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Rolling Stone reports that fashion designer Bryana “Bana” Bongolan has filed a new lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs, claiming he threatened to kill her and dangled her over a 17th-floor balcony in 2016. Bongolan filed a 17 page lawsuit in Los Angeles for sexual battery, infliction of emotional distress, and false imprisonment and seeks $10 million in damages. The lawsuit filed by attorney James R. Nikraftar of Miller Barondess goes into greater detail, writing, “The only purpose of dangling someone over a balcony is to actually kill them or to intentionally terrorize them and rob them of any concept of dominion over their own bodily autonomy and safety.” This lawsuit is no surprise to Combs as they told the outlet, “Since last year, Ms. Bongolan has expressed an intention to sue Mr. Combs and has sought legal representation to pursue her claims. Mr. Combs firmly denies these serious allegations and remains confident they will ultimately be proven baseless.”
Bongolan met Combs through Cassie Ventura in 2014 and hoped that working with Combs would help her fashion career. “Ultimately it only led to terror and abuse at his hands,” the lawsuit writes. She worked with him for two years, claiming to witness Combs’s abuse of Ventura firsthand before the abuse was then directed at Bongolan. Combs allegedly told her, “I’m the motherfucking devil. You have no idea what I could do to you. I could kill you.”
Violence escalated when one night, Bongolan was staying with her girlfriend at Ventura’s apartment when Combs allegedly came storming in. He allegedly “lifted [Bongolan] up on the banister of the 17th floor balcony, while repeatedly yelling, ‘Do you know what the fuck you did? Do you know what the fuck you did?’” where “only Combs’ grip keeping her from falling to her death.” Ventura references this incident in her own lawsuit against Combs in 2023. Eventually, Combs pulled Bongolan over the balcony, as Ventura pointed out that her girlfriend was a witness to his assault. As the lawsuit writes, “In a last fit of violence, he slammed Ms. Bongolan onto the balcony’s patio furniture, including a table.”
Combs pleaded not guilty to all the claims in the lawsuit.
