Fashion designer Bryana “Bana” Bongolan has filed a $10 million lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs, alleging the imprisoned music mogul sexually assaulted her and dangled her over a 17th-floor balcony in a 2016 incident that left her fearing for her life.
The lawsuit, filed November 27 in Los Angeles Superior Court, details a terrifying encounter following what prosecutors have termed one of Combs’ “freak offs.” Bongolan claims she was sleeping in Cassie Ventura’s apartment when Combs, allegedly intoxicated, began “violently” banging on the door. After getting her girlfriend to hide in the bathroom, Bongolan retreated to the balcony where, according to the lawsuit, Combs allegedly groped her breasts before lifting her over the railing.
“He immediately lifted her up higher and higher over the 17th floor balcony of Ms. Ventura’s apartment with only Combs’ grip keeping her from falling to her death,” the lawsuit states. The assault allegedly ended only when Ventura emerged screaming from her locked bedroom, prompting Combs to pull Bongolan back and slam her onto patio furniture.
The incident was previously referenced in Ventura’s own lawsuit against Combs, which he settled for $30 million in November 2023. Ventura described seeing Combs lift a woman over the balcony “like a child.”
Bongolan met Combs in 2014 while working with Ventura at Diamond Supply Co., a Los Angeles skate shop. She designed Bad Boy Entertainment jackets, album covers, music videos, and a clothing line for Ventura, but claims she “experienced violence and abuse firsthand in professional settings.” The lawsuit alleges she witnessed Combs’ abuse of Ventura, including black eyes and bruises, and once saw the couple throwing knives at each other during an argument.
The designer claims Combs threatened her directly, once screaming “I’m the motherf**king devil” during a photoshoot and declaring “You have no idea what I could do to you. I could kill you.”
Bongolan’s suit joins approximately 30 other legal actions against Combs, who remains in Brooklyn’s notorious detention center awaiting a May 2025 trial on racketeering and sex trafficking charges. He has pleaded not guilty but been denied bail twice over concerns about witness tampering.
According to prosecutors, Combs organized “freak offs” where sex workers were allegedly coerced and intimidated into performing nonconsensual acts while he recorded them. Federal agents reportedly found 1,000 bottles of lubricant and baby oil, narcotics, and three AR-15s with defaced serial numbers during raids of his Los Angeles and Miami Beach homes.
The lawsuit claims the balcony incident “violated Ms. Bongolan’s fundamental dignity, bodily autonomy, and sense of safety” but she “refuses to allow this fear to control the rest of her life” and seeks to hold Combs accountable.
