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The Irish Sun
7 hours ago
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- The Irish Sun
Dunnes Stores fans set to love new sleeveless jacket perfect for Irish summer – and it comes in two colours
DUNNES Stores fans are set to love a new sleeveless jacket that's perfect for warmer weather after it landed on racks. The Gallery Cornelli Sleeveless Jacket is a bargain at just €25. 2 The sleeveless jacket has just landed on racks 2 It costs just €20 And shoppers can choose between two colours - baby blue and navy. It is available in sizes XS to XXL. "It fastens with five hook-and-loop closures and has a ribbed neckline and hem. READ MORE IN FASHION "Gallery is available exclusively at Dunnes Stores." The retailer has paired the jacket with a basic white t-shirt and blue jeans for a casual day look. Meanwhile, a fashion fan has tried on a One Irish shopper gave fans three fun outfits to try on Instagram using the Savida Bella sequin skirt. Most read in Fabulous Yvonne O'Connor, who uploads under the user I tried three stunning summer looks from Dunnes Stores and there's ideal outfit for weddings Wearing a size 12 in the set, she said "It's much better than I thought it was going to be and perfect for anyone who likes their arms out." The fashion fan switched it up with an oversized white T-shirt and some low-top trainers for a more chic day-to-day look. And finally, Yvonne is stunning in a pink blazer and kitten heels for a "beautiful look" - for a unique outfit this Many of her followers rushed to the comments to compliment her style, calling her new looks "Gorgeous" and "Beautiful". Shop the look as the top costs just €30 with the matching skirt retailing for €35. Sizes range from XXS and go up to XXL, so everyone can shine this summer. Both items are available online and in stores. And shoppers can get a more The new Mia satin dress features a stunning back detail for just €40. The midi dress is designed with a daring low cut front in a deep navy blue. With the back of the dress featuring a striking cross over style, the latest arrival is also the perfect wedding guest fit. It ranges in sizes from XXS-XXL, but fans will have to be quick as only smalls, mediums and larges are left online. THE HISTORY OF DUNNES STORES DUNNES Stores opened its first store on Patrick Street in Cork in 1944 - and it was an instant hit. Shoppers from all over the city rushed to the store to snap up quality clothing at pre-war prices in Ireland's first 'shopping frenzy'. During the excitement, a window was forced in and the police had to be called to help control the crowds hoping to bag founder Ben Dunne's 'Better Value' bargains. Dunnes later opened more stores in the 1950s and began to sell groceries in 1960 - starting with apples and oranges. The retailer said: "Fruit was expensive at the time and Ben Dunne yet again offered Better Value than anyone else in town. "Over time, our food selection has grown and that spirit of good value has remained strong. "Now we offer a wide range of carefully-sourced foods from both local Irish suppliers and overseas." The retailer's first Dublin store opened its doors in 1957 on Henry Street and a super store on South Great Georges Street was unveiled in 1960. They added: "In 1971, our first Northern Irish store opened, and many others soon followed. "Expansion continued in the 1980s in Spain, and later into Scotland and England." Dunnes now has 142 stores and employs 15,000 people.
Time of India
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Yes, they're really called 'Baby DONT Cry' — Meet K-pop's newest girl group
Yes, it's not a song title - it's the name of the newest girl group in the K-pop scene. Baby DONT Cry, also known as BDC, is a 4-member South Korean pre-debut girl group under P NATION, the agency founded by Gangnam Style superstar PSY. Produced by none other than I-DLE's powerhouse Jeon Soyeon, the group got everyone curios with the cryptic name P Girls when they were teased on April 11, 2025. However, not soon after, they reemerged with a bold identity: Baby DONT Cry. The members Yihyun, Kumi, Mia, and Beni released a pre-debut track - 지금을 놓치면 분명 너 후회할 거야 (Bet You'll Regret It) - on June 16. They will officially make their debut on June 23, 2025, with the single, F Girl. Before their debut, let's get to know the girls a little more. '지금을 놓치면 분명 너 후회할 거야 (Bet You'll Regret It)' Dance Practice (Fix ver.)🔗 Single [F Girl]2025. 6. 23. 6PM 💿 Pre-save : #BDC#FGirl #지분후#250623_6pmKST#PNATION #피네이션 Yihyun Birth Name: Jo Yi Hyun Birthday: April 11, 2006 Debut Single [F Girl] : Yihyun 2025. 6. 23. 6PM 💿 Pre-save : #BDC#이현 #Yihyun#FGirl#250623_6pmKST#PNATION #피네이션 Born in Bundang, Seongnam, she was the first BDC member revealed on June 10, 2025, instantly drawing attention. A former child artist under J&K Entertainment, she appeared on Fantastic Duo and Doppelgängers: You Who Resembles a Star, earning the nickname "Little IU." She also competed on WE KID and gained a following before joining P NATION. A proud BTS fan, she's now ready to shine on her own stage. Kumi Birth Name: Takei Miku Birthday: August 30, 2007 Debut Single [F Girl] : Kumi 2025. 6. 23. 