Breaking Diddy trial live: Sean Combs and Cassie’s disturbing connection to Prince revealed by makeup artist’s testimony EnglishHeadline

Cassie’s former make-up testified that Diddy brutally assaulted the singer on the Beverly Hills lodge the identical weekend {that a} Prince get together was taking place.

Mylah Morales stated an enraged Diddy entered the lodge suite and shut the bed room door earlier than she began listening to ‘yelling and screaming.’

Cassie then emerged from the room with ‘a swollen eye, a busted lip and knots on her head.’

Cassie beforehand testified that she fled a celebration at Prince’s home as a result of she was scared that Diddy could be there.

‘It was a as soon as in a lifetime expertise,’ Cassie stated of desirous to attend the get together, including that she ‘knew [Diddy] would say no.’

‘I caught a glimpse of him, left the get together and ran out as quick as I might,’ Cassie instructed the court docket. ‘I knew he was indignant at me.’

Cassie added: ‘after which he got here after me.’

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Incendiary pictures proven in Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs’ trial reveal the disgraced rap mogul was getting ready for a lodge ‘freak off’ regardless of figuring out he was about to be arrested, prosecutors say.

Cassie Ventura and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs regarded like the right couple on the pink carpet all through their 11-year relationship.

However beneath the singer’s glamorous look have been bruises and scars allegedly brought on by the rapper’s horrific abuse.

Ventura, 38, testified over 4 days throughout Comb’s intercourse trafficking trial that she was subjected to years of abuse and drug-fueled intercourse marathons referred to as ‘freak-offs’.

Child Cudi testified that his Porsche 911 convertible was destroyed by hearth within the driveway of his Hollywood Hills dwelling after Diddy threatened him in 2012.

Cudi stated he was about 45 minutes away at a buddy’s home when his canine sitter referred to as and ‘instructed me my automotive was on hearth.’

Photos proven to the jury confirmed a gap minimize within the material roof and a Molotov cocktail was discovered within the passenger seat.

Choose Arun Subramanian instructed the jury on Thursday that the had earned a four-day weekend, forward of Memorial Day on Monday.

He instructed them to not converse to anyone concerning the case.

‘That is an immense public service, we’re proper on schedule,’ he stated,

‘Benefit from the lengthy weekend, you all actually deserve it.’

Croft is testifying about how digital proof was extracted from Cassie’s gadgets – three laptops.

Frédéric Zemmour, the overall supervisor of the L’Ermitage Beverly Hills lodge, is testifying after Morales.

He testified that Diddy ceaselessly stayed on the L’Ermitage Beverly Hills utilizing aliases akin to Frank White and Frank Black — names Cassie stated he used when checking in for ‘freak-off’ sexual encounters.

Zemmour stated Combs’ visitor profile famous that he “ALWAYS spills candle wax on all the things and makes use of extreme quantities of oil.” The profile instructed workers to “place the room out of order upon departure for deep cleansing.”

‘Please authorize an additional $1000 when visitor stays with us to cowl any room damages,’ Combs’ visitor profile stated.

Diddy and Cassie’s former make-up artist instructed the courts of the primary time she noticed Cassie crushed and bruised over the Grammys weekend in 2010.

‘We did a photograph shoot, went to dinner, then went to Cassie’s lodge, simply the 2 of us. Beverly Hills Lodge,’ she instructed jurors.

She claimed she was a light-weight sleeper and woke as much as a little bit of ‘commotion.’

‘Diddy got here in instantly after and requested the place [Cassie] was.

[He said] The place the fuck is she.’

After storming out of Cassie’s bed room, Morales tesitifed that the singer ‘had a swollen eye, a busted lip and knots on her head.’

Diddy and Cassie’s former make-up artist Mylah Morales is taking the stand subsequent.

Morales has beforehand labored with the likes of Rihanna and Jennifer Lopez on picture shoots and pink carpets.

