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The former employee, testifying under the pseudonym Mia, was the second woman to share an account of sexual abuse at trial. Mr. Combs denies sexually assaulting anyone.
May 30, 2025Updated 10:02 a.m. ET
A former assistant to Sean Combs who said that he berated her, threw objects at her and sexually assaulted her during her years working for him resumed testimony at his federal trial on Friday, describing a pattern of threats by a mercurial and demanding boss.
The former employee, referred to in court by the pseudonym Mia, is a key witness in helping the government try to prove racketeering conspiracy and sex-trafficking charges against Mr. Combs.
The prosecution focused on an explosive dispute between Mr. Combs and Mia that arose in 2015, when Mia was in South Africa with Casandra Ventura, the music mogul’s on-and-off girlfriend of 11 years, whose recounting of brutal violence, meticulous control and marathon sexual encounters with male prostitutes, known as “freak-offs,” are at the heart of the government’s case.
Around that time, Mia testified, Ms. Ventura had found evidence that Mr. Combs was seeing another woman, prompting her to cut off contact with him. Mia, who called Mr. Combs by the nickname “Puff” on the stand, said she received a barrage of calls and messages from Mr. Combs and one of his associates, who were trying to convince Ms. Ventura to call Mr. Combs.
When she got on the phone with Mr. Combs, Mia said, “He was threatening my job and then he threatened to kill me.”
Jurors saw a series of escalating messages from Mr. Combs to Mia in which he demanded that she call him and, if she didn’t, he wrote, “Imma tell everything” — a threat that Mia said referenced the sexual assaults, which she said Ms. Ventura was unaware of.
