Believing it would “ruin” him, Sean “Diddy” Combs went to extreme lengths to ensure that hotel footage of him brutally beating his ex-girlfriend , Casandra Ventura, never saw the light of day by incessantly pressuring security staff to provide it to him in exchange for a brown paper bag filled with $100,000, a Manhattan jury heard Tuesday.

Eddy Garcia, a former security supervisor at the Intercontinental Hotel in Los Angeles, said Combs paid him the massive sum for a copy of the March 2016 camera footage showing him pummeling Ventura, whose stage name is Cassie , after he had repeatedly refused his requests.

Prosecutors contend the footage makes clear Combs resorted to violence and abuse to control his victims and say the bribery efforts were just one example of him and his inner c

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