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Sean "Diddy" Combs kidnapped a erstwhile adjutant astatine gunpoint to articulation him arsenic helium attempted to face emotion rival rapper Kid Cudi, his sex-trafficking proceedings has been told.
Capricorn Clark, who worked for the Bad Boy Records co-founder successful antithetic roles connected and disconnected for respective years, told the tribunal helium banged connected her doorway and told her: "Get dressed, we're going to termination Mescudi."
Kid Cudi, whose existent sanction is Scott Mescudi, last week testified himself astir the alleged incident successful December 2011.
Ms Clark became tearful a fewer times arsenic she gave grounds - which marked the commencement of the 3rd week of the high-profile trial. She told the tribunal her concern moving for the hip-hop mogul was "complicated".
Combs, 55, who has pleaded not blameworthy to charges of enactment trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and proscription to prosecute successful prostitution, is accused of subjecting his erstwhile semipermanent spouse Cassie and others to years of physical, intersexual and affectional abuse.
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While giving her ain grounds successful the archetypal week of the trial, Cassie told jurors she dated Cudi concisely during a hard play successful her on-off narration with Combs.
On Tuesday, Ms Clark said she warned Cassie astir seeing Cudi, saying she took her to bargain a burner telephone arsenic she thought it could beryllium unsafe fixed however Combs mightiness react. "The mode she was moving, she was going to get america each killed," Ms Clark said.
Combs arrived astatine her location with a weapon successful his manus connected the greeting of the attempted confrontation with Cudi, she told the court, and looked "furious".
She says she told him she did not privation to spell with him, to which helium allegedly replied: "I don't springiness a f**k what you privation to do."
Ms Clark said she had ne'er seen "anything similar this before", but got dressed and near with Combs successful a achromatic Cadillac to caput to the spot successful the Hollywood Hills.
She said she waited successful the car arsenic Combs went into the residence, and called Cassie to pass her. The rapper had her "with a weapon and brought maine to Cudi's location to termination him", she said she told her.
Cudi could beryllium heard successful the inheritance of the call, she said, asking: "He's successful my house?"
After the incident, Ms Clark alleged Combs warned her and Cassie not to talk to constabulary and threatened to "kill each you" if they did not person Cudi not to either.
In the aftermath of this incident, Ms Clark alleged Combs "came at" Cassie with "100% afloat force", repeatedly kicking her portion she crouched "more and more" into a foetal presumption and cried "silently".
The rapper told Ms Clark that if she tried to intervene, "he was going to f**k maine up too", she said.
Earlier successful her testimony, she told the tribunal astir the commencement of her employment with Combs and his statement Bad Boy Records successful 2004.
She said aft helium discovered she had antecedently worked for Marion "Suge" Knight's Death Row Records - the West Coast rival to East Coast Bad Boy - helium told her "if thing happened, helium would person to termination me".
Ms Clark said she perceived this arsenic a "very serious" threat. She besides told the tribunal astir different alleged incidental conscionable a fewer weeks into the job, erstwhile immoderate diamond jewellery connected indebtedness to Combs went missing.
She told the tribunal she was taken to a gathering successful Manhattan and forced to repeatedly instrumentality prevarication detector tests implicit 5 days.
The antheral who carried retired the trial told her that if she failed, "they're going to propulsion you successful the East River", she said.
Combs was not contiguous for the tests and ne'er spoke to her astir them, she said, erstwhile questioned by defence lawyer Marc Agnifilo.
During her testimony, Ms Clark mentioned an incidental involving chap rapper 50 Cent's manager, aft some 50 Cent and Combs had done interviews for MTV.
Combs mentioned to the manager that they had immoderate issues and told him, "I similar guns", she said, which she perceived arsenic a vague threat.
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Ms Clark besides described attempting to permission Combs's location successful Miami connected 1 juncture successful 2006, erstwhile she was allegedly told to "get the f**k backmost here" by the rapper.
According to Ms Clark, helium told her: "Your occupation is you privation a life, and you can't person that here."
The proceedings continues tomorrow, with grounds expected from LA constabulary and occurrence officers.
If convicted, Combs could look betwixt 15 years and beingness successful prison.
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