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    Sean Combs’ ex-aide says she sent loving texts because she was ‘brainwashed’

    LEN EditorBy LEN EditorJune 2, 2025Updated:June 2, 2025 World No Comments4 Mins Read
    Sean Combs’ ex-aide says she sent loving texts because she was ‘brainwashed’
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    A former personal assistant who says she was raped by Sean “Diddy” Combs has told a court she continued sending him loving text messages for years after her job ended in 2017 because she was “brainwashed”.

    The woman, giving evidence for a third day under the pseudonym Mia at the music mogul’s federal sex trafficking trial, used the word as defence lawyer Brian Steel confronted her with scepticism and even suggested she fabricated her claims.

    Combs, 55, denies sex trafficking and racketeering charges. His lawyers concede he could be violent, but he denies using threats or his powerful position in the music industry to commit abuse.

    Mia read aloud for the jury numerous text messages she sent to Combs, including one in 2019 in which she said she had a nightmare that she was trapped in an elevator with the singer R Kelly, and Combs rescued her.

    I have never lied in this courtroom and I never will lie in this courtroom. Everything I said is true

    “And the person who sexually assaulted you came to your rescue?” Mr Steel asked incredulously. He rephrased, asking if she really dreamed of being saved by a man “who terrorised you and caused you PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder)”.

    Prosecutors objected and the judge sustained it.

    It was one of many objections during a combative cross-examination of Mia at the trial, now in its fourth week, during which several government witnesses have been treated more gently by defence lawyers and have even spoken positively of Combs.

    In a message to Combs on August 29 2020, Mia recalled highlights from her eight years working for him — such as drinking champagne at the Eiffel Tower and rejecting Mick Jagger’s offer to take her home — saying she remembered only “the good times”.

    In the same message, she mentioned once feeling “bamboozled” by a woman. Mr Steel asked why she did not say Combs had bamboozled her as well, given her accusations.

    “Because I was still brainwashed,” Mia answered.

    Asked to explain, she said that in an environment where “the highs were really high and the lows were really low”, she developed “huge confusion in trusting my instincts”.

    When Mr Steel suggested her assault claims were made up, Mia responded: “I have never lied in this courtroom and I never will lie in this courtroom. Everything I said is true.”

    Defence lawyer Brian Steel (Richard Drew/AP)

    She said she felt a moral obligation to speak out after others came forward with allegations against Combs.

    “It’s been a long process. I’m untangling things. I’m in therapy,” Mia said.

    She remained composed days after telling the court Combs forcibly kissed her and molested her at his 40th birthday party soon after she started working for him in 2009, and months later raped her in a guest room at his Los Angeles home.

    She testified last week that his subsequent sexual assaults were “random, sporadic, so oddly spaced out where I would think they would never happen again”.

    Prosecutors criticised Mr Steel’s two-day cross-examination, which has relied heavily on Mia’s social media history.

    Assistant US attorney Maurene Comey accused him of shouting at and humiliating the witness, and argued that picking apart years of her social media posts — including birthday greetings and praise for Combs’ business successes — was excessive and largely irrelevant.

    “We are crossing the threshold into prejudice and harassing this witness,” Ms Comey told the judge during a break while jurors were out of the courtroom.

    She warned that Mr Steel’s approach during the high-profile trial could deter victims from giving evidence in other cases.

    Judge Arun Subramanian said: “I have not heard any yelling from Mr Steel and I have not heard anything that was sarcastic in the questions,” but he cautioned the defence lawyer about overusing questions about Mia’s social media posts praising Combs.

    News Source : Irish Examiner

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