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NEW YORK -- The 5th week of Sean “Diddy” Combs ’ enactment trafficking proceedings featured 4 days of grounds from a erstwhile Combs' woman who testified nether the pseudonym Jane and a astonishment quality astatine the courthouse connected the 5th time by Ye, the rapper formerly known arsenic Kanye West.
Ye said helium came to amusement his enactment for his bully person but couldn't get into the courtroom and watched for a fewer minutes connected an overflow courtroom monitor.
Combs, the laminitis of Bad Boy Records, has pleaded not blameworthy successful the trial, which resumes Monday.
Here are cardinal moments from the past week:
Jane testified for six days astir her implicit three-year narration with Combs, saying her plans to conscionable him astatine a New York edifice past September were interrupted by his arrest.
Her grounds consumed 4 of the week's 5 proceedings days arsenic she told astir her conflicted feelings toward Combs.
She told a prosecutor: “I conscionable commune for his continued healing, and I commune for bid for him.” And erstwhile a defence lawyer asked if she inactive loved him, she responded: “I do.”
When she completed her grounds and with the assemblage inactive successful the room, she went to the authoritative and gave her a lukewarm clasp earlier proceeding to the defence lawyer and hugging her too.
She said she resents she felt forced to person enactment with strangers successful multiday enactment marathons arsenic the antheral she longed astir to cuddle with filmed and fed her drugs to springiness her vigor to fulfill his intersexual fantasies.
Her grounds echoed what the assemblage heard successful the trial's archetypal week erstwhile Casandra “Cassie” Ventura testified for 4 days that she engaged successful hundreds of multiday “freak-offs” portion they dated from 2007 to 2018, having enactment with antheral enactment workers successful beforehand of Combs, who masturbated, filmed the encounters, and verbalized what helium wanted to spot sexually.
Jane said she and Combs divided up from Halloween 2023 until February 2024. During the break, she said, she flew connected different celebrated rapper's backstage pitchy to Las Vegas, joining the personage to observe his romanticist partner's day for a nighttime that included dinner, a stripper's nine sojourn and a edifice country party.
In the edifice room, Jane testified, the rapper who was adjacent friends with Combs made a walk astatine her amid flirtatious banter, saying helium had ever wanted to person enactment with her. She said she danced successful the edifice room, wherever a antheral enactment idiosyncratic was having enactment with a woman, and astatine immoderate constituent Jane flashed her breasts.
Jane agreed with a lawyer's appraisal that the celebrated rapper was “an idiosyncratic astatine the apical of the euphony manufacture arsenic good ... an icon successful the euphony industry.”
Jane besides revealed that the unidentified celebrated rapper and his spouse were looking for idiosyncratic they could adhd to their intersexual experiences who was “in the lifestyle.”
“I judge they were asking maine due to the fact that possibly they conscionable picked up the vigor from maine oregon I conscionable possibly assumed that possibly they had already got an inclination that maine and Sean had been doing benignant of akin things,” she said, noting that she referred a antheral enactment idiosyncratic she knew.
A time aft Jane finished testifying, Ye, formerly known arsenic Kanye West, made a astonishment quality astatine the courthouse and rapidly learned what a pugnacious summons it is to get into the courtroom wherever his bully person Combs is connected trial.
Ye, wearing each white, was ushered by courthouse information to an overflow courtroom to ticker the proceedings connected a video show on with others who were incapable to get into the courtroom. He lasted lone a fewer minutes determination earlier helium made his courthouse exit, saying thing during his travel but that helium was determination to enactment Combs.
It turns retired that Combs, the taxable of respective true-crime TV documentaries, is simply a spot of a true-crime instrumentality himself.
Jane revealed this week that his favourite amusement is “Dateline,” the magazine-style NBC stalwart that is dense connected murders and mysteries.
She told jurors that, successful their unsocial clip together, she and Combs would ticker “Dateline” for hours “till we fell asleep.”
Other activities erstwhile it was conscionable the 2 of them included hugging, cuddling and bathing Combs, and giving him ft rubs, Jane testified.
Jane testified that she past saw Combs successful August, erstwhile they were successful their “same regular having enactment and everything” erstwhile Combs suggested that she invitation implicit the precise archetypal antheral enactment idiosyncratic she had enactment with successful beforehand of Combs.
She said that afterward, she and Combs continued texting each different and were readying to conscionable successful New York astatine a edifice successful September.
“Did you extremity up going to New York to spot him?” she was asked. “No,” she answered.
“Why not?” she was asked earlier she responded: “Because helium got arrested.”
The courtroom rules surrounding Jane's grounds were the strictest yet successful a bid to support her individuality from becoming communal knowledge.
But the rules imposed by the justice became excessively overmuch for defence lawyer Marc Agnifilo, who protested that Jane was blocked from telling much astir the edifice enactment successful January 2024 with the famous, though unidentified, rapper.
Agnifilo said the defence had consented to the “pseudonymity” of Jane.
“What we didn’t consent to, and we don’t, astir respectfully, is that these events which play important parts successful the inheritance of immoderate of the astir captious events successful the trial, should beryllium successful immoderate mode not afloat public,” helium said.
He said names should person been released.
“Part of the crushed that trials are afloat nationalist is truthful if different radical recognize they cognize thing astir an lawsuit that’s discussed successful a nationalist courtroom, they could travel guardant and they could stock immoderate their recollection is astir it,” helium said.
The destiny of 1 anonymous juror was successful limbo aft the justice said Friday helium volition reconsider his determination to oust the juror adjacent though helium suspects helium mightiness person an "agenda.
Judge Arun Subramanian said helium had decided that conflicting answers from the juror astir wherever helium chiefly lived — successful New Jersey oregon New York — raised questions astir his credibility and whether helium was answering questions successful a bid to enactment connected the jury. If the juror does chiefly unrecorded with a woman successful New Jersey, helium would beryllium extracurricular the tribunal territory and disqualified.
Prosecutors said the juror's dismissal is required due to the fact that of his conflicting answers. Defense lawyers argued that prosecutors were lone trying to disqualify a Black juror and that his dismissal could spoil an different divers sheet of jurors.
The justice bristled astatine the proposition that contention was a factor, saying determination was nary enactment for claims that prosecutors did not usage race-neutral arguments to exclude jurors during assemblage enactment and now.
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