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Sean 'Diddy' Combs trial updates: 'Jane' testifies on 'hotel nights' with Combs: 'Lonely and sad'
The hip-hop mogul is charged with sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy.
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This is week four of testimony in the trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs.
Latest headlines:
- 'Jane' testifies Combs still pays her rent as court adjourns
- 'Jane' tells the court about having unexpected 'hotel night' while on vacation with Combs
- Jury sees 'Jane' arguing with Combs in text messages and notes on her phone
- Attorney for 'Jane' says social media posts 'threaten her safety'
- 'Jane' tells court 'hotel nights' left her with back pain and near-weekly UTIs
Sean Combs trial reaches an end with mixed verdict
The highly anticipated trial of hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs has reached an end.
The jury found Sean Combs not guilty of racketeering conspiracy, the most serious charge.
The jury found Combs guilty of transportation to engage in prostitution (in connection with his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura) and guilty of transportation to engage in prostitution (in connection with his ex-girlfriend who testified under the pseudonym "Jane").
He was found not guilty of both charges of sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion in connection with Ventura and "Jane."
Combs was accused of being the ringleader of an alleged enterprise that "abused, threatened and coerced women" into prolonged, drug-fueled sexual orgies with male prostitutes, which he called "freak-offs," and then threatened them into silence. Combs has said that all of the sex was consensual and that while his relationships sometimes involved domestic violence, he wasn't engaged in trafficking.
Combs' lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, said Combs was simply part of the swinger lifestyle and that he "vehemently denies the accusations made by the SDNY."
'Jane' testifies 'hotel nights' involved 'baby oil everywhere'
So-called "hotel nights" with Combs followed a pattern, according to testimony from the witness appearing under the pseudonym "Jane."
The rooms “had red lights, music, beverages, alcohol,” "Jane" told the court. “There would be bedsheets covering everything, blankets, towels.”
Asked why, "Jane" explained there would be “baby oil everywhere" and that they could go through two dozen bottles per night.
“In time I just realized how he liked things. He would tell me what he liked, what he wanted to see. He would from the very beginning tell me what he wanted to see. And during them he would suggest what I would do next,” "Jane" testified.
According to her testimony, she dressed the same way each time. “I wore provocative lingerie and really high stripper shoes,” "Jane" testified. “I would buy them myself and then show Sean what I had. He would choose which outfit he liked.”
The escorts “would be undressed in shorts and I would come out in a robe,” "Jane" told the court. “Music would be playing and I would start to already be high or have drugs in my system and I would start dancing and slow dancing just to kind of get my nerves out, de-robe and things would escalate to foreplay between me and the man. A few steps before that the oil would start happening.”
Prosecutor Maurene Comey asked, “Why were you using baby oil?”
Jane testified, “Because that’s what Sean really liked.”
“What would Sean typically be doing?” Comey asked.
“Masturbating,” "Jane" testified. “It would be just a really long, prolonged foreplay moment between me and this guy and I would just sit there and he wanted me to touch myself while I was touching the other man."
“Those moments would last a very long time. Just really long. He really enjoyed watching me pour oil over myself, over the man. Just watch these really erotic moments,” "Jane" testified.
Oral sex would follow, according to "Jane."
“How would you know it would be time for oral sex?” Comey asked.
“It varied between Sean telling me or me just starting it,” "Jane" testified. “I knew that it would arouse the man more and kind of speed things up."
“Why would you want to speed things up?” Comey asked.
“Because I just wanted to speed things up,” "Jane" told the court.
The oral sex would last a long time, “like, many hours,” "Jane" testified, “because that’s what Sean preferred to see.”
According to "Jane's" testimony, the activity would then move from that living area of the suite to the bedroom. “I just really wanted to be done so I could just be with my partner,” "Jane" testified.
She told the court Combs would watch her and the escort while masturbating. Once the escort was dismissed, "Jane" testified, “That’s when me and Sean would make love.”
"Jane" testified that the pattern would repeat itself over the next 24 to 30 hours.
Court is adjourned for the day. "Jane" is scheduled to return to the witness stand on Friday. Prosecutors do not expect to conclude her direct examination until Monday.
'Jane' tells the court about alleged 'hotel nights': 'Was like a door I was unable to shut'
"Jane," who is testifying under a pseudonym, told the court that she and Combs referred to their sexual encounters involving other men as “debauchery” or “hotel nights."
After the first one, "Jane" testified, “I truly felt like that night opened a Pandora’s box in our relationship. It was like a door I was unable to shut for the remainder of the relationship.”
“Why was it a door you wanted to shut?” prosecutor Maurene Comey asked.
“There was so much of it after,” "Jane" testified in response.
After a few hotel nights, "Jane" testified, she told Combs she didn't want to have sex with other men.
“Can you estimate how many times you told Sean in writing and verbally you did not want to have sex with other men?” Comey asked.
“Many times,” "Jane" testified, adding that Combs threatened to withhold her rent payments.
