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Juror Rips Off Headphones In Disgust, Forced To Watch Sex Tapes AGAIN | United States vs. Sean Combs Day 25
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Ashley Banfield
Hey everybody, I'm Ashley Banfield and this is drop dead Serious. It was day 25 of the federal RICO trial against Sean Diddy Combs. And from the moment court opened the sea was angry my friends. It was tense in there. The judge was furious, raising his voice in court. The defense got aggressive and the jury once again was forced to to watch porn. Diddy's porn. And let's face it, not everybody wants to watch Diddy's idea of kinky sex, his freak offs. Just wait until you hear about the different looks on the jurors faces today as they endured five more pieces of Diddy's tapes. And P.S. it was loud enough for the gallery to hear audio bleeding out from under the jurors headphones slightly. So yeah, we get a lot to break down today. From charts and cross examinations to immunity deals and a closed door meeting about one of the jurors that could change everything. And later in this episode I'm going to share my conversation with Armand Wiggins who was in court today to talk about what exactly set the judge off this morning and how those jurors like had such a palpable reactions to the porn they were having to watch. First though, let's start with the beginning of the day. Judge Subramanian came In hot. He was apoplectic about a leak to the media in some off limits court business. He told the courtroom that details from Friday's sealed hearing had somehow made their way into the press over the weekend. And while he didn't name the outlet, sources close to the case think that it might be tmz. The article was quickly pulled, but not before some courthouse regulars caught wind of it. Exactly what was published, not 100% clear on the record anyway. But the buzz in the courtroom and in the, you know, the zeitgeist centered on juror number seven and a mysterious text message that he allegedly received asking if he was the juror who was getting bounced from the jury. He wasn't. He was the juror who was stepping onto the jury to replace the guy who was getting bounced from the jury. But none of that has been confirmed. The judge, however, the judge's tone made one thing really clear. This was a really serious infraction that it got out. Maureen Comey, the lead prosecutor, said that she had no idea where the leak came from. Neither did the defense attorney, Mark Agnifolo. And that is when Judge Subramanian leaned in and said, well, somebody's lying. And then he looked directly at both attorneys and issued a warning. The buck stops with you. He told them that if it happens again, he will not hesitate to haul people in for sworn testimony. He said phones could be seized, contempt charges could be on the table. This was their warning, he said, and their only warning. I should make a note here. Judge Subramanian has been, he's been pretty mild mannered, right? Even keeled, easy going. And generally speaking, when judges get mad, officers of the court stand at attention. It's not normal for judges to lose their cool. They have, you know, they, they have a, they have a kind of personality that, that they've, let's just say they've earned their way onto the bench. They're very measured, right? There's a decorum. So this, this judge isn't playing. He was pissed. Once this was all aside and once the jury was in the courtroom, Special Agent Deliessa Penland took the stand again, picking up right where she left off yesterday. Connecting all the dots of what the jury's been hearing up until this point and then creating a roadmap for the jurors to actually see sex trafficking and, and racketeering. And that she did, guiding the jury through more charts, rows and rows on the government's so called freakoff chart. It's a detailed breakdown of dates and locations and alleged Participants tied to some of the most disturbing accusations in the case. According to Agent Penland, New York City was the most frequently visited location, appearing 14 separate times in the data set. And out of the 71 total entries on the chart, 20 had matching flight records. That's what you call receipts, folks. Flight records. It means, like, in nearly a third of the alleged freak offs, federal agents were able to verify who traveled and how right down to the date and the destination. And remember, it is illegal to cross state lines for the purpose of prostitution. So this evidence, these are the receipts. It's really, really strong. Agent Penland then walked the jury through a fresh round