A lady has sued Sean “Diddy” Combs for allegedly threatening to kill her and dangling her over a seventeenth ground balcony, in line with court docket paperwork obtained by Rolling Stone.
Fashion designer Bryana “Bana” Bongolan filed a 17-page lawsuit in opposition to Combs this week in Los Angeles for sexual battery, infliction of emotional misery, and false imprisonment, amongst different claims. Bongolan is searching for $10 million in damages for the lasting emotional misery that she claims she has suffered.
Bongolan alleges that she witnessed quite a few cases of abuse between Combs and his girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura earlier than the Bad Boy Entertainment founder allegedly intimidated and threatened Bongolan. It all culminated in a September 2016 night time the place Combs allegedly dangled Bongolan over the facet of Ventura’s balcony whereas screaming at her.
“The solely objective of dangling somebody over a balcony is to really kill them or to deliberately terrorize them and rob them of any idea of dominion over their very own bodily autonomy and security,” the lawsuit, filed by lawyer James R. Nikraftar of Miller Barondess, claims. “Ms. Bongolan refuses to permit this concern to regulate the remainder of her life and brings this motion to demand that Mr. Combs takes duty for the trauma he deliberately and maliciously” inflicted.
Combs — who’s at the moment being held with out bail after pleading not responsible to intercourse trafficking and racketeering conspiracy expenses — “firmly denies” Bongolan’s allegations. “Anyone has the precise to file a lawsuit, whatever the proof they might or could not have,” a authorized consultant for Combs mentioned in an announcement supplied to Rolling Stone. “Since final 12 months, Ms. Bongolan has expressed an intention to sue Mr. Combs and has sought authorized illustration to pursue her claims. Mr. Combs firmly denies these severe allegations and stays assured they are going to in the end be confirmed baseless.”
Bongolan describes herself as a younger, aspiring dressmaker when she turned shut with Ventura whereas the 2 have been each working with in style Los Angeles retailer Diamond Supply Co. round 2014. Through Ventura, Bongolan met Combs, whom she believed may supply “once-in-a-lifetime alternatives to collaborate” with him and his enterprise. “Ultimately it solely led to terror and abuse at his arms,” the lawsuit claims.
Up till 2018, Bongolan says she labored on a number of initiatives for Combs and his firms, together with specialised Bad Boy Entertainment jackets, the 2016 Bad Boy reunion tour, album covers, music movies, and a clothes line with Ventura. But working with Combs didn’t result in the profession increase that Bongolan had hoped for, her lawsuit claims, however as an alternative compelled her to “expertise violence and abuse firsthand in skilled settings as effectively.”
Around this time, Bongolan claims that she additionally started to acknowledge “disturbing indicators of an abusive relationship” between Ventura and Combs, who would allegedly blow up Ventura’s telephone if she didn’t reply his calls, present up unannounced to Ventura’s house and “bang” on her door, and accuse individuals of making an attempt to “fuck his girl.”
There have been quite a few alleged cases wherein Bongolan claims that she noticed Ventura coated in bruises or with a black eye, which Ventura allegedly mentioned have been from Combs. Bongolan claims she was bodily current throughout one explosive combat the place Combs “threw a big kitchen knife at Ms. Ventura, who, appearing in self-defense, threw one again at him.”
Eventually, Bongolan says that Combs started “directing his rage” towards her. During a photoshoot for Ventura, Combs allegedly cornered Bongolan and, inches from her face, threatened her. “I’m the motherfucking satan,” Combs advised Bongolan, in line with the lawsuit. “You do not know what I may do to you. I may kill you.”
Bongolan says that she took the menace significantly, understanding “first-hand that Mr. Combs was a violent man,” referencing what she had seen of his relationship with Ventura and studying that Kid Cudi’s automotive exploded after the singer had a quick fling with Ventura. (Kid Cudi confirmed the allegation to the New York Times, saying, “This is all true.”) Bongolan claims she additionally heard rumors that the billionaire had as soon as “skinned a rival’s canine.”
Combs’ alleged threats changed into actuality on Sept. 26, 2016, Bongolan claims, when she and her girlfriend have been sleeping over at Ventura’s Los Angeles house. Bongolan says she awoke within the early hours of the morning to Combs “violently” shouting and banging on Ventura’s entrance door.
Bongolan says she instructed her girlfriend to cover in a toilet and lock the door, earlier than Combs stormed into the house and superior on Bongolan, who by then was on the house’s balcony. Combs allegedly grabbed Bongolan and groped her breasts as she tried to combat him off and yelled at him to depart her alone.
Combs then grabbed Bongolan by her armpits and “lifted her up on the banister of the seventeenth ground balcony, whereas repeatedly yelling, ‘Do you realize what the fuck you probably did? Do you realize what the fuck you probably did?’” the lawsuit claims.
A bodily battle ensued, with Bongolan making an attempt to get again on the bottom, Bongolan claims, however as she stands beneath 5 toes tall and weighs lower than 100 lbs., Combs simply overpowered her. “He instantly lifted her up larger and better over the seventeenth ground balcony of Ms. Ventura’s house with solely Combs’ grip holding her from falling to her dying,” the lawsuit claims.
Ventura, who had been locked in her bed room, ran out onto the balcony and “screamed” at Combs to cease, the lawsuit claims, telling him that Bongolan’s girlfriend was additionally within the house and will overhear what was occurring.
“Recognizing the specter of so many witnesses to his assault, [Combs] pulled Ms. Bongolan again over the balcony,” the lawsuit claims. “But he didn’t launch her. In a final match of violence, he slammed Ms. Bongolan onto the balcony’s patio furnishings, together with a desk.”
“The September 26 assault in the end proved that Ms. Bongolan was right to concern Mr. Combs and has resulted in deep and lasting hurt,” the go well with provides.
Ventura additionally references an alleged balcony incident in her since-settled sexual abuse and intercourse trafficking lawsuit in opposition to Combs. (He denied any wrongdoing.) Ventura alleged that after she was compelled to take part in a freak-off with a male intercourse employee, a “severely intoxicated” Combs picked up a lady “like a toddler” and dangled her over a seventeenth ground balcony.
“Ms. Ventura and her associates have been scared by Mr. Combs’s erratic conduct, however Ms. Ventura was closely sedated due to the medication she took to take part within the FO, and due to this fact was unable to answer Mr. Combs’s terrifying conduct,” her lawsuit alleges.
Bongolan is now a part of the group of 30 individuals who have filed civil lawsuits in opposition to Combs, all who declare Combs assaulted them in some type relationship again to the Nineties and as lately as 2022. The claims come from former Danity Kane member Dawn Richard, producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, working fashions, aspiring artists, businessmen, safety guards, and individuals who say they have been teenagers on the time of their alleged encounters. Combs has vehemently denied all claims of abuse by way of his reps.
The 55-year-old is at the moment being held on the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn since his arrest on Sept. 16. Southern District of New York prosecutors largely constructed the legal case in opposition to Combs on the alleged experiences of Ventura, who claimed that Combs compelled her to interact in sexual acts with male intercourse staff all through their decade-long relationship.
Combs has denied her claims and pleaded not responsible to the three expenses in opposition to him. If convicted, he faces 15 years to life in jail.
