While many celebrities have been mentioned or present in the story of Diddy’s trial, the latest to enter the conversation is Michael B Jordan.

The actor, who recently starred in critically-acclaimed movie Sinners – playing two twins named Smoke and Stack who field attacks by a gang of vampires led by Skins star Jack O’Connell – has been mentioned in both singer Cassie Ventura and an ex friend of hers’ testimonies in court regarding the former’s relationship with Diddy.

Ventura has testified in court that while she was in a relationship with Diddy, he was jealous of her connection with the Sinners star, and suspected her of having an affair with him.

Anna Estevao, one of Diddy’s lawyers, asked Ventura about her time filming Honey 3 in South Africa, and who Diddy suspected her of having a relationship with during that time. She responded with Jordan’s name, while also confirming that seeing a photo of Diddy with another woman had made her ‘angry’ around the same time.

Ventura’s initial 2023 lawsuit against Diddy referenced Jordan, describing a ‘flirtatious relationship with an actor’ during a reported brief breakup between herself and Diddy. She also accused Diddy of calling and threatening Jordan after she had spent New Year’s Eve with the Sinners star.

A former friend of Ventura’s – Californian model Kerry Morgan – corroborated her testimony on day six of the trial, she said: ‘Cassie was speaking with Michael B Jordan and Sean got jealous. She was trying to leave him.’

‘They were not together, and he was jealous about it,’ Morgan also said, referring to the fact that Cassie and Diddy weren’t together at the time but it still bothered him.

‘I remember she started talking to Michael B Jordan before she went to South Africa, and I remember them not being together when she went there to film a movie,’ Morgan told defence lawyer Marc Agnifilo.

‘What I remember was that she was speaking to Michael B Jordan and they hung out together and [Diddy] was jealous of it.’

Morgan also answered questions around whether she remembered Ventura dancing with rapper and singer Chris Brown and if Diddy was angry about this, to which she answered that she didn’t recall her dancing with Brown.

There was also conversation around whether Morgan recalled Ventura being jealous of Diddy’s ex-partner and mother to three of his children, Kim Porter. They dated for 13 years, and she sadly passed away back in November 2018.

People have also confirmed that jurors were asked if they were familiar with a number of celebrities – whether they had strong opinions on them, or inside information, to try and eliminate anyone with too-close ties – including Jordan, but the actor is not expected to testify at the trial himself due to the fact that he isn’t accused of any crimes or directly connected to any accusations, he won’t appear in court.

Other celebrity names – a list which has been described by USA Today as ‘a who’s who of Hollywood and music elite’ – included rappers Kid Cudi and Yung Miami, Kanye West, comedian Mike Myers, Destiny’s Child singer Michelle Williams, Dallas Austin, Lauren London, Dawn Richard and, of course, Ventura herself.

Cudi’s involvement also seems to be linked with his past relationship with Ventura, and Diddy’s reaction to it. During her testimony, she described having a burner phone that she would use to contact Cudi (whose real name is Scott Mescudi) during her relationship with Diddy. She admitted that she ‘did not want [Diddy] to find out’ about her continued connection with Cudi.

Ventura recalled that she was introduced to Cudi by Diddy in 2011, and they then made music together and started dating. She describes Diddy finding her burner phone and putting a wine opener in his hands and lunging at her in reaction. Ventura also testified that herself and Cudi broke up initially because Diddy threatened them both.

‘Sean said he was going to hurt the both of us,’ she said.

‘I had broken off the relationship with Scott Mescudi, [there was] too much uncertainty if we continued to see each other,’ she confirmed during her testimony on Wednesday.

The 2023 lawsuit filed by Ventura also alleged that Diddy threatened to ‘blow up’ Cudi’s car in retaliation, and ‘around that time, Kid Cudi’s car exploded in his driveway’. This account of events was corroborated by Cudi’s representatives to the New York Times that same year. ‘This is all true,’ a spokesperson said. Incidentally, Diddy has been accused of ‘acts of violence [including] arson’, but denies being involved in the car incident.

Diddy has also denied the allegations made in Cassie’s 2023 lawsuit, insisting that settling was not an admission of wrongdoing. “Mr. Combs’ decision to settle the lawsuit does not in any way undermine his flat-out denial of the claims,” a statement said. Diddy denies all allegations of sex trafficking and racketeering against him.

While both Jordan and Cudi were referenced in Diddy’s trial predominantly due to their romantic links with Ventura and the events that followed, the origin of other anticipated celebrity namedrops is not yet clear.