Kid Cudi Says Diddy Broke Into His Home, Unwrapped His Family's Christmas Gifts, And Shut His Dog In The Bathroom

Rapper Kid Cudi outside Manhattan federal court before he was called to testify in Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex-trafficking trial.

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• Kid Cudi testified in Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex-trafficking trial on Thursday.
• The rapper once dated Combs' ex, Cassie Ventura.
• Ventura previously testified that her 2012 romance with Kid Cudi made Combs "irate."

Rapper Kid Cudi told a Manhattan federal jury on Thursday that Sean "Diddy" Combs broke into his Los Angeles home after the hip-hop mogul found out he was dating R&B singer Cassie Ventura.

Christmas gifts from Chanel that Kid Cudi had gotten for his family were unwrapped and opened, and his dog was shut in the bathroom during the December 2011 break-in, he testified at Combs' sex-trafficking and racketeering trial.

Kid Cudi, whose given name is Scott Mescudi, was called as a government witness in the trial, which is in its second week.

Earlier that day, Mescudi found out Combs was outside his home after Mescudi had spent a night with Ventura at the Sunset Marquis hotel, he testified.

One of Combs' trusted employees, Capricorn Clark, called Mescudi to tell him that she was outside his house — and that Combs was inside, Mescudi testified. Clark told Mescudi that Combs had "forced her physically" to drive there with him, Mescudi said.

"Motherfucker, you in my house?" Mescudi recalled telling Combs over the phone as he rushed over to his home in the Hollywood Hills.

"He said he wants to talk to me," Mescudi said of Combs. "I said I'm on my way over right now."

"And he said I'm over here waiting for you," Mescudi told the jury, adding that Combs sounded "calm."

Mescudi added, "I wanted to confront him, I wanted to fight him," but he wondered whether Combs would be alone for any actual confrontation.

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Once he got home, Combs was nowhere to be found, Mescudi said.

"Some gifts that I had brought for my family had been opened," Mescudi testified. "And then my dog was in my bathroom."

He said his dog was acting "very jittery."

Mescudi told the jury he reported the break-in to the police.

Mescudi and Ventura — the prosecution's star witness in Combs' trial — briefly dated while Ventura was on a break from Combs. Ventura and Combs dated on and off between 2007 and 2018.

After the ordeal, Mescudi told jurors that Combs reached out to him a couple of times.

"I guess he was in the dark about things and wanted to talk," Mescudi said.

But Mescudi said he told Combs, "You broke into my house, you messed with my dog, I don't want to talk to you."

During Ventura's more than 20 hours of testimony last week, she told the eight-man, four-woman jury how her 2011 romance with Mescudi enraged Combs — and that he wanted to set fire to his car.

Mescudi said his Porsche was torched while parked in his driveway

Mescudi testified on Thursday that his Porsche had been firebombed in February 2012 while it was parked in his driveway.

"Looks like the top of my Porsche was cut open. That's where they inserted the Molotov cocktail," Mescudi told jurors as they were shown photos of his torched vehicle.

Mescudi said that during a later meeting at the Soho House West Hollywood, Combs denied having torched his car.

"What are we going to do about my car?" Mescudi told the jury he asked Combs. "I made sure to ask him while our hands were clasped so I could look him straight in the eye."

"I don't know what you're talking about," Combs answered, Mescudi testified.

"That's your word?" Mescudi said he then asked. "He said, yeah."

"And I said, that's it," Mescudi said.

Ventura's 2023 now-settled lawsuit against Combs first suggested that Combs was responsible for the 2012 firebombing.

Prosecutors have alleged that Combs previously ordered his underlings to torch a car using a Molotov cocktail.

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Combs faces life in prison if the jury convicts him on sex trafficking charges tied to Ventura and another woman.

During his testimony, Mescudi told the jury that he had strong feelings for Ventura, but that they broke it off because "the drama was just getting out of hand."

"Kind of wanted to give her some space. The break-in and everything," Mescudi testified. "Just felt like things were getting out of hand. For my safety, for her safety."

"I knew Sean Combs was violent," Mescudi said.

Mescudi said he saw Combs a couple of years later at the Soho House.

"He pulled me to the side and basically said, 'Man I just want to apologize for everything and all that bullshit,'" Mescudi said.

"I found peace with it — that was the last thing I was expecting of him," said Mescudi.