During week three of the Sean Combs trial, jurors heard significant testimony from his former personal assistant Capricorn Clark. She described the job as highly stressful, recounting how she had to clean up after his so-called freak-offs and endure threats and violence.
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00:00And she told the jury, quote, he said, if I failed this test, they were going to throw me in the East
00:04River. It's week three of the Sean Combs sex trafficking and racketeering trial, and jurors
00:09have heard important testimony by Capricorn Clark. Clark was making $65,000 a year as Combs'
00:17personal assistant between 2004 and 2018. She told jurors she got only four hours of sleep on a good
00:25night, and that there was so much stress that she actually suffered from hair loss. Sometimes she
00:29said she had to clean up the luxury hotel suites after days-long freak-offs. And then came 2011.
00:36Clark told the jury on Monday that she warned Ventured, keep her romance with Cuddy quiet,
00:41or else, quote, she was going to get us all killed. But Combs did find out, and one morning,
00:46Clark testified, she said she woke up in her Los Angeles home to find Combs banging on her front
00:51door. She told the jury he was holding a gun and told her, quote, get dressed, we're going to go
00:57kill this, and here Clark quoted Combs using the N-word. Clark called what happened next a kidnapping.
01:03Clark told the jury that Combs made her drive with him to Cuddy's house in Hollywood Hills with yet
01:08another bodyguard in the car. She said she waited in the car as Combs and the bodyguard went inside
01:14Cuddy's house. Cuddy was not there. Eventually, the police were involved, and Clark, on the witness
01:19stand, quoted Combs warning her, you have to tell Cuddy to not tell police it was me. If you don't do
01:25that, I'm going to kill all you, and then he used an expletive. Clark cried on the witness stand,
01:31as she described, when she took Cassie Ventura over to see Combs to smooth things out after the
01:38Cuddy break-in. She described seeing Ventura curled up on the floor in a fetal position as Combs
01:43kicked her again and again. She also testified that as Combs kept kicking Ventura, he turned his
01:49attention to her. She testified, quote, he said if I jumped in, he was going to F me up too. Now, Clark quit
01:55and was rehired or was fired and rehired several times, and each time she came back to a better job
02:01and a better salary. The next threat came when a bag of Combs diamond jewelry went missing. She told
02:06jurors that she was forced to submit to five days of lie detector tests. The guy doing the lie detector
02:12test was the size of two linebackers, and she told the jury, quote, he said if I failed this test,
02:18they were going to throw me in the East River. Combs had learned that Clark had previously worked as an
02:22intern at Death Row Records, and he was not happy. Clark remembered, quote, he told me he didn't know
02:28I had anything to do with should night, and that if anything would happen, he would have to kill me.
02:33One time, Clark made the mistake of saying she hated her job, and it got back to Combs. She told
02:38jurors that Combs pushed her with his hands over and over from one end of his Miami residence to the
02:44other. As he pushed her, he kept saying, quote, if you hate it here, get the F out of my house.
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