Sean “Diddy” Combs’ ex-assistant Capricorn Clark — who once reportedly dubbed him “the devil’’ — testified against the disgraced hip-hop mogul at his sex-trafficking trial in Manhattan on Tuesday.
Combs, 55, is accused of using his fame, fortune and many businesses to run a racketeering scheme in which he controlled and manipulated ex-girlfriend Cassie for over a decade, using violence and threats, forcing her and others into drug-fueled “freak-off” sex marathons that went on for days.
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Sean "Diddy" Combs' former assistant Capricorn Clark finished testifying after spending the whole day on the witness stand. Trial ended for the day shortly after 3 p.m., and tomorrow an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department is expected to testify first. Another alleged Combs victim, who is testifying anonymously under the name Mia, could take the witness stand as soon as tomorrow. Sean "Diddy" Combs' ex-assistant testified she once went on a vacation with singer Rihanna in August 2012. Capricorn Clark — Combs' employee from 2004 through 2012 — was asked by Comb's lawyer Marc Agnifilo what she was doing in August 2012. "I was on vacation with Rihanna," Clark responded. Clark wasn't asked any further questions about that trip. Rihanna's name was brought up last week during the testimony of celebrity makeup artist Mylah Morales who said her clients included Rihanna, Jennifer Lopez and Combs' longtime girlfriend Cassie Ventura.Trial wraps for the day after Diddy's ex-assistant's finishes testimony
By Priscilla DeGregory 
Rihanna's name comes up, again, at Diddy trial
By Ben Kochman , Kyle Schnitzer and Priscilla DeGregory 
Janice Combs, 84, mom of Sean "Diddy" Combs, arrived at the courthouse through the front doors Tuesday morning, showing up to back her son as she has nearly every day of the trial so far.
Sean "Diddy" Combs' ex-assistant Capricorn Clark told the jury that working for the demanding hip hop mogul was "another form of business school."
Clark testified she didn't think anyone else "worked as hard for [Combs] as me."
She said she learned a lot being employed by the Bad Boy Records founder, so much so that it was like "another form of business school" if you could survive his demanding nature.
Clark said Combs wanted to "break the glass ceiling as to what black people were allowed to do in the business world."
Earlier Clark said she worked from 9 a.m. to 4 a.m. the next day and barely got breaks or was able to eat meals during her shifts.
Throughout Clark's testimony, the "I'll Be Missing You" rapper has remained cool, displaying little reaction as he sat calmly at the defense table in a navy blue sweater, with his hands folded on his lap.
Sean "Diddy" Combs' ex-assistant, Capricorn Clark, told jurors that the rapper's longtime girlfriend Cassie Ventura "had talent" — but wasn't very talented.
"I think she had talent and was a very beautiful girl," Clark said when asked about Ventura's talent as an R&B singer.
Combs lawyer Marc Agnifilo pressed Cassie further on the topic, asking, "She wasn't very talented?"
"True," Clark responded.
Clark clarified she thought Ventura was a "studio artist," who needed her voice "equalized," and "engineered" and was "less of a live performer" in the caliber of Mariah Carey or Whitney Houston.
Clark's opinions came out after Agnifilo asked her if she sometimes didn't get along with Ventura.
Clark explained that after Ventura moved from being an artist under Combs' label to dating the hip-hop mogul, tensions sometime arose between the two women.
Ventura thought Clark "was paid to help her," Clark told jurors.
"She got a little bit more bravado being his girlfriend," she added.
The testimony of Sean "Diddy" Combs' ex-assistant Capricorn Clark has paused while trial breaks for lunch.
Clark will continue being questioned by Combs' defense lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, when they come back at 1 p.m.
Sean "Diddy" Combs once implied he might use a gun on 50 Cent — with whom he's had a longstanding beef, according to testimony.
The Bad Boy Records founder once griped to his manager Chris Lighty about his feud with 50 Cent after the two rappers left an MTV press event, Combs ex-assistant, Capricorn Clark, told jurors.
"I don't like all the back and forth ... I like guns," Clark recalled Combs telling Lighty in an elevator leaving the event.
After Cassie Ventura's bombshell testimony about being forced into "freak-off" sex sessions by Combs and detailing repeated beatings by her longtime boyfriend, 50 Cent spoke out on Instagram.
