New Delhi, June 3 -- Sean 'Diddy' Combs tried to cover up a violent assault on singer Cassie Ventura by paying $100,000 for hotel security footage, a former guard told a jury on Tuesday.

Eddy Garcia, 33, who was working as a hotel security officer in Los Angeles in 2016, testified in federal court that Combs begged him to suppress the footage. The video reportedly shows Combs kicking and dragging Ventura in a hallway of the Intercontinental Hotel.

Former guard Eddy Garcia said Combs contacted him multiple times through his chief-of-staff, Kristina Khorram.

"He was just saying he had a little too much to drink," Garcia recalled. "He said something like, 'With women, one thing leads to another. If this got out, it would ruin him.'"

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