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News.com.au
2 days ago
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Judge denies Sean ‘Diddy' Combs' bid for mistrial
The hip-hop mogul's lawyers had called for a mistrial in his federal racketeering conspiracy and sex-trafficking trial, alleging misconduct by prosecutors in the case. They argued that prosecutors had improperly suggested and implied through questioning that Combs was involved in the destruction of evidence tied to the investigation into rapper Scott Mescudi's (Kid Cudi's) car being firebombed. Their request was quickly denied by the judge. "There was absolutely no testimony from the witness that was prejudicial in any way, shape or form," Judge Arun Subramanian countered.
CNN
3 days ago
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Recap of ‘Diddy' trial: Stylist says Combs threatened to release sex tapes of Ventura as investigators detail Kid Cudi's burnt car
People in entertainment Sean 'Diddy' Combs MusicFacebookTweetLink Follow Police and fire investigators who looked into the rapper Kid Cudi's allegations and a celebrity stylist who said he witnessed several assaults testified Wednesday in the third week of Sean 'Diddy' Combs' federal criminal trial. The first week of testimony featured dramatic and disturbing testimony from Cassie Ventura, the pop singer who said Combs physically abused her and coerced her into drug-fueled sex parties with male escorts known as 'Freak Offs' during their relationship. Ventura, who was pregnant when she took the stand, gave birth on Tuesday to her third child, according to the stylist who described himself as her best friend. The second week of testimony largely consisted of witnesses who bolstered parts of Ventura's story, including Scott Mescudi, the rapper known as Kid Cudi. Witnesses in this third week of testimony have focused on Mescudi's allegations as well as Combs' violence toward Ventura. The prosecution said its next witness is expected to be Combs' former assistant who is testifying using the pseudonym 'Mia.' Prosecutors have said Combs and his inner circle used threats, violence, drugs, bribery, arson, kidnapping and lies to coerce Ventura and another woman into participating in 'Freak Offs' and to protect the music mogul's reputation. The defense has acknowledged Combs was violent with romantic partners and during opening statements said he had 'a bit of a different sex life.' They also said that while Combs is 'a very flawed individual,' he has not committed the alleged federal crimes. Combs has pleaded not guilty to charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. If convicted, he could face a sentence of up to life in prison. Here's what we learned Wednesday. Mescudi testified last week that his house was broken into and his Porsche was set on fire after Combs learned Mescudi was dating Ventura, and on Wednesday LAFD and LAPD officers gave further details about the investigations into those incidents. LAPD officer Christopher Ignacio, who responded to Mescudi's home in December 2011 in response to a possible burglary, testified that a black Escalade that was parked near the home drove away when he pulled up behind it. He said he did not pursue the vehicle because there hadn't been a crime at that point. Ignacio said the vehicle, which drove by again about 15-20 minutes later, had a license plate that was tied to Bad Boy Productions Inc., the label founded by Combs. The officer said Mescudi filed a trespassing report and was 'flustered' at the time, but didn't report a gun being involved or that any property was stolen from the home. Next, LAFD arson investigator Lance Jimenez testified that the Molotov cocktail used to set Mescudi's Porsche on fire in January 2012 could have caused catastrophic damage if it had exploded as intended. The Porsche, parked close to Mescudi's garage, had a cut in its canvas roof and burn patterns throughout the seats, center console, interior roofing and carpet, Jimenez testified. A 40-ounce Old English liquor bottle with gasoline inside sat on the driver's seat, a cloth handkerchief was on the center console and a disposable lighter was found outside the car. Jimenez said there was 'severe damage' to the Porsche, but not nearly the kind of catastrophic damage he normally sees from fully operational Molotov cocktails. If it had exploded, the blaze would have likely spread to nearby foliage