Sean 'Diddy' Combs' ex-girlfriend sobs in court, saying he ignored her
pleas to end sex marathons
[June 07, 2025]
By MICHAEL R. SISAK, LARRY NEUMEISTER and DAVE COLLINS
NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who was dating Sean “Diddy” Combs at the time of
his arrest last year broke down Friday describing their many drug-fueled
sex marathons, saying the music mogul ignored her signals to stop and
scolded her for crying after another encounter.
Testifying under the pseudonym “Jane” for a second day, the woman
recounted how Combs pushed her to continue having sex with men while he
watched even after she gave “subtle cues” — saying she was tired and
hungry, making faces and gestures — that she wanted to stop. Instead,
she said, he told her to “finish strong.”
Asked why she didn't tell him outright, Jane sobbed, “I just, I don’t
know.” Later, she said Combs would shut her down when she tried to talk
about ending the encounters, which she called “dark" and "sleazy.”
Combs, 55, has pleaded not guilty to running his business empire as a
racketeering enterprise that enabled and concealed the abuse of women
over two decades. If convicted, he faces 15 years to life. The defense
has asserted the sexual activities were all consensual and nothing Combs
did amounted to a criminal enterprise.
Jane tells a story similar to Combs' ex Cassie
Jane’s account in the trial's fourth week has closely mirrored that of
R&B singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, another former girlfriend who
testified Combs assaulted her and forced her into “hundreds” of
encounters with male sex workers dubbed “ freak-offs.” Jane called them
“hotel nights” and the men “entertainers.”
Prosecutor Maurene Comey sought to show that Combs used his wealth to
manipulate women into submitting to his sexual demands and make them
reliant on him and his needs. By September 2023, Jane said, Combs had
been paying her rent for about five months. Asked what she feared would
happen if she stopped doing hotel nights, Jane replied, “That Sean would
take the house away.” Combs is still paying her rent, Jane said.
After one such hotel encounter, Jane said she cried and Combs told her
“Don’t do that right now," and “I can’t do this right now. I’m too
high." She testified she'd blacked out earlier from the drug ecstasy
that Combs gave her.
During another encounter, she tried to remain sober but vomited in a
bathroom after having sex with two men in a row. Combs told her, “That’s
good. You’ll feel better now that you’ve thrown up. So let’s go.” She
then had sex with a third man, describing herself as “repulsed.”
Jane said she endured the encounters because she valued time alone with
Combs afterward. “I would really fight to block out how sad I was
after,” she testified. In messages to him, she wrote: “my heart is
really in this and it’s breaking.”
Jane wiped away tears as she recounted the many ill-effects of hotel
nights, including constant back pain, frequent urinary tract infections
and soreness in her genitals and pelvic areas. Cassie testified she also
suffered UTIs after enduring sex marathons involving Combs and male sex
workers.
Jane unsuccessfully tries to end hotel nights
Jane dated Combs from 2021 to 2024. On Thursday, she testified their
relationship began as loving and passionate but soon veered into having
her engage in sex with other men. The longest lasted three and a half
days, while most went on for 24 to 30 hours.
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On Friday, she said she poured her thoughts into the Notes app on her
phone in November 2021, drafting a message to Combs but never sending
it.
“I don’t know what you’re calling me for, but I’m sorry I don’t want to
do drugs for days and days and have you use me to fulfill your freaky,
wild desires in hotel rooms,” Jane wrote in the unsent missive.
In 2023, she said she texted Combs to say she longed to return to the
early days of their relationship and regretted ever getting involved in
the sexual encounters, but felt obligated. Combs responded: “Girl,
stop," she said.
Jane said the encounters continued into 2024 and she participated in one
at Combs' Miami-area estate as late as August — just weeks before his
arrest at a Manhattan hotel.
Jurors on Friday heard the first audio from inside one of those
encounters. In the recording, Jane asked a man to wear a condom during
her first hotel night, but Combs “guilt tripped me out of it. It wasn’t
something he wanted to see.”
Jane also said Combs had her act as his drug mule at least twice,
nervously smuggling pills in her checked luggage on commercial flights
from Los Angeles to Miami. She said he divvied up in the colorful pills
into bottles, and she ended up using some of the drugs with him.
To protect Jane’s anonymity, the judge has barred courtroom observers
from describing or sketching her appearance in a way that would reveal
her identity. The Associated Press does not identify people who say
they’re victims of sexual abuse unless they choose to make their names
public, as Cassie has done.
Defense targets credibility of witnesses
Combs' lawyers have tried to sew doubt among jurors about the
credibility of the prosecution's witnesses. In opening arguments, lawyer
Teny Geragos acknowledged Combs had a “bad temper” and violent
outbursts, but argued his sexual habits were part of a consensual
swinger lifestyle.
The defense painted Cassie, for example, as an eager participant in the
freak-offs. When Cassie was on the stand, Combs' lawyers had her read
texts and emails in which she expressed willingness to engage in the
encounters.
Before Jane began testifying on Thursday, the defense cross-examined
Bryana “Bana” Bongolan, a friend of Cassie and a graphic designer who is
suing Combs. Bongolan testified that in 2016, Combs held her over the
edge of a balcony at a Los Angeles high-rise for 10 to 15 seconds, an
episode she said traumatized her and left her with lasting night
terrors.
Defense attorney Nicole Westmoreland suggested that Bongolan lied or
exaggerated. The lawyer noted Combs was on tour for much of September
2016, including East Coast shows around the time of the balcony
incident. Bongolan later testified she didn't recall the exact date of
the incident, but had no doubt it occurred.
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Collins reported from Hartford, Connecticut.
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