Rapper and actor Child Cudi is predicted to testify on the Sean “Diddy” Combs intercourse trafficking trial, taking the witness stand both Wednesday or Thursday to inform the jury about his temporary relationship 14 years in the past with Combs ex-girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie.
Cassie testified final week that Combs was enraged when she left him for a time period in 2011 and started courting Cudi, whose authorized identify is Scott Mescudi. She mentioned Combs left a big bruise on her again the place he kicked her as she left his Los Angeles house for the final time that yr.
Prosecutors have contended in court docket filings that Combs was so upset that he organized to have Cudi’s convertible firebombed.
A prosecutor mentioned on the finish of Tuesday’s court docket session that Mescudi would be the third witness after a federal agent finishes testifying about what investigators discovered final yr after they raided Combs’ house in Florida.
Combs has pleaded not responsible to fees that he leveraged his fame and fortune to supervise a two-decade-long racketeering enterprise that managed Cassie and others by means of threats and violence.
His legal professionals say proof within the case displays home violence, not something amounting to a felony racket or intercourse trafficking.
Cassie testified final week that Combs organized for her to satisfy Cudi a number of instances in 2011 to work on music. She mentioned her relationship with Cudi started late within the yr and she or he acquired a burner telephone so the 2 might talk with out Combs studying about it.
Cassie mentioned she and Combs had damaged up on the time, though they nonetheless engaged in so-called “freak-offs” that concerned sexual performances with male escorts that Combs watched and generally participated in. It was throughout a kind of “freak-offs” that Combs picked up her common telephone and seen communications that exposed Cassie was seeing Cudi, Cassie mentioned.
Afterward, Regina Ventura mentioned, she acquired a requirement from Combs for $20,000. Scared for her daughter’s security, she went to the financial institution and despatched Combs the cash, solely to have it returned by Combs days later.
Cassie testified that Cudi came over her at her mom’s Connecticut house round Christmas in 2011 and stayed for 3 or 4 days. She mentioned she broke up with him.
“It was just too much,” she mentioned. “Too much danger, too much uncertainty of, like, what could happen if we continued to see each other.”
Cassie mentioned she advised her household she was going to Los Angeles after the vacations to “get to work.” However as a substitute, she mentioned, she traveled after New Yr’s to satisfy Combs in Arizona, the place he had gone to go to a university together with his son. They resumed their relationship.
When Cassie and Combs have been in another country, Combs advised her that Cudi’s automotive could be blown up and Combs needed Cudi’s buddies there to see it, Cassie mentioned.
