A designer claims Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs dangled her over a Seventeenth flooring balcony and she or he was solely saved when Cassie Ventura intervened.
Bryana ‘Bana’ Bongolan sued the disgraced music mogul for $10 million, claiming her additionally molested her and detailed his frequent alleged abuse of his then-girlfriend Ventura.
The artist’s lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles, claimed the near-death expertise was on September 26, 2016, after one in all Diddy’s infamous ‘freak offs’.
Diddy is behind bars charged with intercourse trafficking and different horrifying crimes, and accused of operating sexually degrading ‘freak offs’ after his infamous events.
Bongolan was not concerned within the ‘freak off’, however Ventura’s personal lawsuit filed final November recalled the incident was after she was compelled to have intercourse with a male intercourse employee.
‘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,’ Bongolan lawsuit learn.
‘It ought to be no shock that’s precisely what occurred to Ms Bongolan.’
Bryana ‘Bana’ Bongolan claims Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs dangled her over a Seventeenth flooring balcony and is suing him for $10 million
Bongolan claimed Diddy’s then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura (pictured collectively in 2017) saved her when she intervened, and that the incident was after one in all Diddy’s infamous ‘freak offs’
However, she ‘refuses to permit this concern to manage the remainder of her life’ and introduced the lawsuit to drive Diddy to take duty for the trauma he allegedly inflicted.
The lawsuit defined that Bongolan and her then-girlfriend have been sleeping in a bed room of Ventura’s residence when Diddy woke them up ‘violently’ banging on the door.
Diddy was drunk after the ‘freak off’, she claimed, and earlier than he finally compelled his method in, she bought her girlfriend to cover within the lavatory.
Bongolan retreated to the balcony, just for Diddy to storm over to her, roughly seize her and grope her breasts as she tried to battle him off and inform him to go away, she claimed.
Diddy then grabbed her by her armpits and lifted her on to the banister, whereas screaming, ‘Do what the f**ok you probably did?’ again and again, the lawsuit claimed.
‘He instantly lifted her up larger and better over the Seventeenth flooring balcony of Ms Ventura’s residence with solely Combs’ grip preserving her from falling to her demise,’ the lawsuit learn.
Ventura heard the commotion and got here out of her locked bed room and screamed at Diddy to cease, stating Bongolan might hear all the things.
‘Recognizing the specter of so many witnesses to his assault, [Diddy] pulled Ms Bongolan again over the balcony,’ the lawsuit claimed.
‘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.’
Bongolan together with her girlfriend, singer Merci Marine
Bongolan met Diddy after she turned shut associates with Ventura in 2014 once they labored collectively at Diamond Supply Co, a preferred skate store in Los Angeles
Ventura’s lawsuit referenced the incident as one in all Diddy’s many alleged abuses throughout their relationship, detailing how he lifted a lady over the balcony ‘like a toddler’.
‘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 [freak off], and subsequently was unable to answer Mr Combs’s terrifying conduct,’ she claimed.
Bongolan’s lawsuit claimed the incident proved she ‘was right to concern Mr Combs and has resulted in deep and lasting hurt’.
‘His outrageous and abhorrent conduct violated Ms. Bongolan’s basic dignity, bodily autonomy, and sense of security,’ the lawsuit claimed.
‘This occasion was the end result of a collection of threats, intimidation, and violence that coloured lots of Ms Bongolan’s interactions with Mr Combs from the day she met him.’
The lawsuit detailed these threats over the months main as much as the balcony incident.
Bongolan met Diddy after she turned shut associates with Ventura in 2014 once they labored collectively at Diamond Supply Co, a preferred skate store in Los Angeles.
She was a ‘quintessential ravenous artist’ on the time and thought assembly Diddy would result in ‘once-in-a-lifetime alternatives to collaborate’.
For a time, it did. Bongolan labored on designing the Bad Boy Entertainment jackets, album covers, music movies, and a clothes line for Ventura.
Bongolan claimed she noticed Ventura with black eyes and different bruises Diddy gave her, and that he would present up at her residence and angrily bang on the door, and accuse different males of making an attempt to ‘f**ok his lady’
Bongolan’s lawsuit claimed the incident proved she ‘was right to concern Mr Combs and has resulted in deep and lasting hurt’
But she additionally ‘skilled violence and abuse firsthand in skilled settings’, together with witnessing Diddy’s frequent abuse of Ventura, she claimed.
Bongolan claimed she noticed Ventura with black eyes and different bruises Diddy gave her, and that he would present up at her residence and angrily bang on the door, and accuse different males of making an attempt to ‘f**ok his lady’.
In one battle Bongolan claimed to witness, Diddy ‘threw a big kitchen knife at Ms Ventura, who, appearing in self-defense, threw one again at him’.
Diddy additionally threatened Bongolan straight, together with screaming ‘I’m the motherf**king satan’ inches from her face throughout a photoshoot, her lawsuit claimed.
‘You don’t know what I might do to you. I might kill you,’ the lawsuit claimed he mentioned.
Bongolan claimed that she took the risk critically as a result of ‘disturbing’ abuse she noticed him inflict on Ventura, listening to that he blew up Kid Cudi’s automobile after he slept with Ventura, and a rumor that Diddy ‘skinned a rival’s canine’.
‘Mr Combs’ threats that he was the ‘motherf**king satan’, and that ‘he might kill’ her have been supposed to terrorize intimidate, and instill concern,’ the lawsuit claimed.
‘Therefore when he forcibly groped her breasts, dangled her from a balcony and battered her, she moderately believed that Mr Combs’ assault was him making good on his threats.’
Ventura’s lawsuit referenced the incident as one in all Diddy’s many alleged abuses throughout their relationship, detailing how he lifted a lady over the balcony ‘like a toddler’
In one battle Bongolan claimed to witness, Diddy ‘threw a big kitchen knife at Ms Ventura, who, appearing in self-defense, threw one again at him’
Bongolan is one in all about 30 individuals who have thus far filed lawsuits in opposition to Diddy, many accusing him of horrific rapes and sexual abuse.
Texas lawyer Tony Busbee mentioned he alone had about 120 individuals lined as much as sue the incarcerated musician, so many extra are on the best way.
Diddy has denied wrongdoing, each in his felony expenses and most of the lawsuits filed earlier than and after his arrest. He settled with Ventura for about $30 million.
His legal professionals instructed Rolling Stone and Deadline that he ‘firmly denied’ Bongolan’s claims.
‘Anyone has the suitable to file a lawsuit, whatever the proof they could or might not have,’ they mentioned.
‘Since final yr, 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 continued to work with Ventura on her clothes traces till July 2018, and so they collaborated once more in November and December final yr.