Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - The s£x trafficking trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs continued on Tuesday, May 27, in Manhattan federal court, with his former assistant Capricorn Clark testifying that he repeatedly threatened her life, subjected her to lie detector tests, and forced her at gunpoint to join him in an apparent plot to k!ll rapper Kid Cudi.
Clark was the 17th witness called by the government to
testify in its case against Combs, who has been charged with sex trafficking,
racketeering conspiracy, and transportation to engage in pr0st!tution.
Federal prosecutors say that for decades, Combs abused,
threatened, and coerced women to participate in marathon s£xual encounters
called "freak offs" and used his business empire, along with guns,
kidnapping, and arson, to conceal his crimes.
Combs has pleaded not guilty. If convicted, the 55-year-old
hip-hop mogul could face life in prison.
Capricorn Clark testified that in 2004, on her first day on
the job at Combs’s Bad Boy Entertainment, he threatened her when he found out
she had previously worked at Death Row Records, a label founded by Combs’s
rival Marion “Suge” Knight. She said Combs and a member of his security staff
took her at 9 p.m. to Central Park.
“He told me that he didn’t know that I had anything to do
with Suge Knight and if anything happened, he would have to k!ll me,” Clark
testified.
At another point during her employment, Clark was accused by
Combs of stealing jewelry and was administered a lie detector test by members
of Combs’s security team in a vacant office building. If she failed, Clark
said, she was told they “would throw me in the East River.”
“I was petrified,” Clark said.
She said she was given lie detector tests for five straight
days before she was allowed to return to work.
Clark also testified that she typically worked 20-hour days
for Combs, starting work at 7 a.m. and ending around 4 a.m. She barely slept,
she said, and the stress of the job led her to develop alopecia.
Clark said that part of her job involved setting up hotel
rooms reserved for Combs using the aliases Frank Black or Frank White ahead of
his arrival. She would unpack his belongings, including baby oil, lubricant,
drugs and cameras, as well as IV drips, she told the court. And she would sweep
the hotel rooms after he left.
Two other former assistants who previously testified about working for
Combs, David James, and George Kaplan, described similar job responsibilities,
including stocking hotel rooms with what prosecutors say were supplies for his
“freak offs.”
Clark testified that Combs occasionally asked her to get him drugs,
including ecstasy and prescription medication in her name. She told the court
that Combs once asked her to get him coc@ine while they were in the south of
France in 2006.
Clark broke down in tears as she recalled an instance in 2006 in his Miami
home, where she said an enraged Combs shoved her after telling her she could
not leave the house while working for him.“See, your problem is you want a
life, and you can’t have that here,” Combs told Clark, she testified.
She said she told Combs’s chef that “I hate it here,” and the message was
relayed to Combs.
"If you hate it here, get the f*** out of my house," Combs told
Clark as he pushed her around the house, she recalled to the jury.
"That was crossing my boundary," Clark said in court
Last week, Scott Mescudi, better known as the rapper Kid Cudi, testified
about his relationship with Combs's ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura.
In her testimony Tuesday, Clark said that after Combs found out that
Ventura was dating Kid Cudi, he showed up at Clark’s house on Dec. 22, 2011,
with a gun in his hand.
“He just said, 'Get dressed, we’re going to go kill [him],'" Clark
testified
When she said she did not want to go, Combs said, “I don’t give a f***
what you want to do, go get dressed,” Clark told the court
Clark said she drove with Combs and a security guard to Kid Cudi’s house
in Los Angeles. Combs rode in the backseat with her with a gun in his lap, she
said.
While Combs and the security guard went inside the house, she stayed in
the SUV to warn Ventura, who was with Kid Cudi at a nearby hotel.
Clark said she called Ventura’s “burner phone,” which she said Ventura
bought at Clark’s urging to hide her relationship with Kid Cudi from Combs.
In the background, she said she heard Kid Cudi say, “He's in my
house?"
In his testimony last week, Kid Cudi said that when Clark told Ventura
that Combs was at his house, he raced home.
Combs came back to the SUV and demanded to see her phone, Clark said,
calling the last number on her call history. At that point, Clark said, they
saw Kid Cudi’s car pull up and drive away, and they got in the SUV to chase
him. Kid Cudi got away.
Clark said Combs then ordered her to call Ventura to let her know he
wasn't going to let Clark go unless Ventura came to see him.
Ventura agreed, and Clark went to pick her up.
When they returned to Combs’s home, Clark told the court that she saw
Combs repeatedly kick Ventura as she was curled up in the fetal position a few
feet away.
Clark said that she was too scared to intervene or call the police. But
Clark said that she called Ventura’s mother, Regina Ventura, as she left the
property.
“He’s beating the s— out of your daughter,” Clark said she told Regina
Ventura. “Please help her. I can’t call the police, but you can.”
Soon after reporting the kidnapping incident to top Bad Boy Entertainment
executives, Clark said she was given a termination notice.
Clark testified that Combs told her she’d “never work again,” and that
he’d “make me kill myself.”
Later in her testimony, she said she could not find work and eventually
asked for his forgiveness, and returned for Combs in 2016 as Ventura’s creative
director.
In her direct testimony, Clark said that her relationship with Combs was
“1,000%” platonic.
During cross-examination, Combs’s defense submitted into evidence a 2021
text message she sent Combs admitting a past crush on him.
“Did you ever know that I had the biggest crush on you before I started to
work for you?” she wrote. “We hung out all the time, I played it super cool. I
don’t think you knew. I just knew for sure that you liked to have me around.”
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