Things Get Juicy.. Literally ( Cassie Takes the Stand at the Diddy Trial)

Today we are talking Cassie and Diddy because this was Cassie's first day on the stand as one of the key witnesses in Diddy's rico trial and Diddy's sex trafficking trial. Right, so there was a lot to unpack here. Let's just talk about her demeanor first before I get into one of the main points I want to talk about today. Cassie breaking down and having conversation and watching in an open courtroom the video where she was beaten and dragged

by Ditty back in twenty sixteen. Her demeanor. She handled it so well, y'all. The first half of court, she was definitely invisibly. You know, she was a little upset, she was tearing. She didn't completely break down, though, she held her composure really really well. Second half, even when she was watching this video, didn't even break right. So we spent the whole day learning the background of Cassie and Puff. Like they had been dating for over ten years.

She was super young when she met him. Her twenty first birthday, she spent with him in Vegas. That was the first time they kissed. She talked about how she didn't want that, and you know, she set the scene early for her being a super green, super young girl who met this mogul who was going to change her life through music. And eventually she just leaned all the way in and now here we are with her sitting on the stand in front of us, but the prosecutors.

You know, as she was talking about the free calls, and she broke it down right. She talked about, you know, the free calls had five steps. Step one was masturbation. She would have to master bait to the escort and explain every single detail out loud to Puff. Step two, they were rubbing baby on each other like crazy, to the point where like she said, every five minutes, if puff thought you weren't oiled enough, you would have to

go put more oil. It was so much oil that like they would have to pay damages in the hotel rooms because the oil was everywhere. Step three was oral sex, she said. Cassie told us that she would even skip to the oral sex sometimes or like rush it because she just would want to get to the ending. She woul want to get it over with. She want to get to having actual sex so it could be over. Step four she talked about was the actual sex. Now, when she talked about the actual sex, she made sure

that she mentioned that a lot of times. You know, she alleged that Diddy wouldn't even be involved. He would just sit and watching master bait, as we've heard, but she said there were sometimes where he would get involved and literally like she would allegedly be having sex with

an escort while giving heads a puff. And she said, at some points it was so much going on she just didn't even know, like it was just it was just so much going on, right, And she said that, you know, when the escorts would come, Diddy allegedly liked it when they would come on her. And then she was supposed to take that come and rub it on his nipples and on his chest. That was the thing that I guess he liked. Allegedly, that was all it was, y'all. It was a lot of It was a lot of

It was a lot. Okay. Her testimony was very but but she was so calm, and she was so like just trying to tell the full story in the best way that she could. She didn't leave out a lot of the good either. She got to the bad kind of quick, but she didn't leave out the good. Like she talked about having a good time with him, everything she experienced, all the traveling, everything she learned, like just being so amazed by his life. But baby, when she

got to the bad did she get to it. So they're talking about the freak offs and the prosecutors are like, yo, why didn't you ever just like leave? And she was like, well, there was a time where I tried to leave, she said, and her direct quote was it was she said, I was trying to leave in this situation. And that's the video that we saw that CNN broke of Cassie being drug dragged down the hall and beaten in the Intercontinental Hotel in LA in twenty sixteen. So prosecutors when she

brings this up, they bring up text messages first. They don't play the video first. They bring up text messages first, and they're like, okay, so that video was March twenty sixteen, right, let's we're gonna bring up text from around that time of that video. Actually, I believe that was the same day. So Cassie mentioned on the stand that that video that we saw where she's getting beaten in that hotel was a weekend. She actually had a huge movie premiere coming

up that Monday. So the text that we're looking at Cassie is named baby Girl in their text messages, and Diddy is pop Up right, because it did again, she had this whole weird thing about calling him pop up because he wanted to be called with her. Granddad was

called I don't know. But she textedy and was like, I want to foh so bad, And then the prosecutors asked her to clarify, like what does that mean, and she says that it meant that she wanted to have a free cough so bad, And in text she's like, I want to foh so bad, but I don't want to mess myself up, because again she had given us a whole half of day testimony about how when she would do these free calls, they would be so high and so drunk it would take her days to get

herself back together. And she was like, she didn't want to be hungover and sick because again she got this huge movie premier coming up, right, so she texted Puff that.