6PM 💿 Pre-save : #BDC#쿠미 #Kumi#FGirl#250623_6pmKST#PNATION #피네이션 She was revealed as the second member on June 11, 2025 and quickly stood out with her quirky "4D" charm. She trained at NEXTinDANCE Academy and knows how to come alive on stage. She finds true joy in singing, dancing, and sharing sweet moments with her members. Now, she is gearing up for the spotlight. Mia Birth Name: - Birthday: September 3, 2007 Debut Single [F Girl] : Mia 2025. 6. 23. 6PM 💿 Pre-save : #BDC#미아 #Mia#FGirl#250623_6pmKST#PNATION #피네이션 She was introduced as the third member on June 12, 2025. This Japanese trainee also trained at the NEXTinDANCE Academy, although little is known about her. She has piqued fans' interest, and her unassuming presence undoubtedly indicates latent potential in the K-pop arena. Beni Birth Name: Kang Han Bit Birthday: December 23, 2008 Debut Single [F Girl] : Beni 2025. 6. 23. 6PM 💿 Pre-save : #BDC#베니 #Beni#FGirl#250623_6pmKST#PNATION #피네이션 She was unveiled as the fourth and final member on June 13, 2025. She is a true veteran among rookies, having passed the last round of P NATION's audition in February 2019 and spent about 6 to 7 years perfecting her craft. Her extensive training, which began at Ib Music Academy in Iksan, is finally beginning to bear fruit. For all the latest K-drama, K-pop, and Hallyuwood updates, keep following our coverage here.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
17 biggest Diddy trial bombshells — as the prosecution readies to rest its case
It's the sixth week of testimony in Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex-trafficking and racketeering trial. Combs' two sex-trafficking accusers have testified, and the prosecution will soon rest. Here are 17 of the biggest revelations from the trial so far. It's week six of the Sean "Diddy" Combs sex-trafficking and racketeering trial. A federal jury in Manhattan has heard R&B singer Cassie Ventura — Combs' ex-girlfriend and the catalyst for his public downfall — tearfully testify about the humiliating "freak offs" she says she endured throughout their 11-year relationship. A second sex-assault accuser, who testified as "Mia," described four times she says Combs attacked her, and a third accuser. The third accuser, "Jane," testified about the alleged violence underlying what prosecutors say were her three years as Combs' sex-trafficking victim. Along the way, there have been numerous celebrity mentions, including pop icon Britney Spears, actor Michael B. Jordan, rapper Kid Cudi, and late music legend Prince. Combs was arrested in September on charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution — the culmination of months of lawsuits and public accusations of sexual assault and other misconduct. The music tycoon is arguing through his defense team that all sexual encounters were consensual, including the alleged drug-fueled freak offs at the trial's center — and that any violence fell short of sex trafficking. Here are some of the most striking moments from the trial so far. Kanye West granted VIP courtroom access Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, has been given special access to attend his pal Combs' trial. The "Jesus Walks" rapper has been added to Combs' friends and family trial guest list, according to two sources with knowledge of the document. Ye showed up to court to support Combs during the trial's fifth week, but was denied entry to the Manhattan courtroom. "He did not wait in line like everybody else from the public," a court source previously told BI. "No one gets special treatment." Ye was instead seated in an overflow room on the courthouse's 23rd floor — three floors below where Combs' trial is unfolding — and left after listening to about half an hour of testimony. It's not clear whether Ye will be back to support Combs at his trial, but if he does, he will have a seat available alongside Combs' family members in the courtroom. Diddy's ex says he beat her a month after he apologized for Cassie abuse In May 2024, shortly after CNN aired hotel surveillance video showing Combs dragging Ventura down a hallway and beating her, the rapper posted an apology on Instagram. On video, Combs told his followers that his behavior that day was "inexcusable" — and that he began therapy soon after the 2016 hotel incident. "I take full responsibility for my actions in that video. I'm disgusted. I was disgusted then when I did it. I'm disgusted now," he said in his Instagram video. On June 9, however, Combs' ex testified that exactly one month after he posted that apology, he abused her, leaving her face covered in bruises. After the abuse, she said, Combs leaned close to her and asked her: "Is this coercion?" The woman, who testified under the pseudonym "Jane," said he then demanded she put on makeup, pop an ecstasy pill, and have sex with a male escort. "Take this fucking pill. You're not going to ruin my fucking night," Jane said Combs demanded as she screamed, "I don't want to! I don't want to!" Prosecutors say Combs sex trafficked Ventura and Jane by means of false promises, violence, and coercion. Jane's and other trial witnesses' testimony contradicts the story she says Combs told people close to him after the CNN video was released. Jane testified that when the news broke, Combs "huddled" with his team and his family. "He said that that was the only time that they had physical violence like that," Jane said of the abuse between Combs and Ventura. "He said that she was a hitter and she would hit. At