Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs’s trial for intercourse trafficking and racketeering entered its fifth week on Monday in New York Metropolis – with the jury listening to secret recordings of telephone calls between the mogul and one in every of his accusers.
The disgraced music mogul, 55, is dealing with life in jail if convicted of the claims that he used his fame and cash to coerce ladies and workers into sexual and prison actions for 20 years.
His ex-girlfriend, who’s testifying below the pseudonym of Jane, is again on the stand after telling the jury final week that she was pressured to take part in frequent sexual performances with male intercourse staff to please Diddy.
Throughout her testimony, prosecutors performed recordings of telephone calls between Jane and Diddy the place the rapper pleaded together with her to help him after Cassie Ventura filed the lawsuit that introduced on his downfall in November, 2023.
Diddy has pleaded not responsible. His attorneys concede he could possibly be violent, however he denies utilizing threats or his music business clout to commit abuse.
Diddy informed Jane, ‘you realize me,’ after Cassie filed her lawsuit, recorded name reveals to jury
Prosecutors launched a recording of a telephone name between Diddy and his ex-girlfriend Jane that befell after Cassie Ventura filed the lawsuit that began the mogul’s downfall.
Jane was heard sobbing as Diddy informed her: ‘sorry you are feeling this manner. [I’ll] make you are feeling higher child.’
He referred to the freak offs as ‘kinky s**t I believed we each loved.’
Diddy talked about he was ‘not even presupposed to be speaking on the telephone.’
‘What we did we did mutually collectively. I’m attempting to be there for you,’ he informed Jane.
It seems Diddy recorded the calls with out Jane’s information.
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Jane is emotional however composed on Monday
As in her earlier two days on the stand final week, Jane turned emotional and cried briefly on Monday, however was largely composed as she mentioned her experiences with a person she stated she beloved.
She acknowledged that she had reviewed among the intercourse classes with prosecutors previous to starting testimony final Thursday. Comey requested her what she noticed on them.
‘I noticed me,’ she responded, earlier than including: ‘following a sample.’
She added that with the ‘majority of those tapes it was like the identical present time and again.’
Jane reconnected with Diddy after Cassie’s lawsuit… and had one other freak off
Jane stated that she reconnected with Diddy in February of 2024 after the mogul texted her that he had a dream about her.
‘I missed him dearly,’ she replied when requested why she agreed to see Diddy once more after the freak off claims turned public.
After Diddy agreed to a ‘healthful’ lovely celebration,’ Jane agreed to see him for her birthday oin Miami.
Jane stated when she arrived at Diddy’s Miami mansion, he greeted her with the ‘correct birthday dinner she all the time needed.’
However the subsequent morning, after that they had accomplished ecstasy, Diddy requested her if she needed to see one of many male escorts.
‘I used to be simply excessive and I used to be like OK,’ she informed the court docket of her response.
She added: ‘At this level I’m so used to this being the result of no matter we’re doing I simply settle for it.’
Diddy ‘threatened to launch Jane’s intercourse tapes’
Echoing Cassie Ventura’s testimony, Jane informed the court docket that Diddy threatened her with releasing tapes of the freak offs.
On December 28, 2023, she texted Diddy: ‘You referred to as me to ‘cost you’ and even stated attorneys can be concerned. After I did what you requested you spew out all of your evil on me. You threatened releasing my tapes and threatened to publish them. You might be psychotic.’
Jane informed the court docket: ‘On the peak of his anger he stated, “I’m simply gonna present your youngster’s father these tapes. I’ve nothing to lose.”‘
Jane then contacted Diddy’s proper hand lady Kristina Khorram, writing: ‘Hey…he simply threatened me about my intercourse tapes. He has been bothering me for 2 months. We broke up two weeks earlier than the controversy.
‘When s**t hit the fan I’d already entered into my very own despair… I’m traumatized… he retains bothering me, invitations me to fly out…as we speak he went from asking me who I’m seeing and saying he’s deserted. After I reiterate all of the trauma he says I’m blackmailing him.’
Jane stated Khorram then referred to as her.
‘She was like, “Okay I perceive don’t fear, nothing’s going to occur with these tapes… He’s not going to do something like that. Why don’t you guys give one another area.”‘
Jane informed Diddy she needed to finish her life over ‘freak offs’ trauma, jury hears
The court docket noticed textual content communications between Diddy and Jane within the aftermath of Cassie’s lawsuit submitting the place Jane expressed anguish over her participation within the freak offs.
Jane stated Diddy informed her to ‘cost him’ cash for the trauma inflicted, however that the mogul turned enraged when she gave him a quantity.
