Alert – Diddy’s former protégé Aubrey O’Day breaks silence on whether she will testify at rapper’s sex trafficking trial

Aubrey O’Day revealed she will not be testifying at her former mentor Sean ‘Diddy’ Comb’s sex trafficking trial, despite being contacted by Homeland Security. 

O’Day, 41, rose to fame as the lead singer of the girl group Danity Kane, which got a record deal with Diddy’s Bad Boy Records in 2005 after winning season three of MTV’s Making The Band 3. 

The rapper, 55, is currently on trial for sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution charges, and there were reports O’Day had been subpoenaed.

However, the singer — who has spoken out against the disgraced hip hop mogul in the past and called his indictment a ‘win for women’ — said she will not take the stand at the trial, which entered its fifth day on Friday.

‘No, I’m not here to testify for the Diddy trial, that I know of,’ she said during a premiere episode of Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes’s iHeart Radio podcast covering the trial.

She had previously caused speculation she’d appear in the courtroom after recently sharing a social media video from New York.

Aubrey also claimed that she ‘was contacted by Homeland Security’ and ‘did have a meeting with Homeland Security.’ 

Aubrey O’Day, 41, revealed she will not be testifying at her former mentor Sean ‘Diddy’ Comb’s, 55, sex trafficking trial, despite being contacted by Homeland Security

‘I posted on my Instagram that I was here in New York and enjoying myself because I wanted to make it clear to everyone that I am not here testifying,’ O’Day said of her recent Instagram post.

The post was shared on May 14 and prompted some fans to believe she was alluding to a possible court appearance at the trial.

The video’s caption read: ‘Hey New York!!! Where y’all think I should head first?’

She also included a weighing scale emoji, a common symbol of justice.

Aubrey also gave her initial impression to hearing the testimony of Diddy’s ex-girlfriend Casandra ‘Cassie’ Ventura, 38, who is the star witness in the New York trial of Combs, a three-time Grammy award winner who had a string of hits in the 1990s.

Cassie has claimed she was forced to take part in hundreds of ‘Freak Offs’ during the decade she was with the hip-hop mogul.

She met Combs in 2006 when she was 19 and he was 36. They soon began a relationship and stayed together until 2018, when she broke things off.

Commenting on Cassie’s testimony, Aubrey said, ‘It feels very honest. It feels very open, vulnerable, horrific.’

‘Sometimes I hear her discuss things that she did then and how now she would never, she understands it differently, and that makes me feel like so happy for her that she’s come, you know, because I don’t know her as a mom, so like to understand that she made that evolution and went to the other side of viewing all of it made me feel like really proud of her.’ 

O’Day rose to fame as the lead singer of the girl group Danity Kane, which got a record deal with Diddy’s Bad Boy Records in 2005 after winning season three of MTV’s Making The Band 3; pictured 2006

The singer — who has spoken out against the disgraced hip hop mogul in the past and called his indictment a ‘win for women’ — said she will not take the stand

‘No, I’m not here to testify for the Diddy trial, that I know of,’ she said during a premiere episode of Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes’s podcast covering the trial, after she recently shared a social media video from New York

‘I posted on my Instagram that I was here in New York and enjoying myself because I wanted to make it clear to everyone that I am not here testifying,’ O’Day said of her recent Instagram post

Aubrey also called the testimony of Diddy’s ex-girlfriend Casandra ‘Cassie’ Ventura, 38, ‘open, vulnerable, horrific’; Cassie and Diddy seen in 2016

‘It’s horrific that she had to go through go through so much,’ she added.

Aubrey went on to discuss one particular part of the testimony that shared text messages between Cassie and Diddy.

‘You know, there was one part of the testimony that was so telling. It’s not even anything anyone’s really touching on, but there was a transcript that I read that went something like, “I don’t really or can we talk? I wanted to bring something up to you” and he’s like, “okay, yeah, you know you don’t want to do the freak out now. You so predictable.”‘

‘That’s a very… It’s a statement that groomers make,’ Aubrey said.

‘If you’ve ever dated anyone that doesn’t really love you, and is like abusive usually, and pushing you into things.’

She went on: ‘It doesn’t even have to be sexual. It could be anything they want you to do. It’s like almost training a child, right like, “oh, you want to bring up this? You so predictable, like you just like the rest of them.”‘

‘And then you get that feeling as a woman to be like no, wait, I’m not I promise you then talk yourself back into an idea, same way when she was brutally abused in that hallway, him writing her, “I’m about to get arrested. The police are here.” They’ve already testified to the fact that there was no arrest and there was no police arresting him. That was to get her to come back.’