trial, the jury has heard testimony from multiple witnesses describing more than a dozen times they said Combs physically abused Ventura between 2008 and 2018. A witness said Combs personally counted a $100K bribe to kill the Cassie hotel video A former security guard described Combs personally pulling $100,000 out of a paper bag and counting it, painting an image that's both surprising and legally significant. The guard said Combs hoped the cash — prosecutors call it a bribe — would bury forever a 15-minute video showing him beating Ventura in the hallway of the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles in March, 2016. Combs fed "stacks of $10,000 at a time" into a money-counting machine, then stuffed it back in the paper bag, according to the ex-guard, Eddy Garcia. The ex-guard said Combs then handed him the bag as payment for a USB thumb drive containing what both men believed was the only copy of the incriminating footage. "Eddy, my angel," the guard said Combs called him after the transaction. "Something like this would ruin him," he said Combs told him. Eight years later, a surviving copy of the video was first made public by CNN. Now, it's the single most important piece of evidence in the trial, both sides say. Prosecutors say the video shows Combs in the very act of sex-trafficking Ventura, meaning coercing her through physical force into engaging in sex at the hotel with a male sex worker known only as "Jewels." The first charge in Combs' indictment accused him of racketeering, a charge that requires proof of at least two underlying crimes. Prosecutors may argue that the video alone is proof of three underlying crimes: sex trafficking, bribery, and obstruction of justice. Prosecutors hope the video will also clinch the second charge in Combs' indictment, which accuses him of sex trafficking Ventura. Both racketeering and sex trafficking carry maximum sentences of life in prison. Combs raped his PA, "Mia," as she slept in the staff room at his Beverly Hills mansion, she said One of Combs' former personal assistants testified under the pseudonym "Mia," telling jurors he sexually attacked her four times between 2009 and 2017, when she was in her mid-20s and early said that two of the attacks were at the sprawling glass and concrete mansion he rented in Beverly Hills, including a rape in the staff bedroom. She described waking to feeling Combs on top of her. "Be quiet," she said he told her. "I knew his power and I knew his control over me," she told the jury, her voice hushed and halting. "And I didn't want to lose everything that I worked so hard for — or this, like, this world that was the only thing I had anymore." Combs beat Ventura outside a Prince party, Mia also told jurors Combs once attacked Ventura during a party thrown by music icon Prince, the former personal assistant also testified. The ex-PA, who used the pseudonym "Mia," told the jury she and Ventura had snuck out to Prince's Los Angeles home after learning he would be performing for a small gathering — a "once-in-a-lifetime" experience, as Ventura described it on the stand. Prince did not disappoint. Mia said that as he played music, they danced atop his backyard pool, which was backlit and covered in purple plexiglas. Then Combs showed up, she said. "I saw his bucket hat come through the entrance and then made eye contact with him," Mia said of Combs. "Me and Cass just booked it." They ran through Prince's house and into the woods out front, where "Puff caught Cass," and started beating her, Mia said, until Prince's security intervened. Later that night, Ventura testified that Combs continued to beat her back at her hotel, leaving her with "bruising on my face, knots on my head." Ex-employee Capricorn Clark testified Combs kidnapped her at gunpoint Capricorn Clark, another former personal assistant and one who became one of his top marketing executives, kicked off week three of the trial by telling jurors that he once kidnapped her at gunpoint. It was December 2011, after Combs learned of rapper Kid Cudi's brief relationship with Ventura, Clark testified on May 27. Combs was "furious" with Clark for keeping him in the dark about Ventura's romance with the "Pursuit of Happiness" rapper, she said. Clark told the jury that Combs, armed with a gun, went to her house in a rage and banged on the door. "He just said, 'Get dressed, we're going to go kill'" him, Clark testified that Combs told her, using the N-word to refer to Kid Cudi. Combs then took Clark to Kid Cudi's Los Angeles home, she told the jury, describing it as being "kidnapped." "The way he was acting, I just felt like anything could happen," a tearful Clark testified. Ex-exec says years before "freak offs" Combs took Kim Porter to hotels too — with candles and baby oil In the first week of trial testimony, Ventura told jurors that starting in late 2008, she was coerced by Combs into a decade's worth of near-weekly "freak offs" — dayslong sex performances, usually at luxury hotels, involving male escorts, Glade candles, and numerous bottles of baby oil. Clark told jurors that in the years she was Combs personal assistant, from 2004 until 2006, she would set up and clean up the hotel rooms where Combs took another longterm girlfriend, model Kim Porter, the mother of four of Combs' children. During those years, Combs and Porter would stay