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Sean “Diddy” Combs has been accused of sexual battery by a girl who claims that in September 2016 the music producer dangled her from a 17-story balcony as others had been on website, together with his former girlfriend Cassie Ventura.
In a swimsuit filed late final week, Bryana “Bana” Bongolan, who was an aspiring dressmaker on the time of the alleged incident, accuses Combs of “outrageous and abhorrent conduct” that violated her “basic dignity, bodily autonomy and sense of security.”
Bongolan’s swimsuit calls what she says occurred on September 26, 2016 the “end result of a sequence of threats, intimidation and violence that coloured a lot of Ms. Bongolan’s interactions with Mr. Combs from the day she met him.”
Bongolan claims that on that day, Combs confirmed as much as Ventura’s house and “started shouting and banging on the door.” Bongolan instructed her unnamed then-girlfriend to “conceal within the visitor lavatory and lock the door” as a result of she knew “of his violent mood,” in response to the swimsuit.
As soon as Combs gained entry, he noticed Bongolan on the balcony and “superior on her,” the swimsuit states. Combs then grabbed her, turned her again to his chest and “molested her by groping her breasts as she yelled to be left alone,” earlier than shifting his arms to her armpits and lifting her up on the banister of the Seventeenth-floor balcony, in response to the swimsuit.
Bongolan’s swimsuit claims Combs was indignant together with her however she “didn’t then, and doesn’t know now, what Mr. Combs believed she did.”
The lawsuit states Bongolan managed to get herself again over the banister to security however that Combs lifted her up once more “with solely Combs’ grip preserving her from falling to her demise.” Upon seeing what was occurring, Ventura intervened and Combs pulled Bongolan again over the balcony however then “slammed” her onto patio furnishings, the swimsuit claims.
Attorneys for Combs stated the musician, who’s at present is custody awaiting trial on federal costs, “firmly denies these critical allegations and stays assured they are going to in the end be confirmed baseless.”
“He has unwavering religion within the details and within the equity of the judicial course of,” his legal professionals’ assertion stated partially. “In court docket, the reality will come to gentle, demonstrating that the claims towards Mr. Combs are with out advantage.”
Bongolan’s swimsuit echos a state of affairs talked about in Ventura’s dam-breaking November 2023 lawsuit that, whereas settled shortly, was the primary in what turned out to be a barrage of civil lawsuits towards Combs. He now faces over 30 civil complaints, along with being the topic of an ongoing federal investigation.
Ventura’s lawsuit, which was settled the day after it was filed, made point out of an incident during which Combs allegedly “picked up one in all Ms. Ventura’s buddies like a baby and dangled the good friend over the balcony of the Seventeenth ground lodge swimsuit” that Ventura was staying in. This alleged incident, nevertheless, was said in Ventura’s swimsuit as having taken place after an August 2015 so-called freak-off, the time period prosecutors and others allege was used to explain Combs’ drug- and sex-fueled events.
A supply acquainted with the alleged balcony incident informed CNN that the “good friend” talked about in Ventura’s 2023 lawsuit is, the truth is, Bongolan and that her allegation is similar one referenced in Ventura’s declare.
CNN has requested remark from Ventura’s legal professional.
In Could, CNN published a surveillance video that confirmed Combs bodily abusing Ventura in 2016 in a Los Angeles lodge. Combs apologized two days after the video was broadcast in a video shared on social media.
“I used to be disgusted then after I did it. I’m disgusted now. I went and I sought out skilled assist. I obtained into going to remedy, going to rehab,” Combs stated. “I needed to ask God for his mercy and style. I’m so sorry. However I’m dedicated to be a greater man every day. I’m not asking for forgiveness. I’m actually sorry.”
Bongolan’s swimsuit makes reference to Combs of displaying a “disturbing sample of abusive conduct” and claims that Combs typically confirmed as much as Ventura’s house unannounced and begin banging on the door, at which period Ventura would instruct her to be quiet “in order to make Mr. Combs imagine nobody was residence.” Her swimsuit claims she noticed Combs throw a big kitchen knife at Ventura.
Bongolan is suing Combs for damages.