Child Cudi has advised a courtroom Sean “Diddy” Combs broke into his residence, “messed with” his canine and opened a few of his Christmas presents throughout a break-in in December 2011.
The 41-year-old rapper was giving proof on day 9 of the trial, after briefly relationship Diddy’s former girlfriend Cassie the identical yr.
Cassie and Diddy dated for 11 years, from 2007 to 2018, and Cassie has testified the rapper bodily abused her throughout most of their relationship.
Cudi described Cassie phoning him early one morning, sounding “stressed, nervous and scared”, telling him Diddy had “found out about us”.
He stated Diddy later referred to as him from his residence and advised him, “I’m here waiting for you”.
After dropping Cassie at a West Hollywood resort, Cudi stated he returned to his residence and located nobody there, however stated his canine had been locked within the toilet.
He described his pet later turning into “jittery and on edge all the time”.
He additionally stated somebody had opened Christmas presents he’d purchased for his household.
Whereas Cudi, whose actual title is Scott Mescudi, stated he initially needed “to fight” Diddy, he later thought by way of “the reality of the situation,” and referred to as the police to report the break-in.
Earlier this week, Cassie completed giving 4 days of proof, turning into emotional at occasions, and testifying that Combs had threatened to explode Cudi’s automotive and harm him after he discovered she was relationship him by messages on her cellphone throughout a “freak off”.
Prosecutors say Combs, the founding father of Unhealthy Boy Data, compelled ladies to participate in days-long, drug-fuelled sexual performances referred to as “Freak Offs” from 2004 to 2024, facilitated by his massive retinue of workers.
Combs, 55, has pleaded not responsible.
The rapper faces 5 legal counts: one rely of racketeering conspiracy; two counts of intercourse trafficking by power, fraud or coercion; and two counts of transportation to have interaction in prostitution.
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Diddy and Cassie on a purple carpet in 2016. Pic: zz/JMA/STAR MAX/IPx/AP
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial: Day 9 – Because it occurred
The month after the break-in, Cudi’s Porsche was firebombed in his drive, with a gap lower into the roof and a Molotov cocktail dropped into the driving force’s seat.
Cudi stated he realised he needed to speak to Diddy, earlier than issues “got out of hand,” assembly up with Diddy, who he stated was weirdly “calm” and staring out the window together with his palms behind his again “like a Marvel super villain”.
Cudi says Diddy advised him he had nonetheless been relationship Cassie throughout his relationship along with her, with Cudi replying: “[Cassie] told me you were broke up and I took her word for it.”
Shaking palms on the finish of the dialog, Cudi stated he requested Diddy about “burning” his automotive, and Diddy replied, “I don’t know what you’re talking about”. Cudi later stated he believed that to be a lie.
Cudi says he noticed Diddy as soon as a couple of years later at Soho Home in Los Angeles together with his daughter, and Diddy advised him: “Man, I just want to apologise for all that bullshit”.
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Diddy sketched in courtroom whereas listening to Kaplan’s testimony. Pic: Reuters/Jane Rosenberg
Throughout his cross-examination, the defence recommended Cassie had been “living two different lives”, and “played” each Cudi and Combs.
Cudi concluded his time on the stand, saying his relationship with Cassie ended as a result of he needed “to give her space” and “the drama was too out of hand”.
Movie star make-up artist Mylah Morales additionally gave proof, describing a struggle between Cassie and Diddy in 2010, which she says left Cassie with a “swollen eye, busted lip, and knots on her head”.
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Movie star make-up artist Mylah Morales. Pic: AP
Morales stated whereas she had heard the row, she hadn’t bodily seen it as she wasn’t within the room.
She advised the courtroom, “I feared for my life”, explaining that she took Cassie to her house for a number of days to get better, however that Cassie refused to go to hospital as she was afraid of Diddy’s response.
The defence tried to break Morales’s credibility by itemizing her TV appearances, which included programmes on CNN, and with Don Lemon and Piers Morgan, making an attempt to color her as attention-seeking.
The day additionally noticed Combs’s former assistant George Kaplan full his testimony.
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George Kaplan, former assistant to Combs. Pic: AP
He talked about two events when he had been requested to hold money for Diddy, who he stated by no means paid for issues himself within the second, recalling one time in 2015 when he taken care of $50,000, and one other when he was requested to select up $10,000.
Kaplan described seeing “regular” bodily violence between Cassie and Diddy, together with an incident in 2015 with whisky glasses on a personal airplane, when he heard glass breaking and noticed Diddy standing over Cassie within the airplane’s central aisle.
He says he additionally noticed Diddy hurling “decorative apples” at one other of his girlfriends, Gina, late the identical yr, handing in his discover the next month.
Additionally identified all through his profession as Puff Daddy and P Diddy, Combs turned artists like Infamous BIG and Usher into family names, elevating hip-hop in American tradition and turning into a billionaire within the course of.
Diddy has been held within the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn since September and faces a minimum of 15 years or presumably life in jail if convicted.
The trial is ready to final for round six weeks in complete and can go into its third week subsequent week.