for days at luxury hotels in Atlanta, Los Angeles, and New York. Clark said, as a personal assistant, she made sure Combs' suite was stocked with ecstasy, baby oil, and pricey Diptyque candles. Cleanup was tricky, Clark told jurors, who mentioned "handprints left in oil on the, like, ultra-suede wall" as a particular problem. "It was just a lot of baby oil. It was just everywhere." These were not "freak offs," Porter's former family attorney, Suzanne Kimberly Bracker, told Business Insider. "He was madly in love with Kim," said Bracker, who helped negotiate Combs' child support settlement and who said that Porter had two children with Combs at the time. "There is absolutely no way that he would share her with another man," she said. "He would tell her 'I'm not gonna pay for an apartment with my kids in one room while you're with another guy in the other bedroom.'" Kid Cudi said Combs broke into his house and probably torched his Porsche Kid Cudi took the witness stand in Combs' trial on May 22, telling jurors that in December 2011, the music tycoon broke into his Hollywood Hills home, enraged after finding out about the rival rapper's short-lived romance with Ventura. Kid Cudi, given name Scott Mescudi, told the jury that he returned home after the break-in to find the Christmas gifts he'd planned to give his family unwrapped and opened. His dog, he said, had been shut in the bathroom. "Motherfucker, you in my house?" Mescudi recalled telling Combs over the phone as he raced home to confront him. Combs was gone by the time he arrived, Mescudi said. Mescudi also told the jury that some two weeks later, his Porsche was firebombed while in his driveway. The Porsche "arson" is a specific element in the racketeering charges against Combs. Prosecutors alleged in court papers that Combs ordered his underlings to torch a vehicle "by slicing open the car's convertible top and dropping a Molotov cocktail inside the interior." Cassie's mom describes 'trying to hit' Combs in a fight over her daughter's stolen phone Regina Ventura corroborated her daughter's testimony, telling jurors she witnessed the aftermath of two of Combs' violent, jealous rages over romantic rivals. The first was in 2011. The mom said Cassie Ventura came home to Connecticut for the Christmas holidays with a large bruise on her back. Cassie Ventura had told jurors the week before that the bruise was from being kicked to the ground by Combs during a fight over Mescudi. Regina Ventura also confirmed a 2016 incident from shortly before the younger Ventura's 30th birthday. Combs had swiped her cellphone, Cassie Ventura testified, after learning about her affair with an unnamed professional NFL player. When she returned to her Los Angeles apartment without her phone, her mother, who was visiting, called the police and confronted Combs outside the building as her daughter remained upstairs, the elder Ventura testified. "I was yelling and screaming and trying to hit him," the mom told jurors. "He did give it back," she told jurors of the missing phone. Cassie screamed, 'Isn't anybody seeing this?' as Combs attacked her on his private jet, ex-assistant says A former Combs personal assistant described watching — and doing nothing — as his boss brutally attacked a cowering Ventura in the bedroom of the rapper's private jet. George Kaplan, 34, said the attack happened on a crowded flight to Las Vegas in the latter half of 2015. Kaplan said he heard the sound of screams and shattering glass coming from the jet's bedroom. He said he turned to see Combs standing over Ventura with a "whiskey rock glass" in his hand, as she cowered on the bed. "After the glass crashed, Ventura screamed, 'Isn't anybody seeing this?'" Kaplan told the jury. "Did you look away?" asked a federal prosecutor, Assistant US Attorney Maurene Comey. Kaplan said he did. "And after you looked away, what did you hear?" the prosecutor asked. "Further glass crashing and chaos." When the prosecutor asked what, if anything, the Combs security staff did in response, Kaplan answered, "Nothing." No one, he said, went back to check on Ventura after Combs left the bedroom to rejoin his employees. "I was 23 years old," Kaplan said in explanation of his own inaction. "All I wanted to do was have a great job in the entertainment industry." Ultimately, he told the jury, this and similar domestic violence incidents drove him to quit. Another former personal assistant told of the night he said Diddy went looking for Suge Knight Combs' former personal assistant spent two days on the witness stand, and in his most dramatic testimony, described how a 2008 run for cheeseburgers at an all-night diner nearly escalated the East Coast-West Coast rap wars. It started at 4 a.m. in the parking lot at Mel's Drive-In in Los Angeles, the ex-assistant, David James, testified. Combs' trusted security guard, Damian "D-Roc" Butler, noticed that Suge Knight, cofounder of rival recording studio Death Row Records, was sitting in an Escalade just a few parking spots away. James, Combs' personal assistant from 2007 to 2009, testified that he was at the wheel of Combs' silver Lincoln Navigator when Knight and D-Roc faced off. "What are you doing in my city?" James, according to his testimony, remembered hearing Knight asking Combs' security guard, who had introduced himself as "D-Roc, Biggie's boy," a reference