Rapper Kid Cudi expected to testify at Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and LARRY NEUMEISTER

Rapper and actor Kid Cudi is expected to testify at the Sean “Diddy” Combs sex trafficking trial, taking the witness stand either Wednesday or Thursday to tell the jury about his brief relationship 14 years ago with Combs ex-girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie.

Cassie testified last week that Combs was enraged when she left him for a period of time in 2011 and began dating Cudi, whose legal name is Scott Mescudi. She said Combs left a large bruise on her back where he kicked her as she left his Los Angeles home for the last time that year.

Prosecutors have contended in court filings that Combs was so upset that he arranged to have Cudi’s convertible firebombed.

A prosecutor said at the end of Tuesday’s court session that Mescudi will be the third witness after a federal agent finishes testifying about what investigators found last year when they