Diddy’s assistant Capricorn Clark exposes his list of celebrity enemies in bombshell court testimony: Live trial updates

By GERMANIA RODRIGUEZ POLEO, CHIEF U.S. REPORTER and DANIEL BATES AT THE DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN FEDERAL COURTHOUSE IN NYC FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Published: 08:23 EDT, 27 May 2025 | Updated: 12:42 EDT, 27 May 2025

Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs’ trial for sex-trafficking and racketeering is on its third week in New York after a Memorial Day break.

The disgraced music mogul, 55, has sat by his star team of attorneys as his former employees, singer Dawn Richard, rapper Kid Cudi and main accuser Cassie Ventura describe how he allegedly use his fame and wealth to coerce and intimidate those around him.

Cudi took the stand on Thursday and testified that Combs broke into his Hollywood Hills home in 2011 after finding out he was dating Cassie, and that someone set fire to his car weeks later.

Diddy’s ex-assistant Capricorn Clark exposed the mogul’s list of celebrities enemies Tuesday, name-dropping Suge Knight and 50 Cent.

Many other celebrities like Michal B Jordan, Barack Obama and Britney Spears have indeed come up in testimony. They have not been accused of any wrongdoing.

Diddy denies all allegations against him. His lawyers admit he’s a woman beater – although he does not face domestic abuse charges – but that he is not guilty of sex trafficking or racketeering.

50 Cent gun threat comes up in Diddy’s trial

Diddy’s ex-assistant Capricorn Clark told the court she once heard the mogul discussing weapons as he spoke of his rivarly against rapper 50 Cent.

She said she and Diddy were leaving a press event at MTV when the mogul told an executiven he was having issues with 50 Cent.

Diddy reortedly said, ‘I don’t lie the back and forth, I don’t like that. I like guns.’

Diddy has frequently dispelled any rumors of a feud between the legends, but Curtis Jackson, also known as 50 Cent, has been slamming his nemesis publicly for years.

All the explosive testimony from inside Diddy courtroom on Daily Mail’s podcast The Trial

To hear all the explosive testimony from singer Cassie Ventura and the other witnesses in Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs’ trial, tune in to Daily Mail’s hit podcast The Trial.

From sworn testimony to video evidence and the rapper’s every subtle move, our team of journalists take you inside the courtroom of the world’s biggest celebrity case.

Daily Mail has been following Diddy’s downfall from the very beginning. Join us as we hear from experts involved in the case, and members of the rapper’s inside circle.

Diddy’s stomach-churning cheeseburger topping revealed during sex trafficking trial

Instead of the usual ketchup and mustard combo, it was revealed he tops them with applesauce.

Breaking:Combs’ lawyers have painted Cassie as the villain with a double life

Lawyer Brian Steel suggested that Cassie was living a ‘double life’ while playing both Combs and Kid Cudi in their relationships.

Cudi testified that when he started dating Cassie in late 2011, she’d led him to believe that she and Combs were broken up.

In reality, she testified, she was still seeing Combs for so-called ‘freak-off’ sex marathons and using a burner phone to contact Cudi and keep their relationship secret from Combs.

‘She told me they were broken up and I took her word for it,’ Cudi said, recalling for jurors what he told Combs when they met to clear the air in January 2012.

‘Ms. Ventura was living two different lives, is that true?’ Steel asked.

Diddy is taking charge of his defense

Last week, Diddy instructed his lawyers to not follow up on an an answer from Kid Cudi – one of various ways he has been at the helm of his own defense.

The extent of Combs’ involvement in his defense was illustrated at the end of Cudi’s testimony when prosecutor Emily Johnson asked if he believed Combs when he said he didn’t know what he was talking about when he brought up the car fire during a meeting.

Cudi said he came away from his meeting with Combs thinking “that he was lying.”
At that point, two defense lawyers on either side of Combs consulted whether they should get the last word in and ask any follow-up questions.

Combs told them no and shook his head. Both lawyers then shook their heads, too, and the judge was informed that there would be no more questions from the defense.
With that, Cudi, who yawned several times as he testified, was permitted to leave. He left the courtroom without looking in the direction of Combs.

Suge Knight claims Trump will pardon Diddy

The imprisoned co-founder of Death Row Records made the bombshell allegations on Wednesday, hours after Diddy’s ex Cassie Ventura addressed the duo’s feud during her testimony in his criminal trial.

Court hears Capricorn Clark’s text telling Diddy about her crush

Diddy’s lawyers confronted Capricorn Clark with a text she wrote the mogul in 2021 telling him that she once had a crush on him.

