Diddy on Trial Week 3: From Capricorn to Mia

Matthew Russell Lee

Inner City Press

About this ebook

         In the Sean Combs trial's third week, some came to be seen and came to be heard but not seen, certainly not portrayed. We were told to call her Mia. But the prosecutors elicited from her which Combs Enterprises entity she co-founded and knowing her name was not difficult. But we did not report it.

 Her story, haltingly told, was depressing. She had wanted to be arts and was soon in a cult or work-farm, kept awake for five days straight, told not to leave Combs' house, to not lock the door to the bedroom. He came in and raped her. It happened again on a jet plane. What could Brian Steel do with this?

 One imagined them focused on the RICO charge, saying it hadn't been made out, no matter the involvement of D-Roc and Uncle Paulie, and those who swept the hotel room. Capricorn Clark was questioned with a lie detector for five days in an empty office on Broadway, threatened with be thrown in the East River.

 But still she went back, the defense pointed out. Still she came back and asked for job. Reference was made to an autistic son. It was depressing.

 Deonte Nash called Maurene Comey "Girl;" he came in on high platformed shoes and talked over Xavier Donaldson's questions. He had appeared for one of his trial-prep sessions with Maurene while flying high, memorialized in the 3500.

 But what about Mia? That question echoes, as through an empty office building on Broadway. Rikers Island faced the East River; the MDC faces the harbor. This case is Federal.

 Then Combs' Steel asked again and again about gushing Instagram posts she read out in a troublingly chipper voice. People didn't post their low points back then, she said.

And now? At week's end, as Mia was cross examined about posts in which her face was blurred, Trump was asked about, and dodged on, a possible pardon for Combs. See last entry in this book.

About the author

Matthew Russell Lee is a lawyer and author who covers the courthouses in lower Manhattan, and the United Nations in midtown, for Inner City Press. He has written a number of books about trials in the SDNY courthouse, including now Sean Combs, Tekashi 6ix9ine, ex-Senator Bob Menendez, Trump, SBF, Blake Lively, Do Kwon, Eric Adams and now flash fictions and songs based on the criminal cases in the court, in The Bronx, and elsewhere.