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Hey there folks. It is Friday, June 6th, the fourth week of testimony wrapping up today in the Diddy trial. And day 17 was full of headline making moments, including testimony from one highly anticipated witness. And as the judge threatened to kick Diddy out of his own trial, all that happened on day 17. Welcome folks to this episode of Amy and TJ Ro. Did it happen again that every day we think, oh, we've heard it all. And something else comes.
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I was actually chuckling to myself as you were saying, another headline making day because it's just been what's happened. Even though you have witnesses getting up on the stand and telling similar stories, there are always new twisted, horrific details that you couldn't imagine having actually taken place. And yet you're hearing a new twist, a new turn, a new disturbing image is in your mind and in your head. And wow, yesterday was exceptional.
Tom Yamas
So we're going to take you through the latest full day of testimony. Of course, Today is Friday, June 6th, as we are recording this. They're just gonna be getting back to court in a little bit. We're expected another full day of on the stand, the Jane woman who is testifying under that pseudonym to protect her identity. She's expected to be on the stand today and maybe even a couple of days into next week. Brianna Bongalin was on the stand yesterday as well. She is the one who was dangled over the balcony allegedly by Diddy. And then Enrique Santos, who testified about some technical stuff having to do with text messages. But robes it was before we even get to testimony, there was a moment in court that the judge got pissed. And this is a major no no by Diddy.
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It's kind of, I guess you hear about his belief that he is, according to the witnesses, a king, a God, a devil, whatever you want to believe, but something certainly above everyone else. And so perhaps it shouldn't be surprising that he didn't consider what the very strict rules are. In a courtroom, if you are the defendant, you cannot make eye contact with jurors, let alone signal to them or make any sort of attempt at communication with them. And it seems like that's exactly what Diddy was doing not once but twice during court yesterday right in front of the judge.
Tom Yamas
Well, apparently everybody. But again, this is as strict of a no no as you can get you see stuff like this in movies. Defendants, right? Mobsters or something. Criminals interacting, sometimes flirting, even with one of the female jurors. No, that does not happen in real life.
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Except for it did.
Tom Yamas
It's not supposed to happen. Now, I don't know what Diddy was doing here, but the judge caught this both times. On one occasion, he looked over and was shaking his head, maybe at one particular juror, and then he did it a second time. The judge stopped everything. And according to at least this reporter, Robes in the room has a play by play, the exact quote of what the judge said.
Unknown Host
Yeah. Here's what the judge told Diddy yesterday. And you could tell he was pissed. I could not have been clearer. There was a line of questioning where your client was nodding vigorously and looking at the jury. And there was a subsequent moment. We had a sidebar. And I looked and. And I saw your client looking at the jury and nodding aggressively. This is absolutely unacceptable.
Tom Yamas
And that was the warning. He said, if I see it one more time, he's out of here. That was not a. There was nothing else. If I see it at all.
Unknown Host
I'm wondering, based on that admonishment and him saying, if I see you one more time, I'm throwing you out. If that could ultimately be, if there's somehow a hung jury or, sorry, a not guilty verdict. If there could be some argument by the prosecution that he tainted the jury pool or that he did something to influence the jury, and they could question the decision based on his actions. I was thinking that ahead, like, just in case he's found not guilty. Could the prosecutors come back and say, this trial is no good, no bueno.
Tom Yamas
But is that point blank double jeopardy? And they're just not allowed to do that. They're not allowed to come back and say, we messed up by allowing you to do something. Right. That's Diddy. You can shut it down right now if you want to and start this whole thing over. But they didn't do that.
Unknown Host
The prosecution would have to file like grounds for a mistrial.
Tom Yamas
I have to do it right now.
Unknown Host
And they don't want to start over, I imagine.
Tom Yamas
Sweetheart, we can't start over.
Unknown Host
But that is so bold and so brazen. I don't think I have ever reported on that. We've covered a lot of trials in our several decades of journalism. I don't think I've. I know that I have never reported that I have seen that or that has been something that happened in a courtroom.
