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Monday was day three of testimony for Sean “Diddy” Combs’ influencer ex-girlfriend, who’s utilizing the pseudonym “Jane,” as she returned to the witness stand for his sex-trafficking trial.
Jane recounted the day Combs realized that the notorious 2016 video of him assaulting ex Cassie Ventura at InterContinental Lodge in Los Angeles had hit the web.
In line with Jane, she was at Diddy’s house in Miami when CNN posted the footage on-line.
Jane testified that one among Combs’ sons broke the information to the rapper, saying that “one thing occurred.”
Jane informed the court docket that Diddy instantly went into disaster mode together with his staff and household. She then gave him some “house.”
She described the environment as “very eerie,” including, “I simply keep in mind that they had been simply attempting to provide you with some form of honest apology put up or one thing relating to the video.”
In a now-deleted video, Combs mentioned, “It is so troublesome to mirror on the darkest instances in your life. Typically you gotta do this. I used to be f—ed up. I imply I hit all-time low, however I make no excuses. My habits on that video is inexcusable.”
Throughout her testimony, Jane admitted she was “underwhelmed” by Diddy’s apology.
She defined, “I felt there was no coronary heart there.”
Following the discharge of the video, Jane and Diddy mentioned the incident in June or July of 2024.
She recounted, “He mentioned that that was the one time they’d bodily violence like that.”
In line with Jane, Diddy claimed that Ventura “was a hitter and that she would hit.”
Throughout her testimony, Jane additionally recalled an alleged beating that she suffered by the hands of Diddy months earlier than his arrest.
She described the June 2024 combat as a “horrible day.”
Main as much as their bodily altercation, Jane questioned Combs about his current household journey whereas they had been at her Los Angeles house. She testified, “I began confronting Sean about who he was with on his household journey. I used to be making an assumption that he was with one other lady.”
Together with testifying that she known as him a “pedophile,” Jane revealed that she pushed his head right into a marble counter and threw candles round the home.
She mentioned, “I believe he was in all probability cursing and calling me loopy.”
In line with Jane, the combat escalated, and Combs ultimately kicked down the lavatory door, the place she had locked herself in. He ultimately grabbed her when she was making an attempt to run for the entrance door.
She informed the court docket, “Sean kicked me behind my thigh, and I fell down. Then he picked me up in a chokehold and choked me.”
Jane testified that she was in a position to escape Diddy’s grasp and ultimately conceal by a wall exterior her house.
After hours of hiding, she thought the coast was clear and got here out, solely to come back head to head with Combs.
She testified, “I punched him after which he punched me.”
In line with Jane, she punched Combs within the temple, whereas he punched her “on my brow and round my eye space.”
The altercation continued within the yard, the place she “went right into a ball” and tried to guard herself.
She added, “He began punching my head. He began kicking me. He began saying all types of issues and simply stored punching me.”
Jane testified that it didn’t cease there, saying, “He grabs me by my arm and my hair and begins dragging me again to the home.”
In line with Jane, she suffered two “golf-ball-sized” welts on her brow and a black eye after the alleged beating.
In her testimony, Jane mentioned that Diddy informed her to cowl up her facial accidents with make-up since a freak off was taking place quickly after and Diddy informed her, “We’re not gonna finish the night time like this.”
She testified that Combs provided her an ecstasy capsule forward of the freak off and when she informed him, “I don’t wish to,” Combs allegedly bought in her face, asking, “Is that this coercion?”
Combs is at the moment on trial, dealing with costs together with racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking, and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. He has denied any wrongdoing.