The Breakfast Club - Hang It Up Flat Screen ( Diddy former assistant takes the stand)

Episode Date: May 30, 2025

Today on the show Loren recaps yesterday's trial of the Diddy's case, and it looking like Diddy is staying in jail. After his former assistant Mia took the stand, Jurors and proscutors seem to have all the information they need! check it out YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an iHeart podcast. I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything and everybody. You hear that exclusive? You know if you don't lie about that, right? Lauren came in hot. Hey, y'all, it's Lauren LaRosa, and this is the latest with Lauren LaRosa. Now, look, whenever we hear on the pod, y'all know I keep it really honest, really real with y'all, because this is where you get your daily dig on entertainment news, pop culture, exclusive news,

but the conversations that shake the room. And if we're doing the behind the scenes of the grind check-in. Back on the grind. Grinding. Man, I'm trying to say a float right now. God is so good and I'm managing everything, but y'all know I'm in court,

which shakes up majority of my day, and then I'm doing breakfast club, and then I got y'all know I'm in court, which takes up majority of my day, and then I'm doing breakfast club, and then I got y'all to hear on the podcast. And yesterday, I was really sitting in court like, if I'm being honest with myself, this case is over. Like, how am I feeling? I'm feeling like, do I need to be in court every day? This case is over, I'm still gonna go, all right?

You be telling me to be quiet, when you leave, I start talking again. I'm still gonna go, but right, you be telling me to be quiet when you leave. I start talking again I'm still gonna go but if I'm being you know, just transparent I do think that the government has established their case to the point that they need to so maybe it's the government should rest at This point and did he seem should come in with their case because I'm very confused about what that gives So I want to have a conversation about that because that goes into how I'm feeling today I'm torn in between the like, you know, of course I'm gonna see it all the way through. But like, I don't know, I just I'm a little tuned out. And I know y'all probably are too has been diddy diddy diddy diddy diddy diddy diddy diddy diddy diddy diddy diddy diddy diddy diddy diddy diddy diddy diddy diddy diddy diddy diddy diddy diddy diddy

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It's not put you under the jail strong in my opinion, but it is strong. Um, so I'm trying to figure out why the government is even still bringing on witnesses. It's not put you under the jail strong in my opinion, but it is strong. So I'm trying to figure out why the government is even still bringing on witnesses. I think at this point, we're just kind of like beating a dead horse. So let's talk about that a bit. Let's get into it. All right, y'all, if I'm being honest, I really don't understand why we are still in court. I feel like I know Diddy's team still wants to present their side, you

know, like their witnesses and their arguments and response to certain things. And I actually would honestly, so maybe it's not I understand why we still in court. While the prosecution just doesn't rest right now, I think at this point, they can sit back, they can let Diddy's team come try and debunk whatever they want to debunk, bring on whichever witnesses they want to bring on. But I really think that we've established everything that we need to know and understand for the charges that they are alleging. I still stand by the fact that I don't think that he is going to be under the jail, the way that they threw this out there when the indictment first came. But he's definitely not going home. And that for me was wrapped

up with a bow, maybe second week of testimonies, right? But yesterday in court, we heard the final testimony cross testimony, or cross interviews by Deontay Nash, who is very close friends, best friends with Cassie Ventura, but also her stylist. And he spoke to a couple different things as well to setting her up with Michael B. Jordan. And, you know I think the defense was really trying to poke holes in the fact of their friendship like okay so you've been friends with Cassie for all of these years and for all of this time but for years she didn't tell you about these these you know alleged sexual encounters she was having and she never said to you like

basically she didn't paint this full picture to you. So how credible are you even here as a witness as her best friend? And how credible is what you saying to us about because Deontay's whole thing was Cassie had always said she didn't want to go to these hotels. She didn't like doing certain things. She basically was like on this like very high high very low low ride with Diddy because she was in love with him. And she, everything in her life was controlled and wrangled by him.

