A violently jealous Sean “Diddy” Combs’ vowed to “kill” Kid Cudi after he discovered the rapper was dating Cassie Ventura, the mogul’s ex-assistant testified Tuesday.
Former assistant Capricorn Clark recounted to jurors in Combs’ racketeering and sex-trafficking trial that the Bad Boy Records founder came to her apartment gun-in-hand and “livid” over the relationship.
Combs told Clark to “get dressed, we’re going to kill this n—a” — referring to Kid Cudi — whose real name is Scott Mescudi, she testified.
“I had never seen anything like this before,” Clark told jurors. “He had never come to my house the entire time I’d known him. I had never seen him with a weapon.”
The dramatic tale from Clark in Manhattan federal court provided additional details — and some potential contradictions — to Mescudi’s show-stopping testimony last week over his baffling one-sided feud with Combs.
Mescudi told jurors that Combs broke into his house in 2011 and bizarrely opened his holiday presents.
Clark, for her part, provided an inside look into Combs’ alleged jealous rage during the incident — and the potential danger facing Mescudi.
She said Combs had asked why she didn’t tell him that Ventura, his long-time on-and-off girlfriend, had been seeing Mescudi.
The tension amped up as Clark got into a black Escalade with Combs and sat on his lap while he still had the gun, she recounted.
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Once they arrived at Mescudi’s house, Combs — who used to be known by the nicknames “Puff Daddy” and “P. Diddy” — went inside while Clark remained in the car.
“Puff came and got me with a gun and took me to Cudi’s house to kill him,” Clark said she told Ventura by phone while the mogul was inside.
Clark also testified that Mescudi — who had told jurors he drove to his home, furious over Combs’ break-in — soon rolled up in his car next to the Escalade.
She said Mescudi then sped off as Combs jumped into the SUV, prompting a surreal car chase that quickly fizzled as police sirens could be heard.
Mescudi’s testimony did not detail this alleged car chase.
The ordeal didn’t end there for Ventura, Clark testified.
Combs, while wearing underwear and a robe in his Los Angeles mansion, kicked Ventura in the thigh and leg with “100% full force” later that day, she told jurors.
“She didn’t do anything,” Clark said about Ventura. “She was just crying silently.”
“My heart was breaking seeing her get beat like that,” Clark said, at one point dabbing her eyes with a tissue as she quietly teared up.
Combs, 55, has pleaded not guilty. He could face life in prison, if convicted.
