Sean “Diddy” Combs‘ sexual trafficking and racketeering trial continued this week with explosive testimony from a former assistant who tearfully took the stand and levied serious allegations. The assistant, known only to the court as “Mia,” delivered shocking details alleging that Diddy sexually assaulted her several times and that she lived in fear of the mogul.
As spotted in Deadline and Complex, a woman who worked as an assistant to Sean “Diddy” Combs rose to the ranks of a high-ranking official in Combs’ Revolt Films. However, the ascension came with a series of conditions that, while alleged, were shocking in their descriptions.
Referred to as “Mia” throughout her testimony, the woman says she began her working relationship with Diddy in 2009, and that he initially greeted her in his underwear in their early days of working together. From there, Mia says she endured several alleged offenses, including rape, assault, abuse, all delivered under Combs’ rigid demands of obedience and around-the-clock working demands.
“It’s the most traumatizing, the worst thing that’s ever happened to me,” Mia said of the rape, assault and workplace abuse. “I was going to die with this, I didn’t want anyone to know ever.”
Mia was asked by prosecutors if she ever rebuffed any of Combs’ advances, to which she explained that she felt powerless to do so.
“I couldn’t tell him no about a sandwich,” Mia answered. “I couldn’t tell him no about anything. “
She continued, “There was no way I could tell him no, because then he would know that I thought he was doing was wrong, and then I would be a target. He would fire me and ruin my future and somehow twist the story into making me look like a threat. I knew his power, and I knew his control over me, and I didn’t want to lose everything that I worked so hard for or this like world that was the only thing that I had anymore.”
Mia was expected to face Sean “Diddy” Combs’ defense team, which involves cross-examining the witness today (May 30).
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