城墙正在逼近吹牛老爹，他的前女友周一作证据称，这位说唱大亨转而成为时尚引领者是在抨击。
“我记得我们正在睡觉，一个儿子敲门说发生了什么事，然后我就自己一个人了，”这位前女友在安静的曼哈顿法庭上说。"我走下楼，可以看到每个人都在互相交谈。"
库姆斯正与他的团队和家人聚在一起。他们迫切需要回应。美国有线电视新闻网(CNN)获得的一段酒店安全录像在国家电视台反复播放，录像显示库姆斯拳打脚踢，殴打他的另一位前恋人歌手凯茜·温图拉。
“他们试图想出一些真诚的道歉帖子或关于视频的东西，”她说。
这名女子以“简”的笔名作证，为陪审团提供了一个了解库姆斯最后两年生活的窗口，因为法律纠纷和负面宣传可能会瓦解他的音乐帝国和极力保护的声誉。
在那之前，她说库姆斯没有诉诸文图拉所说的她在库姆斯手中遭受的那种暴力。但是她告诉陪审团，为了满足库姆斯的欲望，她被迫与男妓发生了同样的有辱人格的性行为——正如文图拉在自己的陈述中所作证的那样。
“我就是睡不着。简作证道，解释了她在阅读文图拉2023年的诉讼后的第一反应，在诉讼中，文图拉讲述了一个简说与她被迫过的生活痛苦相似的故事。“真不敢相信我在读自己的故事。”
文图拉的诉讼在提交2000万美元后几个小时就达成了和解，这是倒下的第一块多米诺骨牌，因为库姆斯面临着公众批评、联邦调查和刑事起诉的浪潮。他被指控进行性交易、共谋敲诈勒索和运送他人卖淫。如果所有罪名成立，他可能会在监狱度过余生。他否认所有指控。
在康姆斯的性交易和敲诈勒索阴谋审判中，陪审员的证词进入第五周，简的证词充满感情和生动。他的律师告诉陪审员，库姆斯是一个有缺陷和暴力的人，他滥用药物和他的浪漫伙伴，但他们坚持认为他没有犯下他正在被审判的罪行。
“简”作证说，文图拉的诉讼就像“阅读我自己的性创伤。”
简作证说，在经历了三年她认为是单恋后，她在2023年10月达到了与库姆斯分手的临界点。她告诉陪审员，几乎他们的每一次约会或浪漫之旅都将成为库姆斯在马拉松式的性爱派对上推动她与男性陪同发生关系的机会，她称之为“酒店之夜”，可能会持续几天，通常由毒品和酒精驱动。
“我不是色情明星。我不是动物。我需要休息一下。我什么都不想做。我碰壁了，”温图拉在库姆斯要求她安排一个与男妓的马拉松式性爱之夜后给库姆斯发了短信，库姆斯在一旁观看并自慰。“我已经有三年没有陌生人了。我累了。”
当她大声朗读她在2023年发给库姆斯的短信时，她的证词变得更加情绪化，在这些短信中，她试图挽回与这位说唱歌手的关系，而不必参与所谓的长期狂欢。
“我的精神和灵魂已经疲惫不堪。我需要休息，”她在一条信息中写道。“我不能再这样被利用了。我想让你开心，但这在我内心引发了一场战争。”
随着他们的关系恶化，简告诉陪审员，2023年11月得知文图拉的诉讼促使她以新的眼光看待自己与库姆斯的关系。她作证说，当她在文图拉的复述中认出自己和库姆斯的关系时，她差点晕倒。
“我不敢相信我正在阅读我自己的故事，”简告诉陪审员关于了解文图拉的指控。
在简给库姆斯的一条信息中，她写道，“我觉得我在读我自己的性创伤。”
陪审员听到了康姆斯的录音，据称他迫使她对性接触保持沉默
提起诉讼三天后，库姆斯和简在电话中谈到了这些指控。陪审团听取了康姆斯高级助手的电话录音，该电话在迈阿密机场被没收。简作证说她不知道自己被录音了。
“这是我需要你支持我的时候，”康姆斯说，录音回荡在寂静的法庭上。“你知道我们一起做了所有的事。”
“你知道，我一直觉得自己被操纵了。我该拿这种感觉怎么办?谁在那里等我?”有人听到简回答说。
检察官随后向陪审团播放了22分钟后库姆斯与简通话的第二段录音。
“我现在需要你的友谊，”康姆斯说。“我甚至不能打电话。请不要发短信。”
“我只是想告诉你，我需要你的友谊，”库姆斯说。"你知道你什么都不用担心，明白吗?"
