Diddy is facing yet another lawsuit, this time by a woman who claims that the mogul dangled her over a high balcony and threatened to kill her — while also saying that she witnessed a number of incidents of the mogul being abusive towards his ex Cassie.
According to Deadline, designer Bryana “Bana” Bongolan filed suit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday (November 27), seeking damages “in excess of $10 million.”
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“On or about September 26, 2016, Sean ‘P. Diddy’ Combs sexually battered Ms. Bryana ‘Bana’ Bongolan, dangled her off of a 17-story-high balcony. and then slammed her into the patio furniture on the balcony,” the complaint alleges.
The suit claims that the assault took place at Cassie’s apartment, and some of the details match an incident described in the singer’s own now-settled suit, in which she describes a time where Diddy “picked up one of Ms. Ventura’s friends like a child and dangled the friend over the balcony of the 17th floor hotel suite.”
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Bongolan says in the suit that she first became friendly with Cassie around 2014, and several years later began to see “disturbing signs of an abusive relationship” between the singer and the Bad Boy founder.
The balcony event, the suit claims, occurred when Bongolan and her girlfriend were staying at Cassie’s apartment. Diddy, it continues, showed up in the early morning hours, banging on the door. When he got inside, 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?’
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“Recognizing the threat of so many witnesses to his assault, [Diddy] pulled Ms. Bongolan back over the balcony. But he did not release her. In a last fit of violence, he slammed Ms. Bongolan onto the balcony’s patio furniture, including a table.”
Diddy’s representatives gave a statement to Rolling Stoneabout the suit, denying Bongolan’s claims.
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“Anyone has the right to file a lawsuit, regardless of the evidence they may or may not have. 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.”
The suit comes just days after Diddy’s third attempt for bail in his federal sex trafficking and racketeering (not counting an in-process appeal) was turned down.
Judge Arun Subramanian issued his decision on Wednesday (November 27). He cited a variety of factors in his five-page order, ranging from the mogul’s violations of Bureau of Prisons rules around communications to “misrepresentations” he made to the judge at a recent hearing concerning material recovered during a sweep of his jail cell.
But a chunk of Judge Subramanian’s decision deals with violence.
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“[T]here is compelling evidence of Combs’s propensity for violence,” the judge wrote, citing, among other examples, the 2016 video of Diddy assaulting Cassie, as well as text messages Cassie sent in its aftermath, including “I have a black eye and a fat lip. You are sick for thinking it’s OK to do what you’ve done” and “I still have crazy bruising.”
