Kid Cudi Details Call With Sean “Diddy” Combs During Alleged Break-In

Kid Cudi Details Chilling Call With Sean “Diddy” Combs During Alleged Break-In

Kid Cudi is recounting his interactions with Sean “Diddy” Combs.  

As the “Pursuit of Happiness” rapper (real name Scott Mescudi) took the stand in the rap mogul’s federal sex trafficking trial May 22, he alleged that Combs broke into his house when he found out about his and Cassie Ventura’s brief romance—which began in 2011. And when he called Combs to confront him, he detailed the chilling conversation that followed.

“He said, ‘What’s up?,'” Mescudi testified, per NBC News, “and I said, ‘Motherf–ker, are you in my house?’ He said, ‘I am here waiting for you.'”

Adding that Combs—who has pleaded not guilty to charges of racketeering, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and transportation to engage in prostitution—seemed “calm” when he picked up the phone, the 41-year-old alleged that he called the police while on his way to the house because “I don’t know what his intentions are.”

But upon arrival, Mescudi alleged that only the police were there. However, he said that security cameras on the side of his house had been moved out of the way, his dog was “locked up in the bathroom,” and “some gifts were opened up on the counter.”

Combs has not publicly addressed the alleged break-in.

As for why Mescudi was called as a witness in Combs’ trial in the first place? While testifying in the trial over four days, Ventura—who dated Combs off and on for 10 years before their 2018 split—previously alleged that she broke up with Mescudi after the Bad Boy Records founder threatened the both of them.

“[There was] too much uncertainty if we continued to see each other,” Ventura said during her May 14 testimony, per NBC News. “Sean said he was going to hurt the both of us.”

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Ventura—who did not disclose the nature of her relationship with Combs at the time—also went on to allege that Combs became “irate” when he found out about her relationship with Mescudi as well as physically violent.

“I just remember him putting a wine opener between his fingers,” she alleged, “and lunging at me.”

In addition to his alleged physical violence, Ventura testified that Combs threatened to release videos of her participating in his alleged “freak off” parties if she continued seeing Mescudi. And beyond that, she alleged that he went as far as telling her that “Scott’s car would be blown up” in early 2012.

Back in 2023, the “Mr. Rager” artist told The New York Times that his car did blow up in his driveway around that same time.  

For more details on Combs’ trial, keep reading.

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Kid Cudi Describes Sean “Diddy” Combs Behaving Like a “Marvel Super Villain” During Conversation About Cassie Ventura

Kid Cudi (real name Scott Mescudi) recalled a conversation with Sean “Diddy” Combs in 2012 not long after his car caught on fire. The “Day ‘n’ Night” rapper alleged Combs and his associates had also broken into his house in December 2011 after learning about his brief romance with the Bad Boy Records founder’s ex Cassie Ventura.

After Mescudi’s car was set on fire in January 2012, which he blamed Combs for, he said they met in a Los Angeles hotel meeting room, where Combs “was staring out the window with his hands behind his back like a Marvel super villain.” 

“It was just him and I in the room,” the 41-year-old told jurors. “We discussed the whole story of how Cassie and I started to date and how it ended. His whole point was ‘You were with my girl’ and I said ‘She told me you were broke up and I took her word for it.’”

“He was calm and he offered me water twice,” he continued. “It was off-putting. It was weird he was so calm. Cassie eventually came. I was upset to find out that she went back to him. She pretty much explained that we fell in love, things just happened.”

During Ventura’s five-day testimony earlier this month, in which she described alleged abuse she suffered from Combs, she said that she broke up with Mescudi after Combs told her “he was going to hurt the both of us.”

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Kid Cudi Said Sean “Diddy” Combs Asked If They Were “Cool” After Their Conversation

After Mescudi and Combs met at the Los Angeles hotel meeting room to talk before things got “out of hand,” he said they “stood up and shook hands.”

 “I said, ‘What are we going to do about my car?’” Mescudi recalled. “I made sure to do it while we were clasped. “He said, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about,’ and he said, ‘Wait, are we cool?’ I said, ‘Well, you burned my car.’”

