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00:30Sean Diddy Combs, a music titan, a cultural icon, a criminal defender.
00:42Music mogul Sean Diddy Combs goes on trial today.
00:45Indicted with multiple federal crimes, the worldwide mogul is the sole person charged in this case and maintains his innocence.
00:51Every week, we take you inside the trial using actors and court transcripts to chronicle every crucial moment.
01:00We promise to tell the truth.
01:01Word for word.
01:02Is the government prepared to proceed?
01:03Diddy on trial as it happened.
01:05Thank you for joining us.
01:13I'm your host, Sunny Hostin, and welcome to Diddy on trial as it happened.
01:18It's week four in the trial of Sean Diddy Combs.
01:21If convicted of all charges, he'll be sentenced to life in prison.
01:25This past week, Combs faced an unexpected accuser, a former assistant who testified under the pseudonym of Mia.
01:32She says her relationship with Combs was marked by highs, lows, and violence.
01:38We've now talked about several instances in which Mr. Combs was physically violent to you.
01:44How did you feel on those occasions?
01:46Terrified, humiliated, embarrassed.
01:50Again, like, I didn't know, I didn't know, like, what I did wrong.
01:54And in a weird way, like, like I, like I, like I didn't know why I deserved it.
02:00And, but I made a lot of excuses for him in my head.
02:04Just months after getting the job, Mia claimed she was sexually assaulted by Combs at his 40th birthday party.
02:11He poured us shots of vodka to cheers for his birthday.
02:14How many shots did he give you?
02:16I think two.
02:17What did you do with the shots?
02:18I took them.
02:19Had you been drinking earlier that night?
02:21Not that I can recall, but if so, like, it wasn't affecting, it wasn't, like, affecting me.
02:26How did these shots that you took with Mr. Combs make you feel?
02:29I remember thinking, like, that, whoa, did I not eat or something?
02:33Because they affected me.
02:34Like, I felt like they hit me kind of hard.
02:37How did shots normally make you feel at this point in your life?
02:39I was in my 20s in New York.
02:40Two shots would not have made me feel that way.
02:43What did Mr. Combs do after you took the shots?
02:45He was still talking, like, and I just remember my back.
02:49I was, like, standing against the wall, and I just remember he was talking, and all of a sudden his face got closer.
02:55Like, I remember my eyes couldn't, like, focus on his face because it was so close, and I didn't really know what was happening.
03:01And he put his arm next to my head against the wall and, like, leaned in to kiss me and put his other hand up the side of my dress.
03:09I just want to make sure I have this straight.
03:12Did Mr. Combs kiss you at that point?
03:15Yeah.
03:16Did you want Mr. Combs to kiss you?
03:18No.
03:19Did Mr. Combs put his hand up your dress?
03:22Yes.
03:23Did you want him to do that?
03:25No.
03:25Were you able to tell Mr. Combs no in that moment?
03:30No.
03:30Why not?
03:32I was shocked, and I was shocked, and I froze.
03:35I didn't even process what was happening.
03:37What is the next thing that you remember happening after Mr. Combs kissed you?
03:42My next, like, memory is I just remember being on a chair, like, in the main room in the penthouse, and, like, coming to the chair, and the sun was coming up.
03:49When you came to, were you clothed?
03:51Yes.
03:52Mia described the memory as traumatizing, but the defense says her texts tell a different story.
03:59And November 4, 2016, the jurors will remember, it's the day that you remember as Mr. Combs' birthday.
04:06Nothing else attached, right?
04:07Objection.
04:08It's overruled.
04:10Now that you bring it up, I remember it, but I was always, it was Puff's birthday to me.
04:15And Puff's birthday to you also included you being sexually assaulted, right?
04:19It was not.
04:20I didn't associate the two until you just brought that up today.
04:24Read what you wrote.
04:26Happy birthday, Puff Daddy.
04:27Thank you for the B-Day dinner and a movie night.
