Mia (26:18)
Alexandra Shapiro states, as we indicated, it's the defense's belief that the aspect and demeanor of the witness is essentially a false Persona that she's presenting to the jury. If you watch, you can see that her demeanor is night and day from what it has been during the direct testimony. They're saying that this video shows a completely different Mia, which, I mean, I would imagine that everyone behaves differently. Like, I think I would behave very differently singing Happy Birthday to someone versus testifying in court in a federal criminal case. But Mark Agnifolo argues, I believe that the jury may conclude that her affect on the stand is an act. I think that's possible. I think the jury might conclude that. And this video makes that conclusion clearer. The judge allows the Happy Birthday video. And Combs has started to get a little bit more comfortable in the courtroom. I feel like he used to be a little bit more reserved in his mannerisms in the beginning. I mean, clearly the judge is sick of his interactions with the jury. But there are other things. He started doing this thing. Whenever he's leaning back in his chair, he'll lean forward to grab a post it. He'll lunge himself forward right on the post it on the table. And then when he sits so his back is on the back of the chair again, he just falls back. He just uses gravity as if using his core strength is not even worth the effort. He seems rather relaxed for Mia's testimony days. Even the very first day, he seems ready. Dreaming of a modern oasis. All Modern has you covered with the best of modern furniture and decor all in one place and all hand vetted by our design experts. Whether you're on the hunt for a new outdoor dining set or a versatile sofa, our premium quality designs bring form and function to any space. And they're available in every style of modern for real. Every single style. Oh, and did we mention it's all delivered for free in days, not weeks. 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Mia is walking in dressed in a blazer, and when she walks in, she does not look at anyone in the pews, which I mean a lot of the witnesses don't, but this one's like a little different. She does not look at anyone in the pews at all because she's just staring at the ground like she's staring at her hands. And as she's walking to the witness stand, you can see her playing with her thumbs like she's rubbing her two thumbs together and she walks straight forward. I think the only time she might even glance up just a little bit is to make sure that she doesn't run straight into the lectern. Her shoulders are so scrunched up it looks like she's kind of shrugging the entire time. And her on the stand, she has a very particular demeanor. I think it's one that we haven't seen so far in this trial. She is constantly looking down. She rarely makes eye contact, at least for the direct testimony. It appears she has, like a little puff ball in her hands, like the type of puffball that you might have at the end of a keychain. And she's kind of fiddling with it in her lap. She barely looks up. And when she does look up at the prosecutor, it's like a glance and then she quickly looks away. So like I was saying, a lot of the other witnesses, like Cassie, she would kind of almost look to the prosecutor for comfort, ease perhaps, because I'm sure, you know, they're a little more familiar with each other. And she'll smile, and the prosecutor will smile back, not Mia. Like, she will glance up and then she'll quickly look away as if the eye contact is making her very uncomfortable. She seems skittish. She also cocks her head a lot from side to side when she responds. The best way to describe it is it almost appears like she is. Is painting her nails and she's like trying to get the sides perfectly painted. So she's kind of tilting her head whilst she's maintaining a conversation with the prosecutor. Now, obviously that's not what she's doing. She's not doing any of that in her lap, but that's just giving you a visual. Her posture on the stand is a little slouched. It's not crazy hunched over, but it feels like she's kind of folding in. And she has these face fold framing curtain bangs. She just lets it hide her face. And when she does talk, she speaks very quietly. The members of the press, I would say, like half of RP at one point, they're all leaning forward, just trying to listen. Every time someone on the squeaky little folding chairs on the side, everybody's holding their breaths. Like, she is that quiet. And she has this demeanor that she's very flighty. I don't know how to describe it in a way that doesn't make it seem less serious, but it just feels like she could flee at any moment. Like her head will flicker at the slightest movement and word, and then she'll very quickly go back to looking downwards. When waiting for questions, she'll glance at the ceiling, she'll glance at the jurors, she'll glance at the prosecutor, and then she'll quickly look down. She just seems