Hotel security guard Eddy Garcia testifies during Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex trafficking trial in New York City, June 3, 2025 in this courtroom sketch. Jane Rosenberg/Reuters

A hotel security guard on Tuesday told the jury in Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex-trafficking and racketeering trial that the rap mogul paid him $100,000 in an attempt to secure his silence and bury a video that is now the central piece of evidence in the criminal case that threatens to send him to prison for life.

In the video captured in 2016 by security cameras at the Intercontinental Hotel in Los Angeles -- and shown to the jury during the testimony of three different witnesses -- Combs is seen kicking and dragging his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura. Ventura, a musician who testified as the government's star witness ,

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