of American Express statements. Three more charts tying spending to free coughs and hotel damage directly to the aliases the government says were used by Sean Diddy Combs. The first chart covered a cluster of charges between July 29 and August 1 in 2010, including a flight from an escort named Jules Purchase at a store called Diptyque, and another from Astor Wine and Spirits. But it was the hotel charges that drew the most attention. One entry from February 2013 showed a 500 bill for carpet and drape damage at the Beverly Hills Hotel. The name on that reservation was Philip Pines. That's one of Diddy's assistants. Another charge from December 2015 came from L' Hermitage in Los Angeles. A $950 fee for linen damage and deep cleaning. That reservation was under the name Ryan Lopez, another one of Diddy's assistants. And then came the Big Kahuna, an invoice listed under the name Frank Black. That's another alias previously linked to Diddy. And this one was ch. Just unbelievable. Like so. Jaw dropping. Are you ready for this? The damage amount was $46,786. Let me repeat that. $46,786. That was the charge for what the hotel described as, quote, petty cash, a loss, and da penthouse damage. Oh, my God. $46,000 in damage. What on earth was in that penthouse that could have caused that much damage? Anyway? Agent Penland showed the corresponding Amex statement. And it didn't just name Sean Combs. The balance had been split across at least nine different accounts, all listed care of Bad Boy Entertainment. Prosecution's point is that these weren't just isolated hotel messes. They were expensive recurring incidents. A pattern of using large sums of money tied to either fake names or assistance names. And more importantly, using Diddy's corporate umbrella as a resource to clean up after illegal activity. Next, Agent Penland highlighted another entry from the chart. One that the jury had seen the day before. It was the hotel stay at the London in New York City. This time, the government paired it with a series of text messages between Diddy and someone identified in his phone as, quote, new York Strip, end quote. Diddy sent him three messages in a row and apparently it raised some red flags. New York Strip responded by asking if Diddy was a copy of, saying the whole thing felt, quote, a little too good to be true, end quote. And Diddy replied, no, man. Are you crazy? No. Are you? End quote. The exchange was brief. The prosecutors used it to say that Combs recruited participants for these so called free coughs, using coded language, aliases and private hotel bookings to keep things under the radar, hinting that David Diddy knew full well this activity was illegal. And then the focus shifted to the second major exhibit of the day, a detailed timeline of what happened in March of 2016. That is the month that prosecutors say Diddy violently assaulted Cassie Ventura in a Los Angeles hotel hallway. An attack that was captured on surveillance video and later confirmed by multiple witnesses. Today, for the second time in this trial, the jury was shown the text message barrage that Diddy sent Cassie in the immediate aftermath of that assault. And I'm going to read you that unbelievable chain of messages in just a moment. But Agent Penland then introduced something new. A detailed timeline of events from March 2016. The government condensed hundreds of pages of evidence into a single Visual, backed by 10 text messages, call logs, photos and metadata. Agent Penland confirmed that she personally verified its accuracy against the original exhibits. The timeline started on March 4th and March 5th in 2016. And remember those dates, March 4th and March fifth in 2016. They're important. At 6:04pm, Diddy calls Cassie. She called him back a minute later. Just after that, a man named Garen, CB4A. That's short for Cowboys for Angels and Escort Service. He texted Cassie for fun tonight. And Cassie replied yes. La Garen asked. Mr. Skyler and Cassie confirmed yes, but anyone knew. Cassie and Garen continued coordinating via text. Then Skyler, one of the escorts, texted Cassie for the first time. In the early hours of the next day, March 5, Cassie and Skyler were still texting. In their final message, Skyler wrote, just call me if we're getting together. Continuing on March 5, Cassie took three selfies. In them, she's wearing sunglasses and appears to have a swollen lip. And then came the text messages. Diddy wrote, call now. Cassie replied that she had spoken to security. Cassie texted Diddy, quote, you are sick for thinking it's okay. And then went on to say, quote, please stay away from me, end quote.