really intimidated, almost kind of. Kind of reminiscent of a deer in headlights. And again, I'm not trying to make this analogy so that I can diminish any of, like, the severity of this entire case. But just, just so you get the visual, when she starts her testimony, Combs has his head also cocked all the way to the left. And he's just staring at her. And she does not look back, like, ever. Mia is a former assistant that worked with sean combs from 2009 to 2017. Mia explains that while working for Combs, she was not only getting overworked, but he was just so violent. What are some of the violent things that Mr. Combs has done to you? He's thrown things at me. He's thrown me against the wall. He's thrown me into a pool. He's thrown an ice bucket on my head. He's slammed my arm into a door. He has also sexually assaulted me. Did Mr. Combs sexually assault you on one occasion or more than one occasion? More than one. Combs shakes his head no, ever so slightly. At one point, his elbows are slightly bent and it almost looks like he's gripping the chair. And this is how Mia's testimony begins. Mia starts off by explaining that the very first interview that she had to even get this job as the personal assistant, the head of human resources. Vashta escorts her to Sean Combs apartment. He opens the door and he's just, like, in his underwear. Vashta introduces Mia and then leaves. Combs eventually does indeed put on clothes. And Mia does indeed ends up getting the job. And she's just so excited. She says, I was so excited and just. I was so excited. So nervous, but. And just really eager and excited, I guess. To which, again, he shakes his head no. But Mia explains her job duties on the stand. She said, protect him at all costs, his privacy, etc. Stay attached to his BlackBerry 24 7. Stay within his eyesight unless he advises otherwise, always while on duty, listening, asking, hearing, prioritizing and translating situations. She states that she has to make sure everything was good for Combs from the moment that he wakes up until the moment he falls asleep, anticipating his needs, whims and moods. She said every single day was different. He could ask you to do 17,000 things at one time that range from cracking his knuckles. What? Yeah, like he wants you to crack his knuckles. To writing his next movie, to doing his taxes. He can also just have you standing next to him for 22 hours and not ask you for one thing. Which side note, at this point, Combs is leaning all the way back in his chair. His left hand is propped up and he's stroking his chin. And he looks back at the clock multiple times. And, like, all we can say is, I don't really think you have any other places to be, so I don't really know why the time is so important to you. And all of this would take all of Mia's day. That's what she's explaining. She would go five days without sleep sometimes because her job as a personal assistant, she said he could. Got so bad she would finally get some sleep because, quote, I had, like, a physical. And I guess, like, I had, like, a physical breakdown. Like, I remember just like my hearing went. Like, it felt like I was underwater and my equilibrium was off. And I started, like, not seeing things, but, like blurred vision or like lights that weren't there. And then out of nowhere, like, I didn't mean to, but I burst into tears, hysterical, and like, I couldn't stop crying. Which, again, this sounds reminiscent of the other three former workers. David, James, George Kaplan, Capricorn, Clark. They all testified they were so overworked. Mia's only getting paid, like, $50,000 base. Wow. Not sleeping for five days. Mia says if she does not do her job well, quote, I guess there's various ways of punishment. It was a lot of just getting cursed out, humiliated, berated, but also my intelligence insulted and my job threatened quite a bit. Interestingly enough, Combs, at this exact moment, glances at the jurors and it looks like he does a very dramatic sigh. Like, that's what it looks like. I mean, it could just be coincidental. And then he looks back towards the front. I don't know if he's just got seasonal allergies as well. That could be entirely true. Also, whilst Mia is just up there on the stand, Combs is looking over his shoulder and smiling at his three sons who are sitting behind him in the pews. And it's kind of like a. Like a small, thin smile that could be interpreted to me as, like, a smirk. And sure, I don't think that there's ever a great time to. To smile at your kids during the midst of your own criminal trial, but I just felt like the timing could have been, like, a wee bit better. At a high level. He treated me like. Sometimes he treated me like his best friend, his working partner. Sometimes he treated me like a worthless piece of crap. At one point, Combs even rolls his neck and cocks his head to the right. Kind of like a very lazy. He would humiliate me. He would curse at me. He would go on, like, really long, extended rants about how incompetent