Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie could be called to testify as a star witness in his upcoming trial despite reportedly agreeing to an NDA, a top lawyer has predicted.
The artist, whose real name Cassie Ventura, has been praised for her bravery in recent months, as she was seen as the trigger for criminal action against Diddy based on a November 2023 lawsuit.
Although Cassie settled her lawsuit shortly after announcing it, this led to a wave of new allegations against Diddy that resulted in his indictment in New York last month on charges including extortion and sex trafficking.
Lawyer Lou Shapiro joined the Daily Mail’s hit podcast The Trial of Diddy this week to discuss the legal ramifications of Diddy’s fall from grace.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie (pictured together in 2015) may be called to testify as a star witness in his upcoming trial despite reportedly agreeing to an NDA.
Shapiro explained that although Cassie may have signed a confidentiality agreement not to discuss her agreement with Diddy, this has no bearing on the actions brought against him by the Southern District of New York.
“Interestingly, people can’t agree or approve your ability to testify as a witness in a criminal case,” Marjorie Hernandez, the Daily Mail’s west coast news editor, told host.
‘In the NDAs, you agree to say that if I am subpoenaed in a civil matter, then I will not testify against it. If the district attorney’s office or the US attorney’s office subpoenas this person, that voids an NDA.
‘The NDA says: I promise that I will not speak against you in another case. But that doesn’t stop the government from doing what it’s going to do. And if the government forces something, I have no choice.
In her lawsuit, Cassie claimed that Diddy brutally beat her and sexually abused her for more than a decade throughout their tumultuous relationship.
Cassie, who dated Diddy on and off for years before splitting in 2018, claimed the rapper brutally beat and sexually abused her during their relationship in a shocking lawsuit.
Lawyer Lou Shapiro joined the Daily Mail’s hit podcast The Trial of Diddy this week to discuss the legal ramifications of Diddy’s fall from grace.
According to the truly shocking complaint, Diddy allegedly forced her to take various drugs and hit her repeatedly. She also claimed that he forced her to have sex with prostitutes while he watched and recorded.
In her complaint, she claimed that every aspect of her life was “controlled by Mr. Combs or his management companies,” including access to all of her medical records.
In the year since Cassie’s lawsuit, Diddy has seen his media empire crumble as he now faces decades behind bars.
Also joining Hernandez in the episode was Greg Kading, a former LAPD detective who investigated Diddy’s alleged ties to the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur, and who recently said the rapper’s “true nature” was coming to light for let the world see it.
Kading explained why a change in New York law several years ago has led alleged victims to revive decades-old sexual assault allegations against Diddy after Cassie Ventura went public with her allegations.
“One of the things that contributed to this was that New York a year and a half or about a year ago, a year and a half ago had adopted sort of a moratorium on the statute of limitations for domestic violence and domestic abuse,” he said. . saying.
Legal experts said that while Cassie may have signed an NDA when she settled her lawsuit, this will not protect Diddy in his criminal case since a subpoena voids the NDA.
Greg Kading, one of the detectives assigned to Tupac’s murder, joined DailyMail.com podcast The Trial of Diddy this week to discuss the rap mogul’s fall from grace.
‘And it allowed people who would otherwise have been outside the statutes to come forward and file criminal complaints for something to be looked at that previously would not have been considered simply because the statute of limitations had expired.
“So they opened up this one-year window so people could come and say, ‘Hey, even though the bylaws are outdated, this happened to me five years ago.'”
“And once the first person walked through the door and made their accusations against Puffy, all those other people were empowered to start coming forward.
‘And that’s what we often see, especially in criminal investigations, that people are reluctant to be the first through a door. But when someone else has already opened the door, it is much more comfortable or they are much more willing to walk through an open door than a closed one.
‘So now it’s created a kind of snowball effect. And everyone is, you know, throwing themselves on that, on that, on that, on that train.’
Months after Cassie’s lawsuit shocked the industry, CNN released footage from a Los Angeles hotel in 2016 that showed Diddy repeatedly assaulting Cassie in a hallway.
Months after Cassie’s lawsuit, footage emerged showing Diddy brutally assaulting her in the hallway of a Los Angeles hotel in 2016.
Shapiro said the footage could be damning in Diddy’s trial, as he said “he appears to show no remorse or compassion for another human being” in the clip.
Since prosecutors are likely to rely on the video for their case, Shapiro said Cassie’s potential testimony could be damning for the rapper.
‘It is a very disturbing video. “When you see it, you can’t believe someone would do that to another human being,” he said.
‘This old story, don’t hit someone when they’re down; She is already on the ground and it seems like he shows no remorse or compassion for another human being.
‘It’s really hard to watch. And if it’s difficult for me as a lawyer, where I see a lot of these videos in my profession, unfortunately, I can’t imagine what juries would think of a video like that. Shocking to the core.
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