Tom Yamas
What was he doing to be doing it aggressively? He knew Everybody was going to see that.
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He thinks he's God, apparently. I don't know.
Tom Yamas
What signal would that even be making to a juror?
Unknown Host
Well, he was. I can't tell if he was nodding in agreement or nodding in disagreement, but whatever it was, he had a strong reaction to whatever was being said and he wanted the juror. And I think, you know, he's maybe trying to make that one on one connection with the juror. Like, hey, see, like we're feeling each other. He did that with all, according to the witnesses, with these women.
Tom Yamas
He charming, love bombed them.
Unknown Host
Like, that's for a better lack of a better term. He loved bomb them. He made them feel there was a special connection between them and then he started to control and manipulate them. It sounds like that might be a smaller version of what was. He's working the jurors.
Tom Yamas
Oh, wow. But that was a huge, huge moment. And I guess, I mean, I actually didn't should have looked this up ahead of time. What happens if they have to take him out of the court? His trial goes on without him.
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Yes.
Tom Yamas
Right. He didn't say how long he would take him out or how long he'd punish him, but he's absolutely said if it happens again, he will kick him out. That was a big moment. The other huge moment, Robes, was from Brianna Bongalin. And the defense has been going at her on cross examination and kind of picking her apart on her memory of that incident in 2016 when she says Diddy dangled her over the 17th floor balcony at Cassie Ventura Fine's apartment. Look, that was eight years ago. She admitted she was on drugs a lot of the time and she was high at the time of the incident. So they've been able to pick it apart about some small discrepancies, like was.
Unknown Host
She smoking marijuana or was she smoking a cigarette? Was she in her bed or was she standing up?
Tom Yamas
Yeah, but yesterday, though, Robes, this was a huge discrepancy and it's kind of a big. How did they miss that moment for the prosecution?
Unknown Host
Right. So she gave a very specific date, September 26, 2016, when she says this balcony incident happened in LA. Well, the defense attorneys were able to literally bring hotel receipts to say, I got the receipts. Like they really had a receipt. It wasn't just a euphemism, like they actually physically had a receipt, a hotel receipt that showed that Diddy was in New York. And not just on that day, but in the days several days before and several days after she said this incident happened.
Tom Yamas
So even if she's off a day or two, he's still covered.
Unknown Host
She would have to be off a.
Tom Yamas
Week or a month or a year or something. But it does not match up. That date does not match up at all.
Unknown Host
It's interesting to your point that prosecutors would not have verified if she was giving a specific date, which I didn't even realize she had a very specific date. And look, I'll give her this grace that you asked me to remember where I was on a specific date or when something specific. And even if it was traumatic, I would have to go back and look in my photos or in my email or something to try and say, wait, when was that exactly? To pinpoint it. So I don't know how that date came about.
Tom Yamas
The day you were almost thrown to your death from a 17th floor balcony by one of the most powerful media moguls on the planet. You think you remember that day?
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I do think so, but however, if I were taking cocaine and ecstasy and marijuana, it might all be a little fuzzy. That period of time where she said there was hair, heavy drug use, you might lose track of when happened, what happened when. You might not forget what happened, but you might forget some of the details. I'm just giving her that space. But for them to be that specific with the date is risky as hell. If they didn't have verification or at.
Tom Yamas
Least if they where he was.
Unknown Host
Yeah, that seems like a huge oversight by the prosecution and a huge leap to take if you were actually going to get that specific and then not be able to back it up and then expect the rest of your story to be believed.
Tom Yamas
It seemed to have thrown them off guard. And she didn't have much of an answer. So, okay, I just could have been off or my memories are a little fuzzy. But this is a witness that the defense has made some headway with in the cross examination. And now here is another at the end. This is a huge discrepancy. He has a receipt from Trump Tower for the almost the entire week surrounding the date she said he was in LA dangling her off a balcony. This was a tough witness for the prosecution.