简作证说，她认为库姆斯提出继续支付她每月1万美元的租金。检察官认为，录音证明库姆斯试图篡改简的证词，试图迫使她说他们的性行为是两厢情愿的。
《简》称库姆斯威胁要公开她的性爱录像
在文图拉提起诉讼后的几天里，随着她与库姆斯的关系恶化，简作证说库姆斯加大了对他的威胁。她第一次告诉陪审员，库姆斯威胁要公布他录下的她与男妓发生性关系的视频。
她告诉陪审团，库姆斯在给她钱让她悄悄地结束他们的关系后，第一次威胁要公开录像带。
“我记得他说，‘控告我，控告我，控告我对你的怨恨。她声称库姆斯在一次视频通话中说。
但是当简要求几十万美元来结束这段关系——说她应该得到她在这段关系中失去的三年的赔偿——她作证说库姆斯爆发了。
“福——你。我在阻止你，”库姆斯给简发短信说。“别管我。骗子。”
“你一直在描述你自己。你骗我…让陌生人在我身上跑火车，”她回信道。
随着他们的争吵升级——简给库姆斯发短信说她会自杀——简作证说库姆斯开始威胁要公开她与其他男人发生性关系的录音。
“在最愤怒的时候，他说我要给你孩子的父亲看这些录像带。我没有什么可失去的，”简作证说。
她告诉陪审团，她试图联系库姆斯的幕僚长克里斯蒂娜·霍拉姆(Kristina Khorram)，以缓和局势，并阻止库姆斯公布任何磁带。
“在肖恩威胁要公开你的录像带后，你为什么联系(霍拉姆)?”检察官莫林·科米问道。
“因为(霍拉姆)就像他的右脑——她是他倾听的人之一，”简作证说。
尽管威胁要公开她的性爱录像带，并且她对文图拉民事诉讼中的指控感到担忧，简告诉陪审员，她在2024年2月之前与库姆斯和解。她作证说，她恢复了参加酒店之夜(现在在私人住宅而不是酒店房间举办)的活动，并与库姆斯共度时光，尽管文图拉的诉讼引起的负面宣传越来越多。
在2024年联邦特工突袭库姆斯住所的那一天，她说国土安全调查局的一名特工在她家留下了一张卡片。简作证说，她联系了库姆斯，库姆斯为她找了一名律师，这位说唱大亨继续支付她的法律费用，即使她的证词正被检察官用来试图终身监禁库姆斯。
“简”作证说库姆斯袭击了她，强迫她与男伴发生性关系
酒店视频播出后，简作证说，她看到尚恩·库姆斯在Instagram帖子中发誓要成为一个“更好的人”，然后在2024年6月18日亲眼看到了库姆斯。
“那是非常可怕的一天，”简作证说。
她告诉陪审团，她一直“对他充满怨恨和愤怒”，并就最近一次旅行中陪同他的一名年轻女子与他对质。
“我说，‘你是个恋童癖，’”简作证说。和他在一起的女人已经超过18岁了，但是“我感觉他比她大25或27岁，”简解释道。
简告诉陪审员，是她挑起了这场争斗，将库姆斯的头推到柜台上，并向他扔蜡烛。她说，当他踢开门时，她退回到自己的卧室，大喊“快走，快走”。她走进浴室，在那里，她说，库姆斯然后踢了浴室的门“字面上的铰链。”
简作证说库姆斯“踢了我的大腿后侧”，导致她摔倒。“他把我掐住脖子放在地上，我无法呼吸，”她说。
简作证说，她设法逃脱，藏了大约两个小时，回来时以为他已经走了。但是，她作证说，库姆斯再次找到了她，并追到了住所的后院，在那里她把自己包起来，以保护自己的脸免受库姆斯的攻击。
简作证说，库姆斯在她倒在地上时对她拳打脚踢，抓住她的头发和胳膊，把她拖向房子。在房子里，简说她注意到了库姆斯的手机，并试图给她认为和库姆斯一起旅行的女人打电话。
“我拿了他的手机，最后打给了我以为和他在一起的那个女孩，”简作证说。"肖恩压制着我，让我听她侮辱我。"
后来在浴室里，简作证说，她注意到她额头上有两道伤痕和一只黑眼圈。她去洗澡，她作证说库姆斯打了她三个耳光，导致她失去平衡。
“肖恩说只要在上面敷些冰，然后穿上一套衣服，”简作证说，她在一名男性陪护安东到达之前用化妆品盖住了瘀伤。
简说，在浴室里为晚上做准备时，她记得库姆斯告诉她，“吃下这个药丸。你不能毁了我的……之夜。出去吸他的d-..他。我不在乎。”
“我不想，我不想，我不想，”简回答说。她告诉陪审团，库姆斯直接面对她，问道:“这是强迫吗?”在强迫她服用摇头丸并给安东口交之前。
“多长时间?”科米问。
“感觉就像永远一样，”简回答。
她说，第二天她从库姆斯的保镖那里收到了大约1.2万美元的现金，用于支付她家的损失和男性陪同的费用。陪审团看到了多张被她证词中的“肖恩的脚”损坏的门的照片，简说她把它送到了一家修理公司。
简作证说几天后她在库姆斯的家里看到了他。陪审团看到了她拍摄的一段视频，该视频记录了她通过粉底和遮瑕膏受到的伤害，她告诉陪审团她涂了粉底和遮瑕膏。陪审团看到了第二段自拍视频，也简要记录了她作证时库姆斯造成的伤害。
“简”向陪审团讲述了她在库姆斯被捕前与他的最后互动
2024年7月底，简作证说，她在迈阿密拜访了库姆斯，她说他给了她毒品“液体莫莉”，她与一名叫保罗的男性陪护发生了“高辛烷值”的性关系。
她说最后一次在迈阿密见到库姆斯是在2024年8月，当时她作证说她和一个名叫唐的男伴发生了性关系。
她告诉陪审团，她原计划2024年9月去纽约看望库姆斯，因为库姆斯当时正住在一家酒店，处于被联邦当局逮捕的边缘。
他们的计划被逮捕他的特工打断了。
“我猜他被捕了，”她告诉陪审团。
她说，自2024年8月以来，她一直没有见过库姆斯，但最近在今年4月见过他的辩护律师。她作证说，他的律师是她在2024年6月告诉暴力事件的第一批人。
简说，她已经接受了大约三个月的治疗，并聘请了自己的律师，但库姆斯仍然支付她的法律费用和租金。
