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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Jewists.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
You don't know if you don't lie about that, right,
Lauren can't.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Hey guys, it's Laura the Rows back here again for
another breakdown outside of the courthouse for Sean Diddycomb's trial.
You know your girl, love to take y'all to court,
Love to take y'all a court. Here on the latest
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dig on all things culture, on all things entertainment, news exclusives,
and the conversations that shake the room. Now we're doing
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a behind the scenes of the grind check in. I
would say today, outside of this courtroom, I'm feeling a
bit undecided. And I think the undecided feeling comes because
you guys know, whenever I am here and I'm in court,
after I hear the testimonies, after I see some of
the things that are presented, or all of the things
that are presented, I like to then give y'all information,
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but also I like to walk away with feeling like, Okay,
if I was a juror today, just based on everything
I've seen up until this point today, where would I
land leaving court?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Today, Brendan Paul has been on the stand.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
He has been examined by the government, by the prosecution.
He's also been examined by the defense, which his Zitty's
Team and cross and recross and crisscross and all of
the things with Seawan colmbs like a lot of the
other witnesses, right, But what he's doing is he's more
so speaking directly to things that are trying to build
a picture. And the picture that the government is trying
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to build with him is that this whole thing was
a huge enterprise that wrapped around one man, his money
and his power. They were going through conversations and emails
and text messages that allege that.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
You know Brendan Paul, would you know who?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
On the stand, admitted that he would be responsible for
setting up hotel nights, which were the free Cross that
was the twenty twenty four to twenty twenty three later
down the line name of these freak off incidents, but
he had testified like he would be in charge of
setting them up. He testified that he would also be
in charge of breaking them down allegedly, he says, he
alleges that that direct command came from KK who is
(02:03):
Christina Karan, who is you know, was one of Diddy's
go to head of operations in everything.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Right now, when.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
He's talking to the government, he's talking about being in
charge of these hotel or these king Knights, he talks
about it very casually. He says that, you know, he
would have to come there, he would set things up,
he would buy supplies for the actual nights. When he
would buy the supplies, he would do it on his
personal credit card or his personal from his personal money,
his personal account. They then the government asked him, well,
how did you how are you compensated for that? He says,
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we would we would get it back, you know from
the team. If anybody's ever done an expense report, you
know exactly what he describes. He said that he would
submit the receipts, he would have to talk about why
he had to purchase these things, and then it would
take a little minute, but he would then get the
money back. He said that when he would have to
submit these things, he would he alleges, he would have
to submit them via email. On the email would be
KK Christina Kuran and a woman from a company named TriStar.
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When he was asked what was TriStar. He said, the
government is going in there to Simoni with Brendan Paul
is they are trying to establish the fact that all
these things were happening. The money from this company was
the backing, was the front money for all of these
things that were happening. And not only that, but also
there were employees who were involved.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
In all these things at every level.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
And that wasn't just something that coincident, coincidentally happened every
now and then, as we've heard prior to and as
the defense has tried to you know, angle every now
and then, like you know, things would be dropped off allegedly,
or hotels would need to be booked or you know,
but this was mister Combe's personal time. It's how the
defense has been picturing this or setting this up. With
Brendan Paul. They have him on the stand and he's like, no,
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this was my job duty. They even brought up a
schedule of his right. He would be giving a written
schedule of like what his day would look like. He
would then put the schedule in his notepad in his phone.
So they brought up the notepad in his phone. This
is an alleged schedule set by kk you know who
was his head exec on Diddy's team. She's calling the
shots and in the schedule it actually had set up
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for hotel nights. So the the government is establishing like
this was not just a incidental you know, maybe he
got close and trusted on assistant and allowed that assistant
to do these things thing. This is something that went
down that was a part of the job description basically.
Like so, then the government is going through different conversations
with him, and they then start to talk about, you know,
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they bring in the drug use. Well, now, once this
has happened, and once the government decides that they're gonna
sit back and let the defense come in and do
their thing, Brian Still is on defense. He stands up
and he starts having a conversation with Brendan Paul. So
the way that he starts is he's establishing the fact
that Brendan Paul is a very smart individual. Brendan Paul
is an individual who not only went to college, but
he played you know, sports in college.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
He played for a very reptable.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Well known athlete while in college. And at first I'm
trying to figure out where Brian Still was going, and
then I realized I'm like, Okay, this is him. He's
setting up Brendan's character because he's about to use Brendan
Paul as a as a way to get out of
this whole enterprise conversation, right at least one of the
witnesses to do that. So he's establishing him as his character,
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who is you know, very makes great decisions, has a
great work ethic, has you know, been raised to be
morally like sound and you know you're here to tell
the truth correct, And he's like, yes, they mentioned the
fact that you know, mister Paul was given an immunity order.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
But even though he was given an immunity.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Order, He's like, you know, I was going to tell
the truth here regardless. And Brian still does a good
job of establishing all of that character. And then they
get into the real things. So then Brian still is
like asking about he asks about a ton of things.
