Diddy Trial: Child Cudi Says Mogul Broke Into His Dwelling, Unwrapped Presents

Rapper Child Cudi advised a Manhattan federal jury on Thursday that Sean “Diddy” Combs broke into his Los Angeles dwelling after the hip-hop mogul discovered he was relationship R&B singer Cassie Ventura.

Christmas items from Chanel that Child Cudi had gotten for his household have been unwrapped, and his canine was shut within the toilet in the course of the December 2011 break-in, he testified at Combs’ sex-trafficking and racketeering trial.

Child Cudi, whose given identify is Scott Mescudi, was referred to as as a authorities witness within the high-profile legal trial that is now in its second week.

Earlier that day, Mescudi discovered Combs was exterior his dwelling after Mescudi had spent an evening with Ventura on the Sundown Marquis resort, he testified.

“Motherfucker, you in my home?” Mescudi recalled telling Combs over the cellphone as he rushed over to his dwelling within the Hollywood Hills.

“He mentioned he needs to speak to me,” Mescudi mentioned of Combs. “I mentioned I am on my manner over proper now.”

“And he mentioned I am over right here ready for you,” Mescudi advised the jury, including that Combs sounded “calm.”

Mescudi added, “I wished to confront him, I wished to battle him,” however he puzzled whether or not Combs could be alone for any precise confrontation.

As soon as he bought dwelling, Combs was nowhere to be discovered, Mescudi mentioned.

“Some items that I had introduced for my household had been opened,” Mescudi testified. “After which my canine was in my toilet.”

He mentioned his canine was appearing “very jittery.”

Mescudi mentioned he reported the break-in to the police.

Mescudi and Ventura — the prosecution’s star witness in Combs’ trial — briefly dated whereas Ventura was on a break from Combs. Ventura and Combs dated on and off between 2007 and 2018.

After the ordeal, Mescudi advised jurors that Combs reached out to him a few instances.

“I suppose he was at the hours of darkness about issues and wished to speak,” Mescudi mentioned.

However Mescudi mentioned he advised Combs, “You broke into my home, you messed with my canine, I do not need to discuss to you.”

Throughout Ventura’s greater than 20 hours of testimony final week, she advised the eight-man, four-woman jury how her 2011 romance with Mescudi enraged Combs.

Combs realized concerning the relationship throughout one in all his drug-fueled intercourse performances that he referred to as “freak offs”. Combs went by means of Ventura’s cellphone, and realized she’d been paying visits to the “Pursuit of Happiness” rapper, she testified.

“I simply bear in mind him placing like a wine bottle opener between his fingers and, like, lunging at me,” Ventura mentioned, including that Combs’ “eyes blacked out, tremendous indignant.”

When Ventura noticed Combs at his Los Angeles dwelling later that day she mentioned he was “irate” and threatened to launch specific freak-off movies of her — and to bodily “harm Scott and I.”

She mentioned Combs kicked her within the again, sending her flying to the bottom, as she turned to stroll out on him.

Ventura additionally testified that Combs threatened to explode Child Cudi’s automotive after they have been in a foreign country.

“Sean wished Scott’s buddies to be there to see the automotive get blown up within the driveway,” she testified.

Mescudi testified on Thursday that his Porsche had been firebombed in February 2012 whereas it was parked in his driveway.

“Appears to be like like the highest of my Porsche was reduce open. That is the place they inserted the Molotov cocktail,” Mescudi advised jurors as they have been proven photographs of his torched automobile.

Ventura’s 2023 now-settled lawsuit towards Combs first instructed that Combs was accountable for the 2012 firebombing.

Prosecutors have alleged that Combs beforehand ordered his underlings to torch a automotive utilizing a Molotov cocktail.

Combs faces as much as life in jail if convicted of the intercourse trafficking and racketeering conspiracy costs towards him.

Prosecutors allege that for twenty years, Combs led a “legal enterprise” that concerned the intercourse trafficking of Ventura and one other girl.