Kid Cudi has been referred to as to testify in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex-trafficking and racketeering trial.
Prosecutor Maurene Comey introduced Tuesday that the rapper, who had a relationship with Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura, is predicted to take the stand on Wednesday or Thursday.
During the trial, Ventura had previously testified that Combs realized that she was courting rapper Kid Cudi at considered one of his “freak-off” events whereas going by her telephone messages. Combs, Ventura mentioned in her testimony, threatened to blow up Cudi’s automotive, earlier than the car blew up in early 2012. She additionally testified that Combs threatened to launch two intercourse tapes that includes her and that he’d ship a person to hurt her and Cudi.
After Ventura first filed her lawsuit — which additionally included the allegations about his automotive — again in 2023, a rep for Cudi confirmed to the New York Times {that a} automotive of his had exploded, however offered no extra particulars. “This is all true,” the rep advised the outlet on the time.
Cudi will testify after George Kaplan, a former worker who Ventura testified had stop after witnessing abuse, per CNN.
“I feared for my career. I feared for my family. It’s just embarrassing, all of it,” Ventura mentioned will testifying final week. “It could ruin everything I worked for. Make me look like a slut.”
More to come.
