A girl federal prosecutors are calling a sufferer of Sean “Diddy” Combs took the stand at his federal trial in decrease Manhattan on Thursday, telling the courtroom that in their three 12 months relationship, which lasted up till his September arrest, 90 % of their time collectively was throughout drug-fueled, days-long “freak-offs” the place she was coerced into performing intercourse acts with male intercourse staff.
The lady, who’s being known as Jane Doe in the course of the trial to guard her identification, is the newest lady introduced forth by federal prosecutors within the Southern District of New York to elucidate how the feds say the as soon as highly effective rap and trend mogul used his corporations and dependable workers as a legal enterprise to coerce and management girls, who he would blackmail and manipulate into performing in “freak-off” intercourse marathons, which the near-billionaire would typically movie whereas masterbating. Combs has pled not responsible to all fees within the feds’ five-count indictment, which incorporates intercourse trafficking, racketeering and transportation to have interaction in prostitution.
Taking the stand after courtroom had returned from the day’s lunch break, Jane Doe revealed early in her testimony that previous to connecting romantically with Combs in 2021, she was concerned with a person whom Combs has historical past and a tense relationship. She stated she met the rap world icon in Miami at a celebration she attended with a bunch of girlfriends, certainly one of whom was casually relationship Combs on the time; since his 2018 break up with R&B singer Cassie Ventura, the federal prosecutors’ star witness. Combs has been concerned with a number of girls without delay, a proven fact that Doe informed the jury was recognized to her as the connection’s inception.
Over her first few hours of testimony on Thursday afternoon, Doe painted an image of the couple’s meet-cute and straightforward segue right into a extra critical relationship, which grew over telephone calls, texts and FaceTime video calls. In truth, their relationship noticed a growth when Doe’s pal, who was relationship Combs, acquired engaged and moved to Europe. Quickly, she informed the courtroom, Combs swept her off her toes with a visit to Turks and Caicos and the Bahamas over 15 days. The 2 loved the enjoyable island and dinner on their lodge suite’s balcony, the place they loved viewing sunsets collectively. She recalled how he even purchased her a bracelet that spells out L-O-V-E. Their intercourse life was the 2 of them; she was smitten.
“I actually fell head over heels for Sean,” she stated, including that it was OK for her that he was additionally seeing different individuals as a result of she actually appreciated him. “I understood that on his finish, it was by no means a monogamous relationship.
One small hiccup on the journey, she recalled, got here when Doe was handed an ecstasy tablet by Combs and ended up so gobsmacked by the mind-bending drug that she doubled over within the sand and needed to be taken right into a tepid bathe; over the rest of the 15-day journey, Doe stated she took Ecstacy 10 extra instances in smaller increments that had been pieced out by Combs.
The questioning prosecuting lawyer on Thursday shortly moved on to the second that the connection soured for Doe, when she requested her to recall for the courtroom the night time of March 21, 2021, when she was requested to take part in her first “freak-off” with Combs, which had been additionally known as “lodge nights” at instances. After Combs’ assistants had arrange the lodge suite, Doe stated, she would gown in racy lingerie and high-heeled sneakers. That was when Combs informed her somebody was coming: a male escort named Don, who Combs stated he knew. The encounter as described by Doe adopted a well-recognized trajectory, one described by Ventura just a few weeks in the past when she testified about her “freak-off” experiences: the girl and escort would pour child oil onto one another’s our bodies (12 bottles one time, she stated); the 2 start touching; Doe begins to carry out oral intercourse on Don as Combs watches, masterbating. From the witness, Doe stated that it was her that “tried to maneuver issues alongside” into the suite’s bed room. Combs protested when Doe requested to make use of a condom, she defined to the courtroom, however he quickly offered one and Don and Doe started to have intercourse.
Doe stated that her preliminary expertise performing a “freak-off” lodge night time with Combs made her “glad” and that “it was taboo.”
“I simply thought that it was an evening of enjoyable; I didn’t assume that we’d be doing it once more,” she informed the courtroom, at that time holding again tears. “I believe that night time opened a Pandora’s Field in our relationship and I used to be by no means capable of shut it. It simply fully set the tone for our relationship shifting ahead.”
Doe informed the courtroom when requested to offer a share determine by federal prosecutors that after Could 2021, 90 % of the sexual experiences she had with Combs concerned different males. The rapper, Doe informed the courtroom, urged they’ve a lodge night time the very subsequent time the 2 noticed one another.
“I simply wished to fulfill my accomplice,” she stated of collaborating within the freak-offs.
As their relationship stretched into months, Combs started to offer giant sums of cash to Doe, whose work advertising and marketing manufacturers on her social media accounts was dwindling. He handed her $10,000 after their preliminary journey to Turks and Caicos as she’d missed out on some work whereas on the journey with him; later, he’d usually give her $5,000 or $6,000 incrementally. As was the case with Ventura, he started to pay for her house; Doe stated this was a cause she felt compelled to take part in “freak-offs” even when she began to not get pleasure from them.
“I felt obligated to carry out as a result of my accomplice was paying my lease,” she defined.
An try she had deliberate to earn her personal cash by launching an Solely Followers account, the place she would seem in lingerie and bikinis, might have helped out with a way of independence — as she informed Combs, a pal had claimed she’d introduced in $4 million in a 12 months doing a Simply Followers web page. However Combs, she testified, was having none of that, telling her, “Let’s simply give it time.” Prosecutors consider this constitutes coercion to maintain Doe financially depending on him so he might management her and pressure her into his sexual fantasies.
At a degree, Doe says, she requested Combs if they may cease doing “freak-offs” altogether. His response, she informed the courtroom, was to threaten her livelihood and residential.
“He would simply say issues like, ‘If you wish to break up, that’s positive. You’ve three months left on the home as a result of I’m not about to be paying lease,’” Jane recalled Combs saying.
Doe’s testimony will proceed on Friday because the prosecution begins to eye the resting of its case.