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Hi Crime House Community. It's Katie looking for another Crime House original podcast to add to your rotation. You will love Clues with Morgan Abshur and Kaylin Moore. Every Wednesday, Morgan and Kaylin dig into the world's most notorious crimes, clue by.
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This is Crime House. Tonight is part four of our five part series on the trial of Sean Diddy Combs. We'll focus on an a lister who played an undeniable role in this saga and another witness who is a well known industry insider who worked on and off for Diddy for years. Hi, I'm Katie Ring and welcome to Night Watch. If you're into true crime, real time courtroom drama and late night deep dives, you're in the right place. Subscribe to my YouTube channel or follow me on Spotify. We have new episodes every weeknight.
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Holmes ex girlfriend and singer Cassie Ventura testified yesterday.
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For several hours she gave her account.
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Of a physically and emotionally abusive relationship.
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Scott Meskady briefly dated Cassave Ventura while she and Sean Combs were on a break, but said the love affair was short lived due to Diddy's jealousy and threats.
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Mezcati addressed a series of events that.
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Followed, including a break in at his house and his Porsche being set on fire. Hi, welcome to Crime House Daily. I'm your host Katie Ring. Here we follow the cases making headlines now where justice is still unfolding. Follow us wherever you're listening and if you want ad free episodes, subscribe to.
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This episode discusses active criminal cases and breaking news. The information we share is based on what's publicly available at the time of recording and may change as new evidence comes to light. We aim to inform, not to decide guilt or innocence. So everyone mentioned is presumed innocent until.
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Proven guilty in a court of law. Foreign.
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Tonight we're delving into part four of our deep dive into the trial of Sean Diddy Combs. Last night we unpacked Cassie Ventura's cross examination and testimony from people who witnessed the abuse and most of whom suffered some sort of abuse themselves at the hands of Diddy. Tonight we're going to focus on one of the most anticipated testimonies in the trial, that of Kid Cudi, and one of the most captivating testimonies, that of Capricorn Clark, both detailing some of the more eye catching charges that Combs faced under the umbrella of his racketeering conspiracy charges. Part of the racketeering conspiracy charge was based on accusations of kidnapping and arson, both of which were the result of Combs seeking revenge on fellow rapper Scott Muscutti, also known as Kid Cudi. Multiple witnesses said that to carry out those crimes, Combs enlisted the help of his employees and other associates. While the alleged events took place in 2011 and 2012, we're going to rewind the clock back to 2004 when one of those key witnesses first met Sean Combs. Her name is Capricorn Clark and she worked for Combs on and off for 14 years. Capricorn worked as combs assistant from 2004 to 2006 before she became the marketing director of his clothing line Sean John. From 2007 to 2012 after a four year gap, she worked as Cassie's creative director from 2016 to 2018. Capricorn recounted her time working for Diddy in riveting detail and she repeatedly broke down and conveyed the sense of danger and fear she constantly felt while working for Combs. Although the full range of emotions and personality didn't necessarily come through on a paper transcript, the actual things Diddy allegedly put her through did. Saying it was a toxic work environment would be an understatement. Just like Combs other assistants who testified against him, Capricorn was reportedly forced to work unreasonable hours for very little pay. She cleaned up his wrecked hotel rooms and picked up his drugs as well. From the moment Capricorn started working for Combs to she already had threats hanging over her head. Before getting her job with him, Capricorn had worked as an intern for Death Row Records and he was very interested about her time there. Death Row was the west coast counterpart to Bad Boy and the two record labels had a long standing violent feud just as Bad Boy had Combs, who was long Rumored to be involved in shady and illegal things, Death Row had Suge Knight, who was known for using threats and violence to get what he wanted. Even though Capricorn had only worked as an intern at Death Row, Combs was still very suspicious of her because him and Suge Knight were mortal enemies. So on her first day, Combs took her to Central park and told her on that first night that if she ever had any contact with Suge ever again, he'd