Sean “Diddy” Combs has been accused of sexual battery by a woman who claims that in September 2016 the music producer dangled her from a 17-story balcony as others were on site, including his former girlfriend Cassie Ventura.
In a suit filed late last week, Bryana “Bana” Bongolan, who was an aspiring fashion designer at the time of the alleged incident, accuses Combs of “outrageous and abhorrent conduct” that violated her “fundamental dignity, bodily autonomy and sense of safety.”
Bongolan’s suit calls what she says happened on September 26, 2016 the “culmination of a series of threats, intimidation and violence that colored many of Ms. Bongolan’s interactions with Mr. Combs from the day she met him.”
Bongolan claims that on that day, Combs showed up to Ventura’s apartment and “began shouting and banging on the door.” Bongolan instructed her unnamed then-girlfriend to “hide in the guest bathroom and lock the door” because she knew “of his violent temper,” according to the suit.
Once Combs gained entry, he spotted Bongolan on the balcony and “advanced on her,” the suit states. Combs then grabbed her, turned her back to his chest and “molested her by groping her breasts as she yelled to be left alone,” before shifting his hands to her armpits and lifting her up on the banister of the 17th-floor balcony, according to the suit.
Bongolan’s suit claims Combs was angry with her but she “did not then, and does not know now, what Mr. Combs believed she did.”
