Diddy supporter thrown out of court for screaming message to rapper

Eddy Garcia testified that when he arrived upstairs of the high rise, Combs was waiting him for “smiling.”

“Mr. Combs was smiling, called me, Eddy my Angel. My voice was cracking so I said I was coming down with something,” Garcia said.

“Mr. Combs told Kristina to go get me some of the tea that he liked. Then he asked, Do you have it? I said yes and handed it to him.”

When asked by prosecutors what Combs did after, Garcia said, “He left, came back. He asked if it was the only copy.

“Mr. Combs said it had to be the only copy, nothing in the cloud. I called Mr. Medrano and he said it was the only copy, he took it off the server.”

Eddy Garcia testified how Bill Medrano, his supervisor, eventually went into the server room, handed him a black USB, and said, “Done.”

“The video was in the USB,” Garcia told the courtroom.

Garcia told prosecutors after he was handed the USB he called Combs.

The former security guard testified that Combs wanted to meet up in West Los Angeles, “He said, ‘Let’s get it done.’ He wanted the video as soon as possible.”

“I told Bill Medrano, he told me to tell the others I was on an errand for him,” Garcia said.

Garcia described the meeting point as a high rise building, and when he arrived at the location, he called a number, and Combs’ security guard came down.

The security guard told him that “he kind of came up with Mr. Combs, that he was a good guy and I was doing a good thing,” Garcia testified.

While speaking to Combs on his personal phone, Garcia again informed him that he did not have access to the server, and could not obtain the surveillance footage that depicted Cassie’s assault.

“He told me he believed I could make it happen, he would take care of me,” Garcia said about his conversation with Combs.

When asked by prosecutors what he thought Combs meant by his comments, Garcia said, “Money for the video.”

The former security guard said he then reached out to his supervisor about it.

Garcia testified his supervisor, Bill Medrano, told him that he would “do it for fifty.”

“He’d give the video for $50,000,” he told the court about Medrano.

Garcia told prosecutors that Medrano reached out to Kristina Khorram, Combs’ chief of staff, who put the music executive on the phone.

Garcia said Combs called him, “Eddy my angel.”

“Mr, Combs told me, I knew you could do it. Let’s do it right away,” Garcia testified.

Eddy Garcia, the former security guard at the InterContinental Hotel, said the calls from Combs’ team continued, despite informing them he was unable to handover the surveillance footage to them.

Garcia said he got calls on his personal number.

When asked by prosecutors how he reacted, Garcia said, “nervous.”

“Ms. Khorram passed the phone to Mr. Combs again,” he testified.

Garcia said Combs told him that “he sounded like a good guy, that he could help. That something like this could ruin him. He wanted the video. He said if it got out it would ruin his career.”

Garcia said after initially speaking with Khorram, Combs’ chief of staff, he eventually received another call from her.

The former security guard told the court that this time, Khorram put Combs on the phone.

“He asked, ‘Do you know who I am?'” Garcia said Combs told him.

“I said yes. He asked for the video, said he had been intoxicated. I told him, I can’t give the video.”

Garcia recalled Combs’ was speaking fast and stuttering, “He sounded nervous.”

Eddy Garcia testified that about 90 mins into his shift, Combs’ chief of staff, Kristina Khorram, called the hotel security desk asking requesting the surveillance video.

Garcia said that Khorram asked him if “there was any possible way to get a copy of the video or see the video.”

The former security guard said Khorram wanted the video because Combs had been “intoxicated and didn’t remember exactly.”

Garcia told Khorram she needed to speak with management or file a subpoena to obtain the clip.

He said he informed Combs’ chief of staff off the record that he had seen the video, which he told her was “it’s bad.”

Garcia, the former security guard at the InterContinental hotel, testified that at the time of the domestic violence incident in March 2016, he did not recognize Sean Combs at first.

“When I looked closer, yes, it was Mr. Sean Combs,” Garcia told jurors.

Garcia said he eventually learned the second person involved in the incident was Cassandra “Cassie” Ventura.

The jury has entered the courtroom.

The prosecution have called Eddie Garcia, a former security guard at the Intercontinental Hotel in Los Angeles, to the stand.

As prosecutors and defense attorneys discuss some evidentiary issues before the jury enters the courtroom, a woman was removed from the gallery after yelling disruptively.

The woman appeared to have yelled out, “Diddy, their coming after you, those motherf***ers.”