Totally unrelated to our current conversation, but did you know I had the biggest crush on you before I first started working for you? When we hung out all the time. I played it super cool….I couldn’t tell if it was mutual. I just know for sure you liked to have me around.

‘Sometimes I wonder if we misused all that dope chemistry. It was super fun back then…. We called you Choc, short for Chocolate…..great memories.’

Court breaks for lunch

Capricorn Clark will resume her testimony in Diddy’s trial after a lunch break.

Capricorn Clark met with Diddy’s team after Cassie filed her lawsuit

Diddy’s attorney Marc Agnifilo began cross-examination of Clark by asking her about a meeting between they previously had in 2024.

Agnifilo got Clark to admit that during that meeting, she told Diddy’s lawyers something to the effect of he ‘wouldn’t be in this mess if he had kept (her) around.’

Clark said she retained an attorney in 2023 becasue she ‘was upset about Cassie’s civil complaint.’ She said the filing ‘traumatized’ her.

Clark said she decided to meet with Diddy’s lawyers because she ‘wanted her life back.’

She said she wanted to discuss ‘What it would look like if I came in as Chief of Staff, got [Diddy] in rehab, what it would look like if someone from the inception of his business deals was back in place.’

Diddy’s secret court notes decoded

The hip-hop mogul is using his street smarts to help lawyers battle the sex trafficking and racketeering allegations he faces, a source close to the trial claimed.

Diddy has been passing dozens of notes in court each day, grilling his lawyers during breaks and suggesting they bring in different evidence.

Clark was fired in 2012 but returned to work for Diddy in 2016

Clark told the court she was fired as Diddy’s assistant in 2012 after complaining that she was being sent work while on vacation.

She said she told an HR employee that Diddy was mad at her because she ‘didn’t tell him his girlfriend was cheating on him.’

Shortly after, she was fired for supposedly improperly taking a vacation.

Clark said Diddy told her she would never work again – ‘that he would show me that all these people weren’t my friends, that he would make me kill myself.’

The witness also told the court she received a settlement through Diddy’s attorneys over wrongful termination allegations in 2012. She did not disclose the amount.

But Clark returned as Cassie’s creative director in 2016 after struggling to find other work. She worked in that position until 2018.

Who is Diddy’s publicist Holly Baird?

Diddy’s spokeswoman and crisis management publicist Holly Baird has been supporting him in court nearly every day since the trial started earlier this month.

She specializes in damage control for notorious public figures.

Baird previously worked as a publicist for disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein.

50 Cent reacts after Diddy’s gun threat revealed in court

50 Cent took to Instagram Tuesday to react to his name being dropped during Capricorn Clark’s testimony against Diddy.

Clark said she once heard Diddy saying about his rivalry with 50 Cent: ‘I don’t like the back and forth, I don’t like that. I like guns.’

50 Cent took to social media to respond.

‘Wait a minute PUFFY’s got a gun, I can’t believe this I don’t feel safe,’ 50 Cent wrote on Instagram alongside an AI-generated image of him in a film set.

Diddy ‘threatened to kill Capricorn Clark and Cassie if Cudi called the cops’

Clark said that after Diddy broke into Kid Cudi’s house, the mogul texted Cassie saying ‘he has me and he’s not going to let me go until [she comes get to me.]’

Diddy’s former assistant said Diddy told her and Cassie they needed to go convince Kid Cudi to not call the cops after the break-in.

Diddy allegedly told them, ‘If you guys don’t convince him of that I’ll kill all you motherf***ers.’

Clark said she told Cudi, ‘if you tell on him he’s going to hurt us all.’

Diddy held gun as he pledged to kill Kid Cudi, court hears

Capricorn Clark told the court when a ‘furious’ Diddy found out about Kid Cudi seeing Cassie, he showed up at her house armed with a gun.

‘[Diddy] said get dressed we’re going to go kill this n*****,’ Clark said as she teared up on the stand.

Clark told the jury she was then forced to go to Cudi’s house in the Hollywood Hills despite saying she did not want to go.

She said once they arrived at Cudi’s home, she stayed in the car while Diddy and his staff tried to get inside the mansion.

Clark then reportedly called Cassie and Cudi, and informed them Diddy was at his house.

‘I could hear [Cudi] running out. I said Cassie, stop him, he’s going to get himself killed.’

Diddy making MILLIONS from prison with ‘high-end services’ as sex trafficking trial continues

The rapper, who is currently facing a sex trafficking trial in Manhattan federal court, has raked in $4.1M since his arrest on September 16, according to the US Sun.

