Diddy Accuser ‘Jane’ Says Diddy Was a ‘Cuck’
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As Sean “Diddy” Combs’s defense team started to cross-examine “Jane,” the third sexual-misconduct accuser at his Manhattan federal-court sex-trafficking trial, their questions sought to portray the fallen rapper as a normal guy who just happened to be into kink. “I would use the word cuck for him, more so,” Jane said on June 10 when asked about whether she’d describe him as a voyeur.
Defense attorney Teny Geragos’s cross-examination began after three days of direct testimony in which Jane described her years of alleged abuse at Diddy’s hands. Jane has accused Diddy of pressuring her into drug-addled, days-long sexual encounters with male escorts — dubbed “hotel nights” — between mid-2021 and late summer 2024. Geragos, through her questioning, tried showing that Jane was so enamored that her participation in these nights was enthusiastic and willing — not coerced. “You loved Mr. Combs, right?” Geragos asked. Jane said yes. “You even said two days ago that you love him currently,” Geragos pressed. Jane said, “I do.”
Geragos referenced a prior conversation she had with Jane — who had sat down with Combs’s defense team as recently as April — where she described relishing the time after these encounters. “I think you told me before that you enjoyed taking care of him after these ‘hotel nights’?” Geragos asked. “Yes, he was my baby,” Jane answered. Did Jane want to be close to her partner, her lover? Jane said yes. She was asked, did Diddy enjoy the “foot rubs” part of their time together? Hugging and cuddling him? Bathing him? Jane answered in the affirmative. Jane said that they would stay up late together watching his favorite show, Dateline. Geragos asked about their conversations together. “You enjoyed listening to his perspective on different issues?” Jane said yes. This included Diddy’s faith. “He had a favorite pastor, and he would also put a lot of sermons on the television and we would watch it together and we would talk about it, and he would send me sermons.”
Jane said Diddy was most affectionate during “hotel nights.” She wanted to please Diddy and make him happy. At some point, Jane said, she started researching this sexual dynamic. She happened upon the concept of cuckolding. “I was just trying to understand what was going on,” Jane explained. “I was just like: This is spot on.” Jane said she started to do a “deep dive” to understand why some men got turned on watching their women have sex with other men. “One of them was that the cuck derives pleasure [from] seeing his woman derive pleasure from the other man,” Jane said. “Cucks could also have a bicuriosity that they’re too ashamed to experience themselves, so they use the woman to venture out in this curiosity without actually doing the act itself.”
While the cuck conversation provided a much-needed moment of levity given the preceding days’ grim testimony, Geragos’s queries on Diddy’s sexual predilections might serve an important strategic purpose. It put a name to what Diddy was doing, potentially suggesting to jurors that it was a thing people did — not a depraved, rare practice. Moreover, Jane’s mention of bisexuality and shame could potentially curry sympathy with any juror who has been judged on their sexuality, gender, or bedroom tastes.
Diddy was arrested on September 17 2024, a little over a month or so after he and Jane’s last night together. Near the end of Jane’s direct testimony, she tearfully accused Diddy of coercing her into a sexual encounter with a male escort after a harrowing beating that left two “golfball”-sized welts on her head and a burgeoning black eye.
“I remember him opening his hand with a pill in it, and he said, ‘Take this fucking pill. Take this fucking pill. You’re not going to ruin my fucking night,’” Jane told jurors. “‘You better go out there. You’re not going to ruin my fucking night. Get out there. Suck his dick. Fuck him. I don’t care, just you’re not going to ruin my fucking night.’”
“I said, ‘I don’t want to, I don’t want to, I don’t want to,’” Jane said. “He said: ‘Then is this coercion?’ And I just looked at him … Just — he just looked at me. I just remember … just him right in my face, just, just telling me — just really close to my face.” Jane didn’t respond to Diddy’s chilling “coercion” question. They left the bedroom. Prosecutor Maurene Comey asked Jane about what happened to the pill that Diddy held out in his hand. “I consumed it.” After Jane took the ecstasy, she recalled, “I had to perform oral sex on Antoine,” a male escort they had been with before. “It just felt like forever.” Diddy was watching. “I just felt sick. I just felt like I wasn’t even in my own body,” she said. “I just felt disgusted. I just felt terrible.”
Jane’s cross-examination could last several days.