Recap Of Seven Major Moments From Week Five

The fifth week of Sean “Diddy” Combs ‘ intercourse trafficking trial featured 4 days of testimony from a former girlfriend who testified beneath the pseudonym Jane. Combs, the founding father of Unhealthy Boy Data, has pleaded not responsible within the trial. Week six kicked off on Monday (June 16), however right here’s a refresher of seven notable moments from final week’s proceedings.

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1. Jane Says She Nonetheless Loves Diddy

Jane testified for six days about her over three-year relationship with Combs, beginning in week 4. She stated her plans to fulfill him at a New York resort final September have been interrupted by his arrest. Her testimony continued for 4 of the week’s 5 trial days, as she emotionally informed about her conflicted emotions towards Combs. She informed a prosecutor:

“I simply pray for his continued therapeutic, and I pray for peace for him.” And when a protection lawyer requested if she nonetheless liked him, she responded: “I do.”

When she completed her testimony, she walked to the prosecutor and hugged her, earlier than doing the identical with the protection legal professional. The jury was nonetheless within the room.

Jane stated she resents that she felt compelled to have intercourse with strangers in multiday intercourse marathons. In the meantime, the person she longed most to cuddle with filmed and fed her medicine to offer her power to fulfill his sexual fantasies. Her testimony echoed what the jury heard within the trial’s first week when Casandra “Cassie” Ventura testified for 4 days. She spoke about participating in a whole lot of multiday “freak-offs” whereas courting Diddy from 2007 to 2018. Cassie testified to having intercourse with male intercourse staff in entrance of Combs, who masturbated, filmed the encounters, and verbalized what he wished to see sexually.

2. Jane Testifies About A Lodge Evening With A Well-known Rapper

Jane stated she and Sean “Diddy” Combs cut up from Halloween 2023 till February 2024. Throughout the break, she stated, she flew on one other well-known rapper’s non-public jet to Las Vegas, becoming a member of the celeb to have fun his romantic companion’s birthday. The rapper was shut mates with Diddy. Their evening included dinner, a go to to a strip membership, and a resort room occasion. Jane testified that the rapper informed her he had at all times wished to have intercourse along with her. She stated she danced within the resort room, the place a male intercourse employee was having intercourse with a lady. Sooner or later, Jane additionally flashed her breasts. She stated she referred a male intercourse employee she knew.

Jane didn’t name-drop the rapper. Nonetheless, she agreed that the well-known rapper was “a person on the prime of the music business as effectively … an icon within the music business.” Jane additionally stated the rapper and his companion have been searching for somebody they might add to their sexual experiences who was “within the way of life.”

“I imagine they have been asking me as a result of possibly they simply picked up the power from me or I simply possibly assumed that possibly that they had already bought an inclination that me and Sean had been doing form of related issues,” she stated.

3. Ye (Kanye West) Pops Up At Courthouse

A day after Jane completed testifying, Ye made a shock look on the courthouse, however wasn’t in a position to get into the courtroom the place his good good friend Diddy is on trial. Ye, carrying all white, was ushered by courthouse safety to an overflow courtroom to look at the trial on a video monitor together with others who have been unable to get into the courtroom.

Courthouse safety ushered Ye, who was carrying all white, to an overflow courtroom to look at the trial on a video monitor. He lasted just a few minutes there earlier than he left the courthouse. The one factor he stated throughout his go to was that he was there to assist Combs.

4. Jury Learns Diddy Likes Crime TV

It seems that Sean Combs, the topic of a number of true-crime TV documentaries, is a little bit of a true-crime fan himself. Jane revealed in week 5 that his favourite present is ‘Dateline.’ It’s a magazine-style NBC present that’s heavy on murders and mysteries. She informed jurors that, of their alone time collectively, she and Combs would watch ‘Dateline’ for hours, “until we fell asleep.” Jane testified that different actions they did collectively included hugging, cuddling, bathing, and giving him foot rubs.

5. Jane Was Planning To Meet Diddy When He Received Arrested

Jane testified that she final noticed Combs in August, they usually have been of their “identical routine, having intercourse and all the pieces.” Combs had urged that she invite over the very first male intercourse employee she had intercourse with in entrance of Combs. She stated that afterward, she and Combs continued texting one another. They have been planning to fulfill in New York at a resort in September.

“Did you find yourself going to New York to see him?” she was requested. “No,” she answered. “Why not?” she was requested earlier than she responded: “As a result of he bought arrested.”

6. Protection Protests Decide’s Effort To Shield Jane, Others’ Identities

The courtroom guidelines surrounding Jane’s testimony have been the strictest but. It was an effort to guard her identification from turning into widespread data. However the guidelines imposed by the decide turned an excessive amount of for protection legal professional Marc Agnifilo. He protested that the foundations blocked Jane from telling extra in regards to the resort occasion in January 2024 with the well-known rapper. Agnifilo stated the protection had consented to the “pseudonymity” of Jane.

“What we didn’t consent to, and we don’t, most respectfully, is that these occasions which play vital components within the background of a number of the most crucial occasions within the trial, needs to be in any means not totally public,” he stated.

Agnifilo added that names ought to have been launched. “A part of the explanation that trials are totally public is so if different individuals understand they know one thing about an occasion that’s mentioned in a public courtroom, they might come ahead they usually may share no matter their recollection is about it,” he stated.

7. Protection Accuses Prosecutors Of Concentrating on Black Jurors

The destiny of 1 nameless juror was in limbo on the final day of week 5, with Decide Arun Subramanian suspecting Juror #6 had an “agenda.” Subramanian stated the juror gave conflicting solutions about the place he primarily lived in New Jersey or New York. That raised questions on his credibility and whether or not he was answering questions in a bid to remain on the jury. If the juror does primarily reside with a girlfriend in New Jersey, he can be exterior the courtroom district and disqualified.

Prosecutors stated the juror’s dismissal was required due to his conflicting solutions. Protection attorneys argued that prosecutors have been solely attempting to disqualify a Black juror and that his dismissal may spoil an in any other case various panel of jurors.

The decide wasn’t right here for the suggestion that race was an element. He stated there was no assist for claims that prosecutors didn’t use race-neutral arguments to exclude jurors throughout jury choice, and now.

Subramanian circled again to his choice in regards to the juror on Monday (June 16). See THAT remaining ruling and different updates from the trial beneath: