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  • May 26, 2025
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    Diddy's lawyers filed a letter that says they want the Judge to strike Kid Cudi’s testimony about Diddy “lying” when he denied being involved in the arson fire of Cudi’s Porsche.

    Full Letter: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.628425/gov.uscourts.nysd.628425.352.0.pdf

  • May 26, 2025
    Silas

    Diddy's lawyers filed a letter that says they want the Judge to strike Kid Cudi’s testimony about Diddy “lying” when he denied being involved in the arson fire of Cudi’s Porsche.

    Full Letter: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.628425/gov.uscourts.nysd.628425.352.0.pdf

  • May 26, 2025
    Silas

    Diddy's lawyers filed a letter that says they want the Judge to strike Kid Cudi’s testimony about Diddy “lying” when he denied being involved in the arson fire of Cudi’s Porsche.

    Full Letter: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.628425/gov.uscourts.nysd.628425.352.0.pdf

    He’s “lying” but the defense did not question Cudi at all during his testimony

  • May 27, 2025

    Trial has already started

  • May 27, 2025

    Judge Subramanian: I see you burned the midnight oil over the weekend. What about the DNA questions?
    AUSA: Investigator Jimenez' knowledge of his is extremely limited.
    Judge: But didn't he ask the serologist if any DNA test was done?
    AUSA: But not the results

  • May 27, 2025

    AUSA: Yes there was a partial profile from the glass bottle in the car. But Investigator Jimenez does not know what that means. But there-
    Judge: You don't object to the report coming in, only what Mr. Agnifilo will ask?
    AUSA: We do object to the report coming in

  • May 27, 2025

    Combs' Agnifilo: He got the results back. If the DNA came back with Sean Combs' DNA this investigation would have gone in a different direction. But it was consistent with a female contributor
    Judge: So it's not whether the result was accurate, only the impact

  • May 27, 2025

    Judge: I'm going to overrule the objection but I'll hear you at sidebar after the direct
    AUSA: This DNA issue can mislead the jury
    Agnifilo: We could prove this up through the serologist. This is fair game for this witness
    Judge: For now the objection is overruled

  • May 27, 2025

    Judge: What about the summary charts - when are they being offered?
    AUSA: Some early next week, others along with our second to last witness before we rest our case.
    Judge: Bringing in bank & phone records & texts is OK - but some text threads are already in

  • May 27, 2025

    AUSA: The summary charts will save time, as they did in the [ex-Senator Bob] Menendez case

  • May 27, 2025

    Judge: That leaves us with the objection to Doctor Hughes. Is the US going to respond?
    AUSA: Yes.
    Judge: Submit your response by tomorrow.

  • May 27, 2025

    Judge: Now as to Mr. Mescudi's testimony, which seemed like an opinion. How is it admissible given the requirements of Rule 701?
    AUSA: We'd like to look at the cases submitted by the defendant then put in a letter.
    Judge OK. Bring in the jury

  • May 27, 2025

    Next witness is Capricorn Clark, former Diddy employee

  • May 27, 2025

    Jury entering!
    Judge: Welcome back. Call your next witness.
    AUSA: The Government calls Capricorn Clark... Where did you grow up?
    Capricorn Clark: Born in San Francisco, moved to LA. Worked for Def Jam. Then Death Row Records, a late 90s gangster rap label

  • May 27, 2025

    AUSA: What was your relation to Suge Knight?
    Capricorn Clark: He is the father of my friend's child
    AUSA: Then you worked for Sean Combs?
    Capricorn Clark: Yes. He is over there in a blue sweater. I worked for him from 2004 to 2012. AUSA: Were you kidnapped?
    Capricorn Clark: Yes

  • May 27, 2025

    AUSA: When did you first meet Mr. Combs?
    Capricorn Clark: When I moved to NYC in 2002. We were super Platonic friends. A headhunter said I should work for him as a personal assistant. I did, until 2006. AUSA: Your duties?
    Capricorn Clark: Shadow him from wake up

  • May 27, 2025

    AUSA: Then what?
    Capricorn Clark: Head of women's for Sean Jean.
    AUSA: How long?
    CC: A year. Then global brand director for Sean Combs. Name and likeness due diligence. To grow the brand. Then I was terminated, until 2016, for Cassandra Ventura.

  • May 27, 2025

    AUSA: Did you work in this building? [Photo of Bad Boy Records office]
    Capricorn Clark: Yes we moved there in 2005. AUSA: Your first day, where did Mr. Combs take you?
    CC: Central Park, after dark, along with Uncle Paulie. He looked like a linebacker

  • May 27, 2025

    AUSA: Does this photo look like him?
    Capricorn Clark: No, he doesn't have on the black out shades he wore all the time
    AUSA: What did Mr. Comb tell you in the park?
    CC: That since I'd worked for Suge Knight, if anything happened he might have to kill me
    Objection!

  • May 27, 2025

    Judge: Overruled. Proceed.
    AUSA: How did you take it?
    Capricorn Clark: Seriously. It had gravitas.
    AUSA: How did you react?
    CC: I said, I didn't have anything to do with that stuff-
    Objection!
    Judge: Sustained. Ms. Steiner...
    AUSA: What was Paulie's role?

  • May 27, 2025

    Capricorn Clark: All aspect of Mr. Combs' movements, to keep him safe. There were also D-Roc. Roger Bonds, & Ruben
    AUSA: Who's D-Roc?
    CC: A good friend of Biggie Smalls. Running back type body
    AUSA: Did you ever observe Mr. Combs with a gun?
    CC: Yes. In my home

  • May 27, 2025

    AUSA: And did he talk about it?
    Capricorn Clark: He. Mr. Combs told Chris Lighty he had a gun. He had a problem with 50 Cent.
    AUSA: Were you ever accused of stealing?
    CC: Yes. Jewelry. It had been given to me. It was on loan.
    AUSA: It went missing?
    CC: Yes.

  • May 27, 2025

    AUSA: What did you do?
    Capricorn Clark: From Teterboro I called 1440 and told them to lock it down.
    AUSA: What did Uncle Paulie do?
    CC: He questioned me three hours
    AUSA: You went home?
    CC: To Queens, yes, with Uncle Paulie. He searched my house

  • May 27, 2025

    AUSA: Where did Uncle Paulie take you?
    Capricorn Clark: 1710 Broadway. It was dilapidated. It was being fixed up. But I didn't know that. Uncle Paulie took me to the sixth floor. The door was locked behind us. There was a six foot folding table and a heavyset man

  • May 27, 2025

    AUSA: Can you describe him?
    Capricorn Clark: Five of me. Two linebackers. He was chain smoking.
    AUSA: Did Uncle Paulie stay?
    CC: No. Intermittently he came back.
    AUSA: What did the heavyset man say?
    CC: I was there to take a lie detector test.