‘You’re a liar. F**ok you. I’m blocking you. Opportunist. I’m calling the police,’ Diddy texted her.
‘I’m gonna kill myself. You used me and broke me,’ Jane replied, including that she ‘hated’ her life and ‘needed to die.’
‘I needed every part to go black,’ she informed the court docket as she cried on Monday.
Diddy replied: ‘Breathe, goodbye.’
Diddy informed Jane to ‘cost him cash for the trauma he inflicted’
Jane informed the court docket that after Cassie filed her lawsuit towards Diddy, she started telling him in regards to the trauma she says she endured in the course of the freak offs, or resort nights, as she calls them.
‘He was saying, “cost me to your resentment, I want you to recover from this, I don’t need any unfastened ends,”‘ Jane stated of what Diddy allegedly informed her.
‘He needed me to provide you with some type of quantity to make peace with our state of affairs,’ Jane added.
Jane ultimately texted him: ‘I would like my wasted three years reimbursed within the quantity of $100k per yr. $450k to maneuver on from resentment and lack of potential earnings.’
However, Jane stated, regardless of his preliminary provide, Diddy then accused her of blackmailing him and even threatened to name the police on her.
Court docket is again from lunch break
Prosecutor Maurene Comey has resumed her questioning of Jane.
She is inquiring about Jane’s relationship with the mogul in the course of the months after Cassie filed the lawsuit towards Diddy.
Diddy informed Jane ‘I want your friendship’ after Cassie filed go well with towards him over freak offs
Jane informed the jury on Monday that Diddy referred to as her three days after Cassie filed a lawsuit accusing him of sexual and bodily abuse over the freak offs.
‘Good day. I want your friendship proper now,’ Diddy stated within the name, which was performed for the court docket.
‘Please don’t ship no textual content, I want your friendship proper now,’ he added. ‘I want you.’
Diddy then informed Jane she didn’t ‘have to fret about nothing else.’
When requested what he meant, Jane informed the court docket Diddy was speaking about her lease funds.
Jane’s texts may assist prosecution’s case
Jane, one in every of Diddy’s former girlfriends, testified on Monday within the hip-hop mogul’s intercourse trafficking trial that she informed him in textual content messages that she felt mistreated of their relationship and requested to cease collaborating in sexual performances with different males.
‘I am not a porn star. I am not an animal,’ she wrote to Combs on October 16, 2023, in keeping with a textual content message she learn aloud in court docket. ‘It is loveless for me and nothing satisfies you and also you all the time push me to do an increasing number of.’
The messages may bolster prosecutors’ rivalry that Combs, 55, for 20 years coerced ladies to participate within the sexual performances, typically often called ‘Freak Offs,’ towards their will.
Combs is charged with utilizing bodily power and threatening to chop off monetary help to get ladies to participate within the drug-fueled, typically days-long performances in resort rooms whereas he watched.
Court docket breaks for lunch
Prosecutors will proceed questioning Diddy’s alleged sufferer Jane after a brief luch break.
Jane’s response to Cassie’s lawsuit revealed
Jane informed the court docket about her response when she realized that Cassie Ventura had filed a lawsuit towards Diddy in 2023.
‘I nearly fainted. In actual fact I believe I did,’ she stated on Monday. ‘As a result of there have been three particular pages that was simply what I used to be experiencing.
‘I keep in mind these pages resembled my very own expertise… I used to be bewildered, I used to be in shock.’
She stated she couldn’t sleep for days after studying the lawsuit.
‘I used to be studying these pages they usually felt like a nightmare. I felt so unhealthy. I simply had numerous sympathy for this as a result of I may really feel….
‘I simply reacted like I can’t imagine I’m studying my very own story.’
‘I am not Gina or Cassie’
In a single textual content message from 2023, as she expresed frustration over her relationship with Diddy, Jane wrote: ‘I am not Gina or Cassie.’
Jane stated she despatched the message after a telephone dialog the place Diddy threatened to cease paying the lease on her house.
She informed the court docket she was principally attempting to inform Diddy: ‘Do not play with me.’
When requested why she introduced up Diddy ex girlfriends, Jane replied: ‘I felt these two ladies had quietly left that relationship and within the warmth of the second I’m telling him I really feel actually violated and have been pushed to the sting and I don’t know what I meant however I’m standing up for myself.’
Jane felt ‘obligated’ to take part in Freak Offs
Jane stated she felt obliged to proceed the Freak Offs as a result of Diddy was paying the $10,000 a month lease on her Los Angeles house.
