Sean 'Diddy' Combs' Defense Team Asks for Kid Cudi Testimony About Porsche Explosion to Be Struck from Record

Sean "Diddy" Combs' defense squad is asking for Kid Cudi's grounds astir nan demolition of nan rapper's Porsche and nan claims that Combs was down it to beryllium struck from nan record.

The car was group connected occurrence by an “incendiary device” successful 2012, according to constabulary reports obtained by Rolling Stone. Kid Cudi, whose existent sanction is Scott Mescudi, confirmed nan incident to The New York Times in 2023.

On May 22, 2025, the ninth day of Combs' ongoing sex trafficking trial, Mescudi testified that a Molotov cocktail destroyed his Porsche.

Mescudi said that connected nan time of nan explosion, he got a telephone from his dog-sitter saying that his "car was connected fire." While connected his measurement backmost home, he sewage a image of nan burnt conveyance from a friend.

The rapper said his car was beyond repair by nan clip he sewage home, noting, "The apical of my Porsche was trim unfastened and that’s wherever they inserted nan Molotov cocktail."

The incident came aft Casandra "Cassie" Ventura and Cudi dated on-and-off again successful 2011 while she and Combs, who dated until 2018, “weren’t successful nan top place."

Ventura antecedently testified that Combs became suspicious aft she recovered retired astir them and allegedly threatened to person Mescudi's car blown up.

Mescudi testified that he believed nan euphony mogul "was lying" erstwhile Diddy claimed not to cognize what he was talking astir erstwhile asked astir nan car explosion during a meeting at nan Soho House successful Los Angeles pinch Ventura.

"What are we going to do astir my car?" Mescudi recalled allegedly asking Combs, to which nan Bad Boy Records laminitis reportedly answered, "I don't cognize what you're talking about."

According to Mescudi, however, nan 2 allegedly encountered each different again astatine nan Soho House a fewer years later, during which Combs reportedly said he wanted to "apologize for everything." Mescudi said he "found peace" pinch what had happened.

Now, Combs' defense is asking for his grounds to beryllium struck and precluded going guardant arsenic a "witness mostly cannot attest that successful his opinion, a declarant was lying erstwhile making a statement."

Combs' defense squad claims that Mescudi's grounds was "mere speculation," and poses "significant dangers of unfair prejudice" against him.

The Bad Boy Records laminitis is presently facing charges of sex trafficking, racketeering and proscription to prosecute successful prostitution, which he has adamantly denied.

His squad said that: "Mescudi’s speculation astir Combs’s engagement had minimal probative value, whereas nan threat of unfair prejudice, peculiarly since he was opining astir an eventual rumor arsenic to which he was nan alleged victim—whether Combs was guilty of arson, 1 of nan charged racketeering acts—was great."

PEOPLE has reached retired to Mescudi's typical for comment.