在直接提问的最后，一名检察官问了简一个尖锐的问题:“今天坐在这里，你现在对肖恩有什么感觉?”
“我只是祈祷，”简作证说，“他继续愈合，我为他祈祷和平。”
Diddy trial day 23: 'I don't want any loose ends': Witness testifies about Combs' unraveling after Cassie's lawsuit
The walls were closing in onSean "Diddy" Combs, his former girlfriendtestified Monday, and the rap mogul turned fashion tastemaker was allegedly lashing out.
"I remember we were sleeping and one of the sons knocked on the door and said that something happened, and then I was just by myself," the former girlfriend told a hushed Manhattan courtroom. "I went downstairs and could see everyone speaking amongst each other."
Combs was huddling with his team and his family. They needed a response -- urgently. A hotel security video obtained by CNN was being played repeatedly on national television, and it showed Combs kicking and beating another of his former romantic partners, the singer Cassie Ventura.
"They were trying to come up with some kind of sincere apology post or something regarding the video," she said.
Testifying under the pseudonym "Jane," the woman offered jurors a window into the last two years of Combs's life, as legal troubles and bad publicity threatened to unravel his music empire and fiercely protected reputation.
Until that point, she said that Combs had not resorted to the type of violence Ventura said she suffered at Combs' hands. But she told the jury she was subjected to the same coerced and degrading sex on demand with male prostitutes to satisfy Combs' urges -- just as Ventura has testified in her own account.
"I just couldn't sleep. I was just reading these pages and going through a nightmare," Jane testified, explaining her first reaction after reading Ventura's 2023 lawsuit in which Ventura narrated a story that Jane said was painfully similar to the life she had been forced to lead. "I can't believe I am reading my own story."
Ventura's lawsuit, settled only hours after it was filed for $20 million, was the first domino to fall, as Combs faced a wave of public criticism, a federal investigation, and criminal indictment. He is accused of sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to engage in prostitution. He could spend the rest of his life in prison if convicted on all counts. He denies all charges.
