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(NewsNation) — A woman under the pseudonym “Jane” returned to the witness stand Friday in the trial against Sean “Diddy” Combs after alleging she performed days-long sexual events at the behest of the disgraced music producer.
Jane is identified as “Victim 2” in Combs’ indictment and has said she was in a relationship with him from 2021 until his arrest in 2024.
During her testimony Thursday, Jane said she participated in “hotel nights” where she engaged with male sex workers under Diddy’s instruction, similarly to ex-girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura. Ventura has called these events “Freak Offs.”
Jane said she met Combs while on a girls’ trip with a friend who was dating him at the time in 2020. She exchanged phone numbers with him after spending time on his yacht and visiting his home on Star Island off Miami, Jane told jurors.
Jane testifies Diddy did not want condoms used during ‘hotel nights’
On Friday, Jane took the stand for a second time. She said that the rapper referred to her as his “freak” and she was expected to meet his sexual demands regardless of her comfort level.
Jane testified that the entertainment entrepreneur did not want male sex workers to use condoms when she had sex with them. She said she would ask Combs to use protection, and he would guilt-trip her or ignore the request.
The prosecution played a recording for the court that was roughly 8 minutes and 25 seconds long. A printed transcript was provided to the jurors.
The audio revealed a taped conversation of Jane, Combs, and a male sex worker, “Don.” Jane requests that Don use a condom. Combs interjects, questions what they are doing, and Jane said Don did not use protection during that sexual encounter with her.
When questioned why she allowed Combs to dictate whether a male sex worker could use a condom or not, Jane said she was afraid to agitate or disappoint her then-boyfriend.
She said that after she would sexually engage with a male sex worker, Combs would have sex with her immediately after. Jane testified she would not clean up the sex worker’s bodily fluids. Combs and she would play with the bodily fluids. Then she would shower and repeat the process.
Jane detailed that sometimes she would have sex with one male sex worker and other times up to three men based on Combs’ demands.
The former Combs’ girlfriend explained that there were times she was hungry, tired, and in need of a break but Combs would say, “You’re not getting tired on me, are you? Let’s finish strong.”
She said, “I don’t know,” when asked why she did not stop.
The “hotel nights” were fueled by drugs like ecstasy, according to Jane.
Jane said she thought she and Combs were going to have a date night, however, it turned into an 18-hour “hotel night” with a male sex worker. She used drugs during the encounter. Combs was planning to leave while she was still under the influence of drugs, and she began crying.
She said Combs was agitated by seeing her emotion and asked, “Are you crying?”
Combs decided to stay.
On September 17, 2023, Jane texted Combs that she no longer wanted to participate in “hotel nights.”
“I wish we could go back to how this was when we first started… I opened Pandora’s box… this became the expectation,” Jane wrote.
She explained how she felt obligated to keep participating in the sex acts with sex workers because Combs took care of her financially.
Jane testifies she smuggled drugs for Diddy
In addition to the “hotel nights,” Jane testified that she smuggled drugs for Combs on more than one occasion.
During a flight from Los Angeles to Miami, she had pills in her suitcase on a commercial flight, she told the jury.
She said that Combs’ chief of staff, Kristina Khorram, reassured her when Jane expressed concern over transporting the illegal substances and said, “It’s fine, I do it all the time.”
Jane testifies she booked flights for sex workers
For “hotel nights” Jane said she would book flights for the male sex workers, including one performer who was based in Atlanta and flew him to Los Angeles and New York.
She said that Combs would hint at wanting the sex parties without explicitly saying so.
“He didn’t have to directly, specifically tell me to do things. If he said, ‘I can’t want to see what you have for me,’ or something along those lines, I knew what task was being asked of me,” Jane said.
During her testimony, Jane was presented with images of herself with male sex workers from “hotel nights.” The images have not been shared with the overflow or courtroom monitors per the judge’s order to keep Combs’ ex-girlfriend’s identity private from the media.
