According to PEOPLE Kid Cudi is expected to take the stand this week in the Sean Diddy Combs trial.
Rapper Scott Mescudi, was in a relationship with Casandra “Cassie” Ventura after they met in December 2011, she testified last week.
Ventura, who was in an 11-year relationship with Combs that ended in 2018, previously testified that she was “up and down” at the time of her relationship with Mescudi and stated that she and Combs “weren’t in the greatest place.”
Combs found out Ventura was seeing Mescudi during a “Freak Off,” she testified.
“I just remember [Combs] putting a wine opener between his fingers and lunging at me,” Ventura said.
Ventura said Combs was “irate” and allegedly threatened to release “Freak Off” videos to harm her and Mescudi.
“Sean kicked me in the back, I fell on the floor and then left,” Ventura testified. “I had a large bruise on my back and bruises on other places — he literally kicked me with the bottom of his foot.”
Ventura further testified that Combs grew so infuriated about her dating Mescudi that he threatened to blow up the “Day ‘n’ Nite” rapper’s car — and wanted Cudi’s friends to see it.
“Sean wanted Scott’s friends to see Scott’s car get blown up,” Ventura said.
The indictment against Combs does not mention such an incident, though the government claims the racketeering conspiracy he allegedly led included arson, among other offenses.
Ventura’s 2023 lawsuit against Combs, which was settled a day after it was filed, includes a bit about the music mogul’s anger at Mescudi — and goes on to note that the rapper’s car blew up in his driveway in 2012.
Mescudi told the New York Times in 2023 that his car blew up around that time.
Combs is charged with sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution. He could face life in prison if convicted.
