Diddy trial reside: Kid Cudi CONFIRMS Porsche was once blown up after Sean Combs came upon about Cassie romance

The rapper instructed the courtroom that during January 2012, after his dating with Cassie had ended, he realized that his Porsche have been set on fireplace in his driveaway when he was once now not house.

‘My canine’s babysitter referred to as me within the morning… Told me my automotive was once on fireplace,’ he mentioned.

The jury was once then proven footage of the burned-down car in Cudi’s driveway.

‘Looks like the highest of my Porsche was once lower open, that’s the place they inserted the molotov cocktail,’ Cudi mentioned of one of the most pictures proven to the jury.

Another symbol confirmed what gave the look to be the molotov cocktail used within the arson.

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Cudi instructed the jury on Thursday about receiving a choice from Diddy’s assistant Capricorn Clark sooner than his house was once burglarized.

‘[She was] very scared. Sounded like she was once at the verge of tears. [She said] that Sean Combs and associate have been in my area and she or he was once in her automotive. She was once pressured to move at the side of them over there.

Clark reportedly made the decision from outdoor Cudi’s mansion.

The jury was once then proven pictures of the rapper’s house after it was once burglarized, appearing the entrance door have been damaged into.

Cudi mentioned he then drove to his house and referred to as Diddy at the approach.

‘I mentioned mottherf***er you in my area. He’s like, “what’s up.”

Diddy, in a relaxed tone, reportedly instructed Cudi that he was once looking forward to him on the area.

Cudi mentioned he requested Combs why he was once in the home. He mentioned Combs frivolously spoke back, ‘I need to communicate to you.’

Describing the wear and tear achieved to his house, Cudi added: ‘some items I’d purchased for my circle of relatives have been opened.

‘Some stuff I were given from Chanel. My canine was once locked up in my toilet. Gifts have been at the kitchen counter. I will’t remenber what but it surely was once stuff from Chanel.’

Kid Cudi instructed the jury that during 2011 he won a choice from a panicked Cassie who claimed Diddy had came upon about their romance.

‘She requested me to pick out her up,’ the rapper mentioned. ‘She sounded in point of fact stressed out, fearful, scared so I went to pick out her up.’

‘She was once additionally fearful he would come to my area as a result of he requested for my deal with and she or he gave it to him,’ Cudi added.

‘[She] didn’t know what Sean Combs would do.’

Cudi mentioned he then took Cassie to the Sunset Marquis resort in LA, announcing he ‘sought after to position her someplace off the radar. Safe, clear of him.’

The rapper, dressed in a leather-based jacket, denims and white T-shirt, entered the court round 10.45am.

He sat down within the witness stand, stood to be sworn in after which sat down to start out his testimony.

He known himself as Scott Mescudi – an actor and musician – and famous he’s identified via some other identify: Kid Cudi.

The famous person instructed the jury he met Cassie in 2008 at an match in New York they usually dated in 2011.

Cudi mentioned on the time, he understood that ‘[Cassie] and Sean Combs had had some issues they usually weren’t relationship anymore.’

Last week, some other of Diddy’s former assistants took the stand for the prosecution.

David James, Combs’ private assistant from 2007 to 2009, testified that the activity gave the impression to have expanding perils. He mentioned he give up when he learned Combs had put his existence at risk via forcing him to pressure a automotive because the indignant rapper sat within the again with 3 handguns on his lap.

James mentioned his activity every now and then required him to make certain that resort rooms the place Combs stayed underneath the identify ‘Frank Black’ have been stocked with the musician’s comforts, together with contemporary undies, an iPod, apple sauce, vodka, child oil, Viagra and condoms.

George Kaplan published that May 21, the birthday of Combs’ overdue protege Biggie Smalls, is a paid vacation at Combs Enterprises.

Smalls, who was once often referred to as The Notorious B.I.G., signed to Combs’ Bad Boy Records label in 1993.

The rapper, whose actual identify was once Christopher Wallace, was once fatally shot in Los Angeles in 1997.

Diddy’s former assistant George Kaplan instructed jurors that his tenure with Combs has ‘confirmed to be some of the difficult items of my existence.’

‘I’m a tender guy and it is a God amongst males chatting with me,’ mentioned Kaplan, who served as an assistant for Combs and his Combs Enterprises corporate from 2013 to 2015.

‘He now not handiest driven me to my intensity he driven me to depths I didn’t even know I had,’ Kaplan mentioned, explaining he ‘by no means labored tougher in my existence.’

Despite leaving the activity after seeing Combs abusing Cassie, he mentioned he nonetheless thinks fondly of many sides in their paintings in combination and desires the hip-hop tycoon smartly on his birthday — blurting ‘Nov. 4,’ unprompted.

