Kid Cudi testimony expected today after federal agent

Authorities also found a bin containing 25 bottles of baby oil, 31 bottles of Astroglide lubricant and a rubber duck in a closet in a hallway between the master bedroom and master closet of Diddy’s Miami home.

A photo of that closet and the items found inside were shown in court.

A crystal rock-like substance and pills with the main ingredient of magic mushrooms were found in the Combs’ Miami home, the witness said.

The crystal rock-like substance was discovered inside a wooden box marked “Puffy,” Gannon said.

Investigators in the master bathroom also came upon a plastic bag of pills that would eventually test positive for the main ingredient of hallucinogenic mushrooms.

Gerard Gannon is back on the witness stand, and was questioned about items seized from one of the master closets during a raid of Combs’ Miami home last year. 

He described seizing a pair of red pump high heels and discovering cellphones stuffed inside a Balenciaga boot.

Inside the closet was also a Gucci bag that contained white residue that tested positive for cocaine and ketamine. That bag also contained smaller bags of different colored pills — including some stamped with a Tesla symbol — that tested positive for MDMA and Xanax.

Court is now in session, marking the eighth day of Combs’ trial.

Dawn Hughes, a forensic psychologist expected to testify later today, arrived at court shortly before 9 a.m. 

Kid Cudi is expected to testify today. 

He is a 41-year-old Grammy-winning rapper and singer whose real name is Scott Mescudi. He is known for hits including “Day ’n’ Nite” and “Pursuit of Happiness.”

Cassie Ventura testified last week that Combs kicked her in the back at his house after finding out she was cheating on him with Kid Cudi in 2011.

In her lawsuit filed in 2023, Ventura said Combs allegedly told her during Paris Fashion Week in 2012 that he was going to blow up Cudi’s car after finding out about the affair. Around that time, Cudi’s car exploded in his driveway, the suit said. 

Attorneys Xavier Donaldson, Marc Agnifilo, Jason Driscoll, Brian Steel and Alexandra Shapiro, who are part of Combs’ defense team, were seen arriving at court after 8 a.m.

Yesterday, prosecutors called four witnesses to the stand: David James, Combs’ former personal assistant; Regina Ventura, the mother of Combs’ ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura; Sharay Hayes, a male escort who testified to participating in Combs’ “freak offs,” and Homeland Security agent Gerard Gannon.

Their testimonies expanded the jurors’ views into Combs’ alleged abusive behavior and into the complex relationship he had with singer Cassie.

Regina Ventura, the mother of Cassie, whose real name is Casandra Ventura, said she felt “physically sick” after her daughter told her Combs threatened to release explicit videos when she started dating Kid Cudi. Hayes testified that he was hired up to a dozen times for freak offs, with the first encounter being at the Trump Tower, where he was tipped $1,200. 

James testified that he ultimately quit working for Combs after seeing the artist armed himself with three handguns and wanted to possibly confront Suge Knight at a Los Angeles diner in 2008.

Rapper Kid Cudi and forensic psychologist Dawn Hughes are expected to take the witness later today.

The artist, whose real name is Scott Mescudi, was mentioned several times in testimony yesterday.

Combs became infuriated when he learned that his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura had been spending time with Kid Cudi, her mother said. That prompted Combs to demand $20,000 from Ventura’s mother for sex tapes he had of her daughter.

Regina Ventura, the mother of Sean Combs’ former girlfriend Cassie Ventura, testified she took pictures of bruises on her daughter. The jury also heard from Combs’ former assistant and an escort who said he participated in so-called “freak offs.”

When jurors take their seats and U.S. District Court Judge Arun Subramanian gavels court back into session this morning, the testimony of a federal agent who organized searches of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Miami properties will continue.

Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Gerard Gannon, who led searches of Combs’ properties in Miami, was on the witness stand late yesterday afternoon.

He walked jurors through the complicated process of executing search warrants at the music mogul’s home to find guns, sex toys, Astroglide, baby oil and condoms.