kill her. And that was just the start of the threats Combs allegedly made against her. Shortly after Capricorn started working for Combs, some of his diamond jewelry went missing and he thought she may have been the one who stole it. So Combs had a security guard take Capricorn to a rundown office building in Manhattan. There, the guard questioned her extensively for hours and before taking her home so she could get some sleep. But while they were there, they also searched her apartment. They didn't find anything. But Capricorn still wasn't off the hook. The next morning, they brought her back to the same office building for more questioning and kept up this routine for five days. Eventually, they decided to give her a polygraph test. And they told her that if she failed, they would throw her into the East River. The test was supposedly inconclusive because she was so stressed out and they told her she needed to calm down. But Combs fired her anyway. Then a few weeks later, he rehired her. And that's how things went the rest of their working relationship. Capricorn was threatened, fired and rehired. In one of these stints, Capricorn was rehired to be Cassie's manager. And in late 2011, Cassie divulged some extremely sensitive information. She was dating the rapper Kid Cudi. But Capricorn didn't tell Combs. She and Cassie had spent a lot of time together over the years, and their friendship came first. So Capricorn agreed to keep Cassie's relationship with Cudi a secret, but made her buy a burner phone because she said she thought their relationship would get all of them killed. Capricorn, Cassie and Cudi, if Combs found out. Meanwhile, Cassie had told Cudi that she and Combs were broken up, although that wasn't completely true, because although they weren't as involved as they had been before, he still had a grip on her. To keep her relationship with Cudi a secret, Kassi used that burner phone to talk to him. And it worked for a while, until December 22, 2011. Combs was forcing Cassie to participate in a freak off at a hotel in la. And that night while they were in the room, he found the burner phone and saw an email from one of Cuddy's assistants coordinating the return of a bag she had left at Cuddy's house. His temper exploded. He allegedly lunged at Cassie, started kicking her and threatened her with a corkscrew. Fortunately, Cassie managed to escape him and leave the hotel. For reference, this was five years before the hotel attack that was caught on camera. From there, Cassie met up with Cudi and in order to keep her safe from Combs, they checked into a different hotel together. It seemed like they were in the clear and they could wait for things to blow over. But little did they know, Combs had also left the hotel and he was on his way to someone's house. Capricorn Clark combs arrived around 6am still seething and pounded on the door. Capricorn was startled awake and when she opened the door she saw Combs standing there with a gun in his hand. He allegedly told her to get dressed and come with him because he was going to Kid Cudi's house to kill him.
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On December 22, 2011, Sean Combs came to Capricorn Clark's house with a gun in his hand. He told her to get dressed and get into his car where one of his bodyguards was waiting so they could kill Kid Cudi. Capricorn later testified that she told Combs she didn't want to go, but he forced her to, and that's what led to the eventual kidnapping charge. Capricorn testified that when they got there, Combs told her to wait in the car and he and his bodyguard went inside. Once they shut the door behind them, Capricorn picked up the phone and called Cassie to warn her and Cuddy. Cassie and Cudi were in a hotel room together, so thankfully they were safe for the moment. But when Cudi heard that Holmes was inside his house, he said he wanted to go over there to confront him. Capricorn told him not to because Diddy had threatened to kill him, but despite Capricorn's warning. Cudi headed back to his house anyways and he decided to call Combs to say he was coming. He asked Combs if he was in the house and Combs said, quote, I'm over here waiting for you. They didn't speak for long since Cudi was already on his way. And after they hung up, Cudi called the police. Capricorn testified that then they heard Cudi driving up the road and that Combs and the bodyguard both got back in the car and they started chasing after Cuddy. But they gave up when they passed the police cars heading to Cudi's house. However, the police had seen his car as well, and one of them wrote down the license plate number as the car sped in the other direction. When police got to Kid Cudi's house, they started processing the scene and they found two odd things. The first was Christmas presents that had been unwrapped. And the second is that Cudi's dog, who was usually let free to roam the house, was locked in the bathroom, but there was nothing stolen and no sign of a break in. However, according to Cuddy, his home security cameras had been turned around. Then later on, when the police ran the plates for the car that was fleeing the