Didi gave a cash bag to bury the hotel assault tape, the pre-guard court tells
A former hotel guard testified that Sean Combes paid $ 100,000 to suppress the footage of the attack. The video, now important evidence in a federal case, supports allegations of many misuse Combs denies.
In short
- Eddie Garcia testified about the 2016 hotel attack video which included Scene Comombs.
- Comombs paid $ 100,000 to Garcia for monitoring footage, afraid of career damage.
- Central footage for the case against Federal Sex Trafficking and Comombs Central.
In a hotel, a former security guard Edi Garcia testified in the Manhattan court that after the 2016 hotel attack, Scene “Didi” Comombs called him and insisted that if the video surfaced, his career would end.
“For the influence of something,” it could destroy me, “Garcia testified, explaining how the Comombs assigned him to a brown paper bag, with $ 100,000, which he believed that he believed that he was the only copy of the violent incident at the intercontinental hotel in Los Angeles.
According to The Hollywood reporter, the footage has become central in cases against a federal sex trafficking and comments, which denies all the allegations. The prosecutors argue that the clip supports the allegations of three women, including how the Comb claims that the Comb abremed them physically and sexually and sexually abused them in two decades.
Garcia testified that when he gave a video to Comombs, he made $ 10.50 per hour, signed a privacy agreement, and directed that he was directed not to make any significant purchases. He said that Comombs later called to check if someone had inquired about the tape, mentioned him as “Eddie, My Angel”.
Garcia also testified that Christina Khoram, the Chief of Staff of Comombs, initially approached her. After confirming that he could receive the video, Garcia was promised to pay. He sold the tape to $ 100,000 – originally requested $ 50,000 – and kept $ 30,000 for himself.
Although Comombs once suggested that Garcia would be offered future opportunities, Garcia said that no such follower happened.
In 2023, CNN broadcast the same video. Another hotel staff member had secretly recorded it on a phone, preserving the evidence, Combes believed that it was erased.
The lawsuit continues as prosecutors build their case, alleging long-running patterns by music Mogul.
