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Some celebrities are reportedly fearful about being known as to testify within the Sean “Diddy” Combs intercourse trafficking trial and have employed legal professionals.
“I’ve heard that there are some celebrities fearful about being known as to testify and have even lawyered up attempting to struggle that,” TMZ founder Harvey Levin tells Fox Information Digital.
“I believe (rapper Child) Cudi and Cassie have been the star witnesses, however I do not know who else the prosecution has up their sleeve,” Levin mentioned. “I don’t know what is going on on behind the scenes there, however they have 4 weeks left of testimony earlier than they hand it over to the protection. We’ll see. However what they clearly are doing is cobbling collectively what they declare is proof past an affordable doubt that he has dedicated these numerous crimes.”
Levin didn’t element which celebrities is perhaps known as to testify.
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TMZ founder Harvey Levin informed Fox Information Digital this week that he’s heard some celebrities are fearful about being known as to testify within the Sean “Diddy” Combs intercourse trafficking trial and have even lawyered as much as attempt to struggle it. (Getty Photos/Jane Rosenberg)
Diddy’s ex, Cassie, rapper Child Cudi and singer Daybreak Richard have already taken the stand.
The rapper went on trial this month after being charged with racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking by power, fraud or coercion and transportation to interact in prostitution.
On Wednesday, arson investigator Lance Jimenez, who investigated the automotive hearth that broken Child Cudi’s Porsche past restore in 2012, and Diddy’s former stylist each testified.
Sean “Diddy” Combs with then-girlfriend Cassie (Getty Photos)
Jimenez testified he believed the Porsche was focused after Child Cudi’s testimony that he thinks Diddy was concerned in setting the automotive on hearth. Child Cudi had been relationship Cassie on the time, whereas she was on a break from Diddy.
Jimenez informed the jury he believed somebody lit a Molotov cocktail and dropped it into the cut-open roof of Child Cudi’s automotive.
Arson investigator Lance Jimenez, who investigated the automotive hearth that broken Child Cudi’s Porsche past restore in 2012, testified on Wednesday. (SDNY)
He mentioned he tried unsuccessfully to achieve Diddy’s assistant on the time concerning the vandalism. The assistant testified she hung up on him as a result of she “needed this entire factor to be over.” Jimenez additionally tried to achieve Cassie.
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A sketch portrays Cassie Ventura, a witness within the Sean “Diddy” Combs trial, on the stand in Manhattan federal court docket in New York on Might 16, 2025. (Jane Rosenberg)
In keeping with Jimenez, no prices have been introduced within the automotive hearth case, however he by no means closed the case. It’s at the moment listed as “inactive.”
Following Jimenez, Diddy’s former stylist, Deonte Nash, testified that he witnessed the rapper threaten Cassie usually, calling her names like “b—-” and “s—” and allegedly warning that he would “beat her a–.”
“I’ve heard that there are some celebrities fearful about being known as to testify and have even lawyered up attempting to struggle that.”
— Harvey Levin
He claimed he additionally noticed Diddy hit her greater than as soon as, together with a time when he came to visit to her home unannounced and allegedly beat her till she was bloody, telling her, “Look what you all made me do.”
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Child Cudi leaving court docket on Might 22 (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox Information Digital)
Nash additionally testified that Diddy as soon as choked him, accusing him of going out with Cassie with out his permission.
The prosecution has been targeted on Cassie within the Diddy trial up to now, which consultants beforehand informed Fox Information Digital is their “star witness.”
Daybreak Richard testified to witnessing the alleged abuse Cassie Ventura suffered by the hands of Diddy. (Elizabeth Williams through AP)
Levin informed Fox Information Digital if the jury believes Cassie’s earlier testimony that Diddy confirmed her a intercourse video from a “freak off” he filmed whereas on an airplane returning to New York from Cannes, threatening to launch it until she did one other freak off with him in New York, “I believe they might nail him definitely because it pertains to Cassie as a result of that clearly would present coercion.”
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He added, “So, I believe Diddy has a giant downside there if the jury believes it. Diddy additionally has an issue with the interstate transportation of intercourse staff, I believe.”
Sean “Diddy” Combs sits on the protection desk earlier than the beginning of jury choice in Manhattan federal court docket on Might 5, 2025, in New York. (Elizabeth Williams through AP)
However Levin mentioned he wasn’t clearly seeing proof of racketeering.
“Once you have a look at all the issues he did, he is burglarizing Child Cudi’s home and going not for cash or medicine or jewellery or something like that. He’s going for the Christmas current that he was going to provide Cassie, after which he torches Cudi’s automotive, after which makes threats towards her mom. This appears like a crazed, legal, jealous boyfriend,” Levin mentioned. “And I do not suppose it essentially exhibits him to be a racketeer.”
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Levin mentioned Diddy did allegedly use his workers to do “numerous issues, however often whenever you discuss racketeering and arranged crime, you are speaking about having an undercover unlawful enterprise, promoting medicine, operating weapons, doing hits on individuals. He is not promoting medicine. He is utilizing individuals to assist him purchase medicine. That, to me, will not be racketeer. So I’ve a sense. At the very least at this level, the jury isn’t bought on that.”
