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Sean Combs trial updates: 'Jane' testifies on 'hotel nights' with Combs

The hip-hop mogul is charged with sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy.

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Last updated: Friday, June 6, 2025 9:53PM GMT
Sean Combs trial updates: 'Jane' testifies on 'hotel nights' with Combs
Sean Combs trial updates: 'Jane' testifies on 'hotel nights' with CombsDarla Miles has the latest from Lower Manhattan.

NEW YORK -- Prosecutors allege that Combs, a three-time Grammy winner, used his fame and fortune to create a deviant empire of exploitation, coercing women into abusive sex parties while silencing victims through blackmail and violence, including kidnapping, arson and beatings.

Combs' lawyers argue that all the sexual acts were consensual, and although he could be violent, he never veered into sex trafficking and racketeering.

This story may contain accounts and descriptions of actual or alleged events that some readers may find disturbing.

"Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy," a new podcast from "20/20" and ABC Audio, traces how the whispers of abuse came to light and led to the downfall of Sean "Diddy" Combs, who was once among the most influential entertainers and entrepreneurs in hip hop. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and more.

(ABC News and The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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5:21 PM GMT

'Jane' tells the court about alleged 'hotel nights': 'Was like a door I was unable to shut'

"Jane," who is testifying under a pseudonym, told the court that she and Combs referred to their sexual encounters involving other men as "debauchery" or "hotel nights."

After the first one, "Jane" testified, "I truly felt like that night opened a Pandora's box in our relationship. It was like a door I was unable to shut for the remainder of the relationship."

"Why was it a door you wanted to shut?" prosecutor Maurene Comey asked.

"There was so much of it after," "Jane" testified in response.

After a few hotel nights, "Jane" testified, she told Combs she didn't want to have sex with other men.

"Can you estimate how many times you told Sean in writing and verbally you did not want to have sex with other men?" Comey asked.

"Many times," "Jane" testified, adding that Combs threatened to withhold her rent payments.

"I felt frustrated. I felt obligated," "Jane" testified.

The jury was shown a copy of "Jane's" lease. She was listed as the tenant in the $10,000-per-month home, an amount she said she could not afford on her own.

"He asked me how much allowance I want a month and I said 15 and he said 10," "Jane" told the court.

"You mean thousand?" Comey asked.

"Yes," "Jane" testified, telling the court Combs agreed to pay the rent on the home.

"Jane" testified that Combs also sent her money, $5,000 to $10,000 in cash or larger amounts via wire transfer. The largest amount she remembered receiving was $20,000, she testified.

"He liked me having straight hair or when it was time for us to be together intimately, he liked my hair in a ponytail," "Jane told the court. "He liked me to have light colored nails, mostly a creamy white."

"He wanted me to get piercings," "Jane" further testified, clarifying to the court that she was referring to "my nipples."

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5:21 PM GMT

'Jane' testifies about Combs allegedly asking for sexual threesome with her

The witness testifying under the pseudonym "Jane" began crying when a prosecutor asked her about an alleged incident from May 2021, bowing her head and dabbing her eyes.

"Jane" told the court that Sean Combs initiated "fantasy talk" while they were high on drugs.

"He would just search specific things on these websites and in the middle of being high he really wanted me to fantasize or really talk about other men and this type of roleplay about other men," "Jane" testified. "He started saying I could make this fantasy a reality if you'd like to have that happen."

"Jane" told the court that she agreed, "Because it seemed like he wanted that and it was really turning him on," but added that she did not expect it would happen that night.

"I remember I went to the restroom and when I came back out, Sean was staring at his phone really seriously. He just looked really serious at his phone. He said we can make that happen tonight," "Jane" testified. "I was like, tonight? I was taken aback, a bit surprised but like, OK."

Within a couple of hours, "Jane" testified, they were in a room at the Faena Hotel in Miami.

"I saw the assistants setting up this room. There were beverages. The lights were already red. There was bustle of getting this room ready," "Jane" recalled to the court. "He just told me there was somebody coming and just to relax, this will be something fun."

In walked a man named Don, from an escort agency, "Jane" testified.

"My legs were crossed, my arms were crossed, I had the robe on," "Jane" testified. "Don came closer to me and started touching me, touching my leg, trying to make me feel comfortable and I started touching him."