scene, it turned out to be registered to Combs company, Bad Boy Entertainment. While it definitely seemed fishy, the police only recorded the event as possible trespassing, and that was that. Meanwhile, Combs had gathered Capricorn and Cassie back at his own house, where he proceeded to beat Cassie relentlessly. Capricorn watched as he kicked her over and over again while she was in the fetal position on the floor. Capricorn couldn't stand to see her friend get abused like this. But Combs threatened to beat her up too, if she tried to step in. When Capricorn later testified about it in court, just thinking about this moment almost made her burst into tears. After Combs allegedly finished beating Cassie, he told both women to convince Cudi not to tell the police he had something to do with the break in or else he'd kill all of them. The investigation had fizzled on its own anyway, but that didn't make Cassie any less terrified. The next day, she emailed her mother, Regina Ventura, to tell her what was going on. In that email, Cassie also shared new developments in this situation. Apparently, Combs had three threatened to release revenge porn of her unless she ended her relationship with Cudi. Regina had no idea Combs was abusive, so she was shocked and felt physically ill while reading the message. And that wasn't even the end of it. Cassie also said that Combs had threatened to get someone to hurt her and that he'd have it done while he was out of the country so it couldn't be tied back to him. That was actually a big reason why Cassie sent the email. She was flying out to see her mom that same day, but she wanted to tell her everything as soon as possible in case something happened to her before she could get there. Thankfully, she arrived at her mom's house safely. Once Cassie was there, Regina urged her to let her take pictures of the bruises that Combs had recently given her. Cassie agreed, and those photos were shown to the court in 2025. But at the time this was happening in 2011, the photos did little to put a stop to Combs angry vengeful rampage. He soon called Regina himself, and instead of trying to smooth the situation over, he went on offense. Combs said Regina owed him money because he'd spent so much on her daughter's career to the tune of $20,000. But that's not what he was really concerned about. This was a power play on Diddy's end because if he didn't get that money, he was threatening to release revenge porn of Cassie. Regina wasn't going to risk anything like that happening to her daughter. In order to come up with the money, she took out a loan against her home equity. She got wire instructions from a bad boy employee and sent the funds. Proof of this wire transfer was also shown during the trial. But four days later, Combs apparently had a change of heart and he sent the money back. Cuddy accompanied Cassie back home for Christmas, but they knew it had to end soon or else Combs rage and violence would continue to escalate. In fact, Combs had specifically told Cassie that if they didn't end things, he'd come after both of them. Specifically, he threatened to blow up Cudi's car. With that, Cassie felt like she was forced to go back to Combs. But of course, the nightmare was far from over. We already know that it would still be years before Cassie could safely get away from Combs. But at this point, Cudi still wasn't safe either. In one of the crazier parts of the testimony, prosecutor Johnson asks Cudi why he was concerned for his and Cassie's safety. Before he can answer, Brian Steele, who is one of Diddy's defense attorneys, objects. The judge overrules it, and they go back and forth, and then it goes to a sidebar. The judge asks Steele, now what is your objection? To the question that was asked, Steele answers. His objection is to the question, why are you scared of Mr. Combs? Because he says his answer is going to be because Mr. Combs is violent and he has had other people killed. We didn't find this out until the sidebars were released, and there was a ton of commentary online and on social media of whether Diddy's lawyer just snitched on him. But Cudi's concerns were valid because on January 9, 2012, about a month after the break in, Cudi was at a friend's house when he got a call from his dog sitter who said one of his cars was on fire. When police arrived on the scene, they found that someone had cut open the cloth roof of Cudi's Porsche 911 convertible and put a Molotov cocktail inside. The arson investigator who processed the scene was named Lance Jimenez. One of the first things he noticed was that the Molotov cocktail was made with a designer silk handkerchief rather than a simple towel or rag. Clearly, whoever was behind this saw money as no object. Jimenez also noticed that there was another car parked in the driveway that had been left alone, and the damaged Porsche wasn't easily visible from the road to him. This meant someone had to know it was there. In other words, the attack was targeted. Police processed the scene, but an investigation would take time. So the next day, Cudi decided to take matters into his own hands and set up a meeting with Sean Combs.
