When testifying about the alleged 2011 kidnapping, Clark described events that the jury had heard about last week, this time from her perspective.
According to Clark, Combs ordered her to get dressed and accompany him to Mescudi’s home in the Hollywood Hills, saying: “We’re going to go kill” the musician.
Combs’ first threat against her, Clark alleged, came on her very first day of work in 2004.
The man testing her, Clark alleged, repeatedly told her she would be “thrown into the East River” if she failed.
From the stand, Clark said that instead Combs had been “waving it around.”
Warning: There are descriptions of physical violence in this report.
On Tuesday, federal prosecutors continued to expand their case against the hip-hop mogul, Sean Combs. Capricorn Clark, who moved up from being Combs’ personal assistant to head marketing for his Sean John fashion company, was the only witness on the stand that day. She worked for him intermittently from 2004 to 2018, and Clark testified that he threatened her on several occasions and abducted her in December 2011.
The majority of Clark’s testimony was intended to support Combs’s racketeering charges, including numerous allegations of physical threats and intimidation allegedly made by Combs and some of his associates. However, some of her most striking remarks alluded to Combs’ acknowledgedly turbulent and violent relationship with singer and model Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, who was his then-girlfriend. Combs has entered a not guilty plea to all of the charges, including transportation for prostitution and sex trafficking.
Speaking from her point of view, Clark recounted events that the jury had heard about last week during her testimony regarding the alleged 2011 kidnapping. According to her, it happened after Combs found out that Ventura, with whom he had a sporadic relationship, had started seeing rapper Scott Mescudi, better known as Kid Cudi.
During his testimony, Clark, who broke down in tears several times, described how Combs arrived at her Los Angeles apartment door early that December morning, armed with a gun and in a fit of rage. Clark claims that Combs told her, “We’re going to go kill” Mescudi, and told her to get dressed so they could go to his house in the Hollywood Hills. Combs discovered that although Clark knew Ventura was seeing Mescudi, he had kept Ventura’s new relationship a secret from him. She claimed she was forced to wait in Combs’ vehicle while he and one of his security guards entered to look for Mescudi.
Following a furious car chase, Clark testified that Combs threatened to kill her if she reported him to the police. He also said that if Mescudi told the police that Combs had been in his house, he would “kill all” three of them: Ventura, Clark, and Mescudi. She said that later that afternoon, while Ventura was crouching “in a fetal position,” she saw Combs beating her and repeatedly kicking her in the legs, back, and backside. “,”.
Weeks following this purported incident involving Clark, Mescudi testified to the jury last Thursday regarding the break-in and the burning of his vehicle. Combs’ attorneys have denied that the business magnate was involved in the arson. Ventura gave lengthy testimony about sexual and physical abuse earlier this month.
Clark claimed that Combs threatened her for the first time on her first day of work in 2004. Combs allegedly told Clark that if she had any more contact with rival producer and record label executive Suge Knight, “He would have to kill me.” Combs was aware that Clark had previously interned for Knight. “.”.
In her testimony, Clark also discussed a previous incident in which she was allegedly detained against her will. As Clark testified, Combs’s associates locked her in a run-down, locked building in Midtown Manhattan for five days later that first year so they could put her through a battery of lie detector tests. The purported incident happened after three expensive diamond jewelry pieces that Clark had been tasked with caring for and had been loaned to Combs vanished. Clark claimed that she was repeatedly told by the man testing her that she would be “thrown into the East River” if she failed. According to Clark, she underwent the testing to demonstrate her innocence. When she said, “I was petrified,”. In addition to allegedly taking her home every night, one of Combs’ security guards reportedly looked through her apartment for the missing jewels.
After being fired for “three to four weeks” due to the tests’ repeated inconclusive results, she was later hired again to help with Combs’ 35th birthday celebration. She claimed that Combs never brought up the missing diamonds with her again or asked her where she had been during the five days she was allegedly detained for the lie detector tests.
According to Clark, she quit Combs’ company in 2006 after he allegedly pressured her to join another record label, Jive/Zomba, but she later came back. When she informed executives at Combs’ co-founded recording label, Bad Boy Records, about the alleged 2011 kidnapping, she was fired in early 2012. Combs told her she would “never work again,” and she testified that it was because of an improperly taken vacation. Combs later paid her a settlement for alleged wrongful termination. Prosecutors’ inquiries about the amount of that settlement were repeatedly met with resistance from Combs’ defense team, which was upheld.
Combs’ lawyer Marc Agnifilo frequently criticized Clark’s testimony during cross-examination for discrepancies, citing a prior allegation to prosecutors that Combs had pointed the gun at her in 2011. According to Clark, who was speaking from the stand, Combs had been “waving it around.”. “..”.