The emotional and graphic testimony from Jane comes as jurors are entering the fifth week of testimony in Combs' sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy trial. His lawyers have told jurors that Combs is a flawed and violent man who has abused drugs and his romantic partners, but they insist he did not commit the crimes he is being tried for.
"Jane" testified that Ventura's lawsuit was like "reading my own sexual trauma."
Jane testified that she reached her breaking point with Combs by October 2023, after three years of what she believed was unrequited love. She told jurors how nearly every one of their dates or romantic getaways would become an opportunity for Combs to push her to have sex with male escorts during marathon sex parties she called "hotel nights" that could last days and were often fueled by drugs and booze.
"I'm not a porn star. I'm not an animal. I need a break. I don't want to do anything. I've hit a wall," Ventura texted Combs after he asked her to arrange a marathon evening of sex with a male prostitute while Combs watched and masturbated. "It's been three years of me having f— strangers. I'm tired."
Her testimony grew more emotional as she read aloud texts she sent Combs in 2023 in which she tried to salvage a relationship with the rapper without having to participate in the alleged prolonged orgies.
"My spirit and my soul is tired. I need a break," she wrote in one message. "I can't be used like this anymore. I wanted to make you happy but it's creating a war inside me."
As their relationship deteriorated, Jane told jurors that learning of Ventura's lawsuit in November 2023 prompted her to look at her own relationship with Combs in a new light. She testified she nearly fainted when she recognized her own relationship with Combs in the pages of Ventura's retelling.
"I can't believe I am reading my own story," Jane told jurors about learning about Ventura's allegations.
In one of her messages to Combs, Jane wrote, "I feel like I'm reading my own sexual trauma."
Jurors hear recording of Combs allegedly pressuring her into silence about sexual encounters
Three days after the lawsuit was filed, Combs and Jane spoke on the phone about the allegations. The jury heard a recording of the phone call taken from the phone of Combs' top assistant after it was seized at the airport in Miami. Jane testified she did not know she was being recorded.
"This is when I need you to be there for me," Combs is heard saying, as the recording echoed through the hushed courtroom. "You know we did all that s— together."
"You know, I have been feeling so manipulated. What am I to do with that feeling? Who is there for me?" Jane is heard saying back.
Prosecutors then played for the jury a second recording of a call Combs made to Jane 22 minutes later.
"I need your friendship right now," Combs is heard saying. "I can't even talk on the phone. Please don't send no texts."
"I just needed to tell you that I need your friendship," Combs is heard saying. "You know you ain't got to worry about nothing else, you feel me?"
Jane testified she believed Combs was offering to continue paying her $10,000 monthly rent. Prosecutors have argued the recording is proof that Combs tried to tamper with Jane's testimony by attempting to pressure her into saying their sexual interactions were consensual.
"Jane" said Combs threatened to release her sex tapes
As her relationship with Combs deteriorated in the days after Ventura's lawsuit was filed, Jane testified that Combs escalated his threats. For the first time, she told jurors that Combs threatened to release videos he recorded of her having sex with male prostitutes.
She told the jury that Combs' first threatened to release the tapes after he offered her money to end their relationship quietly.
"I remember he said, 'Charge me, charge me, charge me for your resentment. I don't want any loose ends,'" she alleged Combs said over a video call.
But after Jane requested hundreds of thousands of dollars to end the relationship -- saying she deserved compensation for the three years she lost during their relationship -- she testified that Combs erupted.
"F—- you. I am blocking you," Combs texted Jane. "Leave me alone. Con artist."
"You keep describing yourself. You conned me into…having strangers run trains on me," she wrote back.
As their fight escalated -- and Jane texted Combs that she would kill herself -- Jane testified that Combs began to threaten to release the recordings of her having sex with other men.
"At the height of this anger, he said I am just going to show your child's father these tapes. I have nothing to lose," Jane testified.
She told the jury that she tried to contact Combs' chief of staff, Kristina Khorram, to defuse the situation and stop Combs from releasing any of the tapes.
"Why did you reach out to [Khorram] after Sean threatened to release your tapes?" prosecutor Maureen Comey asked.
"Because [Khorram] is like his right brain - she is one of the people he listens to," Jane testified.