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Ashley Banfield
She also referenced her black eye and her fat lip. And just minutes before that, Diddy had sent her a final message. The cops are here. One message read. I'm about to be arrested. Side Note, that was 100% horseshit. He was not about to be arrested. The cops weren't there. This was absolute lies. And it was just a pressure tactic on Diddy's behalf. If these texts are actually true. Another message from Diddy, quote, if you don't pick up, you'll never hear my voice again. Fucking baby. I mean, just imagine this guy. You'll never hear from me again. He just sounds like such a queen. Jury also saw a call log showing multiple missed calls from Diddy to Cassie. Then all these messages came just after that terrible hotel footage showing him throwing and kicking and dragging Cassie Ventura. Clearly, the government is using these texts, you know, not just to remind the jury of the violence, but to show what they believe is a clear pattern of manipulation, of control and of fear. The following day, March 6, Diddy was still asking about Cassie. He checked in with Drock, the security guy. And later that day, he and Cassie spoke for 13 minutes. Around that same time, Deontay Nash, who's the stylist for both Diddy and Cassie. He texted Cassie about a fitting, and Diddy placed his first call to Eddie Garcia. Remember him? Hotel security guard who would later play a key role in covering up that video and what happened in that Intercontinental Hotel hallway. As the day went on, KK Christina Coram, you know, chief of staff, inner circle. She texted Cassie about the fitting. Cassie took another photo of herself that day, still in sunglasses. And at one point, she messaged a friend saying that she was quote, at puffs, end quote. On March 7, Cassie sent Diddy a text that read just like a. An ode to sadness. She said, quote, this was supposed to be a really exciting day for me, and I wish I could just crawl in bed and stay there until I look back. Better, end quote. The two continued talking throughout the day, and so did Diddy and Eddie Garcia, security from the Intercontinental Hotel. The video guy, you know. Meanwhile, KK chief of staff was busy asking Eddie Garcia for a copy of his driver's license and requesting IDs from two other security guards at the hotel. Calls between Diddy and Eddie Garcia continued on March 8 and March 9 and again on March 25. The government says the stretch of dates involved is textbook RICO racketeering. A rapid cleanup operation, coordinated communication between staff members, pressure control and image management, all unfolding while Cassie's injuries from after a free cough had not even healed. Prosecutors say this wasn't just damage control. It was a deliberate effort by Diddy's inner circle to protect the enterprise. Staff members were texting about fittings to keep up appearances. Others were working behind the scenes, tracking down eddie Garcia, gathering IDs and making sure everybody stayed in line. And that that video never saw the light of day. By the time Diddy called Eddie, the wheels were already in motion. We now know how that ended. Eddie Garcia said he handed over the hotel surveillance footage of that assault, gave it to Diddy and KK and his security guy in exchange for a paper bag filled with a hundred thousand dollars in cold hard cash. Afterwards, Diddy called Eddie and Eddie my angel, end quote. And KK entered his name into her contacts as Eddie my Angel. Then it was time for the defense cross examination, and Diddy's lawyer, Tenny Garagos, came out swinging, Setting her sights squarely on the government's free cough chart. She argued the chart was misleading, even sloppy. One entry listed Diddy as the only attendee. Cassie was in South Africa at the time. Other entries didn't list Diddy at all. That, Garagos argued, was proof that the government was filling in the blanks and drawing conclusions without actual evidence. But Agent Penland pushed back, telling the jury that just because Sean Combs wasn't named didn't mean that he wasn't there. It just meant that the government couldn't prove it. But Garagos leaned into that uncertainty, suggesting that the chart relied more on guesswork than on facts. What Garagos was really doing here was bigger than just picking apart a spreadsheet. She was trying to blow a hole in the prosecution's entire theory that these freak offs were part of a criminal pattern. Because if the chart falls apart, Rico kind of might, too. And then each member of the jury got a set of headphones. It was time to watch porn in open court. For more than 15 minutes, Diddy's lawyers played graphic video footage from the freakoffs. Raw, explicit clips that lined up with the encounters that Cassie described on the stand. Group sex acts filmed while Diddy watched and pleasured himself. Again, the media and the public were shielded from viewing those tapes that the jury was watching. The defense played the free cough videos because they want the jury to believe that the footage tells a different story. That what the government calls abuse was, at least in these moments, consensual adult behavior. Filmed, yes, but willingly. It's a bold move, for sure, forcing a jury to sit through 15 minutes of graphic content for the second day in a row. But the defense is betting that it's going to highlight