Diddy's $100,000 Bribe to Make Cassie Beating Video Go Away | Crime Alert 6AM 06.04.25

DIDDY TRIAL: A hotel guard testifies that the music mogul paid him $100,000 to bury the video of the brutal 2016 beating of Cassie Ventura. A $20,000 transaction could prove Diddy blackmailed Ventura's dad. For more on the trial, join Nancy tonight for Crime Stories on Merit Street Media. Check your local listings for channel number.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime Alert. I'm Meansy Grays breaking crime news now. Crowd
still packing the courtroom to hear testimony in the case
heats Sean Combs aka Diddy. Shout out to Drew Nelson
for the latest in the courtroom, Drew, What's happening Nancy.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
A hotel guard testifies that the music mogul paid him
one hundred thousand dollars to bury the video of the
brutal twenty sixteen beating of Cassie Ventura. On Day fifteen,
prosecutors led with testimony from Eddie Garcia. He worked security
at the Intercontinental Hotel in Los Angeles when Sean Diddy
Combs was caught on video punching, kicking, and dragging then

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girlfriend Cassie Ventura. Garcia told the jury he was approached
days later by Comb's team. He said they wanted the
footage erased. Combs chief of staff called the front desk,
then showed up in person. Garcia said she asked if
there was any way to get a copy. Garcia told
the court he refused and warmed her quote off the record,

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it's bad, Garcia said, Combs called himself. Later, he said
combs quote sounded very nervous and told him quote something
like this could ruin him. Garcia testified that Combs promised
to quote take care of me, Garcia agreeing to help.
In exchange, his boss arranged to sell the video. Garcia
testifying that he delivered the only copy to Comb's Garcia

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testified that he signed a non disclosure agreement and a
second paper confirming he gave Combs the only copy. He said.
Combs then returned with a brown paper bag and a
money counter. Garcia testified that he gave fifty thousand dollars
to his boss, twenty thousand dollars to another guard, and
kept thirty thousand dollars for himself. Derek Ferguson, Combe's former
bad boy CFO, walked jurors through Comb's records. Prosecutors showed

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bank statements from December of twenty eleven. On December fourteenth,
twenty thousand dollars was wired to Ventura. On December twenty third,
Ventura's father wired twenty thousand dollars into the same account.
Four days later, the same amount was sent back. Ventura's
mother had already testified the Combs demanded than in exchange
for not releasing explicit videos of Ventura after learning she

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had started dating rapper Kid Cuddy. Another woman who will
remain anonymous, going by the name Jane, is expected to
testify next Thanks Drew.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
More crime and justice news after this.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Three young sisters are found dead in Washington after a
visit with their father, and now police are searching for
him on murder charges. The bodies of nine year old Peyton,
eight year old Evelyn, and five year old Olivia Decker
were found Monday evening near Rock Island Campground, close to
their father's abandoned white twenty seven gmc Sierra truck. The
girls had been missing since Friday, when their father, Travis Decker,

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picked them up for a court approved visit. By that night,
their mother, Whitney Decker, reported them missing after Travis failed
to bring them back on time. A man hunt began.
Decker's truck was found Monday at Rock Island Campground. Just
over an hour later, police found the bodies. The cause
of death has not yet been released. By Tuesday morning,
prosecutors had filed three counts of first green murder and
three counts of kidnapping against Travis Decker. The Winatchee Police

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Department warned that he may be armed and dangerous. Authorities
say he may be staying in campgrounds or motels. He
has a military background and extensive training. Officials advised the
public not to approach him. Two inmates in Louisiana remain
on the run nearly three weeks after breaking out of
a New Orleans jail with eight others, with one of
the men posting on social media as he's on the run.

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Only Derrick Groves and Antoine Massey are still at large. Groves,
aged twenty seven, had been convicted of killing two men
and injuring two others during a Marti Gras gathering in
twenty eighteen. He used in AK forty seven. He was
awaiting multiple life sentences when he fled. His escape has
raised concerns for witnesses and prosecutors, officials believing Groves may
seek revenge. Massey, aged thirty two, was being held on

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domestic abuse and car theft charges. He was also wanted
in Saint Tammany Parish for rape and kidnapping. In a
now deleted video posted to Instagram, a man who appears
to be Massy claimed quote, I didn't break out, I
was let out, he said. Jail officials were out to
frame him. In the video, he also asked for help
from President Trump and Trump pardon rapper low Wayne. Each

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fugitive now carries a fifty thousand dollars reward. Tips can
be sent to the FBI. A Texas actor preparing to
reprise his voice role in TV's King of the Hill
is shot dead outside his burned down home after a
neighbor yells homophobic slurs and allegedly opened fire, ending a
long running feud. Police in San Antonio found fifty nine

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year old Jonathan Joss to cease. Sunday night, officers arrested
fifty six year old Sigfredo Seja Alvarez, who lived nearby,
and charged him with murder. Joss had returned to check
his mail with his husband, Tristan kerned A Gonzalez. They
found what looked like their dog's skull in the ashes,
one of the animals they lost in the fire earlier
this year. As the couple became hysterical, de Gonzalez says,

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Alvarez began yelling violent slurs before firing. Jonathan and I
had no weapons, We were not threatening anyone. Dey Gonzales
believes the killing a hate crime. Police say they found
no evidence it was tied to Joss's sexual orientation. Jos
voiced John Redcorn and King of the Hill and had
recent roles in TV's Tulsa King and Parks and Recreation

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is Perfect. Ten Olympian Mary Lou Retton missing. She was
arrested in her hometown of Fairmont, West Virginia, May seventeenth
for DUI. Days later, Rehtton's home appears abandoned. Neighbors said
she has not been home in weeks. A report in
The Daily Mail claimed her family had not heard from
her since her arrest and describes her home as quote
a deserted mess that has sparked rumors that she vanished.

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Some had speculated she cut off contact after her DUI.
Her relatives in West Virginia said they hadn't spoken to
her in nearly a month. Retton's lawyer, though pushing back,
attorney Edmund j Rollo, tells TMZ the report quote did
not originate from Mary Lu's family, calling it quote grossly inaccurate.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
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