Sean Combs trial updates: Prosecution witness known as 'Mia' expected to testify next

Former Sean Combs assistant Capricorn Clark testified that while she was on the phone with Cassie Ventura, which was while Sean Combs had allegedly broken into Scott Mescudi's house, she heard Mescudi in the background say, "He's in my house?"

Clark testified that she told Ventura, "Cassie, stop him. He's going to get himself killed," referring to Mescudi.

Clark told the court that Combs ordered her to fetch Ventura. "He told me to tell Cassie that he has me and he's not going to let me go until I come get her," Clark testified.

Clark further testified that she and Ruben, one of Combs' bodyguards, were sent to pick up Ventura to allegedly get her to convince Mescudi not to tell police that Combs was involved in the alleged break-in at his house.

"If you don't convince him, I'm going to kill all you m------------," Clark testified Combs told her.

Clark testified that she returned to Combs' house with Ventura. "Puff (was) standing there in a robe and his underwear and he immediately began kicking Cassie," she told the court.

Clark told the court that Combs allegedly kicked Ventura repeatedly, and that with "each kick she would crouch into more and more a fetal position" until Ventura was all the way to the street. "Every time she got kicked, she moved back" and remained in a "full fetal position," Clark testified.

Asked why she didn't intervene, Clark responded that Combs allegedly told her that "If I jump in, he was going to f--- me up, too."

Clark took off her glasses and rubbed her eyes with a tissue as she testified, her voice breaking with emotion, about calling Regina Ventura, Cassie Ventura's mother, and telling her that Combs was allegedly "beating the s--- out of your daughter. Please help her. I can't call the police, but you can."

The next day, Dec. 23, 2011, is when Ventura previously testified that she sent Clark and her mother the email about Combs threatening to release two sex tapes that the jury was previously shown.

Clark testified that she was fired by Combs in August 2012, and that she returned in 2016 to work as Cassie Ventura's creative director. She told the court that everything from "soup to nuts" required approval from Combs. She also testified that she noticed an increase in Ventura's drug use.

Clark told the court that left Combs' employ in 2018, which she added was the last time she communicated with Ventura.

The prosecution's direct examination of Clark is over. Court is taking a break before cross-examination.

Former Sean Combs assistant Capricorn Clark testified about a time when she said Sean Combs was in the kitchen of a house he rented in Los Angeles, along with actress Lauren London and Combs' private chef at the time, Jourdan Cha'Taun.

"He was discussing with us why we didn't have a man like him," Clark testified Combs told them. "He said, 'Let me show you something.'"

He then called for Cassie Ventura, Clark told the court.

"He called Cassie over and he asked her to sit down, stand up, turn around, turn the other way, walk over there, grab that, hand me that, walk back, turn around, go back in the other room," Clark testified. "He said, 'Did you see that? You b------ won't do that. That's why you don't have a man.' To which we said, you're m------------ right."

Clark also testified about a time in Combs' Miami Beach home in 2008 when, exasperated after a long night, she told the court that she exclaimed, "I hate it here."

Combs then "charged" at her, Clark testified.

"He ran toward me with his hands open and pushed me, my shoulders, started pushing me back," Clark testified, demonstrating the movement for the jury.

Clark alleged in her testimony that Combs pushed her 25 to 30 yards through the house and outside while allegedly telling her, "If you hate it here get the f--- out of my house."

Combs' then-bodyguard, identified by Clark in earlier testimony as Uncle Paulie, intervened, Clark told the court, saying he "told Puff to stop and he told me to go pack my things,"

Clark told the court that she left her employment with Combs after that because the alleged shoving incident "was crossing my boundary."

Clark further testified that she returned to work for Combs in 2011. At the same time, she told the court, she was creative director for Cassie Ventura, was who was seeing Scott Mescudi, aka rapper Kid Cudi, at the time. Clark testified that she brought Ventura to Best Buy to purchase a burner phone to communicate with Kid Cudi.

Clark told the court that on the morning of December 22, 2011, she "heard a loud banging" at her door sometime between 5:30 and 6 a.m. and saw "a very upset Puff."