Judge Arun Subramanian immediately instructed the court officers to remove the woman out of the courthouse.

The jury will return for day 15 of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ federal sex trafficking trial at 9 am.

Prosecutors are expected to call Eddie Garcia, a former security at the InterContinental Hotel.

Following Garcia, the court is expected to hear testimony from video expert Frank Piazza, and Combs’ former employees Derek Ferguson and Bryana Bongolan.

Bongolan accused Combs of sexual battery and allegedly dangled her off a 17-story balcony, according to a lawsuit she filed in December 2024.

Prosecutors plan to call forth a man named Eddy Garcia to the stand.

Garcia worked as a security supervisor at the InterContinental hotel in Los Angeles, where Sean Combs was seen on video attacking Cassie Ventura in March 2016.

Following Garcia’s testimony, the government will call a video expert.

The prosecution’s next high-profile witness, a victim only being referred to as Jane, is expected to take the stand later this week.

The jury will return Tuesday at 9 am.

The courtroom was dismissed for the day following the testimony of Sylvia Oken.

During cross-examination, the defense only asked Oken one question, whether Cassie Ventura was a guest in the reservation, which the hotel director confirmed she was.

Sylvia Oken testified that he recalled some reservations made for Combs under the alias “Frank Black.”

The jury was also shown a hotel record that showed Cassie Ventura was listed as an accompanying guest on the reservation.

Oken said the stay would be paid by an “AmEx of Sean Combs.”

Combs’ former assistant has ended her testimony following three days on the stand.

The government’s next witness is Sylvia Oken, the director of sales and marketing at The Beverly Hills Hotel.

Under re-direct, the prosecution asked the former assistant why she wanted to make Combs, the person who allegedly abused her, happy.

Mia said, “When he was happy, I was safe.”

She added how she was scared for her physical safety when Combs was upset, “I’d been abused by Puff before. I knew his wrath.”

The jury has returned as the defense wraps up its cross-examination of Combs’ ex-assistant.

Mia is now under re-direct by the prosecution

The judge has called for a break.

Brian Steel, Combs’ defense attorney, asked Mia about the time her boss allegedly slammed a door on her arm after she tried to retrieve her phone from him.

Steel asked the former assistant if she ever sought medical help for her injuries, which Mia said no because she would not have been allowed.

When asked if she ever took photos of her injuries, Mia again said no.

And when asked if she screamed during the incident, the ex-assistant said, “No. I was in shock.”

Defense attorney Steel returned to the messages Mia sent to Kristina Khorram, Combs’ chief of staff, in December 2016 after learning Revolt Films was being shut down.

Revolt Films was a Combs-owned flm business where Mia worked as a director of development and acquisitions for his film business.

“My entire world was being ripped away from me immediately,” the former assistant said on the stand on Monday.

“And even if in hindsight that would was awful, I didn’t know it at the time.”

Steel asked if she wanted to continue working for Combs at the time, despite the alleged abuse, Mia responded, “I wanted to continue following my dreams.

“I was finally making real stuff, and I had a separation from him.”

Combs’ former assistant told the courtroom she worked for pop icon Madonna for eight months from April 2019.

Mia said her job with Madonna came after she was fired by Combs in 2018.

She denied that Combs had any involvement in her securing the job with Madonna.

Defense attorney Brian Steel again honed in on the claim that the former assistant is seeking financial compensation from her testimony.

“You never mentioned sexual abuse until you hired a lawyer, Shawn Crowley?” Steel asked Mia.

The victim responded, “I have no idea when I first mentioned it, except that it was after I had representation.”

Steel then scolded Mia, “You intend to sue Mr. Combs for compensation? You want money?” to which the victim denied.

Sean Combs is being tried in the US Southern District Courthouse in Lower Manhattan – a federal prison that does not allow electronic devices inside its courthouse.

Therefore, no photographs from inside the courtroom are available.

Instead, court sketch drawings from the days proceedings are provided to the media and public.

Here are some sketches from the first half of today’s hearing.

Defense attorney Brian Steel is grilling Mia as to why she did not mention the alleged sexual assaults to prosecutors until June 2024.

Before the lunch break, Steel accused the ex-assistant of only mentioning the rape allegations after Cassie Ventura’s settlement with Sean Combs became public.

The jury has returned from its lunch break with Combs’ former assistant back on the stand under cross-examination.

The victim is being identified under the pseudonym Mia.