The wall surfaces were surrounding Sean “Diddy” Combs, his previous sweetheart affirmed Monday, and the rap magnate transformed style tastemaker was presumably snapping.
” I remember we were resting and among the boys knocked on the door and stated that something took place, and after that I was simply by myself,” the previous sweetheart informed a hushed Manhattan court. “I went downstairs and can see everybody talking among each various other.”
Combs was gathering with his group and his family members. They required a reaction– quickly. A resort safety and security video clip gotten by CNN was being played consistently on nationwide tv, and it revealed Combs kicking and defeating an additional of his previous enchanting companions, the vocalist Cassie Ventura.
” They were attempting ahead up with some sort of honest apology message or something concerning the video clip,” she stated.
Sean “Diddy” Combs consults his legal representatives after meeting united state Area Court Arun Subramanian in his chambers, throughout Combs’ sex trafficking test in New york city City, June 9, 2025 in this court illustration.
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Indicating under the pseudonym “Jane,” the lady supplied jurors a home window right into the last 2 years of Combs’s life, as lawful difficulties and negative attention intimidated to decipher his songs realm and very secured track record.
Till that factor, she stated that Combs had actually not considered the sort of physical violence Ventura stated she experienced at Combs’ hands. Yet she informed the court she underwent the exact same coerced and derogatory sex as needed with male woman of the streets to please Combs’ advises– equally as Ventura has actually affirmed in her very own account.
” I simply could not rest. I was simply checking out these web pages and undergoing a problem,” Jane affirmed, describing her very first response after checking out Ventura’s 2023 suit in which Ventura told a tale that Jane stated was shateringly comparable to the life she had actually been compelled to lead. “I can not think I read my very own tale.”
Ventura’s suit, resolved just hours after it was declared $20 million, was the very first domino to drop, as Combs encountered a wave of public objection, a government examination, and criminal charge. He is implicated of sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy theory and transport to take part in hooking. He can invest the remainder of his life behind bars if founded guilty on all matters. He refutes all fees.
The psychological and visuals testament from Jane comes as jurors are going into the 5th week of testament in Combs’ sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy theory test. His legal representatives have actually informed jurors that Combs is a mistaken and terrible male that has actually abused medicines and his enchanting companions, yet they urge he did not devote the criminal offenses he is being pursued.
” Jane” affirmed that Ventura’s suit resembled “reviewing my very own sex-related injury.”
Jane affirmed that she reached her snapping point with Combs by October 2023, after 3 years of what she thought was unrequited love. She informed jurors just how virtually each of their days or enchanting escapes would certainly end up being a possibility for Combs to press her to make love with male companions throughout marathon sex celebrations she called “resort evenings” that can last days and were typically sustained by medicines and liquor.
” I’m not a pornography celebrity. I’m not a pet. I require a break. I do not wish to do anything. I have actually struck a wall surface,” Ventura texted Combs after he asked her to organize a marathon night of sex with a male woman of the street while Combs viewed and masturbated. “It’s been 3 years of me having f– complete strangers. I’m weary.”
Her testament expanded extra psychological as she reviewed out loud messages she sent out Combs in 2023 in which she attempted to recover a connection with the rap artist without needing to take part in the claimed long term orgies.
” My spirit and my heart is tired. I require a break,” she composed in one message. “I can not be made use of such as this any longer. I wished to make you satisfied yet it’s producing a battle inside me.”
As their connection weakened, Jane informed jurors that knowing of Ventura’s suit in November 2023 motivated her to consider her very own connection with Combs in a brand-new light. She affirmed she virtually passed out when she identified her very own connection with Combs in the web pages of Ventura’s retelling.
Sean “Diddy” Combs consults his legal representatives after meeting united state Area Court Arun Subramanian in his chambers, throughout Combs’ sex trafficking test in New york city City, June 9, 2025 in this court illustration.
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” I can not think I read my very own tale,” Jane informed jurors regarding finding out about Ventura’s claims.
In among her messages to Combs, Jane composed, “I seem like I read my very own sex-related injury.”
