Sean 'Diddy' Combs accused in lawsuit of dangling woman over 17th floor balcony
Sean “Diddy” Combs Hit With $10M LA Sexual Battery Suit
Denied bail for the third time in his East Coast federal sex trafficking case just before Thanksgiving, Sean “Diddy” Combs has now been accused of dangling a woman off a West Coast apartment building balcony in rage eight years ago.
A jury-seeking complaint was filed on November 27 in L.A. Superior Court that has a lot of details, several appearances by the Bad Boy Records founder’s ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura (who’s alleged abuse, bruises and more by Combs are described frequently), some photos, and an ask for compensation “believed to be in excess of $10 million.”
Having quickly settled an abuse and rape lawsuit from Ventura for around $30 million in November 2023, Combs has since been accused in an ever enlarging throng of dozens and dozens of civil suits of drugging, violently threatening, potentially blackmailing, beating, and raping music industry hopefuls and others in his celebrity filled “freak offs” and more. Arrested in a NYC hotel lobby by the feds on September 16, the 55-year-old Combs is charged with racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. Currently incarcerated in the infamous Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn, the All About the Benjamins performer could face life in prison if found guilty in a trial set to start on May 5, 2025.
With a passing mention in Ventura’s own suit, plus more details that have been whispered about for months and openly discussed (with no victims named besides Ventura) on social media and in more traditional media by songwriter Tiffany Red last year, the claims in this latest lawsuit could find Combs facing bicoastal courtrooms.
“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,” alleges the seven-claim November 27-filed complaint from the self-described “quintessential starving artist” and one-time Combs clothing designer of what happened to her in Ventura’s luxury Los Angeles pad.
“His outrageous and abhorrent conduct violated Ms. Bongolan’s fundamental dignity, bodily autonomy, and sense of safety,” according to the document. It goes on to detail the supposed attack that occurred at an apartment of Ventura’s where Bongolan was staying with her girlfriend and the singer when an enraged Combs showed up pounding on the door. “This event was 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.”
“The September 26 assault ultimately proved that Ms. Bongolan was correct to fear Mr. Combs and has resulted in deep and lasting harm,” the filing by Miller Barondess’ James R. Nikraftar adds of the West L.A.-set incident. “Mr. Combs’ threats that he was the ‘motherf*cking devil,’ and that ‘he could kill’ her were intended to terrorize intimidate, and instill fear. Therefore when he forcibly groped her breasts, dangled her from a balcony and battered her, she reasonably believed that Mr. Combs’ assault was him making good on his threats.”
If the suspending of someone from a balcony seems familiar out of hip hop lore, that’s because the likes of currently jailed former Death Row Records boss Suge Knight and others have been said to have done just that in the past. Probably the most well-known of such potentially tragic tales is when ex-NFL replacement player Knight supposedly dangled Vanilla Ice off the side of a Bel Air building for the publishing rights to his megahit “Ice, Ice Baby” in the early 1990s. It should be noted that Vanilla Ice has said over and over that the whole thing has been greatly exaggerated, Knight never held him off a balcony, and the whole thing was settled in court later.
In this case, with Combs, it is exactly the opposite and for much more than money.
As the 17-page complaint declares: “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. It should be no surprise that is exactly what happened to Ms. Bongolan.”
Taking into account that Combs has denied all claims against him, and of late in his East Coast criminal case seems to be walking back his apology earlier this year of a 2016 hotel corridor beating of Ventura captured on a security camera, it is no surprise his representatives are rejecting Bangolan’s West Coast claims.
“As we have shared previously, anyone has the right to file a lawsuit, regardless of the evidence they may or may not have,” Combs attorneys told Deadline in statement today about the case. “Since last year, Ms. Bangolan (sic) 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. He has unwavering faith in the facts and in the fairness of the judicial process. In court, the truth will come to light, demonstrating that the claims against Mr. Combs are without merit.”
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