and stupid I was, yeah, just threatened my jaw, just. Would he do anything to you physically? Yeah, he's thrown things at me. Once he threw, like, a bowl of spaghetti at me. Turkey meat, a phone, a computer. The bowl of spaghetti Incident happens around 3am Sean Combs, MIA and a bunch of other people had come back home from, like, a club appearance. There's like 40 other people. He tells Mia to go to IHOP right now. But she starts walking towards the room in his house that she's supposed to stay in. And why were you going to your room? Because we had been out since, like, 8 in the morning, like, go, go, go. And I was next to him and barely got a break, and I was on my period and I needed to change my tampon immediately. But this is pissing off Combs. He tells her, quote, like, yo, girl, I didn't tell you, like, when I told you to go to ihop, I meant, like, now, I didn't tell you you could go to your room yet. And I tried to say something, and he just, like, it made him more, like, aggressive and louder and going on sort of a really humiliating rant in front of everyone. And what did you try to say to him? Well, after it went on for so long, there was. There was literally blood dripping down my leg. And I finally just said, I just have to change my tampon. I have blood dripping down my leg. And how did Mr. Combs react to that? He immediately, like, he had a bowl of spaghetti in his hand and he immediately, like, threw it. Like, threw it at me aggressively and started cursing me out and telling me, like, I better get the out of his house, and started. And then he chased me outside. Did the bull hit you? No. Combs just, like, a small shake of his head, Mia explains. Another time, they were on a movie set and they had just gotten there to the trailer. The WI fi's not working, Mia says. So I ran to go find the production assistant and just let them know and see if they're fixing the situation. And they were. She goes back to the trailer I was trying to regurgitate. I was trying to tell him what the production assistant had told me, that they're working on it. But he didn't let me finish. He cut me off, started screaming at me, I shouldn't come back here until I figured out the WI Fi myself. Something about, I don't care if you have to call Bill Gates and then chuck the computer at my head. Did the computer hit you? No. At this point, one of Combs besties in the pews shakes his head no. It's like kind of a dramatic no that I couldn't really interpret it as anything else. It's like this. And it could be him shaking off an intrusive thought about something completely unrelated, or it could be him upset and thinking, no, this can't be true. That's not the Sean I know. Or it could be like, why are you complaining? It didn't even hit you. I don't know which one. It could be nothing. He could be talking to himself. And how did you feel when Mr. Combs threw things at you? Terrified. And so humiliated and so confused. She ends up sobbing a little bit and, like, kind of her voice starts breaking down, like, what did I do so wrong that something is wrong with me that I would make him so upset? Mia also states that one time he slammed the door on her arm. She says, quote, and at first I thought it was an accident, but then he did it multiple times more. So, yeah. And how heavy was the door? It was like a commercial building, so it was pretty heavy. Yeah. At first I thought, like, there's no way this isn't going to be broken, but I just had bruises. As Mia is telling the story, there will be times where she starts looking downwards and her voice just gets smaller and smaller. She kind of starts trailing off like she's getting lost in her own thoughts or perhaps mumbling a little bit, which. And my perception could be wrong, but at one point, Combs. Combs looks at Mark Agnifolo and the look to me looks like I can't even hear her. Like, what is she saying? Like, what? What is she saying? There's a lot of parallels in Mia's testimony that we've been hearing from others, like hotel nights. Mia, too, testifies that she had to set up hotel rooms and she had to take care of, quote, all his lotions and potions, like baby oil, Astroglide and condoms, and a mixture of cheap and expensive candles. And when Combs was done with the hotel room, she would have to go and clean it up. And she called it a nightmare. What do you mean when you say a nightmare? Just, they were really destroyed, really messy. I saw a lot of candle wax everywhere that was just impossible to get out. There would be lots of wet towels everywhere. I've seen broken glass, water all over the floor, sometimes blood oil all over, you know, furniture and walls and things like that. You mentioned blood. What, if anything, did Mr. Combs tell you about the source of the blood? That it was period blood. Mia states that she also Took drugs a few times with Mr. Combs. She states that one time they were all at Burning man, which is like a festival. Mia says he had put all the blackout shapes up and, like, put the