Jurors listen to recording of Combs presumably pressing her right into silence regarding sex-related experiences
3 days after the suit was submitted, Combs and Jane talked on the phone regarding the claims. The court listened to a recording of the call extracted from the phone of Combs’ leading aide after it was taken at the flight terminal in Miami. Jane affirmed she did not recognize she was being taped.
” This is when I require you to be there for me,” Combs is listened to stating, as the recording resembled with the hushed court. “You recognize we did all that s– with each other.”
” You recognize, I have actually been really feeling so adjusted. What am I to do keeping that sensation? That is there for me?” Jane is listened to stating back.
District attorneys after that bet the court a 2nd recording of a telephone call Combs made to Jane 22 mins later on.
” I require your relationship now,” Combs is listened to stating. “I can not also speak on the phone. Please do not send out no messages.”
Sean “Diddy” Combs pays attention as Maurene Comey concerns “Jane” throughout Combs’ sex trafficking test in New york city City, June 9, 2025 in this court illustration.
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” I simply required to inform you that I require your relationship,” Combs is listened to stating. “You recognize you ain’t reached bother with absolutely nothing else, you feel me?”
Jane affirmed she thought Combs was using to proceed paying her $10,000 month-to-month rental fee. District attorneys have actually said the recording is evidence that Combs attempted to damage Jane’s testament by trying to push her right into stating their sex-related communications were consensual.
” Jane” stated Combs intimidated to launch her sex tapes
As her connection with Combs weakened in the days after Ventura’s suit was submitted, Jane affirmed that Combs intensified his hazards. For the very first time, she informed jurors that Combs intimidated to launch video clips he taped of her making love with male woman of the streets.
She informed the court that Combs’ very first intimidated to launch the tapes after he supplied her cash to finish their connection silently.
” I remember he stated, ‘Bill me, bill me, bill me for your bitterness. I do not desire any kind of loosened ends,'” she affirmed Combs stated over a video clip phone call.
Yet after Jane asked for numerous hundreds of bucks to finish the connection– stating she was entitled to settlement for the 3 years she shed throughout their connection– she affirmed that Combs emerged.
” F— you. I am obstructing you,” Combs texted Jane. “Leave me alone. Scam artist.”
” You maintain explaining on your own. You tricked me right into … having complete strangers run trains on me,” she composed back.
As their battle intensified– and Jane texted Combs that she would certainly eliminate herself– Jane affirmed that Combs started to endanger to launch the recordings of her making love with various other guys.
” At the elevation of this temper, he stated I am simply mosting likely to reveal your kid’s daddy these tapes. I have absolutely nothing to shed,” Jane affirmed.
She informed the court that she attempted to get in touch with Combs’ principal of personnel, Kristina Khorram, to soothe the circumstance and quit Combs from launching any one of the tapes.
” Why did you connect to [Khorram] after Sean intimidated to launch your tapes?” district attorney Maureen Comey asked.
” Due To The Fact That [Khorram] resembles his appropriate mind – she is just one of individuals he pays attention to,” Jane affirmed.
In spite of the hazards to launch her sex tapes and her problems regarding the claims in Ventura’s civil suit, Jane informed jurors that she fixed up with Combs by February 2024. She affirmed that she returned to joining resort evenings– currently organized secretive houses as opposed to resort spaces– and hanging around with Combs, also as unfavorable attention originating from Ventura’s suit was expanding.
On the day in 2024 that government representatives invaded Combs’ houses, she stated a representative from Homeland Safety Investigations left a card at her home. Jane affirmed she got in touch with Combs, that obtained her an attorney, which the rap magnate remains to spend for her lawful expenditures, also as her testament is being made use of by district attorneys attempting to secure Combs up for life.
” Jane” affirmed Combs assaulted her, compelled her to take part in sex with male companion
After the resort video clip was relayed, Jane affirmed she viewed Sean Combs promise in an Instagram message to end up being a “far better male,” and following saw Combs face to face on June 18, 2024.
” It was a really dreadful day,” Jane affirmed.
She informed the court she had actually been “suppressing a great deal of bitterness and temper in the direction of him” and challenged him regarding a more youthful lady that had actually accompanied him on a current journey.