Unknown Host
Yes. And so they hopefully. Well, they're trying to recover their case with this next witness. Correct. I mean, she has been a powerful, powerful witness. I was reading one report saying that when she finished her testimony yesterday, they said normally you'd hear like shuffling and people talking and there'd be some just regular ambient noise. It was silent. That her testimony was so powerful and so jarring that people weren't speaking that you could actually Hear a pin drop in the courtroom. And that was distinctive from other days. I thought that was a really interesting note about what the atmosphere was like after she testified.
Tom Yamas
And to think that can be the case after we've heard from Mia, after we heard from Cassie Ventura. Fine. All those days of how off of these stories were, and still people are getting shook by what they're hearing from a witness. Jane is somebody who I think she's the third or four victims that they are actually presenting their case with. But hers is incredibly important. She had robes, as you put it together, some. There are new details, you said, I think off the top about the same things. Right. She talked about freak off. She talked about dating ditties. You talk about violence. And all of those things are follow almost the exact same pattern of the storyline with Cassie Ventura. Fine. But still some of the details that come out are still new and still shocking. I know this isn't the biggest deal in the world, but even the idea that there were 24 bottles of Baby oil used per session, she said she got that specific.
Unknown Host
She said in one night they would go through 24, four bottles of baby oil. It just gives you some perspective because it all seems so surreal to me that you would have a sex session that lasted 12 hours. I mean, repeatedly and in order. And it's not like you're just having sex with one person. She talked about having and being forced to, or at least coerced into having sex with multiple men. Sometimes several sessions with one guy, then another one would come. And it got to the point where she fell in love with this man, this. This powerful, intoxicating, charming man. And he slowly introduces her to the idea of having sex with other men. And she ends up, she says, having sex with other men 90% of the time, when all she really wanted was to have sex with Diddy.
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Some of the stuff you just described. Very difficult to hear. And what an awful situation for this woman. But she had some of the kindest things to say in terms of their relationship, how happy she was and how happy they were together, how charming. She said a bunch of complimentary things, but it's weird to have that come out of her mouth. And this being the experience she had. How can you, when you are dating, you're in a relationship and 90% of that time is spent having sex with other men that he wants you to do that.
Unknown Host
You know what, though? Here's. And this is what we're hearing is a common theme. It didn't start out that way. And so there obviously had to be a charming, wonderful side to him that we're hearing so much about. Our friend Aubrey o' Day talked about how she even struggled with calling him a monster because there were so many good sides and good things about him. So when he wanted to be charming with you, you fell for him head over heels. And then you're hoping to get back that, that good guy, that man you fell in love with, and you know he's in there somewhere. And so you put up with all this other stuff because you're, you're wanting to get back those moments. And apparently they obviously had to appear throughout so that you'd keep, keep going and keep doing things you didn't want to do because you were hoping for that moment taste of that version of him that you fell in love with. But it wasn't just about the intoxicating romance or the desire she had for him from her heart and from just all those other places. It was also a financial. You can see how the grooming happened. She falls in love with Him. Then he asks her to do things she doesn't want. And then he slowly ends up taking over her world where she depends on him for everything from paying her rent to setting up childcare for her to just making sure that her travel is taken care of. Everything I'm sure is first class and luxury. And so now you've been introduced to this world of opulence and you can't afford any of it. So she ended up not. She was a. Was she a formal model. Former model. She had model friends and they were telling her she influencer was thrown in there. She was. She was wanting to go into the website, what's that called, where they.
Tom Yamas
OnlyFans.
Unknown Host
OnlyFans, yes. Where they, you know, you make money that way. He wanted her not to do that. So she ended up just being completely financially dependent on him.