disco lights on and pulled out three plates. And there was white powder on each plate. And it was presented as some sort of game. He said one was Molly, one was cocaine, and one was ketamine. And people were taking turns going up, I guess, playing the game, the guessing game. She said she tried to nicely tell him, no, I don't want any, but quote, his tone started to change, like I was gonna mess up the whole vibe. And he was monitoring because I tried to fake it. I tried to fake snort it. And he got up close to my face and was upset that I tried to, I guess, fake it. And how did Mr. Combs react to that? He was humiliating me and then going, he was just gonna separate, basically monitor and separate the amount that I needed to take. What did you do? I did. But then when I got away from him for a minute, I tried to blow a lot of it out of my nose because I was so scared of the ketamine, watching what it did to others. Mia's asked, when you were working with Mr. Combs and you were around Mr. Combs and Cassie, what, if any kinds of violence did you yourself see? Which side note, Mia was close with Cassie when she was working for Combs, and even to this day, she's close friends with Cassie. She responds, I've seen him attack her. I've seen him throw her on the ground. I've seen him crack, like, her head open. I've seen him chase her, things like that. She says one time she heard screaming just, like, thuds coming from the second floor outside. She sees. She looks outside the window, sees Cassie hiding behind a bush. Quote, she looked at me with the most terrified look in her eye and was kind of like waving her hands, like, don't look essentially like she doesn't want anyone to know she's hiding here. At this point, Christian Combs Holmes leans to the right so that he seemingly can get an unobstructed view of Mia. And it just feels like the entire family is very engaged and absorbed, at least in the beginning portion. And they are staring right at her, which makes sense. You do want to look at the people who are talking, but it. It could probably also make things feel a lot more intimidating. In one part of Mia's testimony, she's explaining how they were all in Turks and Caicos once Cassie Kim's screaming into her room, saying that Combs is going to kill her. She's screaming for her life. They end up fleeing out of the resort, running away, to which Mia has these very specific memories of. I just remember we were running, like, so fast down the beach, and I remember being shocked at the fact that we could still be attacked by mosquitoes as we were running. Which to this story, Combs is shaking his head no and lets out what I feel is an animatedly large sigh. He. He rolls his neck back and then he just looks around. But Mia continues that Combs starts chasing after them, after them on the beach. He's running back and forth on the beach. They end up wading into the water on these paddle boards. And then all of a sudden, a storm approaches and they start freaking out. Mia said, I was thinking, I was trying to weigh if it was scarier to face Mother Nature or to go back to Puff. What did you end up doing? We eventually went back to Puff. It just took a long time. Eventually, the direct testimony leads to the more serious allegations of sa. Over what period of time did the sexual assaults occur? Over. I'm not sure of the years, but they were sporadic. Mia says Cassie was never there when it happened, and Mia never told her about any of it. Where were you the first time you remember Mr. Combs essay saying you? At the Plaza Hotel in New York for his 40th birthday. Mia says it was Combs's 40th birthday. She's working while he's hosting his party at this massive hotel. She had just gotten the job a few months ago, and now she's running upstairs to the penthouse, running back to the main party in the hotel downstairs. She says she's supposed to stay with an eyesight and earshot. So she's presumably very busy that night. At some point, she says Combs is like. Like, let's talk in the kitchen of the penthouse. He has everybody leave, and she says once they were alone, quote, he was saying that he noticed what a good job I was doing and that I didn't have to be nervous or scared to come to him because at the time I was just going through Malcolm, the other assistant, to ask questions, or I wasn't really, like, going directly to Puff. And he was saying that he had noticed and I was doing a great job. And sort of like, we're going to be working closer together, so we should, you know, things like that. Then he poured us shots of vodka. Two cheers for his birthday. She says that she just remembers these two shots hitting her really hard, which Was confusing to her because I mean, she wondered, did I not eat enough? Like what's going on? Afterwards, quote, he was just talking and I just remember my back, I was like standing against the wall and I just remember he was talking and all of a sudden his face got closer. I remember my aunt eyes couldn't focus on his face