and the rapper's home, he said. The arson investigator determined that the fire was targeted and was not random. Combs denied his involvement in the arson, Mescudi previously testified, and no one was directly charged for the incident. An alleged arson was mentioned in the federal indictment against Combs in connection to the racketeering charge. Judge Arun Subramanian denied a request from Combs' defense for a mistrial after the prosecution asked a witness about the destruction of fingerprint evidence. The request came after Jimenez, the LAFD arson investigator, testified that fingerprints were found in Mescudi's home in December 2011 after the trespassing incident. Jimenez said he collected a card with those fingerprints to compare to evidence recovered from the Molotov cocktail bottle inside of the rapper's Porsche, but the card was destroyed by an LAPD officer in August 2012. Jimenez said he typically has to sign off on the destruction of any evidence he submitted as a lead investigator. The defense objected to the line of questioning, saying the prosecution's implications were 'outrageous.' 'They were suggesting to this jury that someone in this courtroom had something to do with the improper and suspicious destruction of these fingerprints,' defense attorney Marc Agnifilo said. Defense attorney Alexandra Shapiro moved for a mistrial based on what she called prosecutorial misconduct, saying the questions played into a conspiracy theory that Combs could buy his way out of trouble. 'This type of conspiracy theory is out there, and the type of implication we believe these questions were designed to create plays right into that,' Shapiro said. Subramanian denied the motion and said he doesn't believe that the jury was prejudiced. When the jury returned to court, Subramanian instructed them to not consider the testimony about the fingerprint card. Deonte Nash, a celebrity stylist, testified that on multiple occasions he saw Combs assault Ventura and heard him threaten to withhold her music or release sex tapes of her. Ventura would be 'super emotional' after the threats and 'sometimes she would just stay in the house for days and go in a cocoon,' Nash said. On one occasion in 2013 or 2014, Nash said as Combs was assaulting Ventura, Nash and an assistant named 'Mia' jumped on Combs' back to try to stop him. In the attack, Combs hit and kicked Ventura until she hit her head on the bed frame, opening a gash on her eyebrow, Nash said. 'When he noticed the blood, he just panicked,' Nash said. Combs said to them, 'Look what y'all made me do,' according to Nash. Ventura testified about this incident earlier in the trial and showed the jury an eyebrow scar that she said came from the attack. Further, Nash said he saw Combs slap Ventura across the face in 2015 and saw her with a black eye at a 2016 premiere for the film 'The Perfect Match.' He testified he observed bruises on Ventura's legs, arms and neck 'quite often.' Nash said he often saw Ventura packing a black duffel bag with sex toys for hotel stays. Ventura told him she didn't want to go, but she did 'because (Combs) wanted her to,' Nash testified. Nash also testified that Ventura told him that she had sex with other men while Combs watched even though she didn't want to, though she never explicitly explained the term 'freak off' to him. One of the times Combs threatened to release sex tapes of Ventura, Nash suggested she should let him because Combs was on them too. She then told him Combs wasn't in the videos, just her with other men because Combs was filming them, Nash testified. According to Nash, Ventura said she didn't want to have sex with the other men, but she did it 'because Puff wanted her to.' Ventura also told Nash she didn't want to go with Combs to a 'freak off' the night of her 29th birthday party, Nash said. Ventura previously testified that Combs spent the night of her birthday party pushing her to leave her party for a 'freak off' until she eventually gave in. Nash is still close to and often speaks with Ventura, he said. He testified Wednesday that he spoke to Ventura a day earlier after she had her baby and offered his congratulations. Nash said he has not pursued legal action or made a money demand against Combs, and has kept in touch with him occasionally. 'I don't hate him,' Nash said in court of Combs. 'I mean, I don't; it's just not in me.' CNN's Lisa Respers France contributed to this report.