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Kid Cudi Recounts House Being Broken Into and Car Catching On Fire After Sean “Diddy” Combs Learned About His Relationship With Cassie Ventura

Mescudi shared insight into two incidents, which he blames Combs for, during his testimony. 

The “Pursuit of Happiness” musician said that he had a phone call with Combs as he and his associates allegedly broke into his home in December 2011 after learning about his relationship with Ventura, who dated Combs on and off from 2007 to 2018.

“‘He said, ‘What’s up?'” Mescudi told jurors. “I said, ‘Motherf–ker, are you in my house?’ He said, ‘I am here waiting for you.’”

While he said he wanted to “fight” Combs, he decided not to since he wasn’t sure who was with him. 

Then, in February, Mescudi’s car caught on fire due to a Molotov cocktail—which he said was found in the driver’s seat—while he was about 45 minutes away from his home. 

Ventura previously alleged in her now-settled 2023 civil lawsuit against Combs that he threatened to blow up Mescudi’s car after learning about their relationship. Her suit alleged, “Around that time, Kid Cudi’s car exploded in his driveway.”

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Sean “Diddy” Combs Speaks Out in Court

As day seven of Combs’ trial came to an end May 20, the rapper had a message for everyone inside the courtroom.

“I love you all,” he said aloud as court was adjourned for the day, per People, before adding under his breath, “Yeah. Love.” 

Following his declaration, Combs spoke to a woman in the gallery, telling her in what appeared to be a reference to his son Justin Combs, 31, “Please let Justin know I’m thinking of him.”

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Cassie Ventura’s Mom Says She Paid Sean “Diddy” Combs $20,000 After He Threatened to Release Sex Tapes

Regina Ventura testified May 20 that in 2011, Combs had threatened to release explicit videos of her daughter Cassie Ventura after she began dating Mescudi.

“I was physically sick,” Regina told the court. “I did not understand it, the sex tape threw me. He was trying to hurt my daughter. He wanted $20,000 because she was having a relationship with Scott Mescudi.”

She alleged that she and her husband Rodrick Ventura had “taken a home equity loan” to obtain the cash. She added, “That’s the only way we could get the money.”

As for why Combs demanded the lump sum?

“He was angry,” she told the prosecution. “He had spent money on her and she had been with another person.”

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Sean “Diddy” Combs Carried Pills With Barack Obama’s Face, According to Former Assistant

David James shared insight into Combs’ travel bag during his testimony, including “25 to 30” pill bottles. He said that among the pills were some with former President Barack Obama’s face.

“There were various pills, but one was in the form of a former president’s face,” the former assistant testified, according to court transcripts obtained by NBC News, clarifying that it was “President Obama.”

James explained that Combs also carried at least $10,000 in cash, Advil, Tylenol, Viagra and “pills to increase his sperm count” in his Louis Vuitton bag. He also alleged that the rap mogul also had “Percocet and ecstasy” packed.

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Sean “Diddy” Combs Always Carried Pills to “Increase Sperm Count,” Former Assistant Testifies

James told jurors while testifying that among Combs’ regularly stocked items in his overnight bag was at least $10,000 in cash, along with Advil, Tylenol, Viagra and “pills to increase sperm count.”

James also alleged that Combs had “Percocet and ecstasy” in his bag, which the former assistant said he witnessed Combs take.

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Hotel Room Was Stocked with Baby Oil, Pink Ketamine and $9,000 Cash When Sean “Diddy” Combs Was Arrested

Prosecution shared a glimpse into the rapper’s suite at New York’s Park Hyatt hotel at the time of his arrest on Sept. 16.

The photos, taken by Homeland Security’s Special Agent Yasin Binda, who testified to the findings, included baby oil and Astroglide lubricant in Ziploc bags, five bottles of baby oil in the bathtub, two more bottles of lubricant in a drawer, two bags of a powdery substance and $9,000 in cash. 

According to Binda, the two bags of drugs that were found inside a prescription bottle tested positive for ketamine and a mix of ketamine and MDMA.

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Former Cassie Ventura Friend Says She Was Attacked by Sean “Diddy” Combs and Accepted $30,000 to Remain Silent

A former pal of Ventura’s testified May 19 that she personally witnessed Combs physically abusing Ventura while they were vacationing in Jamaica and again at a house he was renting in the Hollywood Hills.

