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Cassie Ventura, Combs‘ longtime ex-girlfriend, testified earlier that the hip-hop mogul threatened to blow up the „Day ‚n‘ Night“ rapper’s car after learning she was dating him.
By McKinley Franklin
Federal prosecutors have called rapper and actor Kid Cudi to testify in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex-trafficking and racketeering trial in New York this week.
Prosecutor Maurene Comey announced Tuesday that the rapper, who had a brief romantic relationship over a decade ago with Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura, is expected to take the stand on Wednesday or Thursday.
Ventura testified last week at the trial that Combs learned she was dating Kid Cudi while going through her phone messages at one of the “freak-off” events the couple would have at various hotels. Combs, Ventura said in her testimony, threatened to blow up Cudi’s car in early 2012. She also testified that Combs threatened to release two sex tapes featuring her and that the rap mogul would send an individual to harm both of them.
After Ventura first filed her 2023 civil lawsuit, which also included the allegations about Cudi’s car, a rep for the rapper confirmed that a vehicle of his had exploded, but provided no more details. “This is all true,” the rep told the outlet.
Cudi will testify after George Kaplan, a former employee who Ventura testified had quit after witnessing Combs’ abuse, per CNN.
“I feared for my career. I feared for my family. It’s just embarrassing, all of it,” Ventura said while testifying last week. “It could ruin everything I worked for. Make me look like a slut.”
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