The defense attorney that was, that worked for Diddy that was trying to, you know, cross examine Deontay Nash. I don't think that they really had a, and this has been my thing with them the last couple of days. It's like, where is, what's your focus? Like, what is the point that you are trying to get conveyed to the jurors? Because I'm a normal person. I'm not a juror, but I am a normal person

like a juror. And I'm sitting there and I'm like, I don't understand what he's trying to get to. And the one thing that I feel like he finally came around to, which was Cassie didn't have any say so she didn't have any power. She didn't have a mind of her own. And debunking that they did a horrible job at it. Because every time they would bring up okay, so Cassie was able to make she didn't have a mind of her own and debunking that they did a horrible job at it because every time they would bring up okay so Cassie was able to make her own decisions and you know Deontay would be like I mean yeah but at the same time like I've also seen Diddy allegedly be very

violent with her I understand at this point like he Deontay presented as the friend who you fear for your friend you You know how bad things get for your friend in their situation. But it's like what am I going to do? Besides just be there with you, go through the motions of what you're going through. You know there were certain times where he was telling Kat like there were certain times where even Cassie was texting him like he's mad that I stood up for myself talking about Diddy, allegedly, right? And Deontay was like, oh, I understand.

Deontay was like, they were reading the text. And it was about Cassie seeing how there was one time when they flew into Mexico and Diddy allegedly was so pissed off because she like posted something online or whatever it was, she was standing up for herself in a certain situation. And as they're reading the text message, Cassie's like, you know, it's my turn to be a bitch. Like I, you know, he's mad when he doesn't get his way and I'm tired of it. And I deserve these vacations

because of what I went through. Deontay said, yes, Cassie, I understand. Like he's one of those friends that it's like, I know what's happening. What am I supposed to do? Later on in testimony after him with the woman who testified as Mia, we also learned, and Deontay talked a bit about this,

about like the things that Deontay experienced at the hands of Diddy and Cassie's relationship with being you know berated verbally. Mia testified and corroborated you know Deontay getting into a physical altercation with Diddy trying to basically save Cassie from being physically beat by Diddy in her home while packing for a trip. Mia alleged that Deontay came, I don't even think it was that he came prepared. I think it was more so of a this is my story, this is my truth and I'm sticking with it and there's nothing you're gonna do to like rattle me because this was a real thing for us. They even brought up text messages with Deontay where Deontay had text Diddy and said things like, you know, text him on his birthday, text him when Kim Porter passed away.

And there was a conversation back and forth between Deontay and Diddy when he texts them following Kim Porter's, you know, just checking in on them. And Diddy was asking him like, why you didn't tell me about the trainer? And he was like, the trainer, the trainer, and my soldier boy voice, and Deontay in the text said, look, that ain't got nothing to do with me, don't do that. That has nothing to do with me whatsoever. And Diddy was telling him like, you know,

if she ever needs anything, let me know. So he was like that middle person. And to be honest with you, I think anybody, any human being sitting in that courtroom yesterday, listening to Deontay and seeing how the defense was trying to angle him as this person who wasn't credible because Cassie didn't tell all her deep, darkest secrets to him for some time. Or because there were there were like small things that he that I think they brought up text message like the conversations with Diddy like basically trying to establish that him and Diddy had their own relationship and things of that nature and none of that matter. Because what Deontay made very clear was when I would reach out to him, we had our own relationship outside of that. And even with Cassie's 29th birthday,