He started paying the lease in April 2023 and likewise paid tens of hundreds of {dollars} on furnishings, Jane has testified.
In September of that yr, Jane wrote to Diddy: ‘I don’t wish to really feel obligated to carry out these nights in worry of shedding the roof over my head’.
Requested in court docket to clarify what she meant, Jane stated: ‘Emotions I began to develop concerning Sean and this home. and little issues he’d saying, responsible trippy issues about the home, me feeling like I needed to carry out.
‘He had made such a giant buy and I felt this was one thing I needed to do in return to make him really feel OK about that’.
Diddy would ‘sprinkle in’ issues that made her conscious of this, she informed the jury.
Alleged sufferer Jane informed court docket on Friday she carried medicine for Diddy twice
Jane informed the court docket on Friday how she nervously smuggled drugs in her checked baggage on business flights from Los Angeles to Miami for Diddy.
Jane stated each occasions the mogul requested her to ‘decide up a bundle’ at his Los Angeles mansion and produce it together with her when she visited him at his Miami property.
Jane testified that she wasn’t comfy with the request, however Diddy’s chief of workers Kristina ‘Okay.Okay.’ Khorram informed her: ‘It’s tremendous, I do it on a regular basis.’
Diddy invitations a 13-year-old Daveigh Chase to a celebration in resurfaced video
Resurfaced video reveals the second Diddy let loose a creepy chortle as he invited a 13-year-old youngster actress to an after occasion in 2003.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is seen inviting The Ring actress Daveigh Chase to a celebration for an MTV occasion, after presenting her with an award on stage.
‘Are you coming to the after occasion tonight?’ he says within the video. Diddy was on the VMAs to current the very best ‘Greatest Villain’ class with Ashton Kutcher, which Chase gained.
‘Diddy informed Jane to have intercourse with a 3rd escort after she vomited throughout resort night time’
Jane broke into sobs speaking about how she ‘simply actually needed my associate to get sober’ when she tried to do a ‘resort night time’ with out medicine in October 2023.
Jane informed the jury she ended up vomiting after she had intercourse with two males escorts on that event.
‘Sean got here in and I informed him I’d simply thrown up he was like, “that’s good then you definately’ll really feel higher now you’ve thrown up so let’s go as a result of a man is right here,” the third man.’
Jane stated she then had intercourse with a 3rd male escort.
Diddy’s political ties revealed as pictures present mogul mingling with Washington DC elite
Within the case of a responsible verdict, Diddy could should use his ties with Washington, DC elite for assist acquiring a pardon – which his ‘good good friend’ Donald Trump has stated he would take into account.
Though Diddy has usually endorsed Democrats all through the years, together with Joe Biden in 2020, he has been photographed with members throughout the political spectrum.
Right here DailyMail.com takes a take a look at the entire politicians this music mogul has mingled with over time.
Jane says Diddy ‘love-bombed’ her to get his means
In an October, 2023, textual content, Jane wrote to Diddy: ‘you are going to spend the day love bombing me so you will get what you need. It’s not real.’
Diddy had been attempting to persuade her to spend time with him, telling her they didn’t ‘should have intercourse.’
Jane informed the court docket Diddy ‘showers [her] with affection, adoration, actually persistent… it’s very overwhelming me having deep emotions for me it was one thing I needed so I got here round.’
She defined: ‘I’d say at any time when he needed one in every of these nights the love bombing and persistency would begin.’
Diddy nonetheless paying Jane’s lease, she tells the court docket
Jane stated final week that Diddy has been paying her lease since she moved into the house in April 2023, regardless of their breakup and his arrest final September.
The financial allowance was reportedly a part of the previous couple’s ‘love contract.’
In an August 2023 textual content message, he wrote: ‘Take a look at the roof over your head and that fairly smile,’ referencing the lease association and a few dental work he paid for her.
Jane stated Diddy additionally paid for her to get veneers, as a result of he didn’t like her tooth.
How Diddy counted out $100k from a brown paper bag to purchase Cassie beating video
A safety guard informed how Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs counted out $100,000 from a brown paper bag to purchase the one copy of a video displaying him beating up his ex-girlfriend on Tuesday.
Eddy Garcia, who labored on the InterContinental Resort in Los Angeles, informed in vivid element how the hip hop mogul used a counting machine so as to add up the cash for the bribe in 2016.
Garcia stated that Diddy referred to as him ‘Eddy, my angel’ for deleting it from the servers and giving it to him on a USB stick.
