Sean "Diddy" Combs' trial centers on a significant security video from 2016 showing acts of violence against his girlfriend, Cassie Ventura. This evidence is disputed by the defense but strongly supported by prosecutors, who link it to serious charges of racketeering and sex trafficking, each potentially resulting in life imprisonment. A former hotel security guard revealed in court that Combs attempted to pay $100,000 to suppress this damaging footage, effectively highlighting his alleged intent and knowledge of the charges against him. Defense claims of domestic violence emerge, painting a grim picture of the situation.
"He was smiling, excited, just looked happy," the ex-guard, Eddy Garcia, said on the witness stand, describing the moment he handed Combs a USB thumbdrive containing what was then believed to be the only copy of the incriminating hallway footage. In return, he said, Combs showed him 'a brown bag and a money counter machine,' and began counting out $100,000 in cash.
"It is horrible. It's dehumanizing. It's violent," defense lawyer Teny Geragos told jurors, owning up to the brutality of the video in her May 12 opening statement. 'It is called domestic violence,' she told jurors.
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