Isabella Gomez Sarmiento

3 days ago | nhpr.org | Anastasia Tsioulcas |Isabella Gomez Sarmiento

This report includes descriptions of physical and sexual violence. On Monday (June 2), a former employee of Sean Combs concluded three days of testimony against the hip-hop mogul. The witness, who testified under the pseudonym "Mia," worked as a personal assistant for Combs from 2009 to 2017. She told the court that Combs physically and sexually assaulted her on multiple occasions throughout that time.

2 weeks ago | mprnews.org | Isabella Gomez Sarmiento

The musician Scott Mescudi, who records as Kid Cudi, took the witness stand in the trial of Sean Combs on Thursday morning. Mescudi told the court about his brief relationship with Cassie Ventura, the star witness in the government's sex trafficking and racketeering case against Combs. He also detailed two incidents — a break-in at his house and a fire set to his car — that occurred around the same time.

2 weeks ago | ctpublic.org | Isabella Gomez Sarmiento |A Martínez

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2 weeks ago | kuow.org | Isabella Gomez Sarmiento

What witnesses in the trial of Sean Combs have testified this weekThe witnesses who have testified over the second week of the criminal trial of Sean Combs have offered context around the narrative that Cassie Ventura shared during its opening week. Isabella Gomez Sarmiento has spent the week in the courthouse in New York and reports on what the jury has heard.

3 weeks ago | btpm.org | Isabella Gomez Sarmiento |Anastasia Tsioulcas

This report contains descriptions of physical and sexual violence. Casandra "Cassie" Ventura, the ex-girlfriend of Sean Combs, took the stand on Tuesday morning (May 13) as the star witness in the first full day of testimony in the federal trial against the hip-hop mogul better known as Diddy or Puff Daddy.