The hip-hop mogul has been charged with intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy, and transportation to interact in prostitution. He is maintained his innocence. If convicted on all costs, which additionally embody arson and bribery, Combs may face a compulsory 15-year jail sentence, with the potential for life behind bars.

Throughout the primary 4 weeks of testimony, jurors have heard from a number of former girlfriends of Combs, together with the prosecution’s de facto star witness, Cassie Ventura, in addition to a girl who testified underneath the title “Mia,” and “Jane,” again on the stand this week.

Additionally taking the stand had been Ventura’s mom and Scott “Child Cudi” Mescudi, who was romantically concerned with Ventura whereas she was nonetheless with Combs. A number of workers members who’ve labored for Combs’ numerous enterprise enterprises through the years have testified, as have resort workers the place his “freak offs” occurred, and investigators concerned within the raid on his Miami dwelling.

The prosecution additionally known as on numerous gamers concerned in and across the viral video of Combs violently assaulting Ventura in a resort hallway, together with a safety guard who alleged he was paid $100,000 by Combs instantly to present him the one copies of that altercation.

Because the prosecution argues coercion, the protection is countering with consent. However either side agreed that to be able to unravel the case, there could be quite a lot of witnesses and quite a lot of surprising particulars about Combs’ sexual proclivities.

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When Jane noticed the small print of Ventura’s civil go well with towards Combs, through which she alleged years of rape and bodily abuse, she testified, “I virtually fainted. In actual fact, I feel I did.” The lawsuit was settled by the subsequent day.

Jane acquired emotional on the stand recalling how she felt when she first noticed it in November 2023, describing “three particular pages” from the lawsuit as “a harrowing resemblance to what I used to be experiencing.”

“I used to be simply bewildered,” she wrote of seeing in such element another person experiencing what she says she was going by way of, “simply in shock.”

Jane stated that studying by way of the lawsuit felt like studying a play-by-play recap of her personal experiences, saying on the stand, “It was a nightmare. I simply reacted like, ‘I can’t imagine I’m studying my very own story.’”

She described Ventura’s narrative as “precisely my expertise and my anguish.”

She additionally stated as a lot to Combs on the time, as they two had been nonetheless concerned with each other. “I really feel like I am studying my very own sexual trauma,” she texted him a number of days later, as learn out in courtroom.

She stated that the grievance learn “word-for-word” her personal abuses, texting Combs, “Even two of my very own birthdays you pressured males on me.”

“The sick half is you knew this was coming and also you gaslit me and made me really feel loopy in regards to the intercourse trauma I used to be creating realizing you’ve been right here earlier than,” Jane texted Combs.

“It’s all so clear that this was sexual exploitation that you simply framed as love in your sick fetishes,” she continued. In response to Jane, he did not reply in any respect for 2 days after which wrote, “Name me on this telephone necessary.”

What Jane didn’t know was that Combs’ chief of workers on the time, Kristina Khorram, wouldn’t solely be listening in on that decision, however that it was being recorded. Audio recovered from Khorram’s telephone was performed for the jury.

On the recorded name, Combs instructed her ” I actually cant speak on this telephone,” however he instructed her he would do what he may to make her really feel higher.

He appeared to chop her off when she began a press release that only a week in the past “I used to be telling you–” saying he cannot be speaking on the telephone and asking Jane if she was recording the decision.

As for his or her “resort nights,” he stated they had been “just a few kinky s–t that I believed that we each — what I’m saying — loved.”

He additionally instructed her, “I want you to be there for me.”

Jane’s response on the decision was to ask him, “Who’s there for me once I shut my eyes and I’ve these f–ked up issues in my head.” On the stand, she stated she was referring to “freak off/resort night time” flashbacks.

On one other recorded name, Combs instructed her, “I want your friendship proper now.” He additionally stated, “You recognize you ain’t gotta fear about nothing else,” which she took to imply the lease for her home, and requested her to wish for him, saying he would pray for her.

As beforehand testified, Jane stated on the stand she felt obligated to “carry out” as Combs was paying the lease on her dwelling, saying she felt “like the house was getting used as leverage.”

At one level of their relationship, she even texted him — as learn out in courtroom — that she felt Combs was “threatening the roof over my head.” As such, she felt she could not go away the connection, despite the fact that she didn’t need to have persevering with intercourse with strangers.

And so Jane testified that she fell right into a “sample” with the mogul, “a sample that I believed he wished to see.” She stated that when she considered footage Combs stored of her with different males, that is what she noticed.

“I noticed me being excessive,” she stated of her personal look within the movies. “It was like a present time and again.”

Whereas Combs prompt that the “resort nights” had been finished consensually, when requested on the stand if she did consent, Jane stated she was “nonetheless making an attempt to determine that out.”

Paired with making an attempt to make him completely happy, Jane expressed her personal frustrations about the way it made her fell on to Diddy on a number of events, together with one the place she instructed him, “This was by no means love I remorse all the things and all this darkish poisonous s–t that entered my life.”

At one other level, she lashed out, “You positioned and paid all of those dangerous males on me and risked my well being.”

After being promised a “correct New York journey,” which she took to imply no “resort nights,” Jane testified that Combs set one up himself. Upon her arrival, she stated they “bickered a bit” as she was not comfy with “the way it’s simply being sprung on me,” with Combs purportedly being “defensive.”

With the “resort night time” now looming, Jane stated she took an ecstasy capsule to await “this new shock [that] was coming.” She stated that night time “did not go effectively,” and so she then felt obligated to make it as much as Combs by reserving one other “entertainer” they’d used beforehand and have him fly to New York.