She met Cassie on a photoshoot in Brooklyn when the singer was simply 16 years previous.

‘We have been shut. She was like a bit sister to me,’ Morales instructed the court docket.

Cudi testified that when he began relationship Cassie in late 2011, she’d led him to imagine that she and Combs have been damaged up.

In actuality, she testified, she was nonetheless seeing Combs for so-called ‘freak-off’ intercourse marathons and utilizing a burner cellphone to contact Cudi and hold their relationship secret from Combs.

‘She instructed me they have been damaged up and I took her phrase for it,’ Cudi stated, recalling for jurors what he instructed Combs after they met to clear the air in January 2012.

‘Ms. Ventura was residing two totally different lives, is that true?’ Metal requested.

As Diddy’s lawyer cross-examined Child Cudi, the rapper stated he felt ‘performed’ by Cassie.

‘Sure,’ he replied when requested if ‘Cassie performed him.’

Cudi stated Cassie was not trustworthy with him about her relationship with Diddy, which he thought was over.

He stated he was upset to search out out Cassie went again to relationship Diddy after their romance.

When requested if each Diddy and himself have been ‘performed’ by Cassie, Cudi replied: ‘Sure.’

Child Cudi stated on the stant that ‘he knew [Diddy] had one thing to do’ together with his automotive blowing up.

Diddy’s attorneys objected to the remark, and the choose sustained the objection.

The rapper stated he reached out to Diddy a pair days after his automotive blew up as a result of issues ‘have been getting out of hand.’

Cudi and Diddy then met at Soho Home in Hollywood.

‘He was standing there staring out the window together with his arms behind his again like a Marvel Supervillain,’ Cudi stated of Diddy.

Cudi added that Diddy’s calm demeanor as they mentioned his relationship with Cassie was ‘very off placing.’

Cassie finally joined the assembly, Cudi added.

When requested how the assembly ended, he stated:

‘We stood up, shook arms. As I used to be shaking his hand I stated, what are we going to do about my automotive. I requested him when our arms have been clasped collectively…he regarded again at me with a chilly stare and stated, “I don’t know what you are speaking about.”

The rapper instructed the court docket that in January 2012, after his relationship with Cassie had ended, he discovered that his Porsche had been set on hearth in his driveaway when he was not dwelling.

‘My canine’s babysitter referred to as me within the morning… Advised me my automotive was on hearth,’ he stated.

The jury was then proven footage of the burned-down car in Cudi’s driveway.

‘Appears like the highest of my Porsche was minimize open, that’s the place they inserted the molotov cocktail,’ Cudi stated of one of many pictures proven to the jury.

One other picture confirmed what seemed to be the molotov cocktail used within the arson.

Cudi instructed the jury on Thursday about receiving a name from Diddy’s assistant Capricorn Clark earlier than his dwelling was burglarized.

‘[She was] very scared. Appeared like she was on the verge of tears. [She said] that Sean Combs and affiliate have been in my home and she or he was in her automotive. She was compelled to go together with them over there.

Clark reportedly made the decision from exterior Cudi’s mansion.

The jury was then proven pictures of the rapper’s dwelling after it was burglarized, displaying the entrance door.

Cudi stated he then drove to his dwelling and referred to as Diddy on the way in which.

‘I stated mottherf***er you in my home. He’s like, “what’s up.”

Diddy, in a relaxed tone, reportedly instructed Cudi that he was ready for him on the home.

Cudi stated he requested Combs why he was in the home. He stated Combs calmly replied, ‘I wish to speak to you.’

Describing the harm executed to his dwelling, Cudi added: ‘some presents I’d purchased for my household have been opened.

‘Some stuff I bought from Chanel. My canine was locked up in my toilet. Presents have been on the kitchen counter. I can’t remenber what however it was stuff from Chanel.’

Child Cudi instructed the jury that in 2011 he acquired a name from a panicked Cassie who claimed Diddy had came upon about their romance.

