Sean “Diddy” Combs is standing trial on sex trafficking and racketeering charges in a case that has captured widespread attention.
Sean “Diddy” Combs is standing trial on sex trafficking and racketeering charges in a case that has captured widespread attention.
Bryana Bongolan was sleeping on the couch with her ex-girlfriend at Cassie Ventura’s 17th floor apartment in September 2016 when, she testified, she awoke to the sound of Sean Combs banging loudly on the door.
She testified that she immediately hid the girlfriend in a bathroom, shut the door and ran onto the balcony to “act casual.”
Asked why she hid the girlfriend, Bongolan told the court “I didn’t want to expose her to the things that I’d seen.”
On the balcony, “I either lit a blunt or was about to light it” when Combs came up behind her, Bongolan testified. “He lifted me and then had me on top of the rail.”
She’s 5 feet, 1 inch tall and, at the time, between 100-115 pounds, Bongolan testified, adding that Sean Combs is “a lot bigger.”
Bongolan told the court that her feet were on the balcony rail and she remembered thinking that she was scared to fall.
“For a split second I was thinking I was going to fall but for the most part he was yelling at me, so I was trying to answer him,” Bongolan testified, referring to Combs. “He kept repeating ‘You know what the f— you did.’”
“Sitting here today, do you have any idea what he was talking about?” prosecutor Madison Smyser asked.
“Still have no idea,” testified Bongolan.
Bongolan told the court that Combs then threw her onto balcony furniture. “It definitely hurt but I think all the adrenaline, I just got up,” she testified.
Combs has denied that the incident occurred.
Later, Bongolan testified, she noticed a large purple bruise on her leg with a small puncture wound in the middle of it. The jury was shown a photo of the injury.
The jury also saw other photos of Bongolan’s back, which was covered with large bandages. She’s also wearing a neck brace in the photo.
Bongolan testified that when a chiropractor asked, “Who did this to you?” she did not answer. She also told the court that she never reported anything about the incident to police because, she told the court, she was “too scared” of Combs.
“Did you ever talk to Mr. Combs about this incident? Smyser asked.
“Yes,” Bongolan testified. “Him or someone on his team FaceTimed me a day or two later.” She told the jury that the person allegedly said during the call “I don’t want any problems from you.”
Years later, on New Year’s Eve 2017, Bongolan testified, she, Ventura and Combs were together at the 1 Hotel in Miami and “did eight hours of ketamine.”
She left the two of them thinking, “I can’t do this anymore,” Bongolan told the court.
Bongolan also testified that she has a tattoo of the date Jan. 7, 2018, which she said is the day she decided to quit drugs and get sober.