Diddy kidnapped ex-aide in plot to kill Kid Cudi, trial hears

One of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ former staff has testified the hip-hop mogul kidnapped her at gunpoint, then broke into rapper Kid Cudi’s house in a plot to kill his love rival.

Capricorn Clark, who labored on-and-off for Mr Combs for greater than a decade, advised his trial that the defendant and a safety guard had proven as much as her residence in 2011 and compelled her to drive with them to Kid Cudi’s house.

“Get dressed,” she recalled Mr Combs saying. “We’re going to go kill this [expletive].” She additionally advised the court docket Diddy had threatened to kill her on her very first day working for him.

Mr Combs, 55, has pleaded not responsible to racketeering, intercourse trafficking and transportation to interact in prostitution.

The Kid Cudi incident was first mentioned within the trial final week when that rapper, whose legal name is Scott Mescudi, took the stand to testify towards Mr Combs.

He detailed his relationship with Mr Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura, an alleged break-in at his Los Angeles house and an incident wherein his Porsche was broken by a Molotov cocktail, which he believed Mr Combs orchestrated.

Mr Combs is facing possible life in prison if convicted on federal fees of racketeering, intercourse trafficking and transportation to interact in prostitution.

The rapper has individually denied accusations in a barrage of civil lawsuits that echo a few of the claims made in his felony case.

In her testimony on Tuesday, Ms Clark – who was world model director for Mr Combs’ Bad Boy Entertainment – stated the hip-hop mogul had arrived at her house in 2011 after he found Ms Ventura was in a relationship with Mr Mescudi.

Mr Combs was holding a gun in his hand when he arrived, she stated, and appeared “furious” and advised her “we’ll kill” Mr Mescudi.

She advised the court docket he compelled her to get right into a automobile and go along with them towards her will, the BBC’s US accomplice CBS News reported.

Under cross-examination by Mr Combs’ lawyer, Ms Clark denied that she went with him voluntarily.

Once they arrived at Mr Mescudi’s house, Mr Combs and a safety guard went inside whereas she referred to as Ms Ventura from the automobile and advised her what was unfolding.

When Mr Combs returned and caught her on the telephone he grew to become extra offended, Ms Clark stated, including that they sped off as Mr Mescudi arrived again at his house.

Afterwards, the court docket heard that the defendant had advised Ms Clark he wouldn’t let her go till she and Ms Ventura persuaded Mr Mescudi that Mr Combs was not concerned within the break-in at his LA house.

“If you do not persuade him of that I’ll kill all you,” Mr Combs advised Ms Clark, she testified.

Ms Clark additionally described the troublesome working relationship she had with Mr Combs over time.

On her very first day within the job, she testified, Mr Combs threatened to kill her as he warned that her previous work for different rappers had higher not change into an issue for him.

But, she advised the court docket, regardless of the tumult she additionally felt like his protector and wished to stay in his circle.

“He broke the ceiling of what we have been allowed to do as black individuals within the enterprise world.”

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