Diddy planned her a surprise dinner in LA. And Cassie testified that this surprise dinner actually turned into her being forced allegedly to go and do a freak off that she did not want to do. She wanted to just do dinner and then go do karaoke with her friends because it was her birthday. Deontay came in and cooperated that talking about uh you know hearing Diddy and Cassie in a corner and he alleged that Diddy was saying like you know you can't do this one thing for me. He also alleges that uh you know he had heard Diddy say that know, that night they were going to, it was so funny. He was like, when he said it, he was like, your girl gonna get some dick tonight, no, of course it was like, but he, he, Deontay as a friend,

number one, he was a great witness. He was very entertaining, but as a friend, he assumed that role that I think a lot of people have had to assume at some point in their life where it's like, there's nothing you can do to control grown people, especially two grown people in love or in chaos or whatever that was. And the defense couldn't, there was nothing they could do with it. They, and I think that they would have actually been better

leaving him and not asking Deontay certain questions than trying so hard to get to a point that they were failing miserably to get to with him. But then we move into Mia. Mia is a former personal assistant of Diddy's. She also was the person who launched Revolt Films for him, and she was the director of development for Revolt Films. And Mia is not her real name. She's testified under pseudonym. And I just actually made a phone call to ask why. And I was told that it's just because it's what she wanted

and what she requested. The other witnesses up until this point have not requested it, but her testifying under a pseudonym meant that, like when I tell y'all the courthouse was like, if they even saw you sketching something while she was on the stand, they assumed that you were drawing her face

and they would come over and monitor you and monitor everything that you were doing. face and they would come over and monitor you and monitor everything that you were doing. Like they were so serious about making sure that her identity and you know, her infamy like certain things just didn't get out. But they put me on a stand after Deontay and they then began to break down like how she even got my notebook, how she even began to work for Diddy. So she says that, you know, she was a former

employee of his, she began working with him like very early, very young in her career. She had had a couple other jobs prior to him. She had worked for Georgina Chapman. She was doing like red carpet like celebrity dressing. She worked for Mike Myers, the comedian as a personal assistant. But she says working for Diddy between 2009 and 2017 was probably one of the most she she she described it as they had very high highs and very low lows. She said that you know she was a personal assistant prior to it Mike Myers but they had a set schedule things were you know 10 to 6 she might have to watch his dog on the weekends and then she got with Diddy as a personal assistant and things were allegedly completely different. Like she talked about

one time not even being able to sleep for like five days when she first started because she was nervous that she would get a phone call and miss something and she would lose the job. One of the things that I think the prosecution did really well with Mia was even though a lot of this stuff that she was talking about, we've heard her talk about multiple times, they were able to really paint a more closer picture on things that I think a lot of people are brushing over and not understanding why we're even talking about, right?

Like, so they've talked to other personal assistants and previous employees about just being overworked and being, you know, allegedly forced to do things work wise that they didn't want to do but they were scared to lose their job or their money or, you know, be blackballed, allegedly. So she talked about from the jump her very first interview with Diddy. She alleges that there was a woman who was the head of HR and she had been, you know, in conversations prior to but her her first in-person interview,

this woman took her to Diddy's home to do the interview. That to me was already off. I'm like, why are you interviewing somebody's house? And this is your first interview with them. But I'm like, hey, I've never been a personal assistant, so maybe that's a thing. But she says that she went to Diddy's apartment and Diddy answered the door allegedly in his underwear.

And then the woman who was the head of all of HR for him at this time, introduced them and then left. And I'm like, had an HR introducing you to the person that you about to work for who answered the door on the phone in his underwear is very weird. But I already knew I'm like, okay, they're about to set the scene that people were very complicit. People were they were okay with the environment that was happening. So the environment got worse from day one. And that's exactly what happened. She says that they went through with the interview,

eventually Diddy did put on some clothes and then she got into the job. She says her first week, she worked insane. Had to switch areas guys, sorry. But yeah, so that's exactly what happened. So then as Mia is talking about, you know, all of the, you know, crazy work experiences, right, like they asked her to describe the work environment, she said that it was chaotic, it was

toxic. She alleged that, you know, it was exciting at times, but because of the really high highs and the really low lows, like it was just like, oh, like, you know, like she went through so much. She alleged that she had things thrown at her, that she was thrown against the wall. She alleged that she was thrown into a pool. She alleged that there was an ice bucket thrown at her head. She alleged that her arm was shutting the door.

