Dawn Richard says that Diddy threatened her with death after seeing him Cassie

New York (AP) – singer Dawn Richard told the jury among the jurors Sean “Diddy” Combs' The sex trade on Monday that the hip-hop mogul threatened her if she told someone that he was physically abusing his long-time girlfriend.

Richard said Combs the threat the day after its witness of the Bad Boy Records founder Punch and Kick Casandra “Cassie” Ventura after taking a swing on her with a pan. Richard said he had told her and another woman who saw the attack that “we could be missing” if they didn't stay still.

The deputy US lawyer Mitzi Steiner asked Richard what “we could be missing”.

“That we could die,” replied Richard and said she was shocked because all of this happened when she received with Diddy – dirty money, a musical trio with comb and another R&B singer.

Richard announced the alleged threat when she returned to the witness stand to start the second week of the testimony in sex trade and in the extortion procedure before the Federal Court of Manhattan.

Combs, 55, is accused Use of his entertainment power broker status Women, including Cassie, have been abused by threats and violence for two decades from 2004 to his arrest last September. He did not know his guilty. His lawyers argue that prosecutors created evidence of domestic violence, not the federal crimes with which he is charged.

Before the end of Day's end, Cassie's best friend of 17 years and a former personal assistant from Combs said that she felt trapped when the prosecutors tried to uncover the proof that Combs had a criminal clarifying that was based on employees who help to control Cassie and other women in his life.

The testimony about Combs' strikes by Cassie was hardly mentioned that the drug fouls “freak-offs” dominated the testimony last week when Cassie explained over four days how her wish for a loving relationship with Combs instead led to her weekly sexual achievements with male sex workers, which she left to pursue her musical career.

Richard remembers violent outbreaks

Richard, who began her certificate on Friday and was completed on Monday, said she saw Combs attack Cassie several times during a visit to the Combs' Home Reciting Studio in 2009, when Richard said she and another woman saw Combs Cassie “on her head and defeated her on the floor” after Cassie had deflected a blow on her head from a five -part.

Richard said she saw Combs frequently struck his girlfriend when he “hit her, she choked, dragged her, drags her, hit her into her mouth. I saw her kicking her, punching her in his stomach.”

Beats came when Cassie said for herself: “If she had an opinion about something,” said Richard, who also appeared in the Danity Kane group.

She said that Combs employees, including his bodyguards, also experience violence, but they would not react. You would do nothing.

Richard supported Cassie's testimony that Combs Cassie's young vocal career had suppressed and said that she said Combs Cassie said that he “owned” her and that every success she had was on his conditions.

Richard said that Combs – sometimes violent – when she and other artists offer to help Cassie to write songs.

Defender Nicole Westmoreland suggested that Richard had to be agreed because she was angry with comments because she ended Danity Kane and Diddy – dirty money, and because she has a pending lawsuit against him.

“Did you feel that Mr. Combs did not ruin her career once but twice?” Asked Westmoreland.

“Yes,” replied Richard.

However, she claimed that at the end of the groups she was sad and not angry and chambers sued because he abused and held her income back.

Bad Boy signed Cassie in 2006 for a 10-album deal, but only published a one-the self-titled “Cassie”, which came out in the same year. Cassie and Combs started dating in 2007 and finally separated in 2018.

Cassie's former best friend remembers violent outbreaks

After Richard testimony came from Kerry Morgan. She said she was Cassie's long -time best friend until she had a dispute after a concussion when Combs suffocated Morgan and hit her in 2018 when he came to Cassie's home of Los Angeles that Cassie was angry.

Morgan said she would sue Combs, but Cassie met her in a pizza salon and had her signed a confidentiality agreement in return for $ 30,000, as she accused her of “milking” the attack and “overlapping”. Morgan and Cassie both said that they have not spoken since then.

Morgan, a reluctant witness, who recognized that she only said in response to a government blame, said she had defeated Combs at least twice, even if she was so heavy on a trip to Jamaica when Combs was angry that Cassie took too long in the bathroom that she was “switched off”.

She said she encouraged Cassie to end with him after realizing that the very confident woman she had met her in 2001 during modeling on gigs and who had “lost her spark” for a while and had accepted a sunken attitude when she sat down at the needs of Combs. But she said Cassie hesitated to leave combs.

“He checked everything. She would have lost all her livelihood,” said Morgan, noticing that Combs paid for Cassie's car and apartment and was under contract with Bad Boy.

Cassie said last week Although she continued to go to the recording studio and worked on songs, Combs refused to publish her.

“He was responsible for her career,” said Morgan, adding that Cassie was sometimes frustrated that her music was not released.

Ex-employee says that Kämmen Cassie were described as “very formable”

David James, who acted as a personal assistant of Combs from 2007 to 2009, began to cry when he said when he interviewed for the job for the job, one of the lieutenants of the hip-hop heavyweight showed a photo of combs on the wall and told him: “Mr. Combs' kingdom. We are all here to serve him.”

James' employment collapsed with the early days of Combs and Cassie's relationship. He remembered that she was amazed and perhaps overwhelmed by the high -flying, globetizing paths of Combs.

“Man, this lifestyle is crazy,” he recalled that Cassie smoked cigarettes on a dock with her best friend Morgan Morgan.

James, who will return to the booth on Tuesday, said he suggested Cassie to leave combs when she felt uncomfortable, whereupon he said, she replied: “I can't. I can't get out. You know, Mr. Combs monitors so much of my life.”

James remembered having talked to Combs about the women in his life on another occasion. Combs, he said, described his long -time girlfriend Kim Porter, the mother of some of his children, as “my queen”.

When the topic turned to Cassie, James said that Combs told him: “She is good. I have her exactly where I want her. She is young.”

James remembered combs that Cassie described as “very formable”.