that there's no coercion in this sexual extravaganza. And next, Tenny. Garago zeroed in on something the jury has already seen. But this time, she read every single word of it out loud. One by one, she walked jurors through a series of texts between Cassie Ventura and Sean Diddy combs. Messages that were equal parts affectionate and sexually explicit. Garagosa's goal was clear. Show Cassie as a willing participant. Paint the relationship as consensual, even passionate, and most of all, suggest that these encounters were not crimes. They were choices. Garagos was trying to show that Cassie was not only engaged, but at times, enthusiastic. And to drive that point home, Garagos pointed to messages where Diddy appeared gentle, even deferential. Diddy told Cassie, quote, we'll do whatever your heart desires, and, quote, we can just go to bed. He also made a point to say, quote, no, I'm not asking you to freak off. There were even more texts that made it seem like Cassie was willing. After one alleged freak off in October 2012, Cassie texted Diddy that she, quote, keeps having sexy flashbacks of yesterday, end quote. In another thread, when Diddy brought up organizing a new session, Cassie replied that she was worried he'd do it with someone else and then started checking the cowboys availability herself. In December, she offered to book the hotel and promised, quote, I will be the nastiest freak bitch in the world to make up for it, end quote. By February 2013, when Diddy suggested maybe they skipped the freak off, Cassie was the one who pushed back, texting, quote, I'm feeling myself and I'm really horny, end quote. Garagos kept reading more texts through March and April, including one where Diddy seemed to tell Cassie to take a pill and another where she wrote, your sex makes me high, end quote. Diddy responded that he needed to focus, but Cassie appeared to coax him back into it. On father's Day in June, she called Diddy, quote, the most extraordinary man, and just a week later texted, hmm, I'm horny, end quote. In July, she told him she wished they could have had a free cough before he left town. When he didn't respond, she followed up asking why he hadn't replied to that part of her message. By mid July, she told him a free cough might actually help her with her stress. At one point on September 20, Cassie raised concerns about doing free coughs, quote, unprotected, and Diddy responded, let's stop. Cassie replied, no, we don't have to stop. On Halloween, Diddy texted, quote, wanna freak off? Cassie replied, lol, sure, with a happy emoji, and began helping to set it up. By this point, the courtroom dynamic had started to shift. With each entry on the chart, Garagos had a text to challenge it, a response that seemed to flip the narrative. For a moment, it almost felt like the witness on the stand was not a witness for the prosecution. This seemed like a witness to the defense. And then came an even bigger aha moment for Diddy's lawyers, this time with the second chart, the government's official timeline of events surrounding the Intercontinental Hotel incident. Remember when I told you to remember the dates March 4 and March 5? Because they were important? Here's why. Diddy's lawyer pointed out that the timelines include phone calls between Diddy and Cassie from March 4th. But none of the text messages between them. And those messages, Garagos argued, tell a very different story. Cassie is sexually explicit in several of them. In one, she writes, quote, baby, I want to freak off so bad, end quote. In others, she tells Diddy she wants to see him. That she loves him. Agent Penland testified that she didn't recall ever seeing those messages before. But when asked who selected the text messages that did make it into the timeline, the agent admitted that it wasn't her. It was the prosecution's trial team. As for the other important date, March 5, the day of the hotel assault, texts between Cassie and Diddy are included in the timeline, but again, only the ones that the trial team selected. It was yet another moment that the defense used to question the fairness and the completeness of the government's evidence. Will it work? Will the jury buy it? Juries don't like being misled, right? Or at least feeling that way. Or is that hotel video so awful that nothing Cassie said prior to being beaten senseless is going to matter? On redirect, prosecutors pushed back with a few key messages of their own. They pointed to a message from March 10, just days after that horrible hotel assault. Diddy wrote, baby, I can't say it enough. I am so sorry, with five exclamation points. Cassie's response was devastating. She wrote, quote, I still have crazy bruising from Friday. When you get up the wrong way. You always want to show me that you have the power. And you knock me around. I'm not a rag doll. I'm someone's child. Can't keep hiding because of your mistakes. And prosecutors didn't stop there. They pulled up a message from more than a year earlier, January 7, 2015, where Cassie wrote, nothing good comes out of free coughs anymore. You treat me like you're Ike Turner. If you're old enough to know Ike Turner was married to Tina Turner. And before Tina Turner became the massive sensation of the 80s, 90s, and 2000s, she was fighting off the worst abuser in her life. Her husband, Ike, and her singing partner. The abuse was so