Kid Cudi Testifies About Diddy Confrontations and Car Explosion in Court: ‘I Wanted to Fight Him’
Kidi Cudi testified about his relationship with Cassie Ventura and a car explosion in the Diddy trial
Actor Scott Mescudi, aka rapper Kid Cudi, took the stand as a witness during Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial on Thursday, recounting his relationship with Cassandra “Cassie” Ventura and Combs’ alleged acts of retaliation.
Mescudi appeared in New York court dressed in jeans, a leather jacket and a white t-shirt. Prosecutors began by asking him about his relationship with Ventura. “We were friends and dated briefly,” he responded, noting that his understanding at the time was that “she and Sean Combs had some problems and they weren’t dating” when they began seeing each other in 2011.
That December, Ventura called Mescudi and told him that Combs had found out about their relationship. She sounded “stressed, nervous and scared,” and Cudi went to pick her up. “I didn’t think she was still dealing with him,” he said. Ventura had told him that Combs was “abusive,” and that “she didn’t know what [he] would do.”
Popular on VarietyMescudi picked her up and drove her to the Sunset Marquis and received a call from Combs’ staff member Capricorn Clark, who Mescudi said was “scared” and “on the verge of tears.” Clark told Mescudi that Combs was at his Hollywood Hills home, and he called Combs on his way back to the house, recalling that he asked him, “Motherfucker, are you in my house?” Combs responded, “I just want to talk to you.”
When Mescudi arrived, no one was home but he could tell there had been a break-in. The Chanel gifts that he had bought for his family had been opened, and his dog was locked in the bathroom, which was unusual since he usually let the dog roam around the house. The dog was “very jittery, on edge all the time” when he let him out. Mescudi got back into his car and called Combs because he “was looking for him.” “I wanted to confront him, I wanted to fight him,” he said.
After giving it some thought, Mescudi called the police because he didn’t know what the outcome would be and returned to his home. He spoke to the police and made a report about the break-in.
Later in December, Mescudi spent the holidays with Ventura’s family in Connecticut. Combs had texted him around this time, and suggested that he wanted to speak with him. Mescudi responded, “You broke into my house, you messed with my dog, I don’t want to talk with you.” Mescudi’s relationship with Ventura ended shortly after.
In January 2012, Mescudi was in Los Angeles when he received a call from his dog sitter, who was at his home at 6:30 in the morning. The sitter told him that his car was on fire, and Mescudi returned to see the damage. Photos of the car were shown in court, with smoke damage to the doors and a hole cut in the roof of his convertible. A Molotov cocktail was found near the car. Though there was no clear connection between Combs and the incident, it has been speculated on the witness stand that he had orchestrated it.
In her previous testimony, Ventura said that Combs “said that he will be having someone hurt me and [Mescudi] physically. He made a point that it wouldn’t be by his hand, he actually said he’d be out of the country when it happened.”
Mescudi is not the only celebrity suitor to be mentioned in Combs’ trial. During her testimony, Ventura mentioned a brief fling with “Sinners” star Michael B. Jordan in 2016. Ventura’s then-best friend Kerry Morgan testified that Ventura and Jordan “hung out together” and Combs “was jealous of it.”
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