“I felt frustrated. I felt obligated,” "Jane" testified.
The jury was shown a copy of "Jane's" lease. She was listed as the tenant in the $10,000-per-month home, an amount she said she could not afford on her own.
“He asked me how much allowance I want a month and I said 15 and he said 10,” "Jane" told the court.
“You mean thousand?” Comey asked.
“Yes,” "Jane" testified, telling the court Combs agreed to pay the rent on the home.
"Jane" testified that Combs also sent her money, $5,000 to $10,000 in cash or larger amounts via wire transfer. The largest amount she remembered receiving was $20,000, she testified.
“He liked me having straight hair or when it was time for us to be together intimately, he liked my hair in a ponytail," "Jane told the court. "He liked me to have light colored nails, mostly a creamy white."
"He wanted me to get piercings,” "Jane" further testified, clarifying to the court that she was referring to “my nipples.”
'Jane' testifies about Combs allegedly asking for sexual threesome with her
The witness testifying under the pseudonym "Jane" began crying when a prosecutor asked her about an alleged incident from May 2021, bowing her head and dabbing her eyes.
"Jane" told the court that Sean Combs initiated “fantasy talk” while they were high on drugs.
“He would just search specific things on these websites and in the middle of being high he really wanted me to fantasize or really talk about other men and this type of roleplay about other men,” "Jane" testified. “He started saying I could make this fantasy a reality if you’d like to have that happen.”
"Jane" told the court that she agreed, “Because it seemed like he wanted that and it was really turning him on,” but added that she did not expect it would happen that night.
“I remember I went to the restroom and when I came back out, Sean was staring at his phone really seriously. He just looked really serious at his phone. He said we can make that happen tonight,” "Jane" testified. “I was like, tonight? I was taken aback, a bit surprised but like, OK."
Within a couple of hours, "Jane" testified, they were in a room at the Faena Hotel in Miami.
“I saw the assistants setting up this room. There were beverages. The lights were already red. There was bustle of getting this room ready,” "Jane" recalled to the court. “He just told me there was somebody coming and just to relax, this will be something fun.”
In walked a man named Don, from an escort agency, "Jane" testified.
“My legs were crossed, my arms were crossed, I had the robe on," "Jane" testified. “Don came closer to me and started touching me, touching my leg, trying to make me feel comfortable and I started touching him.”
Jane told the court that Combs “was watching and touching himself.”
“Was he masturbating?” Comey asked.
“Yes,” "Jane" testified, adding that she remembered trying to “speed” things up by moving to the bedroom: “To get it over,” she told the court.
"Jane" testified she asked Don to wear a condom but Combs did not want him to. “He just said, ‘Why? These guys are safe. They get tested all the time. They’re some of the cleanest people,’” "Jane" told the court she recalled Combs saying.
"Jane" testified that she felt exhilarated when the encounter was over: “I had done something I had never done before.”
"Jane" told the court that she thought the encounter would be a one-time thing. “I didn’t think we would be doing that again like that,” she testified. “After that night I figured it would be something we did that one time.”
For the next three years, "Jane" told the court, Combs made her have sex with other men 90% of their time together.
'Jane' testifies Combs helped pay for her to move to LA amid growing relationship
A month after their first date, Sean Combs took the woman testifying under the pseudonym "Jane" to Turks and Caicos, according to her testimony. The jury saw a brief video of the villa where they stayed, getting to know one another.
“I was very open about, that I was a single mother. For work, I was on social media, I call myself a content creator. I was advertising brands on my social media,” "Jane" told the court.
She testified that Combs told her he would send $10,000 to make up for the money she lost by being on the trip and not online.
"Jane" alleged Combs also gave her the drug ecstasy.
“He opens his hand with a pill and he says ‘Take this,’” "Jane" told the court. “Walking down the beach and it just hit me, and I fell to the ground and I started grabbing the sand and throwing the sand. I was screaming a little.”
Combs gave "Jane" smaller doses of the drug for the rest of the trip, she testified, during time which her feelings for him deepened.
“We even started using the L word,” "Jane" testified. “I was really deep in it.”
"Jane" told the court that her relationship with Combs lasted until his arrest in 2024 on the charges for which he's being tried.
Over the first half of 2021, according to "Jane's" testimony, Combs would fly her to Miami. He eventually helped pay for her to move to Los Angeles, she told the court.
According to "Jane's" testimony, the two of them would use the drugs ecstasy, molly, cocaine and ketamine “whenever we would start having sex.”
She testified she learned a lot about what Combs preferred, sexually.
“I learned so many things," "Jane" told the court. "I learned how he liked to have pornography playing. I learned how he preferred me to dress, and I just learned the things that he liked sexually. He preferred me to dress in provocative lingerie and really high, like, stripper shoes.”
Prosecutor Maurene Comey asked, “How long did he want you to be in these outfits while you were using drugs?”
“All the time," "Jane testified.
"Jane" further testified that Combs liked baby oil “to just have it all over my body and his.”