horrendous, she escaped with her life in the middle of the night, grabbing those kids and running, running like hell. But she turned her life around by herself without him and Ike Turner. The name Ike Turner, I won't say it's a punchline. It's more like a scab in the history of this incredible musical duo, right? Agent Penland admitted that she doesn't have access to all of the evidence in the case, and she doesn't know everything that the prosecution has gathered. But the redirect was clear. While the defense may have shown a pattern of flirtation and consent, the government wanted the jury to remember that there was a pattern of fear as well, and regret that eventually developed as time went on. And that Wrapped up Agent Penland's testimony. Earlier in the day, a young man named Brendan Paul, a former Syracuse basketball player and the man prosecutors alleged was Diddy's personal drug mule. He briefly took the stand, and he invoked his Fifth amendment right. He told the judge that he would not testify unless he was given immunity. And so, just like we've seen with several other witnesses in this case, the government granted it full protection from criminal charges in exchange for his truthful cooperation. Brendan Paul's name has come up before. He was arrested last year at the airport just moments before boarding Diddy's private jet. And authorities say he was carrying drugs. That was right around the same moment that federal agents were raiding Diddy's home. Not just the home in Miami, but also the one across the country in Los Angeles. So, yikes, you know. Brendan Paul ultimately struck a deal. No jail time in exchange for completing a drug diversion program. But now, now, with immunity in hand, he's expected to tell jurors what he knows about Diddy's alleged drug network. But get this. Before he was granted immunity, Diddy's lawyer asked whether Diddy needed to be physically present while he was granted immunity on the stand. And his lawyers told the judge that Diddy would waive the right to be in the courtroom. Telling the judge that Diddy preferred to stay in the side room off the courtroom to finish watching the free cough videos that Tenny Garagos was about to play for the jurors. Let's just let that sink in for a hot minute. Diddy wakes up in the morning in a federal lockup where you're not seeing women. He comes to court, and he gets to spend the first part of the morning in a private room watching his own freak offs, watching his own porn. The exact stuff that used to get him off all the time. Used to call them, what, TV nights or entertainment nights, right? When they would just watch the videos that they'd shot prior of the sex acts and the freak offs. So there's Diddy in a side room watching his own porn. Nobody said they could hear anything, but, oh, imagine being a fly on the wall in there or whatever else is on the wall in there. All right, now let's get into all the other stuff that had the courtroom buzzing today, because earlier I sat down with Armon Wiggins from the Armand Wiggins show on YouTube. Shout out to my amazing news nation team, because this interview aired at 10 Eastern on my Banfield show. But Arman and I break down exactly what. What went down behind the scenes in the courtroom today because Armon was there. He saw the judge's outrage, he saw the juror drama, and he also saw how the jurors reacted differently to those graphic free cough videos. Here's our conversation. My next guest was in the courtroom for all of it. Armand Wiggins is a journalist and author who moved to New York just to cover this trial, which he breaks down on his YouTube show and podcast, the Armon Wiggins show. Armand, welcome back to the show. Good to have you again. Dang, it was spicy in that courtroom today.
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Armand Wiggins
Yes. I mean, hi, first of all, hello, Ashley. It's always a good time coming on here. So I'm excited to be here. So too, me too.
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Ashley Banfield
I'm excited to have you, especially you have the front row seat like you have. I could write about it. You can speak, you know, firsthand about it.
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Armand Wiggins
Yeah. Everything that you said was true. We walked in that courtroom today, the judge was not having it. He was upset with the prosecution and he was upset with the defense because apparently they put out sealed exhibits to some sort of media and that got published. Now, we didn't know what the article was or what media company, you know, put it out, but they were not happy. And the judge was saying, listen, this is your warning because one of you guys are lying. So this is your warning. But if this happens again, you guys are going to be subjected to witness testimony and could be facing criminal or civil charges.
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Ashley Banfield
Well, and this judge seems to be pretty, you know, level headed, even keeled. So to hear him raise his voice, you know, that must really have meant something to these parties. Talk to me about the tapes. I can't imagine what. Look, not everybody wants to watch Diddy's sex tapes, right? Not everybody wants to. And I get this feeling that watching those jurors having to watch those tapes, you probably could tell that people didn't want to be there.