Jane informed Diddy: ‘I’m not a porn star. I’m not an animal’
On Monday the court docket noticed a number of messages the place Jane pleaded with Diddy, saying she was uninterested in having intercourse with male escorts to entertain the mogul.
‘I dont’ really feel like performing loveless chilly intercourse,’ Jane wrote in October 2023.
‘I’m not a porn star. I’m not an animal. I want a break…I’ve hit a wall.’
She added: ‘It has been three years of me having to f**ok strangers. I’m drained.’
Diddy replied: ‘So we’re breaking apart?’
Jane informed the jury she didn’t wish to break up and simply needed to cease having intercourse with male escorts.
‘My spirit and my soul is drained. I want a break spiritually and mentally,’ Jane wrote to Diddy.
‘Intercourse is sacred to me and I can’t be used like this anymore….I needed to make you cheerful however it’s making a struggle inside me….resort rooms…exhausting intercourse for days….mind fog and might’t focus.’
Lawyer asks decide to crack down on individuals attempting to disclose Jane’s identification on Friday
Jane’s lawyer Lindsay Lewis spoke up throughout a break in testimony on Friday whereas the jury was out of the courtroom. She stated some media retailers and social media accounts have or try to disclose Jane’s identification.
Choose Arun Subramanian didn’t instantly act on Lewis’ request. He requested her to ship him any examples of regarding posts.
Subramanian famous that there’s little he can do about members of the general public doing their very own sleuthing to determine Jane’s identification primarily based on what she’s stated on the witness stand.
The decide beforehand warned reporters and members of the general public observing the trial to not describe Jane intimately. He’s additionally informed sketch artists not to attract her face.
My brother was an early Diddy ‘sufferer’… the warning indicators have been there from the beginning
Dirk Swain was on his first night time out after escaping what ought to have been sure loss of life.
The 20-year-old had simply recovered from being shot within the head after a university soccer sport – and at last felt able to embrace his second likelihood at life.
However as he stood on the steps of a New York gymnasium ready to enter a star charity occasion thrown by a comparatively unknown 22-year-old music producer referred to as Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, the expectant ambiance started to vary.
Minutes later, Dirk took his last breaths.
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Jane says Diddy would promise her good dates that will flip into ‘resort nights’
Diddy’s ex-girlfriend informed the court docket about a number of cases the place the mogul provided her a visit or romantic date and as a substitute guilt tripped her into having intercourse with male escorts for his leisure.
On Monday the jury noticed messages from September, 2023, the place Diddy tells Jane: ‘let’s have a great time. Do you’ve got your passport. We’re going to dinner, have you perform a little procuring.’
However when her flight took off for NYC to fulfill with Diddy, Jane stated she ‘obtained a message from Sean that made me a little bit upset.’
Within the message, Diddy was asking her about one in every of their go-to male escorts.
‘He was wanting a resort night time,’ Jane stated.
‘I keep in mind taking a deep breath and feeling a little bit upset and disenchanted, a little bit defeated.’
Unique dancer describes the second he realized his burqa-wearing employer was Diddy
On the most recent episode of the Mail’s ‘The Trial of Diddy’ podcast, reporter Marjorie Hernandez interviews Sharay Hayes, a male unique dancer who testified in court docket that he was paid to provide sexual massages to Cassie Ventura whereas being watched by a masked Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.
Witness Jane tells Diddy that freak offs disgust her in textual content learn in court docket
The court docket learn a textual content that Jane despatched to Diddy in September 2023 the place she opened up about not wanting to interact in freak offs.
The textual content learn: ‘I want we may chalk this again to after we first began relationship…
‘Ever since I opened Pandora’s Field….one night time of enjoyable (turned) all I’m anticipated to do.
‘It’s hurting me as a result of I’m a lot extra….doing issues that make me disgusted with myself… my coronary heart is breaking…
‘I don’t wish to play this position in your life any extra… It’s darkish, sleazy and makes me really feel disgusted with myself.
‘I really feel it’s the one motive you’ve got me round… I don’t wish to really feel obligated to do these nights in worry of shedding the roof over my head.’
Diddy apparently replied: ‘woman cease.’
REVEALED: The wildest Diddy conspiracy theories to emerge from his trial
Web trolls have tried to attach a few of America’s greatest names – from Barack Obama and Kamala Harris to Beyoncé and Jay-Z – to Diddy’s alleged misconduct.
Prince and Kim Porter have been introduced into the discourse posthumously with theorists alleging each detailed Diddy’s alleged exploits earlier than their deaths.
