Grammy award winning artist and actor Scott Mescudi—better known to the world as Kid Cudi—recounted in federal court on Thursday a deeply personal and traumatic chapter of his life involving singer Cassie Ventura and music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Taking the stand dressed in a leather jacket, white shirt, and blue jeans, Cudi confirmed he and Cassie dated in 2011 after she reportedly broke things off with Combs. But according to Cudi, what followed was a chain of events that spiraled into alleged intimidation, surveillance tampering, and violence.
“She said Sean Combs had found out about us,” Cudi recalled. “She was worried. Very stressed and worried.” In December 2011, Cudi testified, he was alerted to a break-in at his home.
Once home, The ‘Pursuit Of Happiness’ singer noticed his security cameras had been moved. “Did you move them?” asked the prosecutor. “No,” Cudi responded. Inside, he found opened gifts, his Chanel items tampered with, and his dog locked in the bathroom—behavior that changed the pet’s demeanor permanently. “Jittery, on edge all the time,” he said.
The most shocking revelation came when Cudi said his Porsche was later set on fire by what he described as a “Molotov cocktail.” He identified photos of the car’s damage in court and described a hole cut into the roof where the explosive was placed. “What was your reaction?” the prosecutor asked. “What the f***,” Cudi replied, prompting an objection that the judge swiftly overruled.
Despite the gravity of his testimony, Cudi revealed a brief, strange encounter with Combs years later at the Soho House. “He said, ‘I’m just sorry for all that bulls**t.’ I was surprised, so I found peace with it,” Cudi said. Because he said he “understood” that Combs “was lying.”
But beneath the surface of the chaos, Cudi hinted at a deeper wound: betrayal. “Cassie told me we had fallen in love,” he said. Stating that she played him as well as Sean Combs by not revealing that she was in a relationship with both of them at the same time and he had “no clue.”
