Sean “Diddy” Combs attends Reel To Reel: Cant Cease Will not Cease: A Dangerous Boy Story on the GRAMMY Museum on Oct. 4, 2017, in Los Angeles.
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This report consists of descriptions of alleged intercourse trafficking.
On Thursday (June 5), a girl who instructed the jury that she was romantically concerned with Sean Combs up till the time of his indictment and arrest in September of 2024 took the witness stand within the hip-hop mogul’s federal legal trial. The witness, who testified below a pseudonym to guard her id and was recognized as “Jane,” stated that Combs financially supported her throughout their relationship and leveraged that help to be able to stress her into sexual encounters with male escorts.
In contrast to Combs’ former companion Cassie Ventura, the prosecution’s highest-profile witness to date, there’s little publicly identified details about Jane, who will presumably be the centerpiece of the second half of the prosecution’s case in opposition to Combs. The trial, which is nearing the tip of its fourth week, is predicted to final eight weeks whole.
The producer and entrepreneur faces two counts of intercourse trafficking by coercion, two counts of transportation to have interaction in prostitution and one depend of racketeering conspiracy. Prosecutors say these crimes span 20 years. Jane is listed as “Sufferer 2” within the authorities’s indictment of Combs, through which he’s accused of forcing her into business intercourse acts from round 2021 till roughly 2024. Combs’ protection attorneys say their consumer had an unconventional but consensual intercourse life that had nothing to do together with his companies. He has pleaded not responsible.
Within the courtroom, Jane described a romantic first date with Combs in early 2021 that lasted a number of days. Though they didn’t stay in the identical metropolis, she stated the file producer and entrepreneur showered her with affection, compliments and romantic journeys within the first few months of their involvement.
“I used to be head over heels for Sean already,” Jane stated. “I felt like Sean was actually passionate, and he introduced a whole lot of ardour out of me too.”
The connection was not public or monogamous, and concerned drug use throughout a lot of the time they had been collectively. Jane grew to become emotional on the witness stand describing how, months into the connection, Combs instructed her he fantasized about watching her with one other man. She stated she agreed to attempt it, however was stunned when he organized to make it occur that very same evening as a result of they’d been taking medication and had already been awake for near 24 hours straight at that time.
Jane described arriving at a resort suite hours later, the place Combs’ assistants had been establishing the room with lights, drinks and different provides. That was the primary evening Jane had an encounter with a male escort whereas Combs watched and masturbated. She stated it felt exhilarating and “taboo,” however she assumed it was a enjoyable, one-off factor.
“I actually really feel that evening opened a Pandora’s field for our relationship,” she instructed the courtroom. “It was a door that I used to be unable to close for the rest of the connection.”
In response to Jane, these “resort nights” ultimately took up the vast majority of the time she spent with Combs. She stated she went together with them willingly within the early phases as a result of she cherished Combs and needed to make him joyful — echoing earlier testimony by Cassie Ventura. However Jane stated from 2021 till 2024, she instructed Combs many instances that she now not needed to have intercourse with different males. Each time she broached the topic, she felt he was dismissive.
Jane defined that she was a single mom making a dwelling as a content material creator when she started relationship Combs. However she stated her social media work waned as she invested extra of her time into the connection, and he usually gave her 1000’s of {dollars} and paid her lease. On one of many events she instructed him she needed to cease having “resort nights” with escorts, Combs allegedly framed it as a break-up dialog and requested how a lot time she wanted to maneuver out of the home he paid for. Jane instructed prosecutor Maurene Comey that she did not need to cease seeing Combs altogether, however she felt “obligated to carry out” within the encounters.
Jane’s direct questioning and cross-examination are anticipated to take up the rest of this week and a lot of the following week.
