Prosecutors Plan To Call Kid Cudi To Testify

Laura Coates Live

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🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Prosecutors said they plan to call Scott Mescudi, the musician known as Kid Cudi, to the stand Wednesday or Thursday. The prosecution has argued Combs and some in his inner circle used threats, violence, drugs, bribery, arson, kidnapping and lies to coerce Ventura and another woman into participating in sex parties he called “Freak Offs” and to protect the music mogul’s reputation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.6	Tonight, guns, cash, and drugs, the new dramatic testimony at the heart of the prosecution's case
0:39.0	on a special edition of Laura Coates Live, Diddy, on trial?
0:51.9	Good evening and welcome.
0:53.4	I'm Laura Coates right here in New York City tonight, and it was a packed day seven in the trial against one Sean Ditting Combs. And today, guns and money will they took center stage. Just a sec. We'll ask our legal experts and court insiders how today's testimony may have advanced the prosecution's case, and there's certainly
1:12.4	a lot to get through tonight. The prosecution tried to connect the dots between Diddy's business
1:17.8	and his alleged abuse of Cassie Ventura and another victim. How? By using witnesses to try to link
1:24.2	Diddy to firearms, cash, and control.
1:32.9	We heard from a male escort who said Diddy controlled everything about the freakoffs with Cassie.
1:41.9	And Cassie's mother, she also took the stand, testifying about taking a home equity loan out to wire Diddy $20,000.
1:46.1	Now, the last one's on the stand today, he tied Diddy to some pretty serious weapons. Remember that $20,000. Now, the last wouldn't understand today, he tied Diddy to some pretty serious weapons. Remember that 2024 raid on his home in Miami Beach? Special Agent in charge
1:52.4	testified that he found parts of AR-15 rifles in Diddy's master bedroom. He says the serial
1:59.3	numbers were also scratched off. Police also found items that
2:03.3	others previously testified would be present at freakoffs, high heels, sex toys, baby oil,
2:10.7	astroglyde, and lingerie. And speaking of those items, tonight we're seeing images from the first
2:16.7	time of what investigators
2:18.5	found at the New York hotel where Diddy was arrested last year.
2:22.7	They seized, perhaps you guessed it, baby oil, lubricant, drugs, and cash.
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