Sean 'Diddy' Combs trial updates: Cassie Ventura breaks down as testimony concludes (2025)

May 13, 10:11 am

Dawn Richard testifies about seeing Cassie 'attacked' by 'screaming, belligerent' Combs

Dawn Richard, a member of music groups Diddy Dirty Money and Danity Kane, testified to the jury she "observed Cassie being attacked" by Sean Combs in his Los Angeles hotel in 2009.

"She was attacked by Sean Combs," Richard testified. "He came downstairs screaming, belligerent, asking where his phone was, and proceeded to hit her in the head and beat her on the ground."

Richard testified she was in the residence recording at the time.

"He said 'where the f--- is his eggs,'" Richard testified. "He took the skillet with the eggs" and took a swing at Ventura, Richard alleged.

She testified that Ventura dropped to the ground, "literally trying to hide her face or her head."

Richard has made similar allegations in a civil lawsuit filed against Combs in 2024. Combs has broadly denied the allegations contained in the lawsuit.

The defense objected to many of the questions put to Richard by the prosecution so the judge adjourned the court and instructed the jury to return 8:30 a.m. ET Monday.

Court is scheduled to adjourn each day next week at 3 p.m. ET

Special agent's testimony concludes as prosecution calls Danity Kane's Dawn Richard to the stand

Federal agents seized a small black fanny pack from Combs’ hotel room containing $9000 cash, Binda testified.

Binda used scissors to cut open an evidence bag, extracted the cash and fanned it for the jury to see.

Defense attorney Marc Agnifilo has previously said Combs had come to New York in September 2024 to negotiate a surrender prior to his arrest.

At the time, Binda testified, Combs was staying in a Midtown hotel room containing $9,000 cash, illegal drugs, baby oil, lubricant and a device that the federal agent testified could be used for “mood lighting.”

Binda's testimony has concluded as the prosecution calls former member of the pop and R&B group Danity Kane, Dawn Richard.

Special agent testifies to drugs, baby oil in Combs' hotel room at time of arrest

The night Sean Combs was arrested in New York he was in possession of illegal drugs kept under an alias, a federal agent testified Friday.

Combs was arrested at the Park Hyatt hotel in Midtown Manhattan on Sept. 16, 2024.

Special Agent Yasin Binda of Homeland Security Investigations, the prosecutions next witness, walked the jury through what she testified was the search of the room at the Park Hyatt, which she said turned up a pill bottle containing clonazepam under the name Frank Black, an alias Cassie Ventura testified Combs used.

There were also glassine bags containing pink powder that tested positive for ketamine and MDMA, the agent testified. The jury was allowed to examine the exhibit.

“This shows five bottles of baby oil that were found in the bathtub,” Binda said, showing the jurors an image of the baby oil.

The jury was shown another photo of a Ziploc bag containing bottles of baby oil, and a photo of lubricant she said was found in a nightstand.

Jurors were also shown a photo of a device that Binda testified could be set up for “mood lighting,” which Ventura testified were the kind of supplies Combs had in hotel rooms for "freak offs."

Cassie Ventura, Alex Fine share statement through attorney after 4-day testimony

Cassie Ventura, through a statement read by her attorney Douglas Wigdor outside court, thanked her supporters for their kindness and vowed to never forget what she says Sean Combs did to her.

"I hope that my testimony has given strength and a voice to other survivors and can help others who have suffered to speak up and also heal from abuse and fear. For me, the more I heal, the more I can remember, and the more I can remember, the more I will never forget," she said in a statement.

Her husband Alex Fine, in a statement read by Wigdor, commended Ventura for her bravery testifying for four days in front of "a person who tried to break her."

"So to him and all of those who helped him along the way, please know this: You did not break her spirit nor her smile that lights up every room. You did not break the souls of her mother, who gives the best hugs and plays the silliest games with our little girls," Fine said in the statement, calling Combs a "demon."

He also rejected the notion that he was the one who helped Ventura escape Combs, saying such a suggestion is an "insult to the years of painful work my wife has done to save herself."

"Cassie saved Cassie. She alone broke free from abuse, coercion, violence and threats. She did the work of fighting the demons that only a demon himself could have done to her. All I have done is love her as she has loved me. Her life is now surrounded by love, laughter and our family. This horrific chapter is forever put behind us," he said.

-- ABC News' Peter Charalambous