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Rapper Kid Cudi told a Manhattan federal jury on Thursday that Sean “Diddy” Combs broke into his Los Angeles home after the hip-hop mogul found out he was dating R&B singer Cassie Ventura.
Christmas gifts from Chanel that Kid Cudi had gotten for his family were unwrapped, and his dog was shut in the bathroom during the December 2011 break-in, he testified at Combs’ sex-trafficking and racketeering trial.
Kid Cudi, whose given name is Scott Mescudi, was called as a government witness in the high-profile criminal trial that’s now in its second week.
Earlier that day, Mescudi found out Combs was outside his home after Mescudi had spent a night with Ventura at the Sunset Marquis hotel, he testified.
“Motherfucker, you in my house?” Mescudi recalled telling Combs over the phone as he rushed over to his home in the Hollywood Hills.
“He said he wants to talk to me,” Mescudi said of Combs. “I said I’m on my way over right now.”
“And he said I’m over here waiting for you,” Mescudi told the jury, adding that Combs sounded “calm.”
Mescudi added, “I wanted to confront him, I wanted to fight him,” but he wondered whether Combs would be alone for any actual confrontation.
Once he got home, Combs was nowhere to be found, Mescudi said.
“Some gifts that I had brought for my family had been opened,” Mescudi testified. “And then my dog was in my bathroom.”
He said his dog was acting “very jittery.”
Mescudi said he reported the break-in to the police.
Mescudi and Ventura — the prosecution’s star witness in Combs’ trial — briefly dated while Ventura was on a break from Combs. Ventura and Combs dated on and off between 2007 and 2018.
After the ordeal, Mescudi told jurors that Combs reached out to him a couple of times.
“I guess he was in the dark about things and wanted to talk,” Mescudi said.
But Mescudi said he told Combs, “You broke into my house, you messed with my dog, I don’t want to talk to you.”
During Ventura’s more than 20 hours of testimony last week, she told the eight-man, four-woman jury how her 2011 romance with Mescudi enraged Combs.
Combs learned about the relationship during one of his drug-fueled sex performances that he called “freak offs”. Combs went through Ventura’s phone, and realized she’d been paying visits to the “Pursuit of Happiness” rapper, she testified.
“I just remember him putting like a wine bottle opener between his fingers and, like, lunging at me,” Ventura said, adding that Combs’ “eyes blacked out, super angry.”
When Ventura saw Combs at his Los Angeles home later that day she said he was “irate” and threatened to release explicit freak-off videos of her — and to physically “hurt Scott and I.”
She said Combs kicked her in the back, sending her flying to the ground, as she turned to walk out on him.
Ventura also testified that Combs threatened to blow up Kid Cudi’s car when they were out of the country.
“Sean wanted Scott’s friends to be there to see the car get blown up in the driveway,” she testified.
Mescudi testified on Thursday that his Porsche had been firebombed in February 2012 while it was parked in his driveway.
“Looks like the top of my Porsche was cut open. That’s where they inserted the Molotov cocktail,” Mescudi told jurors as they were shown photos of his torched vehicle.
Ventura’s 2023 now-settled lawsuit against Combs first suggested that Combs was responsible for the 2012 firebombing.
Prosecutors have alleged that Combs previously ordered his underlings to torch a car using a Molotov cocktail.
Combs faces up to life in prison if convicted of the sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy charges against him.
Prosecutors allege that for two decades, Combs led a “criminal enterprise” that involved the sex trafficking of Ventura and another woman.
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