Diddy trial recap: Security guard says Sean Combs handed him $100k in a paper bag for LA hotel assault video

Eddy Garcia, the security guard at the Los Angeles hotel where Sean “Diddy” Combs was captured in security footage attacking his longtime girlfriend Casandra “Cassie”Ventura, is set to take the stand.

Garcia was a security supervisor at the InterContinental Hotel in Century City at the time of the infamous assault after a “freak-off” in March 2016.

Prosecutors are expected to delve into events that unfolded after Sean Combs’s attack, which allegedly involved the music mogul delivering $100,000 in a brown paper bag in an attempt to purchase the security footage.

Combs does not deny the payoff. His attorneys, however, said the payment was to avoid negative headlines.

Sean “Diddy” Combs’s former assistant “Mia” returned to the witness stand for a third and final time 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 did not report Combs’s sexual abuse because she was “terrified and brainwashed” by him. Her testimony came 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."

To spare himself from potential prosecution, security guard Eddy Garcia will testify under an immunity order. It came after he told the government that he intended to assert his Fifth Amendment right to not incriminate himself.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ former assistant ended her testimony Monday with her head hung low as she tearfully explained that sharing the alleged sexual abuse she endured has been “the worst thing” she’s ever discussed.

For almost the entirety of her three days of testimony, “Mia” kept her head down, unable to look up at the lawyers or the man she’s accused of physically, psychologically, sexually and verbally abusing her.

When asked why, “Mia”– a pseudonym – tearfully explained the sexual assaults and rape are “the worst thing I’ve ever had to talk about in my life.”

“I can’t look my nieces or my goddaughter in the eyes and ever advise them if they were in this situation,” the ex-assistant told the court with her head bowed.

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A woman disrupted court today when she heckled Sean “Diddy” Combs.

“Diddy, motherf****** laughing at you at every damn courtroom...it’s not a f****** game,” the woman yelled.

Judge Arun Subramanian asked the court officers to remove her.

She entered as prosecutors told Subramanian someone identified Mia, Combs’s ex-assistant, by her legal name rather than her pseudonym yesterday. The judge said he will notify court security.

A man has been barred from court after revealing the real name of Mia, Sean “Diddy” Combs’s ex-assistant who testified under a pseudonym.

The man referred to Mia by her real name on his YouTube channel and filmed outside the courthouse yesterday, prosecutors told Judge Arun Subramanian.

Subramanian has now barred the man from court.

Eddy Garcia, a security employee at the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles, has taken the stand.

Garcia was on duty shortly after Sean “Diddy” Combs was recorded punching, kicking and dragging Cassie Ventura in a hotel hallway after a “freak-off” in March 2016.

Prosecutors are expected to delve into events that unfolded after the infamous assault, which they have said involved the music mogul delivering $100,000 in a brown paper bag to purchase the security footage.

Garcia signed an immunity deal, meaning he can’t be prosecuted for what he says on the stand as long as he tells the truth.

Eddy Garcia says he was 24 years old and had been working as a security guard at the InterContinental Hotel for a few months when Sean “Diddy” Combs was recorded punching, kicking and dragging Cassie Ventura in the hotel’s hallways.

Shortly afterward, Garcia confirmed to prosecutors he’s testifying under an immunity order.