because it was so close and I didn't really know what was happening. He put his arm next to my head up against the wall and leaned in to kiss me and put his other hand up the side of my dress. She did not consent to kissing him and she did not want to kiss him. She says my next memory is I just remember being on a chair like in the main room in the penthouse and like coming to the chair and the sun was coming up. She was clothed and she doesn't really know what happened. As she's sharing this part of the testimony, Combs is like full businessman posture. He's leaned back, his right elbow is on the armrest, he's got his thumb on his cheek and his index finger like curved over his mouth. She says, he was my boss. He was a very powerful person. He was to me like he's younger than my dad, but I looked at him like an older, like adult. He is the boss or the king, like very powerful person. Mia starts putting her hand on her chest at this point and it looks to me to be a self soothing action. I mean she might have heartburn, but it feels like sometimes when I get anxious I like rub my chest up and down it, feel it. That's what it reminded me of. I thought it would never happen again. I thought, oh my gosh, he's so drunk and I will never tell anybody. It was probably like a huge accident and I was throwing of like confidentiality and I just kind of, I didn't want. I thought that he would have never remembered that and that it was a huge accident and I was never going to have. I was just going to act like nothing happened. The more damning part of the testimony, Mia recounts a time where she's staying at the Beverly Grove home, the mansion in la. Not this one that was raided, but a previous one. The room I was staying in was upstairs and it was, it had bunk, so I was asleep on the bottom bunk bed. She's not allowed to lock doors though earlier in the testimony she stated because Puff said like, this is my house, no one locks my doors. That's so like my room was essentially not really, you know, that was just a place I was staying. In it was still his house. So the door is unlocked. She wakes up feeling, quote, the weight of a person on top of me. And during this part of the testimony, Combs is, like, very subtly shaking his head. No. He. He's grabbing post its. He's furiously writing. Meanwhile, Mia's friends, a few of them, they're in the row right in front of us. A few of them are dabbing their eyes. Some of them are just, like, letting tears fall. Some of them are staring down Combs's family on the other side of the courtroom. Yeah. Who is on top of you, Puff? Mia says she just remembers. And when she describes the assault, it's in, like, almost in slow motion. I think she has a hard time articulating what's happening. And so she does ramble a bit. She does trail off a bit. And sometimes she just has a hard time even just getting the words out. And so when she's responding, she will say the next step of the assault. But it takes a very long time in the courtroom. So it's almost like everybody is sitting there, and we know where this is going, and, like, we can see how hard it's affecting her on the stand. To articulate it. She'll say things like, I remember. I remember it was sort of like him telling you that somehow be quiet. And using. This just happened so fast. Using, like, one hand to get, I guess, his hands or whatever off. So, like, she'll trail off. She further states that Sean Combs put his. He assaulted her. But she uses, like, the more, I guess, step by step terms, like, more medical terms. How did you react when that happened? I just froze. I didn't react. She is very incredible on the stand. She's breathing, like, heaving breaths into the mic. She said that she felt terrified, confused, ashamed, and scared. She didn't want this. And the assault was, quote, it was very quick, but it felt like forever. How did it end? I don't remember, but I knew that he didn't. That he didn't like leaving the job unfinished. He wouldn't leave a job unfinished. Yeah. Whenever he was done or satisfied or got what he want, basically saying, like, he's not the type to never leave a job unfinished. Is that when it would end? Yes. It's a very devastating moment in the courtroom. And at this point, it just feels like. It feels like the air is heavy. Many of the jurors have even paused on taking notes. They're just. Just listening to Mia. Mia is asked about another incident in Combs's closet, and she says I wasn't paying attention. It was going so fast. But the next thing, I look up, and he was, like, standing right in front of me, in front of my face. He had his private parts out, and he, like, grabbed my head and put it in there. And she, like, shakes her head as she's telling what happened. Kind of like she's trying not to think about it or visualize it or shake away the memory. She's just shaking her head, and then she's looking down, she's wiping tears from her face. A few members of the jury, they do look over at Combs, perhaps to see his reaction, perhaps