Ex-girlfriend ‘Jane’ will be back on stand after tearful testimony

“Jane” stated she fainted after Combs’ former girlfriend Cassie Ventura filed a civil lawsuit towards the music mogul, recognizing the civil criticism matched her personal experiences with him.

“I virtually fainted,” Jane stated after studying concerning the lawsuit. “In reality I believe I did.”

Jane sobbed in recounting her response to Ventura’s allegations.

“There have been three particular pages that was only a harrowing reference to what I used to be experiencing,” she stated. “I used to be simply bewildered, simply in shock.”

“Jane” stated she’s seen the footage Combs shot and saved of her having intercourse with strangers.

“I noticed me being excessive, I used to be following a sample, the sample that I assumed he wished to see,” she testified. “It was like a present time and again.”

Throughout this entire time, Combs insinuated that these ongoing orgies had been completed on her personal free will. When requested in court docket if she in truth consented to the “lodge nights,” Jane stated she was “nonetheless making an attempt to determine that out.”

The witness stated she could not simply go away her relationship with Combs in October 2023 regardless of her objections to intercourse with strangers.

On the coronary heart of the matter was the monetary management “Jane” stated that Combs had over her by paying the hire at her dwelling.

It was “like the house was getting used as leverage,” the witness stated. In a textual content message to Combs displayed in court docket, she accused him of “threatening the roof over my head.”

“Jane” stated Combs as soon as made her have intercourse with three males throughout an October 2023 rendezvous on the L’Ermitage Beverly Hills Lodge.

She did not recall the identify of the primary man, however the second man was named Paul and the third was named Sean. She stated she needed to go away to go throw up.

Jane recollects Combs coming to test on her after which telling her to return to the get together. She known as the night “completely horrible.”

By October 2023, “Jane” stated she had turn out to be extra vocal about her disdain for having to carry out intercourse acts with strangers at Combs’ behest.

Jane testified that she informed the defendant: “You deal with me like an animal.”

The witness stated she wanted a break from Combs and was uninterested in having “to do all of the soiled s—” for him.

When “Jane” started to distance herself from Combs through texts in October 2023, he wrote again that he wished to see her and that they did not should have intercourse, in response to messages proven in court docket.

However Jane known as out Combs in her response, writing that she knew he was going to spend the day “love bombing” her, however that she has hit a wall. Requested to elucidate love bombing, Jane testified that Combs would bathe her with love and affection to an awesome level.

An article from the Cleveland Clinic explains love bombing as a “type of psychological and emotional abuse” and is used as a manipulation tactic.

It was a sample from Combs at any time when he wished to have lodge nights, Jane informed the court docket.

“Jane” testified that she grew pissed off with the strain on her to earn essentially the most basic items from Combs, reminiscent of love and respect.

She informed the court docket that Combs appeared to present this freely to different folks, however for her it felt not possible. Jane stated that she spoke to Combs about not desirous to have intercourse with different males, telling him that she wished to make him glad however that it was making a struggle inside her.

Combs informed her that is not what he wished from her, Jane stated, and he or she responded that she wanted a break.

Jane put her head down throughout this testimony and wiped away tears shortly earlier than the court docket went on break.

“Jane” testified that she and Combs acquired into an argument after he requested her to arrange one other “lodge night time” when he was spending time with one other lady.

She informed the court docket that Combs texted her as a result of he wished her to succeed in out to males to arrange one other night time whereas they had been in Los Angeles. However Jane seen on-line chatter that he was with one other lady, which set off an argument, she stated.

Texts between them dated Oct. 15, 2023, present that Combs insisted Jane not say no to him. She responded that he made it very clear what he desires from her.

By October 2023, “Jane” stated she had reached boiling level with Combs’ calls for for her sexual performances.

Combs had texted Jane to say he was lacking her and the witness interpreted that as his subsequent request for her to have intercourse with a stranger.

“I stated name another person, I’m not a porn star,” Jane testified. “That’s precisely how I felt.”

“Jane” stated she was rising uninterested in having intercourse with strangers at Combs’ behest and a 2023 incident with a “cowboy carrying heels” was significantly upsetting.

Her voice cracked with emotion explaining how she thought she was going to have non-public time with Combs for dinner and procuring, however was as an alternative directed to fulfill Combs on the Trump Worldwide Lodge & Tower New York.

“He gave me ecstasy,” she recalled. “I used to be in lingerie and this new shock was coming, the person got here, then Cabrel got here.”

She and the male intercourse employee had intercourse in entrance of Combs, Jane stated. He was paid in money, in response to the witness.

With Combs paying her hire, “Jane” stated there was a way of obligation to “carry out” common intercourse acts for the defendant.

She felt “guilt trippy issues” related to residing underneath the roof paid for by Combs, the witness testified.

The association “made me really feel like I needed to carry out” intercourse for housing, Jane stated. A textual content message she despatched to Combs was proven in court docket by which she wrote, “I’m doing issues that make me really feel disgusting with myself.”

The court docket was proven textual content messages “Jane” despatched to Combs after being upset that he apparently lied to her about happening a yacht journey with one other lady.

Jane texted Combs in 2023 that she did not need “for use and locked in a room to carry out and fulfill your fantasies.” On the identical day, she wrote that she did not wish to fly to New York to “be a hoe for the millionth time” in a lodge room.

“Jane” testified that Combs had promised to take her on a yacht rip after a lodge night time. 

She then seen on social media Combs went on the yacht journey with out her and with another person. She stated she voiced her frustrations and Combs was dismissive.

They later met at a lodge and he tried to calm her down and claimed there was no intercourse, however on a podcast he allegedly boasted concerning the journey and the way a lot intercourse he had with the girl. 

The witness stated she was involved about Combs taking specific movies of her on his major two cellphones as a result of others on his workforce knew the safety codes to get into the units.

She testified that she requested him to verify to lock it.

The witness returned to the stand this morning, carrying a white jacket as lead prosecutor Maurene Comey continued the federal government’s direct examination.

Courtroom is now in session kicking off Day 19 of Combs’ trial. 

Combs is carrying khaki pants and a white long-sleeved shirt right this moment. Upon coming into the courtroom, he appeared by way of some papers in a folder and sat down on the protection desk.

Legal professionals for Combs have — for the second time in two weeks —known as for a mistrial, as he faces expenses of intercourse trafficking and different alleged offenses.

On Saturday, his authorized workforce wrote to the decide asking for the mistrial, for what they claimed was “prosecutorial misconduct,” alleging that prosecutors knew that one witness’s testimony was false.

The witness identified solely through the pseudonym “Jane” is predicted to return to the stand after breaking down throughout testimony final week.

Final week, she described encounters with intercourse companions throughout alleged “lodge nights” that she stated might go on for a number of “rounds.”

Jane has testified that Combs was paying her hire and continues to pay her hire. She is one among 4 accusers referred to within the authorities’s indictment that alleges he ran his enterprise empire as a felony enterprise and exploited the ladies by way of his monetary help.