Jane - a pseudonym to protect her identity - tells the court Diddy is still paying her rent, even though she is a witness for the prosecution. The jury hears she didn’t want to take part in the so called “hotel nights” when she had a period, and sent Diddy a picture of a used tampon to prove this. She says this upset Combs, who accused her of going back on her offer to have a hotel session.Jane says she regularly suffered from pain and UTIs as a result of the ‘Hotel Nights’. She would usually take a lot of drugs, but on a couple of occasions she remained sober. One time she says she threw up after having sex with two men. She says Combs told her to carry on with a third man.Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty speaks to BBC digital reporter Sakshi Venkatraman about the day in court.Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is on trial in New York, facing federal charges of sex trafficking, racketeering with conspiracy and transportation for prostitution. He denies all the charges.The Diddy on Trial podcast is here to investigate the rumours, confront the theories, and give you the answers that you need.We also want YOU to be part of the conversation. Have you any questions about the case? Heard a theory that doesn’t sit right with you? Get in touch now via WhatsApp: 0330 123 555 1.Details of organisations in the UK offering information and support with some of the issues raised are available at bbc.co.uk/actionlinePresenter: Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty Series Producer: Laura Jones Sound Design: Mark Burrows Senior Digital Producer: Matthew Pintus Senior Journalist: Charlotte McDonald Production Coordinator: Hattie Valentine Editor: Clare Fordham Commissioning Editor: Rhian Roberts Assistant Commissioner: Will Drysdale Commissioning Producer: Adam Eland Commissioning Assistant Producer: Rechmial Miller
Chapter 1: What is the context of Diddy's trial?
BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts Hello and welcome back to Diddy on Trial from BBC Sounds with me, Anushka Matandavati. It's the end of week four of the trial. We are technically halfway there. We've got one more week of the prosecution and then we're into the defence.
Now, a reminder, Diddy is on trial for charges of sex trafficking, transportation for prostitution and racketeering with conspiracy. He denies them all. A warning, this episode contains graphic descriptions of sex. Yesterday, the woman who's testifying under the pseudonym Jane took the stand for the first time.
She told us about the romantic start to her relationship with Diddy before he introduced the idea of sexual sessions in hotel rooms. Today, she was back in court. OK, it's five o'clock. Court is over. There is thunder crackling in the sky. So we've ducked into the bar on the corner of the street that is refuge whenever it starts to chuck it down in New York.
Chapter 2: What did Jane reveal about her relationship with Diddy?
I'm here with the BBC's New York digital reporter, Sakshi Venkatraman. She's going to fill us in on what happened today in court with Jane. Sakshi, the beginning of the day, a lot of what Jane was saying, it spoke to the RICO charge like quite heavily.
Yeah, so today's testimony was very intense. You know, Jane's testimony has obviously been some of the most anticipated of this trial. And today we definitely saw that it spoke to the racketeering conspiracy charge.
So one of the biggest things she spoke to was how drugs were transported to Sean Combs during the course of their relationship, whether that be to hotels for their sex parties or whether that just be to his different homes. She talked about one instance
where she was made to pack a package of drugs in her check-in luggage and she phoned christina karam uh combs current chief of staff at the time and asked her if this was safe and she said karam said i've done this before several times like it's fine so she eventually packed the luggage got it from a security staff member and took it across state lines from la to miami to deliver the drugs to diddy
Chapter 3: How did Jane describe her experiences during 'hotel nights'?
And that's really interesting because Christina is employed by Combs Enterprises, right? Well, what Jane's telling the court is that Christina is persuading Jane that it's OK to do that and it's safe and she's done it before.
Yeah, so we've heard Christina Crum's name come up several times over the course of this trial from various staff members.
But then Jane's testimony moved on to familiar territory, I guess you could say, talking about these days-long drug-fuelled orgies with male commercial sex workers. Now, Jane referred to these as hotel nights. Cassie called them freak-offs. What did Jane have to say about her experience with hotel nights?
So a lot of what Jane said mirrored what we've heard in Cassie's testimony about these male entertainers called by Diddy into these hotels and these marathon hours and days long sex parties where though she testified that she was uncomfortable, she was on her period, she sometimes had UTIs or...
cramps or other painful issues she was made to carry on with having sex with these escorts she said over the course of their relationship which was only three years as compared to cassie's 11 years there were several different men i think she named like three or four pretty explicitly and kept circling back to their names today and they would repeatedly come over to different hotels sometimes
be flown across state lines, be flown across country lines. For example, on one instance, an escort was flown to Turks and Caicos from the United States, which also speaks to the RICO charge.
Yeah, and of course, there's the transportation for prostitution charge that that speaks directly to where they speak about foreign and interstate transportation. So she talks about these hotel nights and Jane says that she didn't want to have sex with other men. She wanted to have sex with Diddy.
But when it came to communicating that to him, she said that she put on a face, she put on a good performance and she kind of made out like she was up for it.
Jane basically said There were times when she didn't want to participate, but she didn't say no. She put on a good face and made it seem like she was really enjoying it. She mentioned a couple of instances where she even organized these hotel nights herself in order to please Kongs. And she still maintains that she didn't want to do it, but she said that she was doing it to make Sean happy.
