NEW YORK (AP) – A former personal assistant of Sean “Diddy” Combs who says he has raped her on Monday that she was still loving SMS messages after her job had ended in 2017 because she was “brainwashed”.
The woman, who testified for a third day under the pseudonym “Mia” during the Federal sex trade process of the Music Mogul, used the word as a lawyer Brian Steel confronted her with skepticism and even suggested that she had invented her claims.
Combs, 55, has not guilty of sex trade and racketeering costs. His lawyers admit that he could be violent, but he denies the use of threats or his powerful position in the music industry to commit abuse.
Steel let Mia read aloud for the jury for the jury of countless loving SMS messages she sent to Combs, including an in 2019 in which she said she had a nightmare that she had been caught in a lift with the singer R. Kelly and combs save her.
“And the person you sexually abused did you come to the rescue?” Steel unbelieving asked. He recovered and asked if she really dreamed of being saved by a man “who you terrorized and caused your PTSD?” Officers of Justice objected and the judge contracted it.
It was one of the many objections during a combative cross -hearing of Mia during the trial, now in the fourth week, in which various witnesses from the government have been softened softer by lawyers of the defense and even spoke positively about combs.
In a 29 August 2020, message to Combs, Mia remembered happy highlights from her eight years that worked for him – such as drinking champagne in the Eiffel Tower at 4 o'clock in the morning and rejecting Mick Jagger's offer to take her home – said she only remembered 'De Goede Tijden'.
In the same message, Mia once called 'Bamboozled' by a woman. Steel asked why she did not say that Combs had also chosen her, given her accusations.
“Because I was still brainwashed,” Mia replied.
Asked to explain, Mia said in an environment where “the highlights were really high and the lows were very low”, she developed “enormous confusion in the trust of my instincts.”
When Steel suggested that her attack claims were made up, Mia replied: “I never lied in this courtroom and I will never be in this courtroom. Everything I said is true.”
She said she felt a moral obligation to pronounce after others came forward with allegations against combing.
“It has been a long process. I am uncresponding things. I am in therapy,” said Mia.
Mia remained composed days after she testified combs, kissed her with violence and her molested her on his 40th birthday shortly after she started working for him in 2009, and months later raped her in a room in his house in Los Angeles.
She testified last week that his subsequent sexual attacks were “random, sporadic, so strangely distributed where I would think they would never happen again.”
Public Prosecutors criticized Steel's two -day cross -hearing, which is strongly dependent on the history of Mia's social media.
Assistant American lawyer Maureen Comey accused him of screaming and humiliating the witness, and argued that taking years from her social media reports – including birthday greetings and praise for the business successes of Combs – was excessively and largely irrelevant.
“We cross the threshold in prejudices and harm this witness,” Comey told the judge during a break, while jury members were from the courtroom.
She warned that Steel's approach during the controversial trial could prevent victims from witnessing in the future in other cases.
Judge Arun Subramanian said: “I have not heard of Mr Steel and I have not heard anything that was sarcastic in the questions.” Nevertheless, he warned steel about the excessive use of questions about Mia's social media messages that praise combs.
