Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial: Diddy’s posse threatened to kill ex-assistant Capricorn Clark
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ ex-assistant Capricorn Clark has testified to beatings, kidnapping and murder threats at the gun-toting mogul’s sex-trafficking trial in Manhattan.
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ ex-assistant Capricorn Clark — who worked for Combs from 2004 through 2012 and once reportedly dubbed the fallen hip-hop mogul “the devil’’ — is on the witness stand at his sex-trafficking trial in Manhattan.
Combs, 55, is accused of using his fame, fortune and many business enterprises to run a racketeering scheme in which he controlled and manipulated his ex-girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura for over a decade, using violence and threats, forcing her and others into drug-fuelled “freak-off” sex marathons that went on for days.
He faces life in prison if convicted and he has denied all charges.
The trial is not televised because cameras are prohibited inside the federal courthouse. Today is Day 10 of the trial.
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DIDDY IMPLIED HE WOULD ‘USE A GUN’ ON 50 CENT
Sean “Diddy” Combs once implied he might use a gun on 50 Cent — with whom he’s had a longstanding feud, according to testimony.
The Bad Boy Records founder once complained to his manager Chris Lighty about his feud with 50 Cent after the two rappers left an MTV press event, Combs’s ex-assistant, Capricorn Clark, told jurors.
“I don’t like all the back and forth … I like guns,” Clark recalled Combs telling Lighty in an elevator leaving the event.
After Cassie Ventura’s bombshell testimony about being forced into “freak-off” sex sessions by Combs and detailing repeated beatings by her longtime boyfriend, 50 Cent spoke out on Instagram.
“Damn he did all that s**t to go out like this, [shaking my head],” the 49-year-old rapper wrote. “This s**t crazier th[a]n regular crazy.”
RIHANNA COMES UP AGAIN IN DIDDY TRIAL
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ ex-assistant testified she went on a vacation with singer Rihanna in August 2012.
Capricorn Clark was asked by Combs’s lawyer Marc Agnifilo what she was doing in August 2012.
“I was on vacation with Rihanna,” Clark responded. Clark wasn’t asked any further questions about that trip.
Rihanna’s name was brought up last week during the testimony of celebrity makeup artist Mylah Morales who said her clients included Rihanna, Jennifer Lopez and Combs’ longtime girlfriend Cassie Ventura.
DIDDY KICKED CASSIE AFTER KID CUDI BREAK IN
Sean “Diddy” Combs viciously kicked Cassie Ventura the same day he broke into Kid Cudi’s home after discovering the rapper had been seeing Ventura, according to testimony.
The Bad Boy Records founder, wearing underwear and a robe in his Los Angeles mansion, started kicking Ventura in the thigh and leg with “100% full force” after he found out his long-time on-and-off girlfriend had a fling with Kid Cudi.
“She didn’t do anything,” Combs’s ex-assistant Capricorn Clark testified. “She was just crying silently.”
“My heart was breaking seeing her get beat like that,” Clark said, at one point dabbing her eyes with a tissue as she quietly teared up.
Earlier that day, Combs allegedly kidnapped Clark while holding a gun and threatening to “kill” Kid Cudi and forcing Clark to come along while he broke into the rapper’s home.
Clark eventually drove Ventura to Combs’ house, where he assaulted Ventura and told Clark he would “f**k” her up if she intervened.
DIDDY TOLD ASSISTANT HE WOULD ‘KILL KID CUDI’
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ ex-assistant, Capricorn Clark, told jurors the hip-hop mogul said he was going to “kill” Kid Cudi after discovering he was dating Cassie Ventura.
Clark said the Bad Boy Records founder came to her apartment “livid” and holding a gun, telling her “get dressed, we’re going to kill this n***a” — referring to Kid Cudi — whose real name is Scott Mescudi.
Combs asked Clark why she didn’t tell him that his long-time on-and-off girlfriend, Ventura, had been seeing Mescudi.
“I had never seen anything like this before,” Clark told jurors. “He had never come to my house the entire time I’d known him. I had never seen him with a weapon.”
She got into a black Escalade with Combs and sat on his lap while he still had the gun, Clark recounted.
Once they arrived at Mescudi’s house, Combs went inside while Clark remained in the car.
“Puff came and got me with a gun and took me to Cudi’s house to kill him,” Clark testified she told Ventura by phone while the mogul was inside.
Clark also testified that Mescudi — who had told jurors he drove to his home, furious over Combs’ break-in — soon rolled up in his car next to the Escalade.
She said Mescudi then sped off as Combs jumped into the SUV, prompting a surreal car chase that quickly fizzled as police sirens could be heard.
