A former girlfriend of Sean “Diddy” Combs is the latest witness to testify in his criminal trial. Under the pseudonym “Jane,” she testified that Combs used manipulation, drugs, and financial control to pressure her (and others like singer Cassie Ventura) into participating in orchestrated sex acts with other men during events known as “hotel nights” or “Freak Offs.”
Her testimony on June 9th, kicking off the fifth week of trial, revealed that the alleged “Freak Offs” continued after Combs’ homes were raided in March 2024 up until his arrest in September of that year. She also recounted an incident of alleged physical violence in June 2024, which happened a month after CNN released surveillance footage of Combs’ assaulting Ventura.
The pair dated from 2021 to 2024, during which Jane said Combs paid her a $10,000 monthly allowance to cover rent and living expenses. She testified that the financial support was conditional—and that refusing to participate in “hotel nights” meant risking being cut off.
Here is what she revealed about her allegedly abusive relationship with Combs, the “Freak Offs,” and their continued communication up until his arrest in August of last year.
Jane Describes Her Reaction to Cassie’s Lawsuit
Jane said Ventura’s 2023 civil lawsuit against Combs struck a painful chord. “I can’t believe I’m reading my own story,” she recalled thinking. Days later, she messaged Combs, accusing him of gaslighting her and making her feel “crazy” about the trauma she experienced. He didn’t respond for two days, but then told her to call him.
The jury was then played a recorded phone call between Jane and Combs from November 2023. On the call, Combs dodged direct accountability, framing the “hotel nights” as “just some kinky sh*t” he thought they both enjoyed and asked her to “be there” for him.
She testified that they took a break for 3 months following the lawsuit, but still had some communication, and the following texts were read from December 2023:
- Jane wrote, “Please stop using women for your fetish.”
- Jane wrote, “Leave women alone who don’t want to do those nights with you. Hire prostitutes and stop emotionally harming women that love you.”
- Combs responded, “You trying to set me up. This is crazy, fucking crazy, are you recording our phone calls?”
- Jane wrote, “I became the side chick and sex worker in my own relationship.”
During a FaceTime call, Jane testified that Combs urged her to “charge” him to help her move on and said he didn’t want any “loose ends.” She later proposed a six-figure financial agreement she felt would compensate her for their three-year relationship, and Combs responded by calling her a liar and opportunist and threatening to show sex tapes of their “hotel nights” to her child’s father.
Jane Describes Aftermath of Hotel Surveillance Footage
In 2024, the couple reconciled, and Jane testified to multiple incidents of “hotel nights” where she had sexual encounters with paid male escorts at Combs’ request. She was with Combs the day CNN published surveillance footage of him assaulting Ventura in May 2024.
According to Jane, Combs spent the day huddled with close friends and family and asked her to review a draft of the public apology he would later post on social media. When they discussed the surveillance footage a few months later, he told her it was the only instance of physical violence between him and Ventura.
In June 2024, she described a violent incident in which she confronted Combs about another woman. According to Jane, he choked her, kicked her, and damaged parts of her home. Despite visible injuries—including welts and a black eye—Combs allegedly told her to put on makeup, take ecstasy, and have sex with an escort while he watched. “Is this coercion?” he asked her, she testified.
The next day, Combs’ assistant dropped off $10,000–$12,000 in cash to cover the escort and property damages. While the two discussed ending their romantic relationship, their communication continued. Jane said the last time she saw Combs in person was in August 2024, just weeks before his arrest, and that their routine—including sex and “entertainers”—had resumed.
According to CNN legal analyst Joey Jackson, Jane’s testimony is “critical” when it comes to the sex trafficking allegations that Combs is facing.
Specifically, her testimony about not wanting to be a part of “hotel nights” or feeling like she was “reading her own sexual trauma” in Ventura’s lawsuit go to the “broader issues not only of proving the charges but […] the issue, from the prosecution’s perspective, that this is his MO and that’s critical,” Jackson said.