04:29You are the coolest alien rock star unicorn pizza slice, and we fucking love you.
04:36Joining me this week, writer and cultural critic Ture and legal analyst Jamie Floyd.
04:41Now, Jamie, the defense during cross-examination highlights the fact that while Mia testified to being sexually assaulted on Sean Combs' 40th birthday,
04:53on the anniversary of that birthday, several years later, she posts on social media an effusive happy birthday to the alien rock star.
05:02What effect does that have on the jury?
05:05Right.
05:05What they're trying to do is chip away at her credibility.
05:09Not even so much questioning trauma that she may have suffered, but questioning how much coercion there was.
05:18Questioning why she stayed, questioning why, if this was an assault, why she didn't tell anyone at the time.
05:27So, what they need to do, remember, they have a presumption of innocence on their side.
05:33All they need to do is raise reasonable doubt about some of her testimony.
05:39And that's what they're trying to do with Ture.
05:41She's writing these posts as part of her job.
05:43But she's still working there.
05:45She still lives in his home.
05:46She doesn't leave.
05:48She's posting these things.
05:50You don't think a jury's going to question her credibility?
05:53Or one juror?
05:54I think that if she existed alone, those would be valuable conversations.
05:59But she exists in a whole context of many, many people who've said similar things.
06:04And others have explained, if you want to be in this world, the music business, you kind of got to deal with this guy.
06:10Social media posts, necessary?
06:12Instagram was her job.
06:14So, her job was to say, he's a great guy on Instagram.
06:18I don't think it's so much that she's posting on social media.
06:22It's the words that were chosen.
06:24We love you.
06:25Yeah, we.
06:26Why does she need to be saying love?
06:27It's not I love you, right?
06:29It's we love you.
06:30But it's just professional Instagram.
06:33Our job here is to hype him up and make him look good.
06:35We can do that while also thinking he's a horrible person to her.
06:39What we have to remember is that the defense only needs to raise doubt in the minds of one juror, in the mind of one juror, and they've got a hung jury.
06:50During the trial, many witnesses testified that Combs craved control, from the elaborate staging of his infamous freak-offs to his exacting orders to employees.
07:01Mia, when you were in Mr. Combs' homes, were you able to leave them whenever you wanted?
07:06Oh, no.
07:07Why not?
07:07I wasn't allowed.
07:09I had to ask permission.
07:10And who would you have to ask permission?
07:12Puff.
07:13When you were living in Mr. Combs' homes, were you allowed to lock your bedroom door?
07:16No.
07:17Why not?
07:18Because Puff said, like, this is my house, no one locks my doors.
07:21Mia continued her testimony, detailing a disturbing story where she woke up and found Combs in her bed.
07:28What caused you to wake up?
07:30The weight of a person on top of me.
07:32Who was on top of you?
07:33Puff.
07:34What do you remember happening when Mr. Combs was on top of you?
07:37I remember, I remember it was sort of like him telling you that somehow being quiet and using, this just happened so fast, using, like, one hand to get, I guess, his hands or whatever off.
07:51What did he do when he used that hand to get his hands undone?
07:55He, he put, he put his, he put himself inside of me.
08:03So you said he put himself inside of you, is that right?
08:05Yes.
08:07Do you mean that he put his penis inside of you?
08:09Mm-hmm, yes.
08:11And how did that, how did you react when that happened?
08:15I just froze, I didn't react.
08:17How did you feel?
08:19Terrified and confused and ashamed and scared.
08:24Did you want to have sex with Mr. Combs?
08:26No.
08:27Mia testified there were other instances of sexual assault that occurred over several years while she was still working for Combs.
08:34Well, you remember telling them that the sexual assault occurred so often, more times than you can count.
08:40I don't remember phrasing it that way.
08:42I remember saying that there were more, I don't remember all the times.
08:46I did have the memories I already shared and I know it happened more, but I don't remember how many.