And of course the first question in my mind is like, well, wait, cause you just said this whole time I didn't want to like when I if I could have counted the amount of times that Cassie told us she did not want to be having sex with other men, but did it because she loved Puff and she thought she had too, and she didn't want to do it with nobody else and she didn't want to be beating Yo. If I had one hundred dollars for every time I heard that, I would have had a hundred thousand dollars a day

leaving a courtroom. So to see the text with her being like the initiator of it, I was like, hold up, But the prosecutors know what they're doing, right, They bringing that up first, because if they bring it up first, they can kind of plant the narrative in our minds first about why were why that even happen? Right, So they asked her, why did you say you want to have a free cough? And Cassie answered she was trying

to damage control. She felt like if she pleased him that weekend, he would be in a happy, great mood and she could go to her movie premiere on Monday. No issues, no bruises, allegedly, no nothing, right, So she was trying to get ahead of it. Now they're like, okay, and the freak cough happened. Allegedly, that freak off is what we were seeing. That's where that video came from, where she's getting beaten in the hotel. So Cassie then goes into detail the free cough. Right, So, she allegends

that there was a lot of drinking. There was a lot of party in that day. She says she thought it was like a Friday or Saturday. She thinks it was a Friday. She says at some point within them partying, drinking, having a good time with an escort. There was an escort there that she had named a couple times in her testimony today, So obviously this was the escort that they were kind of familiar with. She says, at some point she ended up getting hit in the face by Puff.

She alleged that didd he hit her in her face right at some point, and she couldn't remember why he did it, but she just remember being hit, and she said it instantly gave her a black and purple eye, right, and y'all will remember, and that's what she's alleging, y'all will remember the security guard that I told y'all they kind of blew his spot up. Diddy's team did. He said that when he came off the elevator, Cassie had a blue up like a purple eye, right, but it

wasn't in his incident report. That's what Diddy's team pointed out. But she says she had got basically like a blue and purple eye, like a black eye. So she was like, Nah, I gotta get out of here. I can't allow him he lit right now. I can't allow him to like, you know me too bad. I got to be somewhere Monday, and I don't want to miss it. That was the energy that she says she was given, right, So she says she got all her stuff as much as she

could the prosecutors acts. Did the male escorts allegedly see her get hit by Puff? And she said, no, he was in another room, like they were all. It sounds like they were in the suite, like they were all in the same room, but he was in another room, right, So she's like, no, we were in another room, so he didn't see it. He was still there though, so potentially he could have heard some things. And to me, that stuck out because I'm like, okay, that's a witness.

Then he's a witness. He can come and speak to some things if he needs to or not right, and then it works out in somebody's favor or it doesn't. So she's like, you know, at that point, she just wanted to grab her stuff and get out of there. So that's what she did. When she felt like Puff wasn't beying attention or whatever the case it'd be. She grabbed the stuff. She got out of there. She's chucking it like she's get She's to the elevator, she's trying

to get out of there, and then boom. That's where the video picks up. It was interesting to hear kind of like what her backstory was because Puffs team is painting this as this alleged like toxic relationship that was just so bad on both ends that it boiled over into things like what we saw like him dragging her down the hallway, right, But they basically are saying, but she's not without fault either, right now in the video did he does have a phone that he goes and

grabs back from Cassie in that video? Right? But Puffs Team also alleged that because Cassie said, I was just trying to go home. I was just trying to get out of there. Puffs Team said, no, Diddy was trying to get her out of there. The prosecutors today did something very interesting, And I'm gonna ended with this because we have so much more that we're going to be talking about this week, and I want you to follow

me on socials. I'm Lauren la Rose that I do additional breakdowns there as well too, especially on the Breakfast Club as well. But I'm gonna leave it with this because this is going to lead into where I believe we are going to pick up tomorrow, because the prosecution has to come back in tomorrow and I think that this is where Diddy's team will probably they're gonna try to pick it apart. They rewind this video back right, and they're planning for Cassie a couple times and again, Yo,

she never breaks down the whole time. She getting through it. Okay. Her brother and her husband are sitting in front of me as they're replanning and rewatching this video the part where she actually gets dragged. I'm paying attention to them. I'm like, I don't know if I could sit through that. I'm assuming this isn't their first time seeing the video there, right,

