Kid Cudi said Wednesday that he only testified during Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial because he was subpoenaed.
“I was just there because I had to be,” the rapper-producer, whose government name is Scott Mescudi, said during a Wednesday episode of Alex Cooper’s “Call Her Daddy” podcast. “I hated every minute of it.”
Mescudi was one of several witnesses in Combs’ trial in which federal prosecutors in New York argued against Combs on five charges, including racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion. Last month, the jury ultimately found Combs guilty of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution and not guilty of the other three. His sentencing is set for October.
Mescudi, who briefly dated singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura in 2011, said he was asked twice to testify in the trial and declined both times. The government then subpoenaed him, leading to his explosive testimony where he described Combs as “a Marvel supervillain.”
Ventura, a former long-time partner of Combs, was key to the trial because she filed a damning lawsuit against him. Though it was quickly settled, it laid the groundwork for dozens of others to come forward with their own allegations against the mogul.