And then she also alleged that she was sexually assaulted multiple times. I will say to this testimony, I think what went into the emotion feeling of like, okay, this is very emotional was the fact that normally with the rest of the witnesses, even with Cassie, like she's looking up even if she's not looking at Diddy, or the you know, whoever's on the stand, even if they're not looking at Diddy or the other attorneys are looking at at least the attorney that's

talking to them with Mia with this witness. She literally, when I say she didn't say she didn't look up at all. She did this the whole time as she was talking, she would look up here and there and look she was looking at the floor the entire time. She had a very shrunken, shrunken, timid personality. And then she went into tears when she talked about the sexual assaults. But yes, I mean, they were established in fact that she worked a lot. She said that in the beginning of things, you know, she was supposed to be paid when she when she began at Revolt Films or began Revolt Films with Diddy. She was supposed to be paid a certain amount of money. It was like seventy thousand dollars at first, and then it escalated to one hundred

thousand dollars. And then she was supposed to make bonuses off of like the projects That they did but she said she never ended up getting any of the bonuses so that's all of them establishing like, you know, the the work environment thing and the forced labor and Bring it in the force in that situation because in listening to that I promise y'all when I was listening to the stuff that she was saying about The labor things like as far as like she would you know be in a studio all night She was put on this trial period to see if it would be last because the labor things, like as far as like she would, you know, be in a studio all night. She was put on this trial period

to see if it would be last because the job is so like tough, so vigorous. She alleged that she would, at one point she didn't even sleep for days at a time because she didn't want to lose her job. She didn't know if she was going to be called and she would be sleep so she would miss the call. When she was saying all these things, I'm like,

that reminds me of working in entertainment and fashion. Like that's how my career started. Granted, I didn't, you know, experience sexual assault, and you know, those things, and I'm not excusing that, but I'm talking about just the, you know, the hours that she worked, the fear of like, oh my God, if I don't get this exactly right, my whole career is over. And I'm sitting there, I'm like, man, a lot of this, you know, Diddy made certain decisions that have blended him to where we are today, but we also should be having a conversation about just the culture in general and like where things were, where they are now, and where they should never get back to. And I feel like we have had those conversations and things have changed.

But I do think that there should be more honest on what was acceptable during certain times as well too. And it made me start thinking of like, how will a jury think about that, right? Because the jury is mixed, different races, men, women, different age groups. So there are younger people on the jury who will be like, oh my God, working, you know,

over 40 hours a week is insane. But there are people of a certain age group where it's like, if you understood what entertainment was and what that lifestyle is like, a 40 hour work week is not even like nine, five, it's like unheard of. Like I've never, any job I've ever had, I've never. So, and I'm saying all this to say,

cause it's not about me, but I'm saying all this to say, as a jury is breaking this down, there are so many outside factors that you have to think about. I'm really interested to see how they determine and what things actually, and I know after the jury like comes to their, you know,

answers and sensing is done, normally what happens is you get a couple of jurors that do a couple of interviews following. And when that happens, one of the main questions that I would love to hear and answer on is when you have factors like that, like, okay, these were the norms then at that time, even if they led to all of this horrible behavior,

this is what was accepted. But these are the facts of how things were horrible. How much weighs on these are the facts of what was horribly done to this person versus what was the environment and culture that allowed it to happen. Because basically what Mia talked a lot about was people being very complicit, heads of HR, you know, overlooking things. When people would speak up, she alleged there was a girl named Kayla. And this girl named Kayla, Mia said, look, there was one time where Deontay Nash, who was Cassie's best friend and stylist, Mia and Cassie, because she said

