By Jack Morphet

A former personal assistant to Sean "Diddy" Combs testified Thursday that the music mogul sexually and physically assaulted her on the job and sometimes forced her to work for days without breaks.

The former staffer, identified by the pseudonym Mia, said Combs routinely belittled and attacked her while she worked for him from 2009 to 2017. She had to ask permission to leave the Grammy winner's house, she said during her testimony at Combs's sex-trafficking case in New York federal court.

"He's thrown things at me, he's thrown me against the wall, he's thrown me into a pool, he's thrown an ice bucket on my head, he has slammed my arm into a door, and he's also sexually assaulted me," Mia said.

Combs, 55 years old, faces charges including racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking, running what prosecutors have described as a criminal enterprise that included kidnapping, arson and forcing his girlfriends to have sex with escorts. He has denied any wrongdoing and pleaded not guilty.

When Mia went to Combs's house for the initial interview for the $50,000 a year job, he answered the door in his underwear, she said. Combs's vice president of human resources, didn't stay for the meeting, Mia said.

"She introduced me and then left," Mia said.

To stay awake for long periods while working for Combs, Mia sometimes relied on medication to treat her attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, she said. She said one marathon working session lasted roughly five days, and only ended when she became hysterical from lack of sleep. Combs later promoted her to director of development and acquisition for his production company Revolt Films, for which she was paid $70,000, she said.

Mia testified that she saw Combs attack his then-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura. In one episode around 2013, Combs slammed Ventura's head into the corner of a wooden bed frame, Mia said.

"I thought, 'He's actually going to kill her,'" Mia testified.

Ventura, the prosecution's star witness, testified earlier in the trial about taking part in weekly drug-fueled sex parties as her yearslong relationship with Combs turned abusive.

Mia said early in her tenure with Combs, he sent some of his security to find her when she left his house once without alerting him. She was also told not to lock her bedroom door when staying at his properties in Miami and Los Angeles, she said.

She was suspended without pay once around 2012, Mia said, when she and Ventura slipped out of Combs's suite at the Beverly Hills Hotel to go to a party at the home of music icon Prince. Combs found them and started to beat Ventura, but Prince's security intervened, Mia said. The following day, Mia said, she got a phone call from Combs's team and was told she had been suspended for insubordination.

Write to Jack Morphet at jack.morphet@wsj.com

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