but still, it's like all these people in court. It's the image of her sitting on the stin and she's pregnant, and she's tearing up, and she's having to rewatch this multiple times in front of all these people. And I'd already been told she didn't even want to be there. It would have hit me. It's hardy to hit me a little bit. I'm like, Yo, my damn, I like choking up, like cause I in that moment, it wasn't

about Cassie or Diddy. I felt for a woman who was beat the way that Cassie was beating that video. Having to relive that moment and be embarrassed in front of all of these people and having to be judged about that moment, in the fact that she stayed with him after that moment in front of all of these people. But her husband, he didn't really like he was a little antsy at first, like he was moving around a lot,

moving around a lot her brother. It's not like he broke down her crowd or anything, but I wouldn't say he was like, Okay, Alex shot a couple looks at Diddy during this video. Alex Fine is a Cassie's husband. But basically getting to my last point, the prosecutors rewinded the video back and they played this one point where in one frame they showed Ditty and he has Cassie's bags in her hand, and they asked her what is that in his hand, and she says, those are my bags.

He had ken he grabbed my bags out my hand and went back to the room. So then they grab another frame of Puff walking back out of the room, back out to the elevator lobby area where Cassie was right, and they're like, what's in his hand now, And she's looking and she's like, I don't know. Then she looks again and she's like, I don't think there's anything in his hand. And they're like, okay, we'll rest today, you're honor.

We'll pick this back up tomorrow. I said, Oh, the prosecutors are way more subtle at how they do it Diddy's team. I mean, they're on a defense, so they you know, they got to be a little bit more,

you know, but subtly. They made such a loud statement with those two frames, because the whole premise of Diddy's team's argument is that Diddy maybe a man who has committed domestic violence, who has committed assault, who has been a jerk to his girlfriends, who has said things he shouldn't have said, treated people at work the way he shouldn't have treated them. This overall been an asshole, and he'll own up to that, right, but that's not what

he's on trial for in this situation. The way Diddy's legal team is setting it up is he was in a toxic relationship that was very tumultuous, that was you know, jealousy, inflaming, and golf. They used a witness to get this out into the jury. When you saw that video, at that point, Puff was just trying to get her home, get her away, because this toxic thing had builed over and boom, they

just wanted to end. After that, prosecutors already showed the video of him dragging her back to the hotel, right back to the hotel room. Right now. They show that he doesn't have the bags in his hands. You don't want her to go home. You're not allowing her to go home, in my opinion, if you're taking her bags out of her hand and then you're dragging her by her hair. And a lot of people are like, well, where does the sex trafficking come into all of this?

Where does all of that come into all of this? But when you're talking about you know, any of that right being able to bring people across state lines for sex and these things, and you know, threatening them with you know, allegedly threatening them with videos and with your power and all of that. The best thing that the prosecution did today was they made Cassie human because a lot of us had heard about this so much, had seen you know, her civil suit, and then had heard

that she was a part of this criminal suit. But I don't think we humanized even after that video. I think a lot of people did, but I think still people were like I don't really know. I don't really know. I after Diddy's defense team came in, I was like, I don't really know, y'all. And I'm still kind of like I don't know. I need to see some more.

But after today, the way I empathized with Cassie being this girl who just found herself in all of this mess and and the optics of that video were like, it's like she narrated that video today and it's like, now we saw it, we saw. We didn't see Cassie who was like this woman who kept going back to this man who was abusing her, and who was using drugs with this man allegedly, and who you know, may or may not been involved all these things. We didn't

see that. What we saw was twenty one year old Cassie who felt like this situation because she said it when she started off her testimony with this, and ironically it ended up back here if you really called what they were doing, it ended up back here. She found herself in a situation that was so much bigger than her, where the control was so much bigger than her. All she could do was just be there and be in it.

And that's what she did in the video and they said to her, why did you just lay their lifeless? She said it felt like the safest place, and I was like, baby, this is about to get good. This is about to get good. Okay, So we're gonna get into some more. This is the latest with Lauren and Rosa. Again. I'm at the case. I'm there. Send me y' all questions. I want to talk about it. Y'all been supporting the content.

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