Stars Present Out for ‘And Simply Like That’ Premiere

Scott Mescudi, identified professionally as Child Cudi, was known as to testify within the case, sharing what he allegedly witnessed whereas he dated Cassie Ventura, Diddy’s girlfriend who has accused him of assault within the time they had been collectively.

After he was dismissed, he went to social media to thank pals and followers for his or her assist. The video cannot be embedded, however may be seen right here.

“I have been seeing all of the love and assist and I simply need to say thanks a lot, man,” Mescudi started. “Individuals have been hitting me up the previous week, simply checking in and even at present. It actually means loads to me man. You guys are the very best, I really like you all.”

He then addressed the trial, saying, “It is a anxious state of affairs, I am glad it is behind me. I really like y’all man. Massive love. Go stream [his latest single] ‘Neverland.’”

Throughout his testimony, Mescudi set the timeline of his relationship with Ventura, saying they met in 2008 and dated round 2011. He knew on the time that “she and Sean Combs had some issues and so they weren’t relationship anymore.”

In December 2011, Mescudi stated he acquired a frantic telephone name from Ventura, telling him that Combs had found they had been relationship. He described her as “actually shook” about him “lastly figuring out that we had been hanging out and that he had my deal with and he was most likely going to go to my home.”

Ventura additionally informed him that Combs was abusive, per testimony, saying he was informed that Combs “would hit her, typically kick her.” He stated he was not informed about any attainable sexual abuse.

Mescudi stated he was confused by this as he did not assume she and Combs had been concerned anymore, however “she sounded actually burdened on the telephone, nervous, scared, so I went to go decide her up.”

Based on Mescudi’s testimony, he and Ventura went to a close-by lodge and spoke with an worker of Combs named Capricorn Clark. Mescudi stated that Clark appeared “very scared” and “on the verge of tears” as she informed him that Combs and two of his associates had been inside Mescudi’s home.

“She was compelled to associate with them over there,” Mescudi testified, saying that Clark was on the telephone whereas within the automotive exterior. So Mescudi stated he headed again dwelling and known as Combs, asking him, “Motherf–ker, are you in my home?”

Combs admitted he was at Mescudi’s dwelling, telling him, “I simply need to speak to you. I am over right here ready for you.”

Mescudi stated that he later realized that issues had occurred in his dwelling whereas he was gone. He stated he observed his safety cameras had been moved. Items he’d purchased for his household had been opened and had been on the kitchen counter, whereas his canine was locked in a rest room. There was no obvious injury to the home.

However Combs wasn’t there, Mescudi stated. When he reached out, Combs informed him “he was on his manner.” After seeing what had occurred in his home, Mescudi admitted, “I needed to confront him. I needed to combat him.”

After calming himself a bit, although, he stated he remembers realizing, “I don’t know who he has with him. I don’t know what his intentions are.” So as an alternative, he reached out to the police and filed a police report in regards to the obvious break-in.

Regardless of all of this, Mescudi stated he and Ventura spent the vacations collectively together with her household in Connecticut, throughout which Combs once more stated he needed to speak to him by way of texts. “I assume he was at midnight about issues and needed to speak, however at that time, post-break-in, I did not need to speak,” Mescudi testified.

After detailing an alleged break-in at his home after Combs discovered about his relationship with Ventura, Mescudi moved on to the headline-making explosion of his Porsche the next month.

In January 2012, Mescudi stated that his canine watcher known as him from dwelling at some point to inform him his automotive was on hearth. The buddy despatched him images, which the jury was in a position to see. Mescudi, who was about 45 minutes away on the time, described it as “Molotov cocktail” injury — and stated his response was, merely, “What the f–k.”

“It seems to be like the highest of my Porsche was reduce open, and that’s the place the Molotov cocktail was put in,” he stated on the stand. One was discovered by police within the driver’s seat.

Whereas he stated in courtroom that he believed Combs was behind the automotive hearth, the protection argued hypothesis and had this a part of his testimony eliminated. On cross-examination, Mescudi was requested if he knew that the DNA taken from his automotive after the hearth belonged to a girl. Mescudi stated he by no means heard again from authorities on the outcomes.

After the automotive hearth, Mescudi stated issues had been “getting out of hand” and so he once more reached out to Combs and “lastly informed him that we wanted to satisfy up, to speak.” He stated that Combs had been wanting to speak, so it was time to have that dialog.

He stated he arrived to search out Combs already on the lodge, “standing there, staring out the window along with his fingers behind his again, like a Marvel supervillain.”

“We mentioned just about the entire story about how me and Cassie first began so far to what it was to the way it ended,” stated Mescudi, including that he informed Combs he took Ventura at her phrase when she stated she and Combs had been not concerned.

He testified that he discovered Combs’ calm demeanor throughout this assembly “off-putting” because the rapper denied any involvement within the automotive hearth. “I do not know what you are speaking about,” Combs informed him, per Mescudi’s testimony, when requested about it.

He stated that, at this response, he pulled his hand out of a handshake with Combs, who stated, “Wait, I assumed we had been cool.” Mescudi’s response was to once more allege that Combs was behind the burning of his automotive, however Combs gave “his phrase” he had nothing to do with it.

As for Ventura, Mescudi stated, “I used to be upset to search out that she had type of went again to him.” He stated that she arrived on the assembly and “defined we fell in love and issues simply occurred.”

Mescudi and Ventura broke up in December 2011 due to the entire drama, which he stated received to be an excessive amount of. He was involved for her security, he stated, in addition to his personal, “as a result of I knew Sean Combs was violent.” He stated it was determined to finish issues there as a result of “the drama was too out of hand and to present her some house.”

When the connection did finish, Mescudi stated that he and Ventura “simply stopped speaking” after near-daily communication for a 12 months straight. He was requested in cross-examination, “She performed you, proper?” To this, Mescudi replied, “Sure.”

The truth is, when protection lawyer Brian Steele requested if it was Ventura who performed each him and Combs, Mescudi responded, “True.” He additionally agreed that Ventura was “dwelling a double life” with each males.

Mescudi stated the most important shock got here years later when he bumped into Combs in 2015. Based on his testimony, Combs pulled him apart and stated, “Man, I simply need to apologize for every little thing and all that bulls–t.” Mescudi stated he was in a position to “discover peace” after this.

“That was the very last thing I used to be anticipating to get from him,” he stated.

With that, he was excused from the stand.

Diddy has been charged with intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy, and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. He is maintained his innocence.

The trial will proceed Tuesday, following the vacation weekend.