Sean Combs Allegedly Told Ex ‘I Can't F-cking See That' While She Cried After Freak-Off
One of Sean Combs' ex-girlfriends and second alleged sex-trafficking victim testified that the mogul once told her, 'I'm high and I can't fucking see that' while she cried in the shower after a freak-off.
The woman, identified by the pseudonym Jane and listed as Victim-2 in the Combs indictment, returned to the stand Friday, June 6, for her second day of testimony. The single mother, who dated Combs from January 2021 until his September 2024 arrest, previously told the court that she 'fell head over heels' for Combs during a passionate, whirlwind romance, before he sprung the freak-offs on her and opened 'a Pandora's box in the relationship.'
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While on the stand Friday, Jane opened up about the harrowing experience of participating in the freak-offs, the highly choreographed, drug-fueled sexual encounters (also known as 'hotel nights') that Combs allegedly orchestrated with male escorts (referred to as 'entertainers'). She described one freak-off in Miami where she was so high, she kept blacking out. In the shower with Combs afterward, Jane testified, she said she began to cry, then claimed Combs responded: 'Don't fucking do this right now. I'm high and I can't fucking see that, I'm too high.'
Jane said she also broke down after a freak-off early on in their relationship, when she thought she would have a one-on-one date with Combs, only for her to end up having an encounter with an escort for 18 hours. When it ended, Jane said Combs told her he had to leave, and she began to cry.
'He said, 'Are you crying?'' Jane recalled of Combs. 'And just looked, like, disgusted with my face.'
Several years into their relationship, Jane finally confronted Combs about the freak-offs and told him she no longer wanted to do them. She read a text she sent Combs in September 2023, in which she told him, 'It's hurting me'; 'It's dark, sleazy and makes me feel disgusted with myself'; 'I don't want to play this role anymore. I'm so much more than this'; and, 'I feel like it's the only reason you have me around and pay for the house.'
Combs allegedly responded: 'Girl, stop.'
At one point that same year, Jane said she grew worried about Combs' health and encouraged him to take a month off from drugs. He allegedly agreed on the condition they throw a 'sobriety party' at a hotel in Beverly Hills. Jane said she participated in the freak-off without drugs, struggling over the course of the encounter, which lasted between 12 to 18 hours. Despite it being a 'sobriety party,' she said, Combs used ecstasy and cocaine.
After having sex with two entertainers, Jane said she began to throw up. 'Sean came in and I told him I had just thrown up,' Jane testified. 'And he was like, 'That's good, you'll feel better. Let's go, the third guy is here.''
Jane fought back tears during much of her emotional testimony, while prosecutor Maurene Comey appeared to position herself in such a way as to shield Combs from Jane's view. Combs, for his part, sat back and appeared unfazed. He occasionally took quick glances at the jury as well, something Judge Arun Subramanian warned him about during court yesterday.
Jane's testimony Friday also marked the first time the court and jury heard recorded footage from a freak-off Several of Combs' victims, including Casandra 'Cassie' Ventura have testified that Combs regularly recorded these encounters, and sometimes threatened to release them as blackmail material.
The recording presented to the court contained only audio, including a conversation between Jane, Combs, and a man named Don while sensual music thumped in the background. Jane was heard asking Don to wear a condom, and while Don agreed, Combs then walked into the room and intervened.
Jane said she often asked the sex workers to use condoms, but eventually stopped because Combs didn't like it. 'He did not want to see a rubber while watching, she testified, per reports.
At one point, Comey asked Jane why she needed Combs permission to have a sexual partner wear a Condom, she replied that she was 'still trying to process that.'
Throughout her testimony, Jane discussed the various ways Combs and his staff allegedly coerced or forced her into doing things she was not comfortable with — a dynamic that's at the heart of the state's case against Combs. Along with her participation in the freak-offs, this also included, Jane testified, instances where she was asked to fly with drugs for Combs.
For instance, Jane alleged, Combs once told her to fly with a pack of drugs from Los Angeles to meet him in Miami. Jane said she asked Combs' former chief of staff Kristina Khorram if this was 'safe and OK,' to which Khorram allegedly replied, per reports, 'It's fine, I do it all the time, just put it in your check[ed] in luggage.'
Although Jane said her first freak-off with Combs in May 2021 was a spontaneous and fun sexual encounter that left her 'exhilarated,' she believed that it was a one-time, taboo experience. But Jane said from that point on, 90 percent of her sexual encounters with Combs involved her having sex with another man in front of him.
'I truly felt that that night just opened like a Pandora's box in our relationship. It just completely set the tone for our relationship moving forward,' Jane testified during her first day on the stand. 'I meant that it was just a door that I was unable to shut for the remainder of the relationship.'
Prosecutors previously claimed Combs' manipulation of Jane went beyond financial control into threats and physical violence. They've said Combs busted down doors to get to Jane, dragged her by her hair, and kicked her while she was curled up in a ball on the ground. (Ventura previously testified that Combs used threats and physical violence to coerce her into hundreds of freak-offs during their 11-year relationship that ended for good in 2018.)
'The defendant continued asking Jane to have freak-offs and promising that if she did, they would spend quality time together, they would go on dates together, they would go on trips,' Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily Johnson said on the first day of Combs' trial last month. 'That was what Jane wanted more than anything, a real relationship … But even though the defendant promised her quality time and trips, he never delivered. Those were just lies he told her to get more nights in dark hotel rooms with escorts.'
Prosecutors have indicated they only began speaking with Jane in January, after they uncovered text messages she sent Combs in the days after Ventura's lawsuit was filed in November 2023. 'It makes me sick how three solid pages, word for word, is exactly my experiences and my anguish,' she texted Combs. Combs allegedly responded by gaslighting Jane and making a vague reference to her financial support, so their dating relationship continued into 2024, prosecutors said.
In the defense's dueling opening statement, Combs' lawyer, Teny Geragos, sought to set Jane apart from Ventura. She told jurors that by the time Combs started seeing Jane, 'he was more upfront about his dating life,' including the fact that he was dating multiple women. Geragos said Jane also was older and more mature than Ventura, 'living her own life in a different state raising her child.'
Geragos said that after Jane's first experience with a freak-off, 'she began to do everything possible to make these nights incredible for Combs.' Geragos suggested Jane 'made the choice' to engage in freak-offs 'out of love.'
More than two dozen witnesses already have testified at Combs' trial, which is now at the close of its fourth week. Prosecutors have called multiple former assistants, alleged male escorts, and even Scott Mescudi, the musician and actor known as Kid Cudi, to support their allegations Combs used his wealth, influence, and inner circle to carry out crimes aimed at fulfilling his sexual desires and protecting his reputation.
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Jane, who dated Combs from 2021 to 2024, testified that Combs falsely promised he'd spend quality time alone with her and dismissed her repeated requests to stop participating in his sexual 'hotel nights.' Jane said that Combs promised her the things she wanted, like date nights and quality time, but said he wanted to have 'hotel nights' first. She would agree, but then afterward they'd be too exhausted and 'spent the rest of our free time sleeping,' she testified. 'I need a breather and a break from you,' she wrote in a text message, read aloud in court Friday, from November 2021 after seeing Combs spend quality time with another woman shortly after Jane had a 'hotel night' with him. 'This doesn't make me feel good at all. Your true intentions with me are in plain sight.' Jane testified that they had a 'hotel night' on her birthday in 2022 in which she had sex with another man at Combs' direction. 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Jane also recounted two times when the man brought in for the 'hotel night' was someone she was not attracted to, and how Combs kept pushing for her to try and engage with him regardless. Regarding one of those times, in 2023, Jane testified Combs said to her, 'Are you sure? Maybe just a little bit' even though she said she knew that 'this was definitely not something that I could fake doing.' She said they eventually excused the man because she was 'repulsed by him,' and then another man came to the hotel after. Jane said she and Combs entered into a 'love contract' in 2023 in which he agreed to pay her $10,000-per-month rent as an allowance. He is still paying for her rent, even now, she testified on Friday. She also testified he threatened to cut her off financially if she stopped participating in 'hotel nights.' In text messages from August 2023 that were read aloud in court, amid a discussion about a 'hotel night,' Combs told her he put $15,000 on credit for things in her new house. When Jane then expressed hesitation about having the 'hotel night,' in part because she was having her period, Combs became angry and accused her of using him for money, according to the texts. Days later, she expressed frustrations to Combs with how he treated her, and Combs sent her an audio message threatening to stop financially supporting her. 'I'm about to really disappear on you, you feel me?' Combs said in the audio message that was played aloud in court for the jury. He said she had a 'rude awakening' coming if she didn't stop fighting him. 