08:50Well, by this time, on November 4, 2014, it is five years and you have been sexually assaulted multiple times, right?
08:58Um, I don't know about, I'm guessing so, yeah, yes.
09:04And this stays with you to this day, this has ruined you, right?
09:08Um, what, what has ruined this part?
09:11Your testimony, if I'm correct and correct me, is that Sean Combs' conduct towards you, sexual abuse towards you, has made you broken, right?
09:19Sexual abuse was part of the ways that he ruined me, yes. There were many others as well.
09:23Well, in addition, there are other ways. But on the fifth anniversary of the initial sexual abuse, you're saying to Sean Combs on your social media account for everyone to see,
09:33thank you for being the good kind of crazy and continuing to inspire me every day. Right?
09:39Of course. Because I want the, my friends and everyone else to think that, I want to highlight the highs.
09:47So Mia testifies to being raped, sexually assaulted many times, but she's living in his home.
09:54Mm-hmm.
09:54She doesn't leave her job and she tells no one. How do you think the jury responds to something like that?
10:01My guess is some are thinking, why didn't she leave? And others are thinking, oh my God, this is terrible.
10:07I also think we can't assume that the women jurors are the ones who are on her side, believing her testimony.
10:15Often, the women are the ones who are thinking, I don't understand this. I would have been out of there.
10:19Jure, what do you think?
10:20I think in the context of a solo conversation with the jury, this happened, then maybe they would have these problems.
10:25But my God, we've seen person after person and woman after woman.
10:29He beat me, he raped me, assaulted me. Oh my, like, at this point, they have to be numb.
10:34Like, if she says she, like, there's so many who say that they did.
10:37But the notion that they didn't call the police really drives to how powerful he seemed to them.
10:43That we can't even deal with him. We can't even get the police to deal with him, right?
10:48Even the police is too, even he is too much for even the police.
10:52Yeah, the prosecution's going to say that. They're going to say, look, this failure to call the police cuts in favor of our argument.
10:58This was coercion. This was fear. This was a conspiracy to keep these women quiet.
11:03But the defense will say these women were grown women who chose to stay.
11:09Federal prosecutors argued that Combs used threats to force Mia to comply with his sexual demands.
11:15Why didn't you tell him no?
11:17Because I couldn't tell him no. I couldn't tell him no about a sandwich.
11:22I couldn't tell him no about anything.
11:24There was no way I could tell him no, because then he would know that I thought he was doing was wrong, and then I would be a target.
11:29What were you afraid would happen if you told Mr. Combs no with regard to sex?
11:33That he would fire me and ruin my future, and somehow twist the story into making me look like a threat.
11:38Why were you afraid of those things?
11:39Because I was. Because I knew his power, and I knew his control over me, and I didn't want to lose everything that I worked so hard for, or this, like, world that I...
11:48That was the only thing that I had anymore.
11:51Mia, when Mr. Combs was sexually assaulting you, did you tell anyone about it?
11:55No.
11:56Why not?
11:57I was going to die with this. I didn't want anyone to know, ever.
12:01What, if anything, were you worried would happen if you spoke up?
12:04I would have been silenced. I would have been punished. I would have been exiled from my, like, second family. I would have had a horrible reputation. I would have lost everything.
12:16Do you have anything where you contemporaneously wrote to a friend, a family member, police officer, anybody, and said, this is what's going on, I'm being assaulted, berated, anything?
12:25No. I... The only time I reached out for help was very subtly to people in the office, but not disclosing things that other people hadn't witnessed. No, I would never.
12:36Your testimony and statements that it was you were the victim at the hands of Mr. Combs' brutality and sexual assaults is not true, is it?
12:47I have never lied in this courtroom, and I will never lie in this courtroom. Everything I've said is true.
12:52The defense continued to attack her credibility, saying that she'd met with federal prosecutors for over six months before disclosing her own abuse.
13:02Why did it take seven or eight months for you to tell the U.S. Attorney's Office and the federal government...
