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Prosecutors in Sean "Diddy" Combs' criminal trial are attempting to show the extreme lengths the hip-hop mogul went to conceal his alleged pattern of abuse.
The Grammy-winning rapper's sweeping federal sex-crimes case resumed in Manhattan court on June 4 after the jury heard from Eddy Garcia, a former security officer at a Los Angeles-area hotel where Combs and former girlfriend Casandra "Cassie" Ventura Fine were captured on tape during a 2016 altercation.
Garcia told the court on June 3 that Combs paid $100,000 for a copy of the video, which showed him kicking, hitting and dragging Cassie in the hallway of the InterContinental Hotel. The attack was first described in Ventura Fine's bombshell 2023 lawsuit, which accused Combs of sexual assault, trafficking and more.
CNN last year published the security footage from the hotel.