Kerry Morgan also testified that her 17-year friendship with Ventura ended after Combs attacked her at Ventura’s apartment in 2018. She was there listening to music, Morgan said, per NBC News, when Combs “came up behind me and choked me and left finger marks on my neck and hit me in the head with a wooden hanger. Cassie was in the bathroom. It hit me behind my right ear.”

She hired a lawyer, Morgan continued, but never filed a lawsuit and agreed to sign an NDA in exchange for $30,000.

“We haven’t spoken since,” Morgan testified. “The last time I spoke to Sean was the night of the assault and the last time I saw Cassie was when I signed the NDA.”

Morgan also said on the stand that she had moved on with her life and was only there because the government subpoenaed her to testify.

She testified that she advised Ventura to leave Combs, “and she said she could not, because of her job, her car, her apartment.”

Under cross-examination by defense attorney Marc Agnifilo, Morgan said she stopped speaking with Ventura because the singer “was not supportive” of her after the 2018 incident, adding, “I draw my line at physical abuse.”

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Dawn Richard Testifies She Saw Sean “Diddy” Combs Try to Hit Cassie Ventura With a Skillet

Danity Kane alum Dawn Richard testified May 16 that she witnessed go after then-girlfriend Ventura with a skillet full of eggs in 2009.

“He came downstairs angry and was saying, where the f–k was his eggs and he was telling Cassie she never gets anything right and where the f–k was his food,” Richard testified, per the court transcript obtained by NBC News.  “And he came over to the skillet with the eggs in it and tried to hit her over the head and she fell to the ground.”

Ventura “went into the fetal position,” Richard continued, “literally trying to hide her head.”

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Cassie Ventura Shoots Down Accusation of Drugs in the “Freak Off” Baby Oil

There were no drugs mixed into the baby oil that Combs liked to use during “freak offs,” Ventura testified May 15.

A lawsuit filed against Combs in October 2024 alleged he laced the oil with GHB, or Rohypnol, which is often referred to as a date rape drug.

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Cassie Ventura Details Sean “Diddy” Combs Drug Use

Under defense cross-examination May 15, Ventura testified that Combs would get jealous and have an “explosive” reaction when she took drugs with other friends and not with him.

She said that Combs once overdosed on painkillers, and when asked by defense attorney Anna Estevao if her ex’s mood swings were connected to pills, Ventura said that “was a part.”

Asked earlier in the day if she thought Combs was a drug addict, she said, “I would say he was an addict.”

And her answer was “yes” when asked if Combs became angry or volatile when he was going through withdrawal.

“I’m not a doctor,” Ventura said, but “coming off of certain pills he would be pretty irritated.”

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Judge Calls For Recess Amid Cassie Ventura’s Testimony at Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Trial

While Ventura was in the witness box May 15, Judge Arun Subramanian called a recess while Combs’ defense began showing explicit emails and text messages during cross-examination.

When defense counsel Estevao presented Ventura with sexually explicit messages between the former couple from 2009 to argue that their relationship was consensual, the prosecution called an objection, which the judge sustained. 

Following the objection, Ventura was seen whispering to the judge, with the official abruptly calling for a 10-minute break.

A heated debate between prosecution and defense erupted before the jury entered the courtroom when lead defense attorney Marc Agniflio argued that more texts should be shown in the court. The judge said some messages violated federal evidence rules.

However, a number of them were admitted into evidence, in which Combs and Ventura spoke in graphic detail about their sex lives.

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Cassie Ventura Says That She Participated in “Hundreds” of “Freak Offs” with Sean “Diddy” Combs

Ventura testified May 15 that while “it’s impossible to know” how many “freak offs,” she took part in with Combs, she said it was “hundreds.”

She alleged that her ex had filmed the sexual performances to use as blackmail against her. She said she told her that he was “going to release them” and put her “career in jeopardy.”

“He would mention them when he was upset about something. It was just a pretty common thing,” Ventura said. “I feared for my career. I feared for my family. Just embarrassing, all of it. It’s horrible and disgusting. No one should do that to anyone.”

