Child Cudi testified in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ federal intercourse trafficking trial on Thursday, detailing how his automobile was set on hearth simply weeks after the disgraced music mogul allegedly broke into his residence.
Whereas on the stand in Manhattan federal courtroom, Cudi mentioned that he obtained a panicked telephone name in December 2011 from Combs’ ex-girlfriend, singer Cassie Ventura, whom Cudi was additionally courting on the time. To assist Cassie get away from Combs, who had came upon about their relationship, Cudi took her to a West Hollywood resort.
Shortly after, Cudi mentioned he obtained a name from Combs’ assistant, informing him that an irate Combs had unexpectedly proven up at his residence. Cudi then known as Combs instantly and requested whether or not he was at his home, to which Combs allegedly replied, “I’m over right here ready for you.”
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Upon returning residence, Cudi discovered Combs had already left. As a substitute, he found his canine locked in a rest room and noticed that somebody had opened Christmas presents that he had bought for his household.
“I wished to confront him. I wished to combat him,” Cudi testified, however he selected to name the police as a substitute.
In response to Cudi, he subsequently obtained a name from his dogsitter in January 2012, who “instructed me my automobile was on hearth.” Photographs introduced to the jury confirmed a gap reduce into the roof of Cudi’s torched blue Porsche, which he mentioned was destroyed by a Molotov cocktail.
Cudi mentioned he met with Combs the subsequent day to easy issues over in a gathering arrange by his supervisor and Combs’ bodyguard as a result of “after the fireplace, I mentioned, that is getting out of hand, I want to speak to him.” Throughout this assembly, Combs denied any involvement within the automobile hearth.
Nevertheless, Cudi testified he didn’t have beef with anybody in addition to Combs on the time, main him to invest, “I knew he had one thing to do with it.” Combs’ attorneys objected to this remark, and the jury was instructed to ignore it.
Main as much as the trial, prosecutors mentioned associates of Combs allegedly set hearth to a rival’s automobile by slicing open its convertible high and dropping in a Molotov cocktail throughout a feud between late 2011 and early 2012.
Throughout her personal four-day testimony final week, Cassie instructed the jury that she entered a relationship with Cudi in late 2011, and that Combs had subsequently threatened to explode Cudi’s automobile after studying they had been collectively.