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Sean “Diddy” Combs’ criminal trial is kick-starting its sixth week with more testimony from a former lover who alleges years of coerced sex with escorts and occasionally transporting his drugs.
Jane, a witness for the prosecution who dated Combs on-and-off from 2021 to 2024, is in her third day of testimony on June 9. So far, she has described how what she thought was a one-night escapade with a sex worker turned into a yearslong pattern of weekly or biweekly “hotel nights” where Combs allegedly pressured her to have sex with several men consecutively, lasting as long as three and a half days.
Combs, 55, was arrested in September 2024 and charged with sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.
Read on for everything Jane revealed in her latest round of testimony.
Diddy’s defense again requests mistrial, alleging prosecutorial misconduct
In a June 7 letter to Judge Arun Subramanian, Combs’ legal team again pushed for a mistrial, citing alleged prosecutorial misconduct.
The request centered on testimony delivered by Bryana “Bana” Bongolan, a friend of Cassie Ventura Fine, who alleged that Combs held her over a balcony in Los Angeles in September 2016.
Combs’ defense poked holes in Bongolan’s story and claimed it could not have happened the way she described because “Mr. Combs was on the East Coast in late September, and specifically at around the time of this alleged incident.”
“In this trial, the government has presented testimony that it knew or should have known was materially false related to its allegation that Mr. Combs dangled Bryana Bongolan from the balcony of Cassie Ventura’s apartment in September 2016,” the defense wrote to the judge. “Accordingly, to avoid an unfair conviction in this case the court should grant a mistrial.”
Source: USA Today
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