Aubrey called it ‘control, coercion, and grooming.’ 

Though Aubrey will not testify, her Danity Kane bandmate, Dawn Richard took the stand on Friday. Richard gave evidence about seeing Diddy abuse Ventura ‘often’; Dawn seen with Diddy in 2010

Last year, Richard filed a lawsuit against Diddy. She claims he sexually assaulted her, deprived her of food and sleep and refused to pay her adequately; Dawn and Aubrey pictured 2014

Prosecutors allege that Combs used his fame and fortune to orchestrate an empire of exploitation, coercing women into abusive sex parties – claims he has denied; seen in 2023 

When asked if anything in Cassie’s testimony surprised or shocked her, Aubrey simply replied, ‘no.’

The musician went on to say that the hardest thing to hear was that Cassie ‘felt so loved in his company, and she felt he made her feel unlike anyone else, and so she would do these things because it was the only time and chance that she got to really spend in that feeling.’

She also compared instances in her past relationships to what Cassie had experienced, stating: ‘There are many ways that I have compromised myself. Not in the same ways as Cassie necessarily, but I don’t judge her compromise. A compromise is a compromise.’

‘When you compromise yourself, you’re doing the same damage. It really doesn’t matter in what area, it’s all the same.’

Though Aubrey will not testify, her Danity Kane bandmate, Dawn Richard took the stand on Friday.

Richard gave evidence about seeing Diddy abuse Ventura ‘often’.

Last year, Richard filed a lawsuit against Diddy after watching the viral video of the music producer attacking Cassie at a Los Angeles hotel in 2016.

Richard claims the disgraced Bad Boy mogul sexually assaulted her, deprived her of food and sleep and refused to pay her adequately. Her case is among dozens of claims filed against Combs in various states.

Last year O’Day said she felt ‘validated’ when Diddy was indicted by a grand jury on sex trafficking, racketeering and prostitution charges.

Homeland Security officials then arrested the rap mogul at the Park Hyatt hotel in midtown Manhattan. 

Last year O’Day said she felt ‘validated’ when Diddy was indicted by a grand jury on sex trafficking, racketeering and prostitution charges 

‘The purpose of Justice is to provide an ending and allow us the space to create a new chapter. Women never get this. I feel validated. Today is a win for women all over the world, not just me,’ O’Day wrote on X

She also quoted a post from journalist Yashar Ali in which he noted that O’Day ‘has been trying to bring attention to Diddy’s abusive nature and warn people that he is dangerous. For years.’ He added that O’Day’s ‘courage’ led her to allegedly be ‘bullied, terrorized, and threatened’

O’Day claimed that Diddy ‘did worse than that to me,’ though she didn’t expand on her statement before thanking the journalist for sharing her story

In a post on X, Aubrey described the legal action as a ‘win for women’ across the globe.

‘The purpose of Justice is to provide an ending and allow us the space to create a new chapter. Women never get this,’ O’Day wrote on X.

‘I feel validated. Today is a win for women all over the world, not just me,’ she continued, adding, ‘Things are finally changing.’

She also quoted a post from journalist Yashar Ali in which he noted that O’Day ‘has been trying to bring attention to Diddy’s abusive nature and warn people that he is dangerous. For years.’

He added that O’Day’s ‘courage’ led her to allegedly be ‘bullied, terrorized, and threatened.’

O’Day claimed that Diddy ‘did worse than that to me,’ though she didn’t expand on her statement before thanking the journalist for sharing her story.

O’Day’s campaign to expose Diddy’s alleged crimes and misdeeds has been going on since she was fired from Danity Kane, the girl group that he formed while filming his reality series Making The Band 3.

She previously claimed that the rap mogul had tried to buy her silence by returning her music publishing rights, which were owned by Bad Boy Records, as he had done with other artists connected to the label.

She viewed the offer as an attempt to keep her from speaking out against him.

O’Day had been picked to be a part of Diddy’s girl group Danity Kane on 2005’s Making the Band, but she later asserted that he fired her because she ‘wasn’t willing to do what was expected of [her] — not talent-wise, but in other areas’ (pictured 2005)

O’Day has asserted that Diddy fired her because she ‘wasn’t willing to do what was expected of [her] — not talent-wise, but in other areas.’

Prosecutors allege that Combs used his fame and fortune to orchestrate an empire of exploitation, coercing women into abusive sex parties.

His lawyers argue that all the sexual acts were consensual, and although he could be violent, he never veered into sex trafficking and racketeering.

Combs has pleaded not guilty to federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges. His defense says that, although he could be violent, nothing he did amounted to a criminal enterprise. Combs insists all the sex was consensual.