A fashion designer who accused Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs of groping her and dangling her over the edge of a 17th-story balcony is set to take the stand in his federal sex trafficking trial as early as today.
Bryana ‘Bana’ Bongolan sued the rap mogul for $10million last year, accusing him of sexual battery and physical abuse.
Bongolan’s lawsuit claimed Combs molested and attacked her at Cassie Ventura‘s Los Angeles apartment in 2016 after one of his notorious ‘freak off’ parties.
The fashionista claims the alleged balcony assault – which Combs denies – followed a pattern of threats and abuse.
She claimed Diddy force-fed her ecstasy and during a photoshoot told her ‘I’m the mother******g devil. I could kill you’.
Bongolan’s lawsuit further included stories she heard while working with Combs, including that he threatened to blow up rapper Kid Cudi‘s car after he slept with Ventura.
Her complaint also featured a rumor that Diddy previously ‘skinned a rival’s dog’, although she admitted she did not know if there was any truth to the story.
Bongolan could take the witness stand as early as Tuesday, with prosecutors hoping it will reinforce their claim Diddy controlled women through use of intimidation, drugs, and violence.
Fashion designer Bryana ‘Bana’ Bongolan (pictured) is set to take the stand in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ federal sex trafficking trial as early as Tuesday
Bongolan sued the rap mogul for $10 million last year, accusing him of molesting and attacking her at Cassie Ventura’s Los Angeles apartment in 2016. Diddy and Ventura are pictured together in May 2017
Bongolan alleged she suffered a near-death experience on September 26, 2016, after one of the rapper’s sex marathons.
She was not involved in the freak off party that allegedly happened just before the incident, her complaint states.
Bongolan and her then-girlfriend were sleeping in a bedroom of Ventura’s apartment when an intoxicated Diddy stormed in after ‘violently’ banging on the door, the lawsuit alleges.
She allegedly hid on the balcony, only for Combs to storm over to her, roughly grab her and grope her breasts as she tried to fight him off and tell him to leave, she claimed.
He held her over the edge of the balcony under her arms and lifted her on to the banister, while screaming, ‘Do you know what the f*** you did?’ over and over, the lawsuit claimed.
Ventura heard the commotion, came out of her locked bedroom and screamed at Diddy to stop. But as Ventura tried to calm him down, Combs allegedly slammed Bongolan against the balcony furniture.
Ventura, who took to the witness stand last week, recounted the violence during her own testimony at Combs’ trial.
Diddy has denied that the incident ever took place.
Bongolan claims the alleged balcony assault – which Combs (pictured during his trial in a June 2 courtroom sketch) denies – followed a pattern of threats and abuse
Prosecutors hope Bongolan’s testimony will reinforce their claim that Diddy controlled women through use of intimidation, drugs, and violence
Bongolan met Diddy after she became close friends with Ventura in 2014 when they worked together at Diamond Supply Co, a popular skate shop in Los Angeles.
She was a ‘quintessential starving artist’ at the time and thought meeting Diddy would lead to ‘once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to collaborate’.
She worked on designing the Bad Boy Entertainment jackets, album covers, music videos, and a clothing line for Ventura.
But she also ‘experienced violence and abuse firsthand in professional settings’, including witnessing Diddy’s frequent abuse of Ventura, Bongolan’s lawsuit claimed.
The complaint accuses Diddy of sexual battery, false imprisonment, inflicting emotional distress, and physical abuse, among other charges.
Bongolan claimed the alleged balcony incident proved she ‘was correct to fear Mr Combs and has resulted in deep and lasting harm’, the complaint states.
Diddy also threatened Bongolan directly, including threatening her life as she screamed inches from her face during a photoshoot, her lawsuit claimed.
Bongolan claimed that she took the threat seriously due to the ‘disturbing’ abuse she saw him inflict on Ventura
Bongolan met Diddy after she became close friends with Ventura in 2014 when they worked together at Diamond Supply Co, a popular skate shop in Los Angeles. She then worked on designing the Bad Boy Entertainment jackets, album covers, music videos, and a clothing line for Ventura. Pictured: Bryana Bongolan’s BANA Los Angeles fashion line
She alleged she saw Ventura with black eyes and other bruises Diddy gave her, and that he would show up at her home and angrily bang on the door, and accuse other men of trying to ‘f*** his woman’.
In one fight Bongolan claimed to witness, Diddy ‘threw a large kitchen knife at Ms Ventura, who, acting in self-defense, threw one back at him’.
Bongolan continued to work with Ventura on her clothing lines until July 2018. They collaborated again in November and December 2023.