to the rapper Notorious B.I.G. Within moments, James and the bodyguard saw someone pass a gun to Knight and watched as four SUVs pulled up into different corners of the parking lot, he told jurors. James testified that he was ordered by D-Roc to speed back to Combs' Hollywood Hills estate. There was no mention of whether they drove back with or without the cheeseburgers. Once back home, and as Ventura protested in tears, Combs grabbed three guns for the ten-minute drive with D-Roc back to Mel's, testified James, who said he was still the driver. Knight was nowhere to be found upon their return, James said. "It was the first time I realized my life was in danger," the former PA testified, telling jurors that he sent in his resignation soon after. Dawn Richard testified about a brutal beating, an alleged death threat, and flowers Danity Kane singer Dawn Richard was the fifth prosecution witness, and her testimony on May 16 alleged that in 2009, Combs brutally beat Ventura after she took too long to cook him dinner. "Where's my fucking egg?" Richard recounted to the jury Combs shouting in 2009, as he stormed into the kitchen of his rented Los Angeles mansion. "He took the skillet with the eggs in it and tried to hit her in the head, and she fell to the ground," Richard testified. Ventura cowered on the floor "in a fetal position" as Combs punched her and kicked her, she testified. Then he dragged her upstairs by her hair, she said, adding that she then heard the sound of screaming and breaking glass from the third floor. The next day, Combs called Ventura and Richard into the mansion's first-floor recording studio, she said. "He said that what we saw was passion, and it was what lovers in a relationship do," Richard said. She said Combs told the two women that "he was trying to take us to the top, and that, where he comes from, people go missing if they say things like that, like, if people talk. And then he gave us flowers." While back on the stand on May 19, Richard re-emphasized that she felt this was a threat to her life. The details in the testimony came as a surprise to Combs' lead defense attorney Marc Agnifilo, who called it prejudicial and "just a drop dead lie." "It didn't happen," the lawyer complained to the judge. "And the reason we know it didn't happen is that Ms. Ventura didn't talk about it" during her four days on the witness stand. On cross-examination on May 19, Richard agreed that she only recalled the alleged death threat in speaking with prosecutors earlier this month. It had gone unmentioned, she agreed, during a half-dozen prior interviews with prosecutors. Combs attacked Ventura over bathroom use, prosecutor and ex-bestie say Ventura was beaten by Combs for the most minor of perceived infractions, including taking too long in the bathroom, prosecutor Emily Johnson said in her opening statement. "He beat her when she didn't answer the phone when he called. He beat her when she left a freak off without his permission," Johnson said. Ventura's ex-best friend, Kerry Morgan, was called to the witness stand on May 19 and told jurors about two attacks on Ventura she witnessed, including one while on vacation in Jamaica in 2013. Morgan said Ventura at one point went to the bathroom at the residence where they were staying, and Combs said, "She's taking too long." "A few minutes later, I heard her screaming — like guttural. Terrifying," Morgan said. "He was dragging her by her hair on the floor." Morgan told jurors that she saw Combs push Ventura to the ground, causing her to hit her head on the paving bricks. "She didn't move. She fell on her side," Morgan said, adding, "I thought she was knocked out." Ventura, too, had testified that arguments with Combs would regularly result in physical abuse. Ventura —who dated Combs on and off from 2007 to 2018 — described six separate times when Combs' attacks left her with injuries, with the most severe beating occurring in Los Angeles in 2009 following a party Combs had hosted at a club called Ace of Diamonds. Ventura said she punched Combs in the face after he called her a "slut or a bitch" for talking to a record producer. Combs retaliated in the back seat of a chauffeured luxury vehicle by punching and kicking Ventura throughout a ten-minute ride to the rapper's rented mansion, she said. She said she hid under the back seat to escape the attack. Combs demanded she stay hidden in a hotel for a week so her bruises could heal, she said. The surprising things Combs kept in his luxury NYC hotel room while waiting to be arrested The prosecution's fourth witness took the witness stand briefly on May 16 to detail what she and other Homeland Security investigators say they found inside Combs' suite at Manhattan's Park Hyatt New York after his September arrest. Combs had checked into the luxury Midtown hotel, his lawyers have said, in case federal prosecutors in Manhattan had asked him to surrender voluntarily. Special Agent Yasin Binda told the Combs jury she photographed what her colleagues found inside the room. Those items included a clear plastic bag of baby oil bottles found inside a duffle bag. There were three more bottles of baby oil in his bathtub, alongside two bottles of personal lubricant. Two more bottles of lubricant were recovered from a nightstand drawer, next to a prescription pill bottle she said held two small