NEW YORK — Celebrity stylist Deonte Nash took the stand at Sean “Diddy” Combs’ federal sex trafficking and racketeering trial Wednesday, telling a Manhattan jury about hearing the rap mogul threaten to send videos of Casandra “Cassie” Ventura engaging in humiliating sexual acts with strangers to her parents’ workplaces.

Nash said he began styling Combs and his ex-girlfriend Ventura as an intern in 2008 after moving to New York City and responding to a Craigslist ad. He stopped working for Combs in 2018.

The stylist, who said “absolutely not” when asked if he wanted to testify, said Combs had the final say on Ventura’s appearance and that he regularly overheard the mogul berating her.

An irate Combs, Nash said, frequently threatened “that he would beat her a--, that he wouldn’t put her music out, that he would get her parents fired from their jobs and he would send her sex tapes to their jobs — he would start there.”

On Tuesday, the Manhattan Federal Court jury heard from law enforcement witnesses about incidents detailed last week by the rapper Kid Cudi, whose real name is Scott Mescudi. Mescudi testified that his Hollywood Hills home was broken into, and his car was torched in his driveway weeks later after Combs learned he was dating Ventura.

An LAPD officer said a Cadillac that left Mescudi’s place the morning of the break-in was registered to Bad Boy Records. Arson investigator Lance Jimenez later testified about the investigation into Kid Cudi’s burned car, which occurred in January 2012, and said the damage was limited as gasoline didn’t disperse properly after a Molotov cocktail was dropped through a hole torn in the roof of the car.

On cross-examination with Combs’ attorney Marc Agnifilo, Jimenez was pressed about a glove he found in the back of the car that he didn’t record as evidence, as Mescudi said it belonged to him. He said he tried to reach Ventura after speaking with her father, a firefighter, but never got a call back.

Judge Arun Subramanian denied a request for a mistrial after Combs’ lawyers argued that a line of questioning by the prosecution suggested he had something to do with authorities’ destruction of DNA belonging to a woman that was recovered from the car. Subramanian later told the jury not to draw any inferences about the questions.

Combs is accused of employing a network of staff to help facilitate his crime-ridden lifestyle and sordid sexual desires from 2004 to 2024. Prosecutors allege the employees engaged in sex trafficking, forced labor, bribery, obstruction of justice, kidnapping, and arson in the matter involving Mescudi’s car.

Jurors have so far heard from Ventura, who described being violently abused and sexually exploited by Combs throughout their tumultuous 11-year relationship. Ventura said Combs used videos of her in humiliating sexual performances with strangers that he directed as blackmail and said he and his staff had her under 24-hour surveillance.

They are yet to hear from alleged victims Jane and Mia, which are pseudonyms, who are respectively expected to testify about being forced into the marathon sexual performances dubbed “freak-offs” and sexually assaulted.

Combs has pleaded not guilty to counts including sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy, and transporting individuals for prostitution and could be sentenced to life in prison if found guilty.

Prosecutors allege that for years, Combs orchestrated weekly freak-offs that saw vulnerable women in his orbit coerced into humiliating sexual encounters with strangers.

Outside of his criminal case, Combs has faced around 70 lawsuits — brought by women and men — accusing him of a range of sexual misconduct.

Allegations against him exploded into public view when Ventura brought suit in late 2023. Jurors have heard Combs settled that case for $20 million in just 24 hours. The feds then began investigating him.

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