One other ex and alleged sufferer of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs testifies about ‘freak-offs’

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

The girl, described by prosecutors as a single mom who met Combs in 2020, testified on Friday that Combs denied requests that escorts put on condoms in the course of the drug-fueled sexual encounters with male escorts at lodges referred to as “freak-offs” or “resort nights”, which she claims Combs orchestrated and watched as she took half.

Jane informed the court docket that she requested Combs no less than twice if an escort might put on condoms, however stated that Combs “guilt-tripped me out of it … He didn’t need to see a rubber whereas he was watching.”

Combs, 55, was arrested in September 2024 and faces federal fees of intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to interact in prostitution. He has pleaded not responsible to all fees.

Jane started her testimony on Thursday and informed the court docket that she started relationship Combs in 2021, and that their relationship was loving and passionate.

Nevertheless, she described a turning level of their relationship in Could 2021, when Combs revealed his sexual fantasies involving different males and role-playing.

She stated that, eager to please him, she agreed to go together with the thought and that inside hours she was in a Miami resort room watching Combs’s assistants arrange for a gaggle intercourse encounter.

“That night time actually opened a Pandora’s field for our relationship,” Jane testified. “It set the tone for our relationship going ahead … It was a door that I used to be unable to close.”

Jane testified that after that time, 90% of her sexual encounters with Combs included different males whereas Combs watched, masturbated and directed the intercourse acts.

When the prosecutor requested if she needed to have intercourse with the others, Jane replied: “No … simply Sean.”

She stated she repeatedly informed Combs, in particular person and in writing, that she not needed to take part in these sexual encounters, however he pressured her, and she or he felt “obligated”.

Jane informed the court docket how she turned financially depending on Combs, who paid her hire and would ship her cash. She stated that at instances, when she voiced discomfort with the sexual encounters, he threatened to cease paying her hire.

On Friday, Jane testified that she feared dropping her dwelling if she refused to take part within the so-called resort nights or freak-offs.

On the stand, she learn aloud texts from 2023 through which she informed Combs that it felt just like the sexual encounters had been “the one purpose you have got me round and pay for the home”, including that she was “doing issues that make me disgusted with myself”.

In different messages, Jane informed 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 field, I haven’t been capable of shut it.

“I don’t need to maintain feeling like that,” she wrote, telling Combs that she needed them to “speak like adults and determine the place we’re going from right here”.

Combs replied: “Lady, cease.”

Jane recalled crying no less than twice in the course of the encounters with Combs and male escorts, and stated that Combs appeared offended and “disgusted” by her show of emotion.

Whereas Combs’s attorneys have acknowledged his historical past of home violence, they argue that the ladies participated within the freak-offs consensually they usually preserve that Combs is not responsible of intercourse trafficking or racketeering, or of working a legal enterprise.

To date, Jane’s testimony has echoed that of Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, who dated Combs on and off from 2007 to 2018 and testified final month.

Ventura informed jurors that she was subjected to years of bodily and emotional abuse in the course of the relationship. She alleged she was coerced, by way of violence and blackmail, into collaborating within the freak-offs, which she stated had been orchestrated and directed by Combs and concerned medicine and male intercourse staff.

Throughout cross-examination, Combs’s attorneys sought to painting Ventura as a prepared participant within the freak-offs, framing the encounters as a part of a “swingers life-style”.

If convicted on all counts, Combs might face life in jail.

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