just to get a look in that general area. So Mr. Combs took his penis out, is that right? Yes. So that's just an idea of, like, how graphic the testimony does indeed get. Mia states she was forced to perform oral action on him. How did you react when that happened? I just froze, and I didn't do anything. I just let it happen. It made her feel, quote, like trash and scared and ashamed and defeated and like an idiot. Mia, other than what we have described so far, were there any other times in which Mr. Combs sexually assaulted you? Yes. Sitting here today, do you remember the details of those assaults? No. What generally do you remember? I just remember, like, a feeling, like, a specific, horrible, dark feeling in my stomach that I would get surrounding certain places, but I don't remember. Can you describe an example of a memory you kind of have with that dark feeling? I remember one time we were flying on a private jet, and everybody was asleep. Our team was asleep. And in the back, between the main area and the bathroom, there was a separate place where there was a bed that he would keep get to sleep. And it was normal if you had to go to the bathroom, you just walk through there, and it was like, yeah, everyone was asleep. I went to the bathroom, and I remember when I opened the door, that he was standing right there and basically trying to push me back inside, which I don't remember what happened. Do you remember getting pushed back into the bathroom? Yeah, I remember trying to, like, kind of squiggle out of there. Like, no, no, no, no, no. I would always, in order to get out of things, if I ever could, I would make it about other people that could potentially hear or see whatever. I remember being like, no, no, no, it didn't work. I just remember feeling, like, helpless and like I have lost some layer of protection and just so unsafe and just terrified. Mia, was there ever a time in which you initiated sexual contact with Mr. Combs? No. No. Were you able to predict when the essays would happen? Never. Never. They were so random. They were sporadic. It would go so oddly spaced out where I would never think that it would happen again. And the way that our dynamic was, I was constantly there, like there were no boundaries. So it wasn't weird for me to be in his room at all hours of the night or waking him up or talking to him while he's on the toilet. And it never happened in situations like that or like during a party? It changed. Just. No. After an assault, what was your expectation about whether Mr. Combs would ever engage in sexual contact with you again? I always thought, like, that was the last time and the next time I would. If there ever was a next time, I would somehow be more prepared. You have now described several times in which he has sexually assaulted you. Just to be very clear, during any of these incidents, did you want to engage in sexual acts with Mr. Combs? No. Did you actually tell him no? No. I only tried to squiggle out of them if I could, but otherwise, no. Why didn't you tell him no? Because I couldn't tell him no. I couldn't tell him no about a sandwich. I couldn't tell him no about anything. There was no way I could tell him no because then he would know that I thought what he was doing was wrong, and then I would be a target. Combs lightly shakes his head no, then rests his right cheek on his right knuckle, which is not something I see quite frequently. Meanwhile, the jurors, a lot of their bodies are physically pointed towards Mia at this point. What were you afraid would happen if you told Mr. Combs no with regard to sex? That he would fire me and ruin my future and somehow twist the story into making me look like a threat. Why were you afraid of those things? Because I knew his power and I knew his control over me. And I didn't want to lose everything that I worked so hard for. Like, for this world. That was the only thing that I had anymore. Mia says that Combs would threaten her with the SA incidence. He threatened that he was going to tell everybody and he was going to telecast as though I had something to do with it. As if you had something to do with it? Yes. How did that make you feel when you threatened to tell everyone? Desperate and terrified and, like, the worst, scariest situation. I would have done, like, anything to not have it happen. Like it was my fault. Mia, when Mr. Combs was essaying you, did you tell anyone about it? No. Why not? I was going to die with this. I didn't want anyone to know, ever. She says the first time she told anyone about the essay was within the past year and a half. Without getting into any discussions that you had with your lawyer. Why are you talking about the essays today? Because I have to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. And also I now have a moral obligation. Because when you're scared into silence, these things continue to happen to others. Objection. Ms. Miser, again, another question. Do you want to be talking about the essays