‘She requested me to select her up,’ the rapper stated. ‘She sounded actually burdened, nervous, scared so I went to select her up.’

‘She was additionally nervous he would come to my home as a result of he requested for my deal with and she or he gave it to him,’ Cudi added.

‘[She] didn’t know what Sean Combs would do.’

Cudi stated he then took Cassie to the Sundown Marquis lodge in LA, saying he ‘needed to place her someplace off the radar. Protected, away from him.’

The rapper, carrying a leather-based jacket, denims and white T-shirt, entered the courtroom round 10.45am.

He sat down within the witness stand, stood to be sworn in after which sat down to start his testimony.

He recognized himself as Scott Mescudi – an actor and musician – and famous he’s identified by one other identify: Child Cudi.

The star instructed the jury he met Cassie in 2008 at an occasion in New York and so they dated in 2011.

Cudi stated on the time, he understood that ‘[Cassie] and Sean Combs had had some issues and so they weren’t relationship anymore.’

Final week, one other of Diddy’s former assistants took the stand for the prosecution.

David James, Combs’ private assistant from 2007 to 2009, testified that the job appeared to have rising perils. He stated he stop when he realized Combs had put his life at risk by forcing him to drive a automotive because the indignant rapper sat within the again with three handguns on his lap.

James stated his job typically required him to make sure that lodge rooms the place Combs stayed beneath the identify ‘Frank Black’ have been stocked with the musician’s comforts, together with recent underwear, an iPod, apple sauce, vodka, child oil, Viagra and condoms.

George Kaplan revealed that Could 21, the birthday of Combs’ late protege Biggie Smalls, is a paid vacation at Combs Enterprises.

Smalls, who was also called The Infamous B.I.G., signed to Combs’ Unhealthy Boy Information label in 1993.

The rapper, whose actual identify was Christopher Wallace, was fatally shot in Los Angeles in 1997.

Diddy’s former assistant George Kaplan instructed jurors that his tenure with Combs has ‘confirmed to be some of the sophisticated items of my life.’

‘I’m a younger man and it is a God amongst males speaking to me,’ stated Kaplan, who served as an assistant for Combs and his Combs Enterprises firm from 2013 to 2015.

‘He not solely pushed me to my depth he pushed me to depths I didn’t even know I had,’ Kaplan stated, explaining he ‘by no means labored tougher in my life.’

Regardless of leaving the job after seeing Combs abusing Cassie, he stated he nonetheless thinks fondly of many features of their work collectively and needs the hip-hop mogul properly on his birthday — blurting ‘Nov. 4,’ unprompted.

Newly launched pictures from a raid on Diddy‘s Miami mansion seem to indicate how the music mogul’s usually jet-black hair is a dye job.

Earlier than his arrest months later, Diddy, 55, had at all times sported a younger jet-black hair and beard regardless of his advancing age.

Diddy nodded alongside throughout cross-examination as George Kaplan praised him for educating him work ethic.

‘Mr Combs is a enterprise mogul throughout quite a few industries,’ Kaplan stated when requested why he appreciated to work for Diddy.

‘I’d been a fan of his since I used to be a baby and to be frank hold classes from him to this present day from a enterprise perspective. He taught me to have the work ethic…no job is just too large or too small.

‘Once I interview younger folks none of those folks perceive that and I’m very grateful for these classes.’

Diddy’s ex assistant George Kaplan instructed the jury a couple of time he witnessed the mogul attacking one in every of his girlfriends, Gina Huyhn.

Mr Combs was very indignant and was throwing these apples that lived in an ornamental vessel in an entryway. [Throwing them] at Gina. Laborious. He was very indignant

‘(Gina) was making an attempt to protect herself along with her arms, shifting away from him. I left.’

When requested why he didn’t intervene, Kaplan replied: ‘All the identical causes as earlier than, a younger child making an attempt to make it within the leisure trade.

