00:00A week three of the Sean Combs trial is ending with some of the most emotionally
00:04wrenching testimony we've heard in the trial so far. We're hearing testimony
00:08from the second sex assault accuser to take the stand against Combs, Sean
00:12Combs' personal assistant. She worked for him for a total of about eight years.
00:17She's testifying under the pseudonym Mia. For much the day Thursday Mia was in
00:22tears on a witness stand with her head bowed and her eyes facing away from
00:26Combs as he sat watching at the defense table. When they met in 2009 she told
00:32the jury that Sean Combs answered the door to his Manhattan apartment in only his
00:37underwear. It was during her job interview. She described working without sleep for
00:42as many as five days straight and at one point collapsing in exhaustion. Most
00:47poignantly she described four sexual assaults. The first assault she described
00:52was only a few months into the job. Combs was throwing himself a 40th
00:56birthday party at the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan. She said Combs ordered her to
01:00drink two shots of vodka to toast his birthday and she said she remembers
01:04then leaning against a wall and Combs face coming closer and becoming blurry.
01:10She said she regained consciousness in another room and the sun was coming up.
01:14In another attack that she described she said Combs raped her as she slept in the
01:19bunk beds of a staff room. She woke up to the weight of Combs on top of her and
01:25heard him say be quiet. She also said he attacked her on another occasion there in
01:31that mansion as she knelt in his closet to pack his bags. Mia told the jurors that
01:36another attack happened on Combs private jet when he pulled her into the bedroom
01:41in the rear of the plane as everyone else on the plane was asleep. Prosecutors
01:45seemed to realize she would be vulnerable on cross-examination when Combs' lawyers
01:50want to know why she stayed and why she stayed silent. So prosecutors asked these
01:56same questions and Mia explained that she was ashamed, exhausted, and terrified.
02:01She'd seen Combs beat other women without consequence she'd said.
02:05She herself had been thrown into walls by Combs, thrown backwards into a pool,
02:10cursed at. Mia corroborated some of the violence described by R&B artist Cassie Ventura.
02:17They say Combs beat and threatened Ventura so he could keep watching her have sex with male escorts
02:22in these freak-off performances that are at the center of the sex trafficking case.
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