‘[Cassie] was going to get us all killed’

Clark told the jury she learned that Cassie was seeing Kid Cudi when the R&B singer brought him to her apartment for a hangout.

She said she became ‘very concerned’ that Diddy would learn about the relationship.

‘I took her to Best Buy to buy a burner phone. The way she was moving she was going to get us all killed,’ Clark said in court.

Diddy’s team objected to the comment, and the judge sustained it.

Capricorn Clark mentions Lauren London in testimony

London, who was a close friend of Cassie Ventura, came up in Clark’s testimony Tuesday.

Clark said Diddy once explained to her and London why they ‘didn’t have a man.’

‘(He said) let me show you something. He called Cassie over and he asked her to sit down, stand up, turn around, turn the other way, walk over there, grab that hand me that, walk back, turn around, go back in the other room,’ Clark told the jury.

When Ventura left the room, ‘[Diddy]said, “did you see that? You bitches won’t do that. That’s why you don’t have a man.”

‘To which we said: “You’re motherf***ing right.”

Clark, Cassie and London are pictured in 2009.

Who is Capricorn Clark?

Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs’ former assistant Capricorn Clark is expected to take the stand against him during his sex-trafficking trial in New York.

The mogul’s ex-employee has been mentioned about a dozen times by various witnesses who have taken the stand in the trial, and prosecutors claim she was kidnapped twice by Diddy or his bodyguards.

Clark described Diddy as ‘the devil’ in 2023 after he was hit with several lawsuits, writing: ‘Last 11 years of my life, I have had to deal with EVERYONES nonsensical allegiance to the devil.’

Capricorn Clark says Diddy’s staff threatened to throw her in the East River

Clark told the jury about several instances where she was allegedly threatened by Diddy.

She said the first threat came when the mogul learned she had previously worked for his rival Suge Knight.

‘He told me he didn’t know I had anything to do with Suge Knight. If anything happened he’d have to kill me,’ Clark told the jury.

Clark also told the jury her life was threatened after she was robbed while carrying Diddy’s jewerly bag and forced to take a lie detector test.

‘He said I had been brought to the building to take a lie detector test to figure out what happened with this jewelry,’ Clark said in court.

‘He said if you fail these tests they’re going to throw you in the East River.’

Clark said she was forced to come back to take the lie detector test for the next four days.

‘I wanted to prove my innocence and didn’t like the threats. I just wanted to get through it,’ she told the jury.

Capricorn and Cassie are pictured together in 2008.

Diddy’s ex-assistant Capricorn Clark takes the stand

Clark took the stand Tuesday and told the court she started working with Death Row records after graduating college.

She said Suge Knight was her manager and described him as the ‘father of my best friend’s children.’

The mogul’s ex-employee has been mentioned about a dozen times by various witnesses who have taken the stand in the trial, and prosecutors claim she was kidnapped twice by Diddy or his bodyguards.

Full timeline of Diddy and Cassie’s relationship

The music mogul’s staggering downfall began when Cassie, real name Cassandra Ventura, filed a bombshell lawsuit in 2023 detailing terrifying claims of sexual abuse and violence.

The lawsuit was settled for an undisclosed amount just a day after it was filed, but it was too late for Diddy’s reputation, and the rapper was then hit with dozens of lawsuits including similar claims.

Claims against Diddy explained as explosive trial continues

Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs is currently in the fight of his life in federal court as he stares down the prospect of decades behind bars.

The disgraced rap mogul, 55, has been charged with two counts of sex trafficking, two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution and one count of racketeering.

According to prosecutors, the rapper used his ‘multi-faceted business empire’ to carry out a ‘criminal enterprise’ for years, allegedly coercing victims into sexual ‘freak off’ marathons and threatening them into silence.

The racketeering and sex trafficking charges carry a minimum sentence of 15 years each, while transportation to engage in prostitution carries a maximum of 10 years behind bars.

Diddy is in court as lawyers debate which evidence can be admitted

The music mogul has entered the federal courtroom on Tuesday for the third week of his sex-trafficking trial.

He is wearing a Navy sweater, one of the personal clothing items he has been allowed to wear throughout the trial.

The mogul is allowed to wear his own clothes to the trial but with some conditions.

He can only have up to five pairs of pants, shirts and socks and only two pairs of shoes – with no laces.

From graphic testimony to intimate texts: The evidence against Diddy

Diddy is charged with racketeering conspiracy, two charges of sex trafficking and two charges of transportation to engage in prostitution.

