Some of Sean “Diddy” Combs‘ ex-employees became a central focus in the third week of his sex trafficking trial. Witnesses, including personal assistants, testified that the hip-hop mogul was erratic, controlling, and violent.
The week began with Capricorn Clark, a personal assistant, who recalled beatings of Cassie and Diddy’s rage over Kid Cudi. Then, it ended with another ex-assistant, testifying under the pseudonym “Mia.” She alleges Combs raped her during a torturous eight-year tenure.
She is the second of three women expected to testify that he sexually assaulted them, with Cassie being the first.
Combs has pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking, racketeering, and transportation to engage in prostitution charges. The trial resumes for week four on Monday (June 2) in Manhattan. Until then, let’s recap six significant moments from Diddy’s third week on trial.
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1. Capricorn Clark Claims Fear Stopped Her From Calling Police
Former employees of Combs’ Bad Boy Entertainment described repeatedly witnessing him beat Casandra “Cassie” Ventura. But, they also didn’t report the abuse to law enforcement because they feared Sean Combs would harm them.
Capricorn Clark testified that the day she started as his assistant in 2004, he threatened to kill her if her previous work for rival rappers interfered with her work for him. Then, she testified, she watched in shock as Combs viciously assaulted Cassie in 2011 after learning she was dating Cudi. Clark said her “heart was breaking from seeing her get hit like that.” Still, neither she nor Combs’ bodyguard intervened.
She said she called Cassie’s mother and told her: “Please help her. I can’t call the police, but you can.”
Weeks later, Clark said, she reported what happened to Cassie to the president of Bad Boy Records. The ex-assistant also testified about her own run-ins with Sean Combs. She told jurors that he kidnapped her at gunpoint and took her to Cudi’s house as he sounded off about wanting to kill the rapper. Capricorn Clark said she stayed in Combs’ SUV while he broke into the home.
She said she was fired weeks later for what she contends was a trumped-up reason. Kid Cudi previously testified that he believed Cassie and Combs had broken up. He said his relationship with the singer only lasted a few weeks.
2. Cassie Delivers Her Third Child After Testifying In Diddy’s Trial
One of the week’s biggest developments came outside the courtroom. Cassie, 38, delivered her third child less than two weeks after testifying for four days as the prosecution’s star witness. The Tuesday (May 27) news of her son’s birth reached the jury the next day when Cassie’s longtime stylist, Deonte Nash, testified that he was still close to Cassie and had sent her well wishes after the birth. Cassie married personal trainer Alex in September 2019 — about a year after breaking up with Combs for good. Their first daughter, Frankie Stone Fine, was born in 2019. They welcomed a second daughter, Sunny Cinco Fine, in 2021.
3. Law Enforcement Testify About Attacks On Kid Cudi’s Property
Additionally, jurors heard from a Los Angeles police officer who responded to the December 2011 break-in at Cudi’s home. An arson investigator also testified and revealed his efforts to solve the firebombing of Cudi’s Porsche 911 weeks later.
Officer Chris Ignacio said he found Christmas gifts, some opened, with luxury watches and purses. Cudi previously testified that his dog was traumatized after being locked in a bathroom by intruders. Ignacio said he saw a car with tinted windows registered to Bad Boy outside the house, but didn’t approach it because he had no proof a crime had occurred.
Prosecutors are trying to prove that Combs was behind the break-in and the subsequent firebombing. Lance Jimenez, a Los Angeles Fire Department arson investigator, said the explosive was made from a 40-ounce Olde English 800 malt liquor bottle and a silky designer handkerchief. That Molotov cocktail ended up in the convertible through a sliced hole in the car’s fabric roof. “I personally felt it was targeted,” Jimenez said of the Jan. 9, 2012, attack.
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4. Stylist Deonte Nash Makes Lasting Impression With Testimony