‘This was my first skilled endeavour and I believed this was regular and that is what I might count on if I needed a profession on this trade.’

Kaplan stated shortly after the incident he stop his job and moved bacjk in together with his mom.

He stated he ‘I appreciated Mr Combs and needed to proceed having a relationship with him.’

Child Cudi was met by US marshals and Homeland Safety brokers who escorted him into the courthouse on this wet morning in New York Metropolis.

Final week, Cassie testified that Combs organized for her to fulfill Cudi in 2011 to work on music. The 2 started relationship quickly after, and she or he stated she bought a burner cellphone to speak with Cudi in secret.

Cassie stated she and Combs had damaged up on the time, though they nonetheless engaged in intercourse events that Combs orchestrated. It was throughout one in every of these that Combs checked out her cellphone and discovered of the Cudi relationship, Cassie testified.

In response, she stated he lunged at her with a corkscrew and kicked her within the again.

When Cassie and Combs have been in another country in 2012, Combs instructed her that Cudi’s automotive could be blown up and Combs needed Cudi’s associates there to see it, Cassie testified.

On Tuesday, Cassie’s mom, Regina Ventura, testified that Cassie instructed her Combs was so indignant about her relationship with Cudi that he deliberate to launch sexually express movies of her and ship somebody to harm Cassie and Cudi.

Diddy’s former assistant George Kaplan instructed the court docket on Thursday he witnessed the mogul assaulting Cassie on his non-public jet in 2015.

I heard a glass break, behind me… It was a glass crash, shatter. I regarded over my proper shoulder and noticed Mr Combs standing over Cassie.

She was on her again and her legs have been prolonged up that indicated she was tyring to create house between the 2 of them. He was standing above her. He had a glass in his hand and he was holding it up. It was a whiskey rocks glass.

There was large commotion and scuffle and after the glass crashed Cassie screamed: ‘Isn’t anyone seeing this?’

Kaplan instructed the jury nobody aboard the non-public jet intervened.

When requested what he did, he replied: ‘Nothing. I regarded away.

‘I used to be 23 years previous, all I needed to do was have an ideal job within the leisure trade. I couldn’t imagine my fortune working for an icon…

‘The final method I believed I might achieve success was to compromise his wellbeing in any method.’

Choose Arun Subramanian dominated on Thursday that Child Cudi can inform the jury about an incident of arson after he was threatened by Diddy over his romance with Cassie.

Cassie beforehand testified that Diddy threatened to harm her and Cudi after he discovered they have been relationship.

Cassie stated she started a quick relationship with Child Cudi ‘throughout a tough patch’ with Diddy.

She claimed Diddy went by means of her cellphone and located emails between her and the American rapper and have become enraged.

Diddy allegedly positioned a handbook corkscrew in between his fingers and lunged at her, in keeping with the lawsuit and she or he ran away to stick with Child Cudi, in keeping with the swimsuit.

Cassie later returned and the music government allegedly hit her a number of instances, after which kicked her within the again as she tried to expire the door, the submitting claims.

Throughout Paris Vogue Week, she claims Diddy instructed her he was going to explode Child Cudi’s automotive and that he needed to ensure he was dwelling together with his associates when it occurred.

‘Round that point, Child Cudi’s automotive exploded in his driveway,’ the lawsuit said.

Prosecutors and protection attorneys are discussing the upcoming testimony of Diddy’s former assistant George Kaplan.

Diddy’s protection stated on Thursday they count on Kaplan to say he witnessed Diddy being violent to his ex-girlfriend Gina Huyhn in 2015.

Lead protection lawyer Marc Agnifilo requested the choose to not enable that a part of the testimony, saying: ‘He’s going to say he noticed Mr Combs throwing apples at Gina and wasn’t positive if any of the apples struck her…. That, with out a date, is a far cry.’

