American rapper Child Cudi’s automobile mysteriously exploded in his driveway shortly after Sean “Diddy” Combs threatened to blow it up, his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura testified in a New York court docket on Wednesday.The declare got here throughout Combs’ ongoing sex-trafficking and racketeering trial, the place Ventura is a key authorities witness. She advised the jury that the menace got here in late 2011, shortly after the hip-hop mogul found she had began relationship Cudi, whose actual identify is Scott Mescudi, stories the New York Publish. “He talked about once we have been in a foreign country that Scott’s automobile could be blown up and he needed his mates to see it,” Ventura mentioned in her testimony.Later, when she and Combs met Cudi at SoHo Home in New York, she recalled the rapper asking, “What about my automobile?” Combs coolly responded, “What automobile?” and mentioned no extra. The assembly ended there.Ventura and Combs have been in a risky relationship that lasted 11 years. She first publicly alleged in a 2023 civil lawsuit that Combs had made the automobile bomb menace, and that Cudi’s automobile had exploded across the identical time.In court docket, Ventura detailed how Combs found her relationship with Cudi. She mentioned he went via her telephone throughout what she described as a “freak-off,” a time period used for the sexual occasions Combs allegedly organised. He discovered emails between her and one in all his assistants, Capricorn Clark, about delivering her toiletries to Cudi’s dwelling.After the invention, Ventura mentioned Combs “lunged” at her with a corkscrew and later kicked her within the again as she left his dwelling. The court docket was proven images of bruises she suffered on her again and legs, which have been taken by her mom.She additionally described disturbing scenes in her lodge room that evening, claiming she returned to search out the bathroom filled with faeces, furnishings knocked over, and urine on the ground.An e mail Ventura wrote in December 2011 to her mom and Clark was additionally learn in court docket. “The threats that [Sean Combs] has fabricated from me are that he’ll launch 2 sexually express movies: one on xmas day [and one other],” she wrote.Ventura admitted that she downplayed the abuse when she first advised her mom. “No, I advised her it was the primary time,” she mentioned when requested if she had been open in regards to the violence.Combs has pleaded not responsible to sex-trafficking and racketeering prices. If convicted, he may face a life sentence.
