Kid Cudi slated to testify in trial of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs

Scott Mescudi, referred to as rapper Kid Cudi, who had a temporary dating with singer Cassandra “Cassie” Ventura in 2011, is slated to testify on Thursday within the the federal racketeering conspiracy and intercourse trafficking trial of tune magnate Sean “Diddy” Combs.

Combs, 55, faces fees of intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to interact in prostitution. He used to be arrested in September, and has pleaded now not responsible to all fees.

On Thursday morning, attorneys for Combs and the federal government debated about what Mescudi may just testify about, together with his canine’s conduct after a 2011 break-in at his house.

Mescudi is predicted to testify about how his house used to be burglarized and his automobile used to be set on fireplace across the time Combs discovered he used to be courting Ventura.

The pass judgement on joked about whether or not Mescudi would testify on what his canine “thought”, prompting the prosecutor to explain that Mescudi isn’t a “dog psychic” however will testify that the canine was extra scared after the housebreaking incident.

Combs’s lawyer argued that an excessive amount of testimony suggesting the canine used to be traumatized may just prejudice the jury.

The pass judgement on will permit testimony in regards to the canine’s conduct within the instant time frame after the break-in.

Last week, Ventura testified over the direction of 4 days in regards to the years of bodily and emotional abuse she persisted by means of Combs all over their 11-year on-again, off-again dating.

Ventura discussed her short-lived dating with Mescudi in December 2011, which she stated came about all over a damage in her and Combs’s dating.

She stated she used a burner telephone to be in contact with Mescudi, fearing Combs would to find out.

“I thought it would be way too dangerous to tell him about that,” she informed the jury final week.

Ventura stated Combs came upon in regards to the transient dating close to the top of 2011 all over a so-called “freak-off”. Combs noticed an e-mail on her telephone between her and Mescudi’s assistant about bringing a toiletry bag to Mescudi’s area.

Ventura stated that Combs was enraged, lunged at her with a wine bottle opener and later threatened to free up particular movies of her, hurt each her and Mescudi, and informed her that Mescudi’s automobile can be “blown up”.

Ventura stated that she ended her dating with Mescudi quickly after, mentioning protection considerations.

“Too much danger, too much uncertainty of what could happen if we continued to see each other,” she stated.

Ventura informed the court docket that the following time she noticed Mescudi used to be at a gathering at Soho House, the place she, Combs and Mescudi met to talk about the connection.

At the assembly, Mescudi allegedly requested Combs, “What about my vehicle?” to which Ventura stated Combs responded: “What vehicle?”

“And that was the end of the meeting,” Ventura stated.

The alleged danger of blowing up Mescudi’s automobile used to be first detailed in Ventura’s 2023 civil lawsuit towards Combs, which used to be settled in in the future.

The lawsuit alleged that Combs threatened to “blow up” Mescudi’s automobile after studying in regards to the dating, and that round that point, Mescudi’s automobile “exploded in his driveway”.

The lawsuit means that Combs used to be answerable for blowing up Mescudi’s automobile, and mentioned that the incident left Ventura feeling “terrified” as she “began to fully comprehend what Mr Combs was both willing and able to do to those he believed had slighted him”.

Mescudi, via a spokeswoman, showed Ventura’s account within the lawsuit, and stated that his automobile did explode in a temporary observation to the New York Times in 2023.

A Los Angeles fireplace division record showed that Mescudi’s Porsche used to be set on fireplace by means of an “incendiary device” on 9 January 2012, Rolling Stone in the past reported. The explanation for the fireplace used to be indexed as “intentional”.

A 2024 memo from federal prosecutors investigating Combs alleges that Combs’s “co-conspirators” set fireplace to an unnamed person’s convertible in 2012 by means of “slicing open the car’s convertible top and dropping a Molotov cocktail inside”.

Prosecutors stated that police and fireplace officers concluded that the auto fireplace used to be deliberately set. Witnesses claimed that Combs later bragged about his position within the incident.

Combs, via his attorneys, has denied any involvement within the automobile fireplace.