baggies containing a pink powder. On the living room floor was a large blue party light of the kind Ventura testified were used to illuminate freak offs. Similar bags of pink powder have previously been seized from Combs and tested positive for ecstasy and other drugs, a prosecutor had said in court the day after Combs was arrested. Ventura's big settlements after her lawsuit and that infamous hallway-beatdown video In some of her final moments on the witness stand, Ventura was asked by the defense about a legal settlement that she said she is on the verge of receiving from the InterContinental Hotel in Century City, Los Angeles. "I think it was $10 million," Ventura said of the settlement, hesitating when asked for the total amount agreed to. The InterContinental is where security cameras captured Combs beating Ventura in a hallway in 2016, as she tried to flee what prosecutors say was one of Combs' freak offs. The jury was shown the infamous footage at the beginning of the trial. Johnson, the prosecutor, said in her opening statements that at the time of the attack, Combs paid a security guard at the hotel $100,000 in a brown paper envelope in exchange for the footage. Combs apologized for his actions in the video after CNN published the footage last year. It was the second big-money settlement revealed in Ventura's testimony. Earlier in her testimony, Ventura told jurors that Combs paid her $20 million to settle her civil suit against him in 2023. Britney Spears and Michael B. Jordan were among the celebrities mentioned at the trial Pop icon Britney Spears and actor Michael B. Jordan were both name-dropped on May 15, on Ventura's third day of testimony. During a cross-examination, Ventura was asked to tell the jury about the 21st birthday party Combs threw for her in 2007, at a club in Las Vegas. The party was a significant moment in the Combs-Ventura story. Ventura testified that Combs, who recently signed her to his record label, gave her an uninvited kiss in a bathroom, sparking their relationship. "I believe there were other celebrities there in attendance?" defense attorney Anna Estevao asked Ventura, who answered yes, there were. "Sean was there, and he brought Dallas Austin, he brought Britney Spears," Ventura said, referring to the "Oops!… I Did It Again" singer and the record producer. "I think those were the two people that stand out to me," Ventura added. Asked how a 21-year-old of limited fame was able to attract such big names to her party, Ventura credited Combs, saying, "That was all him." Jordan's name came up as the cross-examination focused on 2015, when Combs became suspicious that she was having an affair with the actor. "Is Michael B. Jordan a celebrity?" Estevao asked. "I would say so," Ventura answered, sounding surprised. Ventura said she first joined Diddy's freak offs out of love Ventura testified on May 13 that she was initially nervous, but felt a sense of responsibility to participate in Combs' freak offs. "I was just in love and wanted to make him happy," Ventura told the jury. Ventura testified that in 2007, Combs first proposed "this sexual encounter that he called voyeurism, where he would watch me have a sexual encounter with a third man, specifically another man." "I didn't want to upset him if I said it scared me or if I said anything aside from, 'OK, let's try it,'" she said. Johnson said in her opening statements that Combs eventually made it Ventura's job to find and book escorts to participate in the sex encounters. While on the stand, Ventura described in detail what went on during freak offs. Prosecutors say Combs arranged, directed, and often electronically recorded the sex performances. Ventura testified that Combs would urinate and ask escorts to urinate on her during the freak offs. "It was disgusting. It was too much. It was overwhelming," she said. "I choked." Read the original article on Business Insider
Scottish Sun
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
I was spoiled as a child but neglected emotionally by my partying Emmerdale star mum, claims Mia Winward
Mia - who makes £100k a month stripping off - has revealed the details of her childhood DARK SECRET I was spoiled as a child but neglected emotionally by my partying Emmerdale star mum, claims Mia Winward Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) SITTING by the pool in her luxury Mexican villa, Mia Winward is the envy of hoards of young women her age. But as I speak to the 20-year-old Brit model this week she breaks down in tears. 8 Mia Winward has opened up to The Sun about her childhood as the daughter a soap star Sammy Winward Credit: Instagram 8 She has described growing up with mum Sammy - pictured here in 2004 Credit: News Group Newspapers Ltd 8 The pair are sadly no longer on speaking terms after an explosive fallout Credit: Getty It's the start of what turns out to be a bombshell chat, where Mia claims for the first time that she was emotionally mistreated by her famous parents. Through tears she tells The Sun: 'I was raised by a 19-year-old soap star... I may have been spoiled materially, but I was definitely neglected emotionally. "I often felt lonely, picked on and controlled - about what I wore, what I said in public and most of all unsupported. "At times her choices - like boyfriends - left me feeling scared and sometimes it felt like too much pressure was placed on my shoulders." Mia's claims come after her famous parents Emmerdale star Sammy Winward, 39, and former footballer David Dunn, 45, cut her out of their lives last year after the then-teenager joined controversial adult site OnlyFans. The blonde star - who claims to make up to £100k a month - says they now refuse to pick up her calls. Its something Mia finds hypocritical as her mum Sammy was a mags lad favourite back in her heyday and often appeared topless - posing for shots just like Mia. 