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As Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking and racketeering trial enters its fourth week, a friend of his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura is expected to take the stand Wednesday and testify Combs dangled her over a 17th-story balcony, while another alleged victim central to the prosecution’s case may take the stand this afternoon under a pseudonym.

Bongolan filed a lawsuit against Combs in November 2024, alleging she was asleep in Ventura’s Los Angeles apartment in 2016 when Combs woke her up by banging on the door and shouting. Her lawsuit states Combs entered the apartment and advanced on Bongolan, lifting her by her underarms and holding her over Ventura’s 17th-floor balcony, stating, “Do you know what the f— you did? Do you know what the f— you did?” while Ventura screamed at him to stop. “The only purpose of dangling someone over a balcony is to actually kill them or to intentionally terrorize them and rob them of any concept of dominion over their own bodily autonomy and safety,” Bongolan’s lawsuit states. Elsewhere in her lawsuit, Bongolan alleges she witnessed “disturbing signs of an abusive relationship” by Combs toward Ventura, stating she sometimes saw Ventura with visible bruises and that she once witnessed an altercation in which Combs “threw a large kitchen knife at Ms. Ventura, who, acting in self-defense, threw one back at him.” Combs denied the allegations in Bongolan’s suit.

“Jane” is the pseudonym of a woman prosecutors say was sex trafficked by Combs, who is referred to as “Victim-2” in the indictment. Ventura, who is referred to as “Victim-1,” and “Mia,” the pseudonym of “Victim-4,” have both already testified. The indictment alleges Combs used “force, threats of force, and coercion, to cause victims,” including Jane, “to engage in commercial sex acts.” During her opening statement last month, prosecutor Emily A. Johnson described Jane as a single mother who began dating Combs in 2020, two years after Ventura left him. Johnson said Jane participated in a “freak-off” thinking it would be a one-time thing to please Combs, though he expected more and discouraged her from working by paying her rent so she would always be available. Johnson described an altercation in which Combs became enraged at Jane after they clashed about him seeing another woman, during which he allegedly “grabbed her in a chokehold, lifted her off the ground by her neck and kicked her to the ground,” the New York Times reported. Combs’ defense lawyer Teny Geragos said during her opening statement Jane consented to their sexual encounters, stating a “capable, strong woman, willingly engaged in their relationship,” which she said is “not sex trafficking,” the Times reported.

Ventura, who dated Combs on-and-off for about a decade, testified for much of the trial’s first week, alleging Combs coerced her into “freak-off” sexual encounters with male escorts, which she says left her in physical and mental pain. She also described various instances of physical abuse and accused Combs of raping her in 2018. Rapper Kid Cudi took the stand in May alleging Combs broke into his house and that his car was firebombed in his driveway in 2012 after Combs discovered he was dating Ventura. Mia, a former personal assistant to Combs, took the stand last week, alleging Combs repeatedly sexually assaulted her and subjected her to physical abuse while she worked for him.

Combs is charged with two counts of sex trafficking, two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution and one count of racketeering conspiracy. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Separately, Combs faces dozens of civil lawsuits alleging sexual assault and sex trafficking, all of which he has denied.

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