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Cassie Ventura Says She Settled 2023 Lawsuit Against Sean “Diddy” Combs for $20 Million

Ventura testified May 14 that she accepted a $20 million settlement from ex-boyfriend Combs after filing a lawsuit against him in November 2023 alleging he sexually assaulted and physically abused her over the course of their relationship.

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Cassie Ventura Alleges Sean “Diddy” Combs Raped Her in 2018 When She Was Already With Future Husband Alex Fine

Ventura testified that, after having dinner out at a Malibu restaurant with Combs in 2018, during which he was “really nice,” he took her back to her apartment and sexually assaulted her. She said that she was already in a relationship at the time with Alex Fine, whom she married in 2019.

“I went inside, he came in and raped me on the living room floor,” she told the court. “I just remember crying and saying no, but it was very fast. His eyes were black, he wasn’t himself, it was like somebody taking something from you.”

Combs’ attorneys have maintained that he did not engage in nonconsensual sex and that those who have accused him of sex crimes consented to whatever sexual activity they participated in.

Ventura testified that she had consensual sex with Combs on one other occasion after the assault. Asked why she chose to have sex with Combs again, she said, “You don’t just turn feelings off that way. I still had a good vision of who he was as a person.”

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Cassie Ventura Says She Broke Up With Kid Cudi After Sean “Diddy” Combs Threat

Ventura broke up Mescudi toward the end of 2011 because, she testified, Combs threatened “Scott’s car would be blown up.”

“Too much danger, too much uncertainty of what could happen if we continued to see each other,” Ventura told the court. “Sean said he was going to hurt the both of us.”

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Cassie Ventura Says “Freak Offs” Gave Her UTIs, Other Physical Ailments

“Freak offs” left Ventura with urinary tract infections, mouth sores and stomach issues, she testified May 14.

“When we were having frequent ‘freak offs’—they were back to back—and sometimes I would do a ‘freak off’ with the infection,” Ventura told the court during her second day of testimony. “I tried to flush it out with water. I got to the point where [the antibiotic] CIPRO didn’t work anymore. It was a mess.”

She continued, “It was really painful for a long time. I can’t believe I actually dealt with that.”

Among the text messages between Ventura and Combs shown in court, she relayed in one that she had sores on her tongue. He wrote, “I’m sorry.”

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Sean “Diddy” Combs Allegedly Told Cassie Ventura That She “Couldn’t” Leave Him During Hotel Attack

Ventura, taking the stand for the second day as a witness, recounted the 2016 hotel attack that was caught on surveillance footage and shared by CNN in May 2024. 

She testified that Combs threw a vase at her after attempting to leave the Intercontinental Hotel before physically assaulting her.

“I just remember it coming towards me,” Ventura said of the vase while on the stand May 14. “It hit the wall. I didn’t get hit. He was yelling at me. He threw it at me, I don’t remember exactly his words. I’m sure he was calling me something other than my name.”

However, she said that Combs told her “that I wasn’t going to leave him, that I couldn’t.”

Shortly after the hotel attack, Ventura said she had to attend the premiere of her film The Perfect Match with bruises on her face and body alongside Combs. Along with having to apply heavy makeup to cover up her black eye and fat lip, she added, “I had several bruises on my legs, so I changed my outfit.”

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Cassie Ventura Says Sean “Diddy” Combs Attacked Her in Hotel Hallway Because She Left a “Freak Off”

The singer testified May 13 that Combs attacked her in the hallway of a Los Angeles hotel in March 2016 because he was mad she walked out of a “freak off.” (Hotel surveillance footage of the incident was published by CNN in 2024. The defense unsuccessfully tried to have the video excluded from evidence.)

“I chose to leave,” Ventura told the court. “I got out and Sean followed me into the hallway, and grabbed me, shoved me to the ground, kicked me and dragged me back to the room and took my stuff.”

She hadn’t wanted to participate, but she had a movie premiere a couple of days later and wanted to placate Combs, she said. “If I pleased him with a freak off,” Ventura said, “then my premiere would run smoothly.”

He gave her a black eye, she continued, and “at this point all I could think about was getting out of there safely. I had my premiere and I didn’t want to mess it up.” Once he pushed her to the ground in the hallway, Ventura said, she stayed down because “she didn’t want him to do any more damage than he had already done.”

