The artist and onetime romantic rival of Combs testified that after Combs found out he'd been dating Cassie Ventura, he broke into his house and unwrapped his Christmas presents. A few weeks later, someone dropped a Molotov cocktail through the roof of Kid Cudi's car. Combs has denied involvement in both incidents.If you want to read NBC's coverage of the trial, check out our newsletter, “Diddy On Trial”: NBCNews.com/Diddy
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This is On Trial, a special series from Dateline True Crime Weekly, bringing you daily coverage from the Sean Combs racketeering trial. He has pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him. I'm Andrea Canning, and it's Thursday, May 22nd. Just a heads up, in this episode, we're going to be talking about some graphic details and harrowing subject matter.
Today in court, two witnesses offered the jury two very different versions of Sean Combs. A man who worked for him 10 years ago said being Combs' employee and learning about the entertainment business from him was like going to Harvard. But musician and actor Scott Muscutty, a.k.a.
Kid Cutty, compares Combs to a Marvel villain and described a couple of incidents that sound like something out of The Godfather. NBC News correspondent Chloe Malas is outside the courthouse in Lower Manhattan and is here to tell us what she heard. Hey, Chloe. Hey, Andrea. All right, let's start with Combs' employee. We're talking about an executive assistant by the name of George Kaplan.
He's another reluctant witness, right? He had to be subpoenaed and offered immunity.
Yeah, this is not the first time that we've seen this. And one of the things that he said was, you know, quote, I desperately did not want to be here. 100% would rather not be here.
What do we know about his testimony that's so incriminating that he could have been in legal danger if he hadn't have gotten this immunity?
That's really unclear, Andrea, because he didn't really incriminate himself in any way that I could see. He did talk about an incident that took place on an airplane in which he saw Combs get violent with Cassie Ventura, in which he heard glasses smashing. And when he went back to look, he saw Cassie crouched on the ground and Combs holding a glass bottle. and one of his hands up in the air.
And he said that it was those things that made him really second guess why he was working for Combs, and he ultimately quit.
But he also said how much he admired Combs, the businessman.
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