June 9, 2025 – Day 19 of testimony in the Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial

• Today in court: “Jane,” one of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ accusers who is using a pseudonym in court, testified for another day in his criminal trial Jane has been describing the drug-fueled sexual performances called “hotel nights” she said she endured during her relationship with Combs. Jane will return to the stand tomorrow to begin testifying under cross-examination.

• Federal charges: Combs has pleaded not guilty to charges that include racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking. If convicted on all counts, he could face up to life in prison.

• Editor’s Note: If you or someone you know is struggling with intimate partner violence, there are resources available, including the National Domestic Violence Hotline.

Our live coverage has wrapped up for the day. You can read more about Jane’s testimony in the posts below.

“Jane,” one of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ accusers who is testifying under a pseudonym, finished her direct examination this afternoon. She is scheduled to return to the stand on Tuesday for cross-examination.

Here’s what she said:

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The jury was dismissed for the day and the judge is off the bench.

The defense and prosecution didn’t discuss any matters before adjourning.

Jane testified that the first people she told about what Sean “Diddy” Combs did to her on June 18 were his defense attorneys. She said she did not tell anyone before that, except her own attorney, because she was “still processing that night and I didn’t want it to be a reality.”

Jane said the last time she met with Combs’ attorneys was in April 2025. Although she was not legally required to meet with them, she testified that she still felt obligated to because of her relationship with Combs.

“I just asked myself ‘why am I doing this?’ and I just felt the decision was just fear-based and not wanting to make someone mad,” she testified. Jane said she decided not to meet with them again because she wanted to “honor what I wanted to do and honor myself.”

She confirmed that she has not filed any lawsuits against Combs and doesn’t plan to.

For her final question, Assistant US Attorney Maurene Comey asked Jane how she feels about Combs today.

“I just pray for his continued healing. I pray for peace for him,” she said.

Jane and Sean “Diddy” Combs continued to communicate up until his arrest.

The jury saw texts from around that time in which Combs asked her for explicit videos. Jane was planning to see Combs in New York but didn’t because he was arrested, she said.

Jane testified before a grand jury for this case in November 2024 pursuant a subpoena, she confirmed.

She hadn’t spoken to any investigators connected to the case before that time, Jane testified.
The next time she spoke with prosecutors was in January 2025 and she’s met with prosecutors multiple times since.

Jane was meeting with Combs’ defense team for some time before that. She confirmed again that Combs is still paying for her attorney representing her in connection with the trial and is still paying the rent for that same house in Los Angeles.

Jane testified the last time she saw Sean “Diddy” Combs in person was at his Miami home in August 2024.

“When we were together, we were just in our same routine, having sex and everything, then he says we should invite Don,” she said, referring to the name of an entertainer.

Jane said she then had sex with the entertainer in front of Combs.

Sean “Diddy” Combs invited Jane to Miami in late July 2024, she testified, and she accepted.

She flew in on a red eye and met him for dinner later in the day after she arrived, she said. After they went to dinner, Jane said, they stayed up all night together having sex and partying in a hotel Combs arranged for them.

After staying up all night Jane told Combs she was feeling tired. She testified that Combs had told her previously that she should vocalize when she was tired.

But when she did, Jane testified, that Combs’ demeanor changed and he called her names and threw water at her.

He eventually apologized and so did she.

The jury was shown video of Jane and Sean “Diddy” Combs at his home that day in late June 2024.

The video captured the bruising around her eye and a welt on her forehead that was visible through the makeup on her face.

The video was not viewable to the public, but the audio could be heard in the courtroom, and both Combs and Jane confirmed that bruising was visible in the footage. Jane also testified that she covered part of her face in the video after realizing her injuries were visible.

Jane could be heard calling Combs her “bestie” on the video. She testified that Combs said they’d be best friends after they broke up, so Jane testified that she was teasing him about that.

The jury also viewed another short video Jane took around that time, which also showed her injuries.

Jane said she continued to keep in touch with Combs for a while after they saw each other at his home in late June. She later learned he had gone on a white-water rafting trip in Wyoming with another woman and was “absolutely furious.”

“We had just endured that kind of night, and in the midst of all the controversy and everything, he was still able to plan another beautiful vacation,” she said.

Jane said she texted him angrily, and “I think I did break up with him.” She said she then blocked both of his numbers, all of his assistants and his security.

Jane said she reached out to Combs again after a few weeks because she saw his mother had been hospitalized and wanted to make sure she was OK, and they started talking again.

Jane testified that she next saw Sean “Diddy” Combs in person a few days later. “I just missed him so bad,” she said.

Jane said she and Combs had been messaging each other about that night and “how awful we were both feeling.” Jane testified that Combs repeatedly accused her of cheating, while she kept apologizing and insisting that nothing had happened. They agreed to see each other, and she went to his home.

Jane said they tried to be upbeat, but there was a “sadness underneath.”