Jane told the court that Combs "was watching and touching himself."

"Was he masturbating?" Comey asked.

"Yes," "Jane" testified, adding that she remembered trying to "speed" things up by moving to the bedroom: "To get it over," she told the court.

"Jane" testified she asked Don to wear a condom but Combs did not want him to. "He just said, 'Why? These guys are safe. They get tested all the time. They're some of the cleanest people,'" "Jane" told the court she recalled Combs saying.

"Jane" testified that she felt exhilarated when the encounter was over: "I had done something I had never done before."

"Jane" told the court that she thought the encounter would be a one-time thing. "I didn't think we would be doing that again like that," she testified. "After that night I figured it would be something we did that one time."

For the next three years, "Jane" told the court, Combs made her have sex with other men 90% of their time together.

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5:21 PM GMT

'Jane' testifies Combs helped pay for her to move to LA amid growing relationship

A month after their first date, Sean Combs took the woman testifying under the pseudonym "Jane" to Turks and Caicos, according to her testimony. The jury saw a brief video of the villa where they stayed, getting to know one another.

"I was very open about, that I was a single mother. For work, I was on social media, I call myself a content creator. I was advertising brands on my social media," "Jane" told the court.

She testified that Combs told her he would send $10,000 to make up for the money she lost by being on the trip and not online.

"Jane" alleged Combs also gave her the drug ecstasy.

"He opens his hand with a pill and he says 'Take this,'" "Jane" told the court. "Walking down the beach and it just hit me, and I fell to the ground and I started grabbing the sand and throwing the sand. I was screaming a little."

Combs gave "Jane" smaller doses of the drug for the rest of the trip, she testified, during time which her feelings for him deepened.

"We even started using the L word," "Jane" testified. "I was really deep in it."

"Jane" told the court that her relationship with Combs lasted until his arrest in 2024 on the charges for which he's being tried.

Over the first half of 2021, according to "Jane's" testimony, Combs would fly her to Miami. He eventually helped pay for her to move to Los Angeles, she told the court.

According to "Jane's" testimony, the two of them would use the drugs ecstasy, molly, cocaine and ketamine "whenever we would start having sex."

She testified she learned a lot about what Combs preferred, sexually.

"I learned so many things," "Jane" told the court. "I learned how he liked to have pornography playing. I learned how he preferred me to dress, and I just learned the things that he liked sexually. He preferred me to dress in provocative lingerie and really high, like, stripper shoes."

Prosecutor Maurene Comey asked, "How long did he want you to be in these outfits while you were using drugs?"

"All the time," "Jane testified.

"Jane" further testified that Combs liked baby oil "to just have it all over my body and his."

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'Jane' testifies about meeting Combs in Miami: 'I was already drawn to him'

The alleged Sean Combs victim appearing under the pseudonym "Jane" testified that she called Combs "Ernie" and he called her "Bert."

"Like from 'Sesame Street,'" prosecutor Maureen Comey said.

It was late 2020 when, "Jane" testified, she met Combs during a girls trip to Miami.

"Sean was romantically involved with one of my girlfriends," "Jane" told the court, saying that he invited the group to his house on Star Island, Miami Beach.

"He was really charming, really nice and I was already drawn to him pretty instantly. He was really hospitable, really funny. We had a nice night all together," "Jane" testified.

On a yacht, "we were just having drinks, partying, being friendly, there was a little bit of flirting going on," "Jane" told the court. She also testified that she remembered seeing a pink powder substance brought to Combs upon request.

Their first official date happened in January 2021 and lasted five days, according to "Jane's" testimony.

"I remember when I first saw Sean. He walks in the door of the hotel room and he was just larger than life, he had a big personality, really charming, very passionate just in how he speaks," "Jane" told the court.

"Jane" had been in a relationship years earlier "with someone close to Sean," she testified, adding that another man who is her child's father "did not get along with Sean."

According to "Jane's" testimony, she and Combs discussed those relationships and she remembered Combs saying he wasn't concerned about it.

"He just said that he didn't mind, and he was okay with it and it doesn't matter," "Jane" told the court.

That night, "We made lots of love. It was just amazing. And I remember it was morning time and we just decided to go for a walk on the beach," "Jane" testified, telling the jury, "I was pretty head-over-heels for Sean already."