotional at occasions, shedding tears as he described a few of the higher days and extra rocky occasions Combs and Cassie loved.

Jurors will get a extra insider’s have a look at the luxurious — and sometimes tumultuous — life-style Combs led with Cassie Ventura.

After James’ testimony, the federal government is predicted to name three witnesses at this time: Sharay Hayes, Regina Ventura and Jourdan Atkinson.

Hayes is an unique dancer referred to as “The Punisher,” whereas Regina Ventura is Ventura’s mom, and Atkinson as soon as labored as a private chef for Combs.

Final week, Cassie described how Combs directed her to rent male intercourse employees to participate in “freak offs,” usually lengthy and drug-fueled orgies choreographed by the defendant who watched in the identical room.