Sean Combs trial updates: Court adjourned until Tuesday after Kid Cudi testimony

"Hi," Scott Mescudi, aka rapper Kid Cudi, greeted prosecutor Emily Johnson at the onset of his testimony. "I'm an actor and a musician," he told the court.

Mescudi testified about an alleged break-in at his home in December 2011, when he was in a romantic relationship with Cassie Ventura while she was still in a relationship with Combs.

"I got a call from Cassie around 5:30-6 a.m. She told me that Sean Combs had found out about us. I was confused but she asked me to pick her up. She sounded really stressed on the phone, scared, nervous. So I went to go pick her up," Mescudi testified.

Mescudi told the court that he took Ventura to the Sunset Marquis hotel where, he testified, Combs' assistant called, informing him that "Sean Combs was in my house" and she "was forced to go along," referring to the assistant.

Mescudi testified that he drove in his Porsche 911 Cabriolet to the house in which he was living at the time and called Sean Combs while on the way.

"I said, 'm-----------, you in my house?' And he said, 'What's up?'" Cudi told the court. He testified that he asked Combs again, "'Are you in my house? I just want to talk to you. I'm on my way over right now."

When he arrived at home, Mescudi testified that he saw "some gifts I had bought for my family were opened" and that his "dog was locked up in my bathroom." He told the court that the incident left his dog "jittery" and "kind of on edge all the time."

Mescudi said he again called Combs. "I was asking him where he was and he said, 'I'm on my way.'"

Mescudi testified that he thought, "I don't know who he has with him, what his intentions are" so he opted to call the police, who came to the house and took a report about the break-in.

Mescudi also told the court that in 2012, he received an early-morning phone call that "my car was on fire." Asked for his reaction, Kid Cudi responded: "What the f---."

The jury saw photos of Mescudi's damaged Porsche, including the blackened interior door and the charred, melted driver's seat.

"The top of my Porsche was cut open. That's where they inserted the Molotov cocktail," Mescudi testified, adding that he saw the bottle from the Molotov cocktail: "It was kind of burnt up."

Arson is among the predicate acts in the racketeering conspiracy count Combs faces. Cassie Ventura previously testified that Combs allegedly threatened to have Kid Cudi's car blown up when Combs learned of her relationship with Cudi.

Working for Sean Combs left quite an impression on George Kaplan, who is now 34.

"He pushed me to depths I didn't know I had," Kaplan said on cross-examination.

Recalling his time as Combs' personal assistant for a 15-month period between 2013 and 2015, Kaplan said "I'm a young man. This is a god among men."

Defense attorney Marc Agnifilo said, "You still remember Combs' birthday." Kaplan immediately responded, "November 4".

He said it occurred to him that had he still been employed by Combs Enterprises he would not have had to work yesterday because it was "Biggie's birthday."

At Combs Enterprises, the May 21 birthday of Biggie Smalls is a paid company holiday.

When Kaplan left due to the alleged violence he kept witnessing and "fixing" for Combs, he told the jury, "My friends told me this was my Harvard and I was blowing it."

Asked about the incident on the plane, Kaplan said he did not recall seeing physical injuries but heard a glass breaking and "he was holding one."

Kaplan also testified on cross-examination he did not trust housekeeping staff to clean up after Combs at hotels because he feared they were looking for a "payday."

The defense showed a note Kaplan sent Combs after Kim Porter's death "because I was heartbroken for him." Kaplan also said he has respect for Combs but the alleged violence he witnessed "shook me tremendously."

On re-direct, Kaplan said even though he saw no physical injuries to Cassie, "In my heart of hearts I knew what was happening and I felt an element of guilt that I didn't do anything to stop it."

Kaplan's testimony is over and Scott Mescudi has taken the stand.

George Kaplan testified that he witnessed at least three alleged instances of violence during the time he served as a personal assistant to Sean Combs.

Kaplan testified that in one alleged instance, he recalled glass shattering on a private plane traveling to Las Vegas and seeing Combs holding a whiskey glass over his head and Cassie Ventura on the floor of the plane, holding her hands in front of her face.

In a second alleged incident, Kaplan testified that he was summoned to Combs' bedroom where, he told the court, he saw Ventura "crying on the bed with her head in her hands." Kaplan testified that she was "clearly upset" and "it was clear there was bruising" on her face.

Kaplan testified Combs sent him to a pharmacy to buy lotion and witch hazel, which he told the court he understood were to be mixed "to act as an anti-swelling agent."

In what Kaplan testified was "the last straw for me," he told the court that in the fall of 2015 he saw a "very angry" Combs "throwing these green apples that lived in a decorative vessel" in the entryway of his Miami home. The apples were allegedly aimed "at another girlfriend" of Combs' who, Kaplan told the court, was "trying to shield herself with her arms."

Kaplan testified that he never attempted to intervene in these alleged instances because it was not his place to do so. He described himself as "a young kid really trying to make it in the entertainment industry; this was my first professional endeavor," telling the court "I thought for a second this might be normal."

The same night as the alleged apple-throwing incident, Kaplan testified that Combs summoned him to bring him what Kaplan described as Combs' medicine bag.

"There was definitely some tension" in the room, Kaplan testified, telling the court that the woman at whom Combs allegedly threw the apples "was standing in the corner on the other side very far away." Later, Kaplan testified he heard the woman's voice and "a lot of commotion" near the front gate involving men that he told the court he assumed to be Combs' security guards.

Kaplan testified that he left the company a short time later.

"I was not comfortable being aligned with the physical behavior I had seen pieces of during the course of the months," Kaplan told the court. "Being a party to that kind of stuff."

On cross-examination, Kaplan testified that he kept in touch with Combs after leaving his employ because he liked him.

George Kaplan returned to the witness stand Thursday at the sex trafficking and racketeering trial of Sean Combs, who is seated in court in a light-colored crew neck sweater, prepared to testify that he witnessed his former boss throw apples at a woman named Gina in 2015.

Kaplan, who was Combs' personal assistant for a 15-month period, has already testified he stocked hotel rooms with baby oil, Astroglide lubricant and other items prosecutors said were used for "freak offs."

He also testified he "tidied" the rooms to make them look "as close as I could to look like it was the way that it was found when he came in."

Asked why he did that instead of the hotel staff, Kaplan said "I think that it was implied in the role, as you continue to work closely with Mr. Combs, that protecting him and protecting his public knowledge were really important, and that was certainly nothing that I was very keen on doing."

Once Kaplan concludes, Scott Mescudi, the rapper better known as Kid Cudi, will testify about a meeting he and Cassie Ventura brokered with Sean Combs at the SoHo House after federal prosecutors said, "there was a Molotov cocktail in his car."

Outside the jury's presence, there was some debate about whether Kid Cudi could be asked about the trauma inflicted on his dog.

"There's some dog lovers potentially on the jury," defense attorney Brian Steel said.

"I agree it's a serious issue," Judge Arun Subramanian tried to say with a straight face before the courtroom erupted in laughter.

"Unfortunately, the dog is no longer with us," prosecutor Emily Kaplan said.

The judge agreed to limit questions about Kid Cudi's dog.