DISGUSTING Day 1 for Diddy in Federal Court: “He Watched from the Corner” | United States vs. Sean Combs Day 1
Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield
Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield
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🗓️ 13 May 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Day One of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ federal sex trafficking trial opened with disturbing allegations and graphic, gut-wrenching testimony. From the $100,000 bribe in a brown bag… to baby oil, blackmail, and a witness who says he was too scared to go to police, Ashleigh Banfield walks you through the explosive opening statements, the brutal surveillance video, and the male escort who says Diddy watched from the corner, dragged Cassie by the hair, and later asked, “Are y’all ready to continue now?”
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody. I'm Ashley Vanfield and this is Drop Dead Serious and yes, I know. I don't look |
| 0:10.9 | like I normally look. I am traveling, so I'm coming to you from a hotel room. But that doesn't |
| 0:17.8 | mean that I have been covering the Diddy Combs case in New York. |
| 0:24.3 | Because I thought it was going to be big. |
| 0:26.6 | I didn't think it was going to be this big. |
| 0:30.1 | But this was not a good day. |
| 0:31.7 | I got to say, this was not a good day for Sean Combs. |
| 0:35.9 | It's never a good day if you're charged with sex trafficking and |
| 0:40.1 | racketeering, right, in federal court. It's never a good day. But on day one, when the |
| 0:45.7 | stories start coming out in narrative form to the jury that it is the good, bad, the ugly, |
| 0:51.2 | and there are more witnesses that we didn't know about. Yeah, you got your |
| 0:56.4 | uphill climb ahead of you if you're Diddy's Lawyers. And you know what? If you thought coming into |
| 1:00.7 | this thing, it was going to be he said, she said. Think again. It is not he said, she said. |
| 1:06.9 | It's like, he said they said. And when I mean they, I mean probably at least two or three corroborating |
| 1:16.3 | witnesses, not just one woman saying he did that and did he saying, no, I didn't. This is different. |
| 1:23.6 | If the prosecutors are right in their opening statements, there are more than one person in some of these incidents. |
| 1:30.3 | So I can't wait to hear from all of them, but today we heard from one of them and it was very, very powerful. |
| 1:37.3 | So important stuff. |
| 1:40.3 | If you have been thinking that there's this video, right, we've all seen it on the news. CNN had it. It was a beating. It was horrendous. It was in a hotel hallway in Los Angeles. And it's Cassie Ventura having that, you know what, kicked out of her by Sean Combs, by his own admission, right? He went on social media apologizing for it. |
| 2:01.2 | So it's out there. |
| 2:02.4 | It's him. |
| 2:03.0 | And he did that to her. |
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