Tom Yamas
I thought it was a little. I guess Cassie Ventura Fine talked about this as well where she. I mean she wasn't even an artist anymore, right? She was. Her full time job was doing these freak offs. Well, this Jane said that she wouldn't work, she wouldn't travel and she kept childcare on standby just in case he called and told her to travel somewhere for a freak off. That's a. That's a job like you are just on standby to serve this one person that you depend on everything for. And she did Ro. She talked about. She did these because she felt obligated.
Unknown Host
Yes, she felt obligated. She was hoping to. To make him happy so that they could be happy. But then after he's taken over her finances, taken over her life in a lot of ways and she's willingly done this at this point. She then says something that we heard from Cassie Ventura Fine that he then started viciously attacking her and blackmailing her with those videos of her having sex with escorts. And that's not something that anyone wants to be released. And so he now has videos of her hanging over her head for her to do what he wants.
Tom Yamas
But if, if these folks are lying, they have coordinated really well because these stories all sound just the same. Like you can almost just tell the. And just remove the names and just move them around on different stories because they all sound like they went through the exact same experience. He had a pattern, if you believe, if they are to believe.
Unknown Host
And he obviously had, according to all of these witnesses, a need that was extreme that he wanted to be met at all costs. And once he was done with or the woman grew tired of doing this unthinkable thing. Several times A week even, sometimes for days on end. He would just move on to the next one, groom them and then start the whole process over again. I mean, pattern is one way to put it, but my God, it's horrific to think about. And the fact that he was allowed to keep doing this, if this is all true, woman after woman after woman after woman. And he knew how to control them.
Tom Yamas
And this is. And we all wonder, we hear about this stuff. Yeah, we know he's a bad guy, he was a bad boss, he was an abuser. But what does this have to do with racketeering? What does it have to do with the charges they're trying to establish here again, his criminal enterprise and sex trafficking? He essentially has someone here who is moving across state lines, possibly for payment to be engaged in. Well, free coughs.
Ryan Seacrest
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Unknown Host
You know, it's interesting because we talked about earlier the defense team having receipts that Diddy was not where Brianna said he was in order to dangle her off the 17th floor balcony. The prosecution says they have receipts, so to speak, and plan to play phone recordings from Sean Combs where we can expect this in the coming days that they say show Diddy and you can hear him trying to manipulate Jane into saying she wanted to be involved in these freak offs and then making veiled references to paying for her rent. And so you can actually hear, they claim we're going to be able to hear or the jurors are going to be able to hear Diddy in his own voice, manipulating her, blackmailing her and trying to get her to say something so he could have recordings to use against her. I mean, it's wild, but I think that'll be a unbelievable day in court when that happens.
Tom Yamas
Well, that's to come. Who knows if they'll even get to a cross examination of her today. She is expected, folks, to be on the stand for several days and she was only up there for a few hours yesterday. So much more to come from her. We, of course will continue, continue to keep you updated as your one stop shop. I think we can go with. We go through all these reports from media members inside and put it all together here for you. So we know you've been listening. So thank you certainly for doing that.
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Podcast Summary: Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes Present: Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial
Episode: The Diddy Trial: Diddy Threatened By Judge
Release Date: June 6, 2025
Hosts: Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes
Guest: Aubrey O’Day
Platform: iHeartPodcasts
The episode delves into the intense developments of the ongoing Diddy trial, particularly focusing on the dramatic events of day 17. Hosts Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes are joined by Aubrey O’Day, a former protege of Diddy and a seasoned media personality, to provide in-depth analysis and unique perspectives on the proceedings that have captivated the nation.
Aubrey O’Day reflects on the unfolding trial, emphasizing the gravity and high stakes involved:
"Did it happen again that every day we think, oh, we've heard it all. And something else comes." [03:11]
A pivotal moment occurred when the presiding judge expressed severe disapproval of Diddy's courtroom behavior, threatening to remove him from his own trial. This unprecedented action underscores the judge's commitment to maintaining courtroom decorum and ensuring a fair trial.