13:06Objection.
13:07... that Mr. Combs supposedly sexually assaulted you?
13:09You've got to rephrase these questions, please.
13:12You didn't tell the U.S. Attorney's Office before June 2024 anything about Sean Combs supposedly violating you in a sexual manner, did you?
13:21Objection.
13:22That's overruled.
13:24Sir, once again, I don't remember the timing of things, but I absolutely remember I did not tell them, the government, anything until I had representation.
13:32And I can't go into why, because apparently that's privileged.
13:34Objection.
13:35All right, let's move on to the next question.
13:38Ma'am, you had representation in March of 2024, and you did not mention anything about sexual assault...
13:44Objection, Your Honor.
13:44... to the United States Attorney's Office.
13:47Hold on. Let's have a brief sidebar.
13:49During a break in testimony, the prosecution raised concerns about the tone of the cross-examination by the defense.
13:57Your Honor, I have one issue to raise before the witness comes back, if that's all right?
14:01All right.
14:02At this point, we have now sat through hours of a humiliating cross-examination for this witness, and I just wanted to put it on the record because I don't know that the transcript will really do it justice.
14:14Mr. Steele has yelled at this witness.
14:16Mr. Steele has been sarcastic with this witness, saying things that suggest to this jury that she is lying, that he believes that she is lying through his questioning.
14:26And so our concern is that if this victim is not protected from further harassment, that it will deter other victims in other cases from saying, yes, I will testify and I will tell the truth.
14:41Mr. Steele, here's the issue, that there are lines of questioning where if you had asked one question and moved on, that would be one thing, but you're repeating the same question multiple times, often with an improper form.
14:53Then you keep asking these questions, and at a certain point, I'm going to think that you're doing that just to get the questions out there so the jury can hear it.
15:01If I start to think that, I'll ask you to just move on, and you're not going to be able to ask questions on the topic you're raising.
15:07Do you understand?
15:08Sure, yes.
15:10By 2020, August 29th, you knew, according to you, what you said earlier on direct examination, that you have a moral obligation to speak up.
15:21Do you remember saying that to the jury?
15:23Objection.
15:24That's overruled.
15:25I now have a moral obligation, yes.
15:28Why didn't this moral obligation happen in 2017?
15:31You said, why did it?
15:32Didn't it.
15:33Why didn't it?
15:34Yes, why didn't you have the moral obligation to say, this is my experience with Mr. Combs?
15:40Because I was terrified, and I was brainwashed.
15:43Well, why in 2018 didn't you have the moral obligation to come forward and make these allegations against Mr. Combs that he had sexually abused you?
15:51Objection.
15:51It's overruled.
15:53When did the moral obligation come to your mind that you need to say this information that you are putting forth that Mr. Combs violated you in a sexual manner and other ways?
16:02When I started witnessing him being held accountable for his actions and being told what happened to me was wrong.
16:07How will the prosecution make a racketeering conspiracy charge stick?
16:18A central piece of evidence in the criminal case is that infamous surveillance video showing Combs kicking his ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, down a hotel hallway.
16:28She claimed that she was trying to escape one of his freak-offs.
16:31The video was so incriminating that Combs allegedly tried to bury it.
16:37Hotel security guard Eddie Garcia testified to Combs' frantic efforts to procure the tape, which started with a call to the hotel from Combs' chief of staff, Christina Coram.
16:48She asked if I was familiar about an incident that occurred earlier that day.
16:51How did you respond?
16:53I said yes.
16:54What, if anything, did she request?
16:56She said if there was any possible way to get a copy of the video or see the video.
17:02And what did Ms. Coram say when she got on the line?
17:05She said someone wanted to speak with me.
17:07Did someone else come on the phone?
17:09Yes.
17:09And who was that?
17:11Mr. Combs.
17:12What did Mr. Combs tell you on this call?
17:14Mr. Combs sounded very nervous, just was talking really fast, but was just saying that he had a little too much to drink and that, you know, I knew how things was.