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Armand Wiggins
I'm gonna be honest with you. From yesterday to today, listen. I was trying to listen hard to see what was going on. So the first day they played the tapes and we're sitting in the gallery, obviously, so they turn up all the monitors so we can't hear or we can't see it, but we could hear a little bit. Now, the first day it was a little awkward cause you could hear some moaning and you heard the sex music and you kind of hear some things. You couldn't really make out what was going on, but you could tell you it was definitely a freak off happening now today. The volume was just a little bit louder and you could hear some kind of talking and stuff. A bailiff ended up coming out and saying, hey, judge, they have the headphones too close to the microphone. We can hear everything. So they ended up turning down the headphones, however, when you took a look at the jury stand, because we're trying to figure out what's happening, what's happening with the juries, with the jurors. I'm trying to find any motion in the face. There was a particular woman, older lady. She wasn't going for it. She wasn't happy to see it each day. She was extremely uncomfortable. You could see it in her face. She would try to kind of COVID her mouth sometimes and cover her face. But the look of disgust, she couldn't avoid it. You've seen it every time. She did not want to be there. She did not want to be looking at those tapes. There was another guy that was as. He would watch the tapes, as they would play different tapes. He would, like, snatch his headphones off, and in a way, like, all right, I'm done. Whereas other people would kind of just sit and kind of endure and wait until, you know, the next tape got played. But he would take his. He would snatch his headphones off. And there was one guy. I was really watching him, though, because he'd kind of sit back, you know, and kind of, like, watch it. But then when it would get good or interesting, I don't know if it ever got good, but something that you would kind of be like, all right, let me look at this a little bit more. You would kind of see him, like. Like, kind of, like, move a little bit, and he would kind of really get a little bit closer. And then at one point, he even started looking around in a way to be like, you know, are y' all seeing what I'm seeing? And so I zeroed in on him for a while, so. And at that moment, you could kind of look around the rest of the jury pool and see that everybody was intently looking at these tapes. So I'm imagining it was a lot going on on those tapes today.
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Ashley Banfield
Kind of feel like it would be embarrassing, too, right? Because, you know, you're watching something that's just so incredibly personal. And maybe some of these jurors feel like they're watching someone being assaulted as opposed to somebody who's willing. So there could be a lot of discomfort. And, you know, God, imagine just, you know, they're watching porn, you know, and there's other people who know that there's an entire gallery watching them watching porn. So I can't imagine the awkwardness real quickly tomorrow. Brendan. Paul, he came onto the stand today and he got immunity. So tomorrow he's gonna testify. What are we expecting from him? It better be big, cuz he's one of the final witnesses, honestly.
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Armand Wiggins
Okay, really quick. So I think that it's pretty much done because, you know, from what they showed today, that streamline of receipts with the hotels and you know, the text messages and the videos, I mean, the, the summary witnesses did their thing today for the prosecution. Now, Brendan, we know him to be the drug mule that got arrested. So, you know, he's honestly the glorified Louis Vuitton bag just made a human being at this point. So he was the guy that car all the drugs for Diddy. So I don't see this getting any better for Diddy. I think that this will be the cherry on top that goes ahead and seals the deal.
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Ashley Banfield
Of course, all of it, allegations, until there's a verdict. And my goodness. I think I heard they might be deliberating as early as next week. I'll believe it when I see it. Armand, you got to come back. Thank you for this.
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Armand Wiggins
Thank you so much.
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Ashley Banfield
So I'm not so sure that was the best idea for Diddy's defense lawyers to play the videos again. I know the toothpaste is out of the tube. I know that the. The jurors have it, right? They've got those videos. They'd seen them the day before, and I guess this is rehabilitation. But showing those videos again and like seeing the reaction from those jurors, right, like pulling the headphones off when it was over and then one just being grossed out by them. Right, that's not great if you're hoping to reach them, if you're hoping that they'll come out of watching that the second time around and say, yeah, that looks consensual. Yeah, that just looks like a couple having some kinky business going on in their love life, you know, maybe the reaction wasn't exactly what Diddy's lawyers wanted to see. But who knows? Who knows? And that's how things wrapped up on day 25. The jury spent the entire day hearing from an investigator with the Manhattan U.S. attorney's office, the state, same office that built this case against Sean Diddy Combs. They reviewed more charts, more texts, and more supporting evidence as the government continued stacking its RICO narrative brick by brick by brick. But as the jury was dismissed for the day, the judge was not done. Judge Aaron Subramanian stayed behind and ordered a closed door proceeding likely to address that developing issue with juror number seven. The judge had mentioned it earlier in the day that further questioning might be necessary. And while we don't know yet what happened today, the fact that the courtroom was sealed off suggests that something serious may be brewing behind the scenes. And here's where we stand on the schedule. The government says they will now rest on Friday. That's three days from now. And keep in mind, there is no court on Thursday. As for the defense, they told the judge that they'll need just two to five days to present their case. So stay tuned. We are closing in on the finish line, but if today was any indication, there are still plenty of twists and turns left in this trial. I'm Ashley Banfield. Thank you so much for listening. And remember, the truth isn't just serious. It's dropped. Dead serious.
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Richard Karn
Data on file Avid Diabetes care or prescription only. Safety info found at Freestyle Libre US.