Diddy’s trial update: Ex-aide revealed that Sean Combs installed tracking devices in ex Cassie’s car and took away their phones

One of Sean "Diddy" Combs' former assistants, "Mia," recounted feeling petrified for herself and Cassie in her testimony today.

As the s*x trafficking and racketeering federal trial against the Bad Boy Records founder rages on, one of his former employees, who is going by a pseudonym, took to the stand to reveal that Diddy was fully aware of her private text exchanges with his former girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, because he had everything tapped.

“He has stolen my phone many times, he has stolen Cassie’s phone many times, he has put tracking devices on her car. I'm not sure what he's capable of. I was terrified," she said.

Mia's testimony against Diddy is explored as she claims to have suffered incredible abuse at his hands: Read more

During her testimony, Mia alleged being abused, s*xually, verbally, and physically at the hands of Combs. She claimed to have been on the short end of his temper tantrums many a time, adding that she was “psychologically” under his grip."

“Nobody acted like what was happening to me was wrong, and his threats about that he was going to tell Cassie about what happened made me internalize blame and shame,” Mia testified, per CNN. “He threatened to tell Cassie quote unquote ‘everything,’ which made me feel like I had done something wrong. I don’t know how to explain what that does to a person,” she added.

Diddy and Cassie Ventura, another one of his alleged victims, dated for well over a decade. Ventura had filed a lawsuit against Diddy in 2023, accusing him of molestation and abuse, though the case was settled within the next 24 hours. Currently eight months pregnant with her husband Alex Fine's third child, she has been a key witness in his ongoing trial.

During her trial, while Mia claimed to have shared a close bond with the R&B songstress through her job, she also claimed that there were certain times she had been prohibited from speaking to her about certain "truths" by Diddy:

“One of the worst parts was being put in the middle and having to cover up for Puff (Combs) to Cass (Ventura), which he forced me to do constantly.”

When defense attorney Brian Steel asked her if she had ever advised Ventura to leave Combs, she said:

"Not in the way I wish I could have." She added, “I remember covering for him when he forced me to and feeling terrible about it. However if I didn’t, he would’ve taken me away from her.”

In her testimony, Mia also alleged that everyone around Combs "upheld his behavior and punishment toward me." She said it was "an abusive relationship, a cycle of violence" and that she was "always searching for approval and confused what I had done wrong," she testified, per USA Today.

"I don't know how to explain it. I was young and manipulated. There were no streaming documentaries, no one was standing up," Mia added.

During the cross-examination, Steel pushed back on Mia's testimony by presenting several of her own old social media posts, where she can be seen favoring the now-disgraced mogul.

"Happy birthday, Puff Daddy. Thank you for being the good kind of crazy," she penned in one such post, adding that she loved him wholeheartedly.

As pointed out by USA Today, Steel pointed out that this was five years after she claimed Combs first allegedly s*xually assaulted her.

"When the highs were high and the goods were good, you tried so hard to stay in that," Mia said. Steel pressed on, "Haven't you said you've been sexually assaulted so many times that you can't even remember?" Mia responded: "I don't remember phrasing it that way."

In another part of the trial, Mia recalled an instance on a yacht, which Combs had chartered 15 years ago in St. Barts. At the time, he asked his former aide to count the cash he had in his safe. She initially protested, claiming that the security was better at it, she eventually gave in, though Diddy was unhappy.

"He got really irate with me," Mia said. "You better learn to walk on water like Jesus did," she recounted Diddy allegedly saying to her. "I just wanted to run and hide and figure out a way out of St. Bart's, to get away from him," she added.

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Mia also accused Diddy of consistently threatening to take away her livelihood or suspend her. At the time of writing, it remains unclear who Mia is, though courtroom drawings depict a woman with blonde tresses, cut in a sharp bob.

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