Others even went so far as baselessly claiming Los Angeles‘ lethal Palisades Hearth was set in an try to burn proof that will be important to Diddy’s trial.
Prosecutors requested decide for privateness measures for alleged Diddy sufferer ‘Jane’
Prosecutors requested the decide to show the livestream within the overflow room when alleged sufferer Jane is on the stand.
They stated they wish to keep away from a state of affairs the place nonredacted info is proven to these within the overflow and press rooms.
Jane is again on the stand
Jane has begun her testimony for the prosecution on Monday.
She is being requested to learn textual content message conversations with Diddy.
Final week the court docket noticed messages the place she referred to as the mogul a ‘pathological liar’ and stated, ‘I can’t get this picture of you mendacity to my face out of my thoughts’ after he went from celebrating her birthday to taking one other lady on a visit to the Caribbean.
Jane informed Diddy that, by relationship him, she had disadvantaged herself of romance, love, journey and significant connections.
‘That is about you lastly treating me as a human being,’ she wrote.
Jane stated Combs informed her he’d make it as much as her by taking her to Turks and Caicos.
Jane desperately needed alone time with Combs, she stated, however earlier than they left, he made her interact in yet one more ‘resort night time.’
Once they obtained to the archipelago, Jane stated she was completely happy at first, however then Combs introduced in a male intercourse employee for but extra encounters.
Diddy’s mom Janice arrives in court docket
The 85-year-old has been current for many of the mogul’s trial.
Who will testify Monday?
Diddy’s ex-girlfriend and accuser Jane will return to the witness stand on Monday when prosecutor Maurene Comey will resume her questioning.
Combs’ attorneys haven’t but had an opportunity to query her.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs tells courtroom artist he appears like a ‘koala’ in sketches
On Thursday, the gray-bearded hip-hop mogul turned to face courtroom sketch artist Jane Rosenberg within the first row to make an uncommon request.
‘Soften me up a bit, you are making me appear like a koala bear,’ Combs stated, in keeping with Rosenberg.
Rosenberg, a well known sketch artist, has been documenting the proceedings for Reuters in Manhattan federal court docket, the place images and video recording are prohibited.
Diddy just isn’t the primary high-profile defendant to comment on Rosenberg’s depictions of them.
Earlier this yr, Rudy Giuliani informed Rosenberg she had made him appear like his canine.
And in 2023, Donald Trump Jr. had a blunt request for Rosenberg throughout a civil fraud trial over his household’s actual property enterprise: ‘Make me look attractive.’
Dr Phil reveals gorgeous prosecution error and hidden ‘poison’ that everybody has missed
Simply 4 weeks into the trial of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and I wish to put together you for the chance that these proceedings may come to a sudden, screeching halt.
I spent most of my skilled profession round courtrooms as a guide for trial attorneys, instructing them, not on the authorized points of instances, however on the human parts, particularly how jurors responded to their arguments.
At this second within the Combs trial – with the prosecution anticipated to wrap up its arguments within the coming days – I query whether or not the jury has been introduced with sufficient proof to moderately anticipate them to discover a authorized foundation to convict.
And for that motive, I predict the decide could also be tempted to primarily throw the case out of court docket.
Learn Dr Phil’s full evaluation right here:
Choose to rule on Diddy’s second mistrial movement
On Saturday, Diddy’s authorized staff filed a letter requesting the trial be dismissed following a sworn statement from Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie’s good friend and clothier, Bryana Bongolan.
Combs’ attorneys have argued that the prosecution knowingly allowed the false testimony to be given as a result of that they had seen receipts displaying the mogul was within the east coast on the time.
On Monday, decide Subramanian stated he’ll watch for the prosecution to reply to the protection’s movement, and he could have a solution on Tuesday.
LISTEN: Diddy berates ex after she declines ‘freak off,’ tells her to ‘get on her job’
Prosecutors performed an audio notice from 2023 the place Diddy tells Jane to ‘get on her job’ after she stated she was not accessible for a freak off.
‘I’m about to actually disappear on you, you are feeling me?’ the aggravated mogul stated on the voice notice, including that Jane had a ‘impolite awakening’ coming to her.
‘You higher get in your job, that’s all it’s,’ he stated. ‘Since you obtained me on my job.’
Jane stated she understood her job to be conserving Diddy completely happy, which included having intercourse with male escorts because the mogul watched.
Diddy’s ‘job,’ in the meantime was offering monetary help for Jane by offering her $10,000 a month.
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Diddy’s three-word response to sufferer ‘Jane’ when Cassie Ventura filed bombshell lawsuit: Dwell trial updates