she got really close with Cassie because she eventually became the person that would have to go and like make sure Cassie was okay when, you know, when things would happen. She alleged that like when, you know, Cassie would be beat up and put up in these hotels, she would have to go and like make sure Cassie was okay when you know when things would happen. She alleged that like when you know Cassie would be beat up and put up in these hotels, she would have to go stay with Cassie make sure Cassie was okay they became really really close. But there was a girl named Kayla who when Deontay, Diddy and Mia and Cassie all got into a physical altercation allegedly. Diddy came one this was like a Sunday I remember Cassie all got into a physical altercation allegedly. Diddy came one, this was like a Sunday. I remember Cassie testified about this. She said it was like a Sunday that went out like day party

and West Hollywood type vibes. And then they went back to Cassie's home and she alleged that she was there packing. And while she was there packing, she fell asleep. And she alleged that Diddy was really upset that she fell asleep and that this was something that happened all the time. Like whenever she would fall asleep,

not be answering her phones, she alleged that Diddy would show up, he fell asleep and that this was something that happened all the time. Like whenever she would fall asleep, not be answering her phone, she alleged that Diddy would show up, he would be upset or he would send security or like, you know, that type of thing. So Mia alleges Diddy shows up. When Diddy shows up, he's pissed off. She alleges that then they get into a physical altercation because he's allegedly beating the hell out of Cassie

to the point where he threw Cassie across the room, her head hit her bed and He had me alleges her head split open and did he then instantly snapped into like protective mode like yo Call Kayla have Kayla call the doctor say that Cassie was drunk You know it fell on her bed and as she needs to see him ASAP So she alleges that all these things happen, right? Then she alleges that that same Kayla person, right? So now Kayla is aware what's going on. She knows what's happening. She's calling the doctors. She alleges, Mia alleges that Kayla then went to HR and was like, yo, this is what's happening.

It's not okay. Did he allegedly put his hands on Cassie? Y'all need to do something. Mia says that there was a whole executive level phone call of like people in HR, people in leadership, all of these people who got on the phone and had a conversation about what she knew, what she didn't know. And after that, Kayla was gone. And they were having a conversation with Mia

about how to deal with Kayla now that she had alleged these things. And I'm like, that's insane because at the same instance, Mia also alleged that there was an incident with Kayla and her that Diddy said to her like, yo, look, because we let her go, this was she's like, she's alleged like that, they came to her and said, look, because we let Kayla go, because Kayla saw what she saw, if she files a lawsuit, you're gonna have to testify. And if you have to testify, here's what you should say. And Diddy told her to allegedly Diddy told her to bring up the incident that happened between the two where Kayla got a little bit drunk at

work. She got aggressive. She put her hands on Mia. It was a whole thing, allegedly, right? And then the prosecution asked like, well, was Kayla fired when she put her hands on you? And Mia was like, no, she wasn't fired. She just, we were made to like, go isolate together and figure it out. But the minute that she complained about Cassie and Diddy and the alleged physical abuse that was happening, right?

She gets fired. So Mia was building this whole conversation and filling in more color to the narrative of like, when you were in this thing, this big thing that they're alleging is happening with Diddy, right? There is no I'm getting out. There is no I'm just walking away. There is no I'm going to just go tell HR or I'm going to call the police because they alleged there's no real consequences. Even when she

talked about they asked about running with the police when she talked about the three times she was sexually assaulted. She says that she never made a sexual advance on Diddy. She alleges that you know there have been many times where she worked with Diddy in close intimate settings like in his apartments, in hotel rooms, while he's in the bathroom, things of that nature and nothing had ever happened. So she says she was really confused when you know these instances went down. The first time she alleged she was staying at his house,

because she would stay at his homes a lot, because her job was so demanding, her job was his life. So she said that she was at one of his homes, and while at one of his homes, she would sleep on a bunk bed and he came into the bed allegedly and like forced himself on her, and there was intercourse. The second time she alleged she was in a closet packing for him, and he came into the closet and forced her to give him head.

