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ARTICLE VIEW: | |
Listen to trial audio evidence from Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs to | |
‘Jane’: ‘You better get on your job’ | |
By Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN | |
Updated: | |
2:29 PM EDT, Sat June 7, 2025 | |
Source: CNN | |
The jury at Sean “Diddy” Combs’ trial heard audio recordings that | |
Combs sent to his former girlfriend, who is testifying under the | |
pseudonym “Jane” and is one of the central witnesses for the | |
prosecution. | |
Jane’s testimony comes as federal prosecutors seek to show Combs and | |
his inner circle used violence, threats, drugs, and other means to | |
coerce Jane and another ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, into having sex | |
with other men as part of drug-fueled sexual performances known as | |
“hotel nights” or “Freak Offs.” | |
Combs has to charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and | |
transportation to engage in prostitution. His defense has acknowledged | |
Combs was violent but has and said the women consented to the sexual | |
activity. | |
The audio recordings played for the jury are voice notes that Combs | |
sent to Jane via text in November 2021 and August 2023. | |
In a text exchange in 2021, Jane wrote to Combs about how she felt | |
about their “hotel nights.” | |
“I need a breather and a break from you. This doesn’t make me feel | |
good at all,” she wrote to Combs. | |
“You don’t deserve me,” she wrote in another text. | |
Combs sent her an audio message in response. | |
“You’re f***ing nuts. Be sad, go crazy do whatever the f*** you | |
want,” Combs is heard saying. | |
During a 2023 argument between the couple, Jane expressed that she did | |
not want to engage in another “hotel night” because her body had | |
“hit a wall,” according to her testimony and text messages between | |
the two that were read aloud in court on Friday. | |
When Jane expressed frustration to Combs about how he treated her, | |
Combs sent her an audio message in which he threatened to stop | |
supporting her financially. “I’m about to really disappear on you, | |
you feel me?” Combs said one audio message. 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 also 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. | |
“And what did you understand Sean was communicating to you when he | |
said he was going to disappear on you and you would have a rude | |
awakening?” prosecutor Maurene Comey asked Jane. | |
“I was pretty alarmed by this message,” Jane responded. “It was | |
just really cold and like, it’s true that at any moment he can just | |
do that if he wanted to.” She clarified that meant that Combs could | |
“cut me off.” | |
Jane testified that starting in 2023, Combs began to give her a $10,000 | |
monthly allowance, which she used to pay for her home for her and her | |
son. Jane said on the stand that Combs still pays her rent today. | |
She said that most “hotel nights” lasted longer than 24 hours with | |
no sleep, testifying that Combs would give her ecstasy to stay awake | |
and continue performing. The longest hotel night, according to Jane’s | |
testimony, lasted more than three days with no sleep. | |
Jane is expected to again take the stand on Monday to continue direct | |
examination as Combs’ federal sex trafficking trial enters into its | |
fifth week of testimony. | |
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