Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ rivalry with hip-hop legend Suge Knight detailed in Cassie Ventura testimony

Sean “Diddy” Combs ran out in the midst of a “freak-off” to go confront his rival Suge Knight, the disgraced music mogul’s ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura testified Tuesday at his bombshell sex-trafficking trial in Manhattan.

The R&B singer, actual identify Casandra Ventura, mentioned she was collaborating in one of many coerced intercourse marathons at a Los Angeles residence owned by Combs — however on a break “chilling” — when Damion “D-Roc” Butler got here in and mentioned that Knight was at Mel’s Drive-in diner.

Combs “quickly packed up and drove down there,” Ventura recalled in Manhattan federal courtroom.

“I was crying. I was screaming, ‘Please don’t do anything stupid,’” she mentioned. “I was just really nervous for them, what it meant, what they were going to do.”

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However her cries fell on deaf ears.

“It’s like I wasn’t even there,” Ventura mentioned.

Combs later returned, however Ventura mentioned he didn’t divulge to her what had occurred — and it’s not clear if he and Knight, a manslaughter convict and former Dying Row Information producer, ended up crossing paths on the diner.

Knight is serving a 28-year prison sentence for killing a person he ran over together with his pickup truck in 2015.

He agreed to pay a $1.5 million settlement to the household of Terry Carter at a courtroom listening to in Los Angeles final month.

Carter, a 55-year-old businessman, was fatally struck by Knight’s pickup truck within the parking zone of a Compton burger joint in January 2015.

It adopted an altercation between Knight and a guide on the N.W.A. biopic, “Straight Outta Compton.”

Knight and Combs’ rivalry began within the Nineties when Knight was a producer for main California rappers comparable to Tupac Shakur, whereas Combs was working with Brooklyn-born artist The Infamous B.I.G., actual identify Christopher Wallace.

Knight’s Dying Row Information and Combs’s Unhealthy Boy Information label had been on the middle of the East-West Coast rap feud, which culminated within the violent deaths of Shakur and Wallace inside a matter of months of one another in 1996 and 1997.

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Ventura’s testimony got here on day two of Combs’s bombshell sex-trafficking trial.

Combs, 55, faces life in jail if discovered responsible of 1 depend of racketeering conspiracy, two counts of intercourse trafficking by drive, fraud or coercion, and two counts of transportation to interact in prostitution.

He has pleaded not responsible to the entire costs.

Knight, 60, teased that he is aware of “secrets” about Combs’s previous in a podcast episode final yr.

“I’ll tell you what, Puffy, you life is in danger ’cause you know the secrets of who’s involved in that little secret room you guys are participating in,” Suge mentioned on his “Collect Call with Suge Knight” podcast in September 2024.

“You know they gonna get you if they can… I turned myself in. Sometimes you gotta face the music. That’s most of the time,” he added.

“Puffy, I’m gonna give you some real advice. Two quick things. You gotta make a decision. When you go to prison, either you’re gonna be standing up p—ing or squatting, sitting down p—ing’. I advise you to try to take the first one ’cause if you squatting and p—ing you know what that means. Do not do your time going by Brother Love. Brother Love is not a good code name,” he mentioned, mocking Combs.