Sean “Diddy” Combs’s ex-girlfriend “Jane” is expected to return to the stand at the hip-hop mogul’s New York trial on Monday after delivering teary testimony last week about being pressured into fulfilling his “freaky, wild desires.”
The witness, who is known under a pseudonym to shield her identity, will testify for a third day once proceedings resume at 9am inside Manhattan federal court.
Jane, who dated Combs from 2021 to 2024, told the court on Friday that he had made her feel “obligated” to join in his “hotel nights,” in which he directed her participation in sex acts with other men, because she “loved him very deeply.”
One such session had lasted for more than three days, Janes testified. She said that she used drugs during these encounters because she “didn’t want to feel like it was too real” and revealed that she suffered health problems, including recurring UTIs and yeast infections, which she attributed to the frequent sex marathons.
Combs’s defense attorneys have meanwhile again called for a mistrial, claiming that the testimony of Bryana “Bana” Bongolan, who accused the rapper of dangling her from a 17th-storey balcony at Cassie Ventura’s home, was “demonstrably false in key respects.”
Combs is facing sex trafficking, transportation to engage in prostitution and racketeering conspiracy charges. He was arrested in September 2024 as federal authorities alleged he threatened, abused and coerced victims “to fulfill his sexual desires” between 2004 and 2024.
The rapper has denied any accusations of wrongdoing.
Diddy dangled Cassie Ventura’s friend off 17th-floor apartment balcony, jury told
Here’s Kelly Rissman’s report on Bryana Bongolan’s testimony, which Combs’s defense team insist was “demonstrably false” in their call for a mistrial.
Joe Sommerlad9 June 2025 12:25
Rapper’s attorneys again call for a mistrial
Combs’s defense attorneys have again called for a mistrial, claiming that the testimony of Bryana “Bana” Bongolan, who accused the rapper of dangling her from a 17th-storey balcony at star witness Cassie Ventura’s home in September 2016, was “demonstrably false in key respects.”
Defense attorney Alexandra Shapiro accused Bongolan, a long-term friend of Ventura’s, of perjury, pointing to hotel receipts indicating that Combs was actually in New York, not Los Angeles, on the dates the witness cited.
“The government knew or should have known this testimony was perjured, and that Ms Bongolan could not possibly have been injured by Mr Combs on a Los Angeles balcony in the early morning hours of September 26, or even the day before that,” Shapiro wrote in a complaint over the weekend alleging prosecutorial misconduct.
Defense lawyers also pushed for a mistrial last month, without success, after prosecutors tried to ask about the destruction of fingerprint evidence related to an arson investigation into a torched sports car owned by the rapper Kid Cudi.
Prosecutors allege that Combs coordinated the firebombing of the car after Cudi began dating Ventura.
Judge Arun Subramanian swiftly rejected their arguments and the trial continued.
Joe Sommerlad9 June 2025 12:05
Diddy’s ex-girlfriend ‘Jane’ to resume testimony on Monday
Sean Combs’s ex-girlfriend “Jane” is expected to return to the stand at the hip-hop mogul’s New York trial today after delivering teary testimony last week about being pressured into fulfilling his “freaky, wild desires.”
The witness, who is known under a pseudonym to shield her identity, will testify for a third day once proceedings resume at 9am inside Manhattan federal court.
Jane, who dated Combs from 2021 to 2024, told the court on Friday that he had made her feel “obligated” to join in his “hotel nights,” in which he directed her participation in sex acts with other men, because she “loved him very deeply.”
One such session had lasted for more than three days, Janes testified. She said that she used drugs during these encounters because she “didn’t want to feel like it was too real” and revealed that she suffered health problems, including recurring UTIs and yeast infections, which she attributed to the frequent sex marathons.
Here’s Kelly Rissman’s report on Friday’s testimony.
Joe Sommerlad9 June 2025 11:45
Good morning
Hello and welcome to The Independent’s live coverage of the sex trafficking trial of hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs as it resumes in New York on Monday.
Combs is facing sex trafficking, transportation to engage in prostitution and racketeering conspiracy charges.
He was arrested in September 2024 as federal authorities alleged he threatened, abused and coerced victims “to fulfill his sexual desires” between 2004 and 2024.
Combs has denied any accusations of wrongdoing.
Joe Sommerlad9 June 2025 11:25
