The Breakfast Club - The Plot Thickens ( Cassie Cross Examination)

Episode Date: May 16, 2025

Today on the show Loren breaks down the fourth day of the trial where Cassie begins to get cross examined from Diddy's team, and baby how interesting the tables have turned! Cassie admits to being being addicted and possibly iniating some of the freak offs, check it out!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You're listening to an iHeart podcast. Hey y'all, it's Lauren LaRosa and this is the latest with Lauren LaRosa. This is your daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment news, and the conversations that really shake the room I'm your host Lauren LaRosa and my lowriders. Welcome on back. Welcome on back How am I feeling? How are you feeling? Hello Taylor is with me and it is her birthday How you feeling today Taylor? I'm good. I'm grateful.

I'm happy. You said you got emotional earlier today? Yeah. I'd be like, yo Taylor, it's like you, your baby, but you don't be doing regular pregnant people stuff. You don't be hormonal. You don't even look pregnant. Thank you.

Thank you for saying that. You just have a belly in a baby. Yes, thank you. I know, maybe because you're from Philly you don't get emotional. just have a belly in a baby. Yes. Thank you. I know maybe because you from Philly you don't get emotional. I don't know. I don't know. I think it's because I'm a Taurus. But I was just like emotional more so just grateful of like where I was and where I am now and everything. Just happy for the people that's in my circle and all that. You also have a really amazing support system like your family and your boyfriend is amazing so it's gonna be husband I love him for you

I just love the evolution of like since I met you like to where you are now just in your personal life You know what I mean? It's like a I feel full for you and it feel complete and happy for you So I can't imagine how you feel. Yeah. Yeah, so happy birthday girl. Make sure y'all go tell Taylor Taylor made it She makes all the amazing intros for the breakfast club and she produces this podcast You feel yeah, so happy birthday girl make sure y'all go tell Taylor Taylor made it She makes all the amazing intros for the breakfast club, and she produces this podcast make sure you tell my girl happy birthday But I feel good as well. I actually you know after completing this week of the diddy trial I'm like yo, I say I know you tired Like all of this like cuz my days are so much longer now. You know what I mean?

but I do think that this week has really taught me a lot about like just being able to Not follow the way like Charlotte may always be like don't follow the way create the wave and like, you know I think with the case Accidentally, that's what I began to do by just picking up my phone and telling y'all what I saw, what I heard, and how I honestly feel, even if people are gonna be like, you're not a lawyer, you're not an analyst, you're not this, you're not that, but it's created a, people have really been appreciating it. There's been so many people who've DM'd me that are like,

yo, we appreciate you just being honest, even if it's like, you're on Puff's side one day, you're not on his side the next day, you're on Cassie's side, they're not picking sides, they just appreciate the clean reporting. You know what I mean? A lot of the hours I usually go to weren't really, or they're putting certain statements out,

I was like, I'm not gonna ask Lauren later. Yeah, because you can only stick to but so much. Even in me trying to figure out how to bring all the information to social media and in the breakfast club and then here on the podcast like there's so much information it's like where do you put what so normally they just lean into like what the big stuff is but to me I think everything be big I'll be in there yesterday I was in there like I was watching a novella I was like oh oh my god at the court girl they don't even let you they don't want you eat in that

you're not supposed to eat you can can even chew gum in there. Really? Yeah, it's like a thing, especially if you're in the main courtroom. But yes, so I'm feeling a little tired, but I'm also in a space of gratitude. I've been like that for some time now though. I'm in a really good place. So I'm feeling, I'm reciprocating your energy Taylor. I appreciate all the good vibes you've been sending my way. Yes, well let's take it to the courts because I need to know.

Yes, because you know your girl love to take you know your girl, love to take you out of court. Love to take you out of court. So man, yesterday was Cassie's first day of cross-examination, which is where Diddy's defense team gets to ask her some questions about things she said on the scene and things that she might not have said yet, that they feel like the people should know know the people of the jury should know. I feel like she was up there looking crazy like you know I still I empathize for her

you know and all of the abuse that she had to endure and you know I was really sitting there yesterday like man or the day before yesterday when she talked through all of the abuse like the physical and mental abuse and things of that nature and They were showing us photos of her Her bruises and her basically like her battle wounds from this man And i'm like she did all of that and they would put on makeup Right after literally right after sometimes and go stand next to him and smile like everything was okay She held it so much in for so long

I cannot imagine being her. Like I can't imagine being her at all. So to see her on this stand now, and then I feel like the prosecution didn't protect her in the way that they should have yesterday. And it was like insane to me. Like, I'm just gonna really quickly go down a list of the things that they debunked.

