Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Accused of Dangling Woman Over Balcony at Cassie’s Apartment

• In a brand new lawsuit, clothier Bryana “Bana” Bongolan accuses Sean “Diddy” Combs of groping her and dangling her over the balcony of Casandra “Cassie” Ventura’s residence in September 2016
• Bongolan additionally alleges that she noticed indicators of Combs’ abuse of Ventura and suffered “terror and abuse” at his arms herself all through her skilled relationship with the producer
• The clothier is searching for $10 million in damages from the disgraced music mogul

A girl has accused Sean “Diddy” Combs of dangling her over the Seventeenth-floor balcony of his ex Casandra “Cassie” Ventura’s residence.

Bryana “Bana” Bongolan filed a 17-page lawsuit towards Combs — who’s at present awaiting trial after pleading not responsible and being denied bail — this week in Los Angeles for sexual battery, intentional infliction of emotional misery, false imprisonment and different claims, based on courtroom paperwork obtained by PEOPLE.

The clothier is searching for $10 million in damages from the disgraced music mogul, 55, for the emotional misery that she claims she suffered, citing the balcony incident, amongst others.

A authorized consultant for Combs denied Bongolan’s allegations in an announcement to Rolling Stone.

“Anyone has the best to file a lawsuit, whatever the proof they could or might not have. Since final yr, Ms. Bongolan has expressed an intention to sue Mr. Combs and has sought authorized illustration to pursue her claims,” the rep mentioned. “Mr. Combs firmly denies these critical allegations and stays assured they may in the end be confirmed baseless.” 

A consultant for Combs didn’t instantly reply to PEOPLE’s request for remark.

Bongolan — who first befriended Ventura, 38, whereas they labored collectively in 2014 — claims that, whereas she and her then-girlfriend had been sleeping over on the singer’s residence in September 2016, Combs approached her on the balcony after loudly coming into the residence within the early morning.

“He grabbed her, turned her again to his chest, and molested her by groping her breasts as she yelled to be left alone,” the lawsuit claims. After Bongolan started to battle, Combs moved his arms from her breasts to her armpits and positioned her on the banister of the 17-story balcony whereas repeatedly yelling, “Do you recognize what the fuck you probably did!”

Bongolan, who was 4 ft 11 inches tall and weighed about 100 lbs. on the time, “tried to withstand him, throwing her weight again in a battle to not be thrown to the bottom and what would doubtless be her demise,” however Combs “simply overpowered her once more,” the lawsuit claims.

After Ventura emerged, she allegedly screamed at Combs to cease and knowledgeable him that Bongolan’s then-girlfriend was additionally within the residence.

Combs then pulled Bongolan again over the balcony however didn’t launch her, and as a substitute “slammed Ms. Bongolan onto the balcony’s patio furnishings, together with a desk,” the lawsuit claims. Bongolan mentioned that she didn’t and nonetheless doesn’t know what Combs believed she did.

Also within the lawsuit, Bongolan claims she noticed each “disturbing indicators of an abusive relationship” and precise incidents of abuse between Ventura and Combs previous to the balcony incident — together with one through which the music mogul threw a “massive kitchen knife” at his then-girlfriend, “who, appearing in self-defense, threw one again at him.”

Bongolan additionally alleges that she suffered “terror and abuse” at Combs’ arms all through their skilled relationship, which started after he approached the then-aspiring designer to collaborate on a collection of design tasks, together with a clothes line and album cowl artwork.

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This “nearer working relationship not solely didn’t result in the profession bounce off for which she had hoped, however as a substitute compelled Plaintiff to expertise Mr. Combs’ violence and abuse firsthand in skilled settings as effectively,” with the producer “directing his rage” at Bongolan, the lawsuit alleges.

The designer cited a number of situations, together with a visit through which Combs “grew to become aggressive” and “forcibly fed” her a drug she now believes was ecstasy and a photograph shoot through which he cornered her to say, “I’m the motherf—— satan. You do not know what I may do to you. I may kill you.”

Bongolan took Combs’ menace severely, citing not solely his therapy of Ventura but in addition her information that rapper Kid Cudi’s automotive exploded after he dated the singer whereas she and Combs had been separated. The designer additionally heard rumors that the Bad Boy Records founder “skinned a rival’s canine,” the lawsuit alleges.

The September 2016 balcony incident proved that Bongolan had been “appropriate to worry” Combs, she says, and led her to consider that he was lastly “making good on his threats.”

Bongolan is entitled to damages, the lawsuit claims, as a result of she “has suffered, and continues to endure, accidents and damages together with bodily harm, and psychological and emotional misery” because of Combs’ conduct.

Combs is at present jailed at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, the place he’s awaiting trial. Last month, he was denied bail for a 3rd time since his September arrest.

In September, he was indicted on fees of intercourse trafficking, racketeering and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. The indictment primarily facilities round “freak offs,” which authorities allege had been elaborate intercourse performances involving male intercourse staff and ladies who had been compelled or coerced into taking part.