Sean "Diddy" Combs' ex-employee Capricorn Clark testifies about Kid Cudi incident
A former employee of Sean 'Diddy' Combs testified on Tuesday, sharing additional details about her employer's plot to kill Scott Mescudi, a.k.a. Kid Cudi. Capricorn Clark, who worked for Combs on and off for more than a decade, told the court she initially helped Cassie Ventura hide her relationship with Kid Cudi from her Combs. However, when Combs discovered his ex's relationship in 2011, he showed up at Clark's house with a gun.
Per Variety, Clark described Combs as furious, pacing in a disheveled outfit with his pants split open at the crotch. He was angry that Clark hadn't told him about Ventura's relationship, and declared 'I should kill you bitches' for keeping Kid Cudi a secret (via NBC News). He told Clark, 'Get dressed, we're going to go kill this n*****' and forced her to come along as he went to Mescudi's house with a weapon.
While Combs and his security guards broke into Mescudi's house, Clark called Ventura to warn her what was happening, as Mescudi testified last week. Clark recalled getting into a car chase with Mescudi (which was not part of his testimony), after which Combs demanded Clark call Ventura to tell her he wasn't going to let Clark go unless Ventura came to see Combs. The music mogul threatened both women to make sure Mescudi didn't name Combs on the police report: 'If you don't convince him of that, I'll kill all you motherfuckers,' Clark remembered him saying (via Variety). When Combs saw Ventura later, he 'repeatedly kicked her,' beating her at 'full force,' Clark testified. Clark witnessed the assault, but didn't intervene because Combs threatened to hurt her as well. She said she called Ventura's mom to tell her her daughter was being assaulted and encouraged her mother to report the incident to the police.
Clark herself said she reported the kidnapping and assault to then-president of Bad Boy Records Harve Pierre, who brushed it off. She was fired months later, supposedly for not getting her vacation time authorized properly. 'I lost everything,' she testified, adding that Combs 'said I would never work again and all these people weren't my friends and he would make me kill myself.'
In Clark's testimony, she spoke of being close with Combs but also described him as a violent, volatile employer. He threatened to kill her on her first day of work over her association with Suge Knight; once, when she lost some jewelry he entrusted her with, she was made to take a lie detector test for eight hours a day five days in a row. Clark admitted to seeking forgiveness from Combs after her 2012 firing. She was eventually re-hired in 2016 to work with Cassie Ventura.
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