Tom Yamas recounts the incident:
"The judge stopped everything. And according to at least this reporter, Robes in the room has a play by play, the exact quote of what the judge said." [05:25]
Exact Quote from the Judge:
"There was a line of questioning where your client was nodding vigorously and looking at the jury. And there was a subsequent moment. We had a sidebar. And I looked and saw your client looking at the jury and nodding aggressively. This is absolutely unacceptable." [05:47]
The judge further warned Diddy:
"If I see it one more time, he's out of here." [06:12]
Brianna Bongalin, a key witness, provided harrowing testimony alleging that Diddy dangled her over the 17th-floor balcony of Cassie Ventura Fine's apartment in 2016. Her emotional recounting of the event added significant weight to the prosecution's case.
Highlights of her Testimony:
Critical Discrepancies Highlighted: During cross-examination, the defense team exposed significant inconsistencies in Brianna's account, particularly concerning the date of the balcony incident. Documentation revealed that Diddy was in New York during the time she claimed the event occurred, casting doubt on her testimony.
"She gave a very specific date, September 26, 2016, when she says this balcony incident happened in LA. Well, the defense attorneys were able to literally bring hotel receipts to say, I got the receipts." [09:13]
These discrepancies have been pivotal in challenging the prosecution's narrative, potentially undermining the credibility of crucial testimony.
Jane, a pseudonymous witness, is slated to testify over the next few days. Her testimony is anticipated to shed further light on Diddy's alleged manipulative and coercive behavior.
Key Points Discussed:
Defense Strategy: The defense aims to dismantle Jane's testimony by highlighting inconsistencies and presenting alibis that suggest Diddy's absence during key incidents alleged by the prosecution.
"She would have to be off a week or a month or a year or something. But it does not match up. That date does not match up at all." [09:56]
The ongoing testimonies and emerging evidence have significant implications for the trial's outcome. The judge's stern warnings and the defense's strategic revelations present a complex legal landscape that could influence jury perceptions and the overall verdict.
Potential Impact of the Judge's Warning: Aubrey O’Day speculates on the possible repercussions if Diddy continues his disruptive behavior:
"Could the prosecutors come back and say, this trial is no good, no bueno." [06:18]
However, legal experts argue that such an action might border on double jeopardy, and the prosecution would need substantial grounds to file for a mistrial.
Aubrey O’Day's Insight: Drawing from her personal experiences and understanding of high-pressure environments, Aubrey emphasizes the importance of maintaining integrity within the courtroom to ensure justice is served.
As the trial progresses, several key testimonies are expected to further elucidate the extent of Diddy's alleged misconduct. The focus remains on verifying the credibility of witnesses and examining the consistency of their accounts.
Future Developments:
Final Thoughts: Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes, alongside Aubrey O’Day, underline the trial's significance not only for the individuals involved but also for the broader conversations around power dynamics and accountability in high-profile relationships.
"They're trying to recover their case with this next witness. Correct. I mean, she has been a powerful, powerful witness." [11:40]
The episode offers a thorough examination of the Diddy trial's current state, highlighting critical testimonies, legal maneuvers, and the overarching narrative emerging from the courtroom drama. Hosts Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes, with insights from Aubrey O’Day, provide listeners with a nuanced understanding of the complexities surrounding the case, ensuring that even those unfamiliar with the trial can grasp the key issues at hand.
Notable Quotes:
Judge's Warning to Diddy:
"This is absolutely unacceptable." [05:47]
On Witness Credibility:
"The prosecution would have to file like grounds for a mistrial." [07:06]
Aubrey O’Day on Courtroom Integrity:
"You can shut it down right now if you want to and start this whole thing over." [07:11]
Discussing Witness Testimonies:
"This was a huge discrepancy and it's kind of a big... How did they miss that moment for the prosecution?" [09:04]
On Emotional Manipulation:
"He slowly introduces her to the idea of having sex with other men." [13:17]
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