Sean Combs’ Ex-Employee Says Mogul Had Gun During Alleged Kid Cudi Break-in

Sean Combs’ former employee Capricorn Clark testified Tuesday that the music mogul was armed with a gun and said he wanted to “go kill” the rapper Kid Cudi after discovering his relationship with Casandra “Cassie” Ventura in December 2011.

Taking the witness stand at Combs’ sex trafficking and racketeering trial in New York, Clark told jurors that Combs showed up at her door in a state of fury that morning, with his pants ripped open, exposing his underwear.

“Get dressed, we’re going to go kill that n—a,” Combs purportedly commanded. Clark said she tried to protest, but Combs told her, “I don’t give a fuck what you want to do.” Clark said Combs was “livid” at her for not disclosing the relationship between Cudi, born Scott Mescudi, and Ventura, one of the women Combs is accused of sex-trafficking.

Though Clark told jurors Combs had threatened her before, this was the first time he appeared at her house, she said. “I had never seen him with a weapon,” she testified. Clark said she, Combs and a security guard drove to Mescudi’s Los Angeles home with Combs holding the gun on his lap. Once they arrived, Combs and the security guard entered the house, while Clark remained in the car and called Ventura to warn her, she said.

Clark said she urged Ventura to stop Mescudi from confronting Combs. “Cassie, stop him, he’s going to come get himself killed,” Clark said she warned. A short time later, Mescudi pulled up next to Combs’ Escalade outside the house, she said. Mescudi accelerated away, with Combs’ vehicle chasing after him, she said.

“It felt like forever, but it couldn’t have been longer than a minute,” Clark testified about the alleged pursuit, which ended when they saw a police vehicle. She said Combs later forced her to call Ventura and act as bait to lure Ventura. “He has me. He’s not going to let me go,” she recalled telling Ventura. She said Ventura agreed to meet with Combs, and once they were together at Combs’ residence, Combs allegedly ordered them to stop Mescudi from reporting the break-in to police or face physical harm.

“I’ll kill all you motherfuckers,” Combs allegedly said. Clark broke down in tears as she described watching Combs allegedly kick Ventura repeatedly down a driveway. She said Combs told her to “get the fuck out” and threatened to hurt her as well if she intervened.

Clark, 46, is considered a key witness in the case and was called to corroborate claims in Combs’ indictment. According to prosecutors, Combs kidnapped Clark for the break-in and then firebombed Mescudi’s car a few weeks later.

Combs denies the kidnapping and arson allegations in his indictment. He has pleaded not guilty to five felony counts. One of the charges alleges Combs sex-trafficked Ventura by forcing her to engage in drug-fueled sexual encounters with male escorts. Combs claims the encounters, which he dubbed “freak-offs,” were consensual.

Ventura testified that Combs discovered her relationship with Mescudi when he went through her phone during a freak-off in Los Angeles and found emails she exchanged with Clark. She said one email involved getting her toiletry bag to Mescudi’s house the next day. According to Ventura, Combs flew into a rage. She said he placed a wine bottle opener between his fingers and lunged at her. “His eyes blacked out, super angry,” she testified.

Ventura said she fled the freak-off and called Mescudi, who came to pick her up. In his own testimony Thursday, Mescudi recalled rushing to Ventura’s aide and taking her to the Sunset Marquis hotel for safekeeping. He said while at the hotel, he and Ventura spoke with Clark over the phone. Clark allegedly told them she was “forced to go along” with Combs on a trip to Mescudi’s house in the Hollywood Hills.

“She told me that Sean Combs and an affiliate came to her apartment and made her get in the car to come up to my house,” Mescudi testified. “They forced her physically.”

Mescudi said Clark reported to them that Combs was inside the residence while she was waiting in a car outside. “She was very scared, sounded like she was on the verge of tears,” he said of Clark.

Both Mescudi and Ventura testified that Clark was a friend and that they hung out regularly before the alleged break-in. Ventura said she and Mescudi met with Clark after the incident to explain “everything that had happened.” Ventura said she later emailed both her mother and Clark on Dec. 23, 2011 to make a record of Combs’ alleged threats against her. She told the women Combs had threatened to release two “explicit sex tapes of me” and have “someone hurt me and Scott Mescudi physically.”

In her opening statement on May 12, Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily A. Johnson also described the incident where Combs allegedly “kidnapped” Clark before heading to Mescudi’s house. “Defendant brought his bodyguard and his gun to kidnap the employee,” she said. “The defendant’s bodyguards kidnapped the same employee another time, forcing her to sit through days of lie detector tests.”

In her own opening, Combs’ defense lawyer Teny Geragos described Clark as a long-term employee who worked for Combs for almost a decade. “As you listen to her testimony and evaluate: Was this person actually kidnapped? I expect the evidence is going to show you that, even after the criminal investigation into Combs started, she asked to work for him again 12 years after her employment ended. Twelve years after she claimed she had been kidnapped the last time,” Geragos said.

In her prior testimony, Ventura said Clark worked for Combs on a Sean John campaign and later helped her with her “artistry.” After Ventura filed her civil lawsuit against Combs in November 2023, Clark reportedly called Combs “the devil” in a private post on Twitter, now X.

“Black women end up being the sacrifice for the fuckery. Last 11 years of my life, I have had to deal with EVERYONES nonsensical allegiance to the devil. I pray that ends. I don’t think highly of any of you. Can’t keep your head down + pretend shit is cool no more. Do better,” she posted, according to several reports at the time.