Child Cudi on Thursday described Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs as a “Marvel supervillain” whereas testifying in a federal sex-trafficking and racketeering conspiracy trial.Relationship with Cassie Ventura and confrontationThe rapper’s actual title is Scott Mescudi. He appeared in court docket on Thursday morning and gave dramatic testimony about his temporary relationship with singer Cassie Ventura and the disturbing occasions that adopted.Mescudi dated Ventura in 2011 and mentioned he discovered that Combs had came upon about their relationship and that Ventura had sounded “actually harassed” and “scared” on the telephone.He advised the court docket that an worker of Combs’s had claimed the music mogul and an affiliate had been inside Mescudi’s dwelling whereas the worker waited exterior.Mescudi known as Combs on the best way to his home. “I’m on my means, I’ll be proper down,” he recalled telling Combs. He mentioned Combs replied: “I’m over right here ready for you.” However when Mescudi arrived, Combs was gone. He discovered objects inside the home displaced and his canine locked within the rest room. A police report was filed.Porsche hearth incidentWeeks later, in January 2012, Mescudi’s canine watcher phoned to say his Porsche was on hearth within the driveway. “Prime of my Porsche was lower open, and that’s the place the Molotov cocktail was put in,” Mescudi advised the court docket. Photographs of the harm had been proven to the jury, based on the Guardian.After the hearth, Mescudi mentioned he met Combs at a Los Angeles lodge. “He was standing there along with his fingers behind his again like a Marvel supervillain,” he mentioned. They mentioned the connection with Ventura. Mescudi requested Combs concerning the automotive. “I don’t know what you’re speaking about,” Combs allegedly replied.Diddy’s apology and Ventura’s confessionsIn 2015, Mescudi mentioned he noticed Combs once more, who pulled him apart and mentioned, “I simply need to apologise for every little thing and all that bullshit.” Mescudi advised the court docket he “sort of discovered peace” with the incident.Mescudi additionally testified that Ventura had confided in him about being hit and kicked by Combs throughout their relationship. “It bothered me,” he mentioned.Cross-examinationBelow cross-examination, Mescudi admitted there was no harm to his dwelling after the break-in and that he had left the entrance door unlocked. He additionally mentioned Combs by no means interrupted his time with Ventura and agreed with the defence lawyer’s declare that each males had been “performed” by her. He mentioned he broke up with Ventura in December 2011 because the “drama was too out of hand.”Ventura’s earlier testimonyVentura had testified final week for 4 days. She recalled a “freak-off” on the finish of 2011 the place Combs noticed an electronic mail on her telephone concerning Mescudi. She mentioned Combs turned enraged, threatened to launch specific footage, and warned her that Mescudi’s automotive can be “blown up”.Shortly after, she mentioned she ended the connection with Mescudi out of worry. At a later assembly with Combs and Mescudi at Soho Home, she mentioned Mescudi requested, “What about my automobile?” Combs allegedly replied: “What automobile?” “And that was the tip of the assembly,” Ventura advised the court docket.Background on the Porsche explosionThe declare that Combs was behind the automotive explosion first got here to mild in Ventura’s 2023 civil lawsuit, which was settled in in the future. Mescudi confirmed the account in an announcement to The New York Occasions, saying his automotive did explode. A Los Angeles hearth report mentioned the Porsche was set on hearth with an “incendiary machine” and that it was “intentional”.Federal prosecutors’ memo and former testimonyA 2024 memo from federal prosecutors claimed Combs’s “co-conspirators” had set hearth to a convertible by slicing it open and dropping in a Molotov cocktail. Witnesses mentioned Combs later bragged concerning the incident. Combs has denied involvement.Earlier than Mescudi’s look, George Kaplan, a former assistant to Combs, continued his testimony. He spoke of violent incidents involving Ventura and different girls, together with one second when Combs allegedly threw inexperienced apples at a girlfriend in 2015.Kaplan mentioned he left Combs’s firm in December 2015 as a result of he was “not snug or aligned with the bodily behaviour that had been happening.”