Newly launched pictures from a raid on Diddy‘s Miami mansion seem to turn how the track tycoon’s in most cases jet-black hair is a dye activity.

Before his arrest months later, Diddy, 55, had at all times sported a younger jet-black hair and beard in spite of his advancing age.

Diddy nodded alongside right through cross-examination as George Kaplan praised him for instructing him paintings ethic.

‘Mr Combs is a trade tycoon throughout a lot of industries,’ Kaplan mentioned when requested why he appreciated to paintings for Diddy.

‘I’d been keen on his since I used to be a kid and to be frank stay courses from him to nowadays from a trade point of view. He taught me to have the paintings ethic…no activity is just too giant or too small.

‘When I interview younger other folks none of those other folks remember the fact that and I’m very thankful for those courses.’

Diddy’s ex assistant George Kaplan instructed the jury a few time he witnessed the tycoon attacking one in every of his girlfriends, Gina Huyhn.

Mr Combs was once very indignant and was once throwing those apples that lived in an ornamental vessel in an entryway. [Throwing them] at Gina. Hard. He was once very indignant

‘(Gina) was once seeking to protect herself together with her palms, transferring clear of him. I left.’

When requested why he didn’t intrude, Kaplan spoke back: ‘All the similar causes as sooner than, a tender child seeking to make it within the leisure trade.

‘This was once my first skilled endeavour and I believed this was once standard and that is what I may just be expecting if I sought after a profession on this trade.’

Kaplan mentioned in a while after the incident he give up his activity and moved bacjk in along with his mom.

He mentioned he ‘I appreciated Mr Combs and sought after to proceed having a dating with him.’

Kid Cudi was once met via US marshals and Homeland Security brokers who escorted him into the courthouse in this wet morning in New York City.

Last week, Cassie testified that Combs organized for her to fulfill Cudi in 2011 to paintings on track. The two started relationship quickly after, and she or he mentioned she were given a burner telephone to be in contact with Cudi in secret.

Cassie mentioned she and Combs had damaged up on the time, even though they nonetheless engaged in intercourse events that Combs orchestrated. It was once right through this kind of that Combs checked out her telephone and realized of the Cudi dating, Cassie testified.

In reaction, she mentioned he lunged at her with a corkscrew and kicked her within the again.

When Cassie and Combs have been in a foreign country in 2012, Combs instructed her that Cudi’s automotive could be blown up and Combs sought after Cudi’s pals there to peer it, Cassie testified.

On Tuesday, Cassie’s mom, Regina Ventura, testified that Cassie instructed her Combs was once so indignant about her dating with Cudi that he deliberate to unencumber sexually particular movies of her and ship somebody to harm Cassie and Cudi.

Diddy’s former assistant George Kaplan instructed the courtroom on Thursday he witnessed the tycoon assaulting Cassie on his personal jet in 2015.

I heard a pitcher wreck, in the back of me… It was once a pitcher crash, shatter. I appeared over my proper shoulder and noticed Mr Combs status over Cassie.

She was once on her again and her legs have been prolonged up that indicated she was once tyring to make space between the 2 of them. He was once status above her. He had a pitcher in his hand and he was once retaining it up. It was once a whiskey rocks glass.

There was once super commotion and scuffle and after the glass crashed Cassie screamed: ‘Isn’t any one seeing this?’

Kaplan instructed the jury nobody aboard the personal jet intervened.

When requested what he did, he spoke back: ‘Nothing. I appeared away.

‘I used to be 23 years outdated, all I sought after to do was once have an ideal activity within the leisure trade. I couldn’t imagine my fortune running for an icon…

‘The ultimate approach I believed I’d achieve success was once to compromise his wellbeing by any means.’

Judge Arun Subramanian dominated on Thursday that Kid Cudi can inform the jury about an incident of arson after he was once threatened via Diddy over his romance with Cassie.

Cassie in the past testified that Diddy threatened to harm her and Cudi after he realized they have been relationship.

Cassie mentioned she started a temporary dating with Kid Cudi ‘right through a coarse patch’ with Diddy.

She claimed Diddy went thru her telephone and located emails between her and the American rapper and become enraged.

Diddy allegedly positioned a guide corkscrew in between his hands and lunged at her, in line with the lawsuit and she or he ran away to stick with Kid Cudi, in line with the swimsuit.

Cassie later returned and the track govt allegedly hit her a number of occasions, after which kicked her within the again as she attempted to expire the door, the submitting claims.

During Paris Fashion Week, she claims Diddy instructed her he was once going to explode Kid Cudi’s automotive and that he sought after to verify he was once house along with his pals when it came about.

