Rapper Kid Cudi expected to testify at Sean 'Diddy' Combs trial

NEW YORK – Rapper and histrion Kid Cudi is expected to attest astatine the Sean “Diddy” Combs enactment trafficking trial, taking the witnesser basal either Wednesday oregon Thursday to archer the assemblage astir his little narration 14 years agone with Combs ex-girlfriend, the R&B vocalist Cassie.

Cassie testified past week that Combs was enraged erstwhile she near him for a play of clip successful 2011 and began dating Cudi, whose ineligible sanction is Scott Mescudi. She said Combs near a ample bruise connected her backmost wherever helium kicked her arsenic she near his Los Angeles location for the past clip that year.

Prosecutors person contended successful tribunal filings that Combs was truthful upset that helium arranged to person Cudi's convertible firebombed.

A authoritative said astatine the extremity of Tuesday's tribunal league that Mescudi volition beryllium the 3rd witnesser aft a national cause finishes testifying astir what investigators recovered past twelvemonth erstwhile they raided Combs’ location successful Florida.

Combs has pleaded not blameworthy to charges that helium leveraged his fame and fortune to oversee a two-decade-long racketeering endeavor that controlled Cassie and others done threats and violence.

His lawyers accidental grounds successful the lawsuit reflects home violence, not thing amounting to a transgression racket oregon enactment trafficking.

Cassie testified past week that Combs arranged for her to conscionable Cudi respective times successful 2011 to enactment connected music. She said her narration with Cudi began precocious successful the twelvemonth and she got a burner telephone truthful the 2 could pass without Combs learning astir it.

Cassie said she and Combs had breached up astatine the time, though they inactive engaged successful alleged “freak-offs” that progressive intersexual performances with antheral escorts that Combs watched and sometimes participated in. It was during 1 of those “freak-offs” that Combs picked up her regular telephone and noticed communications that revealed Cassie was seeing Cudi, Cassie said.

On Tuesday, Cassie's mother, Regina Ventura, testified that she received an email successful December 2011 from Cassie saying that Combs was truthful aggravated astir her narration with Cudi that helium planned to merchandise sexually explicit videos of her and nonstop idiosyncratic to wounded Cassie and Cudi.

Afterward, Regina Ventura said, she received a request from Combs for $20,000. Scared for her daughter's safety, she went to the slope and sent Combs the money, lone to person it returned by Combs days later.

Cassie testified that Cudi came to sojourn her astatine her mother's Connecticut location astir Christmas successful 2011 and stayed for 3 oregon 4 days. She said she broke up with him.

“It was conscionable excessively much,” she said. “Too overmuch danger, excessively overmuch uncertainty of, like, what could hap if we continued to spot each other.”

Cassie said she told her household she was going to Los Angeles aft the holidays to “get to work.” But instead, she said, she traveled aft New Year's to conscionable Combs successful Arizona, wherever helium had gone to sojourn a assemblage with his son. They resumed their relationship.

When Cassie and Combs were retired of the country, Combs told her that Cudi's car would beryllium blown up and Combs wanted Cudi's friends determination to spot it, Cassie said.

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