Tyler, you can ask me questions you had, but I really wanted to talk about today just, you know, how her her personal Sex life not even with the escorts, but like you know her dating Michael B Jordan you know a lot of things she did She did they might could be Jordan but like a lot of these things yesterday when I we were talking to her attorney after court Make sure y'all visit my Instagram Lauren LaRosa my YouTube channel Lauren LaRosa TV where that interview is He her lawyer her lawyer admitted,

it's hard for him to hear a lot of this stuff. And I'm like, I can't imagine what them conversation is gonna be like after this court case is over. Because- Yeah, because I always wonder, I wonder if she told him everything because- I feel like maybe not this in depth because why, I mean, it, this one sounds so bad, but like, why would you?

Yeah, because how she's putting it out there seems like, you know, she's a victim. And I'm not saying she's not, but I'm just saying he only knows one side. So now them reading the other side of it. And he's probably like, oh, so you like that? Like, you know what I mean? That's literally what I was thinking about. I wonder how she positioned it to him because there, so yesterday on the stand, there were a lot of different things that they, you know, I want to say caught her up on but I think it was

Merce so they showed the other side of it and it did make her look and it made her testimony the day prior it looked a bit crazy. So the biggest thing was there were so many text messages that came out so it was one from 2009 where she had text puff and they were having conversations about the free calls and she said, I'm always down to free call. She talks about how aggressive she wanted their sexual encounter to be when they linked up. There were text messages from the March 5th, 2016 incident, which was where we saw her

be beat on video in the Intercontinental Hotel in LA. And when the prosecutors gave us some background context via her interview with them, they used text messages specifically from March 5th, like just that day and a few of them. Diddy's team came in on her cross-examination yesterday and took it all the way back to the third, March 3rd. When I tell y'all, it painted such a different picture of, and I'm not saying that the beating was okay. They haven't even gotten

into that yet as far as her cross-examination, but it painted a different picture as to just the lead up, right? Because we were under the impression, according to her testimony, that the lead up looked like her just doing this freak off because she had alleged that she had a big movie premiere coming up and she didn't want to have it ruined. So she just please she wanted to please Diddy that weekend so that everything would be good on Monday. The way that the text messages were in full when you backed it up to the third, but again,

we only see in a couple of days, right? So there could be more that came out. She initiated the freak off situation puff allowed. He was telling her since you want to do this, since it's your freak off, you pick it. You tell, tell me who you want, how you want it to go. We should chill though, cause you got your big movie premiere Monday. Let's not get too high. Let's let's go to bed early so we can rest.

I didn't see those messages. Yo, I was like, what is happening? This is so different. And why would the prosecution even allow that to go down? But I'm like, you know, maybe they, maybe they got to come back to that because that literally is only one day in a few conversations out of a 10, 11 year relationship. And we know that there was abuse. We know that he did.

Now we know that he did threaten to expose videos and things of that nature because they showed that in Texas as well. But it came out on a stand that because they were trying to, you know, color in the narrative that Cassie was very jealous of Puff and you know, other women he was dealing with including Kim Porter, the late Kim Porter, who was the mother of the twin girls that he has in Christian Combs and the woman Gina,

who was a woman that he was dealing with toward the end of his and Cassie's relationship. And she says that Gina was one of the biggest problems. That's why their relationship ended, right? So they're trying to paint her out to be jealous and low key without saying it, they were trying to make her out to be this like, whore who was like a liar and all these things.

And I'm like, oh my God, not after we just spent a day talking about how she was being dragged up and down hotel rooms and knots on her head or whatever. But again, it's court. So you gotta, you're gonna go in for your side of it. So I'm just sitting there watching. And they bring up, she was filming a movie in South Africa

and they mentioned an actor that she was dealing with on that movie set. And I knew that it was Michael B. Jordan because I've been told this, and I told the guys on the show this, not on the shows, it was behind the scenes of the show, about a week ago. And we were having a conversation about whether we should have reported it or not at that time

because the world didn't know at that time. And we made the decision not to report it because I just didn't understand why bringing a woman's past sexual history to try and soften her, the victimization that she did experience, right? I think, then they also say that, did experience, right? Like, but... I think, um... Then they also say, like, you know, did he introduce her to oral sex?