The third time she alleges they were on a jet and there's like a back area where he would stay, where Diddy would stay on the jet, like when he was going to sleep. And there's a bathroom, but it's like kind of in that back area. And she says that she was going to the bathroom and he forced himself in the bathroom allegedly. And she says she couldn't remember the details of the bathroom and he forced himself in the bathroom allegedly and she said she couldn't remember the details of of what happened after he forced himself into the bathroom and she said that there are many other times that she couldn't remember everything. And then they asked her like well, why didn't you just call the cops? Why didn't you tell somebody? Why didn't you leave all the questions that you think as these things are being

alleged? And she's like, and then they asked her, you know, she's like, why would I call like, you don't call the police. And I like, well, what was your run ins with Sean Combs and the police? And she said one time she was late to work, she was speeding. So the police pulled her over. And she was mad that Diddy was gonna be so pissed off at her for being late. She's gonna get in a lot of trouble. So she alleges that she told the cop like, yo, this is gonna gonna sound crazy but Sean Combs is my boss I'm rushing cuz I can't be late. The cop didn't believe her so she called Diddy. She says when she called Diddy, put Diddy on the phone she alleges the cop fanned out so bad and she was like going no

ticket no nothing and then she talked about another time where they allegedly got pulled over she said it was her, Diddy in the car and in the truck so So other people in the car too. She said they were either like speeding allegedly or like driving on the sideline. They were something they weren't supposed to be doing in the car traffic wise. They get pulled over. When they get pulled over. The cops come up to the car and she says they ran down aggressively. She alleges the cops are really aggressive. But the minute they saw Diddy in the car, all of that just changed. So

she's like, you know, you get in this system of things where it's like, who are you going to tell? She honestly said, and this was the first person that I heard talk about this, well not first, because Cassie also said that she was close with D-Rock and his wife. But Mia said that her and D-Rock got really close, that D-Rock was like a brother to her because he was the only person she could go to about the things that she was witnessing and experiencing when it came to Diddy. And yeah, they just, they, the prosecution yesterday, the government yesterday did a job of establishing, here's what the, re-establishing, because they've done it. And that's why I'm like, do we need the prosecution of government to go anymore?

They've done so much drilling, drilling, drilling, drilling. I think we got it. We get it. I am interested. At first, I was saying, saying like do we even need to finish court? But honestly I am interested in seeing the defense present their case like bring whatever witnesses and things of that nature because right now I feel like that has to be strong in order for that whole of that whole reasonable doubt thing to open back up because right now it's like all the pieces to the puzzle are there, honestly, but I am interested to see that. And yesterday in court, Diddy's team made it clear to the judge that even though the government may rest their case sooner than they planned,

Diddy's team is not doing that. Diddy's team is not going to rest sooner. They're going to go all the way until the end date because they want as much time as they can to present their case as they should. I mean, the man is fighting for his life literally, so as they should. But I think that's going to be the only thing that's turning it around. Like when you got a personal understanding saying, yo, we weren't, Cassie wasn't even allowed to go outside and enjoy herself sometimes without his, not even sometimes, allegedly without his permission at all. She talked about her and Cassie having to sneak allegedly to this Prince party like they were in high school. And when they got there, Diddy popped up at the party,

not looking for them, but he just happened to come through the party, came through the party, saw them. She alleges he chased them out of the party. She ran ahead of the Bush, Mia. She alleges Diddy got the Cassie, had Cassie on the ground, was about to go in on her, right, about to beat her up.

And then she alleged that Prince's security came and stopped it. The Diddy scene has some work cut out for them, but I'm interested to see. Like I'm very interested to see what the fight back is because I feel like in the beginning of this, they were doing so good at making you think, oh wait, maybe it wasn't the way that it's been presented.

Now I don't feel like that. Everything has changed. So going back to court today, I won't be back in court today, but because I have other work obligations, but court goes back up again today. They're going to end this is now week three, they're going to end week three today, they're going to finish out, they're going to do a cross examination of personal assistant who goes by the name Mia. Yeah. So we'll see what happens. At this point, y'all done heard how I felt.

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