Starting a fifth week of testimony, Sean Combs’ ex-girlfriend, showing beneath the pseudonym “Jane,” advised the jury she as soon as took a four-day journey to Miami with Combs, throughout which he allegedly promised to take her on a yacht following a “lodge evening.” “Jane” previously testified that “lodge evening” was the phrase that she and Combs used to discuss with their sexual encounters involving different males.
Prosecutor Maurene Comey requested, “Did you comply with do the lodge evening?”
“Sure,” “Jane” testified in response, telling the court docket it lasted two days.
“Did Sean take you on the yacht?” Comey requested.
“No,” “Jane” testified.
Again residence in Los Angeles, “I observed that on social media he had taken one among his girlfriends on the identical yacht journey he had promised me,” “Jane” testified.
She advised the court docket that Combs advised her the yacht journey with the opposite girl was nothing. Nevertheless, “Jane” testified, a month later she noticed an interview Combs gave to a podcast through which he bragged about having intercourse on the yacht and “boasting that they had intercourse for 48 hours.”
The jury noticed a textual content message she then despatched to Combs: “I don’t wish to be used and locked in a room to carry out and fulfill your fantasies. Coming to the belief of what that is,” the message stated.
Combs texted in response “that was podcast discuss” after which, in a subsequent message, stated “I’m bored with your false accusations.”
By that time, “Jane” testified, Combs had been paying her $10,000 month-to-month hire for six months and she or he felt obligated to satisfy Combs’ sexual needs.
“Jane” advised the court docket that Combs then invited her to New York.
“I keep in mind he stated that we’d have alone time and we might do good issues in New York collectively,” “Jane” testified. “We’d go to dinner, buy groceries and have a correct New York journey. He talked about no lodge nights.”
On the flight to New York, “I keep in mind on this flight that I acquired a message from Sean that made me somewhat upset,” “Jane” testified. “I simply keep in mind simply taking a deep breath and type of feeling upset and somewhat disenchanted, somewhat defeated.”
The jury noticed the textual content in query from Combs, which learn: “I’ve a shock if that’s okay. Only one.”
“Jane” started to cry as she advised the jury that she understood from the textual content that “he was going to introduce me to someone new.”
On that New York journey, in September 2023, “Jane” testified that Combs contaminated her with the COVID-19 virus.
