Rapper Child Cudi, Cassie Ventura’s ex, set to testify at Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs intercourse trafficking trial
Rapper and actor Child Cudi is anticipated 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 commenced courting Cudi, whose authorized identify is Scott Mescudi.
She stated Combs left a big bruise on her again the place he kicked her as she left his Los Angeles residence for the final time that yr.
Prosecutors have contended in courtroom filings that Combs was so upset that he organized to have Cudi’s convertible firebombed.
A prosecutor stated on the finish of Tuesday’s courtroom session that Mescudi would be the third witness after a federal agent finishes testifying about what investigators discovered final yr once they raided Combs’ residence 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 threats and violence.
His legal professionals say proof within the case displays home violence, not something amounting to a prison racket or intercourse trafficking.
Cassie testified final week that Combs organized for her to fulfill Cudi a number of occasions in 2011 to work on music.
She stated her relationship with Cudi started late within the yr and he or she obtained a burner cellphone so the 2 may talk with out Combs studying about it.
Cassie stated 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 typically participated in.
It was throughout a type of “freak-offs” that Combs picked up her common cellphone and seen communications that exposed Cassie was seeing Cudi, Cassie stated.
On Tuesday, Cassie’s mom, Regina Ventura, testified that she obtained an electronic mail in December 2011 from Cassie saying that Combs was so offended about her relationship with Cudi that he deliberate to launch sexually specific movies of her and ship somebody to harm Cassie and Cudi.
Afterward, Regina Ventura stated, she obtained 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 visiting her at her mom’s Connecticut residence round Christmas in 2011 and stayed for 3 or 4 days. She stated she broke up with him.
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“It was simply an excessive amount of,” she stated. “An excessive amount of hazard, an excessive amount of uncertainty of, like, what may occur if we continued to see one another.”
Cassie stated she instructed her household she was going to Los Angeles after the vacations to “get to work.”
However as an alternative, she stated, she traveled after New 12 months’s to fulfill Combs in Arizona, the place he had gone to go to a school along with his son. They resumed their relationship.
When Cassie and Combs had been overseas, Combs instructed her that Cudi’s automotive could be blown up and Combs needed Cudi’s buddies there to see it, Cassie stated.