Jane’s testimony of ‘hotel nights’ similar to Cassie’s ‘Freak Offs’ description
She said that after she would sexually engage with a male sex worker, Combs would have sex with her immediately after. Jane testified she would not clean up the sex worker’s bodily fluids. Combs and she would play with the bodily fluids. Then she would shower and repeat the process.
Jane detailed that sometimes she would have sex with one male sex worker and other times up to three men, based on Combs’ demands.
The former Combs’ girlfriend explained that there were times she was hungry, tired, and in need of a break but Combs would say, “You’re not getting tired on me, are you? Let’s finish strong.”
She said, “I don’t know,” when asked why she did not stop.
The ‘hotel nights’ were fueled by drugs like ecstasy, according to Jane.
Earlier in the trial, Ventura testified about the “Freak Offs” she would perform for Combs, claiming the two hired male escorts for her to sleep with while Combs watched. She also testified she took drugs to get through the encounters, which could last for days and required a lengthy recovery period.
She said Combs was agitated by seeing her emotion and asked, “Are you crying?” Combs decided to stay.
On September 17, 2023 Jane texted Combs that she no longer wanted to participate in “hotel nights.”
“I wish we could go back to how this was when we first started… I opened Pandora’s box… this became the expectation,” Jane wrote.
She explained how she felt obligated to keep participating in the sex acts with sex workers because Combs took care of her financially.
Jane said she thought she and Combs were going to have a date night, however, it turned into an 18-hour “hotel night” with a male sex worker. She used drugs during the encounter. Combs was planning to leave while she was still under the influence of drugs, and she began crying.
Ventural told the jury she participated in the “Freak Offs” knowing that Combs had control over her career and also covered her rent.
Tamara Holder, a Chicago-based women’s rights and sexual abuse attorney, spoke to NewsNation on Friday about Jane’s testimony and how it could impact the jurors.
“Jane’s story is eerily similar to others in that he used women for sex and used to associates to assist in his enterprise. He [Combs] used his assets to control them. He drugged them and had paid sex workers participate in group sex to satisfy his desires,” Holder said. “Jane is corroborating Cassie’s story through her own to destroy the defense’s opening statement that, ‘this case is about love, jealousy, infidelity and money.’ “
…”Right now, the jury is just absorbing evidence – people’s stories and the defense’s holes in them. What is most important is for the prosecution to convey that the women’s feelings or conduct towards Diddy is irrelevant. What’s relevant is his motivation. Why did he ‘date’ these women? The prosecution must continue to drive home that he picked his victims to satisfy his own criminal enterprise, regardless of the victims’ feelings toward him,” Holder also said.
Jane testifies ‘hotel nights’ with Diddy could last 12 to 30 hours
A “hotel night” could 12 to 30 hours and that between May 2021 and October 2023 and usually involved heavy drug use, Jane told the jury Friday.
Jane said Combs would provide the drugs to her so she could perform the sexual acts. However, she had one provision for “hotel nights” she could enforce; male sex performers were not allowed to use drugs as she feared they could become violent or unpredictable.
Jane testified about a party at L’Ermitage Hotel in Beverly Hills where she remained sober, while Combs took ecstasy and cocaine. She said the sexual encounter lasted between 12 to 18 hours, and she vomited.
She said Combs responded after she was ill, “That’s good, you’ll feel better. Now let’s go. The third guy is here.”
Combs’ ex-girlfriend told the jury she had several UTIs from her allegedly Combs’ choreographed “hotel nights.”
In November 2021, Jane was increasingly disappointed by Combs she said. She accused him of cheating on her with another woman that was posting Instagram photos at his residence.
Although she knew he was dating other women, she said she felt, “It’s not me that he wants. It’s these nights.”
In 2023 he took a woman to Turks and Caicos shortly after she had sex with three male sex workers for a “hotel night” with Combs on her birthday.
“It broke my heart because I just finished my birthday with these guys having sex with me,” Jane said of Combs taking a woman to the place he once took her.
She sent Combs a text that read, “It feels like you used me to get off and then go away for a week.”
