Diddy Trial Live Updates Week 3: Former Assistant Continues Testimony
Originally appeared on E! Online
The court is in session for the 11th day.
After Capricorn Clark's explosive testimony against her former employer Sean 'Diddy' Combs at his sex trafficking trial, arson investigator Lance Jiminez shared his experience being dispatched to Kid Cudi's home in 2012 after his car caught fire, according to NBC News reporters in the courtroom.
'Dispatch said there was an auto fire in the driveway and we went to investigate like any investigation,' the Los Angeles Fire Department investigator told jurors May 28. 'The fire occurred in the car—burn patterns on the seats and center consoles. There was a bottle on the front seat and a handkerchief on the center console that was burned.'
'I look at different things that might have caused it,' he explained. 'The engine was not damaged. I looked at battery—nothing there. I ruled out certain things. I observed the bottle, smell of gasoline, liquid in the bottle and a handkerchief and made the observation that it was a Molotov cocktail.'
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The 'Day 'n' Nite' rapper's car blew up around the time he and Combs' ex Cassie Ventura had ended their brief romance, Cudi (real name Scott Mescudi) testified earlier this month.
Jiminez told prosecutors that there was 'a lot of heat damage' to the Porsche, but that the firebomb didn't cause 'extensive fire damage' because the 'cloth fell out and the bottle didn't break.'
The official—who said he had investigated 1,200 or more fires since taking on his role in 2011—testified that if the bottle had broken and dispersed the gasoline, 'the foliage would have caught fire and could have caused the home to burn.'
'It was targeted from where it was located,' he said. 'There was another car that was not targeted in the driveway. The Porsche was close to the home and in an area where we do not see much crime.'
Jiminez's testimony builds on Mescudi's allegations that his car was torched by Combs—who dated Ventura on and off from 2007 to 2018—after the Bad Boy Records founder allegedly broke into his home.
Combs has not publicly addressed the alleged break-in or the car explosion.
Combs has pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking, prostitution, racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion, as well as transportation to engage in prostitution.
For more revelations from the Diddy trial, keep reading.
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