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Chapter 4: What physical and emotional challenges did Jane face?
So in his audio message, he pretty much shut down what she was saying, said things like, stop comparing yourself to other girls, don't talk to me this way, don't disrespect me.
Yeah, and when they asked Jane to speak about these audio messages that she'd received from him, she said she found them dismissive or belittling of the concerns that she was raising or the fact that she just didn't want to participate in these hotel nights anymore.
Now, she spoke a lot about being under the influence of drugs when she did these hotel nights and that helping her get through the experience.
but she did say there were two times when she wasn't on drugs when she did these hotel nights and she spoke about one in 2023 she wanted Diddy to stop using as many drugs she was trying to get him off drugs and get her off drugs and he said let's do a sobriety party but Jane detailed to the court that that was not an enjoyable experience for her at all
Right. So Jane said that during this sobriety party experience, in fact, Holmes said he was using drugs. She said he took ecstasy and cocaine and she was entirely sober. And she said it was a thoroughly unenjoyable experience. She felt like it was too real. That was her quote. And she didn't want to be doing it.
Another interesting thing about the drugs at the hotel nights that kind of circles back to the racketeering charge is the description of the network of assistants and employees that would supply the drugs to them. She said that oftentimes if they ran out of drugs, he would just make a call to one of his assistants.
And a little while later, those assistants would show up at the door of the hotel with the drugs that he requested.
Yeah, and at this sobriety night, she said after she was having sex with the second escort, she got sick and she threw up in the bathroom. And Diddy's response, at least in Jane's recollection of events, does directly speak to the coercive element of the sex trafficking charge.
So yes, Jane told the court that Diddy came to the bathroom, saw that she had thrown up, and said something to the effect of, it's good that you've thrown up. You'll feel better now. Let's get back out there. The third guy is coming. And then they had a third escort join them at the hotel.
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Chapter 5: How did Jane communicate her discomfort to Diddy?
And he left actually to go on a different birthday trip with a different girl. She says that she was watching alone on this girl's Instagram story as Diddy took her on a private jet to a private island and treated all her friends to this birthday experience that she, Jane, feels that she never got.
so she actually cut off diddy for about a month and they didn't speak to each other and they made up they took a trip together to turks and keikos where she again was expecting to spend alone time with him and again he flew in an escort from the u.s to have another hotel night she said that really upset her so after this trip they came back to miami and diddy suggested
this love contract, and that's how she phrased it, a love contract, where he said, I'll give you an allowance every month for a period of a year. And she requested $15,000 a month. He came down to $10,000. They decided that he would actually do it for two years. And he ended up financing a new house.
She said immediately after this love contract was decided upon, she went and got a huge expensive house for her and her child.
Yeah, and there was an audio message played where Diddy refers to him being on his job and Jane needing to be on her job. And the prosecution prompted her to explain what she thought that audio message meant. What did Jane have to say about that?
Well, the love contract was supposed to be this resolution in their relationship, something that both of them were... happy with. She even described at the beginning of making their relationship feel more equal, given the work that she was doing with the hotel nights. It actually ended up, from her perspective, causing a lot of issues.
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Chapter 6: What was Diddy's response to Jane's concerns?
She said that there were many times where she felt that if she didn't do what he wanted her to do, the fact that he was paying her rent over her head in subtle ways, even going as far as saying in a message, look at the roof over your head, when she was expressing hesitancy about a hotel night.
Chapter 7: What role did drugs play in Jane's experiences?
And then the prosecution asked her a question. They said, who was paying your rent during this time? She said, Diddy. And they said, are you still living in this house now? And she said, yes. And then they said, well, who's paying your rent now?
And she said, Diddy. She said that Diddy is still paying her rent. And I think that's definitely something that's going to be coming up when the defense does her cross questioning. It's a pretty significant thing that, you know, while she is taking the stand for the prosecution testifying against him, she is still, to some extent, financially dependent on him.
And then finally, she spoke a little bit about how this arrangement was working towards the end of their relationship. She told the court when she was on drugs, she'd promised him an all-star meetup, meaning four of the different commercial male sex workers who were potentially their favorites would come and she'd do a hotel night with all of them.
And she's trying to plan this and organize it, but it isn't going to plan. And this causes some massive issues.
She said that she'd kind of been delaying on the promise to have that night. She said she wasn't feeling very well. She also said that she was on her period. She physically wasn't feeling well because of that. And in order to prove that, she actually sent pictures to Diddy of a toilet paper with blood on it of her bloody tampon to prove that she was physically uncomfortable.
And he still responded in text messages that were shown to the jury with some anger. He was upset that she had made this promise and she had basically not delivered on her promise to have this hotel night. And once again, the question of who's financing her came into her mind.
Sakshi, thank you so much for breaking that down for us.
Thank you so much, Anushka.
That was the New York digital reporter, Sakshi Venkataraman, and that's it for this episode of Diddy on Trial from BBC Sounds with me, Anushka Matanda-Dowity. Make sure you subscribe and turn on your post notifications so you never miss a thing. And if you're in the UK and you would like support on the issues we've been discussing, go to bbc.co.uk forward slash action run.
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