Rapper Kid Cudi testifies Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs broke into his house

When he arrived at his house, Mescudi said no one else was there. He said gifts that he had bought for his family were opened and his dog was locked in a bathroom. He said he reported a break-in to the police.

Under cross-examination by Combs’ lawyer Brian Steel, Mescudi acknowledged that he had left his door unlocked and that there was no damage to his home or furniture.

“I’m not belittling, but the only things that were displayed differently is there were some Christmas presents that were unwrapped?” Steel said.

‘THAT WAS MY GIRL’

Ventura, known professionally as Cassie, testified on May 14 that Combs threatened to release sex tapes of her and have someone hurt both her and Mescudi after discovering they were seeing each other.

Mescudi testified that he and Ventura ended their relationship shortly after the break-in. He told jurors that he learnt in January 2012 from his dog’s babysitter that his car had caught fire in his driveway.

Mescudi testified that the day after the car fire, he met with Combs at the Soho House hotel in Los Angeles.

Mescudi said Combs told him at the meeting, “We were homies, you know that was my girl.” Mescudi said Ventura had told him she and Combs had broken up.

Mescudi said he asked Combs about his car, and Combs told him he did not know what he was talking about.

Asked by prosecutor Emily Johnson how he understood that comment, Mescudi said, “He was lying.”

Mescudi told Steel during cross-examination that no witness ever said Combs was near his property at the time and said he never learnt about any fingerprint or DNA evidence police collected from the car. Also known throughout his career as Puff Daddy and P. Diddy, Combs turned artists like Notorious B.I.G. and Usher into stars, elevating hip-hop in American culture and becoming a billionaire in the process.

He has been held in federal lock-up in Brooklyn since his September 2024 arrest.

Reuters