NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs ‘ current ex-girlfriend broke down on the witness stand Friday describing their many drug-fueled intercourse marathons, saying the music mogul ignored her alerts to cease and scolded her for crying after one other encounter.
Testifying beneath the pseudonym “Jane” for a second day, the girl recounted how Combs pushed her to proceed intercourse acts with males whereas he watched even after she gave “subtle cues” — saying she was drained and hungry, making faces and gestures — that she needed to cease. As an alternative, she stated, he instructed her to “finish strong.”
Requested why she did not inform him outright, Jane sobbed, “I just, I don’t know.” Later, she stated Combs would shut her down when she tried to speak about ending the encounters, which she known as “dark, sleazy.”
Combs, 55, has pleaded not responsible to operating his enterprise empire as a racketeering enterprise that enabled and hid the abuse of girls over twenty years. If convicted, he faces 15 years to life. The protection has asserted the sexual actions had been all consensual and nothing Combs did amounted to a legal enterprise.
Jane tells a narrative just like Combs’ ex Cassie
Jane’s account within the trial’s fourth week has carefully mirrored that of R&B singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, one other former girlfriend who testified Combs assaulted her and compelled her into “hundreds” of encounters with male intercourse employees dubbed “ freak-offs.” Jane known as them “hotel nights” and the boys “entertainers.”
Prosecutor Maurene Comey sought to point out that Combs used his wealth to control girls into submitting to his sexual calls for and make them reliant on him and his wants. By September 2023, Jane stated, Combs had been paying her hire for about 5 months. Requested what she feared would occur if she stopping doing lodge nights, Jane replied, “That Sean would take the house away.”
After one such evening, Jane stated she cried and Combs instructed her “Don’t try this proper now,” and “I can’t do this right now. I’m too high.” She testified she’d blacked out earlier from the drug ecstasy that Combs gave her.
Throughout one other encounter, she tried to stay sober however vomited in a toilet after having intercourse with two males in a row. Combs instructed her, “That’s good. You’ll feel better now that you’ve thrown up. So let’s go.” She then had intercourse with a 3rd man, describing herself as “repulsed.”
Jane stated she endured the encounters as a result of she valued time alone with Combs afterward. “I would really fight to block out how sad I was after,” she testified. In messages to him, she wrote: “my heart is really in this and it’s breaking.”
Jane unsuccessfully tries to finish lodge nights
Jane dated Combs from 2021 to 2024. On Thursday, she testified their relationship started as loving and passionate however quickly veered into into having her have interaction in intercourse with different males. The longest lasted three and a half days, whereas most went on for twenty-four to 30 hours.
On Friday, she described texting Combs in 2023 to say she longed to return to the early days of their relationship earlier than the intercourse marathons dominated their time collectively, in an effort to place an finish to them. She instructed him she felt obligated to carry out for him and regretted ever getting concerned within the encounters.
“I don’t want to keep feeling like that,” she wrote, urging Combs to “talk like adults and figure out where we’re going from here.”
Combs responded: “Girl, stop.”
Jane stated the encounters continued into the summer season of 2024. She participated in a single at Combs’ Miami-area property as late as August — simply weeks earlier than his arrest at a Manhattan lodge.
Jurors on Friday heard an the primary audio from inside a kind of encounters. Within the recording, Jane requested a person to put on a condom throughout her first lodge evening, however Combs “guilt tripped me out of it. It wasn’t something he wanted to see.”
Jane additionally stated Combs had her act as his drug mule not less than twice, nervously smuggling capsules in her checked baggage on industrial flights from Los Angeles to Miami. She stated he divvied up within the colourful capsules into bottles, and she or he ended up utilizing a few of the medicine with him.
To guard Jane’s anonymity, the choose has barred courtroom observers from describing or sketching her look in a approach that might reveal her identification. The Related Press doesn’t establish individuals who say they’re victims of sexual abuse except they select to make their names public, as Cassie has carried out.
Protection targets credibility of witnesses
Combs’ attorneys have tried to stitch doubt amongst jurors in regards to the credibility of the prosecution’s witnesses. In opening arguments, lawyer Teny Geragos acknowledged Combs had a “bad temper” and violent outbursts, however argued his sexual habits had been a part of a consensual swinger way of life.
The protection painted Cassie, for instance, as an keen participant within the freak-offs. When Cassie was on the stand, Combs’ attorneys had her learn texts and emails by which she expressed willingness to have interaction within the encounters.
Earlier than Jane testified on Thursday, the protection cross-examined Bryana “Bana” Bongolan, a buddy of Cassie and a graphic designer who’s suing Combs. Bongolan testified that in 2016, Combs held her over the sting of a balcony at a Los Angeles high-rise for 10 to fifteen seconds, an episode she stated traumatized her and left her with lasting evening terrors.
Protection legal professional Nicole Westmoreland challenged Bongolan’s credibility, suggesting she lied or exaggerated. The lawyer famous Combs was on tour for a lot of September 2016, together with East Coast reveals across the time of the balcony incident. Bongolan later testified she did not recall the precise date of the incident, however had little question it occurred.
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Collins reported from Hartford, Connecticut.