CNN
4 days ago
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- CNN
Recap of ‘Diddy' trial: Ex-employee of Sean Combs testifies that Combs threatened to kill Kid Cudi
A former employee of Sean 'Diddy' Combs testified Tuesday that Combs threatened to kill rapper Kid Cudi after learning that the fellow musician was dating Cassie Ventura. Capricorn Clark, who worked for Combs and his companies off and on from 2004-2018, offered the dramatic details to begin the third week of testimony in Combs' federal racketeering and sex trafficking trial. Combs has pleaded not guilty. The first week of testimony in the trial was defined by testimony from Ventura, who said Combs physically abused her and coerced her into sex parties known as 'Freak Offs' during their relationship. The second week of testimony largely consisted of witnesses who bolstered parts of her story, including Scott Mescudi, the rapper known as Kid Cudi. Mescudi testified that his house was broken into and his Porsche destroyed by a Molotov cocktail after Combs learned he and Ventura were dating. Combs denied any involvement in the car's destruction following the incident, Mescudi testified. Medscudi said he did not believe Combs' denial. Prosecutors have argued Combs and some in his inner circle used threats, violence, drugs, bribery, arson, kidnapping and lies to coerce Ventura and another woman into participating in 'Freak Offs' and to protect the music mogul's reputation. The defense has acknowledged Combs was violent with romantic partners and during opening statements said he had 'a bit of a different sex life.' They also said that while Combs is 'a very flawed individual,' he has not committed the alleged federal crimes. Here's what we learned in testimony Tuesday. Clark, the former Combs assistant, testified about Combs's violent reaction to learning that Ventura and Mescudi were dating in late 2011, further detailing an incident that was previously recounted on the stand by Ventura and Mescudi. Clark testified that in December 2011, Combs showed up to her house between 5am and 6am and began banging on her door. When she opened it, she noted he was holding a gun and furious. As he entered her home, he asked her about Mescudi, she said. 'Get dressed, we're going to go kill this n***a,' Clark said Combs told her. When she protested, Combs said, 'I don't give a f**k what you want to do, go get dressed,' according to her testimony. Clark said they drove to Mescudi's house, and Combs and his security guard entered the home. Meanwhile, she stayed in the car and called Ventura to tell her what was happening and heard Mescudi in the background. Clark said she urged Cassie to stop Mescudi from returning to his house, Clark testified. Clark said she told Ventura that Mescudi was 'going to come get himself killed' if he confronted Combs. A short time later, Clark said Mescudi pulled up next to Combs' Escalade outside his home and then accelerated away. Combs' vehicle followed in pursuit, she said. 'It felt like forever but couldn't have been longer than a minute,' Clark testified about the car chase. Mescudi was able to drive away, Clark said. Back at Combs' house, Combs told her that she and Ventura needed to convince Mescudi not to tell police he was involved in the break-in, Clark said. 'If you guys don't convince him of that, I'll kill all you m*therf**kers,' Combs told her, according to Clark. She later told Ventura and Mescudi about the threat to remain silent. Sometime after, Ventura and Clark returned to Combs' home, where she said she witnessed Combs physically assault Ventura. Clark testified that she and a security guard stood by as Combs repeatedly kicked Ventura, adding that Combs threatened to hit Clark if she intervened. During her emotional testimony, Clark often patted her eyes with a tissue. She seemed to avert her eyes from Combs, but as she was leaving the courtroom during a midday break, she looked over toward his direction, clenched her jaw and nodded. Clark is the third former Combs' personal assistant to take the stand so far in the trial. Like the other assistants, Clark testified that she worked grueling hours under Combs, occasionally got drugs for him and prepared or cleaned his hotel rooms. Clark worked as Combs' personal assistant from 2004 to 2006, the marketing director for Sean John Women's and then global brand director from 2007 to 2012 and Ventura's creative director from 2016 to 2018. She also said she was threatened by Combs and people around him multiple times. On her first day, Clark said Combs took her to Central Park with his security guard at night and brought up her former employment with Death Row Records, which was founded by Combs' rival Marion 'Suge' Knight. 'He told me that he didn't know that I had anything to do with Suge Knight, and if anything happened, he would have to kill me,' Clark testified. In another instance, Clark said she was questioned for hours by a security guard, had her apartment searched and took a polygraph test when Combs accused her of stealing diamond jewelry. She was taken to a vacant office building to take a polygraph test for five days, and the man administering the test told her that if she failed, 'they're going to throw you into the East River,' Clark testified. In the summer of 2006, she told Combs' chef 'I hate it here' and the chef relayed that comment to Combs. Combs then 'charged' her, began pushing her and repeatedly told her to get out of his house. He pushed her about 30 yards using about 75% of his force, Clark said, until a security guard intervened. Clark testified she left the job after that incident. After the incidents involving Mescudi, Clark said Combs angrily asked why she didn't tell him about Ventura and Mescudi's relationship. Clark estimated Combs threatened her about 50 times between December 2011 to the following summer. Clark also said that in early 2012 she spoke with a human resources employee at Bad Boy Records and Harve Pierre, the label's former president, about how Combs wanted to kill Mescudi and beat Ventura. She said Pierre told her it was 'crazy but it's going to be okay.' Clark testified she was fired several months after that conversation. Also in 2012, when arson investigators reached out to her to make a statement about the incident involving Mescudi's vehicle, Clark said she hung up the phone. 'I wanted this whole thing to be over,' she testified. Clark testified that she met with Combs' attorneys just last year and discussed the possibility of working for him again. While Clark was on the stand under cross-examination, Combs' attorney Marc Agnifilo asked her to confirm that she told the lawyers at the April 2024 meeting that Combs 'wouldn't be in this mess if he had kept (her) around.' She acknowledged she probably said something like that, as they discussed the possibility of her returning to work for him as his chief of staff. Clark testified that she told them she wanted her life back. Clark testified that she couldn't get a job in the industry after she was fired in 2012, and recalled having a meeting with executives from Interscope Records that she thought was about possible employment. Instead, Clark said she was told to leave Combs alone or it wouldn't end well for her. Judge Arun Subramanian sustained a defense objection to her response, meaning the jury cannot consider the statement in their judgement. Under redirect questioning from the prosecution, Clark testified she continued to look for work through 2015 but was unable to find a new job in the industry because she was 'blacklisted.' Her response was also struck from the record after Subramanian sustained a defense objection. Clark said she wasn't able to find steady work in the entertainment industry so she began working in consulting. 'At this level of business, he (Combs) holds all the power as it relates to me,' Clark testified. Still, Clark said she 'did learn a lot of stuff from Puff,' noting the situation was 'very complicated.' Toward the end of her cross-examination, Clark broke into sobs as she looked at emails she sent Combs in 2014 and 2015 asking him to forgive her. 'That email is me pleading like, 'Dude let it go,'' she said.
