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.”
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.”
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Combs allegedly responded: ‘”Girl, stop.”
Jane was crying for much of her testimony, while Combs sat back and appeared unfazed. Combs occasionally took quick glances at the jury as well, something Judge Arun Subramanian warned him about during court yesterday.
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.”
Jane said she began to feel “obligated to perform” freak-offs, or what she knew as “debauchery” or “hotel nights.” After a break in their relationship, Jane said Combs jokingly brought up the idea of a “love contract,” in which he agreed to give her a $10,000 allowance.
“At that time, [I] just really wanted a bigger space, a bigger yard, just a beautiful home,” Jane explained. “I wanted to experience something that was nice just so I could feel some sort of balance in our relationship, and I used that whole allowance for just a comfortable living space.”
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The home that Jane lived in with her child was eventually held over her head, she said. Whenever Jane tried to voice that she wasn’t interested in doing freak-offs, Combs allegedly would make comments about her moving out. “He would just start saying things like, ‘If you want to break up, that’s fine,’” Jane said. “‘Do you need 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.’”
Much of Jane’s time was “consumed” by her relationship with Combs. She always felt the need to be physically ready for him, going to the gym daily, having her nails freshly painted a creamy white color, her hair straightened, and an even tan. He could call on a moment’s notice, and she’d fly on commercial flights to spend time with him.
Jane spoke in hushed tones throughout much of her testimony on Thursday, crying as she recounted the first time she had a freak-off. She had been up for at least 12 hours, having a prolonged sexual encounter with Combs at his Star Island mansion in Miami. She was still high on a concoction of Ecstasy and molly when Combs began to fantasize about seeing her with another man, which she played into and eventually agreed to.
Within hours, Jane said she found herself in a hotel suite, with Combs’ assistants bustling around to set up red lights and various beverages. When Combs introduced her to “Don,” a man he knew, Jane was nervous. Dressed in lingerie and high stripper heels, Jane began to slowly dance and undress to shake off her nerves before Combs directed her to the next stage of the sexual encounter before the trio moved into the bedroom. Jane said she had intercourse with Don.
There was no turning back, Jane said. At first, she said she was happy to oblige Combs’ fantasy because she wanted to make him happy. “I just really loved him at this point, and I just wanted to make him happy, and I feared losing him,” Jane testified. “I just wanted to be everything that he wanted, and I wanted our time to be special every single time. And if that made him happy, I was willing to make him happy.”
But within a few months, Jane said she began telling Combs both verbally and in writing that she no longer wanted to continue freak-offs. “He just was dismissive or just wanted me to move on from the subject,” Jane said.
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.”
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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.
