Scott Mescudi – also known as the rapper Kid Cudi, who had a brief relationship with Cassie Ventura in 2011 – is slated to testify in this trial, prosecutor Maurene Comey said.

When precisely he’ll testify isn’t immediately known.

Gerard Gannon, a Homeland Security Investigations special agent who started testifying today, will resume his testimony tomorrow.

After Gannon, the next witness will be clinical psychologist Dawn Hughes, and then George Kaplan, Comey said. Kaplan was an employee who quit after witnessing physical abuse, Cassie Ventura had previously testified.

Mescudi will testify after Kaplan – but that might not be until Thursday morning, Comey said.

Gerard Gannon, a special agent with Homeland Security Investigations, showed the jury another photo of items found in one of the closets in the master bedroom of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Miami Beach home – this time showing lingerie and several boxes of platform high heels.

Gannon held up an evidence bag holding platform high-heeled shoes recovered from the closet.

Law enforcement agents raided the home in March 2024.

Agents found two magazines loaded with bullets along with two lower receivers in the closet, Gerard Gannon, a special agent with Homeland Security Investigations, testified. The jury was shown photos of the items, including close-ups of their serial numbers scratched out.

Gannon said, “It’s a lot more difficult, or impossible,” to determine the owner of a firearm without a serial number.

Gannon held an evidence bag containing the AR-15 lower receivers while on the witness stand.

Gannon testified that the AR-15s recovered from Sean “Diddy” Combs’ closet could have been used as fully automatic rifles at some point, but the safety selector lever was set to semi-automatic when HSI recovered them.

Typically, AR-15s manufactured as semi-automatic weapons don’t have a full-automatic indicator like this, Gannon said.

The jury saw photos of items found in one of the closets in the master bedroom of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Miami Beach home. Law enforcement agents raided the home in 2024.

Special Agent Gerard Gannon testified that agents found platform high heels, sex toys, baby oil, personal lubricant and lingerie in the closet. They also found “upper and lower receivers of AR-15s,” which are parts of the weapon, Gannon said.

Gannon said the team was not able to determine the maker of one of the AR-15 rifles recovered in the closet.

Sitting on the witness stand, Gannon held up an evidence bag holding the AR-15 upper receivers. Gannon put on rubber gloves and held up one of the upper receivers for the jury. He said there are zip ties securing the gun so it’s not able to be fired.

As day seven of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ federal racketeering and sex-trafficking trial continues, criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor Mark O’Mara says he expects federal prosecutors to start making the case that Combs was the “puppet master” behind the drug-fueled sex performances he called “Freak Offs.”

“What the prosecution has to present, and they’re starting out quite slowly, in my opinion, is getting to the sex trafficking – getting to the control over people, whether it’s the escorts, the sex workers, and, of course, Cassie Ventura,” O’Mara told CNN.

“If they don’t get to sex trafficking, they don’t get their conviction,” he added. “They probably need to move on from this and start tying together his control of other people as well.”

Sharay Hayes, a male escort who said he was hired by Combs and the music mogul’s then-girlfriend Ventura, testified today that Combs never appeared to be intoxicated during his encounters, and said multiple times that Combs was giving he and Ventura directions throughout their sexual encounters.

“It is done by the prosecution to try and preempt the defense argument that Combs was wasted. … I think what the prosecution is trying to do is say, ‘No, he knew exactly what he was doing. He was, in effect, the puppet master of everything that was happening around him,’” O’Mara said.

“The essence of their charge of racketeering is he was planning all this. He was orchestrating all of it,” O’Mara said. “While we have it with [the testimony of] Miss Ventura a little bit, maybe with the [testimony of the] sex worker, we don’t have that true criminal intent yet, and they need to get to it. They want this jury to say, ‘He is a sex trafficker.’”

The jury was shown a picture of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Miami Beach home’s front gate, which was broken.

Agents used their vehicle to break through the gate to enter the property, Gerard Gannon, a special agent with Homeland Security Investigations, testified.

He said it was standard practice when conducting a search warrant as the “quickest and safest option to be able to get onto the property.”

Special Agent Gerard Gannon said he was the special agent in charge on the ground for the search of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Miami Beach home on March 25, 2024.

Gannon said the search was assigned to his unit because it was tied to a human-trafficking investigation.

Between 80 and 90 law enforcement agents participated in the search because of the size of the property, he said. The home is about 20,000 square feet, and includes a main residence and a guest house, Gannon said.

The search required the special response team to deal with security measures on the property, Gannon said, and about 25 special response team members gained entrance and cleared the property to ensure the property was safe to start the search. They were prepared to potentially confront armed security, Gannon said.

Gannon testified that some agents were positioned on boats to potentially intercept anyone trying to leave the property via the direct water access on Combs’ property.

