The woman called Victim-2 in the government's third superseding indictment -- she's using a pseudonym to testify -- was dating him until his arrest last fall. She alleges he coerced her into a version of the sexual performances Cassie Ventura has testified about. She testified that Combs was paying her rent, and when she told him she didn't want to perform sexually anymore, he told her he'd stop the payments.If you want to read NBC's coverage of the trial, check out our newsletter, “Diddy On Trial”: NBCNews.com/Diddy
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This is On Trial, a special series from Dateline True Crime Weekly, bringing you daily coverage from the Sean Combs racketeering trial. He has pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him. I'm Andrea Canning, and it's Thursday, June 5th. Just a heads up, in this episode, we're going to be talking about some graphic details and harrowing subject matter.
Today, the prosecution's last key witness began her testimony. The judge has allowed her to testify under a pseudonym to avoid harassment. She is being called Jane in the courtroom. And the judge has asked the press to be very careful about revealing her identity. So we are not going to describe her.
What we can tell you is that the government's third superseding indictment against Sean Combs lists her as victim number two. The prosecution alleges that Combs recruited her and used force, fraud and coercion to get her to engage in commercial sex acts. They're alleging that Combs replaced Cassie Ventura in freak-offs with Jane. And some of those happened as recently as last year.
NBC News correspondent Chloe Malas has been in the courthouse this afternoon, and she's stepped out to bring us the latest. Hey, Chloe. Hey, Andrea. It's been an intense day in downtown Manhattan. Even before Jane took the stand, there was some drama with Sean Combs himself. Tell us about it.
So the judge told Diddy, if you continue to look at the jury and make faces... any sort of expression at all. I'm going to kick you out of the courtroom and you're not going to be able to be here. And Diddy just said, yes, judge, I understand. So during testimony of Brianna Bongolin, I guess Diddy was nodding and really shaking his head and making eye contact with the jury.
Breonna, who claims that Combs dangled her over a balcony.
Yes, and her testimony really had a lot of holes today on cross-examination, Andrea. It's what a ton of journalists were buzzing about outside of the courthouse, that it was a big day for the defense.
Okay. Is this the first time, Chloe, that Combs has been scolded for doing something like this by the judge?
I've been in the courtroom most days, and I have never seen anything like this happen. But I do want to give you the perspective of somebody that's literally had their eyes glued to him the entire time, and that's court artist Jane Rosenberg. She's one of the individuals that draws all of those court sketches that you see.
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