Dr. Chloe Carmichael, a New York-based clinical psychologist who does not treat Combs, said the rapper’s “hotel nights’ and “freak offs” seem to have been his way of releasing pressure while also building his business, albeit in what appears to be a highly pathological manner.
“They seem to have functioned as an environment where he could act out a fantasy of total power and control, while also feeling, in a very odd way, productive; on a personal level he was indulging his darkest sexual fantasies, while also inviting powerful people to celebrate while reifying debauchery, and in many cases, normalizing the mistreatment and sexual objectification of women.”
According to Jane, she and Combs had their first date in January 2021 in Miami. She said she was “pretty head over heels.”
In May 2021, she said the relationship took a turn when Combs expressed his interest in her engaging with other men in sexual activities.
She said it “seemed like he wanted that, and it was turning him on.”
After she agreed, Jane said Combs’ personal assistants began setting up a hotel in Miami for a “Freak Off.”
She said after she participated at the hotel the first night, she felt excited, but that quickly changed as she said she did not want to have sex with other men, only Combs.
Jane said she told Combs at one point that she didn’t want to participate but that the producer responded by saying he would no longer pay her rent if she refused. By this time, Combs had been partially supporting her financially.
Jeffrey Lichtman, a criminal defense attorney who is representing Combs’ son, Justin, told NewsNation that Jane’s testimony illustrates “coercion” and “manipulation.”
“Look, manipulation and coercion fulfill one of the elements of sex trafficking,’ Lichtman said.
Rachel Fischer, a forensic nurse expert and sexual assault nurse examiner specializing in anti-trafficking efforts, talked to NewsNation on Friday about Combs’ alleged pattern of systematic abuse and control of his former romantic partners.
“Jane’s story is textbook coercive control: financial manipulation, sexual violence, forced dependency, and drug-fueled compliance. These aren’t just ‘relationship problems.’ These are trafficking dynamics. She threw up after forced sex by multiple men, and he told her to go back and do it again. That’s not just abuse. That’s human trafficking. This isn’t just an abusive relationship, it’s organized exploitation,” Fischer said.
“What we’re seeing is a calculated pattern of control, coercion, and benefit off another person’s body and vulnerability. That’s not just abuse, that’s trafficking. And when it’s orchestrated with others, repeated across victims, and driven by power and profit, it fits the very definition of RICO. He [Combs] didn’t just offer her a home, he weaponized it. Housing was the bait, and the threat of homelessness was the chain. That’s coercion, not consent,” Fischer continued.
“…This wasn’t a relationship, it was survival sex dressed up as love. When your shelter, safety, and identity are tied to pleasing someone, your body becomes currency. That’s trafficking.” Fischer continued, “When someone is pressured or forced to have unprotected sex for someone else’s pleasure, especially in exchange for lifestyle, it’s exploitation. Her health wasn’t a priority. Control was.”
Jane is the second accuser to testify anonymously in the trial. Her testimony followed that of “Mia,” Combs’ former assistant, who is identified as “Victim 4″ in the indictment.
Judge Arun Subramanian ordered that the court overflow rooms and courtroom TV monitors would not display Jane’s testimony to ensure her identity remains confidential.
Subramanian ordered that no one in the press was allowed to sketch or describe Jane in any fashion that would reveal her to the public, though jurors were informed of her true name.
Judge threatened to remove Diddy from court
Combs’s defense team hit a bump Thursday when the judge admonished and threatened to kick Combs out of the courtroom after he made several facial gestures towards jurors.
Subramanian said during a discussion with lawyers that he saw Combs looking at the jury and “nodding vigorously” during the cross-examination of Bryana Bongolan, a friend of Ventura.
He said Combs had been warned before about engaging with jury members.
The judge warned defense attorneys that Combs cannot engage, interact or try to interfere with the jury during witness testimony or at any point during the trial. Subramanian said future similar displays in front of the jury “could result in the exclusion of your client from the courtroom.”
Comb’s attorney Marc Agnifilo acknowledged that he understood.
Combs has been actively engaged with his attorneys throughout the trial, passing notes and whispering comments. He’s also been seen making a heart with his hands toward loved ones in the galley while entering court.