Referred to as “Jane” during the trial, the woman continued her testimony in the hip-hop mogul’s sex trafficking case.
Combs, aged 55, maintains his innocence against the allegations of operating his business as a criminal enterprise that facilitated and hid the mistreatment of women for over twenty years.
Jane called the encounters “hotel nights” and the men “entertainers.”
Prosecutor Maurene Comey pressed Jane to provide evidence supporting the government’s assertion that Combs used his wealth to manipulate women into fulfilling his sexual desires, creating a dependency on him for their needs.
By September 2023, Combs had been paying Jane’s rent for about five months. Comey asked Jane what she feared would happen if she stopping doing hotel nights.
“That he would take it away, that Sean would take the house away,” Jane responded.
When she wept after one of the “hotel nights,” Jane recalled Combs telling her “don’t do that right now” and “I can’t do this right now. I’m too high.”
She said she blacked out earlier in the evening after she took the drug ecstasy, which she said Combs gave her.
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When she tried to remain sober for another encounter, she threw up in a hotel bathroom after having sex with two men in a row. Combs said, “That’s good. You’ll feel better now that you’ve thrown up. So let’s go.” Jane said she then had sex with a third man, telling jurors she was “repulsed.”
She said she endured the “dark, sleazy” encounters because she enjoyed spending time alone with Combs afterward.
“I would really fight to block out how sad I was after,” Jane testified. Still, she expressed her love for Combs, telling him in messages that “my heart is really in this and it’s breaking.”
Jane dated Combs from 2021 to 2024. During her first day of testimony on Thursday, she said it began as a loving and passionate relationship, but he soon began sharing his fantasies involving her with other men and role playing.
Both Jane and Cassie described trying to rush through the encounters just to get them over with. Jane said the encounters sometimes lasted more than 24 hours.
Jane testified Friday she texted Combs in 2023 saying she longed to return to the early days of their relationship. She told him she felt obligated to perform for him and regretted ever getting involved in the encounters, which had come to dominate their time together.
“I don’t want to keep feeling like that,” she wrote, telling Combs that she wanted them to “talk like adults and figure out where we’re going from here.”
Combs responded: “Girl, stop.”
Prosecutors played an audio tape on Friday in which Jane asked a man to wear a condom during their first hotel night, but Combs “guilt tripped me out of it. It wasn’t something he wanted to see.”
It was the first time jurors in the trial heard any recording from inside those encounters.
The judge has taken steps to protect Jane’s anonymity, including warning observers not to describe or sketch her in a way that would reveal her identity.
The Associated Press does not identify people who say they’re victims of sexual abuse unless they choose to make their names public, as Cassie has done.
On Thursday, Judge Arun Subramanian threatened to eject Combs from the courtroom if he continued “nodding vigorously” at jurors, telling lawyers that he should never attempt to interact with the jury.