17:24You know, with women, one thing led to another, and if this got out, it could ruin him.
17:28What, if anything, did he ask for you to do?
17:31He asked if I could provide the video.
17:34How did you respond?
17:36Again, I apologized and told him I wish I could help.
17:38It's just I couldn't help.
17:40He would have to reach out to hotel management or get a subpoena.
17:42And what, if anything, did Mr. Combs offer you at that time?
17:47He would, he said he would take care of me.
17:50Garcia told his boss about the call and soon called Combs back with a proposal.
17:55What did you tell Mr. Combs when he came on the line?
17:58I told him that I talked to my boss and that he was willing to do it for $50,000.
18:02How did Mr. Combs respond when you said that your boss was willing to sell the video for $50,000?
18:08He sounded excited.
18:09And how, if at all, did Mr. Combs refer to you during that call?
18:13He referred to me as Eddie, my angel.
18:16When Combs returned to the room, Garcia said he was carrying a brown bag and a money counter.
18:22How much money did Mr. Combs put through the money counter?
18:26In total, at the end, it was $100,000.
18:29Can you describe how Mr. Combs went through the process of feeding money into the money counter?
18:34Yeah, there were stacks of money being put through it, stacks of $10,000 at a time.
18:40Who was putting the money through it?
18:41Mr. Combs.
18:42Did you have an understanding of what the additional $50,000 was for?
18:47Yes.
18:48He mentioned he would take care of us financially.
18:50So the additional, it was my understanding, was for me and what he thought was Israel Flores.
18:55The responding officer.
18:57Correct.
18:57So this question is for both of you.
19:01How do the facts of the payoff get the prosecution closer to proving racketeering, to proving RICO?
19:08This is looking more and more like a mob case, like a traditional RICO case.
19:13You have the racketeer, the mob boss, actually executing on obstruction of justice, witness tampering, destroying evidence.
19:23And how's he doing that?
19:24He's making a payoff, a $100,000 payoff.
19:27He's showing up with a brown paper bag and $100,000 and what?
19:31And a money counter.
19:32A money counter?
19:32I mean, come on.
19:34And he's got one of his lieutenants.
19:36In fact, his chief of staff is his consigliere.
19:39So it couldn't be more RICO than this.
19:42This was, in my view, one of the worst witnesses, if not the most damning witness for him thus far.
19:48For sure.
19:49There's a lot of crimes within this little story.
19:52The government will tell the jury we only have to show two crimes that are used to bolster the criminal conspiracy.
19:59In this one alone, we have bribery, witness tampering, and obstruction of justice.
20:04But they are going to have to, in closing arguments, button it up.
20:07And that's why this little vignette is so tight.
20:10You've got a corroborating witness.
20:14You've got him putting two people in the organization at the scene.
20:17And one of those is the racketeer himself.
20:20I mean, why is Diddy there himself?
20:22But that Christina Karam is there is the business helping him clean up a crime.
20:27That is the core of what they are talking about.
20:30That you use your business to help you do the sex trafficking and clean it up.
20:34Brianna Bongolan, an aspiring fashion designer who created cover art for some of Cassie Ventura's records, told the jury a harrowing story of fear.
20:47Combs allegedly dangled her off the balcony of a 17-story building, then threw her into a coffee table.
20:54You said he held you up on the balcony, is that right?
20:58Yes.
20:59Approximately how much did you weigh around this time?
21:03I can't, like, pinpoint a number because of the drugs, but I know I was probably around 100 to 115 pounds.
21:12How much bigger is Mr. Combs than you?
21:14Bigger.
21:15What did you say?
21:16Bigger.
21:17When Mr. Combs held you up, where were your feet?
21:20They were on the rail.
21:22And what were you doing with your body when your feet were on the rail?
21:26I was trying not to slip and pushing back on him.
21:29Why were you pushing back on Mr. Combs?
21:31Because I was scared to fall.