‘Around that point, Kid Cudi’s automotive exploded in his driveway,’ the lawsuit mentioned.

Prosecutors and protection attorneys are discussing the impending testimony of Diddy’s former assistant George Kaplan.

Diddy’s protection mentioned on Thursday they be expecting Kaplan to mention he witnessed Diddy being violent to his ex-girlfriend Gina Huyhn in 2015.

Lead protection legal professional Marc Agnifilo requested the pass judgement on not to permit that a part of the testimony, announcing: ‘He’s going to mention he noticed Mr Combs throwing apples at Gina and wasn’t certain if any of the apples struck her…. That, and not using a date, is a a ways cry.’

Gina Huynh, who says she dated the 54-year-old track govt for 5 years, described in a resurfaced interview from 2019 a time at which he allegedly become violent together with her.

The type instructed the arguable blogger Tasha Okay that he allegedly ‘stomped’ on her abdomen and again and again punched her within the head right through one anxious come across.

Prosecutors mentioned they are going to subsequent name Kid Cudi to the stand after she claimed Diddy threatened him when the 2 have been relationship.

Cassie’s former makeup artist Mylah Morales is meant to take the stand after Cudi, and she or he will probably be adopted via a ‘resort witness.’

Former Combs Enterprises CFO, track govt Tony Abrahams, may be anticipated to testify for the prosecution.

The track tycoon’s staggering downfall started when Cassie, actual identify Cassandra Ventura, filed a bombshell lawsuit in 2023 detailing terrifying claims of sexual abuse and violence.

The lawsuit was once settled for an undisclosed quantity only a day after it was once filed, but it surely was once too overdue for Diddy’s recognition, and the rapper was once then hit with dozens of proceedings together with an identical claims.

Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs is these days within the struggle of his existence in federal courtroom as he stares down the possibility of many years in the back of bars.

The disgraced rap tycoon, 55, has been charged with two counts of intercourse trafficking, two counts of transportation to interact in prostitution and one depend of racketeering.

According to prosecutors, the rapper used his ‘multi-faceted trade empire’ to hold out a ‘legal undertaking’ for years, allegedly coercing sufferers into sexual ‘freak off’ marathons and perilous them into silence.

The racketeering and intercourse trafficking fees elevate a minimal sentence of 15 years each and every, whilst transportation to interact in prostitution carries a most of 10 years in the back of bars.

Rapper and actor Kid Cudi is predicted to testify on the Diddy trial this week, taking the witness stand to inform the jury about his temporary dating 14 years in the past with the tycoon’s ex-girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie.

Prosecutors say Combs was once so disenchanted concerning the dating that he organized to have Cudi’s convertible firebombed, in line with courtroom filings.

Cudi, whose felony identify is Scott Mescudi, received’t be referred to as to the stand sooner than Thursday, prosecutors knowledgeable the pass judgement on on Wednesday.

George Kaplan is predicted to proceed his testimony on Thursday.

He invoked the 5th modification on Wednesday in courtroom, inquiring for immunity sooner than attesting in Diddy’s intercourse trafficking trial.

The former worker instructed the courtroom Diddy regularly threatened his activity and become enraged over minor problems.

One time, the tycoon allegedly become indignant and were given in Kaplan’s face as a result of he had purchased him the mistaken more or less bottled water.

First week at the activity and he requested me to visit Whole Foods to get a BPA unfastened gallon water bottle. They didn’t have it and I didn’t need to be overdue.

I were given two half-gallon bottles and that was once inadequate. He instructed me I didn’t convey him what he requested for. He was once indignant. He was once very with regards to my face.

Kaplan mentioned he was once accountable for putting in place Diddy’s resort rooms in LA, New York and Miami.

He mentioned ‘a resort bag that had reputedly what was once wanted for resort remains.’

The bag contained garments, a speaker, candles, liquor, child oil and astroglide.

When Diddy was once achieved with the resort rooms, Kaplan mentioned it was once his activity to wash them up.

Kaplan mentioned there could be ‘Lots of empty bottles, gatorade bottles, liquor bottles, regularly child oil, at the desk, at the flooring, across the mattress.’

Former communicate display host and radio famous person Wendy Williams claimed up to now that she was once fired from Hot 97 in 1998 after she shared her trust that Diddy was once homosexual.

Williams had supposedly mentioned she had a photograph of Diddy being intimate with a person.

The tycoon’s former safety guard Gene Deal gave the impression to verify the declare in 2022.

‘[Diddy] were given one in every of the most up to date DJs off Hot 97 as a result of she sought after to position up an image of him getting his pants pulled down,’ Deal mentioned, in line with Vibe.

Wendy went directly to grow to be a celebrity talkshot host, however famously endured sharing claims about Diddy.