CNN
4 days ago
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- CNN
Recap of ‘Diddy' trial: Ex-employee of Sean Combs testifies that Combs threatened to kill Kid Cudi
People in entertainment Sean 'Diddy' Combs MusicFacebookTweetLink Follow A former employee of Sean 'Diddy' Combs testified Tuesday that Combs threatened to kill rapper Kid Cudi after learning that the fellow musician was dating Cassie Ventura. Capricorn Clark, who worked for Combs and his companies off and on from 2004-2018, offered the dramatic details to begin the third week of testimony in Combs' federal racketeering and sex trafficking trial. Combs has pleaded not guilty. The first week of testimony in the trial was defined by testimony from Ventura, who said Combs physically abused her and coerced her into sex parties known as 'Freak Offs' during their relationship. The second week of testimony largely consisted of witnesses who bolstered parts of her story, including Scott Mescudi, the rapper known as Kid Cudi. Mescudi testified that his house was broken into and his Porsche destroyed by a Molotov cocktail after Combs learned he and Ventura were dating. Combs denied any involvement in the car's destruction following the incident, Mescudi testified. Medscudi said he did not believe Combs' denial. Prosecutors have argued Combs and some in his inner circle used threats, violence, drugs, bribery, arson, kidnapping and lies to coerce Ventura and another woman into participating in 'Freak Offs' and to protect the music mogul's reputation. The defense has acknowledged Combs was violent with romantic partners and during opening statements said he had 'a bit of a different sex life.' They also said that while Combs is 'a very flawed individual,' he has not committed the alleged federal crimes. Here's what we learned in testimony Tuesday. Clark, the former Combs assistant, testified about Combs's violent reaction to learning that Ventura and Mescudi were dating in late 2011, further detailing an incident that was previously recounted on the stand by Ventura and Mescudi. Clark testified that in December 2011, Combs showed up to her house between 5am and 6am and began banging on her door. When she opened it, she noted he was holding a gun and furious. As he entered her home, he asked her about Mescudi, she said. 'Get dressed, we're going to go kill this n***a,' Clark said Combs told her. When she protested, Combs said, 'I don't give a f**k what you want to do, go get dressed,' according to her testimony. Clark said they drove to Mescudi's house, and Combs and his security guard entered the home. Meanwhile, she stayed in the car and called Ventura to tell her what was happening and heard Mescudi in the background. Clark said she urged Cassie to stop Mescudi from returning to his house, Clark testified. Clark said she told Ventura that Mescudi was 'going to come get himself killed' if he confronted Combs. A short time later, Clark said Mescudi pulled up next to Combs' Escalade outside his home and then accelerated away. Combs' vehicle followed in pursuit, she said. 'It felt like forever but couldn't have been longer than a minute,' Clark testified about the car chase. Mescudi was able to drive away, Clark said. Back at Combs' house, Combs told her that she and Ventura needed to convince Mescudi not to tell police he was involved in the break-in, Clark said. 'If you guys don't convince him of that, I'll kill all you m*therf**kers,' Combs told her, according to Clark. She later told Ventura and Mescudi about the threat to remain silent. Sometime after, Ventura and Clark returned to Combs' home, where she said she witnessed Combs physically assault Ventura. Clark testified that she and a security guard stood by as Combs repeatedly kicked Ventura, adding that Combs threatened to hit Clark if she intervened. During her emotional testimony, Clark often patted her eyes with a tissue. She seemed to avert her eyes from Combs, but as she was leaving the courtroom during a midday break, she looked over toward his direction, clenched her jaw and nodded. Clark is the third former Combs' personal assistant to take the stand so