Despite the threats to release her sex tapes and her concerns about the allegations in Ventura's civil lawsuit, Jane told jurors that she reconciled with Combs by February 2024. She testified that she resumed participating in hotel nights -- now hosted in private residences instead of hotel rooms -- and spending time with Combs, even as negative publicity stemming from Ventura's lawsuit was growing.
On the day in 2024 that federal agents raided Combs' residences, she said an agent from Homeland Security Investigations left a card at her home. Jane testified she contacted Combs, who got her a lawyer, and that the rap mogul continues to pay for her legal expenses, even as her testimony is being used by prosecutors trying to lock Combs up for life.
"Jane" testified Combs attacked her, forced her to participate in sex with male escort
After the hotel video was broadcast, Jane testified she watched Sean Combs pledge in an Instagram post to become a "better man," and next saw Combs in person on June 18, 2024.
"It was a very terrible day," Jane testified.
She told the jury she had been "bottling up a lot of resentment and anger towards him" and confronted him about a younger woman who had accompanied him on a recent trip.
"I said, 'You're a pedophile,'" Jane testified. The woman he had been with was over 18, but "I felt like he was 25 or 27 years her senior," Jane explained.
Jane told jurors that she initiated the fight, pushing Combs' head into a counter and throwing candles at him. She said she retreated to her bedroom, shouting "just leave, just leave," when he kicked open the door. She went into the bathroom, where, she said, Combs then kicked the bathroom door "literally off the hinges."
Jane testified that Combs "kicked me on the back of my thigh," causing her to fall. "He put me in a chokehold on the ground, and I couldn't breathe," she said.
Jane testified she managed to escape, hide for about two hours and return, thinking he would be gone. But, she testified, Combs once again found her and chased her to the backyard of the residence, where she balled herself up to protect her face from Combs' attack.
Jane testified that Combs punched and kicked her while she was on the ground, grabbed her by the hair and arm and dragged her toward the house. Inside the house, Jane said she noticed Combs' phone and tried to call the woman she believed Combs had travelled with.
"I took his phone, and I ended up calling the girl I assumed he was with," Jane testified. "Sean was holding me down and making me listen to her insults."
In the bathroom later, Jane testified she noticed two welts on her forehead and a black eye forming. She went to take a shower, where she testified that Combs slapped her face three times, causing her to lose balance.
"Sean said just put some ice on it and put an outfit on," Jane testified, saying that she covered her bruises with makeup before a male escort, Anton, arrived.
In the bathroom preparing for the evening, Jane said she remembered Combs telling her, "Take this f—--- pill. You're not going to ruin my f—--- night. Get out there and suck his d—.. F— him. I don't care."
"I don't want to, I don't want to, I don't want to," Jane said she responded. She told the jury that Combs got right in her face and asked, "Is this coercion?" before forcing her to take ecstasy and perform oral sex on Anton.
"For how long?" Comey asked.
"It just felt like forever," Jane answered.
She said she received about $12,000 in cash from Combs' bodyguard the next day to cover the damage to her home and the cost of the male escort. The jury saw multiple photos of the doors damaged by what she testified was "Sean's kick," which Jane said she sent to a repair company.
Jane testified she saw Combs a few days later at his home. The jury saw a video she took that captured her alleged injuries through the foundation and concealer she told the jury she had put on. The jury saw a second selfie video that also briefly captured the injuries she testified Combs inflicted.
"Jane" tells jury about her final interactions with Combs before his arrest
At the end of July 2024, Jane testified she visited Combs in Miami where she said he gave her the drug "liquid molly" and she had "high octane" sex with a male escort named Paul.
She said the final trip to see Combs in Miami occurred in August 2024, when she testified she had sex with a male escort named Don.
She told the jury that she originally planned to visit Combs in New York in September 2024, as Combs was staying at a hotel, on the verge of being arrested by federal authorities.
Their plans were cut short by agents who took him into custody.
"I guess he got arrested," she told the jury.
She said she hasn't seen Combs since August 2024 but has met with his defense attorneys as recently as April of this year. She testified that his lawyers were the first people she told about the violent incident in June 2024.
Jane said she has been in therapy for about three months and hired her own lawyer, though Combs still pays her legal bills and rent.
To conclude the direct questioning, a prosecutor asked Jane the pointed question: "Sitting here today, how do you feel about Sean now?"
"I just pray," Jane testified, "for his continued healing and I pray for peace for him."