“Damn he did all that s–t to go out like this, [shaking my head],” the 49-year-old rapper wrote. “This s–t crazier th[a]n regular crazy."
Sean "Diddy" Combs viciously kicked Cassie Ventura the same day he broke into Kid Cudi's home after discovering the rapper had been seeing Ventura, according to testimony.
The Bad Boy Records founder, wearing underwear and a robe in his Los Angeles mansion, started kicking Ventura in the thigh and leg with "100% full force" after he found out his long-time on-and-off girlfriend had a fling with Kid Cudi.
"She didn't do anything," Combs' ex-assistant Capricorn Clark testified. "She was just crying silently."
"My heart was breaking seeing her get beat like that," Clark said, at one point dabbing her eyes with a tissue as she quietly teared up.
Earlier that day, Combs kidnapped Clark while holding a gun and threatening to "kill" Kid Cudi and forcing Clark to come along while he broke into the rapper's home.
Clark eventually drove Ventura to Combs' house, where he assaulted Ventura and told Clark he would "f--k" her up if she intervened.
Sean "Diddy" Combs' ex-assistant, Capricorn Clark, told jurors the hip hop mogul said he was going to "kill" Kid Cudi after discovering he was dating Cassie Ventura.
Clark said the Bad Boy Records founder came to her apartment "livid" and holding a gun, telling her, "Get dressed, we're going to kill this n---a," — referring to Kid Cudi — whose real name is Scott Mescudi.
Combs asked Clark why she didn't tell him that his long-time on-and-off girlfriend, Ventura, had been seeing Mescudi.
"I had never seen anything like this before," Clark told jurors. "He had never come to my house the entire time I'd known him. I had never seen him with a weapon.”
She got into a black Escalade with Combs and sat on his lap while he still had the gun, Clark recounted.
Once they arrived at Mescudi's house, Combs went inside while Clark remained in the car.
"Puff came and got me with a gun and took me to Cudi's house to kill him," Clark testified she told Ventura by phone while Combs was inside.
Sean "Diddy" Combs' ex-assistant, Capricorn Clark, testified that the hip hop mogul once ran at her, shoving her 25 to 30 yards after she said she hated working for him.
Clark said "I hate it here" in front of Combs' chef at his Miami Beach home, which the chef repeated to the Bad Boy Records founder.
"He immediately looked at me and said, 'You hate it here?' and he charged me," Clark told the jury. "He ran towards me with his hands open and charged at my shoulders."
"If you hate it here, get the f--k out of my house," Combs said after launching Clark dozens of feet away.
Combs' security guard intervened and told Clark to pack her things. She said she stopped working for the rapper after the incident.
"That was crossing my boundary," Clark testified.
Sean "Diddy" Combs' former assistant told jurors that after the music mogul stayed at the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles, there was "a lot of baby oil everywhere."
Capricorn Clark said she had to help unpack the Bad Boy Records founder's bags for his three-to-four day hotel stints — including clothes, a camera bag, baby oil, personal lubricant, and drugs like ecstasy.
After one of his stays at the InterContinental Hotel — where Combs was notoriously caught on surveillance footage beating his girlfriend Cassie Ventura — the room was left covered in baby oil, Clark testified.
"I could see handprints left on the Ultrasuede wall," Clark told the jury. "It was just a lot of baby oil everywhere. It wasn’t just necessarily on the wall.”
It wasn't clear from her testimony if the time she was referring to was the same stay when Combs beat Ventura.
Sean "Diddy" Combs' former assistant Capricorn Clark testified that she was once forced to take lie detector tests after Combs' diamond jewelry vanished — and was told she'd be thrown in the East River if she failed.
Clark told jurors that Combs' bodyguard Paul "Uncle Paulie" Offord came to her home and forced her to come with him to an abandoned skyscraper at 1710 Broadway after Combs' diamond necklace, bracelet and watch went missing while she was transporting them.
She was greeted on the sixth floor by a heavy-set man chainsmoking cigarettes and drinking black coffee, she testified.
“He said if you fail this test, they’re going to throw you in the East River," Clark testified.
Clark says she underwent a whopping five full days of lie detector tests before being told she could finally return to work.