“Sean was basically saying that we were breaking up and we were just gonna be friends,” she testified, adding that he said “he loved me but what I did was so wrong.”

At one point, Combs asked his assistant what he had seen on the FaceTime call that night. Jane testified that the assistant said he only saw her crying in the corner when Combs accidentally turned the camera toward her.

Sean “Diddy” Combs had his assistant, Jonathan, and a security guard deliver $10,000 to $12,000 in cash to Jane to cover the entertainer’s cost and damages to the home. Jane testified that Combs damaged four doors during the altercation the night before.

She put some of the cash in a bag, covered it with paper, and sent it in the Uber.

She also took a photo of the Uber’s license plate, which the jury saw, in case there was an issue with the money transfer.

Jane testified that she never paid to get the doors fixed because there were so many other bills to take care of, but she did contact a supplier.

The jury saw an email Jane sent to a door supplier inquiring about replacing four doors, as well as several photos of the damaged doors.

Jane testified that Sean “Diddy” Combs told her he was inviting Antoine over because “we’re not gonna end the night like this.” She said Combs told her to put makeup on and put her hair to the side to cover her injuries, and that’s what she did.

Jane said Combs scrolled up and saw earlier messages between her and Antoine, the same entertainer she had seen in January 2024 during a trip to Las Vegas.

She said Combs saw a message where the entertainer referenced spending time with their “mutual friends.” Jane testified that she understood it to be a reference to the people from the Vegas trip. She said she hadn’t told Combs about the trip because they were on a break at the time.

Jane said Combs asked what the message referenced, and she told him she didn’t know “because I didn’t want to escalate the night.”

Jane said she chatted with Antoine for a little while when he arrived, before Combs asked to speak with her. She and Combs went into another room and he said the messages he read weren’t sitting right with him and asked her again about the “mutual friend” reference.

Around that time, Combs had her take ecstasy. They excused themselves from the room with Antoine and went into the bathroom, where he opened his hand to show her an ecstasy pill.

Combs insisted she take the pill. Jane recalled Combs saying she was not going to ruin his night.

“I don’t want to, I don’t want to, I don’t want to,” Jane recalled telling Combs emotionally on the stand.

Combs got close to her face and said, “Is this coercion?”

Jane testified that she just looked back at him.

They returned to the room, and she performed oral sex on the entertainer for what “felt like forever.”

She eventually had sex with the entertainer while Combs watched, Jane said.

Jane said after Sean “Diddy” Combs assaulted her, they went back into the master bedroom, and she used Combs’ phone to call the girl she assumed he was with on his family thrip.

Jane said she asked the girl if she was on the trip, and the girl started insulting her while the call was on speaker phone.

Jane said she yelled out that Combs was beating her, and he immediately hung up the phone, she testified.

Later, Combs FaceTimed one of his assistants and told him to tell Jane that there wasn’t a girl on the trip. Jane testified that she was in the corner of the room and Combs was standing right in front of her.

At some point after that, Jane went to shower to “cool off.” When she looked in the mirror, she noticed two “golf-ball-sized” welts on her forehead and a black eye forming.

Combs got in the shower too, but was still wearing clothes, standing out of the water. Jane testified that she told Combs she hated him.

Combs slapped her three times in the face, eventually knocking her off balance to the ground, Jane testified.

Combs was then using her phone to watch pornography. The phone was screen-mirrored to the TV, so she could see he was texting an “entertainer” they’d used before to see if he could come over.

Editor’s Note: If you or someone you know is struggling with intimate partner violence, there are resources available, including the National Domestic Violence Hotline.

Jane continued to testify about a June 2024 fight she had with Sean “Diddy” Combs in which she hid by a wall outside her house.

She started to walk back to the house because she assumed Combs would be gone by then, she said. When she turned the corner, she saw Combs on the street, she testified.

“I was scared, but I was quiet and I just kept walking back to the house because I didn’t want to wake up the neighbors,” she said.

Jane went into the guest bedroom in her house and locked the door, but Combs kicked the door in, she testified. She started throwing more candles because she wanted him to get away from her, she said.

She ran onto a patio, and Combs followed, she said.

Jane punched Combs once in the temple and didn’t see any injuries on him after, she said. Combs punched her in the head twice, “on my forehead and around my eye area,” she testified.

After Combs hit her, Jane ran into the backyard and “went into a ball” on the ground, trying to cover her head, she said.

Combs said she was trying to take him away from his kids and his family, and Jane responded that she wasn’t, and she told him to leave her alone, she testified.

“He grabs me by my arm and my hair and starts dragging me back to the house,” she said.

When Jane realized the fight with Sean “Diddy” Combs was escalating, she said she tried to lock herself in the master bedroom.

When Combs kicked open the bedroom door, Jane locked herself in the master bathroom, she said. Then, when he kicked that door off the hinges, she ran to the master closet. She changed her clothes while she was in the closet, Jane said, because she knew that she needed to wear something she could escape in.

Combs kicked open the closet door too. When Jane left that room and ran for the front door Combs caught her.

