Soon after viciously attacking his longtime girlfriend Cassie in a US hotel hallway, Sean "Diddy" Combs sought out a security guard and predicted accurately that his iconic career would be ruined, his image as the affable, successful "Puff Daddy" destroyed, if video of the beating ever became public.Eddy Garcia, 33, testified that the hip-hop mogul made the comment repeatedly before giving a brown paper bag stuffed with $US100,000 ($155,000) in cash to the then-guard, in order to buy what he hoped was the only copy of surveillance footage of the March 2016 assault.Prosecutors at Combs' sex trafficking trial in Manhattan have made the footage of Combs kicking, beating and dragging Cassie at the Intercontinental Hotel in Los Angeles a centrepiece of their federal case against him. They contend it supports the claims of three women, including Cassie, who allege the Bad Boy Records founder sexually and physically abused them over two decades.
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