'You better get on your job, that's all it is,' Combs said. 'Because you got me on my job.' Jane testified that she understood her 'job' was 'taking care of him, being good to him and making sure he was happy,' which included the sexual encounters. She said his 'job' was taking care of her financially. Jane also texted Combs that he had been 'making things feel completely transactional lately' and was 'threatening me any chance that you get.' She testified that Combs was constantly reminding her that he paid for her home. Around the time when she and Combs entered into their 'love contract,' Combs also paid for Jane to get veneers 'because he didn't like my teeth,' Jane testified. At one point thereafter when Jane texted him complaining that she hadn't seen him alone outside of a hotel room for the 'hotel nights,' Combs responded, 'Well get over it please. Look at the roof over your head and that pretty smile. I don't want to do anything if that's still an issue.' In late 2023, she sent him messages saying she didn't want to play this role in his life anymore. 'I feel it's the only reason you have me around and why you pay for the house,' she wrote. 'I don't want to feel obligated to perform these nights for you.' Combs responded to the text, 'Girl stop.' The jury heard audio from a 'hotel night' in which Combs was dismissive of a request from Jane to have her male sex partner wear a condom. The audio was an excerpt from a video recording of a 'hotel night' that captured a conversation between Jane, Combs and a man named Don. On the recording, Jane said, 'you promised' to Combs, who expressed his disapproval. Jane said on the stand that she and Combs had a conversation before that 'hotel night' in which he told her it would be okay if she wanted the man she would have sex with to wear a condom. He eventually gave the 'entertainer' a condom, Jane said. She said she asked Combs to allow the 'entertainers' to wear condoms several times, but Combs was typically dismissive. Jane was asked why she needed Combs' permission to have the man wear a condom, and Jane seemed to get emotional and said she was 'still trying to process' that. She said she didn't insist on the man wearing a condom because then Combs would be 'unhappy.' At another point in her testimony, the jury saw 15 photos that weren't released to the public (none of the exhibits were shown to the public in court). Jane testified that each of the photos showed her and another man during a 'hotel night' and that Combs was present for all of the nights pictured. One female juror placed her hand over her face as the sexually explicit photos were displayed on the screens in front of them. Jane testified that when Combs would run out of drugs during a 'hotel night,' he'd call an assistant, a butler or one of his security guards to bring more. She recalled a time in 2022 when Combs directed her to pick up drugs from security personnel at his Los Angeles home and fly with them to meet him in Miami. She communicated with Combs' aide Kristina Khorram about picking up the 'package' at Combs' home. Jane said she asked Khorram if this was 'safe and okay,' and Khorram said, 'It's fine I do it all the time.' Jane flew with the drugs to Miami and later took ecstasy with Combs that she said came from the package. Jane testified that Combs gave her drugs during the 'hotel nights' that kept her awake for longer and made it easier for her to participate in the 'fantasy.' Jane cried and was emotional as she detailed one 'hotel night' in which she had sex with three other men, at Combs' insistence, on her birthday. Jane said she flew to Miami in 2023 to celebrate her birthday with Combs and he told her they'd spend quality time together. When they went to dinner, Combs brought up plans for a 'hotel night,' and she reluctantly agreed to participate. Jane said the first man who showed up that she never met before felt like a stranger and it was upsetting. 'More of an invasive moment because it was my birthday and I didn't want to do this on my birthday,' she said, crying. After the man left, Jane and Combs moved to a different suite at the hotel and Combs 'shifted his energy' and became more loving. He had arranged for cake, flowers and balloons in the suite, and they had some alone time, she said. But then another man came to the room for sex, and then a third man. 'I acted like it was nothing, but inside I hated it,' she said, adding between tears that she acted that way because she loved Combs. On the stand, Jane grew very emotional while discussing the birthday. She heaved more than once as she cried, and prosecutor Maurene Comey asked her repeatedly if she needed a break. Each time Jane said no. At another point in her testimony, a box of tissues was passed to her in the witness box by the courtroom deputy. After that birthday, Combs left her in the room and went on a private vacation with another romantic interest, Jane testified. According to messages read aloud in court, she texted him, 'Why do you lie to me?' She wrote to him that she wanted to get off the 'hamster wheel' and said, 'I didn't want to do all of that on my birthday.' Jane said she and Combs were on a break for about a month after that, but got back together.
