Sean Combs’ RICO trial resumed in a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday, May 27. In bombshell testimony, Combs’ former assistant Capricorn Clark said his ex-girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura lusted after music mogul Jay-Z behind closed doors.
In a meeting with Combs’s lawyers in April 2024, Clark said she once advised Cassie to date other people than Sean Combs – but Cassie replied that Jay-Z was taken.
The defense asked Clark “Do you remember saying at the meeting that … you told Cassie, you have to – you should move away from [Combs] and date other people, right?”
Clark affirmed that she advised Cassie to date other people, and that Cassie suggested she would pursue Jay-Z if he wasn’t already married to pop singer Beyoncé (right).
Combs’ attorney Marc Agnifilo asked Clark why she and Cassie sometimes didn’t get along.
Clark previously said she used to manage Cassie and that Cassie’s attitude had changed over the years. She became “feisty”.
Agnifilo asked Clark if she thought Cassie was talented. Clark responded that Cassie had some talent and she was very beautiful, but she was no Whitney Houston.
Clark said Cassie was more of a studio musician who wasn’t the greatest singer – which is why she only released 1 album on Bad Boy Records in 10 years.
I’d never seen anything like this before
Clark, who worked for Combs from 2004 to 2012, also testified that Combs threatened to kill her multiple times.
She said Combs had her kidnapped and held against her will after he accused her of stealing jewelry from him.
Clark described incidents of violence involving Combs. She described Combs rushing to rapper Kid Cudi’s Los Angeles home with a gun after he learned Cassie was sleeping with him.
“I’d never seen anything like this before,” Clark said while fighting back tears on the witness stand.
Combs allegedly broke into Kid Cudi’s home and torched his Porsche with a Molotov cocktail.
But Combs denied the allegations and his attorneys asked the judge to strike Cudi’s statements as hearsay.
Did you ever know that I had the biggest crush on you?
When asked by the defense whether she “had a crush” on her former boss, Clark denied having feelings for Combs.
Jurors were then shown text messages from June 2021 in which Clark wrote to Combs, “Did you ever know that I had the biggest crush on you before I started working for you?”
She added: “Sometimes I wonder, did we misuse all that dope chemistry?”
But Clark testified that she didn’t recall sending the text messages.
