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George Kaplan, 34, who spent two years working for Combs Enterprises and 15 months as one of his personal assistants, testified that Combs threatened his job "maybe monthly."

Kaplan testified about setting up hotel rooms for Combs in Los Angeles, New York and Miami, sometimes with only a "matter of hours" notice.

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"There was a hotel bag," Kaplan told the court. The bag contained clothes, a speaker, candles, liquor, baby oil, and Astroglide. On subsequent occasions, Kaplan testified, "I just tried to recreate the bag."

According to Kaplan's testimony, Combs "would have guests" in the hotel rooms, often a "female partner" and when his stay was over Kaplan testified that he would see "lots of empty bottles" and baby oil "on the table, on the floor, on the bed." On one occasion, Kaplan testified about seeing a crystalized powder on the bathroom sink.

He testified it was his job to clean up the rooms.

"I tidied them," he told the court. "I made it as close as I could to the way it was found when he came in." Asked why he cleaned up after his boss instead of asking hotel staff to do it Kaplan replied, "I think that it was implied in the role as you continued to work closely with Mr. Combs that you protected him."

Prosecutor Maureen Comey asked, "How was cleaning up these hotel rooms related to your job of protecting Mr. Combs?" Kaplan replied, "I would see often that hotels would sell videos and images and try and embarrass celebrities and other figures and that was something I wanted to avoid."

On two occasions, Kaplan alleged Combs asked him to procure drugs.

Once, in Miami, "He gave me a number to call and some cash to pick up what he wanted." Kaplan testified, "The guy came and I paid him for drugs." He testified it was a bag of MDMA that he gave to Combs.

According to Kaplan's testimony, the second time was in Los Angeles at the Bel-Air Hotel.

"It was a very similar exchange. Call this number, meet this person, bring this back to me," Kaplan testified. "I arranged to meet the person in Hollywood." The exchange went down the same way as the Miami exchange, according to Kaplan's testimony. "I gave him money. He gave me a bag. I didn't know what the bag was," Kaplan testified. "I gave it to Mr. Combs."

Court is over for the day, but Kaplan will continue his testimony Thursday, followed by rapper Kid Cudi, who had a brief relationship with Cassie Ventura, prosecutors said.

Eyewitness News team breaks down testimony from former Sean Combs assistant George Kaplan, and psychologist Dawn Hughes, plus what to expect on Thursday.

The tedious cross-examination of Dr. Dawn Hughes, interrupted by sidebars and a conference outside the jury's presence, harped on her "general" testimony that defense attorney Jonathan Bach said is "not keyed to the particular facts at issue" in the trial.

The defense portrayed Hughes as a hired gun for prosecutors who makes more money testifying in court than she does in her clinical practice.

"Isn't it a fact that you have never come into court, taken the witness stand in defense of a man accused of a sex crime?" Bach asked. "That's correct, I don't evaluate offenders," Hughes responded.

On re-direct, Hughes said she has testified for both the prosecution and defense in criminal cases.

"Have you also been retained by defense attorneys?" prosecutor Mitzi Steiner asked. "Yes of course," Hughes answered.

"Have you been retained by any of the defense attorneys in this case?" Steiner asked. "Yes, I have," Hughes replied.

Hughes had been retained in a case by Combs' attorney Brian Steel. On re-cross, Hughes said she was not called to testify in that case.

Her testimony is over. The next witness is George Kaplan.

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During the jury's lunch break, George Kaplan, a former employee of Sean Combs, was granted immunity.

Without it, Kaplan signaled his intention to invoke his 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination.

Judge Arun Subramanian granted the order.

Kaplan will testify pursuant to a subpoena following the testimony of Dawn Hughes

Though she testified generically about an abuse victim's passive and active self-defense, psychologist Dawn Hughes described some of the coping mechanism the jury heard Cassie Ventura employed in her 11-year relationship with Sean Combs.

Passive self-defense is something "the least provocative as possible," Hughes said, listing as one example, "curling up in a ball."

Both Dawn Richard and Kerry Morgan described seeing Ventura drop into a fetal position during beatings they said they witnessed Combs inflict on her.

Hughes also described a link between trauma and substance abuse. Ventura testified she turned to drugs during "freak offs" to "numb" herself and became addicted to opiates.

On cross-examination, the defense took pains to stress how Hughes did not examine Ventura or anyone else associated with the case.

"You can't diagnose somebody without hearing what they have to say, correct?" Bach asked. "Correct," Hughes answered.

The defense also asked about the concept of malingering, which Hughes defined as fabricating psychological symptoms.

"People can fabricate emotional responses, correct?" Bach asked. "They can," Hughes responded.

Court is taking its lunch break until 12:45, when cross-examination of Hughes will continue.