” I stated, ‘You’re a pedophile,'” Jane affirmed. The lady he had actually been with mored than 18, yet “I seemed like he was 25 or 27 years her elderly,” Jane discussed.
Jane informed jurors that she launched the battle, pressing Combs’ head right into a counter and tossing candle lights at him. She stated she pulled away to her room, screaming “simply leave, simply leave,” when he kicked unlock. She entered into the restroom, where, she stated, Combs after that kicked the restroom door “essentially off the joints.”
Jane affirmed that Combs “kicked me on the back of my upper leg,” creating her to drop. “He placed me in a chokehold on the ground, and I could not take a breath,” she stated.
Jane affirmed she took care of to leave, conceal for regarding 2 hours and return, believing he would certainly be gone. Yet, she affirmed, Combs once more discovered her and chased her to the yard of the house, where she balled herself approximately secure her face from Combs’ assault.
Jane affirmed that Combs punched and kicked her while she got on the ground, got her by the hair and arm and dragged her towards your home. Inside your home, Jane stated she discovered Combs’ phone and attempted to call the lady she thought Combs had actually taken a trip with.
” I took his phone, and I wound up calling the woman I thought he was with,” Jane affirmed. “Sean was holding me down and making me pay attention to her disrespects.”
Sean “Diddy” Combs pays attention as Maurene Comey concerns “Jane” throughout Combs’ sex trafficking test in New york city City, June 9, 2025 in this court illustration.
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In the restroom later on, Jane affirmed she discovered 2 welts on her temple and a shiner developing. She mosted likely to shower, where she affirmed that Combs put her face 3 times, creating her to stumble.
” Sean stated simply place some ice on it and place an attire on,” Jane affirmed, stating that she covered her swellings with make-up prior to a male companion, Anton, showed up.
In the restroom planning for the night, Jane stated she bore in mind Combs informing her, “Take this f—- tablet. You’re not going to destroy my f—- evening. Go out there and draw his d–. F– him. I do not care.”
” I do not wish to, I do not wish to, I do not wish to,” Jane stated she reacted. She informed the court that Combs solved in her face and asked, “Is this threat?” prior to requiring her to take euphoria and execute foreplay on Anton.
” For the length of time?” Comey asked.
” It simply seemed like for life,” Jane responded to.
She stated she got regarding $12,000 in money from Combs’ bodyguard the following day to cover the damages to her home and the price of the male companion. The court saw numerous pictures of the doors harmed by what she affirmed was “Sean’s kick,” which Jane stated she sent out to a repair work firm.
Jane affirmed she saw Combs a couple of days later on at his home. The court saw a video clip she took that caught her claimed injuries with the structure and concealer she informed the court she had actually placed on. The court saw a 2nd selfie video clip that likewise quickly caught the injuries she affirmed Combs caused.
” Jane” informs court regarding her last communications with Combs prior to his apprehension
At the end of July 2024, Jane affirmed she checked out Combs in Miami where she stated he offered her the medicine “fluid molly” and she had “high octane” sex with a male companion called Paul.
She stated the last journey to see Combs in Miami happened in August 2024, when she affirmed she made love with a male companion called Don.
She informed the court that she initially intended to check out Combs in New york city in September 2024, as Combs was remaining at a resort, on the edge of being jailed by government authorities.
Their strategies were shortened by representatives that took him right into wardship.
” I think he obtained jailed,” she informed the court.
Maurene Comey concerns “Jane” throughout Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking test in New york city City, June 9, 2025 in this court illustration.
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She stated she hasn’t seen Combs because August 2024 yet has actually consulted with his defense lawyer as lately as April of this year. She affirmed that his legal representatives were the very first individuals she outlined the terrible case in June 2024.
Jane stated she has actually remained in treatment for regarding 3 months and employed her very own legal representative, though Combs still pays her lawful costs and rent out.
In conclusion the straight examining, a district attorney asked Jane the sharp concern: “Resting right here today, just how do you really feel regarding Sean currently?”
” I simply hope,” Jane affirmed, “for his ongoing recovery and I wish tranquility for him.”
