Sean Combs’s defense lawyers on Tuesday will question a woman who dated the music mogul up until his arrest, and who has testified in agonising detail that he pressured her into drug-fueled sex with escorts.
After three days on the stand, the woman speaking under the pseudonym Jane will face intense scrutiny from defense lawyers who have insisted that what prosecutors deem sex trafficking was in fact consensual.
Jane told jurors how the final year of her relationship with the artist known as “Diddy” exploded into violence in June 2024.
At the time, Combs was already under investigation by federal authorities; his homes had been raided, and the now-infamous security footage of him assaulting his ex-girlfriend, Casandra Ventura, in a hotel was public.
Throughout her testimony, Jane, who began seeing Combs in early 2021, detailed how she had longed for a more traditional romantic relationship with him.
But she said 90 per cent of their time together resulted in sometimes days-long sex parties that saw Combs direct her to have sex with male escorts while he watched, even as she told him the encounters made her feel “sleazy” and “disgusted.”
The June 2024 date at home was meant to be a chill night in, she said, but she and Combs got into a fight over his relationship with another woman.
The argument escalated when Jane said she pushed Combs’s head onto a marble countertop and began hurling candles.
“I was angry with him,” Jane said. “It was a built-up mix of everything… I just kept saying that I hated him.”
Combs was livid: Jane told jurors he kicked down doors and ultimately put her in a chokehold.
She managed to run out of the house barefoot, but upon returning hours late, he was still there. He kicked and punched her until she had a black eye and “golf-ball” sized welts, she said.
Combs instructed her to ice the injuries and “put an outfit on.”
Jane told jurors that she put on the requisite heels and lingerie for a so-called “hotel night” with Combs and a man he had invited.
Through tears Jane said Combs gave her ecstasy and demanded she have sex with the man, and when she protested he said “you’re not going to ruin my fucking night.”
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