Jurors at bombshell Diddy trial learn disgusting way he likes his burgers as ex-employees testify
He’s a bad apple.
Sean “Diddy” Combs bizarrely puts applesauce on his cheeseburgers, disgusted jurors twice heard this week in the Bad Boy Records founder’s Manhattan trial — as his former assistants spilled his secrets from the witness stand.
The second mention of Combs’ fondness for applesauce-laden cheeseburgers came Thursday as his ex-employee George Kaplan testified about his use of a “Black AMEX card” — the nickname for the highly exclusive American Express Centurion Card.
Kaplan told defense attorney Marc Agnifilo that Combs’ staff used the card to buy everything the music mogu requested, including baby oil, yacht leases and villas.
“Applesauce?” asked Agnifilo.
“Mr. Combs loves applesauce and eats it on the side or on top of a lot of things,” Kaplan responded.
“Cheeseburgers?” Agnifilo asked.
“Cheeseburgers being one of them,” Kaplan said.
Agnifilo asked if was possible for Combs to track all those charges.
“His world was the size of the Earth,” Kaplan said. “He was doing business all over the world … Frankly, to think that he knew where some of these things were coming from is unrealistic.”
The eccentric applesauce-burger pairing also came up Tuesday as David James, another of Combs’ former assistants, testified about his time working for the hip-hop star.
James, who said he was responsible for Combs’ riders, was asked what his former boss required and used ketchup as an example.
When Combs was in the UK, he traveled with American ketchup because British tomato sauce is not the same, James said.
James also packed applesauce because Combs loved it so much that he even put it on his burgers.
“Were you aware he put applesauce on his cheeseburgers?” Agnifilo asked.
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“I was not aware, but I knew he liked applesauce,” James said.
Jurors grimaced when Agnifilo mentioned that Combs liked applesauce on his cheeseburgers, with one of the panelists making a gag-like gesture.
The saucy digressions were more lighthearted than the former assistants’ hair-raising tales of Combs’ alleged violence and abuse of his gal pals.
Combs chucked apples at one of his girlfriends named “Gina” during a 2015 blowup inside his Miami mansion, Kaplan told jurors.
The hip-hop star, who later adopted the stage name “Love,” threw the apples “hard. “
“He was very angry,” Kaplan testified.
Gina “was trying to shield herself with her arms and trying to move away from him,” he recounted.
Kaplan said the apples were a decoration in the mansion’s entryway, and he didn’t know real or fake.
The former assistant also testified about “chaos” breaking out during a 2015 fight between Combs and then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura on the music mogul’s private jet.
Kaplan said Combs and Ventura were behind a partition on the jet when he heard a “glass crash, shatter.”
“I looked over my right shoulder. I saw Mr. Combs standing over Cassie,” Kaplan said, recalling the altercation.
He then said he saw Ventura on her back with her legs hiked up in an attempt to create space between her and Combs.
Combs had a whisky glass in his hand when the “tremendous commotion” broke out, and Ventura was screaming, “Isn’t anyone seeing this?!” according to Kaplan.
No one intervened, not even Combs’ security detail, Kaplan testified.
Kaplan also delved into Combs’ relationships with Ventura and “Gina.”
Both were “girlfriends” of Combs, Kaplan said, as compared to Kim Porter — the producer’s longtime love and mother of three of his children.
“Mr. Combs always seemed to have an extra gauge of patience with Ms. Porter,” Kaplan said.
“Ms. Porter seemed to make Mr. Combs really happy, even when he was otherwise not. He wasn’t going around treating everyone poorly all the time, but he treated her in a really special manner, different to how he treated others.”
Combs, 55, has pleaded not guilty to charges including racketeering conspiracy and sex-trafficking.
