A former personal chef to Sean “Diddy” Combs has revealed she wrote a letter to the judge overseeing the music mogul’s criminal trial, to express fears of possible “retaliation” if the judge ruled to release Combs on bail.
On Wednesday, July 2, a Manhattan jury found the mogul not guilty on federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges, but convicted him on two lesser transportation to engage in prostitution counts. Combs pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Following the verdict, chef Jourdan Cha’Taun Atkinson was one of several government witnesses who sent letters to Judge Arun Subramanian imploring him to deny the mogul’s request for bail as he awaits sentencing.
Diddy’s attorneys proposed he be released on $1 million bond, which prosecutors argued against, saying the mogul is “extremely violent.” After weighing the arguments and reading witness letters, Subramanian sent Combs back to jail.
Atkinson posted several short video statements on her Instagram page Wednesday, along with a copy of the letter she sent the judge.
“There has been a clear pattern of physical, sexual and financial abuse on his part for years. Releasing him now would be unjust,” she wrote about Combs. “Those of us who were subpoenaed are terrified at the possibility of his retaliation against us… This past year and a half has been traumatizing. This verdict is devastating.”
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Atkinson included a copy of the subpoena she received in March 2024, which stated “we command you” to appear before a grand jury.
She also revealed she was scheduled to testify in the trial on May 20, and even traveled to New York, but did not take the stand because she was too scared.
“I was pulled because I flipped out on the government,” she said in one of the videos.
Her post included a screenshot of an April 15, 2024 text message she said came from the mogul’s then-attorney Aaron Dyer, saying he had left messages and was trying to reach her to offer “help,” after learning Atkinson was “contacted by law enforcement.”
Atkinson said about the attorney in one of the videos, “This in my opinion was witness tampering.”
In the caption for her post, she alleged she was assaulted by Diddy in 2008 at his estate in New Jersey, which came up in testimony at trial by the mogul’s ex-assistant David James.
“His assault against me has never been denied,” she wrote. “When I found out about the 2009 beating of Cassie, my life was threatened. And I was told to keep my mouth shut.”
She added that she believed she would be “unalived” if she told anyone about Combs allegedly abusing Cassie. “The video you all saw of him beating her was from 2016. He spent YEARS BEATING HER!”
The chef also blasted federal prosecutors, saying they botched the case.
“I’m not okay. I have not been okay. I do not feel safe,” she said. “I stand with Cassie, as I always have. I do not understand the way this case was handled. We have all been put in danger. For what?”
In January 2025, Atkinson appeared in the Investigation Discovery and HBO Max docuseries The Fall of Diddy
[The image of her above is from the series].
As previously reported, she said Diddy found out she had been discussing the alleged abuse of Cassie with other employees. She said the mogul approached her and threatened to “end” her if she told anyone what she had seen.
When Atkinson eventually quit, she alleged the mogul roughed her up and pushed her to the floor. She cursed him out and threatened to sue, but said she was told she would never work for another celebrity.
At trial, Diddy’s lawyers admitted he could be violent, but denied all allegations of sexual abuse against the mogul.
The judge said he rejected the defense’s bail request because of the rapper and producer’s “propensity for violence,” ABC News reported.
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