Overview

• Jane’s cross-examination opened Tuesday after she spent three days testifying to coercion into “hotel nights” involving male escorts that she said Combs orchestrated and filmed.
• She told jurors that Combs paid her rent and legal fees, threatened to expose sex tapes to her child’s father, and physically assaulted her in June 2024 to enforce compliance.
• Prosecutors highlighted Jane’s reaction to Cassie Ventura’s 2023 lawsuit, saying she “almost fainted” when she recognized the allegations matched her own experiences.
• Combs’s defense filed a second mistrial motion this week, accusing the government of allowing materially false testimony about a 2016 balcony incident.
• Judge Arun Subramanian set a Tuesday deadline for prosecutors to respond to the defense’s motion.