Singer testifies Sean 'Diddy' Combs threatened her with death after she saw him beat his girlfriend

NEW YORK – The Sean “Diddy” Combs enactment trafficking proceedings resumed Monday erstwhile a vocalist testified that the hip-hop mogul threatened to termination her if she told anyone that she saw him bushed his longtime girlfriend.

Dawn Richard told a assemblage successful Manhattan national tribunal that Combs issued the menace the time aft she witnessed the Bad Boy Records laminitis effort to deed Cassie with a skillet and past bushed her. She said helium told her and different pistillate who saw the onslaught that “we could spell missing” if either revealed what they saw.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Mitzi Steiner asked Richard what she took “we could spell missing” to mean.

“That we could die,” Richard responded, saying she was shocked due to the fact that each of this happened conscionable arsenic she was opening to grounds with “Diddy — Dirty Money,” a philharmonic trio she formed with Combs and different R&B singer.

Combs, 55, is connected proceedings successful New York connected enactment trafficking and racketeering charges alleging that helium exploited his status arsenic an amusement powerfulness broker to maltreatment women, including Cassie, done threats and violence. He has pleaded not blameworthy and his lawyers person argued that prosecutors compiled impervious of home violence, but not national crimes.

In 4 days connected the witnesser basal past week, Cassie testified that she wanted a loving narration with Combs during their astir 11 years unneurotic but was alternatively subjected to play drug-fueled “freak-offs” with antheral enactment workers that near her excessively exhausted and damaged to prosecute her euphony career.

Shortly aft Cassie finished testifying connected Friday, Richard began her stint connected the stand, saying she witnessed Combs onslaught Cassie connected aggregate occasions, including during a sojourn to Combs’ location signaling workplace successful 2009, erstwhile Richard said she and different pistillate saw Combs deed Cassie “on the caput and bushed her connected the ground.”

She said Combs tried to deed Cassie implicit the caput with a skillet, but Cassie was capable to deflect it.

On Monday, Steiner asked Richard however often she witnessed Combs bushed his girlfriend.

“Frequently,” Richard said. “He would punch her, choke her, resistance her, slap her successful the mouth. I saw him footwear her, punch her successful the stomach.”

Richard said that connected different occasions, she saw Combs punch Cassie successful the look with a closed fist and that she saw him punch her successful the tummy during an statement astatine a restaurant.

Cassie utilized makeup, covering and sunglasses to screen up injuries, which included bruising connected her face, eyes, lip, arms and knees, Richard said.

Richard testified that the beatings sometimes occurred erstwhile Cassie spoke up for herself, “if she had an sentiment astir something.”

At different times, she said, “it could beryllium random. We wouldn't adjacent cognize wherever it came from.”

Richard, who besides performed successful the radical Danity Kane, said Combs’ staff, including his bodyguards, besides witnessed violence.

“They wouldn’t react. They wouldn’t bash anything,” Richard testified.

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