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FILE - Kid Cudi appears astatine the Los Angeles premiere of "Sonic The Hedgehog 2," connected April 5, 2022. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
NEW YORK – Rapper Kid Cudi is acceptable to attest Thursday astatine the New York enactment trafficking proceedings of Sean “Diddy” Combs. He follows a erstwhile adjutant to the euphony mogul who told the assemblage astir the threatening satellite helium said Combs created for his interior circle.
Prosecutors allege that Combs, a three-time Grammy winner, used his fame and fortune to make a deviant empire of exploitation, coercing women into abusive enactment parties portion silencing victims done blackmail and violence, including kidnapping, arson and beatings. Combs' lawyers reason that each the intersexual acts were consensual, and though helium could beryllium violent, helium ne'er veered into enactment trafficking and racketeering.
Kid Cudi is expected to testify astir his little narration 14 years agone with Combs’ ex-girlfriend, the R&B vocalist Cassie. She spent 4 affectional days connected the witnesser basal responding to questions astir the astir disturbing secrets of her enactment life, and describing being beaten and raped by a antheral she erstwhile loved.
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What is Kid Cudi’s engagement with Combs and Cassie?
Last week, Cassie testified that Combs arranged for her to conscionable Cudi successful 2011 to enactment connected music. The 2 began dating soon after, and she said she got a burner telephone to pass with Cudi successful secret.
Cassie said she and Combs had breached up astatine the time, though they inactive engaged successful enactment parties that Combs orchestrated. It was during 1 of these that Combs looked astatine her telephone and learned of the Cudi relationship, Cassie testified.
In response, she said helium lunged astatine her with a corkscrew and kicked her successful the back.
When Cassie and Combs were retired of the state successful 2012, Combs told her that Cudi’s car would beryllium blown up and Combs wanted Cudi’s friends determination to spot it, Cassie testified.
On Tuesday, Cassie’s mother, Regina Ventura, testified that Cassie told her 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.
Who is Kid Cudi?
The Cleveland born-and-raised, skinny-jean wearing, Grammy Award-winning rapper has agelong been celebrated for his alternate hip-hop, affectional euphony that effortlessly weaves genres unneurotic successful astonishing ways.
Cudi began arsenic something of a protégé of Kanye West, erstwhile the then-uncontroversial rapper signed Cudi to his G.O.O.D. Music statement successful 2008. Cudi near successful 2013.
He is featured connected Jay-Z’s “The Blueprint 3” and West’s landmark “808s & Heartbreak.” Cudi has ever had an oculus and receptor toward innovation. In 2022, his medium “Entergalactic” was released alongside a Netflix adult-animated romanticist drama of the aforesaid name, which helium told The Associated Press allowed him to “explore the abstract.”
Kid Cudi expected to instrumentality the stand
Cudi’s crook connected the witnesser basal volition travel instantly aft George Kaplan, a erstwhile idiosyncratic adjunct to Combs, finishes his testimony. A authoritative said grounds by Cudi, whose ineligible sanction is Scott Mescudi, was not expected to beryllium lengthy.
Cassie testified past week that Combs threatened to stroke up Cudi’s car and wounded him aft helium learned she was dating the rapper and actor.
Cudi is to travel Kaplan to the witnesser basal aft the idiosyncratic adjunct to Combs from 2013 to 2015 finishes telling astir what helium experienced during 80- to 100-hour enactment weeks.
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