Diddy ex-girlfriend ‘Jane’ concludes weeklong testimony in sex trafficking trial

MANHATTAN (CN) — One of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ fly-in girlfriends concluded her witness testimony in the Bad Boy CEO’s criminal trial on Thursday afternoon, her sixth day on the stand recalling the highs and lows of abuse during her three-and-a-half-year relationship with Combs up until his 2024 arrest.

Testifying under the pseudonym “Jane” to protect her privacy, Combs’ ex-girlfriend — a social media influencer-turned-OnlyFans model — fielded three days of defense cross-examination that honed in on affectionate text message exchanges and sexually explicit dialogue between her and Combs during their time together.

On Thursday morning, Jane described a night out in Las Vegas with Combs in January 2024 that began with flying out to Nevada on “a very successful rapper’s private plane” for a birthday celebration and concluded at an Encore Hotel room with the group of seven or eight gathered together watching a familiar male escort have sex with another woman.

“We landed and went straight to a play then we went to dinner then went to a strip club, then we went to the hotel invitation,” she testified.

She identified the male escort in the Las Vegas hotel room as “Anton,” a New York City-based “entertainer” whom she said Combs had hired for previous baby oil-drenched “hotel night” sex marathons.

Jane said she enjoyed some “flirtatious banter” with the unnamed rapper, who told her he always had a crush on her, but testified nothing physical happened between the two.

“He said something like he thought I was beautiful and always wanted to ‘blank’ me,” she said on Thursday.

While the mystery rapper from the incident was not named during Jane’s cross-examination, Combs’ lawyer Teny Geragos described him as “an individual who is at the top of the music industry” and “an icon in the music industry” who shares some of Combs’ same sexual proclivities.

Jane said the rapper and his wife asked her and Combs if they knew “anybody in the lifestyle” and could recommend a male escort.

Earlier in her cross-examination, Combs’ defense lawyers also grilled Jane about her resentment against Combs over her jealousy towards his other contemporaneous other girlfriends.

Jane testified she “played the hotel night card” — threatening to withhold a “hotel night” voyeuristic sex marathon from Combs — in a fit of jealousy over his highly publicized relationship at the time with rapper Yung Miami, born Caresha Brownlee, from the Miami-based duo City Girls.

She said seeing the public image of Diddy’s relationship with Yung Miami on social media was humiliating for her because it appeared monogamous, while her own relationship with Combs was kept private and strictly offline.

“That was really tough to watch,” she testified. “That was not something I signed up for. I did not sign up to be with a man who was in a public relationship.”

She recalled watching a podcast where Yung Miami bragged about having sex with Combs for two days straight during a yacht trip to Turks and Caicos.

She said Combs denied that he’d had sex on the trip and that the banter was “podcast talk” and “purely entertainment.”

She said was “extremely heartbroken” to see Combs with Yung Miami on the Caribbean “dream vacation” that he had promised to take her on, but instead made her spend her recent birthday in a Miami hotel room for extended sexual performances with a succession of three hired male escorts.

“I felt mistreated that I was just there for a ‘hotel night’ and he was giving this other woman quality time that I was begging for,” Jane testified.

Jane’s recollection of the “hotel nights” with Combs — including his specific preferences for lingerie, “stripper heels,” red mood lighting, light creamy-colored fingernails and lots of baby oil —  echoed R&B singer Cassie Ventura’s testimony from the first week of the trial. Ventura described so-called “freak offs,” the drug-fueled marathons where Combs directed her to engage in protracted sex acts with male escorts for hours at a time while he watched.

Jane testified on direct questioning from prosecutors last week that Ventura’s descriptions of feeling coerced and emotionally abused into recurring participation in “freak offs” in her quickly settled November 2023 lawsuit echoed her own experience of sexual trauma “word for word.”

“I feel like I’m reading my own sexual trauma,” she texted Combs in an exchange read aloud in court. “The sick part is you knew this was coming and you gaslit me and made me feel crazy about the sex trauma I was developing knowing you’ve been here before,” Jane continued. “It’s all so clear that this was sexual exploitation that you framed as love for your sick fetishes.”

In spite of Cassie’s settled lawsuit and the subsequent airing of the InterContinental Hotel video footage of Combs beating Cassie, Jane said she felt much more love from him in the months between the lawsuit was made public and his September 2024 arrest in New York City.

Combs’ attorney Geragos asked Jane during cross-examination Thursday if she had previously found Combs “egotistical and cold,” but felt a warmer, loving connection after Cassie’s lawsuit. “You saw a positive change from him and that he could be much more apologetic?”

Combs “listened better,” “spent more time at the house” and “didn’t disappear for days,” his lawyer asked. Jane agreed with all of these sentiments, softly interjecting “yes” and “right” to each of Geragos’ statements.

Combs, 55, is standing trial on a five-count indictment charging him with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. If convicted on all charges, he faces a minimum sentence of 15 years in prison and a maximum sentence of life. He has pleaded not guilty.

The 12-person jury is composed of eight men and four women. There are six alternates: four women and two men.

The trial, now in its fifth week, is expected to run up to eight weeks into early July.

Prosecutors said they may conclude their case as early as next Wednesday.

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