Mescudi’s testimony did not detail this alleged car chase.
DIDDY ‘SHOVED’ ASSISTANT WHO SAID SHE HATED WORKING FOR HIM
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ ex-assistant, Capricorn Clark, testified that the hip-hop mogul once ran at her, shoving her 25 to 30 yards after she said she hated working for him.
Clark said “I hate it here” in front of Combs’ chef at his Miami Beach home, which the chef repeated to the Bad Boy Records founder.
“He immediately looked at me and said, ‘You hate it here?’ and he charged me,” Clark told the jury. “He ran towards me with his hands open and charged at my shoulders.”
“If you hate it here, get the f**k out of my house,” Combs said after launching Clark dozens of feet away.
Combs’ security guard intervened and told Clark to pack her things. She said she stopped working for the rapper after the incident.
“That was crossing my boundary,” Clark testified.
‘HANDPRINTS ON THE WALL, BABY OIL EVERYWHERE’
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ former assistant told jurors that after the music mogul stayed at the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles, there was “a lot of baby oil everywhere.”
Capricorn Clark said she had to help unpack the Bad Boy Records founder’s bags for his three-to-four day hotel stints — including clothes, a camera bag, baby oil, personal lubricant, and drugs like ecstasy.
After one of his stays at the InterContinental Hotel — where Combs was notoriously caught on surveillance footage beating his girlfriend Cassie Ventura — the room was left covered in baby oil, Clark testified.
“I could see handprints left on the Ultrasuede wall,” Clark told the jury. “It was just a lot of baby oil everywhere. It wasn’t just necessarily on the wall.”
DIDDY REFUSED TO PAY $80K OVERTIME
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ former assistant has been detailing the brutal work conditions she was forced to endure and the fact that the music mogul refused to pay her US$80,000 he owed her on overtime pay.
Capricorn Clark says she worked from 9am until 4am during shifts where she couldn’t take breaks or even eat meals, she testified.
Clark was making just US$65,000 as the Bad Boy Records founder’s assistant, and the head of human resources told Combs he owed Clark $80,000 in overtime for a three-month period.
“He ripped up the paper,” she testified.
She says she was never paid for the overtime hours.
‘THROW YOU IN THE EAST RIVER’: DIDDY THREATENED TO MURDER ASSISTANT
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ former assistant Capricorn Clark testified that she was once forced to take lie detector tests after Combs’ diamond jewellery vanished — and was told she’d be thrown in the East River if she failed.
Clark told jurors that Combs’ bodyguard Paul “Uncle Paulie” Offord came to her home and forced her to come with him to an abandoned skyscraper at 1710 Broadway after Combs’ diamond necklace, bracelet and watch went missing while she was transporting them.
She was greeted on the sixth floor by a heavy-set man chain-smoking cigarettes and drinking black coffee, she testified.
“He said if you fail this test, they’re going to throw you in the East River,” Clark testified.
Clark says she underwent a whopping five full days of lie detector tests before being told she could finally return to work.
The former assistant testified she continued to comply because she wanted to “prove [her] innocence,” adding, “I didn’t like the threats. I just wanted to get through it.”
Most of the lie detector test results came back “inconclusive,” but Clark was allowed to continue working for Combs. She testified that she returned to work out of fear that her boss would think she stole if she didn’t.
DIDDY’S EX-ASSISTANT KIDNAPPED, THREATENED OVER SUGE KNIGHT TIES
Capricorn Clark testified that she was threatened and kidnapped during her tenure with the mogul.
The ex-Bad Boy employee shared on the stand that, prior to working for Combs, she worked for Suge Knight at Death Row Records. (Knight and his protégé Tupac Shakur were involved in a years-long feud with Combs and his artist, the Notorious B.I.G., which led to the deaths of both rap icons).
“He told me that he didn’t know that I had anything to do with Suge Knight and that if anything happened, he would have to kill me,” Clark claimed in her testimony, adding that she thought he was “very serious.”
“I felt like there was some gravitas that he had some issues with Suge,” the ex-assistant said.
CASSIE’S CLOSE BOND WITH CAPRICORN CLARK
Clark held several roles while working for the Bad Boy Records founder, including marketing director for Sean John Women and Casandra “Cassie” Ventura’s creative director from 2016 to 2018.
The “Me & U” singer had developed a close bond with Clark over the years, with Ventura even confiding in the former Bad Boy staffer about her brief romance with rapper Kid Cudi in 2011.
Clark is one of the “Bad Boy for Life” rapper’s many former employees to be called as witnesses.
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