21:33And what were you thinking when Mr. Combs was holding you up on that 17th floor balcony?
21:38Objection.
21:39Overruled.
21:40You can answer.
21:41For a split second, I was thinking about if I was going to fall.
21:44But for the most part, he was yelling at me, so I was trying to answer him.
21:48Let's talk about that.
21:49What was Mr. Combs saying to you on the balcony?
21:52He kept repeating, like, you know what the fuck you did.
21:56Did you know what he was talking about?
21:58I have no idea.
22:00Sitting here today, do you have any idea what he was talking about?
22:03I still have no idea.
22:06Did you have any mental effects from that?
22:08Yes.
22:09I have, like, night terrors and paranoia, and I, like, scream in my sleep at times.
22:18But the defense questioned Ms. Bongolan's financial motives in her lawsuit against Mr. Combs.
22:25As you testified today, you're seeking $10 million.
22:28Isn't that true?
22:29I'm seeking whatever the judge finds is correct.
22:32And you were asking, hey, judge, or a court, to find in your favor for $10 million.
22:37Isn't that true?
22:38My lawyer wrote that number down.
22:40And you reviewed your complaint.
22:41I asked you that earlier.
22:42Isn't that true?
22:43Yes, I did.
22:44So you know that that's what's being asked for on your behalf, true?
22:48I understand what's being asked.
22:49It means a lot to you to hope to become a $10, a millionaire soon, true?
22:55Not at all.
22:56You don't care about becoming a millionaire?
22:58I care about justice.
22:59And justice for you?
23:01Justice to be served.
23:02And justice for you is money?
23:04No, ma'am.
23:05$10 million, to be exact?
23:06No, ma'am.
23:09I have no further questions, judge.
23:12Throughout the cross-examination, Combs was nodding at the jury, causing the judge to threaten to remove him from court.
23:20I was very clear this morning that there were not to be any facial expressions, other attempts to have any interaction with the jury whatsoever.
23:27Any influence on the jury whatsoever.
23:30And I could not have been clearer in terms of what I said.
23:32You heard me, right?
23:33I did.
23:34Well, there was a line of questioning where your client was nodding vigorously and looking at the jury.
23:39And there was a subsequent moment.
23:41We had a sidebar.
23:42And I looked and I saw your client looking at the jury and nodding vigorously during that line of questioning.
23:47That is absolutely unacceptable.
23:50Is it going to happen again, Mr. Agnifolo?
23:52It's not going to happen again, judge.
23:54It cannot happen again.
23:56If it happens again, if it happens even once, I will hear an application from the government to give a curative instruction to the jury, which you do not want.
24:04Or I will consider taking further measures, which could result in the exclusion of your client from the courtroom.
24:11Do you understand that?
24:12I understand, judge.
24:13All right.
24:14So I want you to have a conversation with your client to make sure that he understands and everyone should understand that I really meant it.
24:21That there should be no efforts whatsoever to have any interaction with this jury.
24:25Understood, judge.
24:29So I've been in the courtroom.
24:32Sean Combs is seated almost across from the jury.
24:35And he is a very engaged defendant.
24:38I have seen him pass sticky notes to his lawyers.
24:41He's been nodding.
24:43He's been looking at the witnesses as they come in.
24:46He's been staring at the jurors, certain jurors.
24:49I'm surprised that this is the first time that this has come up.
24:51Wait, is he looking at the jury, you think, to try to influence them?
24:54Well, I wonder.
24:56I wonder.
24:56Because he is very, very active.
24:59Very, very active.
25:00But we know as defense lawyers, you tell your client to keep your cool.
25:05No facial expressions.
25:07No looking at the jury.
25:08No looking at anyone in the courtroom.
25:10Except at the very beginning when your family comes in, you can give them a little love touch.
25:15But that's it.
25:16Well, what is your sense of the influence?
25:17In the 90s, when Bad Boy was really hot, Puffy used to say, I'm going to make you love me.
