The jury deliberating at Sean “Diddy” Combs’ intercourse trafficking trial heard testimony from 34 witnesses during the last seven weeks.They included Combs’ ex-girlfriends Cassie and Jane, who stated he compelled them into drug-fueled intercourse marathons they known as “freak-offs” and “lodge nights,” a intercourse employee they knew as “The Punisher,” private assistants who stated they witnessed his violence and facilitated his sexual exploits, and different ladies who accused him of abuse.The entire witnesses have been known as by the prosecution. Combs waived his proper to testify — common for prison defendants — and his protection group declined to name any witnesses of their very own. As a substitute, they sought to undercut the allegations through cross-examination through the prosecution’s case.Listed below are among the key witnesses and what they stated:CassieCassie, the R&B singer whose actual identify is Casandra Ventura, dated Combs from 2007 to 2018 after he signed her to his Dangerous Boy Information label. Over 4 days, she instructed jurors Combs beat her and ordered her to have “disgusting” intercourse with male intercourse staff throughout multi-day “freak-offs.” She additionally stated Combs raped her after she stated she was ending their relationship.In 2016, safety cameras captured Combs hitting, kicking and dragging Cassie as she left his room on the Intercontinental Resort in Los Angeles. The video was proven repeatedly all through the trial. A lodge guard testified that Combs paid $100,000 to cover the video. It remained secret till CNN aired it in Might 2024.JaneJane, testifying underneath a pseudonym, dated Combs from 2021 till his arrest final September. The mannequin stated she repeatedly instructed Combs she did not need to have intercourse with different males however that he saved pressuring her. She stated she felt “obligated” partly as a result of he paid her hire.Final yr, Jane stated, Combs put her in a chokehold, punched her within the face and compelled her into an encounter with a intercourse employee. She stated he instructed her: “You are not going to break my evening like this.” Each ladies stated Combs threatened to launch their intercourse movies in the event that they refused his calls for.Child CudiRapper Child Cudi testified that Combs broke into his dwelling in late 2011 after studying he and Cassie have been relationship. His Porsche was firebombed just a few weeks later. Cudi, whose authorized identify is Scott Mescudi, stated he knew Combs “had one thing to do” with it, however Combs instructed him he wasn’t concerned.Cudi stated he thought Combs was mendacity when he claimed he knew nothing concerning the automotive.Daniel PhillipDaniel Phillip, an unique dancer concerned in “freak-offs” from 2012 to 2014, stated he was paid $700 to $6,000 to have intercourse with Cassie whereas Combs watched and barked orders at them. He recalled the hip-hop mogul telling them: “You could rub extra child oil on one another. You do not have sufficient on.”One other time, Phillip stated, Cassie jumped into his lap — her physique shaking — after it seemed like Combs was slapping and slamming her round an adjoining room. He stated he stopped assembly the couple after seeing Combs throw a bottle at her earlier than dragging her by her hair right into a bed room as she screamed.”The Punisher”Sharay Hayes, an unique dancer identified by the stage identify “The Punisher,” stated Cassie used the ruse of a birthday striptease to lure him to his first “freak-off.” He recalled seeing child oil bottles in bowls of water and getting handed $800 in money. Later, after Combs watched him have intercourse with Cassie, he stated he was handed $1,200 extra.Combs saved his face hidden throughout their preliminary conferences, and Hayes stated he did not understand it was him till he noticed a message on a lodge room TV display that stated: “Essex Home want to welcome Mr. Sean Combs.”Capricorn ClarkEx-Combs worker Capricorn Clark stated Combs got here to her dwelling waving a gun the day of the break-in and demanded she dress and go along with him as a result of “we’ll kill Cudi.”After the break-in, Clark stated, Combs instructed her she needed to persuade Cudi “it wasn’t me.” “Should you do not persuade him of that I am going to kill all you,” he stated, punctuating his risk with an expletive, Clark recalled.MiaA former private assistant testifying underneath the pseudonym “Mia” stated Combs put his hand up her costume and forcibly kissed her at his fortieth celebration in 2009, compelled her to carry out oral intercourse on one other event and raped her in 2010. His legal professionals say the claims are false.Confronted on cross examination with loving texts she despatched Combs lengthy after her employment had ended, she stated: “I used to be nonetheless brainwashed.”Bryana “Bana” BongolanCassie’s buddy Bryana “Bana” Bongolan testified that Combs dangled her over the railing of Cassie’s seventeenth ground balcony and threw her onto patio furnishings in September 2016, leaving her bruised and traumatized.However protection lawyer Nicole Westmoreland uncovered holes in her story on cross examination, exhibiting that Combs was on tour on the East Coast in 2016 when she stated she suffered the bruises proven to jurors in an image she had taken of her accidents.George KaplanGeorge Kaplan stated he’d toss out liquor bottles and medicines and clear up child oil from Combs’ lodge rooms. He stated he give up after seeing Combs preventing with Cassie however did not report it to authorities. Kaplan stated he nonetheless sends Combs birthday greetings and invited him to his wedding ceremony. Kaplan instructed jurors he was grateful to work for Combs and nonetheless has “a substantial amount of respect” for him.David JamesDavid James testified that Combs had him inventory lodge rooms with child oil, condoms, Viagra and different provides whereas he labored as much as 20-hour days as a private assistant from Might 2007 to Might 2009. James stated he noticed Combs with three handguns on his lap as they drove to confront Combs’ document business rival Suge Knight in 2008.On one other event, he testified, Combs requested him to deliver his iPod from his residence to his lodge and, when no one answered the door, he went in and noticed Cassie on the mattress in a white comforter and a “utterly bare” man he didn’t acknowledge who walked “throughout the room and type of scurried away.”Brendan PaulBrendan Paul, who labored as a private assistant to Combs for about 18 months ending in March 2024, stated he purchased medicine for Combs together with cocaine, ketamine, ecstasy and marijuana.His employment ended when he was arrested at a Miami, Florida airport for possession of cocaine, which he testified got here from Combs’ room.Deonte NashCombs’ legal professionals confronted movie star stylist Deonte Nash with messages he despatched expressing love for Combs. A few of them have been from 2019 and 2020, two years after their skilled relationship ended.A reluctant witness for prosecutors, he nonetheless gave them perception into the connection between Cassie and Combs, saying Cassie was “very often” left with bruises to her legs, arms and neck, moreover an incident when Combs left her with a big, bloody gash above her eye throughout a beating.Daybreak RichardDawn Richard, a singer within the Dangerous Boy Information teams Danity Kane and Diddy — Soiled Cash, testified that she witnessed Combs appearing violently towards Cassie, together with swinging at her with a skillet and beating her in 2009. She says Combs made a risk, which she took as a loss of life risk, if she did not preserve quiet.Combs’ legal professionals contend Richard’s story has been inconsistent and that she is motivated to talk in opposition to him as a result of she is suing him