Diddy Trial: Child Cudi to Take the Stand As Quickly As Wednesday

Rapper Child Cudi is anticipated to testify as a authorities witness in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ felony sex-trafficking trial this week.

Child Cudi, whose actual title is Scott Mescudi, might take the witness stand as quickly as Wednesday within the Manhattan federal courtroom the place the trial is underway.

The “Pursuit of Happiness” rapper briefly dated R&B singer Cassie Ventura, the prosecution’s star witness who testified for greater than 20 hours final week within the hip-hop mogul’s trial.

Whereas on the stand, Ventura testified that the 2011 relationship despatched Combs right into a violent rage.

She instructed the eight-man, four-woman jury that Combs threatened to explode Child Cudi’s automotive after they have been in a foreign country.

Prosecutors allege that the menace was not an empty one.

The rival’s convertible was allegedly firebombed by Combs’ underlings utilizing a Molotov cocktail — an arson that Child Cudi will possible be requested about on the stand.

“Sean wished Scott’s pals to be there to see the automotive get blown up within the driveway,” Ventura testified.

Ventura’s 2023 now-settled lawsuit towards Combs first advised that Combs was chargeable for the 2012 firebombing.

Along with the intercourse trafficking and racketeering conspiracy expenses towards Combs, prosecutors have accused him and his associates of a number of different crimes, together with arson.

Prosecutors have alleged in court docket papers that Combs ordered his underlings to torch a car “by slicing open the automotive’s convertible prime and dropping a Molotov cocktail inside the inside.”