The eighth rapper’s judgment day Sean “Diddy” Combs For extortion and sexual trafficking, it happened on Wednesday (21) and listened to three witnesses.
GERARD GANNON special agent of internal security investigations responsible for searching at the Miami Beach Combs House in March 2024, was the first to witness and resumed his testimony from Tuesday (20).
Dawn Hughes clinical psychologist and certified forensic, witnessed as “blind specialist” and provided the jury information on domestic violence, sexual aggression and traumatic stress.
George Kaplan Former Comb executive assistant, he invoked his fifth amendment right not to witness earlier today, alleging potential self-binding, but Judge Arun Subramanian indicated that he would sign an order of immunity that would require Kaplan to witness.
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Gerard Gannon, special agent responsible for HSI
- The jury saw photos of a sex toy and a pair of red high -heeled shoes which, according to Gannon, were found in the cabinet of a main room in that house. About 18 pairs of high -heeled platform shoes and three cell phones were also found, he said.
- Other photos that the jury saw included boxes full of bottles of baby oil and personal lubricant. Twenty -five bottles of baby oil and 31 lubricant vials were found in that closet, said the special agent.
- Gannon, who was assigned to the HSI people trafficking group at the time of the search, witnessed on Tuesday (20) on other items he said were found in the closet, including “higher and lower air-15s receptors.” The search was linked to a trafficking investigation, he said.
- The investigators also found drugs. A gucci bag in the cabinet contained a variety of tablets, a white powder and a “a rock -like crystalline substance,” Gannon said. The tests gave positive cocaine and ketamine, according to a court stipulation. Traces of MDMA and Alprazolam were also found.
- In the witness bench, Gannon lifted a bag of evidence full of backed bullets from a pistol.45 Carried found in what he called the “guard room.”
Dawn Hughes, psychologist
- At the beginning of her speech, the professional said she was witnessing as a “blind expert” which provides the jury some information on domestic violence, rape, sexual aggression and traumatic stress.
- Hughes also witnessed that it is very common for victims to remain in abusive relationships and that aggressors often use various abusive methods, besides physical violence, to make victims feel trapped. Sexual abuse, Hughes said, is “a very personal damage,” which can make it difficult to seek help from an abusive relationship. “They experience tremendous shame, humiliation and degradation,” she said. Hughes said it is common for victims to use substances to “anesthetize.”
- Abusive relationships often involve love and kindness, besides abuse, witnessed Hughes. A traumatic bond can cause the victim not want to leave a relationship, she said. Often, several attempts are needed for victims to go out of abusive relationships.
- The psychologist explained that resources are necessary for the victim to leave the relationship and, when the perpetrator controls his general life expenses, it is difficult for the victim to see a way out.
- It is uncommon for victims to talk about abuse at the time it occurs, Hughes said. “Many victims wait months, until years, before telling what happened to them,” she said. Victims of abuse often use a minimizing and evasive language by reporting abuse, he witnessed. Hughes also said that victims tend not to remember every specific moment when they were abused.
- Hughes is an experienced expert witness, having witnessed in cases such as the defamation trial of Amber Heard and Johnny Depp in 2022 and in Nxivm founder Keith Raniere’s criminal trials and singer R. Kelly. She is receiving $ 600 per hour for her work and $ 6,000 for a day of testimony in court, he said.
- The judge previously decided that Hughes could not witness on certain topics, including the idea of coercive control, nor could he talk about the accusers’ credibility in this case.
- Defense Lawyer Jonathan Bach CAracterized Hughes as a trendy professional witness And asked the psychologist about the training she gave to victims who perhaps needed to testify in court. Hughes said he believed that the group he was talking about received a funds from the Justice Department under the law of violence against women. When Bach asked if she had already witnessed in defense of a man accused of sexual crime, she confirmed: “I don’t evaluate aggressors” .
- Bach questioned Hughes about six meetings she had with prosecutors about her statement, some of which took place since the trial began. The professional and prosecution maintained that the prosecutors did not discuss details of the case with her.
- US Assistant Attorney Mitzi Steiner confirmed that Dawn Hughes was hired as a specialist witness by one of the Comb defense lawyers in another case, Brian Steel. Bach said he worked with Steel, but did not give testimony in the case.
George Kaplan, former Comb executive assistant
- Kaplan witnessed that he worked from 80 to 100 hours a week coming to work in the morning until 7am the next day. He said he received about $ 125,000 and communicated with Combs daily, exchanging text messages, calls and emails several times a day about things he needed, which could include “clothes or possibly food from somewhere, drugs, alcohol, an iPad or a speaker.”
- The former assistant witnessed that Combs threatened him with almost monthly jobs and even criticized him for not having bought the right thing in the store.
- When Combs traveled to various destinations, such as New York, Miami, Atlanta, Washington, DC and Orlando, Kaplan flying on Diddy’s private jet or took a commercial flight in advance to prepare the rapper’s hotel room. Kaplan said she received a suitcase with clothes, speaker, candles, alcoholic beverages, baby oil and lubricant. Then he bought the same items with his corporate card to prepare the Comb room.
- Kaplan said she came to understand that part of her role was to protect the image of Combs. The understanding of the former tycoon of the tycoon was that Combs would receive guests or a partner in the hotel rooms, witnessed. After Combs left a hotel room, Kaplan entered, packaged his belongings and arranged the scene, witnessed Kaplan. Usually there were bottles of isotonic, bottles of alcohol and baby oil, scattered throughout the hotel room after Combs left, he said. On one occasion, he cleaned a “crystallized brown powder” of a bench, witnessed Kaplan.
- The former assistant testified that he bought drugs for Combs with the money he gave him once in Miami and one in Los Angeles. He once bought MDMA and, at the other, did not know which substance was, as he witnessed himself.
According to People, the American rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs 55, would have spoken For the first time on the court On Tuesday (20). According to the vehicle, when leaving the trial on Tuesday, Diddy expressed affection for the viewers and asked a message to be transmitted.
This Thursday (22), Kaplan will continue to witness in direct interrogation. On this date, the testimony of rapper Kid Cudi is also expected.
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