Sean “Diddy” Combs’s former assistant “Mia” has returned to the witness stand on Monday, kicking off the fourth week of testimony in the music mogul’s sex trafficking trial.
Mia, who was given a pseudonym to protect her identity, testified that she never reported Combs’s sexual abuse because she was “terrified and brainwashed” by him. Her testimony comes after Combs’s attorney Brian Steel asked her if she told the truth when she testified last week that Combs sexually assaulted her.
“I would not lie in this courtroom,” Mia responded. “I never lied in this courtroom. Everything I have said is true.”
Mia worked for Combs for eight years, and previously alleged that she was forced to perform a sex act on Combs. In another incident, she alleged that she was raped in the spare room of his Los Angeles home.
The high-profile trial in New York has attracted significant attention, including from President Donald Trump, who has not ruled out a potential pardon for Combs if the rap star is convicted.
“Nobody’s asked, but I know people are thinking about it,” Trump said last week.
Combs is facing five federal courts of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution.
Mia says Diddy tracked Cassie’s car
Mia testified that Sean “Diddy” Combs placed a tracker on Cassie Ventura’s car.
She added that Combs often stole her and Ventura’s phones.
“He has stolen my phone many times, he has stolen Cassie’s phone many times, he has put tracking devices on her car,” Mia testified.
Katie Hawkinson2 June 2025 16:39
Court paused as judge warned defense about line of questioning
Court briefly paused this morning as Judge Arun Subramanian told Sean “Diddy” Combs’s attorney Brian Steel that he had asked improper argumentative questions.
The remark came after prosecutors accused Steel of yelling at Mia and posing argumentative questions.
Subramanian said he didn’t hear any yelling or sarcasm, but warned Steel not to ask questions he knows will get struck from the record just so the jury can hear them.
Court has since resumed and Mia is back on the stand.
Katie Hawkinson2 June 2025 16:19
Mia says she was ‘scared of’ Combs ‘when he was scary’
Defense attorney Brian Steel asked Mia if she was scared of Sean “Diddy” Combs the entire time she knew him.
“I was scared of him when he was scary, yes,” she responded.
Katie Hawkinson2 June 2025 15:59
Jury shown video of Combs’s birthday party
The defense showed the jury a video from Sean “Diddy” Combs’s 44th birthday party in 2013.
In the video, Mia said she’s blessed to call Combs a friend and thanked him for “being one of the biggest inspirations in my life.”
Katie Hawkinson2 June 2025 15:52
Mia says Combs’s alleged abuse forced her to internalize ‘blame and shame’
Mia said Sean “Diddy” Combs’s alleged abuse forced her to internalize “blame and shame.”
“Nobody acted like what was happening to me was wrong, and his threats about that he was going to tell Cassie about what happened made me internalize blame and shame,” Mia testified.
Katie Hawkinson2 June 2025 15:42
Mia testifies she was brainwashed
Mia testified that Sean “Diddy” Combs brainwashed her and that she was seeking his approval constantly.
“I was always constantly seeking his approval,” she said. “He was my authority figure, my only authority figure.”
Katie Hawkinson2 June 2025 15:27
Defense tries to discredit Mia’s claims of sexual abuse
Sean “Diddy” Combs’s defense attorney Brian Steel asked Mia if she was telling the truth when she testified last week that Combs sexually assaulted her.
“I would not lie in this courtroom,” Mia responded. “I never lied in this courtroom. Everything I have said is true.”
Steel also asked Mia if she ever wrote to “a friend, family member, police officer, anybody” telling them she was assaulted.
“No, the only time I reached out for help was very subtly to people in the office, but not disclosing things that other people hadn’t witnessed,” Mia responded. “No, I would never.”
Earlier today, Steel showed the jury several texts Mia sent to Combs from 2018 to 2020.
Katie Hawkinson2 June 2025 15:23
Mia says she didn’t record Diddy’s outbursts
Mia testified that she never filmed Sean “Diddy” Combs’s outbursts because it would be a “huge break of trust, loyalty and confidentiality.”
“I would not have been allowed to film that,” Mia testified. “I was filming whatever he wanted me to film.”
Mia also said she never texted a friend about Combs’s alleged violence.
Katie Hawkinson2 June 2025 15:16
Mia says she saw Diddy as her ‘protector’
Mia testified that she saw Sean “Diddy” Combs as her “protector” while being cross-examined today.
Her statement came after the defense asked her about a 2019 text she sent to Combs. In the text, Mia said she was thinking about him after she had a dream that he saved her from being trapped in an elevator with R. Kelly.
Katie Hawkinson2 June 2025 15:14
Defense reads Mia’s texts to Diddy
Sean “Diddy” Combs’s defense attorney is reading out texts Mia sent to the music mogul.
Around Christmas 2018, Mia texted Combs, “Merry Christmas love you so so much.” Mia testified she had just seen Combs at Kim Porter’s funeral. Porter, who had three kids with Combs, died in November 2018.
In January 2019, Mia texted Combs that she was thinking about him after she had a dream that he saved her from being trapped in an elevator with R. Kelly. Two months later, Mia wrote to Combs, “all the love in the world.”
Mia testified she sent these texts because she was still under Combs’s grip “psychologically,” even though she didn’t work for him anymore.