Gina Huynh, who says she dated the 54-year-old music government for 5 years, described in a resurfaced interview from 2019 a time at which he allegedly turned violent along with her.

The mannequin instructed the controversial blogger Tasha Ok that he allegedly ‘stomped’ on her abdomen and repeatedly punched her within the head throughout one disturbing encounter.

Prosecutors stated they’ll subsequent name Child Cudi to the stand after she claimed Diddy threatened him when the 2 have been relationship.

Cassie’s former make-up artist Mylah Morales is meant to take the stand after Cudi, and she or he shall be adopted by a ‘lodge witness.’

Former Combs Enterprises CFO, music government Tony Abrahams, can also be anticipated to testify for the prosecution.

The music mogul’s staggering downfall started when Cassie, actual identify Cassandra Ventura, filed a bombshell lawsuit in 2023 detailing terrifying claims of sexual abuse and violence.

The lawsuit was settled for an undisclosed quantity only a day after it was filed, however it was too late for Diddy’s repute, and the rapper was then hit with dozens of lawsuits together with comparable claims.

Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs is presently within the struggle of his life in federal court docket as he stares down the prospect of a long time behind bars.

The disgraced rap mogul, 55, has been charged with two counts of intercourse trafficking, two counts of transportation to interact in prostitution and one depend of racketeering.

In line with prosecutors, the rapper used his ‘multi-faceted enterprise empire’ to hold out a ‘felony enterprise’ for years, allegedly coercing victims into sexual ‘freak off’ marathons and threatening them into silence.

The racketeering and intercourse trafficking prices carry a minimal sentence of 15 years every, whereas transportation to interact in prostitution carries a most of 10 years behind bars.

Rapper and actor Child Cudi is predicted to testify on the Diddy trial this week, taking the witness stand to inform the jury about his transient relationship 14 years in the past with the mogul’s ex-girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie.

Prosecutors say Combs was so upset concerning the relationship that he organized to have Cudi’s convertible firebombed, in keeping with court docket filings.

Cudi, whose authorized identify is Scott Mescudi, received’t be referred to as to the stand earlier than Thursday, prosecutors knowledgeable the choose on Wednesday.

George Kaplan is predicted to proceed his testimony on Thursday.

He invoked the fifth modification on Wednesday in court docket, asking for immunity earlier than testifying in Diddy’s intercourse trafficking trial.

The previous worker instructed the court docket Diddy usually threatened his job and have become enraged over minor points.

One time, the mogul allegedly turned indignant and bought in Kaplan’s face as a result of he had purchased him the incorrect type of bottled water.

First week on the job and he requested me to go to Complete Meals to get a BPA free gallon water bottle. They didn’t have it and I didn’t wish to be late.

I bought two half-gallon bottles and that was inadequate. He instructed me I didn’t deliver him what he requested for. He was indignant. He was very near my face.

Kaplan stated he was answerable for organising Diddy’s lodge rooms in LA, New York and Miami.

He stated ‘a lodge bag that had seemingly what was wanted for lodge stays.’

The bag contained garments, a speaker, candles, liquor, child oil and astroglide.

When Diddy was executed with the lodge rooms, Kaplan stated it was his job to scrub them up.

Kaplan stated there could be ‘A number of empty bottles, gatorade bottles, liquor bottles, usually child oil, on the desk, on the ground, across the mattress.’

Former speak present host and radio star Wendy Williams claimed previously that she was fired from Scorching 97 in 1998 after she shared her perception that Diddy was homosexual.

Williams had supposedly stated she had a photograph of Diddy being intimate with a person.

The mogul’s former safety guard Gene Deal appeared to substantiate the declare in 2022.

‘[Diddy] bought one of many hottest DJs off Scorching 97 as a result of she needed to place up an image of him getting his pants pulled down,’ Deal stated, in keeping with Vibe.

Wendy went on to turn out to be a celebrity talkshot host, however famously continued sharing claims about Diddy.