Day 9 Courtroom Clash: Diddy’s Team Faces Employee U-Turns
Confusion wins round nine: Day 9 of Diddy’s courtroom drama boiled down to a parade of employees insisting they never saw any scandalous behavior—yet somehow contradicting each other on basic timelines. The defense opened with ex-personal assistant Aziza “Bambi” Vickery, who swore up and down she never witnessed any violence at Combs’s mansion. Under cross-examination, though, she admitted texting late-night messages about cleaning up “accidents,” a detail highlighted by plaintiff attorneys (AP News). That’s the kind of nuance that keeps us on the edge of our seats—or rolling our eyes.
Midday brought Grammy board member and longtime collaborator David Stewart, who testified he only knows Diddy as “a consummate professional.” Stewart insisted he never saw Diddy alone with any of the alleged victims in private settings. When pressed on company logs showing secret after-hours studio sessions, he claimed not to recall dates or attendees—an omission the plaintiffs pounced on (People Magazine). It’s heartwarming how forgetfulness can clear you of serious allegations, right?
The afternoon bumped up the tension when head of security Robert Quinn took the stand to describe his duties protecting Combs. Quinn reiterated he never observed misconduct and maintained he wasn’t responsible for internal staff communications. Yet snippets of his own text messages—deposited as evidence—revealed he sometimes forwarded urgent notes about “media leaks” and “damage control,” suggesting he was more invested in optics than truth. Credibility? Somewhere between “ironclad” and “we’ll see.”
Perhaps the most eyebrow-raising moment came courtesy of tour manager John “JJ” Jackson. Asked if he’d ever escorted anyone out of the property for safety reasons, JJ paused longer than usual before insisting Diddy was hands-off when it came to personnel discipline. Plaintiffs’ lawyers then produced an internal memo detailing a late-2021 incident where Jackson was ordered to “handle a situation” involving a female guest. Cue audible gasps in the gallery (Reuters).
By the end of Day 9, the courtroom resembled a soap opera writers’ room, full of conflicting scripts and missing pages. Neither side scored a knockout, but the back-and-forth highlighted the real struggle: pinning down a definitive version of events when the participants’ recollections change with every gavel tap. Tomorrow promises testimony from financial advisors who may or may not have noticed Revlon and Cîroc deals siphoning off evidence. So there you have it—another disaster in the making, courtesy of celebrity trial theater.
Sources: Celebrity Storm and AP News, People Magazine, Reuters
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