Hotel security officer testifies Diddy paid $100K to suppress assault video

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Much of today’s testimony was spent revisiting Diddy's March 2016 assault on Casandra Ventura, an incident at the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles that was captured on security video and shown to jurors at the start of his trial. Eddy Garcia, the hotel’s security supervisor, testified that Diddy and his team desperately wanted to get the sole copy of the video and prevent it from getting out. In exchange for $100,000 divided among members of the hotel’s security team, Garcia said, he signed a nondisclosure agreement that called for his silence and the destruction of evidence.

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By Adam Reiss and Jing Feng