Jane Doe’s second day testifying in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking and racketeering case saw the anonymous alleged victim describing her claims about wanting to spend meaningful time with the man she loved during their three-plus year relationship — but that he repeatedly coerced her into continuous drug-fueled, sometimes multi-day sexual encounters with male escorts, while he observed.
These encounters, which another former partner of Combs’, Cassie Ventura, termed “freak-offs” during her earlier testimony in the case, were called “hotel nights” by Jane since, until the final months of her relationship with Combs, they nearly always happened in hotels.
Jane testified that the hotel nights typically included multiple “rounds” of foreplay, oral sex, and intercourse with an escort, plus several escorts during the evening. These experiences could, she alleged, span anywhere from 12 hours to more than three days, and she wouldn’t be allowed to sleep. They occurred, she stated, “sometimes every week, every other week” from May 2021 until their months-long (though not permanent) split in October, 2023. Jane claimed the hotel nights resulted in constant, and sometimes consecutive, UTIs.
During their relationship, Jane said, Diddy would offer promises of getaways or private one-on-one time, only to inevitably shift direction and demand hotel nights once they were actually together.
She remembered one instance that she believed would be a romantic evening with just the two of them. But then, she testified, Combs said he wanted to bring in an “entertainer,” but just for “a little bit.”
“And I clung to those words of ‘just a little bit,’ thinking that it might be something brief,” she explained. “And what was supposed to be something brief turned into 18 hours of that. I recall it being like three sessions with this guy, and at the very end, I remember Sean saying he had to go. And I was so intoxicated and feeling so lonely and sad…and I just broke down crying.”
Jane shared a comparable story about her birthday in 2023. She said she was guaranteed private time, but then during their meal at Nobu, Combs brought up getting an escort.
“I just went along with it,” she said. “I recall at this stage in our relationship this had become so normal that I was in my usual pattern, almost mechanically.”
Jane described one specific hotel night where she demanded the escort use a condom, and she said that Combs became furious. The courtroom heard audio from that incident.
“What you want?” asks Combs on the recording.
“Condoms,” Jane replies.
“Ain’t no condoms around here,” Combs says.
“Who agreed to that?” Jane asks.
“You were just taking that dick,” Combs says, a reference to the fact that Jane had already had unprotected sex with the escort earlier in the night.
“You promised me,” Jane says.
“I don’t like to do it with all that shit,” Combs responds. “If you don’t touch yourself right now…stop playing.”
After listening to that recording, Jane was questioned by prosecutor Maureen Comey, “Why did you feel like you needed permission from Sean to have the man who was having sex with your body wear a condom?”
“I don’t know. I’m still trying to understand even that,” she answered, while breaking down in tears.
The court heard Jane read Notes App messages she had written to herself at different times, reflecting on her feelings about Combs and their relationship — mainly about how she felt he had consistently deceived her.
In one February 2023 note, addressed (but not sent) to Combs, she called him a “pathological liar.”
Near the end of the day, Diddy’s defense team challenged the use of this note as evidence. Comey justified it, explaining that “in order to prove sex trafficking by fraud, we have to prove that the lie was material… [T]his note shows in her mind she felt she had been lied to, and it was material enough that she wrote it down repeatedly.”
Sex trafficking is one of the charges Diddy faces in this case.
Jane’s testimony resumes on Monday, and her cross-examination is expected to consume much of next week.
