Kid Cudi admits Cassie Ventura ‘played’ him, in his action-packed Diddy trial testimony
Rapper and actor Scott Mescudi, better known as Kid Cudi, took the witness stand Thursday in the sex trafficking trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs, providing testimony about his relationship with R&B singer Cassie Ventura and incidents he alleges involved Combs.
Mescudi, dressed casually in jeans, a leather jacket, and a white T-shirt, told the Manhattan federal court that he met Cassie in 2008 and briefly dated her in 2011. At the time, he believed Cassie and Combs, her former boyfriend, were no longer involved. “She and Sean Combs had some problems and they weren’t dating anymore,” he said.
According to Mescudi, in late 2011, Cassie called him in distress, saying Combs had discovered their relationship. “She sounded really stressed, nervous, scared,” he recalled. Mescudi said he went to pick her up and took her to the Sunset Marquis hotel in West Hollywood to keep her “off the radar” and away from Combs. While there, he received a call from Combs’ assistant Capricorn Clark, who was “on the verge of tears” and reported that Combs and an associate had entered Mescudi’s Hollywood Hills home without permission.