A woman testifying under the alias “Mia” described an abusive, degrading workplace where she was, as she put it, a personal assistant for the music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs. But one moment itemized in particularly gutting detail the one about the wet tampon, spaghetti bowl, and the reported barefoot dash into the night.
On one workday, Mia testified, she told Diddy she needed a moment to change her tampon, to which Diddy said, “No, you’re okay.” He did not provide her with her basic human decency, she says. Instead, he allegedly flew into a rage, threw a bowl of spaghetti at her, and told her to leave his home now. She said she was bleeding at the time, and blood was seeping through her pants and dripping down her leg. As she ran, she told Diddy had followed her barefoot out of the house and screamed as she hid in a bush before finally escaping to a nearby hotel.
The story may seem bizarre and hallucinatory, but Mia’s day on the witness stand was full of tales that hewed to that tone of chaos and brutality.
She described other harrowing incidents she claims she experienced while working for Diddy. One resulted in a computer being thrown at her head inside a trailer with producer Swizz Beatz by her side. After telling Diddy that the Wi-Fi issue was being managed, she’d cracked a joke about Bill Gates on the phone. The airborne laptop, she explained, whizzed past her head by inches.
There was also the time in Turks and Caicos when he said, she said, Diddy screamed in her face while dumping a bucket of ice on her, then flung her into a pool as she tried to retrieve her phone for fear he would come across private messages about his questionable behavior.
The accused abuse wasn’t confined to home or vacation. Mia said that while she was working at the offices of Revolt TV, Diddy took her phone and left her locked in a bathroom. When she attempted to retrieve it, she said on the stand, he slammed the door on her arm over and over again, leaving visible bruises. Following the incidents, she alleges Diddy suspended her without pay.
One of the more chilling developments, at one point, Mia said Diddy told her that he had messaged compromising photos taken of her to himself. She said she didn’t because no such pictures existed, and she took the claim as a psychological trick, another way to keep her frightened.
Diddy, meanwhile, has pleaded not guilty to the federal charges, which include sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy. He could face life in prison if convicted. With testimony ongoing, vestiges of what else might come to light are rearing up in the courtroom and the public.
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