The former hotel security guard said this when he testified in court case against the hip-hop mogul on Tuesday.
Combs is said to have described the content of the surveillance material to his own personnel manager as “bad” and is alleged to have bought what he hoped was the only copy of the security video.
The video material shows how Combs attacks Casandra Ventura so that she falls, and then kicks and drags her around in the corridor.
The prosecutors have made the moving images from the Intercontinental Hotel's surveillance system a central piece of evidence against him. They claim that the images corroborate the testimonies of several women who claim that Combs has sexually and physically abused them over the past two decades.
The now 33-year-old security guard – who says he earned $10.50 an hour at the Los Angeles hotel at the time – delivered, in consultation with his manager, a storage device containing the video material to Combs. The hip-hop artist paid him $100,000 in cash – bills that Combs counted through a bill counter and then put in a brown paper bag.
The man was also made to sign a confidentiality agreement with a penalty of one million dollars if he broke the agreement.
Last May, CNN published a copy of the video. Another hotel security guard has testified that he recorded the film on his phone to show to his wife.
