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"Mia," a former assistant to Sean "Diddy" Combs who's testifying under a pseudonym in the music mogul's federal sex trafficking and racketeering trial in NYC, took the stand again Friday morning.

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00:00The fourth alleged victim, Mia, is still on the stand as we speak now, being cross-examined by

00:06Diddy's lawyers. And a couple of interesting things have come out. What they are trying to

00:11show, and this is something that we have heard from the defense in the weeks and months leading

00:19up to this trial, is that there is a money motivation by the alleged victims that should

00:28put some of their stories, at least, in doubt. There are certain things like the Cassie video

00:33you can't argue. Yes, Cassie got a lot of money, but you also...

00:37It's undeniable. You're looking at it right there.

00:39But in the case of Victim 4, as the government calls her, Mia...

00:44Who is an ex-employee of Diddy's.

00:45Ex-employee of Diddy's. She has, for two days now, been talking a lot about all of the abuse

00:52she says she suffered while she was working for Diddy. And some of that abuse she alleges

00:59includes sexual assaults, multiple sexual assaults. But one of the things that came up while prosecutors

01:07were... While she was testifying this morning, prosecutors asked her about a settlement that

01:13she got. A settlement when she... When her employment ended for Bad Boy. It's actually

01:19Revolt Films that she was working for. That shut down. And then she was unemployed, and she

01:25was in negotiations with them, had mediation about a settlement.

01:30Never a lawsuit. A settlement package. Never a lawsuit.

01:33A lawsuit was filed. She had asked for $10 million, and ultimately settled for several

01:39hundred thousand dollars. It was $200,000. I think $200,000 to her, and she said her lawyers

01:43got the same amount. That's right. That's right. It sounds like it was a $400,000 settlement

01:47of which she got $200,000. But you're asking... You may be asking yourself, why, if you're going

01:52for $10 million, would you not pay every chip that you have in your favor? And she's testified

01:56about multiple instances of sexual assault that she says Diddy perpetrated upon her. But

02:02when asked on the stand, did you bring these up when you were looking for negotiating this

02:07settlement? She says, no, I'm going to take those with me until I die. So the question

02:11will be raised by Diddy's defense counsel is, well, why didn't you raise that? If you're

02:15going for $10 million and he's only offering $400,000, you can get it up if you bring more

02:20bullets to your negotiation. So, for one thing, I mean, she's a sexual

02:24assault victim, according to her, right? So we know that sexual assault victims aren't

02:29always that willing to be open about the fact that they are victims of sexual assault.

02:35That's true. And I know what you're saying about raising...

02:38Hold on. This, just so you know, this was a private mediation. So there's no doubt that

02:44there was an NDA attached to the mediation in the settlement. This is always the case.

02:49Sure. So the notion is Diddy is certainly not going to talk about that because it doesn't...

02:55It hurts him if he were to talk about that after the settlement. So he'd want to keep that

03:00quiet. So she would be protected in terms of this ever getting out to the public.

03:04Not getting out to the public. She's still sitting in a room with a bunch of lawyers.

03:08Let me make this clear. I'm not saying that you should say, oh, then she must be lying in court.

03:15But the issue is a legal issue, that what the defense has to do is create reasonable doubt.

03:22In fact, the lawyers for the defense are arguing that when the four women who are making allegations,

03:33the grievances they had were dealt with by civil litigation, not going to the police.

03:38Now, again, I'm not saying that I'm buying it. I'm saying this is what they're arguing.

03:43And all they have to do is create reasonable doubt where somebody says, you know, I think she's

03:49probably telling the truth, but probably isn't beyond a reasonable doubt. That's what the defense

03:56is looking for. And it is interesting. Prosecutors raised this with her, knowing that the defense

04:02would if they didn't. So they wanted to get out in front of it.

04:04Well, they were just to blunt the issue, to get out ahead of this discrepancy

04:07between only getting a small settlement and not pushing the sexual assault allegations.

04:11But remember, she's in a criminal context now. She has to testify under penalty of perjury.

04:16She has no sort of incentive to lie. She's not going after money in the criminal case.

04:20And she has a lot of risk if she lies about the sexual assaults in the criminal case.

04:23So a lot of the jurors will know that there's risk if she lied about the sexual assaults now.

04:28But before holding them in the civil negotiations, that's not lying or telling the truth.

04:32That just may be someone who was traumatized.

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