Sean Combs trial updates: 'Jane' testifies on 'hotel nights' with Combs

Federal prosecutors introduced a text message from Sean Combs' ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, extracted from a cell phone seized at the Miami Airport from Combs' one-time chief of staff, Kristina Khorram.

The message, dated Sept. 30, 2016, read: "He came into my house and my friends were here. They woke me up because he was ringing the bell like crazy," apparently referring to Combs.

The message continued: "He went at Bana and choked her then dangled her feet off the balcony."

The text message, read into the record, is meant to reinforce a claim made by Bryana Bongolan, also known as Bana, after the defense accused her of lying about Sean Combs allegedly dangling her from the balcony of Ventura's 17th-floor apartment.

The next witness is Enrique Santos, an analyst at the U.S. attorney's office who performed cell phone extractions on devices seized as part of the case.

Testimony from another alleged Combs victim, appearing under the pseudonym "Jane," is scheduled to follow after Santos.

During a break and without the jury present, Judge Arun Subramanian threatened to boot Sean Combs from trial if he makes facial expressions during testimony.

"I was very clear there were not to be any facial expressions," Subramanian told lead defense counsel Marc Agnifilo. "There's a line of questioning where your client was nodding vigorously and looking at the jury and there was a subsequent moment when there was a sidebar and I saw your client looking at the jury."

Subramanian added emphatically, "That is absolutely unacceptable."

He then questioned Agnifilo, "Will it happen again?"

Agnifilo said it would not.

"If it happens again, if it happens even once, I will hear an application from the government to give a curative instruction to the jury, which you don't want," the judge said.

Subramanian said an additional violation "could result in the exclusion of your client from the courtroom."

He instructed Agnifilo to talk with Combs.

"There should be no efforts whatsoever to have interaction with this jury," the judge said.

After the defense accused Bryana Bongolan of lying about Combs allegedly dangling her over a balcony in Los Angeles, contending that Combs wasn't even in California at the time Bongolan said the alleged incident occurred, she testified on re-direct examination that she has "no doubt" it occurred but does not know exactly when.

Bongolan used hand gestures to demonstrate for the jury how she said Sean Combs lifted her onto the railing of the balcony of Cassie Ventura's 17th-floor apartment.

"Where did his hands go?" prosecutor Madison Smyser asked.

"Down this way," Bongolan testified, moving her hands.

"So were they on your breasts?" Smyser asked. Bongolan affirmed in her testimony that they were.

Bongolan also testified on re-direct that she wore the neck brace the jury saw in a photo on more than one occasion.

"Why did your neck hurt?" Smyser asked.

"Because I got slammed into the furniture," Bongolan testified. "By Puff."

Bongolan conceded that she doesn't know exactly when the alleged incident occurred, telling the court "because it was a while ago."

Asked for a second time whether she had any doubt "that Mr. Combs held you up on a 17th-floor balcony," Bongolan testified in answer, "I have no doubt."

On re-cross, defense attorney Nicole Westmoreland said Bongolan's testimony was motivated by money.

"You're suing Mr. Combs because it's your opportunity to become a millionaire," Westmoreland said.

"I can't agree with that," Bongolan testified.

"You're seeking $10 million, isn't that true?" Westmoreland asked.

"I'm seeking whatever the judge finds is correct," Bongolan testified.

"It means a lot to you to become a millionaire?" Westmoreland asked.

"No ma'am," Bongolan told the court.

Bryana Bongolan's testimony has concluded. The court is now in a brief lunch break.

Sean Combs' defense lawyer argued he could not have dangled Bryana Bongolan over a balcony in Los Angeles and inflicted injuries on her leg, neck and back in late September 2016 because he was in New York as part of the Bad Boy reunion tour when the alleged incident occurred.

"And you would agree with me that one person cannot be in California and New York at the same time?" the defense attorney, Nicole Westmoreland asked.

"In theory," Bongolan testified.

The jury saw a bill from the Trump International Hotel and Tower that showed Combs, under the alias Frank Black, checked in on Sept. 24 and checked out Sept. 29. There were multiple charges for breakfast on the Sept. 26 totaling nearly $800.

"You agree that one person can't be in two places at the same time?" Westmoreland asked.

"In theory, yeah," Bongolan testified.

The jury had seen a photo of a large bruise on Bongolan's leg and another photo of her wearing a neck brace with her back covered in bandages.

Metadata on the image showed it was taken September 26.

"Mr. Combs did not cause you the injuries that you showed us that we saw on your phone with the metadata from September 26, did he?" Westmoreland asked.

"I can't agree with you," Bongolan testified.

"You came in here and you lied to the ladies and gentlemen of this jury," Westmoreland insisted, concluding her cross-examination.

"I can't agree with you," Bongolan again testified.

On re-direct examination, prosecutor Madison Smyser asked if she had any doubt Combs held her on a balcony. "I have no doubt," Bongolan told the court. "I will never forget him holding me on that balcony."