25:23Like, I am so charismatic that I'm going to win you over.
25:27Even if you hate me, I'm going to win you.
25:28I am sure that he was like, if I can interact with these people, I have the charisma, I have the charm, I have the social intelligence to make them like me.
25:38So he'll just look at you and win you.
25:40That's what he's thinking.
25:41I'm wondering if he's going to get on the stand because he'll tell his team.
25:44Oh, he's going to get on the stand.
25:45I can talk to them.
25:46You think he's got to get on the stand?
25:48He's got to get on the stand.
25:48I think he wants to get on the stand.
25:50The question will be, can Mark and Tenney wrestle him down and say, no, you can't get on the stand.
25:54No, I think they've got to wrestle him up.
25:55He's got to get on the stand.
25:57You think he's got to?
25:57Why do you do that, Jamie?
25:58Because this case is all about what he thought was happening.
26:03The case is all about whether he intended to control these people, coerce these people.
26:08They don't have a choice.
26:09I mean, he's going down unless he gets on the stand.
26:12His only chance is to take the stand.
26:19The prosecution's third and final sexual assault witness testified under the pseudonym Jane.
26:26What started as a fairytale romance quickly devolved into a drug and sex-fueled ordeal.
26:34Jane, do you recognize the person in that photograph?
26:38Yes.
26:38Who is that?
26:40Sean Combs.
26:41Do you know him by any other names?
26:42Yes.
26:43What names did you call him when you were in a relationship with him?
26:47Sean, Baby, Ernie, Snow Combs.
26:51Why did you call him Ernie?
26:52Because that was our nickname for one another.
26:55So who are you?
26:56Bert.
26:57And who is he?
26:58Ernie.
26:59Like from Sesame Street?
27:00Yes.
27:00She said she met the music mogul at a party in Miami after his breakup with Cassie Ventura.
27:08I remember so many lovely things.
27:10It was just really us.
27:12And so we just had a lot of connection and a lot of time together.
27:15As you would assume, just really passionate about one another.
27:19Lots of attraction.
27:20It was very lust-filled.
27:22Were you getting a lot of alone time with Sean?
27:24Yes.
27:26Jane was a single mom who earned a living as a content creator on social media.
27:32At the end of the trip, what money did Sean ultimately send to you?
27:36He sent me a wire for $10,000.
27:38And did he send that to your bank account?
27:40Yes.
27:40How much was $10,000 to you at that time in your life?
27:44It was a lot of money for me.
27:46After the end of that trip, how did you feel about Sean?
27:49I was even deeper in my feelings for Sean.
27:51I want to say we even started using the L word.
27:55And I was really deep in it.
27:57Now, focusing again on those three months between February and May of 2021,
28:03in what context did Sean give you drugs?
28:05Whenever we would start having sex.
28:09During that same period, what did you learn about how Sean preferred to have sex?
28:14I learned so many things.
28:17I learned how he liked to have pornography playing.
28:20I learned how he preferred me to dress.
28:23And I just learned the things that he liked sexually.
28:26How did Sean tell you he preferred you to dress?
28:29He preferred me to dress in provocative lingerie and really high, like, stripper shoes.
28:35And about how long did he want you to be in these outfits while you were using drugs?
28:39The whole time.
28:40And how long would that last, usually?
28:43At first, it would be, like, 12 to 24 hours.
28:47And what, if any, substances did Sean want you to use on your own body during sex?
28:52Baby oil.
28:53And what did Sean tell you to do with it?
28:55To just have it all over my body and his.
28:59Now, during those first three months, how did you feel about these long-lasting sexual sessions with Sean?
29:06I loved them.
29:07A few months into the relationship, Jane, deeply in love with Combs, agreed to try her first freak-off.
29:17Can you explain to us how he initiated that conversation?
29:21Just, we would just search specific things on these websites and just, in the middle of, like, being high, like,
29:29he just really wanted me to fantasize or kind of really talk about other men and this type of role-play about other men.
