He threatened to throw her in the East River. She was drugged. She watched him beat Cassie. She woke up with Diddy on top of her. He controlled when she ate, how long she slept. He even slammed her arm in a door. Today, former assistants, a stylist and security comfort to expose Diddy's alleged secret world of control, fear and violence. This isn't just about one man. This is about how silence power and unchecked manipulation destroys lives. And today, that silence ends. Joining me today is my co-host for the special series, Criminal Behavioral Analyst, My Girl, Laura Richards. Hey, Lisa, a lot going on still with the Sean Cames trial, right? Now we're hearing about the workplace. A lot about what it's like to work for Sean Cahem's. And that's very important in this trial. Let's just start with Capricorn Clark's testimony. I didn't know it could get worse until I heard what she had to say. Yeah, and I think hearing that with her job, it came with so many other aspects of coercion and fear. in particular the time the time that she talks about, five to six a.m. in the morning where Sean Comes appears at her home address, she's in bed, she gets out of bed in her pajamas, and he has a gun at her door, and he goes in, he says, get dressed, we're going to kill Kid Cuddy. I mean, absolutely terrifying. And, you know, a lot of people might not think about putting themselves in her shoes, but we have to. He's talking about killing Kid Cudi and wants her to go with him. So this is the part where we start to understand fear coercion, but he's using other people in his organization who are subordinate to him. Yeah, God. I mean, that alone would be so terrifying and just to stack onto this where it isn't that just that one thing. So he had her working from 9 a.m. to 4 a.m. on regular basis. She didn't get any breaks to eat on a good night. She would get four hours sleep on a bad night. She would get two hours sleep. She only earned $65,000 a year and even though she was doing overtime, she went to HR and they told her actually that they owed her $80,000 of overtime. She took that to Diddy and he just ripped it up in front of her. So now imagine these dripping effects and then this happens. So talk to me about the power of those dripping effects, the things that she had to endure, that then when Diddy comes and knocks on her door, she doesn't say get out, she doesn't call the police, that she actually ends up going with him. No, most people in her situation would not have a choice. Your boss is at your door, 5 to 6 am in the morning, and he's got a gun, and he's saying, get dressed, it's an order, right? It's a directive, and he makes her get in the car. So this is the kidnapping charge, and the fact that she does go, and he goes into the home address of Kid Cuddy, that's what she says, with a security officer of his, with Ruben, and she's outside, and she's really

panicking.

She genuinely believes that kid Cudi is in danger and she makes a call to Cassie.

But in making that call, she changes the name and writes storm for Cassie's number, because

she's fearful that he will find out.

And he does.

He comes out of the property.

He takes her phone, goes through it all, and now he's angry at her, and he makes her call Cassie, and she says to Cassie, he won't let me go until he will see you. And that was the demand of using her to get to Cassie. But even more so, this is a very important piece of her testimony because she's cooperating that it was Sean Combs who broke into Kid Cuddy's home. And we have to remember that part because it links to the arson. And yeah, so although people say there isn't concrete evidence that put Sean Combs at the break-in, well here we've got his assistant, former assistant, saying that he was there with Rubin and he went into Kid Cuddy's home and she was outside. And also that she was kidnapped and she was used to get to Cassie. This is the spider's web of coercive control. So her testimony, even if we just take that part, is incredibly powerful. Okay, I always like to ground this because us doing the series is really about how do we echo and actually help women with everything we're learning. So in that situation, he's forcing her to call Cassie. As a woman, that would be so difficult. There's a man right here he's threatening

me. I've seen him... women with everything we're learning. So in that situation, he's forcing her to call Cassie.

As a woman, that would be so difficult. There's a man right here, he's threatening me. I've seen him do these things so I know he probably isn't bluffing allegedly. But I'm about to call another woman and almost bring her into the trap to try to escape. Now I have, I have to compassion. I just don't know what I would have done. So what could you advise when someone's life is at thruhe?

This is a big thing, right?

Every case must be looked at. Now I have, that's a compassion. I just don't know what I would have done. So what could you advise when someone's life is a threat?

This is a big thing, right?

Every case must be looked at on its own,

on its own merit when you risk acess.

And in this situation, being in her shoes

when a gun is involved, and this is your boss

who you know when he says something,

he's gonna act on it.

I can understand why she submitted to his demands. This is co-action. Right? So we have to remember that. The second part is sometimes people call this, you know, that she's forning, that she's giving in, or she's not, she's being active in her own risk management. And Cassie's already in the trap, unfortunately. So she brings Cassie back in, but more so Sean Come says to her that you must tell Kid Cuddy and tell him that he must not involve the police. And if he speaks to the police, I'll kill you all. I'll kill you and Cassie. And she believes him. This is what keeps people silent. And people will say, well, she had her own free will and her own autonomy. Well, when a gun comes into play, that changes things. And I've had lots of cases where a perpetrator might just get his gun out of the cabinet and start polishing it or gets a knife out and starts cleaning it. That is a threat. It's a direct threat. So we have to understand that this is very real and it's credible. And you understand why someone submits to a demand and does something when there's a genuine fear to your life. She was fearful for Cassie's life too and for kid Cuddy's. And that's why she did what she was told. And you said risk assessment. I want to keep going through her testimony, but quickly could you give us maybe a bit of a foundation how we can do a quick risk assessment if we find ourselves in a dangerous situation. Yeah, so unfortunately with risk assessment there's no quick short cut to it, right? We can't hack it and that's why I created the dash risk assessment model, the domestic abuse stalking and harassment and on a base violence risk model and you have to sit with the person and go through the questions. So actually there's no quick hack to risk assessment, but I'm looking at victim's level of fear. So when someone's really terrified, normally there's good reason. Some of the standout things are coercive control. I'm looking for signs of coercive control within the dash more than half the questions talk to coercive control alone. So this level of coercion when you're in the spiders trap. I'm looking

for stalking. So two or more behaviors where there's fixation and or obsession. I'm looking for credible threat, credible threat to harm or kill and the victim believed them. So we know that when they're stalking and or coercive control someone makes a threat, half of them will act on it, one in two, 50%. That's how important risk assessment is. And probably if I asked each person who has testified, either as his former assistant or somebody who worked for him, if I asked them, when he made this threat, you're going to lose your job, you're going to be killed, you're going to be exposed, your family were going to be harmed. Did you believe him that he was going to do it? And I'm relatively confident that they would say, yes, I believe that that would happen. And the reason why is because we heard behaviors where he said he was going to do something and then he did it, where he suspended Capricorn Clarke because she did not tell him about Kid Cuddy and he just suspended her and then fired her. That's why every case you have to look at, you can't just bring in, oh, this is the quick risk assessment, this is the risk management plan, you have to really understand what's going on for someone. Okay, so thank you for breaking that down. If someone wants to go a little deeper, where can they actually find your dash risk assessment? So dashriskchecklist.com. OK. And anyone can use the dash.

That's really important.

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