today, Mia? Absolutely not. Why not? Mia? Because it is the most traumatizing. It's the worst thing and the most shameful thing that has ever happened to me. The first day of direct examination ends around the time of the conversation of the essays, which could potentially be intentional. So the jurors can go home, and that's the last thing that they remember. And they sit with the weight of this testimony all night long until they're back in court again the next day, regardless, as the jurors are dismissed for the day. This was kind of strange, or at least I perceived it as strange. Combs jumps up out of his chair before the judge is even fully dismissing them. Because the judge has his, like, don't talk to anyone about the case. If you see it on tv, turn it off. Don't go on social media. Don't look up anything about this case. Like, he has these juror instructions. As he's talking. The jurors are still in their seats. Combs, like, jumps at up, and he's standing, and he starts stretching his chest in the air, which was just such an odd series of movements. It was just so odd. Once the jurors are out of the room, he's the first to sit back down. And everyone in the courtroom is still standing. Because usually we're all waiting for Father Arun to be like, please be seated. So then he glances around, notices everybody's still standing up. So then he hops back up, and it's just like a really weird series of movements. I don't know if that indicates nervousness. I don't know. Because, like, I think nervousness is not indication of guilt. It's just. Would you not be nervous if you were a defendant? Does it indicate he's excited for the cross? Not excited, but he's very confident for the cross. Like, I don't know what it indicates. Maybe he's very confident for the cross. Which Brian Steele will be doing the cross examination. We were so shocked by that. Everyone wholeheartedly thought One of the female attorneys. Attorneys would have done the cross examination, but no, Brian Steele. And I will say, to his credit, normally, Brian Steele is a very charismatic attorney. There's really no other way to put it. Does that mean that everything he says is agreeable or that he makes solid points or that we should like whoever he defends or even like him? No, but there are certain people where the charisma. And regardless, it's hard not to feel some of their likability when you. You spend eight hours looking at them. So it's another thing. If I'm not in the courtroom, I could just be like, oh, well, I wouldn't defend someone like this. Or you could have all these different opinions about these defense attorneys. But when you're forced to stare at them for eight hours a week, it's hard to not at least see some of their likability. Even when he talks to the judge, he's overly formal. I wanted to alert this honorable court. He's a strong Southern gentleman flair. When he describes not seeing eye to eye with the prosecutor, he tells the judge, the honorable prosecutor and I have a disagreement. I mean, this man just lays it on thick. He's also kind of a gramps, which works in his favor. He calls the VMAs. The VMAs. During a sidebar, the judge is asking him, you understand the objection, Mr. Steele? Not 100%, but I'm sure I will, you, Honor. Like, what does that even mean? But it's just like when you're in that courtroom and I wonder if it happens the same effect on the jurors. It's very difficult to hate the defense team. For example, we've run into Xavier Donaldson all the time near the bathrooms. And, like, I don't think he's seen our videos, because that would be very awkward if he has. But he is very kind, very courteous, honestly charismatic. Like, he is always smiling. And I will say that some people did have very strong opinions about the defense team. After this cross examination, though, after Brian Steele. Yes. Because Brian Steele starts his cross by asking, because of Sean Combs, you suffer a great deal. Yes. And then after confirming Mia's story and trauma through a series of questions, such as? Because that's the trauma that you've carried since meeting with. Working with Sean Combs. Right. And he made you. You told the jury in front of this honorable court, do things that are unthinkable. Is that fair to say? And that includes sleeping in a room without a lock. Right. Coming into that room and violating you in the most unthinkable manner. True. And then pretty much immediately afterwards, Brian Steele starts admitting a ton of exhibits. Mainly social media posts from Mia's personal accounts. One from January 30, 2013. It's a picture of Mia with Ciroc bottles. And the caption is what we do when you're not around Amdiddy Cirack. Which I think the point of this is just to ease us into the exhibits because the next one is a picture of Cassie and Mia with bracelets. Then Another one from October 2, 2013, it's MIA and Combs at a coffee shop. The caption reads, just the number one guy on the Forbes list getting me a vanilla latte. No big deal. Regular people shit. Am Diddy. Starbucks. On your personal account, you post a picture of Mr. Combs. Yes. The person who terrorizes you. Fair. Yes. Then the cross examination questioning pace picks up the jurors. A lot of them just look like they're at the US Opens. It's like a ton of just bouncing back and forth between Brian Steele and Mia. Look at the next one, which is in evidence. 