He asks about you know, the hotel nights in these
different things, and he gets it in there that you know,
again did he seems like what that was his personal time, right,
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trying to separate the two. But then they go to
the day that Brendan Paul was arrested.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Now this was a big deal.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
This was a big story because after the Cassie lawsuit dropped,
and then after the Cassie So Cassie lost to drops.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Things are crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Things are crazy things and crazy, and then the Cassie
video from CNN drops. If you guys remember, and I
remember because we were reporting on it at the time
at TMC. If you remember, there was photos of Diddy
and a man. They were traveling to the Bahamas with
his family. The man was arrested. When the man was arrested,
all of the headlines that came out alleged that he
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was Diddy's drug mule because this man was arrested and
or he was arrested trying to get to mister Colmb's
and there was drugs in.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
One of his bags that he had with them.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Right, So they bring this up and they're having a
conversation about it and Brian still is like, you're not
a drug mule, correct, Because that is how the government
was painting it. It's like, you know, there's all these drugs,
there's all these things even down to right, going back
real quick, the government was so detailed today and making
sure that they really had you understand how much of
a job it was to be a Sean Combs assistant
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and having to involve yourself in things like hotel nights
and baby oil and astroglibe. They showed a photo that
Brendan Paul took. This photo had a cabinet where there
was baby oil and astroglide laid out, and they asked
him why did you take this photo? And he says,
we had a new house manager and we would have
to order everything that mister Combs needed from a house manager, right,
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And they're like and so then he's explaining that I
sent this photo because I wanted this house manager to
see here's exactly how things are supposed to be organized, right,
And the government is like okay, without even having to
say at all anything, It's like, so this was a
real part of your job. But anyway, now we're back,
we're on a cross with the defense, and the defense
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is establishing that you know, that whole drug mule allegation
and narrative is a bunch of bs. Brian stills like,
you're not a drug mule, cause he's like no, and
he's like, well, what is your definition of a drug mule?
He's like, to me, it's somebody who you know, carries
a but like a ton of drugs kilos across state
and things of that nature. And Brian Still was like, well,
(08:02):
how much did you actually have on you? And he
said point seven ounces and Brian Still's like, oh, that
was that's a personal use amount. And then they get
into a conversation in the back and forth that Brendan
Paul and it then comes out that the day that
Brendan Paul.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Was arrested for having those drugs.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
On him, and you know, all of the headlines painted
this as him smuggling drugs and allegedly for Diddy, or
smuggling drugs to wherever they were going to allegedly. Right,
he says that he got one of the best attorneys
in the town, which is why his case was dropped,
and whose drugs it was, because he felt a sense
of loyalty to Diddy. But he said once he got
in front of the judge, and the judge shaw, okay,
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it's it's point seven ounces. They asked him, you know,
how did this get here? And he says, it was
just in his bag. He didn't remember it was in
his bag. It was dropped. Now for background, they didn't
clarify the him not understanding it was in his bag
and where the drugs came from. So they're like, were
these drugs given to you to specifically take somewhere for
Diddy that day? Like, because that's what is being alleged.
(09:00):
Justess what's being set up here, And he's like, no,
it was basically it was something he had cleaned up
from another hotel night or another King knight, and he
put it in his bag when he cleaned it up
and forgot it was in the bag and went to
travel with it, and then he was arrested.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
And I'm like okay, Because at.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
First I'm like, okay, he's a great summary witness for
the He's a great witness for the prosecution because it's
very straight to the point. It's easy for you to
understand exactly what they're trying to get to with him.
He's naming all these names from the company. He's talking
about how things is paid for versus Hoday not like
all of the things right, So you get where he's
going and you get it real fast.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
But then they put him on for the defense. They
let the defense talk to him like dang, he a
good witness for him too.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Because now it's looking more like, Okay, drugs were used,
but it's not this big illegal operation the smuggle drugs
and people the way that you guys are making it
seem allegedly right. They even get to the point of
talking about the Love album that dropped, because Brendan Paul
was a part of the team that worked on the
Love Album and he referenced it as a great it
was like the best time. Brian still says, you saw,
(10:02):
you know, mister comes do drugs a lot, and he's like,
you know yeah, and he says, well, would you say
because because right, you stayed up and you guys were
up y'all in production for the album.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
You ain't sleeping like you're not sleeping things. You're in it.
So you were right there you witness at all.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
He's like yeah, and he's like, would you say that
mister Colmebs was able to highly function during the time
because that was a crazy time. There was so much
going on, you're dropping music. He was able to be
up with y'all all night after doing all these things.
He was creatively overflowing as he was taking drugs. Correct
and I'm like, oh, I see what they're doing again.
They're trying to humanize all of this behavior. They're trying
to Number one, you know they're a legend that this
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is all because of drugs and you know, not being
able to make good decisions because of that, right, But
now they're turning their drugs into something.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
That like it's just casual.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
This is just what he does, and we can't sit
here and prosecute a man because this is what he does.
That's where the defense was going with Brian Brian Steel,
with Brendan Paul. So he's like, I mean, he couldn't
really answer the question because I mean, how can you
tell that?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
But he did admit, yeah, he was able to stay
up with us.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
So you know it's gonna be and then everything's over, right,
then it just ends with him. It's gonna be really
interesting to see, you know, as this rest and again
I keep saying it, and the defense comes in where
they go with things because these final couple witnesses are
they're adding some color and some context, but it kind
of opens it back up again where it's like, okay,
you can kind of see both sides of the coin here.
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So the defense is going to be last thing we
hear in an account to the defense. Things are supposed
We're supposed to rest today it is Friday, June twenty
and twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
But they did not.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
And again I had said earlier on the Breakfast Club
this morning that I didn't think that they would not.
I didn't think that they would because they did lose
a day this week in court. So it'll spill over
until Monday, and we should now start hearing more about who, like,
who are the witnesses that the defense are about to call.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I'm Laura the rose At.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
This is the latest with Laura Le Rosa here with
another exclusive update from outside of the trial of Sean Colmes.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
It's like you guys could be anywhere with.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Anybody getting all this information, but y'all choose to be
right here with me, so low riders. I appreciate you, guys,
and I will catch you in my next episode.