Sean Combs trial updates: 'Jane' testifies on 'hotel nights' with Combs

The hip-hop mogul is charged with sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy.

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Last updated: Friday, June 6, 2025 11:36PM GMT
DIDDY ON TRIAL: 4th week of testimony  ends with disturbing testimony from Comb's ex-girlfriend

NEW YORK -- Prosecutors allege that Combs, a three-time Grammy winner, used his fame and fortune to create a deviant empire of exploitation, coercing women into abusive sex parties while silencing victims through blackmail and violence, including kidnapping, arson and beatings.

Combs' lawyers argue that all the sexual acts were consensual, and although he could be violent, he never veered into sex trafficking and racketeering.

This story may contain accounts and descriptions of actual or alleged events that some readers may find disturbing.

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(ABC News and The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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Jun 06, 2025, 5:21 PM GMT

'Jane,' an ex-girlfriend of Sean Combs, to begin 2nd day of testimony

After Cassie Ventura, "Jane," who is testifying under a pseudonym, is the second ex-girlfriend of Sean Combs to testify how the couple's romance morphed into a degrading pattern of unwanted sex with male prostitutes in which she felt "obligated" to participate.

In her first day of testimony, "Jane" told the court about a relationship fueled by drugs and Combs' penchant for pornography, baby oil, "provocative lingerie and really high stripper shoes."

At first, "Jane" testified she was willing to try what she and Combs referred to as "debauchery" or "hotel nights" because "I wanted to make him happy and I feared losing him."

The first experience "just opened like a Pandora's box in our relationship. It just completely set the tone for our relationship moving forward," "Jane" testified.

For the next three years, Combs required hotel nights 90% of the time they spent together, "Jane" told the court yesterday.

"Many times," she testified she told Combs she did not want to have sex with other men, but she ended up doing it anyway.

She told the jury she felt obligated to perform because he was paying her $10,000 monthly rent and threatened to withhold it.

The defense has said all of the sex described at trial was consensual.

"Jane" is expected to be on the witness stand all day Friday and perhaps through Thursday of next week.

Combs is seated at the defense table in a dark crew neck sweater, after being warned yesterday to refrain from "nodding vigorously" or otherwise reacting to testimony in a way that could influence the jury.

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Jun 06, 2025, 5:21 PM GMT

Jane' testifies 'hotel nights' involved 'baby oil everywhere'

So-called "hotel nights" with Combs followed a pattern, according to testimony from the witness appearing under the pseudonym "Jane."

The rooms "had red lights, music, beverages, alcohol," "Jane" told the court. "There would be bedsheets covering everything, blankets, towels."

Asked why, "Jane" explained there would be "baby oil everywhere" and that they could go through two dozen bottles per night.

"In time I just realized how he liked things. He would tell me what he liked, what he wanted to see. He would from the very beginning tell me what he wanted to see. And during them he would suggest what I would do next," "Jane" testified.

According to her testimony, she dressed the same way each time. "I wore provocative lingerie and really high stripper shoes," "Jane" testified. "I would buy them myself and then show Sean what I had. He would choose which outfit he liked."

The escorts "would be undressed in shorts and I would come out in a robe," "Jane" told the court. "Music would be playing and I would start to already be high or have drugs in my system and I would start dancing and slow dancing just to kind of get my nerves out, de-robe and things would escalate to foreplay between me and the man. A few steps before that the oil would start happening."

Prosecutor Maurene Comey asked, "Why were you using baby oil?"

Jane testified, "Because that's what Sean really liked."

"What would Sean typically be doing?" Comey asked.

"Masturbating," "Jane" testified. "It would be just a really long, prolonged foreplay moment between me and this guy and I would just sit there and he wanted me to touch myself while I was touching the other man."

"Those moments would last a very long time. Just really long. He really enjoyed watching me pour oil over myself, over the man. Just watch these really erotic moments," "Jane" testified.

Oral sex would follow, according to "Jane."

"How would you know it would be time for oral sex?" Comey asked.

"It varied between Sean telling me or me just starting it," "Jane" testified. "I knew that it would arouse the man more and kind of speed things up."

"Why would you want to speed things up?" Comey asked.

"Because I just wanted to speed things up," "Jane" told the court.

The oral sex would last a long time, "like, many hours," "Jane" testified, "because that's what Sean preferred to see."

According to "Jane's" testimony, the activity would then move from that living area of the suite to the bedroom. "I just really wanted to be done so I could just be with my partner," "Jane" testified.

