Sean “Diddy” Combs has been accused in a brand new lawsuit of dangling a girl from the Seventeenth-floor balcony of an condominium throughout an altercation.
The lawsuit filed in Los Angeles by clothier Bryana “Bana” Bongolan alleges the incident occurred in 2016 whereas she was on the dwelling of Mr Combs’ then-girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura.
It’s the newest in additional than two dozen lawsuits accusing Mr Combs of a number of offenses, together with sexual assault, drugging individuals, threatening witnesses and inflicting bodily hurt.
The music mogul can be dealing with federal fees in a racketeering and intercourse trafficking scheme. He has denied all of the allegations, together with the most recent declare.
A consultant informed the BBC on Tuesday that he “firmly denies these critical allegations” within the new lawsuit and “stays assured they’ll in the end be confirmed baseless”.
Ms Bongolan says she was spending the evening Ms Ventura’s condominium when Mr Combs began shouting and banging on the entrance door, the lawsuit states.
After coming inside the house, Mr Combs allegedly confronted Ms Bongolan, who was on the balcony on the time. The lawsuit states he allegedly grabbed and molested her.
He then lifted her up and began dangling her from the balcony of the unit, the lawsuit alleges.
On the time of the incident, Ms Bongolan weighed about 100lb (45.3 kg), in line with the lawsuit.
It claims Ms Bongolan “tried to withstand him, throwing her weight again in a determined battle to keep away from being thrown to the bottom and prone to her dying”, however Mr Combs “simply overpowered her”.
The lawsuit states that Ms Ventura got here exterior to intervene, and Mr Combs allegedly pulled Ms Bongolan again over the ledge by slamming her onto patio furnishings.
A consultant for the rapper denied the allegations in an announcement to the BBC on Tuesday.
“Anybody has the precise to file a lawsuit, whatever the proof they could or might not have,” the assertion reads, including Mr Combs “has unwavering religion within the information and within the equity of the judicial course of”.
It continues: “In court docket, the reality will come to mild, demonstrating that the claims towards Mr Combs are with out benefit.”
Ms Bongolan claims she didn’t and nonetheless doesn’t know what provoked the alleged incident, in line with the swimsuit. She is searching for $10m (£7.89m) in damages from the rapper.
Within the lawsuit, Ms Bongolan alleged that it was a “end result of a sequence of threats, intimidation and violence that colored lots of Ms Bongolan’s interactions with Mr Combs from the day she met him”.
The allegations echo an incident famous in a separate lawsuit filed by Ms Ventura towards Mr Combs.
That lawsuit – which was filed in 2023 and settled the day after – alleged abuse, rape and intercourse trafficking. It famous an episode at Ms Ventura’s condominium when Mr Combs “picked up one among Ms Ventura’s mates like a toddler and dangled the good friend over the balcony”.
Ms Bongolan additionally alleges that she endured “terror and abuse” from Combs all through their skilled relationship, which started when the music mogul approached her to collaborate on initiatives equivalent to a clothes line and album cowl artwork.
Mr Combs is being held in jail on the Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn, New York, after being denied bail thrice by a decide.