Hello and welcome to another episode of Drop Dead Serious. I'm Ashley Banfield. As always,

Atlas is in the studio with me. So every so often, you'll hear a little earth or arf or a clearing of his

throat. But he's my trusty sidekick, so he's just going to be here.

We're now day eight, if you can believe it, of Diddy's federal sex trafficking trial. And if you

thought it couldn't get any darker, today somehow it did. The jury saw photos of sex toys and

assault rifles. They heard from a psychologist who's made a career

testifying in abuse cases, and they listened to a former assistant describe how he was told

to clean up baby oil and drug residue and used condoms from hotel rooms. After his boss, Sean Diddy Combs checked out.

Point of personal order here.

I, too, work with a staff.

And if they ever complain about me, I will remind them that staff members had to say in a federal

courtroom that they cleaned up their

bosses used condoms. So in retrospect, I can't possibly be so bad. Imagine being that employee

up on the stand having to tell that story. You're going to hear a lot more about that in just a

minute. The prosecutors say

all of this is evidence of a pattern of behavior, and that is control, coercion, and corruption,

with the highest boss in the enterprise calling the illegal shots. So let's just get right into how

the day unfolded. The morning began

with a shake-up of sorts. Yes, that was just a sneeze from Atlas. The federal prosecutors

announced that Kid Cuddy, the famous rapper and the former boyfriend of Cassie Ventura,

would not, in fact, be taking the stand today today despite earlier plans that he would.

It had apparently something to do with his scheduling.

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