Former Danity Kane band member, Dawn Richard, takes the stand for the prosecution in Bad Boy Entertainment CEO, Sean 'Diddy' Combs' RICO trial...
From NY Post
Singer Dawn Richard saw Sean “Diddy” Combs beat his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura “often” — including once coming at her with a skillet, knocking her to the ground, a Manhattan court heard Friday.
Richard — a former singer in the Combs-founded girl group Danity Kane — told jurors she first witnessed the music mogul attack Ventura in 2009, apparently in a rage over his breakfast.
“He came downstairs angry and was saying ‘where the f–k was his eggs,'” Richard recalled at Combs’ federal sex-trafficking trial.
The singer and the other Danity Kane members were recording in the studio of Combs’ Los Angeles mansion, when they witnessed the incident — in which he was “screaming, belligerent, asking where his food was.”
The Bad Boy Records founder then took a skillet with eggs inside and tried to hit Ventura over the head with the pan, Richard recounted.
Ventura managed to partially deflect the blow from the pan by balling up into the fetal position on the floor — but Combs continued his vicious beating, Richard said.
“He started to punch and kick her … body and her head,” Richard testified.
Combs then put his arm around Ventura’s neck and his hand on her head and dragged her up the stairs, Richard told the court.
“I was scared for her and scared to do anything,” she said, adding that she didn’t step in or call the cops, partly because “I had never seen anything like that before.”
The next day, Combs allegedly summoned her and the other artists back to his home, where he locked them in the recording studio and threatened them, Richard said.
“He said what we saw was passion and what lovers in passionate relationships do,” Richard recalled. “He said [Ventura] was OK and it would be in our best interests if we didn’t say anything.”
Combs told them he was trying to take them to the top of the industry before menacingly saying, “where he was from, people go missing if they talk,” Richard testified.
Then Combs gave them flowers, Richard said.
She said she understood he was threatening “death.”
19 comments:
So they watched Cassie get her a$$ kicked and no one called the cops? I can’t. All of these people including Cassie let money and fame corrupt them. Morality be d@mned. 😌
Like her husband said, Cassie saved herself.
"Richard testified that Combs threatened them to keep silent by saying, “Where he comes from, people who say something can end up missing.”"
@8:06 I hate when people talk real tough while armchair quarterbacking. Diddy has mob ties, paid off government official, including cops, blew up kid Cudi's car, possibly orchestrated Pac and Biggie's murders and who kmows who else, but they were supposed to run and tell it. Lol. Grown men who call themselves gangster were scared of Diddy.
Let's hear Dawn speak!
@9:37 AM, so you'd feel the same way if she saw a young child being abused that way? Everyone around him should keep their mouths shut and turn their backs because he supposedly has mob ties? I guess in your world no one should ever stand up to bullies? When are people supposed to do the right thing when they see something wrong? Let you tell it, it folks should be more fearful of this man instead of God, which he is not. FOH.
Dawn lying thru her face. Why are they bringing witnesses to DV instead of evidence that she was trafficked.
10:26 thank you!
9:37 there is power in numbers. Imagine if those ladies would’ve have called the police? Diddy would’ve been arrested because California is a mandatory arrest state for DV. He would’ve been put on the radar. He might’ve ran NY but he wasn’t running ish in LA.
The police are on his payroll, then what?
Allegedly, Aubrey was contact and will not testify.
Maybe it’s because I grew up in the ghettos of nyc that Diddy doesn’t put fear in my heart. And I’m the same age as Cassie. Nobody in NY ever talked about being afraid of this man. He would've been jumped.
Yea. I'm from NY. Nobody scared of a DL demon trying to hide his evil. No way Im gonna stand by while you beat a skinny young girl with a skillet. They should've jumped him immediately. It would've been for his own good.
You guys just really know all you think you would’ve done had you been there. Really!?!? NY or not, none of y’all have been in that situation feeling threatened and trying to find a career from a true rich powerful mogul who owned anyone and anything in his path. Shut up
He deserves to be exactly where he is.
Uh. 227 that wasn't the point. The point was do you stand back and watch a girl get hit with a frying pan? She could've been hit knocked out and killed at that point. Even by accident. That's not OK.
You cant do that in front of anybody. For some, no matter who you think you are, that's a no no
He acted like a monster. I can imagine all those around him suffered some type of PTSD. If someone called the police anonymously I seriously doubt they would've done anything. I bet they were called more than once. I called child services to report child abuse. They really didn't do anything but the call was still necessary.
I believe Dawn but she most likely never said anything because she was more worried about her career than Cassie's safety. Besides, she probably knew Cassie wasn't going nowhere anyway
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