Ex-top Diddy exec Capricorn Clark tells jurors the hip-hop mogul kidnapped her at gunpoint

A former assistant and top executive to Sean "Diddy" Combs tearfully told a Manhattan jury Tuesday that he kidnapped her at gunpoint and made threats against her life.

Capricorn Clark, the former music tycoon's employee, testified at Combs' sex-trafficking and racketeering trial, that Combs was "furious" with her for keeping him in the dark about Cassie Ventura's 2011 relationship with rapper Kid Cudi.

Ventura, the R&B singer and the prosecution's star witness, dated Kid Cudi briefly that year while she and Combs — who dated on and off for a decade — were on a break.

Clark told the jury that Combs, armed with a gun, went to Clark's house in a rage in December 2011 and banged on the door.

"He just said, 'Get dressed, we're going to go kill'" him, Clark testified that Combs told her, using the N-word to refer to Kid Cudi, whose real name is Scott Mescudi.

Clark said Combs took her to Mescudi's Los Angeles home — and she characterized herself as "kidnapped."

"The way he was acting, I just felt like anything could happen," Clark testified through tears.

Last week, Mescudi testified that Combs broke into his house in December 2011 after Combs found out he was dating Ventura, who prosecutors allege is one of two women Combs sex trafficked.

Mescudi said at the time Clark called him to say that she was outside Mescudi's house — and that Combs was inside. Clark told him that Combs had "forced her physically" to drive there with him, Mescudi said.

"You have to tell Cudi to not tell the police that it was me," Clark said Combs told her.

"If you don't do that I'm going to kill all you motherfuckers," she said he threatened.

Mescudi ultimately did report the break-in to police, he previously testified.

In the days after the break-in, Combs repeatedly and angrily asked Clark when she knew about Ventura's romance with Mescudi and why she didn't tell him, Clark told the jury.

"He would say, 'I should just kill you bitches and I should cut her face,'" Clark said Combs said about herself and Ventura.

Prosecutors hope Clark's testimony will bolster the top two federal charges against Combs — sex trafficking and racketeering, which each carry a maximum sentence of life in prison.

A courtroom sketch showing Sean "Diddy" Combs at his criminal trial. Jane Rosenberg/REUTERS

More threats and a week of lie detector tests

During her testimony, Clark told the jury that Combs had threatened her multiple times.

"I was terrified," she said as she described a time being forced to take a lie detector test after some of the rapper's jewelry was stolen.

Clark told the jury that at the time, a man who "looked like the size of two linebackers" told her that if she failed the lie detector test, "they were going to throw me in the East River."

"I was told I was unable to leave until they got to the bottom of this," testified Clark, who added that Combs' head of security, Paul Offord, had her take the lie detector test over the course of five days in a locked room.

She said she was asked whether she stole Combs' high-end jewelry, which included a large diamond cross that was out on loan from Jacob Arabo, better known as "Jacob the Jeweler."

"I'm not getting good readings. You better calm down. You're going to end up in the East River if he didn't get a good reading on this," the linebacker-esque man told her, Clark said.

Under cross-examination, Clark said she was on her way with Combs in a car to New Jersey's Teterboro when she realized that the jewelry, which had been in her purse, was missing.

Clark told the jurors that she didn't know whether the stolen jewelry was ever found, but that she continued to work for Combs, and he never mentioned it.

"I felt like if I had left it would have been written off as I had stolen it anyway," said Clark, who worked as Combs' personal assistant from 2004 until 2006 when she was promoted to the role of Combs' global brand director.

Clark said she briefly quit her personal assistant job in the summer of 2006 after Combs angrily pushed her during an argument at his Miami estate.

Combs' chef had relayed to him that Clark said, "I hate it here," Clark testified.

"If you hate it here, get the fuck out of my house," she said Combs kept repeating, pushing her through the kitchen, through the butler's pantry, and down hallways until he'd pushed her out the front door.

Clark also recalled that on her very first day working for the Bad Boy Records founder, he threatened her at nighttime in Central Park after he found out she had worked for Combs' longtime rival Suge Knight.

"He told me he didn't know I had anything to do with Suge Knight and that if anything would happen he would have to kill me," Clark said of Combs.

"I said we'll just have to see," Clark testified. "There was nothing I could do in Central Park to convince him that I was a trustworthy person."