After that journey, Jane learn one other of her texts to Combs, expressing her frustrations. “It’s been three years of me having to f–k strangers, I’m drained,” she learn. “I simply wished to make you content but it surely’s making a warfare within me.”

Only a few days later, in Miami, she stated she subsequent noticed Combs at a Miami resort and he wished to observe footage from the “entertainer’s” go to to New York. After which he “wished an element two,” in order that they booked the person to hitch them in Miami.

The next month, in line with Jane’s testimony, Combs once more texted her to ask she prepare a meetup with “entertainers,” however she was “livid” when she noticed certainly one of his ex-girlfriends posting pics with him on social media.

Jane stated that she pushed again, “You bought that woman subsequent to you so determine it out.” She stated Combs instructed her she was “the one factor that is going to place me at peace,” however she wasn’t shopping for it, telling him, “Introduce her to [an ‘entertainer’ nicknamed] P its not me its the leisure that places you at peace.”

She later instructed him that their “resort nights” had been “desensitizing intercourse” for her. “I don’t really feel like performing loveless chilly intercourse,” she wrote him. “I’m not a porn star. I’m not an animal. I want a break I don’t need to do something I’ve hit a wall.” She stated in courtroom that the “break” meant she wasn’t wanting to present her physique to anybody else.

On the stand, Jane stated that her frustration got here as a result of she felt she was being handled in a different way by Combs than others. She felt like she needed to “earn simply basic items from my relationship like love and respect and romance,” however that he gave these issues freely to others.

As an alternative, Jane claimed that Combs would persistently “lovebomb” her when he wished “a type of nights.” Nonetheless studying from textual content exchanges on the stand, she recalled inform him to spend time along with his household or Gina, a girl he was purportedly additionally concerned with on the time.

Combs texted pack, per Jane’s testimony, “No I need to see you, we dont should have intercourse I need to spend the day with you please.”

She learn out her reply: “You beat the love out of us. You made it crystal clear precisely what you need me for. You’re going to spend the day what lovebombing me so you will get what you need? It’s not real. I’ve hit a psychological and non secular wall.”

She stated she stopped taking his calls as this struggle carried into the subsequent day, resulting in a number of voicemails, together with one the place Combs purportedly stated, “Can I please come over there that is my home too,” referring to her home that he was paying the lease for.” Jane stated she felt she needed to “carry out” for lease.

She stated she lastly responded to him when he messaged about seeing a health care provider about his knees and stated he was harassed, although she ignored the half the place he purportedly added, “and on prime of that I am attractive.”

That, she stated on the stand, led to the “sobriety social gathering” she’d testified about final week the place she participated in a “resort night time” absolutely sober, and “deeply regretted” it, saying she felt “disgusted, simply repulsed.” Combs had purportedly requested it as a result of she requested him to get sober, and he agreed to cease for 30 days — after this last “sobriety social gathering.”

Jane stated that after having intercourse with two males that night time, she vomited. After she’d thrown up, she stated Combs instructed her, “Okay, that is good You may really feel higher now,” after which urged her again to the “social gathering,” the place she had intercourse with a 3rd man. She stated that night time was “completely horrible.”

Afterward, Jane stated she requested Combs to place cash into her checking account, and messaged him that she felt utilized by him, with the so-called “sobriety social gathering” turning into simply one other “resort night time.” In an audio message response after many texts from her, Combs allegedly instructed her he was single and did not should take heed to her.

Lastly, the pair acquired on a telephone name, Jane stated, after which she stated he promised to pay three extra months of lease after she stated the entire expertise had been “traumatic” for her. She additionally stated she instructed him she’s “not Gina or Cassie,” referring to the 2 former exes who’d left their relationships with him “quietly.”

“Jane,” a former girlfriend of Combs who’s testifying underneath a pseudonym, returned to the stand on Monday morning the place she learn a textual content thread between her and the mogul the place he requested her to ship him “some s–t of you being dangerous woman.”

She learn that she prompt they might watch one thing after they had been collectively. She additionally shared her issues he had footage of certainly one of their “resort nights,” as she known as “freak offs,” on a telephone and that he wished video of her to make use of with one other girl.

On the stand, she testified that she was upset throughout this change as a result of she’d simply heard him on a podcast boasting about how he’d had six with one other girl for 48 hours.

That purportedly occurred on a yacht tour he’d promised to her, after which downplayed it together with her, claiming he and the opposite girl had not had intercourse.

Within the thread, Combs allegedly texted, “Simply do what I say please I am attractive,” and “Cease it do not say no to me please.”

“I don’t need to be used and locked in a room to carry out and fulfill your fantasies,” Jane learn from the textual content dialog the place she instructed him she felt “disrespected.” “Coming to the belief of what this actually is.” She instructed him she was bored with getting used for his “resort binge.”

Diddy’s response, per Jane’s studying: “I’m bored with your false accusations.” She stated that they then acquired on a FaceTime name and he was capable of calm her by saying all of the issues she wished to listen to. He promised a “correct New York journey” with dinners, buying, and no point out of “resort nights.”

As soon as she acquired on a airplane for New York on September 17, 2023, although, Jane stated he texted her about arranging a “resort night time.” She stated she tried to brush him off, however he replied that he had a “shock if that is okay only one.”

“I simply keep in mind simply taking a deep breath and simply feeling upset and just a little disenchanted, just a little defeated,” Jane testified.