A former girlfriend of Sean “Diddy” Combs testified at his federal sex trafficking and racketeering trial on Thursday that she felt a “feeling of obligation” to have sex with escorts while the mogul watched because he was paying the $10,000/month rent on her home.
The woman, who is testifying pseudonymously as “Jane,” began her time on the stand by discussing the “bliss-filled” early months of their relationship at the beginning of 2021, which she said involved long hotel stays, trips to tropical locations, and frequent Ecstasy use.
Jane, who told the court that she has a child with someone Diddy doesn’t like, said he introduced the idea of her having sex with other men while he watched in May, 2021. They came to call the practice “debauchery” or “hotel nights.”
She explained that the first time Combs brought an escort into a sexual encounter, at a hotel in Miami, she said okay “because my partner was excited, and it was already happening.”
When she asked the escort to use a condom, she said, Diddy objected, saying that “they get tested all the time. They’re some of the cleanest people.”
That initial hotel night, Jane said, “opened a Pandora’s Box in our relationship… It was a door that I was unable to shut.”
Following that encounter, she testified, Diddy insisted on hotel nights, by her estimate, 90% of the times they saw each other. She said she didn’t want to keep doing them, but went along because “I just really loved him [and] I feared losing him.”
Jane claimed that multiple times over the course of their relationship, both in person and in writing, she told the mogul that she wanted to stop the hotel nights.
But beginning in April, 2023, she said, there was an additional complication. Diddy began paying her rent for a house for her and her son.
“I wanted a bigger space,” she explained. “I wanted something that was nice, so I could feel some balance in our relationship.”
That monthly payment, she continued, made her feel “obligated [to] perform these nights.” And, she claimed, Combs would indeed threaten to stop paying if she talked about ending the hotel nights.
“My feeling of obligation started to stem from the fact that my boyfriend is paying my rent,” Jane said.
Jane’s testimony is expected to continue well into next week.
