A former girlfriend of Sean “Diddy” Combs has instructed his intercourse trafficking trial how a whirlwind romance opened a “Pandora’s box” of intercourse classes with male escorts that she didn’t know how one can cease.
The witness, who’s testifying below the pseudonym “Jane”, alleges the hip-hop mogul coerced her into taking part in drug-fuelled “debauchery” nights all through their relationship, which started in 2021 and ended when he was arrested in September 2024.
She started her proof on a dramatic day on the Manhattan courtroom, taking to the stand not lengthy after Decide Arun Subramanian issued a warning to Combs’s legal professionals after seeing the rapper “nodding vigorously” in direction of the jury throughout earlier testimony.
If the “totally unacceptable” behaviour occurs once more in the course of the trial, the decide mentioned, he may take steps to take away the defendant from the courtroom.
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Combs along with his legal professionals forward of the day’s testimony. Pic: Reuters.
Jane is considered one of three alleged victims of Combs giving proof throughout his trial, and her allegations mirror these given by his former long-term accomplice Cassie Ventura.
Each ladies mentioned the rapper would sit within the nook and masturbate as he watched them have intercourse, and that the classes would typically final for greater than 24 hours with “no sleep”.
Combs, 55, is accused of intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. He has pleaded not responsible to all costs.
In courtroom on Thursday, he typically appeared straight at Jane as she gave proof.
The one mom started her testimony by describing her whirlwind romance with Combs, saying he made her really feel particular and showered her with love and presents within the first few months from January 2021.
Requested what occurred in Could 2021, she bowed her head and have become emotional as she instructed the courtroom how Combs began to speak about fantasies of function play with different males.
One evening, he instructed her he may make the fantasy a actuality, she says – and did so immediately.
Jane instructed the courtroom she agreed to having intercourse with the male escort as a result of she needed to make Combs blissful – and even “felt excited” afterwards after doing one thing “taboo”.
Nevertheless, she mentioned she thought it was a one-off. As an alternative, “it opened a Pandora’s box” and “set the tone” going ahead, she mentioned.
After that first evening in Could 2021, Jane mentioned she was having intercourse with different males “90%” of the time.
Requested if that is what she needed, she mentioned it wasn’t, however that she “went along with it because I loved him at this point”.
Combs saved pushing her into these intercourse classes, and he or she felt “obligated” to go together with it, she mentioned. He additionally had management over her life in different methods, she instructed the courtroom, together with by paying the lease on her residence.
However as their relationship continued, she mentioned she did inform him, “many times”, she didn’t wish to preserve having intercourse with different males, however he would dismiss her, make her really feel uncomfortable, or seemingly threaten to cease paying her lease.
These encounters have been known as “debauchery” or lodge nights, she instructed the courtroom, and so they all the time adopted the identical sample – “hotel suites, red lights, music, lotions and alcohol, there would be bed sheets covering everything, blankets and towels, because of the excessive use of baby oil everywhere”.
Jane mentioned she would “have drugs in my system” and put on “provocative” lingerie and “high stripper shoes”, and Combs would ask her to pour child oil on the lads and on herself.
These classes sometimes lasted between 24 and 30 hours, she mentioned, with “no sleep”.
In her testimony, Cassie Ventura instructed of comparable sexual encounters, which Combs known as “freak offs”, she mentioned.
Jane’s proof is about to proceed on Friday and on a number of days subsequent week.
