Lauren LaRosa (19:28)
He was like, you know, normally, like, just regular. Like, she's on speakerphone, you know, me, her and Cassie are talking. And they say the night, the day that all this happened, that Diddy found out about all this stuff and, you know, the alleged break in and cops coming into your home, then that time when all of this happened, how did her demeanor sound? And he said that she answered the phone, and she and Capricorn Clark allegedly sound very scared. He described it as Capricorn Clark being on the verge of tears. He says that while she was on the phone, Capricorn Clark told Kid Cudi that she was allegedly forced to go with Diddy. She was forced into a car to go with Diddy to Kid Cudi's house, and that Diddy was going to be at his house when he arrived there. Prosecutors had asked Kid Cudi, like, well, how did Diddy even know where to go? How did he know where your. Your house was at? And he said, cassie gave him my address. So he says after he talked to Capricorn Clark, he then got in the car and went to his house. Like, he wasn't ducking. No smoke. He got in the car, went to his house while he's driving. He says he had Diddy's number. And he called Diddy, allegedly. He said, I'm gonna be candid. I said, hey, you at my house? And Diddy said, I just want to talk to you. And Kid Cudi said, well, I'm on my way right now. And Diddy said, okay, I'm here waiting on you, allegedly. So Diddy, he says his voice was calm the whole time on the phone. It was a very calm demeanor. And Kid Cudi was telling the prosecutors, like, you know, because they asked him, like, did you have cameras out front of your house? And he's like, I did have cameras. But he alleges that when he got to his home, he realized that the cameras had been. They normally angled down to the door, to the front door. And he realized that when he got to his house, the cameras were angling away from the door, so they didn't capture anything. He was alleging that this was done because of whoever went into his home. And he alleges that Diddy was who went into his home. So he said when he got into his home, there were, like, some gifts that he had brought for his family. From Chanel. So that stuff was opened. He said that his dog was allegedly locked up in a bathroom. And that was weird because he normally lets his dog roam all over the house. Like, he never locks his dog in the bathroom. Now the police, at the police, the prosecutors asked, well, you know, after this incident, how was your dog, like, how did your dog acts? And he said, well, after this incident, my dog was like very jittery, very on edge all the time. So now Kid Cudi leaves his home, he gets in his car, he's calling Diddy, allegedly. And he says Diddy answers. And Kid Cudi was asking him like, yo, where you at? Diddy keeps saying to him, I'm on my way, I'm on my way. Like, Diddy is telling him, allegedly he's on his way to his home. And Kid Cudi hangs up and he's like, you know, I took a second and I thought about it because I, I started thinking to myself, I don't know who he's with. I don't know what he has on him. I don't know his intentions. I don't know anything. So it doesn't make any sense for me to try, like, try and find him right now. Decided to just chill. He went back to his house and he called police again. Now when he called police, he did make a report for the break in. And he said he saw Cassie after that, after all of this and that she was stressed out. Now that now we move on, right? So now Christmas comes along. So after all of this, Cassie and kid Cudi head to Cassie's parents home not too shortly after this, head to Cassie's parents home in Connecticut. Now, we've heard about this visit to Cassie's parents home in Connecticut multiple times. We've heard about it from Cassie from her point of view. We've heard about it from Cassie's mother as well, briefly. And now we're hearing about it from Kid Cudi. Now Kid Cudi is saying that she needed to be around family. He says while he was there, Diddy allegedly text him a few times. Because remember, Diddy was saying like, I, I want to talk to you, I want to talk to you, I want to talk to you. Because at this point now Diddy is trying to have a conversation, allegedly about what their relationship is like. He's like, okay, like, I need to get to the bottom of this. So Kid Cudi is like, you know, did he allegedly text him a couple times, but he didn't give him to too much, so it stopped. So then going Into New Year's of January 2020, January 2012, their relationship like just dies out. Cassie on, you know, on her testimony said that she broke up with him going into the New Year. Kid Cudi said it just kind of like faded out. Like they just stopped talking. And for him, he said it was just a lot going on. Like he felt like it was best that they just stopped talking because it was a lot of drama. January 2012, right. So we're into the New Year. Kid Cudi says he's at his ex girlfriend's sister's house just chilling. And then he gets a call from his dog. Sit around like six, seven o' clock in the morning, and the dog sitter is like, hey, your car is on fire in the driveway. He's like, what? So he goes home. While he's on his way home, he has one of his friends send him a photo of the damage of the car. Now here is the photos of some of the damage from the car. So as you see here, you have his Ragtock, a Porsche. At that time, he has a rag top. The ragtop was split. He says it wasn't like this before he left his house, that it was split. And he did say that of course he felt like this was done on purpose. So he says that the top was split, as we see, and a cocktail was thrown into the car, which then caused the fire. Fire, as we see, affected the, the immediate inside. It was drawn in a lot. It was thrown on the driver's side of the car. So here are some of the damage. So the roof was cut on the soft top of the Porsche. There's smoke damage to the driver door. There's a seat burned up. So you guys see the red has turned black on the driver's side. Kid Cudi said that when he got back home to his house, the cops were at his house when he arrived. And the cops had, you know, verified that the cocktail had been thrown into his car which caused the fire and that they actually like showed it to him. Now when they asked him who he thought was responsible, he of course said that he felt like it was intentional. And, and he, you know, reiterates that he believes that the damage was intentional. And he said the last