Rapper Child Cudi is about to testify Thursday on the New York intercourse trafficking trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs after one of many music mogul’s ex-aides finishes telling the jury in regards to the threatening world he recollects encountering when he labored for Combs.
The trial resumed with the testimony of Combs’ former private assistant George Kaplan, with Cudi’s anticipated to take witness stand instantly afterward.
Cudi, whose authorized identify is Scott Mescudi, is not anticipated to testify for lengthy, a prosecutor stated. He arrived on the courthouse in a black SUV and was met by U.S. marshals and Homeland Safety officers, who escorted him into the constructing.
R&B singer Cassie testified final week that Combs threatened to explode Cudi’s automotive and damage him after he discovered she was courting the rapper and actor.
R&B singer Cassie testified final week that Combs threatened to explode Cudi’s automotive and damage him after he discovered she was courting the rapper and actor.
Combs faces 5 felony counts in whole, together with two of intercourse trafficking. He has denied all of the allegations.
Combs, 55, has pleaded not responsible to intercourse trafficking and racketeering prices lodged towards him after he was arrested in September at a Manhattan lodge.
The felony federal probe of Combs started in November 2023, a day after Cassie sued him in Manhattan federal courtroom, alleging years of sexual and bodily abuse. The lawsuit was settled by Combs for $20 million the next day.
In 4 days of testimony final week, Cassie, whose authorized identify is Casandra Ventura, stated Combs subjected her to abuse by a lot of the almost 11 years she was with him from 2007 by 2018.
She stated she developed a relationship with Cudi in late 2011 that she ended inside weeks after Combs discovered about it when he checked out her telephone throughout a drug-laced “freak-off” sexual efficiency, one in every of tons of she stated she endured over time.
She stated Combs then contacted her straight and demanded $20,000 for the cash he’d spent on Cassie. Regina Ventura stated she drained a house fairness account to ship the cash, however Combs returned it days later.
Cudi is to observe Kaplan to the witness stand after the private assistant to Combs from 2013 to 2015 finishes telling about what he skilled throughout 80- to 100-hour work weeks.
He testified Wednesday that he acquired a style of what the job could be like in his first week when Combs despatched him to a grocery retailer to get a gallon container of water and berated him when he returned with two half-gallon containers as an alternative.
“He told me I did not bring him what he asked for. He was angry. He was very close to my face,” Kaplan stated.
He stated his job was threatened month-to-month by Combs. Cassie was requested, when she testified, if any Combs worker ever give up after witnessing Combs’ abuse. She stated Kaplan did.