far in the trial. Like the other assistants, Clark testified that she worked grueling hours under Combs, occasionally got drugs for him and prepared or cleaned his hotel rooms. Clark worked as Combs' personal assistant from 2004 to 2006, the marketing director for Sean John Women's and then global brand director from 2007 to 2012 and Ventura's creative director from 2016 to 2018. She also said she was threatened by Combs and people around him multiple times. On her first day, Clark said Combs took her to Central Park with his security guard at night and brought up her former employment with Death Row Records, which was founded by Combs' rival Marion 'Suge' Knight. 'He told me that he didn't know that I had anything to do with Suge Knight, and if anything happened, he would have to kill me,' Clark testified. In another instance, Clark said she was questioned for hours by a security guard, had her apartment searched and took a polygraph test when Combs accused her of stealing diamond jewelry. She was taken to a vacant office building to take a polygraph test for five days, and the man administering the test told her that if she failed, 'they're going to throw you into the East River,' Clark testified. In the summer of 2006, she told Combs' chef 'I hate it here' and the chef relayed that comment to Combs. Combs then 'charged' her, began pushing her and repeatedly told her to get out of his house. He pushed her about 30 yards using about 75% of his force, Clark said, until a security guard intervened. Clark testified she left the job after that incident. After the incidents involving Mescudi, Clark said Combs angrily asked why she didn't tell him about Ventura and Mescudi's relationship. Clark estimated Combs threatened her about 50 times between December 2011 to the following summer. Clark also said that in early 2012 she spoke with a human resources employee at Bad Boy Records and Harve Pierre, the label's former president, about how Combs wanted to kill Mescudi and beat Ventura. She said Pierre told her it was 'crazy but it's going to be okay.' Clark testified she was fired several months after that conversation. Also in 2012, when arson investigators reached out to her to make a statement about the incident involving Mescudi's vehicle, Clark said she hung up the phone. 'I wanted this whole thing to be over,' she testified. Clark testified that she met with Combs' attorneys just last year and discussed the possibility of working for him again. While Clark was on the stand under cross-examination, Combs' attorney Marc Agnifilo asked her to confirm that she told the lawyers at the April 2024 meeting that Combs 'wouldn't be in this mess if he had kept (her) around.' She acknowledged she probably said something like that, as they discussed the possibility of her returning to work for him as his chief of staff. Clark testified that she told them she wanted her life back. Clark testified that she couldn't get a job in the industry after she was fired in 2012, and recalled having a meeting with executives from Interscope Records that she thought was about possible employment. Instead, Clark said she was told to leave Combs alone or it wouldn't end well for her. Judge Arun Subramanian sustained a defense objection to her response, meaning the jury cannot consider the statement in their judgement. Under redirect questioning from the prosecution, Clark testified she continued to look for work through 2015 but was unable to find a new job in the industry because she was 'blacklisted.' Her response was also struck from the record after Subramanian sustained a defense objection. Clark said she wasn't able to find steady work in the entertainment industry so she began working in consulting. 'At this level of business, he (Combs) holds all the power as it relates to me,' Clark testified. Still, Clark said she 'did learn a lot of stuff from Puff,' noting the situation was 'very complicated.' Toward the end of her cross-examination, Clark broke into sobs as she looked at emails she sent Combs in 2014 and 2015 asking him to forgive her. 'That email is me pleading like, 'Dude let it go,'' she said.
