NEW YORK (TNND) — The sex trafficking trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs resumed on Tuesday for a third week after the court took a break for the Memorial Day holiday weekend.

The first witness called to the stand was another one of Comb's former assistants, Capricorn Clark. Kid Cudi, whose legal name is Scott Mescudi, testified last week that Clark called when Combs showed up at his house while he dated Cassie Ventura.

He told the jury he understood Combs and Ventura had "some problems" and "they weren't dating anymore" when he first started a relationship with the singer in 2011.

Ventura, Combs' ex-girlfriend, previously testified that she and Combs had broken up at the time, although they still engaged in “freak-offs” that involved sexual performances with male escorts that Combs watched and sometimes participated in.

Clark immediately began her testimony by claiming that Combs threatened her with death on her first day of the job and later kidnapped her at gunpoint to join him in killing Cudi, the Associated Press reported from the courtroom.

Clark told the jury that Combs came to her home with a gun in his hand before going to Cudi's, demanding that she get dressed and come with him because “we're going to kill Cudi.”

She said they rode in a black Cadillac to Cudi's home in Los Angeles, where Combs and a security aide entered the residence while Clark sat in the car and called Cassie.

Clark said while she waited in the Escalade outside Cudi’s home, she called Cassie on her burner phone and told her that Combs “got me with a gun and brought me to Cudi’s house to kill him.”

Clark said she heard Cudi in the background of the call asking, “He’s in my house?” She told Cassie, “Stop him, he’s going to get himself killed.”

After the break-in, Clark testified that Combs told everyone who was with him they had to convince Cudi "it wasn't me" or he would kill them all.

While being questioned by Assistant U.S. Attorney Mitzi Steiner, Clark spoke about her off-and-on employment with Combs between 2004 and 2018, beginning with Combs and a security staff member taking her to Central Park after 9 p.m., and saying he wasn't aware of her history working with other rappers.

Clark said once again that Combs threatened to kill her if her past work with rap rivals became an issue.

Clark added that she was only weeks into the job when she was tasked with diamond jewelry that went missing, resulting in her repeatedly being given a lie detector test over five days.

“He said: ‘If you fail this test they’re going to throw you in the East River,’” she recalled.

Clark said they eventually let her return to work.

Prosecutors said they plan to have witnesses from the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles Fire Department take the stand after Clark.

Two other assistants for Combs, George Kaplan and David James, had already testified in front of the jury.

Combs, 55, was arrested in September 2024, about roughly six months after federal authorities raided his homes in Los Angeles and Miami. He has been jailed in Brooklyn since his arrest.

He has pleaded not guilty to a five-count indictment and faces a minimum sentence of 15 years in prison and a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted on all charges. He is facing charges of sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion, transportation for purposes of prostitution, and racketeering conspiracy.

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Editor's note: The Associated Press contributed to this article.