Diddy's longtime employee took the stand with her version of a story previously relayed by Cassie Ventura and Kid Cudi. She says she was kidnapped from her home by a gun-toting Combs, who told her they were going to kill Kid Cudi, and she watched as Combs "gained access" to the pop star's house. Plus, she says, years before that she was subjected to five days of lie detector tests conducted by a man who said, "If you fail these tests, they're going to throw you in the East River." But the defense showed Clark proof she asked for Combs's forgiveness -- and another job. Combs's team denies all her allegations and disputes even use of the words "kidnapping" or "break in."If you want to read NBC's coverage of the trial, check out our newsletter, “Diddy On Trial”: NBCNews.com/Diddy
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This is On Trial, a special series from Dateline True Crime Weekly, bringing you daily coverage from the Sean Combs racketeering trial. He has pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him. I'm Andrea Canning, and it's Tuesday, May 27th. Just a heads up in this episode, we're going to be talking about some graphic details and harrowing subject matter.
Week three at the federal courthouse began with one of the most dramatic prosecution witnesses so far. Her name is Capricorn Clark. She worked on and off for Sean Combs for about 14 years. Clark struggled to find the words as she described what she said she witnessed Combs do to Cassie Ventura and what she claimed he did to her.
NBC News correspondent Chloe Malas was in the courtroom for this dramatic testimony, and she's now out to tell us what she heard. Hey, Chloe. Hello. Hey, Andrea. Let's start. Just tell us more about who Capricorn Clark is and what she did for Sean Combs.
So she is somebody who was friends with Diddy before she actually started to work for him. They met around 2002. She says it might have been 2001. But in 2004, she officially joined Bad Boy, and her first role was being Diddy's personal assistant.
And she said that Combs threatened her pretty early on in this role?
Yeah, so she says that on the first day of working for him, that Diddy actually took her on a walk through Central Park with a member of his security team, and he threatened her because she was close with Suge Knight, who we've talked about before and is a major rival of his, and that he said to her, if something happens, I'm going to have to kill you.
Oh, my gosh. And she is saying this that— As though Combs is being serious, right?
He's not joking around here, according to her. No, she said that he was completely serious, straight-faced, and she took it as a real threat to her life, but that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work for Diddy, and she just tried to maintain the peace.
Oh, my goodness. Okay, and just like we heard from the assistant last week— She also said she learned so much from Combs. So there's a positive side to this as well, right, Chloe?
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