Diddy’s ex-girlfriend ‘Jane’ tells jurors he handled her like ‘an animal’

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As we speak, the jurors in Diddy’s trial heard extra emotionally wrenching testimony from a lady recognized solely by the pseudonym “Jane.” She’s one among Diddy’s ex-girlfriends — and one among 4 alleged victims on the heart of the U.S. authorities’s racketeering conspiracy and intercourse trafficking case in opposition to the music mogul.

Jane informed jurors that Diddy compelled her to take part in “lodge nights” — sexual encounters with male escorts that made her really feel debased. “You deal with me like an animal,” Jane mentioned she informed him in 2023. She described violent abuse, saying he as soon as put her in a chokehold and punched her within the head. He then compelled her to take medication and carry out oral intercourse on an escort, she informed jurors.

Jane’s testimony is a part of prosecutors’ effort to point out that Diddy orchestrated a sprawling felony enterprise to “fulfill his sexual needs.” He has denied all the costs.

Right here’s what else it is advisable to know:

• Two years in the past, in accordance with prosecutors’ displays, Jane texted Diddy that she didn’t wish to be “used and locked in a room to carry out and fulfill your fantasies.” The identical day, she informed him she didn’t wish to fly to New York to “be a hoe for the millionth time” in a lodge room. Jane mentioned she felt obliged to “carry out” intercourse acts that made her really feel “disgusting” partly as a result of Diddy paid her hire.
• Jane mentioned she fainted after Cassie Ventura, one other one among Diddy’s ex-girlfriends, filed a lawsuit accusing him of rape and sexual abuse throughout a 10-year on-and-off relationship. Jane mentioned she was struck by the similarities between their two accounts. “I really feel like I’m studying my very own sexual trauma,” Jane texted Diddy in 2023.
• Jane described her suicidal ideation on the finish of her relationship with Diddy, including she informed him she would kill herself. In textual content messages, she informed him she believed he would “use” and “break” her. When prosecutor Maurene Comey requested why she despatched these texts, Jane cried so exhausting that it was obscure her reply.

• In late 2023, Diddy threatened to launch intercourse tapes of Jane and present them to her baby’s father, she testified. Jane texted Diddy’s then-chief of employees, Kristina Khorram, and begged her to “discuss some sense” into him, in accordance with prosecutors’ displays. Khorram assured Jane “he’s not going to do something,” Jane mentioned.

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🔎 The view from inside

By Adam Reiss, Chloe Melas and Katherine Koretski

Jane, going through one other grueling day of questions, grew visibly anguished at key moments.

Her voice cracked as she informed jurors a couple of evening in 2023 when, she mentioned, she was instructed to satisfy Diddy on the Trump Worldwide Lodge & Tower New York and directed to have intercourse with a male escort. She wiped away tears as she recalled telling Diddy she didn’t wish to have intercourse with different males anymore. She sobbed as she recounted her response to Ventura’s allegations in opposition to Diddy.

Diddy, carrying khaki pants and what seemed to be a white long-sleeve shirt, appeared engaged within the day’s testimony. He leafed by way of paperwork in a folder this morning and frequently leaned over to talk with protection legal professional Teny Geragos all through the day. He seems to have misplaced appreciable weight in federal detention.

Diddy’s mom, Janice Combs, sat within the gallery. When she entered courtroom, her son mouthed 4 phrases in her course: “I like you, Mommy.”

👨‍⚖️ Evaluation: Removed from bizarre lives

By Danny Cevallos

Jane testified right now that final yr she joined the OnlyFans platform, a website incessantly used to create express content material for paid subscriptions. There’s nothing improper with a authorities witness creating express content material. Certainly, the witnesses who cooperate with the federal government are sometimes outright criminals. Furthermore, the jury will likely be instructed about easy methods to assess the credibility of a witness, and the jury directions make no distinction amongst intercourse staff, docs or astronauts.

Credibility is decided by the jurors, and so they have few limitations on their means to make that willpower. So although they shouldn’t low cost Jane’s testimony as a result of she was on OnlyFans, they nonetheless may.

Jane mentioned she joined OnlyFans as a result of she “needed to reclaim having my independence and never depend on anybody and stand by myself two toes.” Whereas the jury shouldn’t low cost her testimony as a result of she could have been an OnlyFans content material creator, it’d low cost it if it finds her purpose for becoming a member of OnlyFans to be not very credible.

One juror may assume there are different jobs that will permit somebody to “stand on their very own two toes.” Then once more, it’s totally potential that the jury might discover reclaiming one’s independence to be a wonderfully acceptable, regular purpose to affix OnlyFans as a content material creator.

It doesn’t matter what, although, one theme of the federal government’s witnesses who escaped Diddy’s orbit is that all of them lived lives that common of us have a tough time figuring out with.

🗓 What’s subsequent

Tomorrow: “Jane” is predicted to return to the stand.

BTW: Each evening throughout Diddy’s trial, NBC’s “Dateline” will drop particular episodes of the “True Crime Weekly” podcast to get you in control. “Dateline” correspondent Andrea Canning chats with NBC Information’ Chloe Melas and particular friends — proper in entrance of the courthouse. Pay attention right here.

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