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Cassie Ventura Says She Took Drugs to Make It Through “Freak Offs”

Ventura testified that she drank alcohol and took ecstasy when she first had sex with an escort in front of Combs. And to make it through “freak offs,” she said, she would take “marijuana, ketamine, mushrooms, whatever was the drug of choice at that point.”

“I couldn’t imagine myself doing any of that without having some sort of buffer,” she said.

Sometimes she would “actually vomit” during a “freak off,” Ventura continued, and Combs “would encourage me to get up and continue on with it.”

She wanted Combs to know that the “freak offs” made her feel “horrible” and “worthless,” Ventura said, but he was “pretty dismissive” of her concerns.

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Cassie Ventura Describes Mess of Oil, Urine and Blood After “Freak Offs”

After a “freak off,” there would be baby oil all over the hotel room, Ventura testified, and if Combs had instructed someone to urinate on her, there might be urine on the sheets. And, if she was menstruating at the time, Ventura said, there could be blood on the sheets and furniture as well.

Being urinated on made her feel “humiliated,” Ventura said. “It was disgusting, it was too much. I choked, I didn’t want to be doing that, I was in a position I couldn’t easily get out of.”

“It was a turn-on for him, so it happened,” Ventura said. Asked by prosecutor Emily A. Johnson why she didn’t refuse Combs’ directions in these cases, she replied, “I thought that it was obvious that I didn’t want to do it.”

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Sean “Diddy” Combs Wanted Baby Oil “Glistening” During “Freak Offs,” Says Cassie Ventura

Ventura testified May 13 that Combs directed her and other “freak off” participants to cover themselves in baby oil.

“Sean wanted it heated and he wanted it to be glistening,” she said in court, “so we applied every five minutes.”

During one such “freak off” at the Montage Beverly Hills, Ventura said, Combs asked her to get into an inflatable “pool filled with baby oil,” while she was wearing clothes.

She didn’t want to, but if it was something Combs “wanted to happen, that’s what was going to happen,” she continued. “We used 10 bottles of baby oil, regular size.”

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Cassie Ventura Said Hiring For “Freak Offs” Became “a Job” For Her

Ventura told prosecutors May 13 that during the first year of her decade-long relationship with Combs, he “proposed” the introduction of voyeurism into their sexual relationship. It first began with her “hiring an escort and setting up” so that she could “perform” for Combs, who would watch her with another person.

Eventually, she said, orchestrating sex performances Combs called “freak offs,” which could last anywhere from 36 hours to four days, “became a job” for her.

“I had the contacts to set it up in the hotel room and all of that,” she recalled, “at the beginning Sean set it up.”

Ventura said that her “stomach churned” when he first proposed the experience.

“I didn’t have a concept of how that would be a turn on, but I accepted the responsibility,” she said. “I was confused, nervous, but also loved him very much and wanted to make him happy. It wasn’t something that I wanted to be doing, especially as regularly as it became, but again, i was in love and wanted to make him happy.”

She admitted, “At some point, I felt I didn’t have much of a choice.”

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Cassie Ventura Alleges “Violent Arguments” With Sean “Diddy” Combs Led to “Physical Abuse and Dragging”

Ventura, who dated Combs on and off from 2007 to 2018, said that he was “frequently” violent towards her during their relationship.

“Yes, they were violent arguments, usually resulted in physical abuse and dragging, different things,” she testified to jurors. “He would mash my head, knock me over, drag me, kick me.”

She said that her injuries were often visible, adding, “I would get knots on my forehead, black eyes, red eyes, bruises all over my body.”

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Defense Wanted Pregnant Cassie Ventura Seated Before Jury to Avoid “Sympathy”

With Ventura ready to take the stand after male escort Daniel Phillip May 13, Combs’ defense requested that she be seated in the witness box before the jury enters, since she is eight months pregnant.

“Because I think there is a prejudicial quality,” defense attorney Marc Agnifilo told the judge. “Pregnancy is beautiful and wonderful. It is also a source of potential sympathy.”

Ventura was ultimately brought in after the jury was seated, indicating that his defense team lost the motion.