29:36He started saying, I can make this fantasy a reality.
29:39If you'd like to have that happen, I can make that happen.
29:43And how did you react?
29:44I said okay.
29:45Why did you say okay?
29:46Because it seemed like he wanted that and it was turning him on and I was really into my partner and I said okay.
29:56Now, when you said okay, did you think that was going to happen that night?
30:00No.
30:00When you said okay, did you want to be having sex with someone other than Sean?
30:05No.
30:05So what did you think you were doing when you said okay to him?
30:09Playing into the fantasy.
30:10So did you just think this was a fantasy?
30:13Yes.
30:13How did Sean respond when you said okay?
30:17I remember I went to the restroom and when I came back out, Sean was in a robe and staring at his phone, like, really seriously.
30:26How, if at all, had his demeanor changed?
30:29He just looked really serious in his phone.
30:32And what did Sean say to you when you came out of the bathroom?
30:35He said we can make that happen tonight.
30:38He brought her to a hotel suite where his assistants were already preparing a room for their boss.
30:45At this point, what were you wearing?
30:47I was wearing lingerie underneath a robe.
30:50And what shoes were you wearing?
30:52I was wearing the big stripper heels.
30:55And who had picked out your outfit and your heels?
30:57Myself and Sean.
30:58Together?
30:59Yes.
31:00And when Sean called you out into the other room, what did you do?
31:03I said hello to everyone.
31:05And who did you see with Sean when you walked into the living room of the hotel suite?
31:09I saw Don.
31:11Who is Don?
31:12Don is one of the entertainers.
31:14What was Sean doing while you and Don started touching each other?
31:18He was watching and touching himself.
31:21What was Sean wearing at this point?
31:23Nothing.
31:24And you say he was touching himself.
31:27Was he masturbating?
31:28Yes.
31:29Who, if anyone, suggested moving to the bedroom?
31:32Objection, Your Honor.
31:33Overruled.
31:34You can answer.
31:35I remember it was me who started going to the bedroom.
31:38Why did you do that?
31:39I was kind of ready to kind of speed things up a bit.
31:42When you say speed things up a bit, what do you mean?
31:45Just to get it going.
31:47What happened next?
31:48It was time for sex.
31:50What did you ask for before having sex with Don?
31:54A condom.
31:55How did Sean react when you asked that Don wear a condom?
31:58He said, like, he didn't want that.
32:01He just said, why?
32:03Just these guys are safe.
32:04They get tested all the time.
32:06And they're some of the cleanest people.
32:08And he can show you his papers.
32:09And you don't have to do that.
32:11How did you react after Sean told you you didn't need a condom?
32:15I was nervous at first.
32:17But then at the very last moment, Sean gives Don a condom.
32:20And so then, did you have sex with Don?
32:23Yes.
32:24Now, immediately after that night when you got home, how did you feel?
32:29I felt exhilarated from that experience.
32:31Can you explain why?
32:33I felt that I had done something that I had never done before.
32:37I felt excited.
32:39I was happy.
32:41It was taboo.
32:42It was fun.
32:42And I had a good time with my partner.
32:46How, if at all, did your relationship with Sean change after that?
32:50After that night, I truly felt that that night just opened like a Pandora's box in our relationship.
32:57It just completely set the tone for our relationship moving forward.
33:02What do you mean by opening a Pandora's box?
33:04I meant that it was just a door that, like, I was unable to shut for the remainder of the relationship.
33:14On the next episode of Diddy on Trial as it happened, Combs moves Jane into a luxury mansion where her dream turns into a trap.
33:23What did Sean say to you about your rent when you tried to tell him that you did not want to have sex with other men?
33:28He would just start saying things like, if you want to break up, that's fine.
33:33You need, like, what, three more months in the house because I'm not about to be paying for a woman's rent that I'm not even seeing.
33:58You need, like, what, three more months out of it.
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