Diddy trial live: Ex-employee to reveal ‘secrets’ and details of alleged abuse

Judge Arun Subramanian, who is now on the bench, denied the prosecution’s request to cut the video feed to the overflow room while Mia, Combs’ former assistant and alleged victim, delivers testimony.

Instead, the prosecutor asked for just the audio feed to remain on, which the judge refused, according to CNN.

Judge Subramanian stated that those in the overflow room would be in the main courtroom if there was space.

As Judge Arun Subramanian hopes to keep the trial rolling along at a brisk pace, the defense has argued that an inability to visit Sean Combs in jail after 7 p.m. may slow down proceedings.

Defense attorney Marc Agnifilo made a plea to the court, asking permission to meet with Combs until 10 p.m. He argued that the current curfew means that the defense has to spend more time debating strategy without Combs, slowing up trial preparations.

“We just need more access to Mr. Combs” Agnifilo told the court Wednesday.

Judge Subramanian said he would call the jail to see if arrangements could be made.

The defense previously requested last week to have additional videoconferencing time with Combs from his jail after stating he was “out of minutes.” Prosecutors said they would call the Bureau of Prisons and ask on Subramanian’s behalf, after the judge expressed that he had had no luck with the agency.

It’s another rainy day and the crowds seem to finally be dwindling. There’s still enough to fill most of an overflow room, but it’s no longer bursting at the seams.

Deonte Nash will finish up his testimony with Xavier Donaldson cross-examining him. Then we’ll likely hear Mia (a pseudonym) for most of the day and into tomorrow.

Deonte Nash, Sean Combs and Cassie Ventura’s former stylist, is expected to be back on the stand after testimony resumes at 9 a.m., to be cross-examined by defense attorney Xavier Donaldson.

Testimony from an alleged victim and former employee of Sean “Diddy” Combs is expected to last for most of Thursday and well into Friday afternoon, prosecutors said.

The former personal assistant is known by the alias “Mia” while prosecutors have referred to her as “Victim-4.”

After her will be a man named Enrique Santos, who may not testify until Monday.

The sex-trafficking trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs continues in Manhattan federal court, where jurors heard testimony that mentioned a few A-list stars.

At the start, jurors were given a list of 190 celebrities, spanning beloved Hollywood actors and elite musicians who may be referenced during the trial, including Michael B. Jordan and Kanye West, among others, according to Variety. Other big names, including Britney Spears and 50 Cent, have also popped up with the trial testimony in full swing.

Isabel Keane has outlined the celebrities featured in the list and others who have come up in the trial:

Cassie Ventura has reportedly given birth less than two weeks after the prosecution’s heavily pregnant star witness testified at Sean “Diddy” Combs’s trial.

Vetura, who dated Combs for over a decade, and her husband Alex Fine welcomed their third child, a source close to the family told ABC News. They share two daughters together, and confirmed they were expecting their third baby in a February Instagram post.

The Independent has reached out to a representative for Ventura for comment.

The defense requested a mistrial on Wednesday after a Los Angeles Fire Department arson investigator said the Los Angeles police Department threw out fingerprints that Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi had taken from his home after Combs’ alleged 2011 break-in.

Judge Arun Subramanian struck the testimony of the fingerprints and denied the defense’s request for a mistrial.

Los Angeles Police Department officer Christopher Ignacio was first up at the witness stand Wednesday.

Ignacio responded to Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi’s house in December 2011 over a possible trespassing. Mescudi alleged Combs broke into his home after finding out he was dating Cassie Ventura, Combs’ decade-long girlfriend.

Ignacio said a black Escalade pulled away from the home and, when he ran the plates, the officer discovered the car belonged to Combs’s production company.

Next up was Los Angeles Fire Department Arson Investigator Lance Jimenez. He investigated the January 2012 bombing of Mescudi’s Porsche. Mescudi testified last week that he believed Combs was involved in the bombing, an allegation Combs denies. Jimenez revealed that the car was set ablaze with a Molotov cocktail that didn’t successfully break on impact.

The firefighter also said that Mescudi sent him fingerprints taken from his house during the alleged 2011 break-in. A LAPD officer went on to destroy those prints in August 2012, Jimenez testified.