The search began after 3 p.m. ET that day. Usually search warrants are executed early in the morning — around 6 a.m. ET or so — but they waited for Combs to leave, Gannon said. Law enforcement understood Combs was scheduled to leave on a trip with his family, he testified.

The testimony of male escort Sharay Hayes is finished.

Gerard Gannon, a special agent with Homeland Security Investigations, is on the stand now. Gannon is the 10th witness called by the prosecution.

Gannon, based in Miami, is currently with HSI’s national security group, but he previously worked with its human trafficking group.

: Homeland Security Investigations searched Sean “Diddy” Combs’ homes in Los Angeles and Miami Beach in March 2024, and HSI arrested Combs in September in New York.

Sharay Hayes said that during his encounters with Cassie Ventura and Sean “Diddy” Combs, he never observed any filming or any violence.

He said marijuana was the only drug he saw during his time with Combs and Ventura. He confirmed that Ventura never appeared to be under the influence of drugs when he saw her.

Under cross-examination from the defense, male escort Sharay Hayes was asked if Cassie Ventura ever appeared uncomfortable during their hotel encounters.

“I did not get any cues that there was a discomfort with what was going on,” Hayes responded.

“It seemed as if it was consented, as far as I was concerned,” Hayes said.

Hayes said that as an experienced exotic dancer, he always reads a room to make sure the people he’s performing for are comfortable.

When asked by defense attorney Xavier Donaldson, Sharay Hayes acknowledged that, at the time, he thought he was the only person that Cassie Ventura was having sex with in this way and felt special.

When Donaldson suggested Hayes developed feelings for Ventura, Hayes said that wasn’t true.

Donaldson pointed to documents from one of Hayes’ meetings with prosecutors, where he told them he began to develop feelings for Ventura.

“That may have been taken out of context, because that’s not the case,” Hayes said.

Hayes said he never considered himself a personal friend to Ventura. The two never spoke personally outside of the brief banter before a session, he added.

Sharay Hayes testified that he began his career as an exotic dancer in 1995. He said that he is now a partner at “Hunkomania,” an exotic dancer company.

Defense attorney Xavier Donaldson is now questioning Sharay Hayes during cross-examination.

Donaldson asked how Hayes was doing. “Pretty good, surprisingly,” Hayes responded.

Sharay Hayes said he never used drugs with Cassie Ventura and Sean “Diddy” Combs. They sometimes offered him alcohol and marijuana, he said.

Hayes also said he never saw Combs take drugs, and Combs never appeared to be intoxicated during these encounters.

Hayes went on to describe the discomfort of a “sexual scenario with a woman’s partner present.” He said he tried taking medications to help his performance.

Hayes said his last session with Ventura and Combs was in 2016. He said failed to perform and was never called back.

Before he left, Ventura paid Hayes and thanked him, “for being private and respecting their privacy in terms of our interactions,” he testified.

A prosecutor asked male escort Sharay Hayes if he knew whether Cassie Ventura was enjoying herself during the hotel encounters in which Sean “Diddy” Combs watched him and Ventura.

“My understanding was we were creating a scene, a sexy scene, that was enjoyable to her partner,” Hayes testified.

“I did observe sometimes a sigh, a wince, that seemed to be frustration at the frequency” of Combs’ directions, Hayes said.

Ventura was usually looking in Combs’ direction during these encounters, Hayes said. He never heard her refuse one of Combs’ directions, he said.

After the first few occasions with Sean “Diddy Combs” and Cassie Ventura, Sharay Hayes said he understood that he was hired to create a “sexy scene,” which could then “escalate to a more sexual scene.”

He said each time would start with Ventura and himself applying baby oil. Combs was always present, Hayes said, and he would sit at a distance, giving directions to Ventura about the angles, the lighting and sometimes the sexual activity.

The encounters lasted about four hours, according to Hayes. He mentioned being directed during the encounters, and afterward Combs would leave, followed by Ventura.

Hayes testified that on one occasion, when he was having sex with Ventura, Combs threw cash down on the bed. It was startling, Hayes said, and prompted Ventura to ask Combs if he was OK. Combs responded he was fine, Hayes testified. Hayes was later paid with that cash.

Hayes usually received $1,200 or $2,000 after a session but said he didn’t understand why the amount varied at different times.

Sharay Hayes, a male escort who said he was hired by Sean “Diddy” Combs and Cassie Ventura, is back on the stand and testifying about his interactions with Ventura and Combs

He said sometimes he’d meet them on consecutive days — but those instances would be months apart.

Hayes said he always met them at a hotel in New York City. Sometimes he’d meet them at 2:30 a.m. ET and wouldn’t leave until after 11 a.m. ET.

Hayes said he usually received a message from Ventura planning a few hours in advance.

The judge is back on the bench, although the jury hasn’t been brought back in yet.

When the jury comes back, Sharay Hayes, a former male exotic dancer, will continue testifying.