Clark testified that she opened the door and saw Combs dressed in a "white button-down shirt, button-down sweater, business slacks, grey slacks and nice shoes." The pants were split "from knee to knee through the crotch so I could see his underwear," Clark told the court.

Combs also had a gun in his hand, Clark testified.

"Did he enter your apartment holding a gun?" prosecutor Mitzi Steiner asked.

"Yes," Clark replied. "He said, 'Why didn't you tell me?' I said, 'I don't know what you're talking about.' He said, 'Who is Scott?' I said, 'I don't know Scott.' He said, 'Kid Cudi,'" Clark testified.

"He said, 'Get dressed we're going to go kill" Mescudi, Clark told the court.

Clark testified that when she protested, Combs allegedly told her, "I don't give a f--- what you want to do, go get dressed."

Clark testified that she was made to get into a Cadillac Escalade with Combs and a bodyguard, whom she said was named Ruben, and the three of them allegedly drove to Kid Cudi's house. Combs and Ruben allegedly went inside the home while Clark waited in the car, according to her testimony.

"They gained access to the main door of the actual property," Clark testified.

"I called Cassie," Clark further testified, adding that she recalled telling Ventura, "Cassie, what the f---?"

Former Sean Combs assistant Capricorn Clark testified that work was not yet complete on the then-new corporate headquarters of Bad Boy Entertainment at 1710 Broadway in New York City when she was allegedly taken there in 2004 by a bodyguard nicknamed Uncle Paulie and locked inside.

Clark told the court that she was taken to the "dilapidated" sixth floor, which she said was empty save for a folding table and chairs in the middle of the space.

"There was a heavy-set gentleman who was chain-smoking cigarettes and drinking black coffee," Clark testified. "Very wide, very heavy, the size of two linebackers."

Clark, seated in the witness box with her hair pulled back and wearing glasses, testified that she was "petrified" in that moment. She told the court that the bodyguard told her that she "had been brought to the building to take a lie detector test to figure out what happened" to some jewelry that had gone missing.

If she flunked the test, she testified the man told her, "They're going to throw you in the East River."

Clark testified that Combs had given her "three pieces of very high-end jewelry that were out on loan" before a private plane ride to Miami. At Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, Clark said she realized the jewelry had gone missing.

"Had you stolen the jewelry?" prosecutor Mitzi Steiner asked.

"I did not," Clark responded

Clark told the court that the bodyguard named Uncle Paulie took her to the same location inside 1710 Broadway on five consecutive days, where she allegedly was administered lie detector tests.

"I wanted to prove my innocence. I didn't like the threats," Clark testified.

When she was allowed to return to work, Combs never mentioned the lie detector tests or inquired where she had been, Clark told the court.

The third week of testimony in the Sean Combs sex trafficking trial will begin today with testimony that the prosecution will present to try to help support the alleged kidnapping and arson elements of the racketeering conspiracy to which Combs has pleaded not guilty.

Federal prosecutors have said Combs' former assistant, Capricorn Clark, was twice held against her will, including when she was allegedly forced from her apartment and into a car to take Combs and one of his bodyguards to the home of Scott Mescudi, the rapper better known as Kid Cudi.

Mescudi testified last week that Clark called him from a car to say that Combs was in his house. Nothing was taken, Mescudi told the court, though he said he found that Christmas presents were unwrapped and his dog was locked in a bathroom.

Combs allegedly forced Clark to take a lie detector test to prove she was not part of a robbery, according to the testimony last week of another former Combs personal assistant, David James.

Mescudi testified last week about alleged arson, which is another element of the alleged RICO conspiracy with which Combs is charged. Mescudi testified that he suspected Combs played a role in his car being set on fire with a Molotov cocktail.

Los Angeles Fire Department arson investigator Lance Jimenez is expected to testify today about what he found when responded to the scene of the car fire.

Combs is seated at the defense table in dark-colored pants and crew neck sweater. He embraced defense attorney Brian Steel upon entry into the courtroom and then greeted his other lawyers with hugs and smiles.