Two Down, More To Go! 6 MAJOR Moments From Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ Second Week On Trial For Sex Trafficking (RECAP)

Kid Cudi testified Thursday (May 22) that Cassie sounded “very stressed, nervous, just scared” when she called him in December 2011 to say that Combs had learned they were dating. Cudi said he was confused because he thought Combs and Cassie had broken up. Then, he said, one of Combs’ assistants called. She said Combs and an aide were in Cudi’s home, waiting to speak with him. She also said she had been forced into a car to join them.

Cudi said he raced to his house, but Combs was gone. He testified that he found open Christmas gifts, and his dog was locked in the bathroom. After the break-in, his dog was “very jittery and kind of on edge all the time,” he said. The following month, someone set fire to Cudi’s car, destroying it.

Cudi said he met with Diddy at a Los Angeles hotel the day after the car incident to squash their beef. When he walked in, he said that Combs was staring out the window, standing with hands behind his back “like a Marvel supervillain.” At that meeting, Sean Combs denied having anything to do with the burned car, but Cudi said he didn’t believe him.

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The first witness of week two, Dawn Richard, got her big break in the music business as a cast member on Combs’ reality TV show, ‘Making the Band.’ She performed with two Combs-backed groups, Danity Kane and Diddy — Dirty Money. But Richard said Combs threatened her life after she saw him beat Cassie and try to hit her with a skillet in 2009. She said Combs told her and another woman that they “could go missing” if they didn’t stay quiet. She said she saw Combs beat Cassie frequently. “He would punch her, choke her, drag her, slap her in the mouth,” Dawn Richard testified. 

Kerry Morgan said she had a falling out with Cassie, her friend of 17 years, after Combs attacked her in a rage in 2018. At the time, he allegedly demanded to know who Cassie was cheating on him with. Morgan said he slung a hanger at her head and tried to choke her. The incident reportedly left her feeling dizzy, vomiting, and concussed, with finger imprints on her neck.

A month later, Morgan met Cassie at a pizza parlor while contemplating a lawsuit. At the meeting, Cassie had her sign a nondisclosure agreement for $30,000. But then, she said, Cassie “told me she thought I was milking it, that I was overexaggerating.” They haven’t spoken since.

One of the last witnesses of the week was Frédéric Zemmour, the general manager of L’Ermitage Beverly Hills in California. He revealed that Diddy’s guest profile noted that he “ALWAYS spills candle wax on everything and uses excessive amounts of oil.” The profile instructed staff to “place the room out of order upon departure for deep cleaning.”

“Please authorize an extra $1000 when guest stays with us to cover any room damages,” Combs’ guest profile said.

Witnesses have testified that Combs liked to use candles and baby oil during freak-offs.

Despite the trial’s serious subject matter, there have been a few light moments. On Thursday, Combs’ former personal assistant, George Kaplan, shared that his ex-boss “loves applesauce.” Combs nodded and smiled as Kaplan recounted that he “eats it on the side or on top of a lot of things.”

“Cheeseburgers?” defense attorney Marc Agnifilo asked. “Cheeseburgers being one of them,” Kaplan said as laughter broke out across the courtroom.

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Associated Press Staff Michael R. Sisak and Larry Neumeister contributed to this report via AP Newsroom.