She testified that she was able to squirm out of Combs’ grasp and ran outside.

Jane testified she didn’t want to wake the neighbors so she quietly hid by a wall outside until she thought Combs would be gone. She said she thought she hid there for about two hours.

Editor’s Note: If you or someone you know is struggling with intimate partner violence, there are resources available, including the National Domestic Violence Hotline.

After she flew back to Los Angeles from Miami in May 2024, Jane didn’t see Sean “Diddy” Combs again in person until June 18, 2024, she said. She testified she remembers the date because “it was a very terrible day.”

They planned for a date night in the house where she lives, with Combs coming to Los Angeles after a family trip to Utah, Jane said. Combs’ assistant Jonathan came over first to help her set up the house with decor and candles and to stock the fridge, she said.

When Combs first arrived they spent time catching up in the backyard, Jane recalled.

The jury saw photos and a video that Jane took of Combs that night. In the video, music was playing and Combs could be heard talking.

Jane and Combs got into an argument about half an hour after the video, she testified. “I started confronting Sean about who he was with on his family trip,” she said. “I was making an assumption that he was with another woman.”

Jane called him a “pedophile,” she testified. Jane said the woman she thought he was with was an adult, but she was roughly 25 years younger than him.

At one point, Combs bent over to tie his shoe and she pushed his head into a marble counter, she said. She didn’t see any marks or injuries on his head later, she testified.

Jane said she started throwing candles around the house and repeatedly saying that she hated him. She said a lot of candle wax went onto Combs’ clothing but she didn’t see any glass hit him directly.

“I think he was probably cursing and calling me crazy,” she said, adding his tone was “angry.”

Jane and Combs didn’t immediately discuss what was shown in the InterContinental Hotel surveillance video that showed Combs assaulting Casandra Ventura in 2016, Jane testified. But they had a conversation about it later in 2024, around June or July, a month or two after the video was released.

“He said that that was the only time they had physical violence like that,” Jane said.

Combs also told her that Ventura “was a hitter and that she would hit,” Jane testified.

Prosecutor Maurene Comey asked Jane if Combs said whether he would hit Ventura. Jane said she thought he addressed it, but couldn’t remember what he said.

The jury watched Combs’ May 2024 video in which he apologized for physically assaulting Ventura in 2016 at the InterContinental Hotel.

Jane testified that she was at Combs’ Miami residence the day CNN released the InterContinental Hotel surveillance video that showed Combs assaulting Casandra Ventura.

Combs’ son came into his bedroom to tell Combs “something happened.”

Jane said she gave Combs space that day while he huddled with his family and friends.

At some point that day she was invited into a huddle with Combs, his sons, and others as they planned “a sincere apology post” to address the video.

She and Combs didn’t discuss the video in those first days, Jane said, but she never heard him deny it was him on that video.

The next day, Combs showed Jane a draft of the statement he posted on social media, she said. Jane testified that she gave Combs positive feedback on the post he drafted. She flew back to Los Angeles from Miami soon after that.

Jane said one of the entertainers they used frequently, Sly, threatened to release a sex tape of them in 2024 after the searches occurred. Sly said he had a 35-minute video of he and Jane during a hotel night, because Sean “Diddy” Combs had recorded the video on Sly’s phone instead of his own.

Jane said she called Combs, who got his legal team involved. She then spoke to Sly again and told him she had legal representation and what he tried to do was “sextortion” and she wouldn’t be having further conversations about it.

She later received a message from a big media company, saying they had just bought the tape and asking for comment.

Jane said the company never released the tape but she didn’t know why. She said she never spoke with Sly again.

Homeland Security Investigations left a business card at Jane’s home the day of the raids on Combs’ homes in March 2024, Jane testified.

She didn’t speak to anyone at HSI at the time, but she called Combs and his security guard, trying to reach Combs about it, she said.

At some point after the raids, Combs hired a lawyer for Jane. She confirmed Combs is still paying for the attorney representing her now.

Jane read aloud messages between her and Sean “Diddy” Combs in early March 2024.

Jane testified that Combs was trying to get her to set up a “hotel night” with “entertainers,” or men paid to have sexual encounters with Jane during the “hotel nights.”

In the messages, Combs told her that his mother was coming into town soon, and Jane responded implying that he was lying to cover up being with another woman

Combs wrote that it would be best if they went their separate ways “peacefully.”

“I would appreciate it if you could sign something for me so I could have closure comfortably,” he wrote.

“No problem,” Jane responded.

Combs wrote that Jane was making her own money now, so he hoped they could have a “clean break” and that he told his accountant. Jane testified that his accountant was the person responsible for paying her rent on time.

Jane texted him that she was still paying off her debt from being unemployed for three years when she was his “on-call party girl.” She asked Combs for three months before taking on the rental payments.

The jury saw more texts between Jane and Combs from that conversation.

Jane texted him “I’m tired of the rent threats I hate living like this.”