Sean “ Diddy ” Combs paid big bucks and had everyone sign punishing non-disclosure agreements to obtain what he believed was the “only copy” of video showing him beating and kicking then girlfriend Cassie Ventura in 2016 in the hallway of an upscale LA hotel, a former security guard at the InterContinental testified today at the Bad Boy Records founder’s sex-trafficking trial.

“He said it had to be the only copy and that he didn’t want it getting out and if I was sure nothing was on the cloud,” a clearly nervous and often hesitant Eddy Garcia told the packed lower Manhattan courtroom of his conversations nine years ago with Combs, who was sitting nearby Tuesday with his defense team. Garica said to Judge Arun Subramanian and the jury that Combs admitted to him “it could ruin him” if the

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