Rapper Kid Cudi says his car was set on fire weeks after Sean 'Diddy' Combs broke into his home
Rapper Kid Cudi testified Thursday that Sean 맥스카지노Diddy맥스카지노 Combs broke into his Hollywood Hills home in 2011 after finding out he was dating Combs' ex-girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie, and that someone set fire to his car weeks later.
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Cudi, whose real name is Scott Mescudi, took the witness stand in Combs' sex trafficking trial in New York and said he and Cassie briefly dated in 2011. He said he took her to a West Hollywood hotel one day to get her away from the seething Combs. While there, he said, he got a call from Combs맥스카지노 assistant, Capricorn Clark, who told him Combs and an affiliate were in his house and that she had been forced to go with them.
Cudi said he left the hotel to drive home, and that he called Combs en route and 맥스카지노 using an expletive 맥스카지노 asked him why he was in his house. He said Combs calmly replied, 맥스카지노I want to talk to you.맥스카지노
But Combs wasn맥스카지노t there when he arrived, Cudi said. Instead, he found that someone had opened Christmas presents he맥스카지노d bought for his family and locked his dog in a bathroom.
Cudi said he wasn맥스카지노t sure what was going on, so he called the police.
Video below: Cassie testifies at 'Diddy' trial
A few weeks later, Cudi testified, his Porsche was destroyed by fire while parked in his driveway. Cudi said he was at a friend맥스카지노s house when his dogsitter called and 맥스카지노told me my car was on fire.맥스카지노 Photos shown to the jury showed a hole cut in the car's fabric roof and a Molotov cocktail was found in the passenger seat.
Cassie testified last week that Combs had threatened to blow up Cudi맥스카지노s car and hurt him after he learned she was dating the Grammy Award-winning rapper, who is known for his alternative hip-hop style.
Combs, 55, has pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking and racketeering charges lodged against him after he was arrested in September at a Manhattan hotel. He denies allegations that he used threats and his powerful position in the hip-hop world to abuse women and others, and force Cassie to take part in drug-fueled sexual performances called freak-offs with other men that she said left her too drained to pursue her singing career.
The federal investigation of Combs began in November 2023, a day after Cassie sued him in Manhattan federal court alleging years of sexual and physical abuse. The lawsuit was settled by Combs for $20 million the next day.
In four days of testimony last week, Cassie, whose legal name is Casandra Ventura, said Combs subjected her to abuse through most of the nearly 11 years she was with him from 2007 through 2018.
She said she developed a relationship with Cudi in late 2011 that she ended within weeks after Combs learned about it when he looked at her phone during a freak-off 맥스카지노 one of hundreds she said she endured over the years.
George Kaplan, Combs' personal assistant from 2013 to 2015, testified earlier Thursday that he saw Combs be violent with Cassie only once, on a 2015 trip to Las Vegas aboard Combs' private jet. He said he heard glass breaking behind him and looked over his shoulder to see Combs standing with a whiskey glass in his hand.
맥스카지노There was tremendous commotion and a scuffle, and then after the glass crashed, Cassie screamed: 맥스카지노Isn맥스카지노t anybody seeing this?맥스카지노 Kaplan testified, adding that neither he nor any of the security workers or Bad Boy staff on the plane responded to her call for help.
Kaplan said he didn맥스카지노t intervene because he didn't want to lose his dream job. He said he decided to quit after that attack and a later incident in which he saw Cassie sitting in a bedroom with a black eye before Combs sent him to pick up anti-inflammatory medicine at a store to treat the injury.
Kaplan also said he saw Combs become violent with another girlfriend, whom he referred to only as Gina, when the rapper threw green apples at her at his Florida home.