Yahoo
5 days ago
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- Yahoo
Kid Cudi knew Diddy ‘had something to do with it' when his car was bombed with a Molotov Cocktail, rapper testifies
Kid Cudi candidly recounted to rapt jurors Thursday how his Porsche was bombed with a Molotov cocktail — and he immediately knew Sean 'Diddy' Combs 'had something to do with it.' The renowned rapper and actor – whose real name is Scott Mescudi – gave show-stopping testimony in Combs' federal racketeering and sex-trafficking trial, detailing the Bad Boy Records founder's alleged violent jealousy over his budding relationship with Cassie Ventura. 'The top of my Porsche was cut open and that's where they inserted the Molotov cocktail,' he said in Manhattan federal court. Jurors were shown photos of the damaged luxury vehicle, which Mescudi's friend sent to him while he was on his way home. 'I reached out to Sean Combs after my car caught fire and told him we needed to finally meet up and talk,' Mescudi, 41, said. The images also showed a slash in the convertible top of the car and its red seats singed and melted. Mescudi, 41, said the baffling one-sided feud led to a surreal summit with Combs — whom he mockingly compared to a 'Marvel supervillain' — in the aftermath of the January 2012 car bombing. Combs had also broken into Mescudi's house in possessive rage after learning his on-and-off again girlfriend Ventura had found a new beau, the 'Day 'N Nite' rapper told jurors. 'I reached out to Sean Combs after my car caught fire and told him we needed to finally meet up and talk,' he testified. 'He'd been wanting to talk to me. After the fire, I thought this is getting out of hand and I need to talk to him.' The hip-hop stars held a powwow at the exclusive SoHo House in Hollywood, where Mescudi testified he was escorted into the room by Combs' security guard D-Roc. 'Sean Combs was staring out the window with his hands behind his back like a Marvel supervillain,' Mescudi dramatically told jurors. The captivating testimony over the allegedly dangerous love triangle began after Mescudi strode into the courtroom wearing a leather biker jacket, light-washed jeans and white T-shirt – drawing all eyes, even from Combs. He gave a personable performance on the stand, both candid and humble as he provided new details about Combs' alleged jealous antics. Diddy racked up $1K bill for damages at ritzy Beverly Hills hotel over 'excessive' oil use Jurors at bombshell Diddy trial learn disgusting way he likes his burgers as ex-employees testify Diddy trial live updates: Rapper Kid Cudi testifying in sex-trafficking caseThe rapper's eventual come-to-Jesus talk with the 'violent' Combs came days after Mescudi got an alarming call from his dog-sitter, he said. 'She told me my car was on fire,' Mescudi recalled. 'I immediately went to my house.' 'She told me my car was on fire,' Mescudi said. 'I immediately went to my house.' He said when he got to the car, he could see the Molotov cocktail 'bottle and it was burnt up' and sitting 'on the ground, outside the vehicle.' He called the police to report the arson incident. But when law enforcement came, they found the bottle 'in the driver's seat,' Mescudi said. 'What the f–k?' Mescudi said he thought when he saw the bottle had been moved. Mescudi was asked if his car could be repaired. 'No,' he responded, yawning not for the first time from the witness stand. When asked why Mescudi arranged a meeting with Combs a few days after the bombing, he was frank: 'Because I knew he had something to do with it.' Combs' lawyers objected to Mescudi's accusation, which the judge sustained and ordered stricken from the record. Mescudi testified that his conversation with Combs covered when he and Ventura started dating and how it ended. '(Combs') whole point was we were homies, you know that was my girl,' Mescudi said. 'I let him know she told me they were broken up and I took her word for it.' Mescudi said Combs was 'very calm … it was weird he was so calm.' Eventually, Ventura came into the room and Mescudi said he 'was upset to find out she had kinda went back to (Combs.)' 'We fell in love, things just happened,' Mescudi said Ventura told him. At the end, Mescudi and Combs shook hands and he asked, looking the 'I'll Be Missing You' singer straight in the eyes, while holding his hand: 'What are we going to do about my car?' 'He looked back at me with a cold stare,' Mescudi recounted, 'and said, 'I don't know what you're talking about.' He said 'Wait, I thought we were cool, is there a problem?'' The two rappers didn't meet again until a couple of years later at the SoHo House where Combs apologized. 'He said, 'Man, I just want to apologize for everything, all that bulls–t,'' Mescudi recounted. The pair never had any other problems again after that. 'No, after I got the apology I kinda felt at peace with it because that was the last thing I expected to get from him,' Mescudi said. Mescudi and Combs did not make eye contact at any point through the testimony, which lasted less than two hours. Indeed, Combs' demeanor seemed tense while Mescudi was on the stand — a stark contrast from his rather lively persona during another witness' testimony earlier that day. When Mescudi left the courtroom after his testimony, he looked straight ahead in the direction of the door and briskly walked out. Combs, 55, faces up to life in prison if convicted on charges of sex trafficking, racketeering and other charges. He has pleaded not guilty.
