Sean "Diddy" Combs Trial Week 5: Defense Requests Second Mistrial
Originally appeared on E! Online
Sean 'Diddy' Combs is back in court.
The 19th day of the rap mogul's sex trafficking trial resumed June 9 following his defense team's second request for a mistrial, according to NBC News reporters in the courtroom.
Over the weekend, attorney Alexandra Shapiro filed a motion viewed by E! News, in which she argued that his ex Cassie Ventura and her friend Bryana Bongolan of lying about the latter being dangled from a 17th-floor balcony in 2016 by Combs.
His defense team—whose first motion was denied by Judge Arun Subramanian May 28—accused the prosecution of 'misconduct' with the 'introduction of perjured testimony.'
The prosecution will respond to the motion and the judge is set to respond June 10.
As the jury awaits the decision, Combs' ex—who is going by 'Jane' during the trial and was identified as 'Victim-2' in the indictment—has returned to the witness box following an emotional testimony about alleged abuse in their relationship.
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'Jane' said that she felt she had to keep having sex with men for Combs during 'hotel nights'—which were referred to in the indictment and by Ventura and other witnesses as "freak offs"—because she was financially dependent on him.
'My feeling of obligation really started to stem from the fact that my partner was paying my rent,' she told the jury June 6, alleging that if she objected to his sexual requests, 'He would just start saying things like 'If you want to break, that's fine. Do you need, like, 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.''
She said that Combs began paying the rent for her home in April 2023, two years into their relationship, and is still doing so after he allegedly proposed a 'love contract' the month before.
'Jane' broke down in tears during her testimony after recalling a 'hotel night' on her birthday, which she specifically requested not to do.
'I just sat there on the couch, got in position to have intercourse, so we could just get it over with,' she told jurors. 'I asked Sean for a condom. Sean was giving me this really bad look. He gave me a dirty look, like shaking his head and said, 'You better not ask for a f--king condom.''
After Combs allegedly handing the escort the condom, she said he was 'so dismissive.'
'He was walking away,' she testified. 'He looked so disappointed while all of this was happening. It made me feel really bad. I just wanted it to be over.'
For more live updates from Diddy's trial, keep reading.
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