June 12, 2025 – Day 22 of testimony in the Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial

• Jane’s testimony: “Jane,” one of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ accusers who is using a pseudonym in court, has finished testifying in his criminal trial. Jane was on the stand for several days and described the abuse she said she endured during her relationship with Combs.

• 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 about Jane’s testimony in the posts below.

“Jane,” one of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ accusers testifying under a pseudonym, concluded her testimony after undergoing cross-examination and redirect questioning.

Here’s what she said.

The prosecution and defense will return to court tomorrow at 8:30 a.m. ET, and testimony is expected to resume at 9 a.m. ET.

Judge Arun Subramanian said he needs some time to decide whether the prosecution can show jurors a text from 2015 that Sean “Diddy” Combs’ security guard sent him. The text recounts a violent incident between Combs and Gina that the security guard says would get him arrested, “even if she begged” the police not to do it.

Prosecutor Christy Slavik confirmed that Gina is identified as the third victim in the indictment tied to alleged violent acts. Slavik also said there are records putting Combs, Gina and the security guard in Atlanta at the time to corroborate the messages.

Defense attorney Jason Driscoll accused the prosecution of trying to get “two bites at the apple” because Gina isn’t expected to testify.

The jury has been dismissed for the day. Testimony will resume tomorrow morning.

Prosecutors said they plan to call a special agent as their next witness.

The prosecution and defense are still in the courtroom discussing exhibits that may come up during testimony tomorrow. They are going one-by-one dealing with defense objections to exhibits the prosecution wants to submit tomorrow.

Jane is off the stand. In a highly unusual move, as Jane left the witness stand, she stopped and embraced prosecutor Maurene Comey. She continued walking, glared at Sean “Diddy” Combs, and then leaned in to hug defense attorney Teny Geragos. Geragos’ shoulder twitched, suggesting she was caught off guard.

The jurors were still in the courtroom when the hugs occurred.

Just before she got off the stand, Geragos asked Jane if Combs would say throughout their relationship that they could break up if she wanted.

“Just because he said that, that’s not what he meant,” Jane said.

She also acknowledged she didn’t want to break up with him.

Defense attorney Teny Geragos asked Jane to confirm she saw Sean “Diddy” Combs a few times in the weeks after the “sobriety party” in October 2023, including when she gifted him a portable TV for his birthday so he could watch pornography or videos from past “hotel nights” during their “movie nights.”

Jane said she gave him the TV “so I could protect myself from not having sex with other men.”

Geragos pointed out that Combs would use the TV to watch videos of Jane having sex with other men.

“I bought the TV so that it could be an option instead of me having to have sex with other men,” Jane said.

Geragos suggested that there were several times Jane would not have sex with entertainers during their “movie nights.”

“All of it was sh*t,” Jane responded.

Judge Arun Subramanian told Jane to answer the questions that she’s asked.

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ attorney Teny Geragos confirmed Jane gets almost $5,000 in monthly child support from her child’s father who is “a wealthy individual.”

She also asked Jane how much she makes monthly through Only Fans. Jane said she makes more than $10,000 per month and the most she’s ever made in one month is $50,000.

Geragos suggested Jane could afford her own rent.

Jane said she’s catching up on three years of debt.

Geragos also confirmed that Combs gave her more than $150,000 in addition to paying her rent in the three years they were involved.

“Is that all I’m worth in three years,” Jane said, then eventually answering “yes.”

Geragos asked, “Did you want more than that?”

“Do you think I’m worth more than that,” Jane replied.

Geragos asked, “I’m asking if you want more than that?”

Jane said, “No.”

Defense attorney Teny Geragos referenced Jane’s response on redirect that she would give all the money and gifts back if it meant she never had to have sex with other men during her relationship with Sean “Diddy” Combs.

“You were not willing to give up your home right?” Geragos asked.

“That’s where me and my child live,” Jane responded. “That’s a very hard question to answer.”

“You wanted to stay in the home you and your child lived in?” Geragos asked.

“I was in the position – that’s a very hard question,” Jane said.

On recross-examination, defense attorney Teny Geragos asked Jane a series of questions about the night of June 18, 2024 — the night Jane has testified she was in an extensive altercation with Sean “Diddy” Combs at Jane’s rented Los Angeles home.

Geragos confirmed with Jane that she knew that the “entertainer” Antoine was coming over; that he had only her phone number; and that she drove her car to let Antoine into the neighborhood and could have instead left the community in her car.

Jane confirmed that she never told Antoine that she didn’t want him to come in, or that she didn’t want to engage in sexual activities with him.

When asked, Jane also confirmed that she knew Combs was a subject of a federal investigation at that point and had a criminal lawyer representing her.

Assistant US Attorney Maurene Comey returned to cross-examination when defense attorney Teny Geragos pointed out that there weren’t visible marks on Jane’s neck in the videos taken days after the June 18 incident.

Jane used her arm to show the jury how Sean “Diddy” Combs put her in a chokehold with his arm around her neck, not his fingers.

Comey repeatedly asked Jane if Combs could have left safely at various points during the night, such as when she locked herself in different rooms or was curled up in a ball in the yard. Each time, Jane responded yes.

Comey asked if Jane would give back all the money and gifts she received from Combs if it meant she never had to have sex with another man during their relationship. “Yes,” Jane responded.

When asked, Jane said she has no financial stake in the outcome of the trial and is not expecting to receive any compensation for her testimony.

Comey asked Jane why she was testifying at the trial.

Jane said, “Because I was subpoenaed and I’m here.”

Redirect examination is over.

