Third alleged victim at Sean 'Diddy' Combs' trial describes sordid sexual performances
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NEW YORK — The last of three alleged victims of Sean “Diddy” Combs at his sex trafficking trial took the stand Thursday, recounting how the disgraced mogul coerced her into having sex with other men in front of him as he masturbated during encounters that have been dubbed “freak offs.”
From the end of 2021 until Combs’ September 2024 arrest, the victim, testifying under the pseudonym “Jane,” said she told him verbally and in writing “many times” that she didn’t want to have sex with other men.
Sometimes, he reacted by threatening to stop paying her rent. She said that left her feeling desperate and “obligated” to participate in the degrading sessions.
“Whenever this topic would come up, it would start out really uncomfortable, and I could just feel that the tension was building, and I would just kind of push down what I was trying to say,” Jane said, describing Combs “rushing” her away from the topic and calling her crazy.
“He just was dismissive or wanted me to move on from the subject.”
Jane recounted how she initially became involved with Combs, saying their courtship began romantically, and she fell deeply in love. She said he insisted on an open relationship while she remained monogamous and that they had two short breaks. The two were involved until late last year.
Jane, a single mom of one, said she grew up in California and worked in the service industry and modeling after attending a semester of junior college. She testified that Combs pursued her after they developed a relationship in late 2020 when she met him in Miami while on a girls’ trip, describing him as initially charming and “larger than life.”
Asked by Assistant District Attorney Maurene Comey about Combs’ sexual preferences in the early phases of their relationship in early 2021, Jane said in the first three months, he liked to have porn playing and to dictate how she dressed. She said they would have sex for up to 24 hours at a time and that she enjoyed their time together.
When Comey turned to May of 2021, Jane began crying.
“We would just search specific names on these websites and just in the middle of being high, like, he just really wanted me to fantasize or kind of really talk about other men, and this type of role playing with other men,” she said. “It was more like a question, like, ‘Do you like what you see there?'”
Jane recalled one night that month in Miami when they’d been high on drugs and awake for around 24 hours, where Combs suggested bringing the fantasies to life. Jane said she agreed, not realizing he was being sincere. Reality hit when she went to the bathroom, and Combs got on the phone.
“When I came back out, Sean was in a robe, and staring at his phone really seriously,” she said, adding that they then went to another hotel, where his assistants had set up a suite with dim lighting and various supplies. “[Combs] just told me, ‘There’s somebody coming, and just relax.’ … He knows the guy, he’s a really nice guy. I was just super nervous.”
Don, the man Combs had summoned to the suite, Jane said, stripped down and started touching her at Combs’ behest while Combs watched and masturbated. The encounter intensified when Combs directed Jane to perform oral sex on Don “for quite a while,” she said somberly before Combs wanted to see the pair have intercourse.
“How did Sean react when you asked that Don wear a condom?” Comey asked.
“He said he didn’t want that. He said these guys are safe, they get tested all the time and they’re some of the cleanest people and he can show you his papers,” Jane said, later testifying that Combs ultimately relented and provided Don with a condom.
Jane said she hoped the incident was a one-off but it wasn’t. She estimated that “90%” of the time she saw Combs after that, he was directing her to have sex with other men, encounters she never wanted to participate in.
“After that night, I truly felt that that night opened a Pandora’s Box in our relationship,” she said. “There was just a door that I was unable to shut for the remainder of the relationship.”
Jane is the last of three alleged victims in the case to take the stand. Jurors heard four days of testimony from Combs’ ex, Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, at the start of the trial. She said she was regularly beaten to a pulp by Combs during their 11-year relationship and had been coerced into hundreds of days-long, sordid sexual performances with men hired off the internet that Combs directed and recorded for blackmail purposes.
Last week, a former assistant and staffer for Combs’ media company testified under the pseudonym “Mia.” She accused the Bad Boy Records co-founder of raping and sexually assaulting her during her employment from 2009 through 2017 and subjecting her to brutal working conditions.
Earlier Thursday, Combs’ lawyers got a scolding in court after the judge caught the rap mogul nodding his head at jurors during testimony from Bryana Bongolan, who, over two days, alleged that he had held her over a 17th-floor balcony and threw her into balcony furniture during a fit of rage in 2016.
Addressing Combs’ legal team, Judge Arun Subramanian said that if he didn’t cut it out, “I will consider taking further measures, which could result in the exclusion of your client from the courtroom. Do you understand that?”
“I understand,” defense attorney Marc Agnifilo said.
“I want you to have a conversation with your client to make sure he understands — everyone should understand that I really meant it — that there should be no effort whatsoever to have any interaction with this jury,” Subramanian said.
The 55-year-old Combs has pleaded not guilty to five counts, including sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy, and transporting individuals for prostitution, and could spend the rest of his life in prison if found guilty.
Prosecutors have charged Combs with running a criminal enterprise that involved him and his inner circle habitually committing crimes like obstruction of justice, sex trafficking, kidnapping, and arson from 2004 to 2024.
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