Ex-girlfriend of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs says she was once harassed into intercourse with escorts

The federal sex-trafficking and racketeering conspiracy trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs resumed on Friday with testimony from a former female friend and alleged sufferer, known as “Jane”.

On the stand, the lady, described by way of prosecutors as a unmarried mom who met Combs in 2020, described the drug-fueled sexual encounters involving male escorts – known as “hotel nights” – she says she persisted all through her dating with Combs, the place she stated Combs would watch and direct her and the escort to accomplish intercourse acts whilst he masturbated.

Jane testified on Friday that all through the sexual encounters, which occasionally lasted greater than 24 hours, Combs harassed her to have intercourse with male escorts with out condoms. She instructed the courtroom that all through their dating she instructed the song multi-millionaire more than one occasions that she didn’t need to have intercourse with different males however that he was once “dismissive”.

Combs, 55, was once arrested in September and faces federal fees of intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to interact in prostitution. He has pleaded no longer to blame to all fees.

Jane, who started attesting on Thursday, stated she started relationship Combs in 2021, and described the beginning in their dating as loving and passionate.

However, she described a turning level of their dating in May 2021, when Combs published his sexual fantasies involving different males and role-playing.

She stated that, short of to delight him, she agreed to move together with the theory and that inside hours she was once in a Miami resort room gazing Combs’s assistants arrange for a gaggle intercourse come across.

“That night really opened a Pandora’s box for our relationship,” Jane testified. “It set the tone for our relationship going forward … It was a door that I was unable to shut.”

Jane testified that once that time, 90% of her sexual encounters with Combs integrated different males whilst Combs watched, masturbated and directed the intercourse acts.

When the prosecutor requested if she sought after to have intercourse with the others, Jane answered: “No … just Sean.”

She stated she again and again instructed Combs, in particular person and in writing, that she not sought after to take part in those sexual encounters, however stated that he was once dismissive and would drive her, including that she felt “obligated” to take part.

Jane instructed the courtroom how she was financially depending on Combs, who paid her hire and would ship her cash. She stated that from time to time, when she voiced discomfort with the sexual encounters, he threatened to forestall paying her hire.

On Friday, Jane testified that she feared dropping her house if she refused to take part within the so-called resort nights or freak-offs, and stated that Combs was once nonetheless paying her hire, in spite of their breakup and his arrest.

On the stand, she learn aloud texts from 2023 through which she instructed Combs that it felt just like the sexual encounters had been “the only reason you have me around and pay for the house”, including that she was once “doing things that make me disgusted with myself”.

In different messages, Jane instructed Combs that she felt she needed to carry out for him and regretted ever collaborating within the encounters, writing: “Ever since I opened Pandora’s box, I haven’t been able to close it”.

“I don’t want to keep feeling like that,” she wrote, telling Combs that she sought after them to “talk like adults and figure out where we’re going from here”.

Combs answered: “Girl, stop.”

Jane recalled crying a minimum of two times all through the encounters with Combs and male escorts, and stated that Combs gave the impression indignant and “disgusted” by way of her show of emotion.

Jane testified on Friday that her longest so-called “hotel night” with Combs and a male intercourse employee stretched 3 and a part days. Most of the encounters, she stated, lasted 24 to 30 hours.

Jane instructed the courtroom she used medication equivalent to ecstasy all through the encounters as a result of she “didn’t want to feel like it was too real” and sought after to “make things easier”.

Throughout her testimony on Friday, Jane wiped away tears.

At one level, Jane learn a word she had written on her telephone within the Notes app in November 2021 however by no means despatched to Combs.

“I don’t know what you’re calling me for, but I’m sorry I don’t want to do drugs for days and days and have you use me to fulfill your freaky, wild desires in hotel rooms,” Jane wrote within the unsent word.

Jane testified that the sexual encounters left her with consistent again ache, common urinary tract infections and soreness in her genital and pelvic spaces.

During opening statements remaining month, Combs’s legal professionals described Jane as a keen player within the sexual encounters.

While Combs’s legal professionals have said his historical past of home violence, they argue that the ladies participated within the “freak-offs” or “hotel nights” did so consensually, and his legal professionals take care of that Combs is no longer to blame of intercourse trafficking or racketeering, or of running a felony undertaking.

So a long way, Jane’s testimony has echoed that of Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, who dated Combs off and on from 2007 to 2018 and testified remaining month.

Ventura instructed jurors that she was once subjected to years of bodily and emotional abuse all through the connection. She alleged she was once coerced, thru violence and blackmail, into participating within the freak-offs, which she stated had been orchestrated and directed by way of Combs and concerned medication and male intercourse staff.

During cross-examination, Combs’s lawyers sought to painting Ventura as a keen player within the freak-offs, framing the encounters as a part of a “swingers lifestyle”.

If convicted on all counts, Combs may face lifestyles in jail.

Jane’s testimony is predicted to remaining smartly into subsequent week.

The Associated Press contributed reporting

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