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An ex-girlfriend of Sean "Diddy" Combs will continue giving evidence on the 21st day of Combs's sex trafficking trial today.

Yesterday, the anonymous witness - known only as 'Jane' - faced cross-examination from Combs's defence team.

Those questions will continue today, in a shorter court session, starting later than usual at around 6pm UK time.

It's possible Jane will finish giving evidence today but her evidence might yet run into Thursday's session.

We won't be bringing you rolling updates today but we'll be back soon.

In the meantime, scroll down to recap what's happened in the trial so far.

Testifying under the pseudonym "Jane", an anonymous former girlfriend and alleged victim of Sean "Diddy" Combs has been cross-examined today.

It's the 20th day of the rapper's sex-trafficking trial, and the final week of the prosecution's case.

It was Jane's fourth day on the stand.

If you're just checking in, here's a round-up of all the key updates:

• At the start of the court day, Judge Arun Subramanian confirmed the defence's motion for a retrial over evidence given by Bryana Bongolan had been denied;
• Judge Subramanian also denied the government's motion to recall forensic psychologist Dr Dawn Hughes to the stand;
• Jane told the court she had been reluctant to split up with Diddy and still loved him;
• Describing him as a "bright light," she told the jury she'd previously suffered from shyness, and still battled low self-esteem, but said Diddy's motivation and encouragement had helped boost her confidence;
• Financial discussions revealed that Diddy had sent Jane around $150,000 over the course of their three-year relationship;
• In a voicemail played to the court, Diddy said he'd nicknamed Jane "crack pipe" as he had so much fun with her
• She described using "fantasy talk" to please him, dressing up and buying special lingerie to please him;
• Jane says he told her he was polyamorous early in the relationship, and she later questioned if his need to watch her have sex with other men could mean he was "bi-curious";
• She says Diddy was over-reliant on drugs, and after just a few dates, she noted his greying gums and shaky hands and urged him to go to rehab in Thailand;
• Jane said she twice transported drugs in her luggage for Diddy;
• She revealed she had nicknamed herself, Diddy and a male escort called Paul the Trifecta, after basketball stars Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal and Michael Jordan;
• Discussing her jealousy of Diddy's other female partners, Jane called her time with Diddy "a chaotic whirlwind of dark," saying that while he bought his other girlfriends "beautiful things", all he gave her was "trauma";
• Jane will return to the stand to continue her cross-examination at 6pm UK time tomorrow.

It's just after 3pm in New York, and that's all we're going to hear from Jane today.

She will return to the stand tomorrow when her cross-examination will continue. The judge says court will begin late tomorrow, at 6pm UK time.

We'll be back with a recap of today's hearing soon - in the meantime, scroll through our posts to catch up on what was said.

Yesterday, during Jane's evidence, we heard that she was upset because there wasn't anything "postable" to share on social media from her relationship with Diddy.

In one message discussed today, Jane is asking Diddy if his "homegirl" is there with him posting on Instagram. 

Jane says she felt she endured "most of the pressure" during her time with Diddy, and looking back, could see just "a chaotic whirlwind of dark" on her own social media accounts, which she says she wasn't proud of during the relationship.

She says she felt Diddy offered "beautiful things" to the other girls that they could share, and goes on to chide Diddy in another message asking him if he bought his "homegirl" a Chanel bag even though she says she's been "f***ing your friends in front of your face".

Instead of a Chanel bag, Jane says she got "trauma". 

A tense discussion with Teny Geragos ensues, with the defence attorney asking: "Did you get a Van Cleef necklace?" 

Maison Van Cleef & Arpels is a French luxury jewellery brand, costing between £3,000 and £60,000.

It's followed by the question: "What is a Bottega bag?"

Jane responds: "I'm sure you have one."

Geragos says, "How much do Bottega bags run to?" and Jane replies, "How much does my body cost?"

The fashionable luxury woven leather bags don't come cheap, costing between £2,000 and £9,000 each.

The court is shown text messages between Diddy and Jane from late 2021, around a year after they first began dating.

There is more fantasy talk, with Jane keen to meet up with Diddy, and saying she will go to the lingerie shop to buy "black matrix" underwear to please him.

Defence attorney Teny Geragos asks if she knew the fantasy talk would turn Diddy on.

But Jane replies that she did but that Diddy often only gave her the option to him in a fantasy, group sex context, rather than one one-on-one.

She replies: "Yes� talking about wanting to see each other and the option he’s giving me is him and Paul."

She says meeting with an escort to please Diddy was her "only option," adding: "I wanted to see my lover."

She says Diddy would keep returning to the subject of bringing a male escort as "a tease," saying it would keep her performing and adding: "It was 2021, I was madly in loveâ€� I’m in great spiritsâ€� I’m agreeable hereâ€�" 

She finishes one message, in response to Diddy suggesting such a meet: "I’m just fine baby."

In a later message, she brings up the topic of sex parties, and when asked about it, tells the lawyer: "Once Sean was telling me about sex parties and said we should go to one."

She says she was "giving him options" by suggesting it.

There is also discussion over which escorts to hire, including Don and Cabral, but Jane reminds Diddy he'd previously said he wanted to "save" Cabral for "a grand finale for when the album was done".

She calls this a "showstopper," "big boom", and "game over situation".

Court has now resumed after lunch, and Jane - which is the pseudonym for an anonymous former girlfriend of Diddy - continues to be cross-examined by the defence.

Court will resume at around 6.20pm UK time.

Jane has previously described her part in booking some of the male entertainers or escorts for Diddy's "hotel nights," and on occasion says she objected to having sex with certain men, including one who she said smelled.

Going through a list of escorts she used with Diddy, she agrees that Don was "handsome" with blue eyes and Paul was "really nice" with a "warm energy". She agrees that she had a great sexual experience with Paul. 

She also says the names of Basketball stars were used as "hotel night" nicknames, calling herself Kobe Bryant, Paul was dubbed Shaq after Shaquille O'Neal, and Diddy was called Michael Jordan. She says their collective nickname was the Trifecta, again after the three basketball stars.

Jane describes recruiting escorts called Cabral and Anton after watching them on the pornographic website Blacked and contacting them via Instagram. 

Jane told us yesterday that Cabral later attempted to blackmail her and Diddy over a video which was shot on his phone during a "hotel night" showing him having sex with her.

Jane says she carried drugs twice for Diddy, and contacted his chief of staff at the time, Kristina Khorram, about how she should pack it in her luggage.

While she says she was close to Khorram, she resented the fact that Khorram was always with Diddy, adding: "It was difficult for our relationship. I believe that she had very strong feelings about me which influenced a great deal with how Sean treated me."

Discussing their use of drugs together, Jane says she took ecstasy to help her get through "hotel nights" and that Diddy would take it to put him in a good mood when he was "agitated and stressed from the day".

She describes a tradition they had called "F*** it Friday" which Jane says is "when he'd let loose and wants to party really hard".

Jane says the events would release "pressure from various things in his personal life," adding "we'd party big on Fridays".