Diddy trial live: Combs’s ex-PA and close Cassie Ventura confidant Capricorn Clark to take stand

Sean Combs’s federal criminal trial got off to a slow start with the prosecution’s star witness, Cassie Ventura, taking the witness stand for four days.

With the pace picking up, Judge Arun Subramanian and attorneys remain hopeful that the case can be turned over to jurors no later than July 4.

“As long as defense stays to a week,” lead prosecutor Maurene Comey told the judge just before adjournment last week, “I think that’s (July 4) fair.”

Federal prosecutors have said they plan to call on personnel from the Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles Fire Department.

The identities of those set to testify have not been revealed.

Rapper Kid Cudi, whose real name is Scott Mescudi, testified at Sean “Diddy” Combs’s New York sex trafficking trial that the music mogul broke into his home and firebombed his sports car.

Mescudi — who in 2011 dated Cassie Ventura, Combs’s on-and-off girlfriend for over a decade — took the stand on Thursday to make the shocking claims.

His testimony came a week after Ventura testified that Combs abused her after learning about her relationship with Mescudi.

Katie Hawkinson outlines what Mescudi and other witnesses have said about the rapper’s dealings with Combs:

Week two of testimony in the sex-trafficking and racketeering conspiracy trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs wrapped up Thursday, with jurors hearing from a dozen witnesses.

Rapper Scott “Kid Cudi” – who in 2011 dated Cassie Ventura, Diddy’s on-and-off girlfriend for over a decade – testified Thursday that the music mogul broke into his home and firebombed his sports car.

Frederic Zemmour, manager at the L’Ermitage Hotel in Beverly Hills, also testified Thursday that Combs’s customer profile had several notes to staff, including one that warned he “always spills candle wax on everything and uses excessive amounts of oil.”

Combs and Ventura’s former makeup artist, Mylah Morales, also told the jury she once witnessed Ventura leave a room with injuries after arguing with Combs.

Earlier in the week, jurors heard from Cassie’s mother Regina Ventura, Danity Kane Singer Dawn Richard and Ventura’s former best friend Kerry Morgan, among others.

Capricorn Clark, a former marketing executive and personal assistant to Sean Combs and close confidant to his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura is set to take the witness stand Tuesday.

Clark, whose name has been mentioned two dozen times in the first two weeks of testimony, is expected to become the third former employee to testify against Combs.

Last week, rapper Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi testified that he received a call from Clark in December 2011, warning him that Combs had broken into his Hollywood Hills home after discovering his relationship with Ventura, the prosecution’s star witness.

Previous trial testimony has cited Clark as a witness to acts of violence, a $20,000 extortion, and kidnapping. Combs denies any allegations of wrongdoing.