A young single mom who was involved with Sean “Diddy” Combs until his arrest last year said she was habitually sexually exploited by the multimillionaire rap mogul in gut-wrenching testimony at Manhattan Federal Court on Friday.
In explicit detail, “Jane,” a pseudonym, described multiple days-long events spent sleeping with strangers in dimly lit hotel rooms as Combs watched, masturbated and plied her with hard drugs. During her testimony, she became so overcome with emotion at times she couldn’t speak.
Under questioning by Assistant U.S. Attorney Maurene Comey, Jane could not estimate how many men the domineering Combs paired her with over their years together, which ended when the feds arrested him in September 2024. She said Combs decided how many “rounds” of sex with strangers she would engage in, testifying that it was sometimes as many as three.
When asked who decided whether she could stop if she got tired during “hours and hours” of sex, Jane said Combs did, and broke down into tears, later saying he would give her ecstasy to stay awake.
“He would be, like, ‘You’re not getting tired on me, are you? Let’s finish strong,’” Jane quoted Combs.
Jane, a single mom of one who had experience working in the service industry and a couple of modeling gigs before meeting Combs, wept throughout her testimony. She said she felt “obligated” to participate in the degrading sessions, partly because she believed Combs loved her and also because the hip-hop entrepreneur paid her rent but often threatened to cut her off.
“I felt that at, any given opportunity, Sean was just hovering the house over my head,” Jane testified. “[He] always brought it up in so many ways, that he was paying for it.”
Jane said she tried to exercise some agency by choosing which escorts to sleep with and communicated to Combs many times, usually by text, that she didn’t want to participate in the “dark, sleazy” encounters. Between May 2021 and October 2023, she said Combs always reacted the same when she tried to assert herself — “upset, defensive, belittling, dismissive.”
Combs’ appetite was insatiable, Jane said. The hotel sessions were so frequent and so intense that the witness said she had urinary tract infections almost weekly. She later testified that she sometimes had to resort to sending Combs pictures of used toilet paper and tampons to prove she was menstruating and unable to participate in sessions.
Her voice sounding lifeless, Jane said the longest “hotel night” was over New Year’s in 2022, running for three and a half days. Describing another night in October 2023, she said the plan had been to stay sober, but she ended up taking drugs like ecstasy. After grueling, hours-long sessions with two men, Jane said she vomited in the bathroom, and Combs came to get her.
“That’s good, you’ll feel better,” she quoted Combs saying. “Let’s go, the third guy is here.”
Jane is the last of three women the jury will hear from at the trial who allege Combs sexually exploited and psychologically abused them behind closed doors while at the peak of his success. All described their worlds being diminished in his orbit, leaving them incapacitated by low self-esteem and chronic physical exhaustion.
Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, Combs’ ex of 11 years, took the stand first and, over four days, described being brutalized in violent beatings, coerced into “hundreds” of dehumanizing sexual performances with men hired off the internet, and isolated from her loved ones while she healed from injuries. Ventura, who was 17 years Combs’ junior and developed a relationship with him after being signed to Bad Boy Records, said Combs orchestrated the sessions he called “freak-offs” and recorded many of them for blackmail. Jane said on Friday that Combs recorded the sessions almost every time on his iPhone, claiming it would be for their eyes only.
A former Combs assistant, who testified under the pseudonym “Mia,” said that she was raped and sexually assaulted by Combs multiple times during her employment between 2009 through 2017. She said she was forced to work untenable hours and had little freedom, living at Combs’ properties and requiring permission to leave, even when off the clock.
Jane’s accounts mirrored many of those provided by Ventura, such as Combs forcing her to sleep with a stranger on her birthday, dictating when and where men would ejaculate, and peculiar rituals involving escorts’ bodily fluids. Both women said he sought to control their appearances; Jane said Friday that Combs paid for her to get veneers “because he didn’t like my teeth.”
Combs also had rules around contraception, Jane said.
“He better not ask for a f—ing condom,” she quoted Combs once saying about an escort.
As Ventura had also testified, Jane said she felt like Combs pretended she was his girlfriend but was really using her to objectify in the vile sex sessions. She said that was apparent when she saw Instagram posts of him spending quality time with other women after forcing her to stay awake for days on drugs to have sex with other men.
Asked about Combs taking another woman on vacation after allegedly coercing her into a particularly brutal hotel session on her birthday, Jane became distraught, saying, “It broke my heart because I just finished spending my birthday with all these guys having sex with me.”
The jury heard an audio recording that an irate Combs once sent Jane when she confronted him about his performing romantic gestures for other women while relegating her to degrading sex sessions, calling her “f—in’ nuts.”
“Be sad, go crazy, do whatever the f— you wanna do,” Combs was heard saying in the recording, a tone Jane said he took with her often.
The Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office alleges Combs operated a criminal enterprise that saw him and his inner circle of staff resort to crimes like sex trafficking, kidnapping, distributing drugs, exploiting employees for labor and arson from 2004 to 2024. They say his high-ranking employees went to extreme lengths to cover up his crimes and habitual violence and keep his victims isolated and submissive.
Jane said on Friday that she saw various secretaries and assistants of Combs bringing a “good amount” of cash to the hotels where Combs would pay escorts to sleep with her, and that staff also “set up” the rooms before the sessions began.
Combs, 55, has pleaded not guilty to charges including sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transporting individuals for prostitution, and claims he never forced women into sexual performances against their will. If found guilty, he could spend the rest of his life in prison.
Originally Published: June 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM EDT