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After someone tossed a Molotov cocktail into Kid Cudi's car, he decided to take matters into his own hands and set up a meeting with Diddy at the Soho House in la. According to Cuddy's court testimony, when he arrived at the room, Sean Combs was standing there staring out of the window with his hands behind his back like a Marvel supervillain. But Cuddy wasn't about to let himself be intimidated by Combs posturing. The two men talked everything out, and while shaking his hand, he as he left, he looked Combs in the eye and said, what are you going to do about my car? Diddy responded with a very cold stare and replied, I don't know what you're talking about. Cudi didn't believe him, but he was also ready for this whole thing to be over. While they didn't end on good terms exactly, they at least came to an agreement and moving forward, Combs stopped coming after Cudi. Although there were a few songs and lyrics the two seemingly wrote about each other. Combs even apologized to Cuddy a few years later, though he didn't say for what exactly. And since the investigation into the attempted car bomb didn't go anywhere, the whole thing just faded away. The arson investigator, Lance Jimenez, tried to get in touch with Cassie and Capricorn, but they wouldn't speak to him. And when he had a DNA sample from the Molotov cocktail bottle tested, it only yielded a partial result for what was described as a female contributor In Jimenez testimony. He said that there were fingerprints collected from the scene, but that evidence was destroyed in August of 2012. He said that someone working at the LAPD who was not involved in the investigation had ordered the destruction. But before he could talk about this to anyone in court, the defense objected. They said that Jimenez and the prosecution was were implying that Combs had something to do with the evidence being destroyed. They even called for a mistrial over this. Calling for a mistrial seems like a big deal, but it's worth noting that in a case this elaborate and high profile, having multiple mistrial requests isn't uncommon. While this mistrial request was denied, this thread of the story did have a major impact on the trial because eventually arson and kidnapping charges were removed altogether as charges for jury consideration. This was done at the judge's orders to help streamline the case, but they could still be useful for the prosecution's case because even though the firebombing related charges were removed, they could still be used as proof of racketeering related acts. And the prosecution only needed to prove two of those acts happened in order to make their case. This was done at the judge's orders to streamline the case. According to Capricorn Clark, after all this went down, she tried to report what had happened to the president of Bad Boy. At the time, Combs wasn't the head of the company, so there was a chance there could be some internal action taken against him. But no one did anything. And shortly after making this report, Capricorn was fired. This was her longest break from working with Combs, and she said she spent four years blacklisted before getting hired back on to work for Cassie in 2016, which eventually ended due to Cassie's breakup with Combs in 2018. Even after that, though, Capricorn tried to work for Combs a few more times, even emailing him after the raids on his home, asking to be rehired. One of the defense attorneys asked Capricorn why she always went back to work for Combs if she felt he was so dangerous, and she said it was because she couldn't find work anywhere else. This was a common pattern with the assistants who testified. So many of them stayed on for years or left and then came back. And this was despite the fact that so many of them said they witnessed work or even participated in deeply troubling things. Combs may have thought his hold over them was unbreakable, that he was so powerful they would never dare to turn against him. But as Capricorn showed, he was wrong. And at the end of Cudi's testimony, the defense tried to pull a fast one again. They asked Cudi if him and Cassie ever had sexual relations, which is against Rule 412. Rule 412 is a rule of evidence that protects victims of sexual misconduct by severely limiting the introduction of their past sexual behavior or predisposition in court. Its purpose is to shield victims from embarrassment, invasion of privacy and irrelevant attacks on their character, ensuring trials focus on the facts of the alleged misconduct. The defense attorney, Brian Steele, knew that this question was violating this. But of course, they didn't receive any real consequences. And the shock on Cudi's face was something that the jury couldn't unsee. Brian Steele finished his cross by asking Cudi if his and Combs meeting was about how both men got played. Cuddy agreed. Steele then asked if the person who played both men was Cassie and if she was living two different lives, and Cuddy responded that she was. Stay tuned for tomorrow night because we'll be diving into one last witness testimony from the woman who dated Combs right up until his arrest and testified anonymously under the name Jane Doe. What did you think of tonight's case? Drop your thoughts and theories in the comments.
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