Cassie says Diddy organized for Child Cudi’s automobile to be blown up after discovering out she was courting rapper
Warning: This text accommodates dialogue of home violence which some readers might discover distressing
Cassie Ventura has informed a New York court docket that Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs lunged at her with a wine opener after he discovered she was courting one other man, after which mentioned he would blow up the person’s automobile, which later did explode.
Combs is in court docket to face expenses of racketeering, intercourse trafficking and transportation to interact in prostitution, all of which he denies and has entered a plea of not responsible to.
Among the many witnesses known as to present testimony on the trial is Diddy’s ex-partner Cassie Ventura, who dated him on and off between 2007 and 2018.
In 2023 she filed a lawsuit towards him alleging that she had been subjected to years of bodily and sexual abuse. Diddy denied the claims however settled the lawsuit the next day.
Throughout her time on the witness stand this week, Cassie has spoken about being a part of Combs’ ‘freak offs’, what occurred within the lead-up to that video the place folks noticed Combs assaulting her in a Los Angeles lodge, and the musician’s messages despatched within the aftermath.
Now, she has claimed to the court docket that Combs tried to assault her with a wine opener as soon as he realized she was courting the rapper Child Cudi, in addition to threatening to explode his automobile.
Cassie spoke about an alleged incident in 2011 the place she was at one in every of Diddy’s ‘freak offs’ and he’d learn some emails which made reference to Child Cudi, actual title Scott Mescudi.
According to CNN, Ventura mentioned that Diddy ‘lunged at her’ with a wine opener in his hand, and that she was capable of escape the ‘freak off’ being held in a lodge room and go to a different lodge the place she was staying.
She informed the court docket that she known as Mescudi on a burner cellphone and requested him to return and decide her up from the lodge, saying that she later went over to Combs’ home to speak issues out however discovered him to be ‘irate’.
Ventura added that Diddy then threatened to launch movies of the ‘freak offs’, as she testified that: “He informed me about movies that he had that he was going to launch, and that he was going to harm Scott and I.”
She additionally testified that Diddy informed her Child Cudi’s automobile can be blown up, claiming that he informed her he needed Child Cudi’s associates to see the automobile blown up on Mescudi’s driveway.
A automobile owned by Child Cudi did really blow up, and afterwards Ventura claimed that she, Cudi and Diddy met as much as have a dialogue.
At this assembly she claimed that Child Cudi requested about his automobile, and Diddy mentioned ‘what automobile?’.
Rolling Stone reported that Child Cudi’s automobile, a 2011 Porsche 911 Turbo S, had been set on fireplace by an ‘incendiary gadget’ on 9 January, 2012 inflicting round $10,000 value of injury.
When Cassie Ventura filed a lawsuit towards Diddy in 2023 it talked about the declare that he had threatened to explode Child Cudi’s automobile, and a consultant for Child Cudi told the New York Instances ‘that is all true’.
Through the trial the jury was proven an electronic mail despatched in December 2011 that Ventura had despatched to her mom and one in every of Combs’ employers saying that the musician had threatened to launch ‘express intercourse tapes’ of her.
She has additionally been telling the court docket about numerous different alleged incidents of violence, claiming that Diddy beat her up and threw baggage at her after she went to a celebration at Prince’s home and did not inform Combs for concern he would not let her go.
Ventura testified that she ‘didn’t have the sources I wanted to get out and transfer’ away from Combs, saying: “I understood Sean’s capabilities, his entry to weapons, and the threats that he made previous to that.”
The trial continues.
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