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Sean Combs: Kid Cudi takes the stand.

Dateline NBC

NBC News

True Crime, Culture, Social, Society & Culture, News

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The artist and onetime romantic rival of Combs testified that a jealous Combs broke into his house and unwrapped his Christmas presents. Combs has denied the allegation.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, Andrea Canning here with a bonus drop from the Dateline True Crime Weekly team.

0:05.5

For the next eight weeks or so, we'll be bringing you daily updates from the trial of Sean Diddy Combs.

0:11.1

I'll be talking to NBC News correspondent Chloe Malas every day after court about what she's seeing inside, the witnesses, the evidence, and what it all means.

0:20.5

Episodes drop in the Dateline True Crime Weekly feed.

0:26.8

This is On Trial, a special series from Dateline True Crime Weekly,

0:30.9

bringing you daily coverage from the Sean Combs racketeering trial.

0:34.6

He has pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him. I'm Andrea Canning,

0:39.3

and it's Thursday, May 22nd. Just a heads up, in this episode, we're going to be talking about

0:45.2

some graphic details and harrowing subject matter. Today in court, two witnesses offered the jury

0:51.3

two very different versions of Sean Combs. A man who worked for him

0:55.7

10 years ago said being Combs's employee and learning about the entertainment business from him

1:00.3

was like going to Harvard. But musician and actor Scott Muscutty, aka Kid Cutty, compares Combs

1:07.3

to a Marvel villain and described a couple of incidents that sound like something out of the godfather.

1:13.0

NBC news correspondent Chloe Malas is outside the courthouse in Lower Manhattan and is here to tell us what she heard.

1:18.0

Hey, Chloe.

1:18.8

Hey, Andrea.

1:19.5

All right, let's start with Combs' employee.

1:22.3

We're talking about an executive assistant by the name of George Kaplan.

1:27.3

He's another reluctant witness, right? He had to be

1:30.4

subpoenaed and offered immunity. Yeah, this is not the first time that we've seen this. And one of the

1:35.4

things that he said was, you know, quote, I desperately did not want to be here. A hundred percent

1:40.1

would rather not be here. What do we know about his testimony that's so incriminating that he could have been in legal

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