I think that's false. Yo, they did say that, but then they brought up Ryan Leslie, who was also an older man. They were doing that to paint the picture of, like, no, you had a tie. People that could help you with your career, older, you knew what you were doing. That's what they were giving

They didn't say that but everything about how they set that up said that yeah, but I'm just saying she was Like did he introduce her I mean maybe other stuff maybe like the freak girls whatever they did But I don't think and that's been his whole argument the whole time That's been diddy's argument the whole time of like, you know, I Am I have a different sexual lifestyle and sexual choice and I'm basically a swinger and we were really high and really drunk under the influence I don't even know some of the stuff I was doing that has been one of his defenses But what they're trying to what did he seem is trying to distance him from from is that he coerced or he forced, you know, like Akassi and all these other people to be a part of these freak off situations.

And I feel like yesterday did a really good job for Diddy's team did a really good job yesterday of backing him away from this like man who was forcing and coercing people to do these things. It really- This comes off very violent, that's all. Yes, because I mean, he's gonna come off very violent when we spend a whole day talking about how he beat this woman up.

Yeah. I didn't know, like, you had heard rumors, and I used to work for a woman who, she worked for Puff for a long time. She was like one of Puff's first employees. She then created a company in the Wine and Spirits area that helped him do marketing and branding around Sirach. So I worked for her for a while.

So I got to be around and see things and experience things. And you had heard a lot about there being alleged abuse, physical abuse with Cassie, but I promise y'all what we saw in court the day before her cross-examination, I didn't know it was that bad. Like it was so messed up. I wanted to cry for her.

And I'm just seeing and hearing about it, right? So we go through that full day and then she comes back on standing down They're making her out to be this like, okay, we know that that happened. We've already apologized We've already taken accountability, but let's get into you miss girl That's what it was given and i'm like man her husband is in the courtroom up into a certain point Once they start talking about 2018 and on he's not there anymore because he also might have to testify. So what's their reactions? So I wasn't in the actual courtroom yesterday.

I was in the overflow room, which is where you could just watch it on television. So I could still see them. From what I could see of Puff, his body language and his demeanor, way different yesterday. But it was very obvious that his team was doing a good job yesterday. The day before that, at one point I saw him pour water and his hand was shaking like bad, way more relaxed yesterday. Like you could tell that

his team felt like they did what they needed to do yesterday. His team is asking for more time with Cassie because it's her last situation, her last cross examination is supposed to be completed by today. And it's, you know, because she's pregnant and at this point she could go any day. You know what I mean? The judge is trying to make sure that they don't put too much on her

and that they get her in and out. But Diddy's team yesterday made it a point to say it. And they said it about three times in court. Cassie is the most important witness and her cross examination is the most important thing for his case. So they're like, if we need more time judge, you gotta allow it. And the judge agreed.

He said, look, if it's substantial and it makes sense, I'll give you more time. But if not, you knew for a long time now that today, Friday, the 16th was going to be her last day where she could be questioned by you guys, you should have been, you know what I mean? You should have guided your, your questioning better. Um, so we'll see what happens. But me and her husband are going to have some conversations after this because I mean, she was doing it with her guy though. There were some things that came out in court. I was like, Ooh, I wonder if they talked about

that. Like what else? Just freaky stuff. Like there were, so for instance, like, you know, the way that a lot of the freak girls were positioned in the beginning was like she didn't want to do them. She did not enjoy them. They were making her physically sick. She had sores in her mouth. She was getting UTIs all the time that she couldn't heal because she was having sex so much.