'I may have been spoiled materialistically, but I was definitely neglected emotionally.' Mia Winward 'My mum was doing pretty much the exact same thing like I'm doing, her version of it, back in her day. 'I just think how, how can you not be accepting? You were younger than me when you stripped off sand now you've completely blocked me out of your life." 'I saw her for 10 minutes a day' Mia was just a baby when her mum, Sammy, was at the height of her fame playing Katie Sugden on the ITV soap. Her earliest memories with her mum are sparse. Her dad - the footy star David - split from Sammy shortly after Mia was born. 'When she was working, I would see her for maybe 10 minutes a day," Mia says. "I'd be asleep when she got back from work and would see her briefly in the mornings and then she'd have to go.' Sammy Winward's daughter Mia Dunn reveals she's raked in £60k a month on OnlyFans amid feud with Emmerdale star mum Mia says as a result of her mum's schedule she was raised by her gran, telling us: 'My grandma literally gave up her entire life for me, got a flat in Leeds, near the Emmerdale set, just to take me on to set for my mum to breastfeed. 'My mum was often out partying when I was younger, leaving me with my grandma, which I was always happy to go to because my grandma is one of people who really raised me.' She added: "My mum wasn't there for me. She didn't support me." Sammy split from Mia's dad - Blackburn Rovers footballer David - shortly after she was born, which meant Mia met a number of the actress's new partners over the years. One sticks out in her mind who Mia recalls being very cruel to her. 8 Mia has said her mum was like a friend rather than a mother growing up Credit: sammy_winward1/Instagram 8 Sammy and footballer David Dunn - Mia's dad Credit: Getty 8 Mia's parents have struggled with her decision to do OnlyFans Credit: Instagram 'She had new boyfriends when I was younger, one in particular, who would yell at me about four or five years old just for coming into the bedroom when I had a nightmare,' she remembers. 'Bear in mind, I used to sleep in my mum's bed because she was a single mother and I got scared as a child in the dark.' According to Mia, things didn't get much easier as she became older. She told us: "My mum made me pay for petrol for her car to get to my course and I was making £5 an hour as a trainee hair stylist at this point. It was really tough." 'When she was working, I would see her maybe 10 minutes a day." Mia on mum Sammy Winward At 16, Mia says she had had enough of feeling like she was being controlled, told what she can and can't wear and not receiving the guidance she craved, so she made the decision to move in with her dad, who she'd had a rocky relationship with for several years. Putting aside any hard feelings towards her father, who is now married to new wife Hayley with whom he shares three children, Mia tells The Sun: 'He was really young when I was born, and he messed up because he was younger. 'I understand that so much because I've put myself in his shoes and he really did help install a work ethic in me and I'll always appreciate him for taking me in. I was really touched." During her earlier years, Mia has claimed she struggled to keep in touch with her dad and has accused him of not making enough effort to see her or even talk to her. 8 Mia is now making some serious money modelling Credit: Instagram 8 Sammy with her now husband Martyn Hardy But everything changed with her dad too when she started making adult content. Just a few months ago she claims her father cruelly branded her a 'w***e' and slammed the phone down on her when she attempted to reconnect with him. She fled the UK towards the end of last year and has been living in various countries - including Mexico and Canada - making adult content. Mia has just bought her first property in Mexico. She initially tried to distance herself from her well-known parents, opting to ditch her surname. ' I don't profit off of their name', she insists. Mia may be known as Mia Winward in the press, but goes by Mia Rose online. The Sun first told last year how Sammy, who is famed for playing Katie Sugden from 2001 to 2015 and is still a jobing actress, refused to speak to her daughter when she discovered she was on OnlyFans. Mia's dad — former Blackburn footballer David — also distanced himself at the same time. Mia was initially hopefully they could make it up, but over time the distance has become unbearable. She says her latest attempt to contact her mum just a few days ago was unsuccessful and Mia feels she has reached the end of the line. 'People online see me as spoiled and I'm not denying that I was materialistically spoiled but I won't have people say I'm a spoiled brat when no one knows that I was emotionally neglected," she says. Sammy has declined to comment.
