Sean "Diddy" Combs Confirms He Won't Testify in Rare Court Message
Originally appeared on E! Online
Sean 'Diddy' Combs is choosing not to testify in court.
During week seven of his sex trafficking trial, the rapper made a rare statement in court, telling Judge Arun Subramanian that he has chosen not to testify.
After the judge asked Combs to confirm that he would not be testifying, saying if he chose not to, "there will be no inference made."
And Combs verified that he would not be formally addressing the courtroom.
"We have discussed it thoroughly, that is my decision," Combs said of not testifying. "That is totally my decision, I am making it."
Prior to confirming he would not be testifying, Combs—who has pleaded not guilty to charges of sex trafficking, transportation to engage in prostitution, racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion— also addressed another question from the judge: how he was feeling.
"I'm doing great, your honor," he told Subramanian. "I wanted to tell you thank you, you're doing an excellent job."
While Combs will not be taking the stand, several figures have testified against the 'I'll Be Missing You' artist, including ex Cassie Ventura, Danity Kane alum Dawn Richard and rapper Kid Cudi, as well as many personal employees since the trial began in mid-May.
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Ventura, a key witness who welcomed her and husband Alex Fine's third baby just a few weeks after testifying, spent four days on the stand, detailing their decade-long on and off again relationship told the court, per NBC News, that the pair had 'violent arguments' that 'usually resulted in physical abuse,' and further spoke to her involvement in the 'freak offs' led by Combs.
"Sean controlled a lot of my life," she testified, "whether it was career, sex, everything. And I didn't have much say, I was super young, I didn't know if he would be upset enough to be violent or not want to be with me at all."
Meanwhile, Kid Cudi (real name Scott Mescudi) took the stand over a week after the 'Me & U' singer, on May 22, alleging Combs broke into his home after learning about his and Ventura's brief romance in 2011, which both Cudi and Ventura have said ended due to the threats against them. And Mescudi, who has not home during the break-in, detailed an ominous call he had Combs.
"He said, 'What's up?,'" the How to Make It in America alum testified, 'and I said, 'Motherf--ker, are you in my house?' He said, 'I am here waiting for you.'"
In her own subsequent testimony, the Bad Boy Records founder's former assistant Capricorn Clark alleged that Combs wanted to kill Mescudi the night of the break-in.
'He just said, 'Get dressed, we're going to go kill Mescudi,'' Clark testified on May 27. 'I said, 'I don't want to go,' and he said, 'I don't give a f--k what you want to do.' He was livid, furious, mad at me. I had never seen anything like this before. I never saw him come to my house, I never saw him with a weapon.'
For more on Combs' trial, keep reading.
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