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Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy

The Trial: Star Witness

Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy

ABC News

True Crime, Music, News

4.7972 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

With no cameras in the courtroom, one of the key people taking in every word and noting reactions in the courtroom is ABC Coordinating Producer Tonya Simpson who’s there with her pen and notebook. We’ll get her take on the dramatic testimony of Cassie Ventura, the government’s first major witness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Right, that's it. Come on, lights out. You've got a test tomorrow.

0:02.8

Just two minutes. I'm about to reach the next level.

0:05.4

It's going off now.

0:06.8

Yeah, whatever.

0:07.9

Let's see. Where's the app? Oh, here it is.

0:11.0

What? How?

0:12.3

Oh, no, you're out. Better look next time.

0:15.0

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0:16.1

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0:18.9

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0:27.8

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0:29.3

A warning that this episode includes discussion of violence, sexual assault, and suicide.

0:36.0

So please take care when listening.

0:39.5

This week, USA v. Sean Combs has been mostly about one witness, singer Cassie Ventura,

0:46.8

who was in a romantic relationship with Sean Combs for over a decade.

0:51.7

Cassie brought the first civil lawsuit against Combs in 23. It included

0:56.6

allegations of sex trafficking and was settled quickly with no admission of guilt. This week,

1:03.0

we learned through her testimony the amount of that settlement, $20 million. For a long time,

1:10.4

that lawsuit was the only look we had into her experience with

1:14.1

Sean Combs. I remember when we were researching earlier episodes of this podcast, the lawsuit was one of the

1:21.0

very few sources of information we had to draw from to try to understand her side of things.

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