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I was spoiled as a child but neglected emotionally by my partying Emmerdale star mum, claims Mia Winward
SITTING by the pool in her luxury Mexican villa, Mia Winward is the envy of hoards of young women her age. But as I speak to the 20-year-old Brit model this week she breaks down in tears. 8 Mia Winward has opened up to The Sun about her childhood as the daughter a soap star Sammy Winward Credit: Instagram 8 She has described growing up with mum Sammy - pictured here in 2004 Credit: News Group Newspapers Ltd 8 The pair are sadly no longer on speaking terms after an explosive fallout Credit: Getty It's the start of what turns out to be a bombshell chat, where Mia claims for the first time that she was emotionally mistreated by her famous parents. Through tears she tells The Sun: 'I was raised by a 19-year-old soap star... I may have been spoiled materially, but I was definitely neglected emotionally. "I often felt lonely, picked on and controlled - about what I wore, what I said in public and most of all unsupported. "At times her choices - like boyfriends - left me feeling scared and sometimes it felt like too much pressure was placed on my shoulders." Mia's claims come after her famous parents Emmerdale star The blonde star - who claims to make Its something Mia finds hypocritical as her mum Sammy was a mags lad favourite back in her heyday and often appeared topless - posing for shots just like Mia. 'I may have been spoiled materialistically, but I was definitely neglected emotionally.' Mia Winward 'My mum was doing pretty much the exact same thing like I'm doing, her version of it, back in her day. 'I just think how, how can you not be accepting? You were younger than me when you stripped off sand now you've completely blocked me out of your life." 'I saw her for 10 minutes a day' Mia was just a baby when her mum, Sammy, was at the height of her fame playing Katie Sugden on the ITV soap. Her earliest memories with her mum are sparse. Her dad - the footy star David - split from Sammy shortly after Mia was born. 'When she was working, I would see her for maybe 10 minutes a day," Mia says. "I'd be asleep when she got back from work and would see her briefly in the mornings and then she'd have to go.' Sammy Winward's daughter Mia Dunn reveals she's raked in £60k a month on OnlyFans amid feud with Emmerdale star mum Mia says as a result of her mum's schedule she was raised by her gran, telling us: 'My grandma literally gave up her entire life for me, got a flat in Leeds, near the Emmerdale set, just to take me on to set for my mum to breastfeed. 'My mum was often out partying when I was younger, leaving me with my grandma, which I was always happy to go to because my grandma is one of people who really raised me.' She added: "My mum wasn't there for me. She didn't support me." Sammy split from Mia's dad - Blackburn Rovers footballer David - shortly after she was born, which meant Mia met a number of the actress's new partners over the years. One sticks out in her mind who Mia recalls being very cruel to her. 8 Mia has said her mum was like a friend rather than a mother growing up Credit: sammy_winward1/Instagram 8 Sammy and footballer David Dunn - Mia's dad Credit: Getty 8 Mia's parents have struggled with her decision to do OnlyFans Credit: Instagram 'She had new boyfriends when I was younger, one in particular, who would yell at me about four or five years old just for coming into the bedroom when I had a nightmare,' she remembers. 'Bear in mind, I used to sleep in my mum's bed because she was a single mother and I got scared as a child in the dark.' According to Mia, things didn't get much easier as she became older. She told us: "My mum made me pay for petrol for her car to get to my course and I was making £5 an hour as a trainee hair stylist at this point. It was really tough." 'When she was working, I would see her maybe 10 minutes a day." Mia on mum Sammy Winward At 16, Mia says she had had enough of feeling like she was being controlled, told what she can and can't wear and not receiving the guidance she craved, so she made the decision to move in with her dad, who she'd had a Putting aside any hard feelings towards her father, who is now married to new wife Hayley with whom he shares three children, Mia tells The Sun: 'He was really young when I was born, and he messed up because he was younger. 'I understand that so much because I've put myself in his shoes and he really did help install a work ethic in me and I'll always appreciate him for taking me in. I was really touched." During her earlier years, Mia has claimed she struggled to keep in touch with her dad and has accused him of not making enough effort to see her or even talk to her. 8 Mia is now making some serious money modelling Credit: Instagram 8 Sammy with her now husband Martyn Hardy But everything changed with her dad too when she started making adult content. Just a few months ago she claims her father cruelly branded her a 'w***e' and slammed the phone down on her when she attempted to reconnect with him. She fled the UK towards the end of last year and has been living in various countries - including Mexico and Canada - making adult content. Mia has just bought her first property in Mexico. She initially tried to distance herself from her well-known parents, opting to ditch her surname. ' I don't profit off of their name', she insists. Mia may be known as Mia Winward in the press, but goes by Mia Rose online. The Sun first told last year how Sammy, who is famed for playing Katie Sugden from 2001 to 2015 and is still a jobing actress, refused to speak to her daughter when she discovered she was on OnlyFans. Mia's dad — former Blackburn footballer — also distanced himself at the same time. Mia was initially hopefully they could make it up, but over time the distance has become unbearable. She says her latest attempt to contact her mum just a few days ago was unsuccessful and Mia feels she has reached the end of the line. 'People online see me as spoiled and I'm not denying that I was materialistically spoiled but I won't have people say I'm a spoiled brat when no one knows that I was emotionally neglected," she says. Sammy has declined to comment. What is OnlyFans? OnlyFans is a subscription content service based in London. As of 2023, it is thought to have more than 220million registered users and over three million content creators. Sex workers charge monthly fees for access to pictures, videos and more. While popular for porn, the site isn't exclusively designed with that in mind - anyone who wants to build up a fan base and charge them for it can set one up. Celebs like "Whether you're uploading tutorials, tips, behind-the-scenes footage or just endless selfies, a lot of your followers would be willing to pay for them," the company states. For every subscription that's sold to a viewer, performers get 80 per cent of the cash while OnlyFans gets the rest. It isn't limited to adult content, as it has become popular with physical fitness experts and musicians.
