Jane

Jane testified on direct examination from Day 21 through Day 23 about her romantic relationship with Sean Combs and recurring hotel nights involving male entertainers. She described helping contact entertainers, arranging travel and payments, taking drugs, and asking about condom use. Through messages, notes, and recordings, she said the encounters came to dominate the relationship and that Combs's rent payments and other support contributed to her feeling obligated to participate.

She also described travel to New York and Miami, carrying packages she later said contained ecstasy, and a June 2024 confrontation at her home. Jane acknowledged that she pushed Combs's head into a counter, threw objects, and later punched him. She testified that Combs then kicked open doors, choked, punched, kicked, dragged, and slapped her, and afterward directed her to take ecstasy and engage sexually with Antoine while she tried to conceal her injuries.

During cross-examination on Days 24 through 26, defense counsel used affectionate messages, photographs, travel, gifts, financial support, and Jane's own role in choosing or contacting entertainers to challenge her account of coercion. Jane acknowledged loving communications, benefits, some planning, and continued contact with Combs, including after Casandra Ventura's lawsuit. She maintained that she often acted because she loved him and wanted his approval, while also saying that pressure, resentment, unequal treatment, and fear of losing the relationship or housing shaped her choices.

On redirect, Jane repeated that rent support and anticipated conflict made her feel pressured to accept hotel nights, and she described asking to sit out one encounter because she was unwell. Recross examined whether she had communicated reluctance directly, the financial support she received, her recollection of earlier events, and the June 2024 encounter. In the final redirect, she testified that Combs had slapped and punched her before directing her to let Antoine into the home.