Diddy Accuser Details Toll of Unwanted ‘Hotel Nights’ With Male Escorts

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“Jane,” the third woman accusing Sean “Diddy” Combs of sexual misconduct in his Manhattan federal court sex-trafficking trial, felt “nauseous” and faint after the rap mogul’s ex, Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, publicly accused him of abuse in late 2023. “I’m distressed from reading all of this,” Jane said in a text to Diddy, which she discussed in her testimony on June 9. “I feel like I’m reading my own sexual trauma.” Jane, who is testifying under a pseudonym, is referring to Cassie’s November 2023 lawsuit against Diddy, where she accused him of physical and psychological abuse, as well as rape; the parties settled the suit one day after its filing. Cassie, who testified earlier in Diddy’s trial, said that he coerced her into drugged-up, days-long sexual encounters with male escorts called “Freak Offs.” Jane, now on her third day of testimony, told jurors that Diddy pressured her into ecstasy-fueled encounters with male escorts called “hotel nights.”

Some time after Jane told Diddy she was distraught over Cassie’s allegations, they spoke on the phone. Portions of this conversation were played in court; it was recorded without Jane knowing and discovered on a phone seized by federal agents in spring 2024. Diddy told Jane he needed her, saying, “I’m sorry you feel this way.” He thought they were enjoying “kinky shit” together. “I’m just trying to just … stop all this madness,” Diddy said. Jane told Diddy, “Just, like, reading it all, it’s so, like, word for word.” Jane also said, “Who’s there for me when I close my eyes and I have these fucked-up things in my head?” In a subsequent conversation, Diddy tried to smooth over the situation, telling Jane he needed her friendship. “You know you ain’t gotta worry about nothing else,” Diddy said. Jane understood this as referring to her rent, which he’d been paying since mid-2023. “Please pray for me. I’m going to be praying for you,” Diddy also said.

Diddy visibly reacted to portions of Jane’s testimony. He pushed his chair back and shook his head as Jane described feeling used to fulfill the fallen mogul’s sexual fantasies — while he lavished attention on other women. Diddy also appeared to be oscillating ever so slightly in his chair; his back and head were moving with the almost imperceptible back-and-forth that comes with leg-tapping.

Jane recalled one exchange with Diddy about travel plans to New York City. She thought it would be a romantic trip. Diddy told her to send him something showing her “being bad” — referring to tapes of their sexual encounters with escorts. Jane thought Diddy was with someone else and told him to “figure out how to get your dick hard on your own.” Diddy told her, “I got the phones,” which Jane took to mean devices that had videos of their sexual encounters on them. This worried Jane because they had a specific phone for these recordings, and they were not supposed to be on Diddy’s main phones — which all of his staff had access to. Jane was also angry because Diddy had appeared on a podcast where he “bragged about sex with another woman” for “48 hours straight.”

“I’m not coming to New York. I feel disrespected,” Jane told Diddy in a text. “It’s clear you [only] want me there to use me for a hotel binge. You have plenty of hos for that.” Around this point in Jane’s testimony, Diddy could be seen resting his head in his hand. He appeared to disagree with her statements. “I said, ‘I don’t want to be used,’” Jane recalled, referencing texts shown to jurors and read aloud in court. “‘As much as I want to see you, I don’t want to be treated like a ho in a hotel room … it doesn’t make me feel good.’” Diddy insisted she was wrong. “He said, ‘Girl, that was podcast talk. I haven’t even had sex.’”

“‘I don’t want to feel obligated to perform these nights for you in fear of losing the roof over my head,’” Jane also testified she said. Diddy left her a voice note where he said “I’m sick in bed” and didn’t understand why she was making a problem. As their exchanges continued, Jane claimed that Diddy said “that he loved me, that he missed me, that he wanted to see me.” Jane decided to visit him after all. Diddy told Jane she could do a little shopping. They would go to dinner. Diddy even asked her to bring a passport. It sounded like the romantic time she’d so desperately wanted. Jane received a text mid-flight. Diddy asked her about one of the entertainers who had participated in their hotel nights.

“He says, ‘I have a surprise, if that’s okay.’ I understood that he was going to introduce somebody new,” Jane said, breaking into tears and dabbing her eyes with a tissue. “I hated it.” After landing in New York, Jane went to the hotel. Diddy picked her up so late they couldn’t get a proper dinner; their only option was a lounge that was “almost closing.” Jane told him that she didn’t want a hotel night, and his demeanor turned defensive. “We started heading back to the hotel and he gives me a pill.” It was ecstasy. Back at the room, Jane had sexual encounters with two performers in Diddy’s presence. They didn’t do anything the remainder of Jane’s time in New York City. “We just rested, and Sean got me sick,” she said. “He gave me COVID.”

Diddy, who was wearing a pale-beige sweater and a white shirt, seemed like he was trying to behave well in front of jurors, despite his prior movements. When one of Diddy’s attorneys, Teny Geragos, was returning from a sidebar, he pulled out her chair and made as if helping push it back toward the table.

Jane has told jurors that Diddy lured her into a world of sexual encounters with male escorts under the false pretense of a romantic relationship. After Diddy wooed Jane with deeply intimate one-on-one attention for several months, she agreed to go along with Diddy’s pitch that she have sex with another man in front of him. This didn’t wind up being a one-off event, as Jane had thought. “I felt that that night just opened, like, a Pandora’s box in our relationship. It just completely set the tone for our relationship going forward,” Jane said on June 5. Diddy would soon want these encounters, which they called “hotel nights,” all the time — and he plied Jane with ecstasy so she could perform in days-long sexual events, she previously told jurors. “He would be like, ‘You’re not getting tired on me, are you? Let’s finish strong, hard. Let’s end on a high note,’” Jane recalled during her testimony on June 6.