Federal prosecutors have known as rapper and actor Child Cudi to testify in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex-trafficking and racketeering trial in New York this week.
Prosecutor Maurene Comey introduced Tuesday that the rapper, who had a short romantic relationship over a decade in the past with Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura, is predicted to take the stand on Wednesday or Thursday.
Ventura testified final week on the trial that Combs discovered she was courting Child Cudi whereas going by means of her telephone messages at one of many “freak-off” occasions the couple would have at numerous inns. Combs, Ventura mentioned in her testimony, threatened to explode Cudi’s automotive in early 2012. She additionally testified that Combs threatened to launch two intercourse tapes that includes her and that the rap mogul would ship a person to hurt each of them.
After Ventura first filed her 2023 civil lawsuit, which additionally included the allegations about Cudi’s automotive, a rep for the rapper confirmed {that a} automobile of his had exploded, however offered no extra particulars. “That is all true,” the rep informed the outlet.
Cudi will testify after George Kaplan, a former worker who Ventura testified had stop after witnessing Combs’ abuse, per CNN.
“I feared for my profession. I feared for my household. It’s simply embarrassing, all of it,” Ventura mentioned whereas testifying final week. “It may smash every thing I labored for. Make me appear to be a slut.”
