Diddy Trial: Special Agents explain RAID about rapper's Miami Mansion – National

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Grammy-winning rapper Kid Cudy was expected to testify at Sean “Diddy” Combs' sex trafficking and assault trial to tell the ju judge about his brief relationship with Combs' former girlfriend Kathy Ventura 14 years ago.

Prosecutors revised the expectations and said the 41-year-old artist, Scott Mescudi, will not begin in-person exams early until May 22.

Meanwhile, Gerald Ganon, a special agent in the Homeland Security Investigation, returned to the witness stands on Wednesday's second day. Six months before his arrest last September, he discussed what investigators discovered when they attacked a Combs home near Miami in March 2024.

Ganon told the court on May 20 that the agent running a search warrant for the facility used an armored vehicle to break the Combs security gate and placed the team on a boat nearby.

In addition to the weapon, he said he found high heels on the platform and items that prosecutors called combs that are frequently used during his freak-off sex marathons, including lingerie, sex toys, baby oil, lubricants, and condoms.

The ju umpire also saw some of the two AR-15 rifles that federal agents discovered last year while searching for Combs' mansion on Star Island.

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Ganon was questioned about items seized from one of the closets during the raid of Combs' home last year. He said he grabbed the high heels of a red pump and found a cell phone packed inside his Valenciaga boots.

He also testified that in his closet there was a Gucci bag containing white residue that tested positive for cocaine and ketamine. According to Gannon, the bag also contained a small bag of pills of different colours, including several engraved with Tesla symbols that were positive for MDMA and Xanax.

Ganon said investigators also found a plastic bag of tablets that they tested positive for the main ingredients in hallucinated mushrooms. He said he was found in a wooden box marked “puffy.”

Authorities also found a bottle containing 25 bottles of baby oil, 31 bottles of astroglide lubricant and rubber ducks in the closet in the hallway between Combs' bedroom and the Miami home's closet. A photo of the closet and found items was displayed to the ju apprentice.

Ganon said the .45 Calibre handgun was found in a red suitcase at the entrance to Combs' guesthouse at the Miami facility.

Combs lawyer Teny Geragos described the search as overdone.

“So did the HSI decide that they'll come on land and to sea to secure their property?” Jelagos asked. Gunnon said the home Aland security investigation was waiting for Combs to search the property until he boarded a plane leaving town with his family.

Agents confirmed that a federal investigation began shortly after Ventura filed a lawsuit against combs, claiming his involvement in years of abuse and hundreds of freak-off performances with male escorts.

Combs' legal team suggested that the number of guns found at his Miami home was not as important or dangerous as they would appear.

Ganon agreed that many of the firearms, including those with serial numbers removed, were wrapped in tape and were inoperable, unloaded. He also agreed with Geragos that guns without a serial number could still be linked to their owners by fingerprints and other DNA.

Forensic psychologists say victims of domestic violence often stay with the abuser

When Ganon concluded his testimony, the prosecutor was called clinical psychologist Dawn Hughes and became a stand.

Hughes was the trial of Keith Raniere, the leader of the NXIVM sex cult in 2019, R. Kelly's federal trial, the Johnny Depp Prize, took the witness's position in other famous sexual misconduct trials where he heard of the honor and loss trial.

Hughes said he testified as a “blind expert” to provide information on domestic violence, sexual assault, rape and traumatic stress to ju apprentices. She added that she has not evaluated either the victims or witnesses in the incident.

She testified that she was paid $600 an hour for her work and $6,000 in her daily court testimony.

Hughes said it's common for victims of domestic violence to be with the abuser. She explained that abusers often use methods beyond physical violence to make the victim feel trapped in a relationship.

“It's about the power and control that abusers have over their victims,” ​​Hughes said.

Hughes said sexual abuse is “very private harm,” making it difficult for victims to talk about what they are experiencing and can ask for help.

“They experience tremendous shame, humiliation and degradation,” Hughes said. “They don't want to talk about it. They don't even want to think about it with their brains.”

Psychologists also testified that victims' financial dependence on abusers can play a major role in their decision to remain in abusive relationships.

“If I don't have the money, I still have the feeling of, “Where are you going?” How do you leave if you don't have access to those specific resources? ” Hughes said.

She also talked about “the bond of trauma.” This explains when someone is obsessed with their partner despite violence and abuse, and prevents the victim from leaving the situation.

Hughes said abusive relationships can also have love and kindness, along with the abusive pattern.

“The victims want it, they want it, so when it's shown to the victims, it's very reinforced,” Hughes said.

Hughes said multiple attempts would be needed for the victim to leave the abusive relationship. “There's this pattern of return and settlement and we're back again,” she told the court.

She said the victims might want to go back to “a good version of their partner that they still love.”

Hughes said it is common for victims of abuse to “numb” themselves by using substances to take drugs or drinking alcohol to “drove away other physical or psychological pain.”

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She said it's very rare for victims of abuse to discuss it with others around the time it happens.

“Many victims will wait months, years, before telling them what happened,” Hughes testified.

“They don't want to label themselves… victims. They don't want to label abusers as abusers,” Hughes said. “It hurts to admit the fact that 'someone who loved me did this to me.' “They are still blaming themselves. ”

Why is Kid Kudi expected to testify?

Scott Mescudi is expected to take a witness position to speak to the ju judges about his relationship with Ventura later this week.

Prosecutors say Combs was so upset with the relationship that, according to a court application, he arranged for a convertible fire bomb for Mescudi.

Ventura testified last week that Combs was working on music by arranging for Mescudi to meet several times in 2011. She said that his relationship with him started late this year and got a Burner phone so the two could communicate without learning about it.

She says she was furious when Combs left him, and he had left his Los Angeles home at the end of the year, so he kicked her in the back hard enough to leave her with a bruise.

Ventura said she and Comb have broken up, but they are engaged in what is called freak-off. It was in one of these episodes that Combs picked up her regular phone and noticed the communication that revealed Ventura was watching Mescudi.

On Tuesday, Ventura's mother, Regina Ventura, testified that she received an email from her daughter in December 2011.

Regina then said she received demand from Combs for $20,000. Fearing at her daughter's safety, she went to the bank and sent Combs the money.

“He was mad at spending money on her and she went with another person,” she said.

Ventura testified that Mescudi came to visit her at her mother's Connecticut home around Christmas 2011 and stayed for three or four days. She said she broke up with him.

“It was way too much,” she said. “Too much danger, too much uncertainty, what will happen if we keep looking at each other, etc.”

Ventura said she told her family she was going to Los Angeles to “get to work” after the holidays. But instead, she travels to meet Arizona combs, where he says he went to visit college with his son. They resumed their relationship.

When Ventura and Combs were abroad, Combs told her that Mescudi's car had exploded and that Combs wanted Mescudi's friends to see it, Ventura said.

What the comb is on trial

US prosecutors claim that for 20 years behind the scenes, Combs had forced and abused women with the help of a network of fellow networks who silenced the victims through fearful mail and violence.

Combs is faced with charges that include a freak-off description defined in court documents as “a sex performance in which Combs is placed, directed, masturbated and often recorded electronically.”

Prosecutors accused Combs of suffocating, crashing, kicking and dragging him, and silenced people, prosecuting him, according to the people. One indictment alleges that the comb hanged someone from the balcony.

Dozens of men and women allege in lawsuits that abused them, but the trial highlights the claims of four women.

Comb is charged with sex trafficking, conspiracy to engage in prostitution and assault on transport. He denied all charges against him, opting to go to trial instead, and refused a plea deal.

If convicted in a New York court, he could face life in prison.

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