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Male Escort Says He Could Hear Sean “Diddy” Combs Assaulting Cassie

When Ventura didn’t join Combs right when he called for her on one occasion, Phillip testified May 12 that Combs threw a liquor bottle in her direction, then grabbed her by her hair and dragged her into the bedroom. “She was screaming,” Phillip said, and, from the next room, ”what I heard sounded like him slapping her.” Phillip said he heard Combs say, “’I tell you to come here, you come here now, not later.’”

Phillip said he was “terrified” and did not intervene.

He further testified that he overheard what sounded like Combs assaulting Ventura on a separate occasion at the Essex House hotel in New York. “I heard her yelling, ‘I’m sorry, I’m sorry,’ someone was being slapped around and slammed around the room,” Phillip said. “And I looked around the corner and I saw Mr. Combs walk out of the hotel altogether without clothes, he might have had a towel on.”

Ventura came out of the room and jumped into Phillip’s lap, he testified. “She basically tried to convince me that ‘it’s OK’ and ‘I’ll be OK,’” Phillip continued. “And I said, ‘It is not OK and you need to get help.’”

“I tried to explain to her that she was in real danger if she stayed with him,” Phillip said.

Asked by prosecutor Maureen Comey why he didn’t call the police, Phillip testified that he thought of Combs as “someone with unlimited power, and chances are, even if I did go to the police, that I might still end up losing my life.”

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Escort Says Cassie Ventura Paid for Sex While Sean “Diddy” Combs Watched and Masturbated

Daniel Phillip, who said he was running a male stripper revue during the time in question, testified that he was paid “a few thousand dollars” to have sex with Ventura while Combs watched at Manhattan’s Gramercy Hotel in 2012. Phillip said that Combs wore a robe, a baseball cap and a bandanna covering his face, but he recognized him by his voice.

Ventura paid him and said she “would tip me when I leave,” Phillip told the court. “We ended up having sex, rubbed baby oil on each other for a couple minutes. [Combs] was sitting in a corner masturbating.”

Afterward, the witness continued, Ventura gave him “a couple of thousand more.”

Phillip said that he was contacted multiple times over the next year to have similar encounters with Ventura and Combs at other hotels and at their respective homes in New York. He said that Combs recorded him and Ventura having sex once or twice, and that sometimes Combs would intervene and have sex with Ventura while Phillip was there.

In her 2023 lawsuit accusing her ex of sexual assault and physical abuse, Ventura alleged Combs forced her to have sex with male prostitutes.

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Cassie Ventura Had “Purple Eye” After Being Attacked by Sean “Diddy” Combs, According to Witness

Ventura “was scared,” Florez said on the stand. “She was in the corner, hood on, covered up. I couldn’t see her face, she was pretty much in the corner. On the floor was a destroyed flower vase.”

When Ventura left the hotel she had a “purple eye,” Florez said. Once she was gone, Florez said, he and the desk manager went upstairs to remind Combs of “hotel rules.” Combs thought the manager was recording him on his phone and grabbed it, Florez continued, and when Combs tried to grab his phone, Florez said he pinned Combs against a wall. “We said we are not recording you,” Florez testified, “and de-escalated the situation.”

Prosecutors showed the surveillance footage of the attack—in which Combs appears to be hitting, kicking and dragging Ventura—that was slowed down from what was published by CNN in May 2024. (The defense had previously alleged that the clip was sped up, making the altercation look more violent than it was.) The jury was also shown video that Florez recorded on his cell phone when he responded to a call of a woman in distress on the sixth floor.

Florez testified that he did not call police at the time because Ventura wouldn’t answer questions about what happened and told him she just wanted to leave.

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Former Hotel Security Guard Says Sean “Diddy” Combs Offered Him Cash to Stay Quiet About Cassie Attack

Los Angeles Police Officer Israel Florez was a security guard at the InterContinental Hotel when Combs attacked Ventura on March 5, 2016. (In her opening statement, Geragos called surveillance footage of the attack, which was first published by CNN in May 2024, “overwhelming evidence of domestic violence,” but over infidelity discovered on a cell phone and “not over sex trafficking.”)

Florez testified May 12 that he saw evidence of an altercation on the morning in question, and Combs offered him “a stack of money” to look the other way.

Under cross-examination, Florez said he “100 percent” interpreted the gesture to be Combs trying to bribe him.

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