time he saw Cassie, just in general up until the day that we're seeing him on the stand, was 2012 at the Soho house. Now he then goes into this meeting that we've been hearing a lot about. So Cassie had testified that Diddy was still upset, allegedly, and wanted to sit down with her and Kid Cudi. So they sat down at a restaurant. Kid Cudi is like, okay, we sat down at the Soho House. But before. And this. And this wasn't in 2012, right? Because in 2012, we ran into her at the Soho House. But they're like, wait, back up. You were at the Soho House another time, and. And you ran into Cassie. Can you talk to us about that meeting? So he's like, it was the next day, after the car on fire incident. He had reached out to Diddy because at this point, he says he was just tired of all of the drama. He was like, by the time it got to, like, the car getting set on fire, he's like, yo, this is too much. We just need to talk. So he alleges he reached out to Diddy. They met up at the Soho House. He reached out. His manager actually reached out to Drock, who we know has been identified as Diddy's security. So they meet up. He says, he alleges, when he comes in the room, they met in, like, a. Like a conference room in one of the Soho Houses in la. But he says that those conference rooms are not there anymore. But he comes in and he said, Diddy is standing, allegedly, at the window. There's like a. A huge window on one side of the room. Diddy is standing at the window with his hands behind his back. Like he was like a superhero, like a Marvel super villain. That's how he described it. Everybody in the courtroom, of course, that are laughing. So then they start having a conversation. And he says, you know, from the conversation, the alleged conversation, he was able to take away that Diddy felt away because they were homies at one point. And K. Cudi is like, well, you know, I thought it was all fair game because I had been told that y' all were no longer together, that y' all had broken up, because that's what Cassie had told me. So then he says into that conversation, Cassie arrives into the meeting, and Kid Cudi, of course, he's like, yo, I was. I was upset because basically, like, the story was fun to me. Completely different. And, you know, she was a little upset as well, but she was explaining how they met, how they fell in love. And again, Kid Cudy keeps mentioning that Diddy's demeanor allegedly was, like, really calm throughout all of this stuff. He said that his demeanor was calm during the meeting to the point where, like, it was almost, like, eerie a little bit. So then he says at the end of the conversation, Kid Cudi is like, you know, he stood up. He Allegedly goes to shake Diddy's hand. Cuz, at this point, now, they had the conversation. It's like, all right, whatever. We moving on. And Kid Cudi's like, well, what about my car? Allegedly. And Diddy is like, I don't know what you're talking about. He says a few years later, he saw Diddy at the Soho house again. Diddy was with his daughter, one of his daughters. And he came up to him and just apologized and was like, yo, man, I'm sorry for all that drama and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, like, all those things. And then the prosecution rushed. So Brian still comes on cross and he is asking questions, and instantly, right? He's like, okay, let's point to the fact that there were fingerprints and DNA took from the car. Correct? And Kid Cudi's like, correct. And he's like, brian still instantly points to the. Brian instantly points to the fact that there were allegedly findings that. That these DNA, you know, and all that stuff pointed back to a woman. So now we're all like, wait, what? They objected it. He tried to act it a bunch of different ways, and it just. It just was a mess. So we didn't really get too far on that. But Kid Cudi did say that he tried to stay in contact with the police so he could figure out, you know, more from the investigation and the information from the investigation, but he never gotten anything. He never got any more information. Then Kid Cudi goes into having the conversation about, you know, Brian still just establishing his career and all of the things, and he's like, you know, just making a point to. To let it be known that both of them were major music artists at the time around 2012. And he talks about the tour that Kid Cudi was on. But then he makes a point where I'm like, I get what they're trying to do, but I just. Again, I don't know how this is going to fare. For the defense, Brian still makes it a point to bring up the burner phone that Cassie had, which is. Which. Which is what Cassie had admitted that she was communicating with Kid Cudi on while they were dating because she just didn't want Diddy to find out certain things or find out about him because she just didn't think it would be safe, and she just didn't want the drama of him finding out. Allegedly. But Brian still leaves with a mic drop of like, she played both of y', all, right? And he was like, right. And that was it. That was all. Now, from the prosecutor side, you're looking at this like, okay, slam dunk. We got Kid Cudi on the stand testifying firsthand to what he went through. The alleged arson, the phone calls with Diddy, the back and forth with Cassie, you know, and. And showing that, you know, she was trying to get away, but she just couldn't, allegedly. And all these things on the defensive side, right, With Brian still when he comes up, because he goes into this line of questioning about. Because Kid Cudi kept mentioning that Diddy was so calm. Diddy was so calm. Did. He was so calm, right? And we had heard in other people's testimonies about Diddy allegedly carrying firearms and, you know, just different things to intimidate and to get his way and so, you know, do these different things. So Brian still asks him, like, you know, you was willing to go meet up with him. You didn't wonder or think if he might have been carrying a firearm. And he was like. Didn't really think about it. And then he's like. And you say Diddy was like. He was calm. He was calm in demeanor. He was like, yeah. And then they talk about the. Even the homebreak, and they're like, so there was no forced entry. They just left your door unlocked. What Brian still was trying to set up was he was downplaying the. That, you know, this. This big, crazy, aggressive in nature gun slinging man that the prosecution is trying to. To set up. Let me know how y' all feeling.
