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“Jane” is poised to return to the witness stand on June 11 for her second day of cross-examination in Sean “Diddy” Combs’s Manhattan federal court sex-trafficking trial. During her first day of cross-examination on June 10, Jane, the third woman accusing Diddy of sexual misconduct at his trial, detailed learning about what she believed were the fallen mogul’s sexual predilections. “In the middle of our relationship, I think, in maybe 2022, I came upon a word called — because I was just trying to figure out my relationship. I came upon a word that was called a cuck, cuckolder,” Jane told jurors as Diddy defense lawyer Teny Geragos questioned her. Geragos asked her to explain. “That is a man who is in a relationship with a woman and he’s turned on watching his woman have sex with another man.” Jane continued by saying: “That word meant to me — well, I was just trying to understand what was going on, so I guess I — what did that word mean to me? I was just, like, this is spot on.”
Jane said she was trying to understand why someone might be interested in cuckolding. “One of them was that the cuck derives pleasure seeing his woman receive pleasure from the other man, and a few other things,” Jane said. “Cucks could also have a bicuriosity that they’re too ashamed to experience themselves, so they use the woman to venture out in this curiosity without actually doing the act itself.” The defense’s questioning on cuckolding and bicuriosity appears to serve an important strategic purpose. Jane, similar to Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, has accused Diddy of coercing her into drug-fueled sexual encounters with male escorts. These encounters, which she and Diddy would refer to as “hotel nights,” would involve him watching her perform with men. Consensual kink and abusive coercion are two completely different things — defense is trying to normalize Diddy’s actions by asking Jane if she thought Diddy’s behavior reflected an established kink, whereas prosecutors have cast him as nefariously pursuing his needs. Jane also said Diddy described his dating life as “polyamorous.”
Diddy’s defense team brought up this kink conversation early in the trial. During her opening statement, Geragos said, “This case is, in large part, about his sexual relationships with these two women. And you’re going to hear that they went to private hotel rooms to engage in what I expect some witnesses [in] this case to call the swingers lifestyle, which is essentially just a fancier terminology for threesomes by adults.” Geragos told jurors they have heard things “that may make you uncomfortable at first” and that “you might hear about his kinky sex or his preferences for sex that may make you uncomfortable and may not be what you like to do in your bedroom.” She insisted the jury is not here to judge him for his sexual preferences. “You are not here to judge him for all purposes,” she said. “You are here to evaluate whether the government can prove beyond a reasonable doubt what they actually charged him with. They cannot.”
It’s unclear where questioning will take us today.