Prosecutors claim Diddy coerced victims into drug-fueled sex parties using sex and violence. The rapper has denied all accusations, saying all sex acts were consensual.

As the 55-year-old music mogul faces at least another six weeks of grilling, the Daily Mail unpacks the drama which has unfolded in the Manhattan federal courtroom so far.

Diddy arrives back in court after Memorial Day break

The music mogul returned to court today wearing a navy sweater after a long weekend break.

Diddy spent Memorial Day break behind bars after Judge Subramanian told the jury on Thursday that they had ‘earned’ a four day weekend.

At the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center, the former rapper reported dined on barbecue chicken, kidney beans, macaroni and cheese, mixed veggies and wholemeal bread for Memorial Day lunch.

Inmates were then served a ‘festive dessert’ and beverage.

‘He is being treated like any other detainee awaiting trial,’ an insider disclosed to the Mirror in September 2024.

Who are Diddy’s lawyers?

Once one of the most powerful music moguls in the world, Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs is now relying on a $10 million team of legal heavyweights to rescue his ruined reputation as his sex trafficking trial rolls on for another six weeks.

The defiant Grammy Award winning rapper is used to commanding a crowd – but he has been sitting silently on the defense benches while eight key defense attorneys take center stage during the blockbuster case in Manhattan federal court.

His leading lawyers are Marc Agnifilo, 60, a former Manhattan District Attorney who has tried more than 200 cases during his 30-year career, and millennial ‘nepo baby‘ defender Teny Geragos, 34, who has been using TikTok to argue Diddy’s case.

Listen to Wendy Williams’ bombshell that saw Diddy ‘get her FIRED from hit radio show’

Williams previously claimed that she was fired from popular New York City radio show Hot 97 in 1998 after sharing her belief that Combs was gay.

She supposedly claimed to have a photo of Diddy being intimate with a man.

She also made scandalous remark about the percentage of gay entertainers during a Hot 97 segment addressing the allegations that then-basketball star Eddy Curry had made sexual advances at his male driver.

Williams, during the broadcast, cited her ‘inside’ experience in the entertainment industry as evidence to support self-proclaimed statistics for the percentage of rappers and pro-athletes who were gay.

She claimed that ‘two out of ten’ players and ‘five out of ten in music’ were gay.

Who will testify today?

On Tuesday, prosecutors say they’ll call Capricorn Clark, who was an assistant to Combs and a member of his marketing team.

They said they also expect to call witnesses from the Los Angeles police and fire departments.

Kid Cudi describes Diddy as a ‘Marvel supervillain’ from the stand

Kid Cudi testified Thursday that Cassie sounded ‘very stressed, nervous, just scared’ when she phoned him in December 2011 to say that Combs had learned they were dating.

Cudi said he was confused because he thought Combs and Cassie had broken up.

Then, he said, one of Combs’ assistants called.

She said Combs and an aide were in Cudi’s home, waiting to speak with him. She also said she had been forced into a car to join them.

Cudi said he raced to his house, but Combs was gone. Inside, he testified, he found Christmas gifts had been opened and his dog was locked in the bathroom. After the break-in, his dog was ‘very jittery and kind of on edge all the time,’ he said.

Then, someone set fire to Cudi’s car, destroying it.

Cudi set he met with Combs to squash their beef the next day at a Los Angeles hotel. When he walked in, he said Combs was staring out the window standing with hands behind his back ‘like a Marvel supervillain.’

Combs denied having anything to do with the burned car, but Cudi said he didn’t believe him.

Deep fakes dragging Jennifer Lawrence and Oprah into Diddy’s trial go viral

Diddy’s trial has inspired deep fake videos that use AI-generated images to falsely claim that certain celebrities have been mentioned in the mogul’s sex-trafficking case.

One of the viral fake videos claims Oscar-winner Mo’Nique took the stand against Diddy and mentioned Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry.

Another viral fake video claims Jennifer Lawrence testified in the case.

While these stars have no known connection to the case and did not take the stand, many celebrities have indeed been named in the trial.

Michael B Jordan and Kid Cudi have come up as men Diddy was jealous of because of their relationship with Cassie.

Barack Obama’s name came up in testimony as one of Diddy’s former assistants claimed the mogul used to take ectasy pills pressed with the former president’s face.

Britney Spears also came up as Cassie listed the starts who attended her 21st birthday party.

And Prince was named as Cassie described being attacked by Diddy after a party at the late superstar’s house in LA.

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Diddy’s assistant Capricorn Clark exposes his list of celebrity enemies in bombshell court testimony: Live trial updates