Like there was just no regard for her being at all. And she had no choice because of how battered, bruised and beaten and drugged up she was. She even threw, you know, she admitted that she willingly took drugs, but at the same time, they kinda made it seem like, almost like a Bobby and Whitney situation, that like, it was because of her relationship with Puff that she started doing it,

and she only did it with him, right? Even, they even burst that bubble yesterday, and talked about how, you know, Diddy did OD at one point, which we did not know, but she was worse off on drugs than him at some points. And she talked about how Cassie talked about how puff had to call some local drug dealers and tell them you'll stop serving her. She's doing too much. I'm trying to get her back right. Um, but there was a lot of different sexually explicit things that they couldn't even read in the

courtroom because it was just different text messages that they would explain. And she had sent the text, you know saying, I'm always down to freak off. She had sent text messages talking about how she wanted to be fucked. But was that early on versus like, I'm trying to understand the timeline. It was different. It was different because like one text like the, I'm always down to freak off was 2009. The conversation leading up to the Intercontinental hotel moment was 2016. There were even moments, you know, after that, like following that beating, the beating conversation where, you know, they had exchanged some, you know what I'm saying?

And remember, she alleged on the stand the day before her cross-examination that her and Puff had went to dinner and then, you know, she alleged that he raped her in her apartment. But then she went back to see him the following week, right? so I think that there's gonna be more that the defense brings out as far as like Cuz they were also painting the timeline of like so you you would go do a freak off with puff and then leave that same day after the freak off and then go to kid Cuddy and then and then you'd be in Connecticut with kid Cuddy break it off with Kid Cuddy and then you go right back with Puff. Or you would be like,

they were trying to do that whole thing. Like, so I know that they're going to lean into more of her sexual activities because what they're trying to prove is this was consensual. She wasn't forced. She was into it. Sometimes she was a choreographer herself. That's what they're going to lean into. And I just, man, when her attorney said, and we have the clip, we can insert the clip. Imagine your man having to find out, cause some of the stuff too, she might not have remembered. They were so high. Yeah.

They were so high. She had to admit on a stand yesterday, some stuff from 2017, she said that whole time period is so like, they just were moving and grooving and getting high at that point, which I will say corroborated the defense that Diddy tried to set for himself of like, yo, I was so high, some of this stuff shouldn't even count. And she said in 2017, a lot of stuff from that whole year, she can't even remember certain things, they were so high. So yeah.

Oh. Yeah. So do you think that she can be charged too? I keep. Like y'all said earlier, she can be charged. I mean, I don't know that mean I don't know that I don't know that she can or she can't indefinitely to be able to say. I will say I've been asking that question to you know some people who would know and I was told that there may have

been a conversation with her about immunity from the with the prosecutors which would mean she can't be charged. But I don't know that 100% yeah I am trying to figure that out though. I am trying to figure that out. It seemed like a nut in the world happening, but did he I don't know because I'm in court Do you feel like do you I mean between between him and the DDG and Halle and Now was Tory lanes and Megan Yeah, it's all court stuff all craziness all craziness Y'all I want y'all to, y'all have been so interactive with all of my content.

I am posting, people are like, yo, when are you posting videos for the podcast? I'm like, I've been posting videos almost every single day and then we do a separate audio. So y'all are getting both. So I'm doing it, but I think I'm really, I thank you guys a lot for engaging. Keep tweeting me, let's talk about it.

This weekend, I'm gonna be catching up on a lot of like the conversations and the comments and you know, lot for engaging. Keep tweeting me, let's talk about it. This weekend I'm gonna be catching up on a lot of the conversations and the comments and all those things. I'm so thankful for y'all, my audience here at the latest with Lauren LaRosa, the low riders. Y'all be riding for me too. They be trying to get on me about, child I said prosecution did their big one,

people call me ignorant. That's how I talk, I don't know what you want me to do. Because I'm supposed to be an adult who talks better than that. Who knows? I don't know. I don't know what is given, but it ain't given ignorant over here. Okay. I'm very, very well spoken. Yes. And the prosecution did do their big one. Period. Well, that day, they, they, they, the day after that, they, they didn't, it was very little. Anything they did yesterday was little, so yeah. That has been the latest with Lauren LaRosa, y'all. We gonna let Taylor go,

because it's her birthday and she need to go back to work. We'll see you guys in the next episode. I tell you every episode because I really mean it. At the end of the day, there is always so much going on and so much to talk about. Y'all could be anywhere with anybody talking about it, but you are right here with me every single episode and I appreciate y'all. Let's keep going strong, lowriders. Bring the people on in the community, okay? Invite your home girl,

invite your bro. Everybody's asking about Diddy and let them know I'm right there. I'm in the courthouse. I can bring you all the details right here on the podcast. So invite them. Tell a friend to tell a friend. It's the latest with Lauren LaRosa. I will see you guys in my next episode.