Diddy Trial Updates: Bombshell Courtroom Moments, Freak Offs to Celebrities

Danity Kane singer Daybreak Richard was the fifth prosecution witness, and her testimony on Might 16 alleged that in 2009, Combs brutally beat Ventura after she took too lengthy to prepare dinner him dinner.

“The place’s my fucking egg?” Richard recounted to the jury Combs shouting in 2009, as he stormed into the kitchen of his rented Los Angeles mansion.

“He took the skillet with the eggs in it and tried to hit her within the head, and she or he fell to the bottom,” Richard testified.

Ventura cowered on the ground “in a fetal place” as Combs punched her and kicked her, she testified. Then he dragged her upstairs by her hair, she stated, including that she then heard the sound of screaming and breaking glass from the third ground.

The following day, Combs referred to as Ventura and Richard into the mansion’s first-floor recording studio, she stated.

“He stated that what we noticed was ardour, and it was what lovers in a relationship do,” Richard stated.

She stated Combs instructed the 2 ladies that “he was attempting to take us to the highest, and that, the place he comes from, folks go lacking if they are saying issues like that, like, if folks discuss. After which he gave us flowers.”

Whereas again on the stand on Might 19, Richard re-emphasized that she felt this was a menace to her life.

The small print within the testimony got here as a shock to Combs’ lead protection legal professional Marc Agnifilo, who referred to as it prejudicial and “only a drop lifeless lie.”

“It did not occur,” the lawyer complained to the decide. “And the rationale we all know it did not occur is that Ms. Ventura did not discuss it” throughout her 4 days on the witness stand.

On cross-examination on Might 19, Richard agreed that she solely recalled the alleged demise menace in talking with prosecutors earlier this month. It had gone unmentioned, she agreed, throughout a half-dozen prior interviews with prosecutors.