Cassie Ventura testified that Diddy grabbed weapons and left mid “freak-off” to confront Suge Knight at a diner throughout their unstable feud.
Cassie Ventura described a tense and surreal second in courtroom Tuesday when she testified that Sean “Diddy” Combs abruptly ended a “freak-off” at his Los Angeles house to allegedly confront Suge Knight at a close-by diner whereas armed.
“We had been in one in all his residences in L.A. having a freak-off when he talked about Suge was at Mel’s Diner, and we shortly packed up and headed there,” Ventura mentioned below oath on Tuesday (Might 13) per NBC Information.
Based on her testimony, Diddy and one in all his bodyguards wearing all black, grabbed weapons and left the home.
Recalling the second she watched them put together to depart, Ventura mentioned she was “screaming and crying” and begged him, “Please don’t do something silly.”
She testified that when Diddy returned, he refused to elucidate what occurred or verify whether or not he even noticed Knight.
Diddy’s Lengthy-Operating Feud With Suge Knight
The alleged incident provides a brand new layer to the long-standing animosity between Combs and Knight, two central figures within the East Coast–West Coast Hip-Hop rivalry that outlined the Nineteen Nineties.
Diddy, founding father of Unhealthy Boy Data, and Knight, who led Loss of life Row Data, had been on the coronary heart of a feud that escalated into one of many darkest chapters in music historical past.
The strain between the 2 moguls was on full show on the 1995 Supply Awards, when Knight took an notorious public jab at Diddy, saying, “Anybody on the market who wanna be a recording artist and wanna keep a star, and don’t have to fret in regards to the govt producer making an attempt to be all within the movies, all on the data, dancing, come to Loss of life Row.”
Throughout the identical occasion, Diddy responded with a name for peace: “All this East and West – that should cease.”
The rivalry has lengthy been linked to the unsolved murders of Tupac Shakur in 1996 and The Infamous B.I.G. in 1997, although no fees have ever been filed in opposition to both Combs or Knight in reference to these killings. Theories and hypothesis have persevered for many years.
Knight, at the moment serving a 28-year jail sentence for manslaughter, just lately reignited the feud from behind bars, tweeting: “Justice for 2Pac is coming Keefe D and now Diddy!!!”
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