1705. Now, this date is November 4, 2013, right? Yes. And November 4, 2013 is a memorable date in your life. True. In his life or my life? I guess both. It's his birthday. Brian Steele has Mia read what she posted last non b day. Shout out to my mentor at I am Diddy. Thank you for always letting me give birth to my dream dreams. The accompanying picture is of Mia in a hospital gown and Combs is delivering a fake baby from Mia's hospital gown. It's for a video shoot, but Brian Steele asks, and you have here that you posted on your personal account, your rapist delivering the baby. Right. Which I think the R word throws her off. I mean, I don't know. I just know that it kind of threw me off. It came out of nowhere. A juror looks up through their lashes at Combs whilst taking notes. Which I guess if I were a juror, I would want to see everyone's reactions as well. Mia kind of starts stuttering. This was a comedy video shoot. So that I didn't write. And this was. But the phrase, the phrasing. Could you ask me the question again? I'm sorry, you chose to post this to your personal account. Right. And it's the image of Mr. Combs being a doctor and delivering a child. Your child. True. The character. Yes. It's a funny video that I was proud that Andy Samberg directed. So I was proud that I was in a funny video. A few of the jurors have their eyebrows crinkled together, like, kind of like scrunched up faces, almost like they're wincing, but not as dramatically. It's kind of like, like kind of a little bit like this. And what's interesting is when you're watching the jurors, you really don't know what they're thinking in the sense of they could be reacting to bias, Brian Steele's line of questioning and his usage of the R word. They could be wincing at the photograph, the exhibit. They could be wincing at Mia's response to it. It's just hard to say. And maybe each juror has a different reaction for that wince. But she's asked. And you wrote, thank you for always letting me give birth to my dreams, right? Yes. Then another social media post. There's like 90 trillion of them in this cross examination. One particular photo is of the two of them wearing Cosmos costumes in what looks like a trailer. It clearly looks like they're doing something for work. And Combs is posing whilst kind of holding his private parts through his pants. I feel like that's a pose that you might see on Instagram from a lot of guys I don't know. But, like, I imagine that would be something. And Brian Steele has her read the caption, Happy anniversary to your birthday last year. Since this year, you've changed your birthday date on some real Puff Daddy shit. Thank you for constantly inspiring me and giving me an extended family for life. You are forever one of my greatest friends. Thank you also for being funny because you're fucking funny. Like, really, really, really funny. I love you, Amdiddy. And you post this image of you in what I'll call a tutu. Is that correct? Correct. You're next to Mr. Combs, right? Yes. Right. The person who terrorizes you, right? Yes. And he's holding it, looks like. And please correct me, his private parts in his hands if that's what you see. I guess so. And this is what image you picked out, right, Mia? Yeah. And you put this on your page, right? Yes. Your friends get to see it who are on social media with you, right? Yes. Your family gets to see it who are on social media with you, right? My family. Some of my family, yeah. And you are proud of Mr. Sean Combs and that's why you wrote this, right? No, I wrote this because Instagram was a place to show how great your life was, even if it's not true. And because I had his fans following me as well, his official Diddy fan site. And I also didn't want my family and friends to know the misery I was in. So of course you post the great times. The highs were highs and the lows were low. And he also saw my Instagram. You chose to write thank you for constantly inspiring me and giving me inspire an extended family for life. Exclamation point. You are forever one of my greatest friends. That's what you wrote to the man who traumatized you, right? Yes. And it's just nonstop photos and captions. Brian Steele asks in any of these postings so far, or any of your postings, do you ever, ever say anything that you can bring forth here that Mr. Combs violated you? Never. You were in fear of Sean Combs every day. Is that true? On the days that he would, he was calling me his best friend and treating me like that. I wasn't in fear of him. You weren't in fear of the man who took your innocence, which like I think some people had some issue with that wording.