She told the court Combs would watch her and the escort while masturbating. Once the escort was dismissed, "Jane" testified, "That's when me and Sean would make love."

"Jane" testified that the pattern would repeat itself over the next 24 to 30 hours.

Court is adjourned for the day. "Jane" is scheduled to return to the witness stand on Friday. Prosecutors do not expect to conclude her direct examination until Monday.

Eyewitness News team, and ABC News legal analyst Channa Lloyd dig deeper into witness testimony from "Jane" in the Sean Combs' sex trafficking trial.
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Jun 06, 2025, 5:21 PM GMT

'Jane' tells the court about alleged 'hotel nights': 'Was like a door I was unable to shut'

"Jane," who is testifying under a pseudonym, told the court that she and Combs referred to their sexual encounters involving other men as "debauchery" or "hotel nights."

After the first one, "Jane" testified, "I truly felt like that night opened a Pandora's box in our relationship. It was like a door I was unable to shut for the remainder of the relationship."

"Why was it a door you wanted to shut?" prosecutor Maurene Comey asked.

"There was so much of it after," "Jane" testified in response.

After a few hotel nights, "Jane" testified, she told Combs she didn't want to have sex with other men.

"Can you estimate how many times you told Sean in writing and verbally you did not want to have sex with other men?" Comey asked.

"Many times," "Jane" testified, adding that Combs threatened to withhold her rent payments.

"I felt frustrated. I felt obligated," "Jane" testified.

The jury was shown a copy of "Jane's" lease. She was listed as the tenant in the $10,000-per-month home, an amount she said she could not afford on her own.

"He asked me how much allowance I want a month and I said 15 and he said 10," "Jane" told the court.

"You mean thousand?" Comey asked.

"Yes," "Jane" testified, telling the court Combs agreed to pay the rent on the home.

"Jane" testified that Combs also sent her money, $5,000 to $10,000 in cash or larger amounts via wire transfer. The largest amount she remembered receiving was $20,000, she testified.

"He liked me having straight hair or when it was time for us to be together intimately, he liked my hair in a ponytail," "Jane told the court. "He liked me to have light colored nails, mostly a creamy white."

"He wanted me to get piercings," "Jane" further testified, clarifying to the court that she was referring to "my nipples."

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Jun 06, 2025, 5:21 PM GMT

'Jane' testifies about Combs allegedly asking for sexual threesome with her

The witness testifying under the pseudonym "Jane" began crying when a prosecutor asked her about an alleged incident from May 2021, bowing her head and dabbing her eyes.

"Jane" told the court that Sean Combs initiated "fantasy talk" while they were high on drugs.

"He would just search specific things on these websites and in the middle of being high he really wanted me to fantasize or really talk about other men and this type of roleplay about other men," "Jane" testified. "He started saying I could make this fantasy a reality if you'd like to have that happen."

"Jane" told the court that she agreed, "Because it seemed like he wanted that and it was really turning him on," but added that she did not expect it would happen that night.

"I remember I went to the restroom and when I came back out, Sean was staring at his phone really seriously. He just looked really serious at his phone. He said we can make that happen tonight," "Jane" testified. "I was like, tonight? I was taken aback, a bit surprised but like, OK."

Within a couple of hours, "Jane" testified, they were in a room at the Faena Hotel in Miami.

"I saw the assistants setting up this room. There were beverages. The lights were already red. There was bustle of getting this room ready," "Jane" recalled to the court. "He just told me there was somebody coming and just to relax, this will be something fun."

In walked a man named Don, from an escort agency, "Jane" testified.

"My legs were crossed, my arms were crossed, I had the robe on," "Jane" testified. "Don came closer to me and started touching me, touching my leg, trying to make me feel comfortable and I started touching him."

Jane told the court that Combs "was watching and touching himself."

"Was he masturbating?" Comey asked.

"Yes," "Jane" testified, adding that she remembered trying to "speed" things up by moving to the bedroom: "To get it over," she told the court.

"Jane" testified she asked Don to wear a condom but Combs did not want him to. "He just said, 'Why? These guys are safe. They get tested all the time. They're some of the cleanest people,'" "Jane" told the court she recalled Combs saying.

"Jane" testified that she felt exhilarated when the encounter was over: "I had done something I had never done before."

"Jane" told the court that she thought the encounter would be a one-time thing. "I didn't think we would be doing that again like that," she testified. "After that night I figured it would be something we did that one time."

For the next three years, "Jane" told the court, Combs made her have sex with other men 90% of their time together.