The hotel guard, detailed in Manhattan court on Tuesday how Sean of Didi Kombs bribed him with $ 100,000 to bury the now-famous footage of Bad Boy Records founder brutally to beat his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura.
Eddie Garcia said she accepted the money in exchange for giving Combs what he thinks is the only copy of Beatdown’s monitoring video for 2016 – and then described the receiving a fancy telephone conversation from the music tycoon not after Easter.
“He said,” Happy Easter. You are my angel. God is good. God has put you in my life for a reason, “Garcia told the jurors in the federal process for trafficking and a combs of Kombs.
Sean “Didi” Combs, who watches how hotel guards Eddie Garcia testifies to her federal process on June 3, 2025. Reuters
“And he asked if anyone was interested in the video,” Garcia added, noting that he had told Combs that he had not received any questions about the footage after the couple’s deal on March 7, 2016.
Combs said “great” and then told Garcia to keep him up -to -date if that changed, the witness said.
Garcia-which is evidenced by an immunity transaction, which means that it will not be persecuted for its testimony, even if it is incriminating-off, that he has worked for a private security company Securitas at the intercontinental hotel in Los Angeles.
Within 48 hours, Garcia testifies to how he claimed to have been chased by Combs and his head of staff Christina Horram to help them make the video disappear.
During a phone call with Khorram, she put “many nervous” combs on the phone that tried to justify their actions, he said.
Video footage for combs, attacked Cassie Ventura at a Los Angeles Hotel in 2016.
“He spoke really fast, he stuttering a lot,” he said.
“[Combs] He just said there was a little too much to drink, “Garcia said, adding that Kombs told him,” One thing leads to another and if that escaped, it would ruin it. “
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Later, Garcia said that Horam called him on his mobile phone – the number for which he did not provide – and again put combs.
“He said he sounded like a good person,” Garcia testified, adding that Kombs said to him again, “Something like this can ruin him.”
When Garcia told Combs that he did not have access to the server to get video footage from the attack, Combs replied that he believed that Garcia could do this and said “he will take care of me,” which Garcia took “to mean financially,” he said.
Garia testified that Kombs bribe him $ 100,000 to bury the attacks of the attack. Reuters
Garcia checked with her boss and was told he would sell the Combs tape for $ 50,000, he said, adding that the music tycoon “Sounds Sounded” when he told him the news.
“He cited me as” Eddie, my angel, “Garcia said, adding that Kombs said to him,” I knew you could help. I knew you could do it. “
Garcia gave a Combs storage device containing the frames in exchange for $ 100,000 in cash, which the combs fed through money before putting in a brown paper bag.
Garcia testified that Kombs later called him on Easter and said he was “my angel”. Sean “Didi” Combs, who watches how the hotel guards Eddie Garcia testifies to her federal process on June 3, 2025.
Garcia said she had signed an agreement on confidentiality and non -disclosure in an office building in the presence of a bodyguard and Khorram of Combs.
The declaration, which states that there is no other copy of the video, requires Garcia to pay $ 1 million if it violates the deal, was told to the court.
Garcia, who at the time said she was earning $ 10.50 per hour working at the hotel, added that he had not fully read the documents.
“The goal was to get out of there as soon as possible,” he said.
A photo of Cassie Ventura’s bruises, which has been relatively coming from combs of combs. Ministry of Justice
Cutting over the left eye of Ventura, which seems to come from combs that attacked it. Ministry of Justice
After signed the document, Garcia said that Kombs asked him what he had planned to do with the money and advised him not to make big purchases, which Garcia said that he had taken to avoid drawing attention to himself.
Garcia told the court that he had given $ 50,000 to her boss, $ 20,000 to another security officer, Henry Elias, and scored the remaining $ 30,000 using some of the money to buy a used car.
He has never put the money in a bank to avoid a paper path, he added.
Garcia also asked Kombs if he could have future work with him, to which he said the rapper sounded receptive, even though he had never reacted to his investigations, he added.
The footage of the attack on Ventura was broadcast last year by CNN.
Another hotel guard testifies that he has recorded the frames of his phone so that he can show it to his wife.
The 55 -year -old Combs admitted that he was not guilty of charges who could send him to prison for life if they were sentenced.