Saturday, May 17, 2025

In Sean Combs Trial Cassie Ventura Describes Freak Offs and Guns in Safe as US Seeks to Seal


by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

SDNY COURTHOUSE, May 13 – At 4:30 pm on September 16 Inner City Press was told by its SDNY source to expect "the big one" - Sean Combs - the next day in an SDNY courtroom.

Detention memo on Patreon here.

[Inner City Press published book / audio book Diddy Do It? on Sept 20 on Amazon here]

On May 5, Inner City Press live tweeted jury selection Day 1, including an HBO staffer, here

On May 7, with peremptory challenged to finalize things set for Friday, the pool of jurors not excluded for cause reached 45, including a UN official thread

On May 12, after the jury was finalized and openings given, a guard from the LA hotel testified, then male dancer Daniel Phillip, thread

And more detail and analysis on X for Subscribers here and Substack here

Late on May 12 the lawyer for Cassie Ventura opposed any public or press views of the video exhibits, even as some propose by a pool of three. Wigdor letter on Patreon here.

On May 13 Cassie Ventura described freak offs and guns - name checking Suge Knight - then the US asked for, and Judge Subramanian provisionally granted sealing, even as to a pool. Thread

and more on X for Subscribers here and Substack here

The case is USA v. Combs, 1:24-cr-542 (Subramanian)

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