The rapper Kid Cudi recently told a Manhattan federal jury on Thursday that controversial star Sean “Diddy” Combs broke into his Los Angeles home after the hip-hop mogul found out he was dating the R&B singer Cassie Ventura via Business Insider.
Christmas gifts from Chanel that Kid Cudi planned to give to his family were unwrapped and opened, and his dog was shut in the bathroom during the December 2011 break-in, he testified at Combs’ s*x-trafficking and racketeering trial.
Kid Cudi was called as a government witness in the trial, which is in its second week of testimony.
Mescudi stated that he learned of the break-in in real time, the morning after spending the night with Ventura at the Sunset Marquis hotel.
He told jurors that one of Combs’ trusted assistants, Capricorn Clark, called to say that she was outside Mescudi’s house and that Combs was inside. Clark told him that Combs had “forced her physically” to drive there with him, Mescudi said.
“Motherf***er, you in my house?” Mescudi recalled telling Combs over the phone as he rushed to the home in the Hollywood Hills.
“He said he wants to talk to me,” Mescudi said of Combs’ response during the phone call. “I said, ‘I’m on my way over right now.'”
“And he said, ‘I’m over here waiting for you,'” Mescudi told the jury, adding that Combs sounded “calm.”
Mescudi added, “I wanted to confront him, I wanted to fight him,” but he said he feared Combs might not be alone for any actual confrontation.
Mescudi said when he returned, Combs was nowhere to be found.
“Some gifts that I had brought for my family had been opened,” Mescudi testified of what he found inside. “And then my dog was in my bathroom.”
He said his dog was acting “very jittery.”
Prosecutors were barred by the judge from asking Mescudi for any details about lasting changes in the dog’s behavior after the break-in — including that it persisted in urinating on the floor.
“There are some dog lovers, potentially, on the jury,” the defense lawyer Brian Steel complained to the judge, prior to Mescudi and the jurors entering the courtroom.
“I agree,” US District Judge Arun Subramanian told the defense.”It’s a serious issue,” the judge said. “I’ll stop any answers that are about the long-term consequences to the dog.”
“I guess he was in the dark about things and wanted to talk,” Mescudi said.
But Mescudi said he told Combs, “You broke into my house, you messed with my dog — I don’t want to talk to you.”
During Ventura’s more than 20 hours of testimony last week, she told the eight-man, four-woman jury how her 2011 romance with Mescudi enraged Combs — and that he wanted to set fire to his car.
