Former Diddy protégé to continue testimony at trial

(NewsNation) — Sean “Diddy” Combs’ federal transgression proceedings continues Monday with grounds from the euphony producer’s erstwhile protégé Dawn Richard, who archetypal took the witnesser basal late Friday afternoon. 

Richard follows the weeklong grounds of pb witnesser Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, who was successful a narration with the euphony shaper for a decade.

The vocalist was a subordinate of Combs-created euphony radical Danity Kane from his MTV world amusement “Making the Band.”  

Richard testified Friday that she witnessed Combs physically onslaught Ventura connected respective occasions, including erstwhile with a “skillet afloat of eggs” astatine his home. 

“He came downstairs asking wherever his telephone was, and helium threw her to the ground,” she told jurors, adding that Combs “proceeded to deed her connected the caput and bushed her connected the crushed successful beforehand of us.”

“He attempted to footwear her, she fell to the crushed and went into the fetal position, virtually trying to fell her head,” Richard testified. 

“I was frightened for her and frightened to bash anything, " Richard said. “I had ne'er seen thing similar that before.”

Richards sued Combs past year, accusing him of carnal abuse, groping and intelligence maltreatment during the years they worked together.

Prosecutors opened their lawsuit with Ventura, who testified the time aft opening statements.

During her testimony, Ventura discussed fearing for her information and being forced into the intersexual encounters called “Freak Offs.” 

But defence attorneys argued that each the intersexual acts were consensual, and though helium could beryllium violent, helium ne'er veered into enactment trafficking and racketeering.

After giving her grounds portion successful late-stage pregnancy, Ventura released a connection saying: “This week has been highly challenging, but besides remarkably empowering and healing for me. I anticipation that my grounds has fixed spot and a dependable to different survivors, and tin assistance others who person suffered to talk up and besides heal from the maltreatment and fear.”

Prior to Richard, a instrumentality enforcement cause concisely testified that drugs, currency and babe lipid were recovered successful Combs’ Manhattan edifice country erstwhile helium was arrested past September.

The Associated Press contributed to this story.