Geragos is now questioning Jane on recross-examination.

Prosecutor Maurene Comey asked Jane if Sean “Diddy” Combs was vulnerable or affectionate with her the night of June 18, when she said Combs assaulted her and then forced her to perform oral sex on an “entertainer.”

Jane described Combs’ demeanor as “evil.”

Jane testified earlier that Combs was “vulnerable” with her during hotel nights and the most affectionate with her during hotel nights.

Comey asked Jane about her injuries from that altercation. Jane recounted that she had a black eye forming, a bruise on her leg and three welts on head.

“How do you compare in strength to Sean?” Comey asked.

“I don’t,” Jane relied.

Jane, one of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ accusers testifying under a pseudonym, said she started telling Combs she didn’t want to do “hotel nights” in 2021 but became more vocal about it in 2023.

She testified that at the time of the “sobriety party” in October 2023, Combs had been paying her rent for several months. She said in the months before the “sobriety party,” Combs would often bring up her rent in the context of “hotel nights” and had threatened to stop paying her rent “in all different types of ways.”

Assistant US Attorney Maurene Comey revisited several text messages Jane sent Combs the day before the “sobriety party” in October 2023. Some of the messages said:

“I don’t want to be … mistreated. I don’t feel like performing loveless, cold sex.”

“Im not a porn star, Im not an animal. I need a break. I don’t want to do anything. I’ve hit a wall.”

“It’s been three years of me having to f**k strangers. I’m tired.”

“Sex is sacred to me and I can’t be used like this anymore. I just wanted to make you happy but it’s creating a war inside me. I need a break. I can’t be in another hotel room doing drugs and performing exhausted sex for days.”

Assistant US Attorney Maurene Comey revisited a fight that Jane testified she had with Sean “Diddy” Combs in August 2023 over a proposed “all-star” party with more than one entertainer.

In testimony last week, Jane testified she initially proposed the party while she was high, but then backed off that plan, and that she and Combs argued because of that.

Combs grew angry and accused her of lying and cheating on him, the jury heard today.

Last week, the jury heard that Jane told Combs she had to reschedule the party because she just got her period and sent him a photo as proof. The jury again heard of this photo today.

Today, the jury again was presented this text from Jane to Combs: “I reread all of our texts from the switch up to not feeling good, to the accusations of me lying and playing you for money and everything was f**k me. All because I ended up not feeling good and asking if I can postpone. You have flaked and disappeared so many countless times on me. I’ve nonstop given you these nights for two and a half years, and this is the first time I just hit a wall and was honest and asking for space to go feel better. Now I’m waking up to more f**k me. I’m not a liar, a cheater, a user, or a sex robot. I’m just as hurt and upset and we need to have a serious talk about everything.”

Assistant US Attorney Maurene Comey asked Jane why she brought up “hotel nights” to Sean “Diddy” Combs when they had discussions about the other women in his life.

“What I was trying to express every time I brought up women was: Why? Why do I have to be degraded in order to be with you?” Jane said, becoming emotional.

“Why do I have to break all my boundaries and compromise on myself, but they don’t have to, but they can still experience you in the way I want to?”

Assistant US Attorney Maurene Comey asked Jane if she could remember the specific date of every “hotel night” throughout her entire relationship with Sean “Diddy” Combs.

Jane said no.

Comey then asked Jane if she wanted to remember every single “hotel night” with Combs.

“I wish I could forget them.”

Jane would fake orgasms with “entertainers” during “hotel nights,” she testified under redirect examination by the prosecution.

“I was putting on a show,” she testified.

Jane would sometimes send an “entertainer” a positive message about their time together to make him feel good, she testified.

“I didn’t want him to feel used,” she said.

Assistant US Attorney Maurene Comey revisited text messages Jane sent to the entertainer Paul after the March 2023 trip to Turks and Caicos, when she ended a second “hotel night” early after they had been with the entertainer for 24 hours.

She told Paul that Combs “didn’t make me feel like a human being.”

Jane also wrote, “It had been 24 hours with no breaks for me and at first I was going with the flow for the second linkup, but I had warned him that I just felt overwhelmed to overperform for a moment I’ve never done before. I’m not a robot, just a mix of tired, hungry, sleepy, sore.”

Comey asked why Jane sent Combs affectionate messages after the Turks’ trip if it was so disappointing.

Jane testified there was a confusing cycle of Combs “showering her with love and affection, with all the sexual exploitation in between.”

“I was just able to compartmentalize all the bad stuff,” she said. “All the loving messages are just me focusing on all the good parts of us.”

Assistant US Attorney Maurene Comey referenced messages between Jane and Sean “Diddy” Combs from June 2022.

“I know what you want, baby, but not really in the mood for that part,” Jane texted him. “Don’t wanna make you mad.”

Jane testified that he had been hinting that he wanted an “intimate night,” and she didn’t want to make him upset. “That’s usually the response that I get from him when I declined those things,” she said.

“All good,” Combs responded in the messages.

Comey then pulled up a message Combs sent to Paul, one of the men they frequently invited to “hotel nights,” a little over an hour later.

“Imma need you to persuade her,” Combs said in part.

Jane testified she wasn’t aware of that message at the time.

Judge Arun Subramanian is back on the bench after a break, and Jane is back on the stand.

Assistant US Attorney Maurene Comey is now questioning Jane on redirect examination.

Defense attorney Teny Geragos is finished the cross-examination of Jane.

The jury was dismissed for a brief break. Assistant US Attorney Maurene Comey is due to question Jane on redirect examination next.