Richard told a jury in Manhattan federal court that Combs issued the threat the day after she witnessed the Bad Boy Records founder try to hit Casandra “Cassie” Ventura with a skillet and then beat her. She said he told her and another woman who saw the attack that “we could go missing” if either revealed what they saw.

The 55-year-old hip-hop mogul has been charged by federal prosecutors with sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to engage in prostitution.